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Sorry, I'm not going to be able to review tonight, but I can tomorrow. Sorry, but I didn't realize how busy I was. — Mike moral  ♪♫  03:24, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Audio for your interview?
Benny the Mascot told me you have audio of your interview for [Wikinews interviews Chiaki Hayashi, Asian Projects Coordinator at Creative Commons] - if you wouldn't mind, I'd love to be able to use it on the Audio Wikinews. Turtlestack (talk) 23:09, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * So sorry for late responce. You can download audio copy of interview here. --Saki (talk) 16:05, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry
So basically we've found out that you've been evading a two-year-old block; I've asked to have it lifted, though, and that you be pardoned by the community. See here for more info. Benny the mascot (talk) 04:32, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Said audio was not forthcoming. This, given your prior history on this project, should have been a prerequisite for any single word of original reporting on your part. You have, repeatedly, disrupted this project under numerous sockpuppets. When challenged on claims in relation to the location you were currently accessing the Internet from; neither visible addresses in IRC, nor those revealed whilst I retained Checkuser privilege matched with your purported location. Based on your long history of prior disruption under multiple socks, attempt to use the project as a blog host, copyright violation – repeatedly, and implications of the areas of research revealed by minor edits on other projects, you are receiving a month-long block. The interview you contributed, that was never adequately, nor competently, reviewed against credible evidence will be labelled appropriately. Repeat private messages to any regular contributor in IRC will result in you being immediately kicked and banned from the channel by the nearest operator.

Requests for this block to be reviewed should be declined, and the template restored, unless exceptional circumstances indicate otherwise. This userpage should not be deleted, moved, usurped, or hidden.

 * Flagged as known sock of, , and , repeat IP vandal with at-will access to sufficient subnets in Pakistan to require a /10, or coarser range block.}}}

Have a nice day month. --Brian McNeil / talk 05:07, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I've unblocked you, and you will probably remain unblocked unless the community decides otherwise. Benny the mascot (talk) 05:47, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I pardon Wikinews community. Please give me a chance. --Saki (talk) 11:16, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * At the risk of provoking a most irate response from Brian, I've unblocked this user once again. As indicated in the unblock summary, the blocking reasons and currently available evidence to back it up are unsatisfactory. The audio for the interview was provided, and Saki appears to have reformed, having written several published articles. There's not been any vandalism from him since mid-2008. Tempodivalse [talk]  20:05, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * No, no irate response. You have just given a known vandal a green light. Look at the considerable number of newly created accounts since you did so, at the locations they claim to be from. Are you multilingual enough to speak any Japanese? Ask "Mr" w:User:Saki here how he manages over there. And, while you're at it, why he would turn up in IRC on a Pakistan Telecom IP address. --Brian McNeil / talk 20:49, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * The point here is that we have no definite proof of wrongdoing. The last vandalism was two years ago; since then, the user has written at least three articles that were published, and an audio transcript has been provided as well. So what more could we want? I see zero vandalism coming from him. That the userbox on en.wp says he lives in Tokyo may very well be out of date, it's not been edited for two months. I'm just saying that, based on current evidence (which, although may appear somewhat suspicious, is entirely circumstantial), there is not enough to support a lengthy block. We need facts, solid facts. The latest Matthew Edwards affair should have told us that. Tempodivalse [talk]  21:09, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

 Blood Red Sandman (Talk)   (Contribs) 17:20, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

 * Bleaurgh, that template looks nasty. Saqib: I would defer to a second admin, but my gut feeling is that if you request unblock at your main account it will be granted. However, that is the right way forward; to move on from the past we must first acknowledge the past. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 17:22, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
 * He just resigned. :( Benny the mascot (talk) 17:44, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Interview
Brian: I took interview of Chiaki Hayashi on June 2, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan somedays before leaving for Pakistan and then uploaded audio file while in Pakistan so you can actually confirm with her.--Saki (talk) 20:01, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

User:Chiaki0808 and User:Dubaiguy1 are not mine socks. --Saki (talk) 20:08, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I am looking over this with Erik from Creative Commons. -- Brian McNeil (alt. account) /alt-talk • main talk 14:57, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I received an email from Chiaki this morning. Apparently you told her the audio was lost. I also, last night, downloaded the WMA audio from your website. Despite having several nonfree codec packs on my Linux install this will not play. Can you re-upload in a libre audio format such as FLAC, WAV, or OGG? Also, please explain the inconsistency here. -- Brian McNeil (alt. account) /alt-talk • main talk 14:39, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, I told her that the audio was lost and yes, it was but I forget that I had a copy in my recycle bin (thanks God). If I were knew how to convert audio files, I had did it before. By the way, let it play for a while ad you should able to hear voice after 1:30 seconds perhaps. Please try again and do let me know. --Saki (talk) 14:58, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Unblocked
Good day, Saki! I'm sure you would be please to learn that I have unblocked you, given the lack of additional, meaningful evidence brought against you on WN:AAA. Consensus on that page seems to suggest that the community still trusts you to edit constructively. :)

Now it's time for the formalities: You must contribute through only one account of your choice. If you wish to contribute through an account other than this one (Saki), then this account will be reblocked and the other one unblocked. If you are found to be using a different account without our approval, then you may be blocked indefinitely.

Easy rules to follow, right? Happy editing! :D Benny the mascot (talk) 01:24, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I'd also point out that you staying unblocked will also depend on making sure the interview you conducted is completely legitimate, which many users are seriously concerned about. If it's found any part of that was in violation of policies, particularly if it was intentional, I can name numerous admins who would be only to happy to block you again, and I think you'd have a hard time convincing anyone to unblock you.  That said, I do support your unblocking, on, as Benny said, the condition that no socking takes place in the future and your contributions don't become disruptive. Regards, C628 (talk) 02:30, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I will echo the sentiments expressed by C628. I am in touch with Creative Commons about the interview, they were aware of it being arranged, but knew nothing of the domain upon which you have posted audio. I am awaiting further clarification from them on how this was arranged and put to their contacts. You must remember that you are not an employee or representative of Wikinews, or the Wikimedia Foundation. Nor, as it seemed through the creation of the domain hosting the audio, are you a representative of Creative Commons. I, and others I have discussed this with are a little concerned there was no notification of anyone on Wikinews that this was in the planning. Can I ask, how, exactly, did you represent yourself to Creative Commons? -- Brian McNeil (alt. account) /alt-talk • main talk 14:56, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Who is saying you that I represented myself as emplyoy or representative of WM or WN while taking interview of Chiaki Hayashi?? Go and make sure with the interviewee first before shouting at me. As for the domain name, I didn't registered it to represent WM nor CC and I dont think freeculturemovement.org is a registered trademark of eigther organizations. Is it?? By the way, before going to register it, I asked people at freeculture.org if they have any issue if I register such domains but they had no issue but I still don't whats your problem with my domain. --Saki (talk) 16:16, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I did not shout at you. I am being put in touch with the interview subject. So far nobody from freeculture.org has commented on the domain. You do not need to respond on my talk page. -- Brian McNeil (alt. account) /alt-talk • main talk 19:38, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

 * Saki, if you have truely reformed then you must understand that people will need to perform very tight checks on you, because of your past. Assuming you've done nothing wrong then just co-operate. The smoother these checks go the quicker they will be reduced and the faster you can regain the community's trust. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 19:51, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Sure. --Saki (talk) 14:30, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Interview listed for deletion
Please see WN:DR. Thanks, -- Cirt (talk) 15:06, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Wikinews interviews Chiaki Hayashi, Asian Projects Coordinator at Creative Commons

 * Hi Saki. At the moment, I really don't know exactly what's going to happen to the article. The community seems to be split. Benny the mascot (talk) 13:20, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

 * Your interview has been deleted. Under no circumstances whatsoever should you contemplate engaging in any form of Original Reporting until such time as you have made an effort to gain community trust and prove you can act responsibly, avoid copyright infringement, sockpuppetting, and so. I am of the opinion your prior blocks, and a permanent block of this account would be fully justified. This is not the general will of the community, but your disruption of the project is completely and utterly unacceptable. --Brian McNeil / talk 07:56, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi, Saki. I've restored your article on your userspace per your request. Benny the mascot (talk) 15:08, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Redeeming yourself
Hi Saki. It seems that you're not exactly favored by a few contributors at the moment. Perhaps you need to take a few steps to regain your trust with them. I suggest that you write a few synthesis articles and interact with your fellow editors. What do you think? If you need help with anything, just post a message on my talk page. :) Benny the mascot (talk) 18:09, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll. Thank you! --Saki (talk) 18:10, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Just go ahead and file a request on WN:CHU Benny the mascot (talk) 13:21, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Congrats
Hey! Congrats on getting Deadly flooding in Pakistan kills hundreds published! I'm gladd to see that you've decided to help out despite everything that happened with your interview. If you need anything, just let me know. ;) Benny the mascot (talk) 18:32, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much for your attentions and appreciations. --Saki (talk) 19:08, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Unmitigated Audacity
I hear you had the chutzpa, brass neck, or sheer affrontery, to apply for accreditation; and, were shot down faster than a Me109 against a squadron of Spitfires.

You, frankly, will never be issued a Wikinewsie email address until you start dealing honestly with the Wikinews community. And, master the English language and copyright law.

I am uninterested in how someone has access to thousands of IP addresses in the area of Pakistan where Osama Bin Laden is puportedly holed up. I am, however, concerned that this project retain its integrity.

You've lied to this community. You've vowed to destroy this project. And, you've created more sockpuppets than there have been Elvis sightings.

You should still be permanently banned.

Leave accreditation well alone; it has to be earned. Don't think because I'm at a reduced activity level I will not find out your machinations. I take my responsibilities as a 'crat very seriously. The integrity of this project's reportage is crucial. You, with every copyvio, or near copyvio, put that at risk.

If you wish to be accredited you must completely and utterly reform. I do not believe you have done so. --Brian McNeil / talk 22:44, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Article approved
Well Nine dead after small plane crashes in New Zealand finally approved before the 3-day deadline; I added several local newspaper sources Hugo99 (talk) 13:28, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

'Retirement'
Weren't you retired from this project? If I were you, I would never come back to receive more criticisms... you should know better. --Diego Grez return fire 18:35, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, as of now, I'm here with my promise to reform myself. Anyway, could you please help me expanding this article Woman admits she's mom of 'Gulf Air baby', if you've time. --Saki (talk) 18:44, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I can't. --Diego Grez return fire 18:51, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

 * So finally I have decided to leave this project. By the way, why you retired from EN WP? :O Please do not mind, it was not my personal opinion about ITN nomination. I would still support it but there is really no international responce to this event. --Saki (talk) 19:33, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

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Move?
Can we rename this article Prosecutors not to try former VP Gore? I find the split infinitive unnecessary and annoying. Peter Chastain (talk) 18:05, 31 July 2010 (UTC)


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14,000-acre Southern California 'Crown Fire' at 82% containment, evacuation orders lifted

The Crown Fire that has burned through 13,980 acres in the of  California since 2:32 pm (2232 UTC) Thursday was at 82% containment Saturday evening, according to the.

On Friday high winds caused the fire to jump the and spread into the city of. Over 2,000 residents of, Ana Verde, and Rancho Vista were given mandatory evacuation orders. The sky was blanketed with thick orange and falling ash, making the air hard to breathe.

State Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger arrived in Palmdale on Friday to survey the burned areas. "We were very fortunate to not have fires for quite some time because the air temperature was cool and we didn't have the experiencing of dry weather and all the winds and so on, but all of a sudden the fire season kicked in as if, 'Here we are,'" Schwarzenegger said during a press conference. "But we are ready and we have luckily distributed resources all over the state of California, so we are ready at any given time."

The fire has so far destroyed one house and three mobile homes, damaging the roof of another and burning car garages, horse stables, and other outbuildings. Most of the more seriously threatened homes were constructed recently from, with walls coated in , and fire-resistant plants in the yards. Although some roads are still closed to all traffic, all existing evacuation orders were lifted late Friday night and 500 residents of Rancho Vista were told to "shelter in place" until further notice. Despite the absence of mandatory evacuation orders, over 2,000 houses, 60 commercial buildings, and 100 outbuildings are still under threat. Throughout the night, fire crews have been battling the wildfire, assisted by cooler temperatures and lighter-than-expected winds which have enabled them to establish containment lines. "Crews went out [Friday] night and did some great work trying to complete more lines and also trying to take care of what we call 'cat eyes' which are embers within the perimeter of the fire, so there will be much more work being done there today," said LACFD Captain Roland Sprewell. "But of course we're not going to rest on our laurels today...we're going to be vigilantly watching the winds, especially in the ridge and down in the valleys."

At the height of the fire, 1,700 firefighters from all over California were battling the flames, although as of 12:00 pm Saturday afternoon, it has been reduced to around 1,350 personnel. 16 fire camp crew have also assisted. 250 fire engines and four bulldozers have been used. In the air, 4 supertankers, 1  tanker, and 6 modified  helicopters known as "Firehawks" have been dropping water and red  slurry. The also increased its presence in the Antelope Valley by bringing in response teams from stations outside the AV. This afternoon, the deployment has been scaled back to three teams as the fire stabilizes and further evacuation orders become unlikely.

Three firefighters have been injured battling the fire, although all injuries are minor. One sheriff deputy was also hospitalized for smoke inhalation but has since been released.


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User talk:S~enwikinews

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Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called S. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name S~enwikinews that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

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Chelsea Clinton marries Marc Mezvinsky in Rhinebeck, New York

August 2, 2010

Chelsea Clinton, the only daughter of former US William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton and current US  Hillary Rodham Clinton, wed long-time boyfriend and investment banker  on Saturday evening. The ceremony occurred in, New York amidst a flurry of secrecy and speculation surrounding the event.

Not much was known about the wedding, and those involved in the event did not say anything to the media. An estimated 500 guests were at the ceremony, which took place at Astor Courts, a large estate built for  over 100 years ago. The secluded mansion is situated on 50 acres (20.2 hectares) of land in the small town of Rhinebeck. A was established over the estate.

The guest list was the subject of much speculation, but notable figures, Steven Spielberg, and reportedly did not attend the festivities. ,, , and were rumored to have been seen at the wedding.

The marriage ceremony was led by Rabbi James Ponet and the Reverend William Shillady. Mezvinsky, who is Jewish, wore a (prayer shawl) and a. Clinton is a. A Clinton family friend read the poem "The Life That I Have", by. Chelsea Clinton wore a strapless dress designed by. She had been spotted by  at Wang's New York showroom earlier last week, and Wang was reportedly seen in Rhinebeck as well.

The town of Rhinebeck was the subject of much public interest on Saturday. Photographers, journalists, and ordinary citizens lined the streets to get a peek at the celebrities attending the wedding. Many stores had signs saying something similar to "Congratulations Marc & Chelsea." Residents temporarily displaced by the wedding were even given bottles of wine for the inconvenience.

30-year-old Chelsea Clinton and 32-year-old Marc Mezvinsky first met in Washington, D.C. while teenagers, and both later attended. Now living in New York, Mezvinsky works at as an investment banker, while Clinton recently earned her master's degree in public health at. Mezvinsky is the son of the now-divorced and, friends of the Clinton family.

Although thought to cost several million dollars, a Clinton family friend claimed that the event would carry a price tag of less than 1 million.


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Here's a thought. We all know that only an idiot would suggest the entire plane be made out of the black box material, it would weigh too much. But what if every passenger was wearing a suit of armor made out of the black box material? 206.74.5.136 (talk) 00:49, 1 August 2010 (UTC)


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Australian rules football: 2010 Gippsland Football League round 16 split round week one

August 2, 2010

Two games of round 16 of the Gippsland Football League split the round over the weekend. On Saturday, Sale defeated Moe by 75 points, while on Sunday, Warragul lost to Drouin.

The split round will be completed next weekend with Leongatha traveling to Maffra and Morwell travelling to Wonthaggi. Traralgon has the bye.

The preliminary ladder has, in order, Maffra on top followed by Traralgon, Morwell, Drouin and Leongatha in the the top five. Moe and Sale need to win both of their remaining games and have other results go their way to make the finals. Wonthaggi and Warragul cannot make the finals.

The Gippsland Football League, officially the Gippsland League, is the only major Australian rules football competition in the rural region east from Melbourne to the New South Wales border, according to the.

Scores are quoted as goals-behinds (total).

Sale defeat Moe
A nine-goal second quarter lead to a 75 point win for Sale at home over Moe.

Sale kicked eight points clear at the end of the first quarter before extending the lead to 51 at half time. A four-goal third quarter from both the hosts and Moe saw Sale's lead increase by only 2 points.

Sale kicked five goals and six behinds to Moe's two goals and two behinds in the final quarter to run out winners, 23-20 (153) to 12-11 (83).

Drouin v Warragul

Drouin held Warragul goalless as they ran out winners by 90 points. Warragul kicked their lowest score since 1909. Drouin, however, couldn't replicate their highest winning margin of 92 points set in 1930.

Warragul remain winless and will end the season in last place. Drouin will move up to third pending the completion of the split round.


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Talk:14,000-acre Southern California 'Crown Fire' at 82% containment, evacuation orders lifted

Broadcast report and OR
As with the previous article, I've been watching KCAL 9, FOX 11, ABC 7 and KTLA, and listening to KGMX (Kmix 106.3) and I'm still in the city. Matthewedwards (talk) 03:17, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

To the reviewer
Local news, and the ABC source, is reporting containment at 82% now. I moved the article already but I'm editing on my cell and the article is too big to do so. When reviewing, please update the %age and time of day.Thanks, Matthewedwards (talk) 03:11, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

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Former United States vice president Al Gore will not be facing assault charges due to allegations made by a masseuse in 2006, according to the Portland, Oregon district attorney's office.

Molly Hagerty, 54, claimed Gore "sexually assault[ed] me in his [hotel] room." Hagerty was called to Gore's Portland hotel room to give him a massage. Hagerty said Gore pinned her down and "he kept trying to have sex with [her]."

Prosecutors closed the case, but after tabloid National Inquirer interviewed Hagerty they reopened the case. Hagerty refused to take a polygraph test.

Deputy DA Don Rees said there is "contradictory evidence, conflicting witness statements, credibility issues, lack of forensic evidence, and denials by Mr. Gore."

Rees continued saying Hagerty and her attorneys were uncooperative in the investigation.

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Hi 24.189.134.161 :) My name is BarkingFish, and I'm the reporter here who initially started (and worked in collaboration with several other editors on) the story about the Gibraltar murder which was commented on from this IP address.  I notice that information has been placed there concerning an autopsy on the victim, and conclusions from it.

I have been unable to locate any sources concerning any such autopsy from major news organisations, so I am unable to make any notes or add a follow up story, since I cannot find anything official to confirm what you posted. If you could make your source of this information available to me in some way, such as posting a link to the article or website you found this info on, I'd appreciate it, and then a follow up can be prepared using your information. Thanks for your help. BarkingFish (talk) 17:48, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

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Talk:'Black box' found near crash site of Airblue flight

Why still waiting for review even after 24 hours?--Saki (talk) 19:37, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Two recorders
I have read the correction proposed, as well as several news articles from around the time.

I am confused as to whether the voice or data recorder was found, or both.

Is there any way to resolve that?

--InfantGorilla (talk) 19:46, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

 * Reading just this article, the data recorder came out of the wreckage on the Saturday and the voice recorder was recovered on the Monday. I'm going to assume that was factchecked properly at the time. Nice work on rewording my clunky notice, by the way. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 19:49, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

 * Thanks, and thanks. Sometimes I can write clear prose, and sometimes I write nothing but gobbledygook.  As far as fact checking is concerned, I tried to check it at the time, as well as yesterday, and never made sense of it, though since it seems both recorders were eventually recovered, I don't think it matters any more.

 * By the way, I noticed a claim in Wikipedia that the first flight recorders recorded both voice and instrument data on the same wire, but I chose not to complicate the correction further with something that seems to be of historical interest only.

 * --InfantGorilla (talk) 08:20, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

 * I wonder if there may may be a small amount of the most important data recorded onto the voice recorder as an insurance policy - attitude/pitch/yaw, location, control column inputs, rudder pedal inputs, throttles, one or two other things. That would create vast amounts of confusion since the primary purposes of each recorder steers away from the other's function. The regulations do not actually state that they must be separate (either international or in most - all? - local jurisdictions). There is such a thing as a (takes deep breath) Combined Flight Data and Cockpit Voice Recorder (CFDCVR). I have only encountered one accident or incident report mentioning one; I forget which mishap it involved. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 09:40, 7 August 2010 (UTC)


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Greg Biffle wins fifteenth career NASCAR Sprint Cup race

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I restored the tasks list on your first article, Signal From Space Could Be From UFO, as there has been no material change since the first review.

There is plenty of work to do on this article if you want a reviewer to publish it, but I suggest the first thing to tackle is to figure out how it is news. See the content guide, and recent stories in Category:Space, for ideas.

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Talk:Greg Biffle wins fifteenth career NASCAR Sprint Cup race

Title?
If a title has a quotation in the title ("earns") then normally I would like to read it somewhere in the article (like Reutimann who "earned" his second race win).

Please choose another title, or find some cool quotes to include in the article.

How about, Biffle gets first NASCAR win for two years ? (I hate the word 'gets', so I won't move it myself.)

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UK military deaths in Afghanistan reach 327

August 2, 2010 On Monday, the announced that two UK troops died in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, as the result of two isolated occurrences yesterday. Small arms fire killed one soldier, who came from the 1st Battalion Scots Guards, in the.

The other individual, a Royal Marine serving in 40 Commando, was in the when the explosion of an improvised explosive device (IED) occurred. The families of the deceased have now been notified.

Including these new deaths, the total number of UK military deaths in Afghanistan rose to 327. The UK has been active in Afghanistan since October 2001.

Announcing the casualties, Task Force Helmand spokesman Lieutenant Colonel David Southall said of the first soldier, "Commanding his men, he was killed in action by small arms fire whilst providing security to the Afghan people."

"He gave his life whilst seeking to improve the lives of ordinary Afghans. His sacrifice will not be forgotten," Southall said of the marine's death.


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Wikinews interviews William Pomerantz, Senior Director of Space Prizes at the X PRIZE Foundation

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Please introduce yourself and the Google Lunar X-Prize (GLXP)

My name is William Pomerantz, and I am the Senior Director of Space Prizes at the X PRIZE Foundation. In that capacity, I manage all of our space activities here at the X PRIZE, including most notably the Google Lunar X PRIZE.

The Google Lunar X PRIZE is an unprecedented international competition that is challenging and inspiring engineers and entrepreneurs from around the world to develop low-cost methods of robotic. By reigniting a race to the Moon, we are engaging a new generation, making lunar exploration not just a historical accomplishment but a tangible and ongoing reality. The Google Lunar X PRIZE is a competition that will award US$30 million for the first privately funded team to send a robot to the Moon. The robot is required explore the Moon by travelling 500 meters along, above, or below the lunar surface and by transmitting high definition video and high resolution photos back to Earth.

Why is Google, an internet services provider, interested in philanthropic and scientific fields?

Google believes that by setting an ambitious goal like landing on the surface of the Moon and by offering an incentive prize is a good way to both inspire the world and to incentivize the development of technologies and systems that will both allow us to explore the universe and, in so doing, improve the state of humanity in the world. As said when we announced the Google Lunar X PRIZE, "science has a serious marketing problem, and I think this is the best antidote I’ve seen for that."

A few choice words from also help explain Google's role in this endeavour: “We’re proud to sponsor the Google Lunar X PRIZE. … Google is sponsoring this PRIZE because it is really different than any other kind of corporate sponsorship that I’ve seen. It’s really going to accomplish something very, very impressive. ... We hope to have helped make private space flight more viable. Efforts like this will stimulate a passion for space-related research and education in a new generation of potential innovators. ... One of the things that really exited me about this project is how it can help with education. I mean, space really fascinates college students, and I think this will inspire a lot of interest in space, in the physics that surrounds it, the math, and the history of the space programs. I think all the interest and attention on this prize is going to be very beneficial to the education of our children. We’re hopeful that our sponsorship of the Lunar X PRIZE will help spark a new generation’s interest in the fields of math, science, and computer science, which should ultimately prove quite beneficial to both the international workforce in general and Google in particular.”" (WP)

'''One of the tasks the GLXP-teams have to do is to capture and stream videos in quality from Moon back to Earth. Why is this important?'''

An important aspect of "Moon 2.0"--the new era of lunar exploration--is how participatory it is. Regardless of who wins the Google Lunar X PRIZE, millions upon millions of people all around the world will be able to experience the mission through these video streams. That's hugely important as we look to capitalize on the excitement inherent in those voyages to get people of all background more excited about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

'''What conditions do these videos have to meet? Bandwidth in space is still crucial and expensive, so high frame-rates and data-rates will be difficult to broadcast as a live stream and videos with almost in still-mode aren't interesting for audiences. So what wonderful dynamic sequences can we expect? And What cameraman's and editor's dreams do you want to see come true, like color-depth, contrast (finally seeing stars on Moon images not outshined by Moon's surface) or even audio-video codec?'''

We've imposed a few minimum quality guidelines upon our teams, but the majority of these decisions will be left them. We want to give them the freedom to select both the shots and the technology that best fits their mission--the design of their spacecraft or spacecrafts, the landing site they chose, the manner in which they move along or above the lunar surface, et etcetera.

'''What will happen to the video and the collected data? Is there a plan to publish the video on YouTube and to integrate the photos in ? Is this the logic expansion of to bring people to places, where really most of us won't never ever put a step?'''

The video and other footage will be majorly promoted around the world. We expect that this will be a massive, global story that appeals to a huge variety of audiences, and we'll work with our partners to provide as many ways as possible for fans and for students to follow along.

'''A nice little side-effect will be if one team will accomplish the secondary point to rover to one of the Apollo mission landing sites and capture images of the remaining relics. Wouldn't it be helpful to prove a lot of wrong by finding and showing these relics? This will definitely influence the search rates of this topic on Google. And how do you achieve conservation of these almost sacred monuments of human accomplishment and not contaminating it with new tracks of landing and rover gears?'''

The Google Lunar X PRIZE includes a bonus prize for revisiting the sites of previous missions to the Moon--including not only the Apollo sites, but a variety of other robotic probe landing or impact sites. This is important not just for the reasons you mention, but also carries a huge amount of scientific significance as well. This is the reason why NASA itself has already conducted one such mission, when the crew visited one of the.

Our teams all understand that any such visit needs to be done respectfully, though. Thankfully, no one can appreciate the historical significance of the vehicles currently on the lunar surface more thoroughly than those people all around the world currently working on new lunar missions. Each of them will have enormous emotional incentives to ensure that whatever they do, they do respectfully--and, with teams relying largely on donors, corporate sponsors, and similar who are backing their missions to earn good will, they will have financial incentives as well.

'''Although space-exploration has ever been an object of national prestige, the importance of international and multilateral connections are so intense that almost any big space project and mission is the result of close collaboration. The International Space Station (ISS) is on a global scale, the launcher on a European scale and even the members of GLXP-teams are working together across borders. Is it possible to connect the collected data with other already collected data, like the Japanese, that Kaguya named orbiter also had a on board and took videos from lunar orbit, or future missions like European long term mission plan  and Indian and Chinese missions planed to go to the Moon? Although the teams are privately funded the scientific data should be used for the benefit of everybody and that it could be validated by the scientific community.'''

The missions of the Google Lunar X PRIZE teams are indeed sure to add to the body of data used by professional and amateur scientists and engineers all around the world.

'''The (Augustine Commission) last year and US President Obama's speech in February changed the goals of the US space programs. Especially President Obama announced that the emphasis of private contractors should be strengthened to reduce public money in NASA and other related projects on the one side but also to encourage private enterprise to fill in the gaps (like private company SpaceX servicing the ISS with Falcon launchers). In this highly disputed way NASA should play the role of the arrowhead to do the high-level exploration and leaving ground for private business in low-level.

Way back before this was announced the GLXP was started. Did you foresee this and what could be GLXP's part in this new orientation?'''

It's difficult to say where exactly the final decision will end up regarding the future of NASA's exploration programs, but one this is already clear: people on both sides of the debate are realizing that, if appropriately planned out, civil space agencies can greatly benefit from space exploration capabilities developed by private firms. To reach the ideal, most efficient situation, it's important to ensure that the capabilities being developed by these commercial firms are complementary to, rather than competitive with, what NASA and its counterparts in other nations are developing. Thankfully, this is exactly the case, and indeed, we had veterans of both NASA and ESA involved in helping us draft the rules for the Google Lunar X PRIZE. In the end, the Google Lunar X PRIZE teams will be developing a large number of systems and technologies that NASA, ESA, and other agencies can use to accomplish more of the amazing things those agencies do for less money.

'''Are there special points a team can get for capturing videos in ? Some had 3D-cameras on board and even director Cameron is investing private money to help NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Mission to get a previously dumped 3D-camera on board the. On the one hand side it is scientifically worth to have this for optical measurements and on the other it will provide a more realistic view to the audience. And of course YouTube offers a beta status feature to present it in adequate ways with current stereoscopic video-players. You still have time to complete it.'''

Teams will likely see some important financial incentives for capturing videos in 3D, but the Google Lunar X PRIZE itself does not explicitly reward this. Recall, though, that the Google Lunar X PRIZE should be just the first step of a long and lucrative business plan for our competing teams.

'''What will you do for the first successful mission? is there media-coverage planned? from Twitter feeds to live-streams and of course videos on YouTube and possible documentary distribution, besides doing a celebration party on Googleplex! For the first moon landings the video is one of the most significant historical recordings and was broadcast all over the world, even with low resolution, noisy quality and in black-white. And some of this data was almost lost and poorly archived so that it had to be restored before being released in 720p for the 40th anniversary. How will you handle these priceless records?'''

We definitely plan on a huge, real-time online presence coinciding with any Google Lunar X PRIZE attempts. Social media will play a key role.

'''I'm a Mars enthusiast, so what will come after the successful GLXP mission? will there be a Google Mars X-Prize eventually, or will there be a logical next step like a GLXP with sample return requirement? The X-Prize Foundation announced new Categories and more competitions every year. What can we expect?'''

We are currently considering a wide range of potential future space X PRIZEs. We're looking at a broad range of technologies and missions, including everything from clean up to radically more efficient launch technologies.

In closing, do you have a question, request or wish for our readers?

Please, be sure to follow along with the competition and with our teams by visiting our various web properties--see below for a list. Our teams really appreciate feedback: it is great to know that there are people out there following their progress, and cheering them on!

GLXP related websites: Official Webpage: googlelunarxprize.org YouTube Channel: youtube.com/googlelunarxprize Staff Blog: thelaunchpad.xprize.org Facebook: facebook.com/googlelunarxprize Twitter: twitter.com/glxp Tumblr: flightplan.xprize.org

Thank you for this nice interview and clear sky for all teams!

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hi, I release this interview-part under CC-By-2.5, the intro and outro on the sourced page is perhaps to much npov, but you could tell me if it's okay. otherwise I will modify it. I already asked for help here Wikinews talk:Request an interview bute nobody has replied to me yet. --Andreas -horn- Hornig (talk) 11:28, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

 * 1) You posted cc-by-3.0 on your HDTV page, but that is fine too. We'll put a banner at the bottom of the article to link the correct licence.
 * 2) I don't think the intro and outro are good for the article, but you are welcome to paste them into the talk page as 'reporter's notes'.
 * --InfantGorilla (talk) 12:35, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

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I will add some wiki-links and picture, soplease give me some time, please. --Andreas -horn- Hornig (talk) 11:28, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

My personal thoughts
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 * 1) Some of the categories were redlinked. I don't mind if you restore my deletions if you think we need those cats.
 * 2) Interview is very interesting. Thanks!
 * 3) Some of your questions seem a bit POV in my personal opinion, and have small spelling and syntax errors, but I am not sure of English Wikinews policy on those. POV answers are of course fine.

I hope it is, at least it is for me, personally. That's why I asked them. And the typo stuff is, because I'm German and English isn't my native language, I hope you don't mind and perhaps could help me correcting it. --Andreas -horn- Hornig (talk) 13:50, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Conflict of interest?
Andreas, You are a member of Synergy Moon that hopes to win the prize, aren't you? This version of wikinews is quite strict about its conflict of interest rules, so there may be a problem. It is a bit like a supplier interviewing his own customer. What do you think?
 * http://www.synergymoon.com/team.html

I suggest you explain your role at Synergy Moon and wait for some community discussion before you spend too much time perfecting the article.

--InfantGorilla (talk) 13:03, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

hi, sure I'm part of the team, that's why I explicitely signed that on the intro/outro and told you here, that at least this COULD be NPOV, but that was just the reason why doing the interview. the interview part, and only that is what does matter for me, is done as neutral as possible, because this was done for my other involvment for hdtvtotal.com where I don't want to mix both involvements. in this there is now reference to either synergy moon or another team. and I hope that is clearly visible in my questions. when a mac news-website does a mac interview, this is almost the same. and as you can see this is more about the high-def video aspect and about common stuff, so there shouldn't be a problem. I just mentioned that I'm part of one team, because that's only fair, and I also linked all active team-pages without any side-thought. it's still wikinews decision, that's why I like this site. and can't really see where there is a costumer relationship in the question part. I can provide my emails with all details from contacting, the interview to asking for images (where I sill don't have a word about the licences, that's why they aren't uploaded here). greets, --Andreas -horn- Hornig (talk) 13:48, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * hi, so where and how can we discuss it? I waited one ay and nothing happened. Is there a special discussion page to go to? greetings, --Andreas -horn- Hornig (talk) 08:49, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't know why no-one else is here. Too busy in real life, or writing news, or joining in the drama to notice a flag I guess.  Anyway, here is the place to discuss it.
 * Your intro said "joined" - it wasn't clear to me whether you are still a team member: that is why I asked you directly. Thanks for removing doubt.
 * The reason I say "customer" is that I guess you get a salary or a share of the X Prize if your team wins. Is my guess correct?
 * Copies of original e-mails are good. If they contain private details such as a private address, home IP, or phone number, then omit those.
 * I don't mean that you are biased in favor of your team, nor against any other teams. I have no reason to believe you have any bias at all, and I appreciate your efforts at neutrality.  However there is a conflict of interest when you have a personal financial stake in X Prize getting nice/positive publicity.  That means a reader might think you can't ask the hard questions the reader might want answered, like: "are there better ways to spend the money that donors give to X Prize?" or "is the prize big enough to get the best contestants?", or even "are big contractors and government agencies able to compete fairly to win an X Prize?" (for example.)  Conflict of interest is partly about the appearance of bias, even if there is no actual bias.
 * Those are my personal concerns. Our task is to decide whether, as a community, we can accept the article with those concerns.  I am not a very experienced Wikinewsie myself, but these are the concerns I sometimes raise with interviewers: I have not singled you out.
 * I repeat, thank you for doing an interesting interview, and thank you for offering it to us.
 * --InfantGorilla (talk) 11:47, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

 * okay, then I will sit here and wait for questions
 * It's an info for the reader and I even told GLXP directly in my first email, whether or not they would like to do an interview. it just a formality.
 * at least I don't have a contract with a fixed shareratio and I don't even expect that. and there are interviews with wikimedia personals, isn't that the same? like possible indirect advertizement?
 * okay, I will have a look how to solve that.
 * if there are additional questions, we could still ask Mr. Pomerantz. and a team willget the money by achiving to get to the moon and to do other stuff. and not by doing interviews. so neither myself or a team will gain any advantage.
 * that's why I'm here :). but several other news attemps where deleted because no one really helped and then it was deleted, because it was not newsworthy anymore. An interview is not breaking news, but I don't want to wait a week to wait for help and then it's deleted.
 * thanks :), perhaps there are more interested readers in wikinews.
 * greetings, --Andreas -horn- Hornig (talk) 13:09, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
 * hi, is there anywhere I could go to fasten it up? --Andreas -horn- Hornig (talk) 21:55, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! --InfantGorilla (talk) 16:12, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Original reporting can be move to user space, or undeleted. There is now a warning about that on the deletion tag.
 * 2) I asked about this at Water Cooler. Nobody answered.  If you want to get more opinions, maybe the only way is to finish the article and put a 'review' tag on it.
 * 3) I won't be online much to help, but plenty of others are about.

Review of revision 1078402 [Failed]

 * hi, please explain, why they use names in here KKE: Interview with the Greek Communist Party and I should do initials? --Andreas -horn- Hornig (talk) 15:53, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

 * Because my initials and her initials were the same, so it would be confusing. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 16:20, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

 * ahhh! now I recognized that! :) okay, changed in it my interview. I just used this interview as a basis :). --Andreas -horn- Hornig (talk) 16:53, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Intro/Outro
hi, I forwarded the last email containing the mail-exchange to scoop-at-wikinewsie.org, so some persons should have read it by now. So what would you think about the into and outro to this interview? the current one is rather short and the outro is missing. what do you think I could/should add? --Andreas -horn- Hornig (talk) 13:50, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Review of revision 1080811 [Failed]

 * Hi Diego, it seems, we are in a vicious circle. I ask how we can solve this problem, hardly noone replies, then I wait, switch to review again, get the same reply, ask a gain, wait.... It's really frustrating when you want to do everything according to the rules, but noone tells me how. Shouldn't be there somkind of mechanism avoiding this? Wherecan I go? I ask somewhere else (linked above) and even there noone feels to help. There should be some place to go and set clear my point of view, so please, wehere should I go? --Andreas -horn- Hornig (talk) 17:52, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
 * BTW: why did you link to User:Saki?

Subtitle
hmmm, I would say "Regardless of who wins the prize, people all around the world will be able to experience the mission through high-def video-streams" unless you want to put it directly into the "title", than it's too long :). --Andreas -horn- Hornig (talk) 21:34, 28 August 2010 (UTC)


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Cargo plane crashes in Alaska's Denali Park, sparks wildfire

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A cargo plane crashed into a mountain Sunday afternoon in Alaska's, killing around three people and sparking a small wildfire after the aircraft disintegrated and burst into flames. According to the, the plane crashed into the southern slope of Mount Healy, and the crash was just 200 yards away from Denali's only road.

Though it is estimated that three people died in the crash, it has been hard to determine exactly how many died as "the plane pretty much disintegrated," park spokeswoman Kris Fister said. The explosion from the crash sparked a small wildfire that firefighters contained within two acres (one hectare.)

Though George Clare, a man from Las Vegas who witnessed the crash, thought the plane looked like a military aircraft, US military officials have stated that none of their planes were involved. Clare has said that the plane was "... a military khaki green kind of color. It was propeller-driven. It was a fixed wing aircraft and it had kind of a flat underbelly." The Federal Aviation Administration, which tracks civil flying accidents, later circulated a report that identified the aircraft as a, and echoed the initial reports that all three on board died, including one passenger.

Jeff Kowalczyk, an EMT hiking through the 6,075,107 acre park with his wife, a nurse, said that he saw the plane positioned almost upside-down as it crashed. The crash was only a few hundred yards from where he was watching, and he also said "the whole experience was really surreal."

The crash came just four days after another major airplane crash in the state, when a military cargo plane crashed a minute after taking off at the in. The crash killed four people onboard who were training for an airshow.


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Jurors in the Rod Blagojevich corruption trial began their fifth day of deliberations this morning, having sent no notes to the judge at all yesterday. Notes they sent out last week, however, suggest that the discussions could take much longer.

The jury has sent two notes to US District Judge James B. Zagel since deliberations began last Wednesday. The first came on Thursday, when the jury requested a transcript of one of the prosecution's closing arguements. Zagel refused, saying that closing arguments are not evidence.

The second note came on Friday, when the foreman wrote "Is it permissible to obtain the transcript of the testimony? It would be helpful." Zagel interpreted the request as saying that the jury wanted transcripts of the testimony of every single witness in the trial. Zagel again declined the request because it was not practical to do so; about 30 witnesses testified in this case, and the transcripts have not yet been prepared. Zagel instead offered to consider requests for transcripts of testimony from "specific identified witnesses", but said that he would warn the jury that such requests could take some time to fulfill.

Defense attorney Sheldon Sorosky objected to this plan, saying that "the government will have the benefit of presenting its case a whole second time." Zagel said in reply that he would still consider each of the jury's requests individually.

Such a request, however, suggests that the jury intends to conduct a lengthy review of the case. The six male and six female jurors continued their deliberations on Monday without sending any further notes to the judge.

Blagojevich is charged with trying to sell the U.S. Senate seat that had been vacated by Barack Obama when he won the 2008 presidential election, among other crimes. Robert Blagojevich, Rod's brother and co-defendant in the case, testified that Rod was trying to manipulate the political situation to his advantage, but emphasized that he engaged in nothing illegal. According to some sources, Blagojevich was interested in leading the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.


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 * By the way, I'm using the CNN source to backup the last paragraph, just as a formality. The content in the last paragraph came from different sources that I used in the previous Blagojevich article. Benny the mascot (talk) 16:03, 2 August 2010 (UTC)


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In the sentence "The location of the leaking well is marked with a white dot."

It is hard to tell where this dot is. Something better (an arrow perhaps?) needs to be used in its place to identify the well.--12.31.160.200 (talk) 17:22, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

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Cargo plane crashes in Alaska's Denali Park, sparks wildfire
The aircraft was a C-123, not a C-17 Globemaster III. Please check all of the news articles for all the pertinent facts.

 * Good point. I don't think the type of aircraft was widely known when the article was written.  I wonder if reviewers should routinely check for updates before they publish an article.

 * I will update the article, but first I'll change the photo caption, as it is confusing.

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See my talk page; Tempo replied. Mike moral  ♪♫  03:53, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

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You should consider joining the WN:WWC2010 contest. -- Mike moral  ♪♫  05:11, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree with The New Mikemoral. -- Rayboy8 ( my talk ) ( my contributions ) 15:44, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Hmm. That looks interesting, but I'm ashamed to say I'm not quite clear on how to enter. C628 (talk) 02:10, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Try Writing contest 2010/entrants. -- Mike moral  ♪♫  02:14, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but there's more clarification required. If I enter, do I just keep on editing as usual, or do I have to manually go through and update the standings and log as I go?  And I'm assuming there's no restrictions or anything I'm subject to, even though I'm new here, right? Thanks in advance. C628 (talk) 02:39, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

You write as normal. And as longs as and  are added the reviewing JavaScript gadget will automatically add you points to the log. See this I'm sure the article you wrote today could be added as points. No restrictions.

Also the below should be helpful. If you have more question, just ask.

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Hang on a minute. Why haven't you signed your name on the entrants list? -- Rayboy8 ( my talk ) ( my contributions ) 08:53, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I was asleep. No worries, I'm in now. :) C628 (talk) 11:55, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

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Side note, perhaps you'd like to consider nominating yourself for editor status at WN:FRRFP, so you can review others' articles? I think you have enough experience under your belt that you'd pass. Tempodivalse [talk]  16:02, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Many thanks! I'll have to think about the editor thing, maybe in a week or so. Thanks again. Cheers, C628 (talk) 16:12, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

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 * No worries. :) C628 (talk) 20:36, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

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Thanks. I didn't want to do it, because I believe Foundation staff shouldn't be in an editorial role or making content decisions, but... that was just wrong. Clearly, factually inaccurate. I appreciate you taking care of it. Philippe (talk) 22:35, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 * No problem. C628 (talk) 22:36, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

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Article Four dead after US helicopter crashes in Afghanistan wasn't sighted by EPR. That's a glitch that happens every once in a while; it's a good idea to always double-check after passing an article that EPR actually sighted it. An article doesn't show on the main page until it's in Category:Published and it's sighted, so until recently these articles disappeared into limbo and were only discovered months later. Recently there's a section in the Newsroom for Articles improperly published, which is how I noticed this one.

Just a thought, what browser were you using? --Pi zero (talk) 04:18, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay...so if that happens again, I just add manually and everything's good? I was using Google Chrome. Thanks, C628 (talk) 11:04, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

 * Oh. Sorry, poor description on my part; no, the category is added by the publish template.  In the scenario I was describing, everything like that got done right except that the article didn't get sighted.  Hm.  After publishing, look at the article history (not the talk page history), and the published revision should have [sighted] after it.  If it doesn't, view the article page itself — the review tag should be gone — and go to the bottom of the page.  There should be a "share this" box of icons, which is the visible form of the publish tag.  Assuming all that looks right, find the "Review this revision" box and click submit.

 * BTW, is it intention on your part that the sections of your talk page don't have edit buttons, or is that an unintended side-effect of something-or-other? --Pi zero (talk) 12:18, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

 * Side note, that article wasn't added to the contest's article log either, I had to insert it manually. Might be something to contact about, i've seen this recur several times now. Tempodivalse  [talk]  13:35, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay, I think I get that...I'll probably just try to avoid reviewing articles with Chrome and use Opera instead. I left a note at Bawolff's talk page, so he should get that at some point. It's actually not my intention at all to have no edit buttons, I don't know why that happens, but I'm not that bothered by it, so I haven't taken the trouble to try and fix it. Cheers, C628 (talk) 01:43, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
 * The noeditsection is caused by the welcome template. change it to howdy to make them appear again. /me gets off his but and goes to figure out wtf is wrong with chrome. Cheers. Bawolff ☺☻ 02:06, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Like 99% of all bugs in easypeer review, I could not reproduce. :( Bawolff ☺☻ 02:41, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Adminship
Hi, i've nominated you for adminship at WN:RFA, please indicate whether you accept the nomination at that page. Good luck. Tempodivalse [talk]  14:12, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Administrator
Hi C628, i've promoted you to administrator now per your unanimously successful RFA. If you need any help with your new buttons, don't hesitate to drop me a line. Cheers, Tempodivalse [talk]  14:21, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot. I'll do my best not to let anyone down. Cheer, C628 (talk) 19:45, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Libyan plane crash
This edit summary made me laugh. Been a busy day over there. Mjroots (talk) 16:38, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, happens far too often. I'd just seen the Wikipedia article as a lead on Google News and was a little annoyed, to say the least. Cheers, C628 (talk) 19:15, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

India Airline Crash
Hey, it appears we have two articles on the same thing...this may be a tough situation. Merge or redirect? Tjc6 (talk) 13:00, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
 * (Sorry to barge in here.)
 * If that's Plane Crash in India Kills at Least 160, it was mispublished, which I fixed by changing the publish to dupe — but I really wasn't expressing a preference by that, just doing something to kick it out of the "Articles mispublished" dead zone. --Pi zero (talk) 13:42, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I've published your article. The other one will have to be merged instead. --Diego Grez return fire 13:44, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
 * They're mostly identical, except for the last two paragraphs in yours; I'll merge those into the published one, than makes yours a redirect, does that work for you? C628 (talk) 15:01, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. If there's anything else you want to add, feel free. Cheers, C628 (talk) 15:15, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

I am C628 and want the cloack Wikinews/C628

Comments
Does every wiki web have it, why dont u post direct link to it on talk? its shame nobody does it!
 * There's no need. There are three tabs: Article, Discussion/Talk, Opinions. You just have to use Opinions. --Diego Grez return fire 14:45, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
 * u have no idea how good is to have comments, i dont have to worry about bein reverted, HOW COME ALL WIKI PAGES DONT HAVE IT?SHAME!

admin 2.0
Thanks to the fact that certain 'crats are too lazy to read that you're re-admining, not reconfirming... you got your admin in a new extra-speedy timeline. So... uh... have fun? -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 22:54, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Mess with Red Cross attacks Gaza blockade
This happened. I've added a warning to the Articles mispublished section of the Newsroom, guessing that might have been how it happened. --Pi zero (talk) 02:55, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Review
Hi, C628.

Thanks for reviewing and publishing the article, my first! The bit about it being "full of patrons" was sourced to http://blogs.pe.com/news/digest/2010/06/update-shooter-was-father-gran.html where the witness said "I saw two employees run out of the employee door and then I saw 8 or 10 people run out of the restaurant and across the street", but, meh. Sorry about the "breaking" thing. It wasn't meant to push it through a review ahead of other articles in the queue, just that at the moment the two who are still alive are in hospital in surgery. Best, Matthewedwards (talk) 03:07, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh, no problem. The bit I couldn't find was that the family was specifically targeted; it was sort of implied in the sources, but I couldn't find anything where it specifically said that, so I didn't feel real happy about leaving it in...but yeah...no big deal, I think. And don't worry about the breaking thing; I don't like the template in any case, so I'm sort of biased against it in the first place. IMO, it's sort of misleading as it's very rare anyone ever bothers to update the breaking news articles, so saying "please refresh often for updates" or whatever is sort of silly. No worries, in any case. Cheers, C628 (talk) 11:56, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Captain and four shipping companies face legal action over 2009 Austrailian oil spill
Since moving pages post-publish is harmful, I will leave it there, but it is common in headlines to remove ands and replace with commas. WN:SG: "Use comma, not 'and' or '&'." Also, you should really have noticed this oopsie upon reviewing. Blood Red Sandman (Talk)   (Contribs) 20:10, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Australia's Governor-General cuts trip short over looming election
Can you please review this- THANKS!BKCW8''' talk  03:49, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Tax breaks promised by Australian Prime Minister as election fast approaches
And this one too - please and thank you =)BKCW8''' talk  03:49, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

BP article
Which paragraph can't you verify in this article? Tyrol5 (talk) 13:49, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
 * "If the tests do succeed, Suttles explained that engineers and scientists would evaluate the integrity of the cap and the risks of leaving it sealed. They would then come to a decision of whether to keep the well shut in or not. If there is a decision to reopen the cap, Suttles said that containment operations would resume. In this case, these operations would continue until the two relief wells are completed at the end of July or August. He also said that even if the cap remained closed, work on both relief wells would continue to ensure that "this well can never flow to surface again." If I recall correctly, it was added with New York Times source, but I didn't find the quote or anything there.  My assumption was that the source had been changed in the day the article had been waiting for review, and the parts that backed that up had been removed.  It happens a lot; the BBC is the worst, but nearly all news sites are guilty of it. C628 (talk) 13:55, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

 * I had a Times article confirming this, but it appears that it has changed to an update by the times itself. I will see if I can find the exact article again. Tyrol5 (talk) 14:16, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

 * In all honesty, I think that the article disappeared into thin air. I will rewrite the paragraph with information from the 'updated' Times article. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this was the second-to-last ¶, correct? Tyrol5 (talk) 14:35, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

I added additional info from the Times, you can take a look now. Here's hoping they don't 'update' the article again. Tyrol5 (talk) 15:03, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
 * It looks good to me now. The updating is definitely annoying, but it's something you eventually get used to. Cheers, C628 (talk) 18:14, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

About article
The article that you approved, forgot check the categories, i have put the categories, regards Shooke (talk) 17:34, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Re: User talk:Amgine
You may wish to examine User talk:Tony1, Wikinews talk:Style guide, with particular attention to the timestamps. I believe you'll find I was, in fact, attempting to provide the apparently requisite instant gratification. -  Amgine | t 02:17, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Al Jazeera quote
Is "looks good to me" your opinion on the concern I raised at Talk:Deadly flooding in Pakistan kills hundreds If so I will remove the flag. (I take it you are aware that the article was written by a user on probation.) --InfantGorilla (talk) 15:30, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I reworded it, it was bit out of context and jumbled together, but I don't see a problem with quoting the person; my impression that since they've publicly spoken about it, there isn't anything wrong with using that quote. I'm not an expert on that sort of thing, though, so you might want to see if anyone else comments. C628 (talk) 15:36, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Let's wait then, as there are few people active today. It was a great copy-edit, (by the way.) --InfantGorilla (talk) 15:39, 31 July 2010 (UTC)


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