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April 16, 2005

When the curtains were drawn and the anthem began, confusion flickered over the faces in the large hall which welcomed the NRA (National Rifle Association) to Houston. It was the sounds of rocker Ted Nugent’s rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. People didn’t know whether to put their hands over their heart, as was customary, or start clapping. According to reports, it was hard to determine what the "Motor City Madman" was doing.

That was the rowdy kick off Friday night of the convention expected to draw up to 60,000 people to the George R. Brown convention center for a weekend of guns, gun-politics, gun peripherals like scopes and carry bags, and stuffed trophy heads.

NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre told about 2000 listeners to "Let the enemies of freedom take notice, we in this room have beaten you…" He repeated it three times for effect.

Another opening act was country singer Charlie Daniels whose rant against those on the left of the political spectrum included a characterization of them as "save the whales and kill the babies pantywaists." He then pursed his lips and did his interpretation of a pantywaist, according to the Houston Chronicle: "’If we just leave the terrorists alone, they’d leave us alone.’"

Elsewhere, visitors were charmed by stuffed heads of dead deer. NRA staffer Monty Embrey, working the booth with the heads, said that although they looked like small moose, they were full-blooded deer with unusual antlers.

The exhibit is owned by the NRA and travels around the country. "People don't get to see a collection of heads very often. It’s a big deal," said Embrey.

Tom DeLay is keynote speaker
Saturday’s keynote address will come from right wing congressional representative Tom DeLay of Sugarland, Texas, whose district includes much of Houston.

Just Friday, another of DeLay's most conservative associates became the second House Republican to ask DeLay to consider yielding his leadership post because of the many ethics problems that have dogged him.

Rep. Tom Tancredo, (R-Colo) said, "If the majority leader were to temporarily step aside so that these trumped up charges can be dealt with in a less hostile environment, as they have proven to be an unnecessary distraction, it may be a productive move."

These comments follow on the heels of similar statements by Rep. Chris Shays, a Republican moderate from Connecticut and Rick Santorum, Republican Senator from Pennsylvania. All are concerned that the man in a political leadership position is a liability to their reelection bids, expected next year. He has not assuaged three charges against him by the Congressional Ethics Committee, comprised of half Republican and half Democratic members, except to blame his political opposition.

DeLay's record keeping on millions of dollars was minimal and he has allegedly accepted money from Texas corporations in violation of the Texas law.

"A Travis County grand jury indicted DeLay political aide Jim Ellis, fundraiser Warren RoBold and John Colyandro, the executive director of DeLay's political action committee, Texans for a Republican Majority, known as TRMPAC.The Washington Post reported in September that eight corporations also were indicted for illegal political contributions." The subject of DeLay's speech was not known at press time.

The NRA now claims a membership of about 4 million.


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Paris hotel fire kills 22

April 16, 2005

A Paris fire in a hotel killed 22 people, 10 of whom were children, while injuring 53 — 11 seriously. The hotel was an overcrowded, budget accommodation type of housing. Most of the inhabitants were African, many housed by social services, according to an Associated Press report.

The 32 room, six-story Paris Opera hotel, was made to house 61 guests, but 90 were staying at the time of the fire, with 84 of them placed by city or state social services.

The fire is thought to have started in the breakfast room at 2:20 am Friday, local time.

Along with the Africans, who were mostly refugees, others wounded included French, Senegalese, Portuguese, Americans, Ukrainians, and Tunisians, according to a report from Turkish Zaman.com. The hotel is situated near to La Galerie Lafayette, Printemps shopping center, and Paris Opera.

It took nearly 250 fire-fighters to control the fire, and the number of casualties was high because of the single exit.

"It’s hard in that kind of situation to tell people to calm down. They jumped. People on the first floor threw their children out the windows," Alfred Millot, head of the fire service at the nearby upmarket Galeries Lafayette department store, told Agence France-Presse.

"With our own equipment, we started fighting the fire from the ground floor. I came running and people were already jumping through the windows," said Millot.

His store warehouse was used as a temporary morgue. Families were counselled and assisted in re-uniting by the Red Cross.

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British National Fingerprint Database begins without parliamentary consultation

April 17, 2005 Starting in 2006, HM passport service of Britain will begin use of in the issuance of. Essential to this scheme is the creation of a central database for passport holders that contains fingerprint and biometric data. This database, along with fingerprinting facilities, will be shared by the controversial scheme.

The UK Passport Service is a royal prerogative, meaning the proposals do not require parliamentary approval. Critics say this is an attempt by the government to introduce key elements of the Identity Card scheme by stealth, without approval, appearing to reduce the cost and novel controversiality of the scheme.

The national fingerprint and biometric database is the most controversial element of the British government's Identity Card proposal, which drew debate prior to the recent election. All UK residents would be required to register on a central computer database — containing at least the fingerprint, iris scan, photograph, address and birth date and place of each resident.

Further information stored on individuals may include police, motoring, financial, health, telephone and email communications and movement data.

This would be used by government agencies including the police, immigration, medical and social security. Access would likely be extended to overseas intelligence agencies such as CIA and Interpol. Partial access would be given to banks and other parties interested in secure identification.

The database itself may be administered by the private sector. Critics argue that there is huge potential for willful misuse of this personal data.

Speaking to, the home affairs spokesman, Mark Oaten, said the government was trying to hide the true costs of its Identity Card scheme by turning the passport into a biometric identity card.

"The compulsory identity cards scheme is an expensive white elephant and a serious threat to civil liberties. It is an abuse of democracy for Labour to use the royal prerogative to put the nuts and bolts of the system in place without parliamentary approval," Mr Oaten told The Guardian. "There are no international obligations on the UK to put fingerprints in passports. The idea raises important privacy questions which must be properly debated, both in public and in Parliament."

Other elements of the Identity Card Scheme are being trialed and costed under the UKPS. Silicon.com reports:

"Other projects under way at the UKPS include:"

"- Trials of the Personal Identification Project (PIP), testing the use of data sharing with the private sector and other government departments to strengthen identity authentication"

"- Cutting fraud by creating an electronic link to birth, marriage and death records to eliminate reliance on paper documentation"

"- Launch of an electronic passport application system integrated with UKPS' back-office processing in the third quarter of this year."

"- Creation of a person-centric database. UKPS said there could be significant benefits in storing the data on a person-by-person rather than a passport-by-passport basis."

The British Government has not yet answered critics claims that the scheme is unwarranted and harmful.

European governments have come under pressure from the USA to produce passports that incorporate a biometric chip. They have imposed a deadline of 26 October 2005 after which EU citizens without a biometric chip will require a visa to visit or transit in USA. Presently USA ports take fingerprint and iris scans on arrival.


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Holland park introduces special trail for elderly and impaired

April 16, 2005

A premier for the Netherlands, a special 2.6 kilometer pedestrian route was opened last Friday in the "Drents-Friese Wold" national park, designed specially for the elderly and the impaired.

For the hearing-impaired, sound amplifiers have been implanted on several points along the route. These amplifiers repeat nature sounds specific to the point at a much louder volume. These sounds are changed according to the season.

For the visually impaired, special guide-lines have been placed along the route, leading to special signposts with braille and normal texts.

The route was built with level cement as to make it accessible to wheelchairs and other aids. For the elderly, benches have been placed at 50 meter intervals. A toilet for the disabled is also available.

Funding to cover the 300,000 euro costs were provided by Staatsbosbeheer (national forest administration) and funding by private and commercial sectors.


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You'll have to forgive me if I don't know the exact translation for some of the terms, but I think it's close enough for the native english speakers to correct my shabby english. -- Redge (Talk) 15:57, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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Freelance reporter fired from Boston Globe for adding fictitious details to story

April 16, 2005

Barbara Stewart, former freelance reporter for The Boston Globe, was dismissed this week after adding fictitious details to a story about events which actually did not occur at the time of her writing. The Boston Globe's Executive Editor Helen Donovan called the incident a "significant breach" and said, "We should have noticed the lack of attribution on a couple of key facts and should have asked questions we didn't ask."

The story in question was about a Canadian seal hunt that was supposed to take place, but actually did not occur that day because of bad weather. Stewart wrote about it anyway as though it had actually happened. Her article, dated April 13, began, "Over the vigorous protests of international animal-welfare organizations, the largest seal hunt in a half-century resumed yesterday off Newfoundland and Labrador. Hunters on about 300 boats converged on ice floes, shooting harp seal cubs by the hundreds, as the ice and water turned red. Most of the seals were less than 6 weeks old."

"When I read the article, I was kind of shocked," said Phil Jenkins, spokesman for Fisheries and Oceans Canada, according to The Washington Post. Jenkins said he told the Globe that "the events as described in quite vivid detail had not taken place."

The Canadian hunt for harp seal cubs is an annual event that has been drawing protests from animal rights activists since the 1960s. The hunts take place on ice floes and sometimes in weather conditions that can deter protesters from visiting the event.

James Smith, Foreign Editor at the Globe, says that the Globe will now institute stricter hiring practices for future part-time correspondents. He reports Stewart as saying after the incident was uncovered: "I don't know why I did this. I've never done anything like this before."

Stewart has been a reporter for The New York Times' Metro Desk between October, 1994 and May, 2004; according to the Boston Herald, the Times denied that Stewart fabricated any parts of stories while she was employed there. This was Stewart's third article for the Globe.

Other press controversies
In another example of recent press controversy, Mitch Albom has been suspended from the Detroit Free Press for writing ahead of time about the attendance at a Final Four basketball game by two former Michigan State University players, who told him they would be attending but later did not.

Other notable press scandals in recent years have included the Jayson Blair scandal of numerous fabrications and plagiarisms in 2003 at The New York Times, which led to the resignation of Blair and two editors.

The Globe itself has been marked by similar scandals in 1998 which led to the resignation of two columnists, Patricia Smith and Mike Barnicle, in separate incidents.

Bob Zelnick, chairman of the Department of Journalism at Boston University, called the current Globe controversy "embarrassing...a serious problem...a lapse of editorial judgment", but Dan Kennedy of the Boston Phoenix characterized the incident as "probably not that big a deal", according to The Washington Post. "It was an unknown freelancer writing a fairly small story inside the paper, and they took care of it immediately."

The Globe published a correction two days later on April 15. It appears from a Google search that the prior story may have been removed from the boston.com website; however, it is currently still accessible in the Google cache.


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I don't know if this was necesary, seeing as how all these articles are in the Wendy's category aswell. Also, I'm proposing a new way of bundling these articles. See Water cooler/technical. -- Redge (Talk) 18:01, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Venue
Assuming Ayala is extradited to San Jose, California, I'll update this page with information about the trial venue. The case may be tried in the federal United States District court on Park and Alamaden, if the crime crossed state lines, or the trial may be held over at the downtown San Jose Superior court on 191 N. First Street if the crime is deemed to have taken place entirely in San Jose.

One complication is that Ayala's trial for the unrelated crime of a fraudulent property sale may take place first. — DV 01:32, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Article in category?
Why is there an article in the category space? --SVTCobra 14:12, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * That's a good question. It seems the text is all at Chili Finger Incident. Could we just blank this page, replace the content with topic cat? It means the category is sorted in Category:North America, and other cats it shouldn't be in. I'd also suggest renaming the category to something else, like Category:Wendy's chili finger lawsuit or something. (Jeez, this story is eons old now, I remember this being such a scandalous thing on the TV news and even more so when it turned out to be a hoax). —mikemoral (talk · contribs) 09:29, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Addendum: There's already a Category:Wendy's, surely a specific category for the finger thing isn't necessary. I kinda doubt though we'll have many more articles about a fast food joint anyway. —mikemoral (talk · contribs) 09:32, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

 * Well, it only took ten years, but yes, I think this should be deleted. I don't see how we could could turn it into an article which belongs in the archive. It's existence as a category is almost irrelevant. --SVTCobra 10:02, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Keeping this in its current state is especially egregious as it was a hoax and a a fraud (See: Anna Ayala). --SVTCobra 10:11, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

 * Well this person seems quite something. I imagine we'd need to DR that category; it's not needed and is masquarading as an article. Fwiw, discussion about what to do with it came up once. —mikemoral (talk · contribs) 10:18, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

In closing the DR, I put a correction on the near-clone mainspace article Chili Finger Incident and replaced the content here with a call to topic cat. --Pi zero (talk) 14:04, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

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''This IP address is a Web proxy for NTL. There may be many different users behind this proxy.''

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Talk:Paris hotel fire kills 22

Missing Picture
Yeah, just wanted to point out that the picture is, uh, missing. Vash The Stampede 20:09, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, unfortunate. Often Commons deletes pictures based on their rules regarding graphics hosting. Thanks for pointing this out! - Amgine 20:16, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Davodd/Wikistats

Thanks for the stats - great to see we're growing so fast! → CGorman (Talk)  20:18, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Any chance of adding some information of when the last measure was taken? This would make it so much easier to track growth...
 * Look at the history, and the little note at the side. special:statistics is updated much more regurally. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 02:42, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

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Lebanese cabinet talks re-started by new PM

April 17, 2005

In the swiftly moving Lebanese political arena, hopes for national elections to come off as scheduled were revived as Najib Mikati was voted in Friday as the new Prime Minister, replacing former PM Omar Karimi who resigned Thursday.

The US- and EU-backed Mikati, a wealthy telecommunications businessman with ties to Damascus, was able to garner anti-Syrian opposition support to secure the nomination in a 128-member parliament vote. He immediately began work Saturday on building a new cabinet, and will continue Monday to build a cabinet team that can create a new government inside a two-week deadline. The government's 4-year parliamentary term ends May 31. Besides the formation of a new cabinet, there must be a confidence vote from parliament, and then the re-drafting of election laws for presentation to the assembly for passage in an approval process.

Lebanon has been without a government since the end of February. The previous prime minister, the pro-Syrian Karimi, replaced the assassinated anti-Syrian Rafik Hariri, but was forced to resign under massive opposition protests. Despite his later reappointment by President Lahoud, he again resigned as he remained unable to gain opposition involvement in forming a new cabinet.

The new PM Mikati told a leading newspaper, Al-Nahar, that he intends to form a "restricted government that could hold elections as soon as possible" and sack security service chiefs who he believes would block UN efforts to probe the murder of Hariri. The sister of Hariri, MP Bahia Hariri, who backed the Migati nomination in her first meeting with President Lahoud since her brother’s killing, said, "We were facing two things: either to enter a constitutional vacuum or offer a compromise, and this is what the opposition chose," according to a report by al-Jazeera.


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Over a quarter of a billion camera phones sold in 2004

April 16, 2005

New research revealed earlier this week indicates that some 257m camera phones were shipped worldwide in 2004. The survey carried out by Strategy Analytics showed that camera phone sales have soared over 200% from 84m in 2003 to the 257m last year.

The huge surge in sales means that camera phone sales now outnumber digital camera sales four to one. The mobile phone market ended the year as follows:

 * Nokia - 18 percent market share,
 * Motorola - 17 percent,
 * Samsung - 13 percent,
 * Others - 52.1 percent.

Despite the astonishing growth last year, the survey predicts a future increase to more than 350 million camera phones sales this year.


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Levitra ads pulled by FDA

April 16, 2005

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has penned a stiff reminder to drug giants Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corp. and GlaxoSmithKline PLC: pull your 15-second “reminder” ad for the erectile dysfunction drug, Levitra, off TV.

FDA said there is no evidence Levitra is better than rival drugs Viagra from Pfizer, or Cialis, owned by Eli Lilly and Co., in producing results that make female partners happy.

Levitra and Cialis together control about 30 per cent of the market for such drugs, but Pfizer takes the majority share.

Reminder ads can only call attention to a drug, not claim it works better, or at all.

"In one of [the ad's] scenes, the man strokes the woman's hair and face as she affectionately puts her hand on his wrist," the FDA wrote. "In the other, she puts her arms around his neck and they embrace." "The totality of the TV ad also represents or suggests that Levitra will provide a satisfying sexual experience from the female partner's perspective," the agency wrote.

Glaxo spokesman Michael Fleming said the drug makers would comply. Bayer developed Levitra and partnered with Glaxo to market the pills in 2001. Bayer recently turned its part of the promotion over to Schering-Plough Corp.

Shares of Bayer fell 75 cents to $32.96 on Friday. Shares of GlaxoSmithKline rose 32 cents to close at $47.82. Schering-Plough shares rose 8 cents to end at $20.65.

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User:Grinnblade/Sandbox

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Body of missing Florida girl found

April 17, 2005

The body of Sarah Lunde, a missing 13-year-old Florida girl, was found very close to her home Saturday, authorities said.

Lunde's body was found by a search-and-rescue dog in an abandoned fish farm about a half-mile away from her home, according to David Gee, sheriff of Hillsborough County. Lunde had been missing since last Sunday from her home in Ruskin, a town to the south of Tampa.

Gee said the body had a green cast on one arm, just as Sarah did. "The green cast is apparent," he said. He also stated that the body had been in the water for a long period of time, and that an autopsy would be performed to determine the cause of Lunde's death.

"The family is very distraught," Gee added.

According to CNN, David Onstott, 36, was charged late Saturday night with first-degree murder Gee said. "He is the defendant.",Onstott confessed to the murder.He was arrested on Tuesday on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Aside from a 1995 sexual assault charge, Onstott is said to have been sighted at Lunde's house hours after Lunde disappeared, and grabbed a half-empty beer bottle as he left. This could possibly link him to the numerous beer bottles found around the area, which, it is rumored, will be subjected to DNA testing. Onstott was also arraigned on Thursday on charges of not registering as a sex offender and is currently being held in the Hillsborough County Jail. Although his bond was set at $250,000, sheriff's spokesman J.D. Callaway stated that since no bond was set on a Michigan drunk driving warrant Onstott is also being held for, there is no bond set on him for his various other charges, so Onstott is being held without bond for the moment.

This case is now the second such case in a month. Jessica Lunsford's body was found in Citrus County, north of Tampa, after she had been missing from her home for three weeks.

Convicted sex offender John E. Couey, who had been living near Lunsford's home, was arrested and charged with her murder after he confessed.

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Talk:Body of missing Florida girl found

Initial ping
The link below is to update Technorati's database. (beat Amgine to it! :P)

--Grinnblade 23:56, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

First article!
I've gotta say, it was pretty interesting to write this using the various sources found by some of the Wikinewsies on #wikinews. So now that my first is out of the way... anything else breaking before I go to prom tonight? :P -- Grinnblade 00:53, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Harvard University declines to discipline professor who plagiarized

April 17, 2005

Harvard University president announced that the university would take no formal disciplinary action against  professor  for his admitted "failure to attribute" material used from another scholar's book, The Harvard Crimson reported on April 15.

The accusation of wrongdoing first appeared in an article in  in 2002. The Standard identified several passages in Tribe's 1985 book, God Save This Honorable Court, that they claimed resembled passages in Justices and Presidents, a book written by Henry Abraham of the. Additionally, the Standard alleged that the sentence, "Taft publicly pronounced Pitney to be a 'weak member' of the Court to whom he could 'not assign cases,'" appeared in both books. In September of 2004, Tribe admitted to a "failure to attribute some of the material The Weekly Standard identified," according to The Harvard Crimson.

The Crimson noted that the press release from Elena Kagan, dean of the law school and Mr. Summers, stated that they were, "firmly convinced that the error was the product of inadvertence rather than intentionality," although they did describe Tribe's behavior as, "a significant lapse in proper academic practice."


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Wikinews:2005/April/17

 * British National Fingerprint Database begins without parliamentary consultation
 * Papal conclave attracting more bets than the Oscars
 * Russian Soyuz docks with International Space Station for crew change
 * Manchester United 4-1 Newcastle United
 * ACLU, Minutemen trade accusations of misbehavior
 * Unconfirmed: 20 dead, hundreds hurt after protest in Iranian city of Ahwaz
 * Childhood exposure to TV linked to bullying
 * Harvard University declines to discipline professor who plagiarized
 * Freak wave rocks luxury liner--4 hurt
 * Famed classical works rediscovered
 * Croke Park opens to soccer and Rugby
 * Internet censorship study group reports on China
 * Littlewoods plans to axe 3,200 jobs
 * Body of missing Florida girl found
 * Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, releases study of local emissions
 * Lebanese cabinet talks re-started by new PM
 * Kenyan aviation union threatens government with strike

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Famed classical works rediscovered

April 17, 2005

Researchers at are using state-of-the-art technology to uncover works from some of the most important writers of the ancient world, works which have not been read for many centuries. They come from a cache of papyri that were salvaged about a hundred years ago in the Greco-Egyptian town of.

The ink on many of these had faded to the point that no text at all was visible to the naked eye, yet using state of the art techniques borrowed from, researchers were able to use  to see the faded ink.

There are thousands of which are set to be read in this manner, and works of, , and  which have been unavailable for well over a thousand years have already been recovered. The process by which these papyri are reconstructed is very time consuming — it will take a decade to finish the entire corpus. Among the documents set to be analysed include previously lost writings of, , and a series of.

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User talk:Hoodoo~enwikinews

hey hoodoo,

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Thanks for the heads up about the vandalism. If you are worried about vandalism, you might like to lurk on the #en-wikinews IRC chanell on freenode, where there is always an adimn you can tell, who will block the vandal right away. Oh, and re: your probs with editing; all pages have a talk and an article page. It is correct to put your comments on the talk page on most pages, but pages whose name is wikinews:something, such as wikinews:vandalism it is appropriate to put it on the article rather than talk page. So the reason that your edit didnt come up on the vandalsim page is because you edited the vandalsim talk page, not the article page. Hope that made a little bit of sense (i think i could have made it more eloquent). Anyway, once again WELCOME.

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Your account will be renamed
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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 Hoodoo. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Hoodoo~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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User talk:66.56.201.15

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Internet censorship study group reports on China

April 17, 2005

An international study group report released Thursday calls China's internet censorship "the most sophisticated effort of its kind in the world," and details measures used within China to limit citizen access to internet resources, including the BBC. The study found though that sites of most American news outlets were available, such as CNN, MSNBC, and ABC, as were major anonymizer and human rights sites.

The OpenNet Initiative project (ONI), made up of researchers at the University of Toronto in Canada, Harvard Law School in the US, and Cambridge University in the UK, has a mission "to investigate and challenge state filtration and surveillance practices".

The report, by the project's National Filtering team, and named Internet Filtering in China in 2004-2005: A Country Study, was published on Thursday.

Says the report summary: "ONI sought to determine the degree to which China filters sites on topics that the Chinese government finds sensitive, and found that the state does so extensively."

Topics which were found to be frequently blocked included pornography, Taiwanese and Tibetan independence, Falun Gong, the Dalai Lama, the Tiananmen Square incident, opposition political parties, and a variety of anti-Communist movements.

Volunteers in China who had assisted with the study had done so at "substantial risk", according to John Palfrey, a project leader, speaking at a Congressional hearing in Washington. Palfrey said the filtering was not openly admitted by Chinese authorities, and censorship decisions could not be appealed, encouraging self-censorship.

The report describes the Chinese system as dynamic, pervasive, sophisticated, and effective. Filtering appeared to be carried out at various control points — unlike systems in other countries — and a variety of parameters were changing over time.

According to the summary, "This combination of factors leads to a great deal of supposition as to how and why China filters the Internet. These complexities also make it very difficult to render a clear and accurate picture of Internet filtering in China at any given moment."

Most filtering was at the backbone level, with additional controls implemented by individual ISPs, and Chinese search engines, which were found to block results based on particular keywords. Chinese blog providers also were found to prevent or remove content based on particular keywords, or removed the keywords from posts.

Cyber-cafes were legally required to track customer's usage, keeping records for 60 days. This and a patchwork of other laws — "including media regulation, protections of 'state secrets,' controls on Internet service providers and Internet content providers" — limited free expression. There was no single statute enacting the censorship.

During the years of the ONI study, the Chinese censorship system was observed to have grown "more refined, sophisticated, and targeted".

Other National Filtering reports so far released by the group are Bahrain 2004-05, United Arab Emirates 2004-05, and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 2004; although members have released a number of other reports individually.


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British retailer Littlewoods plans to axe 3,200 jobs

April 19, 2005

The large UK retail group Littlewoods is set to make 3,200 staff redundant and close 126 of its Index catalogue-based shops. It intends to sell the remaining 33 stores to its largest rival Argos.

The firm revealed that it had made accumulated losses at the Index chain of more than GBP 100 million (EUR 146 million, US$190 million) in their 20-year history.

Index currently employs about 4 000 staff, 3 200 will lose their jobs and the rest will be transferred to Argos, which is owned by GUS Plc. Great Universal Stores Plc, a FTSE 100 member, is one of the UK's largest retail firms controlling the successful Argos and Homebase chains. GUS is to pay Littlewoods GBP 44 million (EUR 64 million, US$ 83 million) for the 33 stores.

Littlewoods is owned by Sir Frederick and Sir David Barclay who bought the business in 2002 for GBP 750 million (EUR 1.1 billion, US$ 1.42 billion).

The company is one in a line of retailers feeling the pinch of consumers spending including Allders and The Gadget Shop.

There are rumours around that the Littlewoods chain of stores is also going soon, possibly to the Associated British Foods-owned discount clothing retailer Primark.


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Croke Park opens to soccer and Rugby

April 17, 2005

After intense campaigning during the week, yesterday at GAA Congress delegates voted to open Croke Park to Soccer and Rugby by 227 votes to 97. The stadium which can seat 82,500, is by far Ireland's largest and indeed one of the largest in Europe.

Traditionally soccer and rugby internationals had been played in the much smaller Landsdowne Road stadium, but due to redevelopment it seemed that all internationals would have to be played in the UK. However this situation has now been avoided with the vote by delegates to amend Rule 42 to allow soccer and rugby to be played at Croke Park during the redevelopment of Landsdowne Road. The works are expected to take three years to complete.

The international matches that can now be played in Dublin are expected to generate several million euros of revenue for the local economy.

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Unconfirmed: 20 dead, hundreds hurt after protest in Iranian city of Ahwaz

April 17, 2005 Over 20 Ahwazi Arab protesters in are dead, 500 injured and 250 arrested, in the wake of protests in the border province of Khuzestan in Iran this weekend, says the British Ahwazi Friendship Society (BAFS). The protest erupted after publication of an alleged 1999 letter containing plans for a programme of ethnic "restructuring", purported to be a leak from the office of Iranian President Khatami.

Other reports indicate some dead, but serious discrepancies exist in reports available at time of writing.

A recent Iranian state press agency report on the protest confirms only that three people were injured, and describes state officials "scrambling" to denounce the letter as forged. "Several state buildings, including banks and police cars were damaged," according to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) report.

Various other reports as assembled by Gulf Times Newspaper: :
 * local police gave figures as 137 arrested and eight injured
 * Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) reported one shot, but not by police
 * Al Jazeera said three Arabs were killed, with many injured and up to 250 arrested, with banks and police stations set ablaze.

The alleged letter is republished with an English translation on the BAFS web site. Described is a programme of resettlement and "obliteration of proof of the existence of an Arabic population", which was to include "changing of remaining (Arabic) names of cities, villages, regions and streets to Farsi (Persian language) names" — the operations to be carried out secretly, and by Arabic-speaking agents.

Gulf Times characterises, the South-Western Iran province as "Arab majority, oil rich".

BAFS says in a Saturday press release accompanying their copy of the letter, that State Security Forces (SSF) had arrived and begun shooting at unarmed demonstrators; power, telephone and water had been cut off from the city's Arab districts of Ahvaz; the SSF had besieged the districts, and prevented people from entering or leaving.

IRNA reports a local official at the Khuzestan governor's office, Qodratollah Dehqan, said the area was calm now and the police had the situation under control. Officials were investigating to see whether "the hands of foreign agents and enemies of the revolution are at work".

Also, that Government spokesman Abdollah Ramezanzadeh said the Intelligence Ministry and the Supreme National Security Council had been ordered by President Khatami to identify who was behind the unrest.

Allegedly signed by former vice president Mohammad Ali Abtahi, the BAFS version of the letter stipulates a time-frame of 10 years to accomplish the ethnic restructuring programme, resulting in diluting of the Ahwazi Arab population to one third of the province's total population. Other ethnic groups were to be resettled to the province in order to accomplish this, particularly Azeri (Turks).

Abtahi is quoted by both IRNA and BAFS, from a website attributed to him: "I have never had the prerogative to order a change of demographic composition."

BAFS says in its press release that even so, a former member of Khatami's staff now living in exile had verified the authenticity of a copy the group received three weeks ago.

Government spokesman Abdollah Ramezanzadeh said in the IRNA news article, "Following special investigations which were carried out by the presidential office, it became clear that there exists no letter with such a content.

"Furthermore, the content of the letter indicates that it does not comply with any political principles of the Islamic Republic and it is merely aimed at inciting Iranian ethnic groups."

Governor of Khuzestan province, Fathollah Moin, was reported in IRNA: "The aim of the distributors of this forged letter is to disrupt existing solidarity among the people of the province through creating disunity and division and instigating public opinion."

Gulf Times also reports Al Jazeera as saying the London-based Popular Democratic Front of Ahvazi Arabs in Iran had called for peaceful demonstrations in the area "to mark 80 years of Iranian occupation".


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Freak wave rocks luxury liner--4 hurt

April 17, 2005

The Norwegian Dawn, a 965-foot-long luxury vessel, was struck by “a freak wave that caused two windows to break in two different cabins,” the owners, Norwegian Cruise Line, said in a statement. It changed course, docking in Charleston late Saturday afternoon instead of completing its planned travel to New York.

The wave, estimated at 7-stories-high, flooded 62 cabins and injured 4 passengers with cuts and bruises. Company spokeswoman Susan Robison said the wave reached to deck 10.

The hull was damaged but the vessel was not in any trouble, according to the Coast Guard, and the safety of the ship “was in no way compromised by this incident.” Passengers were told to don their flotation jackets anyway.

The ship left New York last Sunday on a week-long round-trip cruise to and from the Bahamas.

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User talk:CE

Welcome
CE, welcome to Wikinews! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! → CGorman (Talk)  16:59, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
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User talk:CGorman/February 2005

Economy and business
Hey, i saw your work on Economy and business, and thought it was great. It would be nice if we could get some automagic script working for the market closes, and currencies and whatnot. The bellman 23:07, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * well, im moving cities atm, so i dont really have any wikitime, but in a couple of weeks, i might try and look into writing a short perl bot or something. The bellman 21:00, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Great work, CGorman! Very impressed. Thought you might also want to see European Union Rejects Software Patents which is at least as business-related as it is politics... - Amgine 21:06, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the work you're doing in keeping the Economy and Business page up-to-date. Good work! Dan100 (Talk) 22:08, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Romanian audiences...
Hey CGorman! Firstly, thanks for restoring the Romania article. Your opinion (and your anger, perhaps) can be justified, all I wanted was a bit of consideration. But, anyway, that's solved now and everything's worked out fine since we now have 2 articles instead of 1, which makes for a better Wikinews! That's the way wiki should work :) I also look forward to working with you in the future (especially since, as I can see from the other comments on your talk page, you're also interested in Economy and Business). Cheers, Ronline 07:06, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thorpedo
You might notice that I've added a bit more to the title of the article. This was just to make it clear to anyone who doesn't know who Thorp is (!) that it's a swimming championship, and I put the year in as we can only use each title once and who knows, he might miss the next one too... Dan100 (Talk) 22:08, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * It's just occured to me that I think there's a cricketer called Thorpe too, and I think there's a cricket world champioships. Dan100 (Talk) 22:42, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah he we go, Graham Thorpe. Putting 'swimming' in the title removes the chance of that confusion I hope :) Dan100 (Talk) 22:45, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Questions on adminship
Hi, I've asked a few questions for you on your submission for adminship, just to know a little more. Don't be put out; I ask the same of everyone! Dan100 (Talk) 21:30, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Taking a shot at an business article
...which I'm sure needs copyediting, but I ran out of time to do it. see Greenspan's testimony suggests "more of the same", if you have the time... - Amgine 22:44, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much for checking it out! And yes, I saw what you were doing with the Iraqi elections story... Good job! - Amgine 14:40, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Byline/date
Just a note to say that when a news article has a byline, the location is actually where the reporter who filed the story is. As we're more or less re-writing news from other sources, it's quite unusual for one of us to have actually been 'on the ground' for a news story, so it's best just to use the July 29, 2005 template, so we don't mislead readers. Dan100 (Talk) 23:45, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks goodness you did the Iraq Assembly story, mind you... :) Dan100 (Talk) 23:46, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

European...
I was wondering if you were aware of transclusion? The reason I ask is you seem to be adding the contents of Europe to a number of pages, each of which will now need to be updated for every article. If, on the other hand, you add to those pages they will have a copy of the Europe page added whenever the page is loaded. (not exactly true, since the cached version might lag a few minutes behind the original Europe page, but we could add a tag to allow the caches to be easily flushed.)

Anyway, it's a suggestion. - Amgine 22:28, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes, I'm find with it. I'm just worried that you won't be able to keep up all those local bureaus. You may wish to hold off on those until we have people working on them. I'm pleased to learn you're in Ireland; we need coverage from there! have you considered a ga.wikinews? - Amgine 22:42, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Romanian Bureau
Thanks for setting up the Romanian bureau! Now that the Romanian Wikinews has been launched and is on a good track, I'll have more time to contribute to the English Wikinews - today, there's two new articles. Cheers, Ronline 07:43, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Admin status granted
Congratulations, you have just been made a sysop! You have volunteered for boring housekeeping activities which normal users sadly cannot participate in. Sysops basically can't do anything: They cannot delete pages arbitarily (only obvious junk like "jklasdfl,öasdf JOSH IS GAY"), they cannot protect pages in an edit war they are involved in, they cannot ban users except in cases of obvious vandalism or excessive edit warring (24-hour "cool down" ban). What they can do is delete junk as it appears, ban vandals, remove pages that have been listed on Deletion requests for more than a week, protect pages when asked to by other members, and help keep the few protected pages there are up to date.

Note that almost everything you can do can be undone, so don't be too worried about making mistakes. You will find more information on Administrators, please take a look before experimenting with your new powers. Drop me a message if there are any questions or if you want to stop being a sysop (could it be?). Have fun!--Eloquence 07:31, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * WooHoo! Congratulations, CGorman! - Amgine 00:45, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:CGorman/March 2005

Patriotism
Yes, I do love my country :) It would be great to have more Ireland-related stories. Ireland is a country I hold dear and visited several times. It's Celtic Tiger developments since the 1990s have been an inspiration to all of us in Romania! Cheers, Ronline 04:58, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Good work
I hadn't noticed you were single-handedly holding both Europe and UK & Ireland together! (That sounds a bit funny, doesn't it?!)

I'm moving more and more towards localism (if you know what I mean); I may want to assist you in maintaing these pages in future if you wouldn't mind. Dan100 (Talk) 21:30, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Sitenotice
I can't do it myself as I don't have sysop status, but the page you need to edit is MediaWiki:Sitenotice. If you can get the whole lot down to one line of text that would be a bonus! Dan100 (Talk) 17:52, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Sgrena article
CG, don't take this the wrong way or anything, but remember we always have to strive to present a neutral point of view about an event, ie represent both sides of a story, so I've added what the MFI have been saying about the shooting to the article. Dan100 (Talk) 21:32, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Help
me! Dan100 (Talk) 21:44, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Courthouse shootings
Hate to say this but this was actually covered yesterday! Defendant shoots Judge, three others at Atlanta courthouse Dan100 (Talk) 15:32, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I nearly did the same thing about the new private Chinese airline yesterday - read up loads, got ready, but when I actually opened Developing stories it was already there! Thanks for stopping by with the Sgrena article, btw. Amgine did a good job of bringing some calm to the business. Dan100 (Talk) 19:51, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the welcome. Maurreen 23:37, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Let's scrap Deletion requests
I'm proposing that we scrap deletion requests, and I'd appreciate your input! Dan100 (Talk) 11:28, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Happy St Patrick's Day!
Hey CGorman! Just want to say have a happy St. Patrick's Day! Éire go brách! Ronline 07:50, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Evolution
Question??? for CGorman (from Canada): Just wondering why you "believe strongly in the theory of evolution".

Post here!
 * Im a devout Catholic - I believe in God and the good ideals that the church preachs - but having read much of the Old Testement, I found that it should not be taking too literally - it is written in such a way that there is much deeper meaning to the passsages - I don't accept it at face value. However this is just my opinion, I also believe in freedom of expression - so your entitled to make up your own mind. I've list my beliefs to help people ensure I avoid POV. CGorman 11:12, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Friendly discussion to follow: The computer you're using was built by someone, wasn't it? Humans are so much more complex than a computer, does this not denote inteligent design? Could you throw computer parts -CPU, screen, keyboard, mouse, etc.-into a tornado and expect them to fall into just the right places?
 * Why do you care what my religious beliefs are? Anyways the theory of evolution is practically proven - besides i'm not going to waste my time argueing with you if your not even going to register here and display your name. CGorman 18:38, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the trophy. -- Davodd | Talk 06:42, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Speed of it all
Thanks for the greating. Wikinews is looking much better then when I looked in (and was scared off) a couple of months ago. Part of the greating message is a bit broken though, there is a link to Wikinewsie but the page dosent exist (not sure why the link is blue not red?). One question of Wikinews does stuff happen quick enough so current news can get on the frount page? I posted this story Anti-war march in London at 11:19am today (20th) and no one has made any comments on it as yet. --JK the Unwise 18:10, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Wikinews writing contest launched
Dear CGorman,

thanks for registering for the Wikinews writing contest! It now begins officially. Every day, I will try to make a tally of who has and who has not managed to fulfill their story/day requirements. If you do, however, believe I am missing something, please do not hesitate to contact me. Best of luck in the contest!--Eloquence 06:20, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Time zone for writing contest
Hi CGorman,

I'm filing stories for each day using server time, so please count me in timezone UTC 0.

On this basis, I filed the story Explosion at Texas refinery kills 14, injures more than 100 for today, March 24th. Cheers, — DV 21:12, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Welcoming committee
It scares me how on the ball you are. Anyway thankyou, ive already welcomed quite a few ppl, but didnt realise there was a committee. btw, what do you think of the new front page? The bellman 15:32, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome :) - third world iranian blogs
Thanks for the welcome. :) i guess we agree on some of our biases, but we disagree on at least one bias which is fundamentally important to wikinews: Digital Divide. Claiming that education is the most important problem in the third world ignores the reality of colonialism.

The world's biggest democracy is on average only about 60% literate - but it is in general in a much better state than most other third world countries. E.g. it has a much lower imprisonment rate (about 60 per 100,000 people - i'm citing from neural memory here, but you can check this easily) than many EU countries, and certainly much less than the USA/Russia, which have the world's biggest imprisonment rates, of about 600-700 per 100,000 people in prison. India is a thriving democracy, at least as democratic as any EU country, with a variety of government and corporate controlled newspapers, tv etc.

So why is India in such good condition compared to many other third world countries? Simply that it's independent and has an extremely strong local tradition of respect for linguistic and cultural diversity and refusal to accept recolonisation by corporations. It threw out the British, and it threw out Coca-Cola/Pepsi (though now they're back in again, but may be on the way out again). There was a fascist government elected at the national level for the last few years, it carried out a pogrom 2002 Gujarat violence of a few thousand people, but that has happened internally in Europe too (ex-Yugoslavia) and externally by Europe (e.g. in Rwanda, but there still have not been any independent enquiries in the role of the French and Belgian governments there, only parliamentary enquiries), and now it has been elected out of central (national) government.

Anyway, to get to the practical point: wikinews will not help people in third world countries unless we are aware of the Digital Divide and if we try to implement real programs where at least some diverse bunches of people (not just the elites) in third world countries really have good internet access and are motivated to intervene directly in wikinews.

Hmmm... i'm not sure whether Iran really counts as a third world country, but it is a place where there's a fairly decent internet development - see Iranian blogs - it also generally has a decent level of education, but at the moment its biggest problem is that the Cheney/Bush regime is intent on randomly killing lots of civilians there - and the corporate press is constantly reminding people that Iran might try to construct an atomic bomb and ignoring context (Iran is as democratic as Israel and the USA, if not more so, the democratically elected government of Iran was overthrown by the USA/UK in 1953, Israel and the USA have about 200 and xx 000 atom bombs respectively, ...).

So what is Iran's biggest problem: lack of education or the threat of invasion by the USA? Don't you think having bombs dropping and snipers randomly assassinating ambulance drivers and so on might be a social problem?

Are people contributing to the English-language wikinews willing to make the effort to search a bit through Iranian blogs http://www.blogsbyiranians.com in order to help reduce the bias due to our information sources coming largely from corporate and USA government press releases? Boud 10:24, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Contest updates today
Hi,

not sure I'll have more net access tonight, could you take care of the updates for March 27? Thanks, Eloquence

You might consider gaining consensus, first...
Just a thought. - Amgine 22:07, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Of course I'd object to a policy proposal which had not gained consensus, and which is a question of personal writing style. It's really a matter for the style guide, of course, rather than policy, but I would at least expect someone to talk about it before implementing it on Wikinews articles. Period. - Amgine 22:14, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

breaking...
Thank silsor... he actually had it on submit-a-story even earlier. - Amgine 17:45, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Country rankings
Thanks for the country articles you sent me! Why would I take that the wrong way :) ? You've done a great job by going through all the country categories. I'm merging the lists right now... Go raibh maith agat! Ronline 06:55, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Just feeling cheeky...
Wanted to say, too, really appreciate how you're getting all the categories/regions set up. 1411 was implemented, at least temporarily as a test, so I'm working on an example implementation. - Amgine 19:04, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * The sun is near the yardarm here, but I'm still barely conscious. I'm on my second pint of coffee (instant may not taste the best, but it's easy to prepare en masse) But ye'll dinnae ha' me pinty!

 * Very surprised about Scottland... I check the Scottsman pretty regularly! Will try to do something in that direction. - Amgine 19:15, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 Shouldn't that be in the Wikinews: namespace, since it isn't actually news but a possible project? - Amgine 20:45, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * YES! Many thanks for the effort to track back all those countries. I think it's a great idea! There's a user on Wikinews who has been maintaining, sporadically, newslinks for an African country.. will look that page up soon. - Amgine 20:52, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

That time of the year again
This is a form letter that I am putting on the talk page of every admin: As you may know, we are approaching April 1. In many cultures, this is a time for pranksters to pull April Fools jokes on others. Because of the ease of editing, wiki projects tend to fall prey to these types of pranks rather easily. Let this be a reminder to us all to keep a special lookout for hoaxes, rampant fiction and other random acts of content vandalism between now and April 2. Good luck, and hopefully not too much damage will be done. -- Davodd | Talk 06:58, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Romanian smoking ban
Of course I'd love to see a smoking ban in Romania! I don't know if it will happen though... Romania has quite high smoking rates and they aren't really dropping. The only hope is that if Italy can do it,so can Romania. It was really quite surprising to see Italy implementing the smoking ban. In any case, it's great to see Ireland did it and it had so much success. I see that this year many other countries will follow suit. Wouldn't it be great if there could be an EU-wide ban ono smoking in public places? Indeed Romania and Ireland seem higher up in the list. For European countries, UK is first, then Romania, then Ireland, and only a far way away are all the others. Ronline 08:22, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Google hits
You seem to just go to google and search for wikinews. This is the wrong way to do it as it includes our own namespace. Please follow the link provided to get the correct search. Todays count should only be 100,000, not the 119,000 or so you would get. → CGorman (Talk)  20:32, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Nope. I excluded the appropriate sites. I think when you check, you'll see that the results fluctuate from hour to hour. -- Davodd | Talk 20:42, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Remember that google uses several discrete server farms around the world. It usually routes your request to the geographically closest farm. So you two, on either side of the Atlantic, are unlikely to ever see the same result as the farms are constantly crawling, cacheing, updating etc and are never in sync. Dan100 (Talk) 21:36, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

% change on Wikinews awareness
In the first table on that page (which I've only just noticed, I'm always the last to know lol), it says '% change' in one of the column headers. Is that % change on the last month? I guess it is but we should probably be clear :) Dan100 (Talk) 21:30, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * BTW I've made a series of posts on the Talk page for Awareness, you might want to have a look Dan100 (Talk) 22:11, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Blog
What a great idea. I'm gutted I didn't think of running one back in Jan when I was much more involved here! A good way of recording 'for posterity' the early days of this site. Dan100 (Talk) 21:38, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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