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best comedian ever BLENDED —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.214.232.115 (talk)

We will miss you Bernie Mac!
I am heart broken about the passing of Bernie Mac. You were awesome on the Original Kings of Comedy and The Bernie Mac show still "cracks me up". My family still watches the movie Life on a regular basis and your role as Jingle ling (sp) is hilarious.

We love you Bernie! RIP. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.156.79.252 (talk)

OMG, So Sad!!
He was such a funny guy! His show the Bernie Mac show was very enjoyable for me to watch. He had a lot of roles I thought were good for him and he had hilarious material for his stand-up. I know he'll be deeply missed! He was like a major artery for the heart in comedy.

May you R.I.P. Bernie Mac.

Mercedes C. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.190.131.115 (talk) 17:11, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

bernie mac was a great guy —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.53.153.187 (talk) 17:14, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

hello my friend! you dont know me and never will!! my family and i r big fans of your reality sit com show!id just like to send our respect!and god bless —Preceding unsigned comment added by Brown-berry577 (talk • contribs) 17:36, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Wow
Talk about a shocker. This is sad. May he rest in peace. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 18:42, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Yea. Fairly surprising.  I heard nothing about this till I read about it here. -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 18:43, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Extremely sad. RIP Mr. Mac
Bernie Mac was one of the funniest, most original comedians. Both his stand up and his films where some of the funniest. May he rest in peace. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chandlerjoeyross (talk • contribs) 18:58, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

this sucks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.41.182.153 (talk) 19:51, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

RIP Bernie, know that many will miss you --207.224.14.143 21:35, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Dead people dont read wikipedia.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.94.116.96 (talk) 22:19, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

This surprise the hell out of me.--KDP3 (talk) 22:35, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

This is certainly shaping up to be a bad year for actors. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.218.197.135 (talk) 23:20, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

We are going to miss a very funny comedian. Our love goes out to his faimly God knows best. He will be missed by all. Bernie Mac and faimly you're the best. May God be you always. Love Shirley —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.153.11.63 (talk) 03:30, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

A SAD SAD DAY
I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THIS TIME TO PASS ON MY CONDOLONCES TO THE FAMILY OF BERNIE MAC. I WAS SHOCKED TO HEAR HE PASSED AWAY. HE WAS A WONDERFUL ENTERTAINER, AND I STILL GET A GOOD BELLY LAUGH FROM WATCHING HIS TV SHOW IN SYNDICATION. FROM WHAT I READ MR.MAC STARTED IN SHOW BUSINESS IN HIS EARLY TWENTIES AND OPENED FOR MANY MUSICIANS. WHEN WE LOSE SOMEONE WHO PASSES WE BECOME SO OVERCOME WITH GRIEF,( OR IN THIS CASE SHOCK BECAUSE HE IS A CELEBRITY ) THAT I THINK WE FORGET TO CELEBRATE THE LIFE OF THE PERSON THAT PASSES. PERSONALLY I SEE MR.MAC AS AN INSPIRATION. A MAN WHO HAD A DREAM FROM VERY EARLY ON IN HIS LIFE, I WOULD IMAGINE. THE BEAUTY OF HIS LIFE IS HE GOT TO LIVE THAT DREAM, AND EVEN BETTER HE GOT TO SHARE THAT DREAM WITH THE MASSES, I CONSIDER THAT A LIFE WELL SPENT. NOT MANY PEOPLE GET TO LIVE THEIR DREAMS, BUT EVERYONE SHOULD. THE TRAGEDY IS THAT THE LIFE OF SOMEONE WE ALL FEEL LIKE WE KNEW BECAUSE OF HIS TIME IN THE SPOTLIGHT, HAS PASSED ALL TOO QUICKLY. THE LESSON BEING PUSUE THOSE DREAMS TODAY, GET AFTER IT, WORK HARD ! DREAM BIG ! THATS WHAT I ALWAYS TELL MY KIDS, BECAUSE NOBODY IS PROMISED TOMORROW, AND ITS UNFORTUNATE THAT IT TAKES THE PASSING OF SUCH A TALENTED INDIVIDUAL TO REMIND US OF THAT. MR.MAC WAS KIND ENOUGH TO SHARE HIS DREAM WITH US. WE SHOULD BE INSPIRED TO GIVE BACK TO EACH OTHER THE WAY HE DID, WHATEVER WAY YOU CAN. IT MAY NOT MAKE YOU RICH AND FAMOUS ,BUT IT WILL MAKE YOU GREAT. BERNIE YOU WILL BE MISSED, AND MY CONDOLONCES AGAIN TO THOSE CLOSEST TO HIM, BUT TAKE SOLACE IN THE FACT THAT HE HELPED MAKE THE WORLD BETTER BY MAKING US ALL LAUGH, AND YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT LAUGHTER. ANDERS —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.125.43.116 (talk) 04:11, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

wow i can't believe such a great man has tragicly died like this all of a sudden it is one amotional lost best wishes to his family —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.45.37.36 (talk) 00:14, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

wow this is unbelivable
wow i can't believe such a great man has tragicly died like this all of a sudden it is one amotional lost best wishes to his family —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.45.37.36 (talk) 00:17, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * He will be missed. I can't believe he's died so suddenly, and at such an early age.--TBC (talk) 02:26, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Dat fool gay. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.59.100.154 (talk) 02:49, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

to me it was his time to go —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.252.71.24 (talk) 22:27, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

He was one of the few black comedians whobasicallyonlytalkedaboutbeingblack that I liked. Very sad. Blindeffigy (talk) 02:50, 15 August 2008 (UTC)


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Georgia wants ceasefire in Ossetia war

August 9, 2008 On Saturday Mikheil Saakashvili, the President of Georgia, called for a ceasefire in the South Ossetian war. "I call for an immediate ceasefire," said Saakashvili, speaking in Tbilisi. "Russia has launched a full scale military invasion of Georgia."

After calling for the ceasefire Saakashvili continued by saying that "I am willing to have international mediation; I am willing to have international separation of forces; we have to establish normal regime under international supervision.” At the same time, South Ossetia's State Committee for information and press has made a press release titled "Save the little nation from the annihilation!". Statements include that "It's impossible to count up the quantity of victims, [...] the account goes on thousand." followed by a plea for help and solidarity.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stated his position regarding the ending of the conflict in a phone call with Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel: "The only possible and reasonable way out of this situation is the withdrawal of Georgian troops to their initial positions and the immediate signing of a legally binding agreement on the non-use of force." He reiterated much the same position in telephone conversation with the President of the United States, George W. Bush, today.

Saakashvili's call for a ceasefire comes soon after his declaration that Georgia is now in a state of war. "I have signed a decree on a state of war. Georgia is under a state of total military aggression by the Russian navy, air force, large-scale ground operations," he said in a televised meeting that was broadcast on national television.

Alexandre Lomaia, the head of the Georgian security council, said that President Saakashvili's proposal states that the Georgian troops will withdraw from Tskhinvali, and will stop reacting to the Russian bombings.

The crisis broke out after days of heavy fighting in the region. On August 7, Georgian troops launched an offensive against the Ossetian town of Tskhinvali. Russia responded to these actions by sending their own troops into South Ossetia on August 8.

According to the Russian Presidents office, drinking water is no longer available in what constitutes South Ossetia's capital, Tskhinvali, because "the water and sewage treatment plants have been destroyed". It is further stated that 30,000 people have left South Ossetia to seek refuge in Russia in the last 36 hours alone; and that preparations are underway to provide tented and permanent accommodation for these.

South Ossetia is a former province of Georgia that broke away from Georgia and declared its independence on November 28, 1991.

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Changed from Review to Publish by Cirt (talk). The article could use a bit more background info on the war itself, but it is a good brief standalone piece. Factchecking for accuracy and readability also checks out. Cirt (talk) 17:00, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Added background cirt. The Mind's Eye (talk) 17:08, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Nice. Cirt (talk) 17:15, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Balance/Neutrality
I think we need to bring in the viewpoints of Russia and South Ossetia (more). I must admit I don't really know what is going on there, and don't have much of an idea why the different parties are engaged/ at war, but I do have the impression that Georgia is managing to put itself in relatively favourable light (at least here on wikinews). Regards Sean Heron (talk) 21:37, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

P.S. Of course I will be trying to work in some of the viewpoints I mentioned now.

Links: Sean Heron (talk) 21:47, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Russian Presidents officeThis has some interesting press releases and "transcripts" of working meetings, I must have missed it yesterday:
 * apparently South Ossetian gov I used this for information in an article yesterday, relying on Wikipedia telling me its the South Ossetian state news agency. Infos from a later press release were added in this article I think and removed later (due to the slanted way they were put in). I'd like to reinclude that info, but it would be really good if someone that can read russian could confirm the site is what I think it is. edit: well, thanks to someone else, I've seen the english language site, and I reckon its what Wikipedia states it as. So my request is no longer of import.

Damnit Wikinews!
Things look really ugly in South Ossetia. The reporting here is onesided and when the dust fall there might look similar to the genocide in Bosnia some years ago. Western media, and Wikinews, is to influated by sucsessfull Georgian info and mediawar. Do the reporting and articles with NPOV in mind or you will be in shame later. Look for sources with reporters on place! Quote Russia FM at least.

Check this source for ballance.

http://www.russiatoday.ru/ http://streaming.visionip.tv/Russia_Today

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Comments:Georgian President declares country is in 'state of war'

It is HEAVILY disputed who was the agressor in the days leading to this war. Ask yourselves these questions,

1. Who will have long-term gain from this war ?

2. Why would a nation of 8 million attack a region(of their own country) supported by a nation of 140 million?

3. What resources does the disputed region possess that might be of interest ?

 * This is demagogy. These are double standards. The same three questions might be asked about Kosovo peacekeeping. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.40.15.48 (talk) 18:16, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

As a final note, I, as a Scandinavian, would like to add that the Russias explanation of why they got involved in the conflict (Vladimir Putin said that he could not stand on the sidelines and watch russian citicens get killed, and that the wanted to help the people of a disputed region) was given when they invaded Finland in 1939.

Quote:Christian Waselius, student, department of History, University of Helsinki, Finland (14th January, 2002)

In the article written by Mr. Tarnovsky it is said that "Finnish troops attacked Soviet territory with artillery fire" on November 26th 1939. This incident that happened in the small village Mainila, was made by Soviet troops and put up as a reason for the Red Army to attack Finland. Finnish frontier guards also recognized the explosions on the Soviet side of the border. For that time being, the closest Finnish artillery guns were placed so far away from Mainila that it would have been impossible to reach the place with artillery gun fire. Finland´s government wanted to negotiate and asked for a withdrawal of the troops on both sides of the border. The soviet Foreign Minister Mr. Molotov cut off all diplomatic connections with Finland and the Red Army attacked Finland on November 30th 1939. The Soviet Union officially apologized for the provocative artillery act in 1990.

 * I think it is pretty clear that both sides are the aggressor here. Georgia thought that the US would back it up. As soon as the US said it wouldn't support Georgia over Russia in this instance, Georgia started withdrawing troops and called for a ceasefire. Georgia wanted the land. Russia, on the other hand, wanted the land. Totally different motivations, as you can see:P. The leaders of both those countries need to be locked in a small room for several years and beaten with pointy sticks 5 times a day. Gopher65talk 17:17, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Why is this "pretty clear" ?, Would you personally "assume" the backing of the US when starting a military conflict with a superpower? :). Something is strange about the mainstream medias reporting of this case. In the future, we will know what the real intentins are. I would not be amazed if georgia is under complete Russian occupation in a couple of months. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.65.173.243 (talk) 17:23, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

 * The government of Georgia is pro-US and has been for a long time. Russia has been trying to squeeze Georgia and take back provinces piecemeal for quite some time. The US does not want this to happen, thus they have been giving huge amounts of military support to Georgia, including, but not limited to, trying to get Georgia into NATO. If Georgia had made it into NATO a few months back then we would be in the middle of a World War right now. The Georgian president assumed that the US would continue the unequivocal military support that has given Georgia in the past, but the US is busy right now, and it needs Russia onside for some of the things it is trying to do (like squeezing Iran into dust). Therefore the US made a political decision not to give indirect military aid to Georgia during this war. This made it impossible for Georgia to fight, so they've essentially unilaterally declared peace now. Pretty simple:P. Russia won. Gopher65talk 17:30, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Why, why, why?
Remember Kosovo? Independence, independence!! from the Evil serbs, with more US flags than kosovar ones... One of the things the russians asked in return was South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Kosovo, South Ossetia and Abkhazia are very, but very similar... All of them declared independence from the countries they were part of. The majority of the population in both South Ossetia and Abkhazia are russians, and, like Kosovo, they had their referendums for independence.

Like the US in Kosovo, Russia has increased their presence (military, political and economical) in both of those regions, because "international policy" decided it would be so. What happens is, that US elections are very, very near, and the resolution of this issue has "some" urgency, in order to avoid putting this on the shoulders of the new US president, and also, to avoid worsening the image of a USA led by him.

You must understand this... If you get something, you MUST give something back. This is what happened. Regarding Kosovo, the US and the UK didn't care about international laws. They wanted territory. The russians are doing the same.

That's how it is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.243.117.52 (talk) 18:10, 9 August 2008 (UTC)


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They want a ceasefire?
To me it doesn't really seem like they want a ceasefire, they seem more desperate for Russia to back down so they continue ruling over nations (such as South Ossetia) that have had referendums specifying their wish for independence. Anonymous101talk 18:15, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

 * They are a nation of 8 million people facing the full might of the Russian bear. WHY would the not want a cease fire?. They will be cruched if this war continues. Furthermore, South Ossetia is not a nation, it is a region on Georgia. If they want independence they should have it, but without the intervention of Russia. b.t.w. If the same locic is to be applid to Chechnya, should we attack Russia to free the Chechnyan people? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.65.173.243 (talk) 20:02, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

 * They can not be independent by themselves, that is the problem. While, officially, they are, as you call it, "a region of Georgia", they doesn't want to be a region of Georgia, after all. De facto, they are already an independent enclave of Russia (a lot of S. Ossetians have Russian passports, not Georgian. My friend was there not long ago, he told me about the warlike situation in the region. Our town is a twin to one of S. Ossetian towns). Furthermore, remember Kosovo? They also were independent "de facto". I may suggest you looking here, it's the official site of State Committee of Information and Press of South Ossetia. And don't be scared by the photos on the main page... --Yuriybrisk (talk) 20:20, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

 * And I doubt that Georgia may be crushed too easy. The dislocation of the Russian 58th Army is much more unsafe. The only line of communication with South Ossetia is the Roki Tunnel and the route to Tskhinvali is under constant fire from Georgian air and land forces. Russian troops can not even help the city, cause they are defending that route. --Yuriybrisk (talk) 20:27, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

 * And to answer your third question about Chechnya, I may say that it's simply incorrect to compare - this situation is more like Kosovo and Albania (North and South Ossetia in this case). The problem trace roots from the dissolution of the USSR, when nobody asked South Ossetians, whether they want to stay with the North. As well as nobody asked Kosovars if they want to be with Albania after a dissolution of Yugoslavia. There are some differences of course, but the comparison is much more adequate, cause Chechnya never was splitted into parts (all started because of one man - Dzhokhar Dudayev, assasinated in the year 1996). Curiosly, Dudayev's government held diplomatic relations with Georgia where he received much moral support from the first Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia... --Yuriybrisk (talk) 20:52, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

 * And it's also interesting, that this conflict follows it's history from 1918-1920... --Yuriybrisk (talk) 20:54, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

And South Ossetians have a population of 70,000 (2000 est.), about 2,000 of it destroyed already. They can not withstand the full might of Georgian Army without the help of Russia. They want a cease fire from Georgia, and not Georgia from them! (sorry for bold) --Yuriybrisk (talk) 20:58, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

South Osetia is Georgian territory according to the international law. Osetian and Abchasian forces are just rebels. Why Georgia doesn't want cease fire with Osetia? Cause it is their rightfull territory. Btw Russian explanations are pathetic. Russia was always an aggressor and it is very comfortable situation for them to invade this pro west country, and install their goverment there. Notice that they also politically attacked Ukraine ("Ukraine trying to convince Georgia to make ethnic cleansing"). Peace keepers shouldn't bomb major civillian targets in in ANY country. Peacekeepers should seperate each side from another, but not by shooting to one side of the conflict. This is actual invasion on Georgia. 10 thousand Russian troops gathered in Abchasia to strike through a strategic canion in southern Abchasia. This is peacekeeping? Don't be funny... Even if Georgia is an agressor it doesn't deserve to bomb their civillian citizens by Russian air force. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.8.116.34 (talk) 06:23, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

 * According to "international law", Kosovo independence was also illegal... But the US and the UK didn't care... So why should the russians care too? "International law" this and that... Who cares?

The only thing saying that those two regions are georgian territory is the law... Because practically they're part of Russia. Those regions declared independence from Georgia, and over 90% of the population are russians. I believe the question to be asked now is, why this situation should be any different from Kosovo? Why were so many people killed just to make a point? All of this could have been done without any bloodshed... But "The West" needed to show on TV how "Russians are Evil". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.193.164.180 (talk) 06:54, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

 * "Even if Georgia is an agressor"... Don't be funny - you've admitted yourself this possibility! Aggressor must face the consequences in all cases. --Yuriybrisk (talk) 10:27, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Soooo, if a country starts a police action in one of its provinces, a completely different country can do whatever it damn well pleases (why not blast the place clean out of the ground) to the first country because 'aggressor must face the consequences'? Tunafish (talk) 07:10, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Seems to be a information war, unfortunately. Georgia has declared ceasefire on August 7, just hours before they wiped Tskhinvali out of the earth. --Beaumain (talk) 13:57, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Well, to be fair there wasn't all that much left of Tkshinvali after previous conflicts, so 'wiped out of the earth' sounds more dramatic than it had to be Tunafish (talk) 07:11, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

If Ossetia "doesn't want to be a region of Georgia", then how about Chechnya not wanting to be a region of Russia ? Russian hypocrisy is pathetic. Also I wonder what the Russian forces are doing in Abkhazia ? Lysy (talk) 08:05, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Just compare Kokoyty to Basayev. Ossetians do not kidnap people, do nor raid theatres and schools, do not tie with Al Qaeda.--Beaumain (talk) 17:42, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

World should new the truth
My name is Alexey, I am living in Vladivostok which is far away from southern part of Russia and close to Japan. I am watching lots of news – European, Russian, American and Asian, including CNN. I cannot keep silence any longer and I want to say the following. I am in perplexity how CNN reviews the situation about South Osetia. CNN is saying nothing about Georgian massive perfidious night attack on the capital of South Osetia without any warning after few hours when Saakashvilly said “We are not going to use any aggression.” CNN is saying nothing about killing peace forces during that night attack. I didn’t hear anything about killing thousands of civilians during that attack by using reactive volley machines that are burning the area and killing all around and not for dotted fire. CNN is saying nothing about resolution of the year 1992 (subscribed by Georgia) about peace forces that actually stopped the war between Georgia and South Osetia at that time and are keeping peace during 16 years and patiently waiting when Georgia and South Osetia will find any solution. CNN is saying nothing about Georgian forces killing civilians in homes, basements, streets – nothing about that in the next day after destroying 10 villages and the capital Georgian forces were not allowed take off injured people and shot the caravan with such a people. CNN is saying nothing about Georgian action when they flooded a part of the city and killed many of citizens in basements that didn’t escaped. CNN is saying nothing about Russian help of saving people with camps, food and medicines and nothing about why other countries are not helping. I do not know why; probably “west” consider some human beings as “people” and some as “gun meat” for politicians. CNN says that Russian forces came to capture Georgia, but says nothing about that they came to save civilians and push Georgian troops off the peace line where they were few days ago – that is all – nothing more. Russia respects Georgian territorial integrity, and during 16 years didn’t confess an independence of South Osetia and waiting for any peaceful agreement between Georgia and Osetia! CNN shows medicine camps with injured people without any (ANY!!!) comments from those people, just we can hear some music in background and CNN’s comments about how those people were shot during Russian attacks – such an outrageous lie! LET THOSE PEOPLE SAY IN CAMERA THE TRUTH! CNN shows how some reactive volley machines during night time shooting somewhere and in the background with tragedy music we can hear some CNN’s comments about Russian aggression, but nobody knows that the video is about Georgian GRAD’s that destroying villages during the first night attacks – such an outrageous lie! Just after that we can see a picture of Russian tanks – probably it works good for a “western” auditory for a brain washing – RUSSIA-TANKS – TANKS-RUSSIA – like zombing people as if such a military equipment inseparably bound with anything Russian because the pattern of a Cold War is still in minds of many “western people”, but it is no longer in minds of Russians – which is very strange to me… Probably for some politicians it is OK to say that black is white and white is black and big Russia is an aggressor that came to terminate a small Georgia. CNN says that Russia uses too many forces to stop Georgian “peacemakers”. I just wander who is going to calculate the amount of combatants that are needed to stop those who are killing kids at this time. Probably US will send some three super heroes from the Hollywood movie which might substitute “too many forces” that will stop the entire army of Georgia. Instead of helping the peace forces to save civilians and to push Georgian troops off the peace line the US helped Saakashvilly to bring more from Iraq – no comments, newer mind! Withholding facts and lots of lies – that is what I hear in CNN! I used to study in the US, I have many friends there, and I know that the most of the people there are good guys. I believe that in CNN many of those who serve for the true word and not for dirty politicians. Probably my comments will go in a trash can, because they are not good for Americans and some American politicians and they are not good for “correct brain washing”, but I hope that many people will read it.

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Authorities say that "violent terrorists" attempted to blow up sites in the Xinjiang province of the country. Police say at least 11 people were killed, all except one were reported to be the attackers responsible for the blasts. Police say three more were arrested and another three are "still at large."

Monsters and Critics.com quote Deutsche Presse-Agentur as saying witnesses on scene reported a plane flying over the town of Kuqa which was followed by 20 large "flashes", but "no fire or smoke" which was then followed by "sporadic" gunfire. According to Xinhua the explosions occurred at about 3:20 local time (19:20 GMT) and 4:00 (20:00 GMT).

Despite the claims by police, Xinhua stated that authorities sealed off the town where the attacks have occurred and exchanged gunfire with the terrorists killing at least one while another, strapped with explosives, detonated himself. One other terrorist was injured and one was arrested. Military personnel were also reported to have been dispatched to the area. One early report stated that the government offices in Kuqa are unaware of any bombings.

The explosions, which witnesses report as home-made, were directed toward shopping centers, government buildings, hotels and military offices. At least two police cars were also destroyed by the blasts. Xinhua reports that the bombs were "bent pipes, gas canisters and liquid gas tanks." One attacker drove a three-wheeled bike packed with explosives into the public safety building in Kuqa, which killed one security official and injured two civilians. Hours later, while police were hunting for more suspects, several terrorists began to throw bombs at them. Police killed two, while three others who were strapped with explosives detonated themselves.

Police and government officials refuse to confirm or deny the reports by Xinhua.

The Xinjiang region has a strong independence movement, largely in the form of 8 million Muslim Uyghurs. The East Turkestan Islamic Movement wishes to create an independent Islamic state out of part of what is currently Xinjiang. China has stated that the Uyghur separatists are the biggest potential terrorist threat to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

No one has claimed to be responsible for the blasts.


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Talk:Paedophile forced to flee Australian town

Spelling?
Why was this changed e>ae? Is that because articles and their titles are supposed to reflect the common spelling of the place in which it occurs or something like that? One thing I find very odd is that they spell it paedophile in Britain/Australia. Canada uses 'ou' like in 'neighbour' like those 2 nations, yet in this use, follows American spelling of the word.

But anyway, is it correct to be calling this guy a paedophile? Is that the correct noun used in association with the crime he's convicted for? Tyciol (talk) 01:13, 10 August 2008 (UTC)


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Hello.

One published one delete aww... --SpranglingGarter (talk) 03:12, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Look at what i have done great page for Phelps. --SpranglingGarter (talk) 03:24, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

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I check the Recent Changes page frequnetly to see whats happening in the world of WikiNews and News all over the world...

 * Online for right now... --SpranglingGarter (talk) 04:52, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

I have made many stubs and hopefully will get put into shorts Shakata is helping me right now and my Phelps article is still tops. --SpranglingGarter (talk) 05:24, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

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Swimmer Michael Phelps of the U.S. wins first gold medal of 2008 Summer Olympics, breaks world record

August 10, 2008

In Beijing, China at the 2008 Summer Olympics, American Swimmer Michael Phelps has won the gold medal for the U.S. Team in the 400 individual medley swimming event.

Phelps clocked in at 4:03.84 managing to break his previous best time of 4:05.25 by almost 2 seconds, and setting a new world record in the event. This was his first gold medal won in the 2008 games. Phelps will swim the men's 4x100m freestyle relay tomorrow in an attempt to win his second gold medal.

Laszlo Cseh from Hungary came in second and received the silver medal, while Ryan Lochte from the U.S. came in third to win bronze.


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thx --SpranglingGarter (talk) 02:50, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

--SpranglingGarter (talk) 04:39, 10 August 2008 (UTC)== Stories ==

We appreciate you adding stories to Wikinews, however our community is pretty small, and sometimes we won't be able to get to all the stories users start. I would recommend that you look over the above welcome message to familiarize yourself with Wikinews so you might be able to further develop your articles :-) DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 03:31, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

I understand and I will try my best just like starting stories thats all and I know WikiNews is a small news community but sometime or another someone will get to the stories??? thx --SpranglingGarter (talk) 03:33, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * All depends on what interests the users and what is happening at certain times. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 03:35, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * True very True Dragonfire1024... --SpranglingGarter (talk) 03:35, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Honestly. I don't think the small REALLY local stories are going to get interest from anyone else. -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 04:38, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Really...???? awww man... anyway i'll try harder.... --SpranglingGarter (talk) 04:39, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

 * chill on the new stories. I know you seem very excited, and I'm happy to see that.  But how about you focus on working with what you got here.  Instead of starting 10 new articles and leaving them out for others... How about you start one article and work it into a publishable form?    Also, please go through and fill out the source templates.  I dropped them in, but didn't fill them out.  -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 05:18, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

 * i'am always like this sorry its a disability but i must try to start articles you never know when someone might get sround to it. thx --SpranglingGarter (talk) 05:21, 10 August 2008 (UTC) and i'am always busy doing other things on the net. sorry --SpranglingGarter (talk) 05:21, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Well I'm not saying don't start articles, but relax a bit on the number. Launching 10 articles in one day is going to end up with more than likely 10 deleted articles.  Wikinews is a site for all news, but we're not big enough to handle all the stories yet.  So consider picking maybe 3 _good_ stories you find and start those.  Plus the nicer the articles look (Using the proper headers, templates, source tags all filled out, etc) the more likely someone is going to work on them.  To be truly honest, if someone comes on to find an article with 2 sentences and no formatting, they are more likely to delete it simply because it is less work.  I'm not trying to discourage you here... but maybe exercise a little moderation?  Thanks.  -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 05:25, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

 * I have slowed down Shakata... and maybe i will request now on??? idk or i will start an article or two never know i dont know? Thanks for the advice though... I do get carried away... --SpranglingGarter (talk) 05:27, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

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Talk:Swimmer Michael Phelps of the U.S. wins first gold medal of 2008 Summer Olympics, breaks world record

It's not breaking any more can I now delete the breaking tag? --SpranglingGarter (talk) 03:13, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

ok i guess not
okay --SpranglingGarter (talk) 03:17, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Article C/Eing looks fine to me...
It looks fine to me... --SpranglingGarter (talk) 03:34, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Article and headline has errors, or bad grammar. The first gold medal was in women's 10m air rifle. Maybe it need's to say, "wins HIS first" 69.231.4.54 11:19, 10 August 2008 (UTC)


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Swiss mountain claims two lives

August 10, 2008

Two people have been killed while mountain-climbing in Switzerland. The bodies of the man, 53, and woman, 57, were found on the Matterhorn at an altitude of around 13,100 feet (4000m). Their names have not yet been released due to Swiss privacy laws; they were both Americans. Their relatives have been notified.

The two were reported missing by a family member on Friday morning, and their bodies were discovered later that day.

Jean-Marie Bornet of the Valais cantonal police stated that they were climbing and fell to their deaths, and that no guide was taken with them during their attempted ascent to the peak. The weather on the mountain was apparently bad during the time of the climb.

The leader of the rescue mission sent out to find them stated that they were both well-equipped, and that their route was not particularly dangerous in normal weather, but they were caught up in a storm. Fog caused them to lose sight of the other members of their party.

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Talk:Ohioville creek bones are not human

I'm kinda confused as to how this is news worthy. I'm a fan of local news on wikinews... but this article is hardly even that. It says animal bones were found... Yay? -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 04:35, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

my opinion
--SpranglingGarter (talk) 04:36, 10 August 2008 (UTC)I believe this has some news aspect to it as i found it on yahoo! news.

if you read the entire article you might get a sense of news??? --SpranglingGarter (talk) 04:38, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Ok, well here is something to keep in mind. Alot of readers come here to read the article written here, not go digging about other news sites.  That is what I do.  So right now there is 3 sentences that says basically "kids found bones, not human".  So my question to you is: Why do I, the reader, care that animal bones were found?  Is this unusual?  Is this a big deal?  Were the kids traumatized?  Did the local police screw it up and claim they were human?  Is there a missing person that they thought they bones might be tied to?  -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 04:46, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

well....
the article was really short and didnt really say much but i might go back and read up on it... --SpranglingGarter (talk) 04:48, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * using == something == denotes a new section/conversation. If you are replying to something said, consider just adding your reply below theirs.  Using : for indentation. (Each : is one more tab)  -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 04:50, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

okay gotcha ya... i understand now... lol --SpranglingGarter (talk) 04:51, 10 August 2008 (UTC)


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where is Etna? -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 04:37, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Pennsylvania --SpranglingGarter (talk) 04:39, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I should have been a little clearer. I was suggesting putting a little more information in there about where Etna is, maybe why this is important, etc. This seems like a fairly local story... -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 04:40, 10 August 2008 (UTC)


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One source says he is a German Shepard and the other says Belgian something???? IDNK Who to believe??? --SpranglingGarter (talk) 04:59, 10 August 2008 (UTC)


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Much say this should go under review? if finding another source??? It has enough information. --SpranglingGarter (talk) 05:00, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
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It sights one source i know it needs another... --SpranglingGarter (talk) 05:03, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
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Wikinews Shorts: August 11, 2008

Ohioville creek bones are not human
Some bones that were found in a Ohioville, Pennsylvania creek are no longer said to be human according the authorities. Children found the bones when they were swimming under a train trestle. The bones were found in Little Beaver Creek and are said to be from a dog, deer or another large mammal.

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Etna motorcyclist killed when hit by tree
A tree hit and killed an Etna, Pennsylvania motorcyclist. A truck went rolling down a hill knocking a tree down which landed on the motorcycle. Fifty-nine year old motorcyclist, Alan Brocklebank, was sent to the hospital after the 3 p.m. accident. He died later that morning. The pickup driver was charged by police with drunken driving and homicide.

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Police dog found in Pasadena, California
A K-9 dog, aged 10, was found safely in Pasadena, California. The dog is a Belgian Malinois named Robby, weighing around 70-75 lbs. The dog was saved by an unknown person on Friday morning. The dog is in fine health and was returned to his police unit.

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Somalian police chief dies
In Somalia a high ranked police chief has been killed in an attack that also resulted in the death of four civilians. Grenades were involved in the attack. This attack occurred near the Somali capital of Mogadishu.

The attack took place in a police station in the city of Alamada. A witness said that bullets were coming from all directions, and that the attack resulted in the death of his son.

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Cassini probe passes Saturn moon Enceladus
NASA's Cassini spacecraft zoomed past Saturn's moon Enceladus at just 50 kilometres above its surface. The probe attempted to take detailed images of active geysers on the moon, which may offer evidence for the additional existence of liquid water on the moon. If water is confirmed this would be the first time liquid water is found outside of the Earth.

In other space news, NASA's Phoenix Lander on Mars, which recently confirmed the presence of water ice on the planet, is analyzing a soil sample in its TEGA instrument today. The results from the analysis are expected to establish whether the Martian soil contains perchlorates as earlier reports from the lander have indicated.

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hopefully pics will be added soon.... makes it look a heck of a lot better. --SpranglingGarter (talk) 05:14, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * only stubs with more than 1 source that have 2 sources go here.... --SpranglingGarter (talk) 05:15, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

all the others
are messed up the sources are i mean --72.73.119.120 19:41, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

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Comments:Several large explosions reported in Xinjiang, China

Makes so little sense
Reports of a plane flying over... but nothing else. 20 flashes w/ no smoke or fire. Sporadic gun fire. And homemade bombs? Who made up this crapy plan? -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 05:44, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

 * this story is a clusterfuck --KDP3 (talk) 07:36, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Not going to help anything
What China has been doing to the Uyghurs is no secret, but crimes like this will probably not help anything. This is the second terrorist incedent in Xinjiang this month. Several more and we can expect China to make things even worse for the Uyghurs than they already are. 71.96.128.236 17:49, 11 August 2008 (UTC)


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Olympic highlights: August 10, 2008

August 10, 2008 August 10, 2008 is the 2nd major day of the 2008 Olympic games, the below article lists some of the highlights. As a lot of the new records were in swimming events, this articles has several sections on swimming races.

Men's 400 metre individual medley
Swimmer Michael Phelps won the gold medal for the U.S. Team in the 400 individual medley swimming event.

Phelps clocked in at 4:03.84 managing to break his previous best time of 4:05.25 by almost 2 seconds, and setting a new world record in the event. His gold medal is the first gold medal won in the 2008 games. Phelps will swim the men's 4x100m freestyle relay tomorrow in an attempt to win his second gold medal.

Laszlo Cseh from Hungary came in second and received the silver medal, while Ryan Lochte from the U.S. came in third to win bronze.

Men's 100 metre breaststroke
In the semifinal of the men's 100 metre breaststroke, the Norwegian Alexander Dale Oen, set a new Olympic record with a time of 59.16.

The Japanese Kitajima Kosuke and the Australian Brenton Rickard finished in second and third place respectively, both with times of under one minute.

Women's 400 metre individual medley
In the final of the women's 400 metre individual medley, the Australian Stephanie Rice, set a new world record with a time of 4:29.45. By doing this she took the gold medal.

Rice beat the previous world record by over two seconds.

The Zimbabwean Kirsty Coventry finished in second and won the silver medal.

Women's 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay final
In the final of the women's 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay, the team from the Netherlands, set a new world record with a time of 4:29.45. By doing this she took the gold medal.

The team beat the previous world record by over two seconds, with their time of 3:33.76.

The American finished in second and won the silver medal, while the Austraian team, which won in 2004, took the bronze medal.

Women's synchronized 3 metre springboard
The Chinese Guo Jingjing (郭晶晶) and Wu Minxia (吴敏霞) received gold medal for a total of 343.50 points.

"We have prepared really well beforehand. We had all kinds of simulations in training, including those designed to help us deal with distraction and concentrate on the match," said Jingjing after the event.

The Russian group won the silver medal, and the Germans achieved Bronze.

Women's team archery
In the final of the women's team archery, the South Korean won with a score of 224. By doing this the team took the gold medal and set the Olympic record, due to that fact that this was the first time the event appeared in the Olympics.

China, Britain, France and South Korea all reached the semifinals of the event.

Women's 10 metre air pistol
The Chinese Guo Wenjun received gold in the Women's 10 metre air pistol, after scoring a total of 492.3 points.

Women's Road Race
The Women's Road Race took place despite the weather, with heavy rain throughout the race, with large amounts of spray from bike tyres and camera motorbikes. Several riders slid off the track, however no major crashes occurred. Nicole Cooke of Great Britain won the gold, with Emma Johansson (Sweden) and Tatiana Guderzo (Italy) receiving Silver and Bronze, respectively.

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Talk:Olympic highlights: August 10, 2008

Live TV
I've been watching live coverage (and using for the article) on TVNZ's Channel One, in New Zealand. The time varies depending on the sport, however it will usually be within about 10 minutes of my edit. TheFearow (userpage) 08:29, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

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TheFearow has made IRC bot NewWire provide live updates on the olympics appear at #wikinews. You might want to take a look there if you are adding o this article. Anonymous101talk 08:47, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
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Massive explosion in North Toronto, Ontario

August 10, 2008 Multiple large explosions have been reported at Sunrise Propane Industrial Gases, a propane facility in northern Toronto near Keele Street and Wilson Street near the Highway 401, at approximately between 3:25 and 3:50 am EST, at Murray Rd. and Spalding Rd. A six-alarm fire continued to erupt from the explosion, now under control. The cause is currently unknown.

A person who was 10km from the explosion told Wikinews that "my house shook 10 km away. The sky was rumbling every few seconds." Windows were blown out, doors were broken, and balls of fire descended from the sky near the explosion.

A witness who was in Niagara-on-the-Lake at the time witnessed the entire skyline of Toronto lighting up; someone else in Aurora at the time saw and felt the explosion.

A user on YouTube named "wolfshades" said that "we don't know whether the explosion was chemical or by virtue of its proximity to the Toronto Airport if a plane had crashed." Some witnesses thought the explosion was thunder or a nuclear bomb; the explosion was seen at Ossington Avenue and heard in Bloor and Jarvis in Toronto.

At least eighteen injuries have been reported, with one person still unaccounted for. All of the injuries reported so far have been minor, although one man had a layer of skin burned off his back. A Toronto firefighter died near the scene from a non-traumatic cause, believed to be a heart attack while fighting a fire near Murray and Regent; efforts were made to revive him, but were unsuccessful.

Large numbers of police are on the scene to keep people away from the explosion.

There is concern that two large railcar-mounted propane tanks, each capable of carrying 220,000 litres, could explode with enough force to affect a 1.6km radius. The air was found not to be toxic at the site. Firefighters are working to cool the tanks down and keep flames away, reducing the risk of explosion. More than 12,000 people have been evacuated. Most evacuees were transported to Yorkdale Mall and York University.

At the time of writing, evacuated residents have not yet been allowed to return to their homes. The 401, a major highway has been closed near the area; Eastbound 401 has been shut down between 400 and Allen Road, westbound shut down from 404/DVP to Highway 400. Three TTC subway stations: Yorkdale, Wilson, and Downsview were closed, but later re-opened. It was reported that Yorkdale Mall had been evacuated, but the Toronto Mayor David Miller confirmed through a teleconference from Vancouver that the report was false.


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Georgia withdraws from South Ossetia

August 10, 2008 The government of Georgia has announced that it has withdrawn all its troops from South Ossetia, in what it described as "a necessary step to protect civilians". The Georgian military has made clear that they are not admitting military defeat by withdrawing. This comes just one day after Mikheil Saakashvili, the President of Georgia, declared that his country was in a state of war. "I have signed a decree on a state of war. Georgia is under a state of total military aggression by the Russian navy, air force, large-scale ground operations," he said in a televised meeting that was broadcast on national television yesterday.

The decree stated that "The state of war will be valid for 15 days [from yesterday]." It is not known if the state of war will continue after this withdrawal.

The crisis broke out after days of heavy fighting in the region. On August 7, Georgian troops launched an offensive against the Ossetian town of Tskhinvali, the capital. The next day Russian forces entered the territory of Georgia and bombed several targets in the country.

On August 10th, Russian Black Sea Fleet began a naval blockade of Georgian port of Poti and landed several thousand Russian troops in Abkhazia in western Georgia. The Ukraine threatened to bar Russian warships dispatched to the Abkhazian coast from returning to their Ukrainian base of Sevastopol if they engage in any military action.

At the same time Poland dispatched a government airplane to evacuate its citizens, as well as citizens of the Czech Republic, Lithuania and Estonia from Georgia. The Polish evacuation was followed by the government of Italy.

The conflict is continuing and reports state that the death toll for civilians could range in the thousands.

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Talk:Massive explosion in North Toronto, Ontario

OR
OR referes to IRC conversation I had with person who was 10km away. (I got permission to quote them). Several other people were on the Wikinews IRC channel at the time so they can verify that I am not making this up, Anonymous101talk 10:05, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: I invited the person to IRC from another place to get a quote, they were not on Wikinews IRC asking to be quoted. I think this makes it more trustworthy. Anonymous101talk 10:06, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I am not particularly keen on this as OR. In such a case they should identify — if not who they are — exactly where they live/observed the event. --SVTCobra 23:27, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Peer Review

 * yay, you've used the new template Anonymous101talk 12:35, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * The basic fact of the company name was wrong, btw. --SVTCobra 21:08, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

CBC Coverage
Just took a look at www.cbc.ca and they have coverage of the event: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/08/10/propane-fire.html. I've never edited a wiki before, so I'll leave the authoring of the article to a professional. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.90.103.254 (talk) 15:24, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

There is an accompanying article with reactions from residents: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/08/10/explosion-residents.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.90.103.254 (talk) 15:46, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

YouTube user citation
This is an excellent article, thanks to all involved! Just wondering whether YouTube users should be cited as "witnesses"? Given that Wikipedia discourages links to YouTube and refers to it as an "unreliable source", is it advisable to include wolfshades' comment? Wolf m corcoran (talk) 13:24, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I strongly echo this concern, and would advise against similar useage in the future.Sherurcij 18:23, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Wikinews is not wikipedia, and original reporting is not compiled from published secondary sources. There's nothing special about YouTube that means its users are more likely to lie to a reporter than are any other random people on the street who claim to have witnessed something important. If there are issues here, they're about quoting anonymous sources, not about YouTube. Foogus (talk) 09:36, 28 August 2008 (UTC)


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User talk:ShakataGaNai/Archives/2008/August

Welcome to Wikinews
Hello, thanks for your contributions to Wikinews. While I realize this is not your home-wiki, I find it annoying that your signature links to Commons. I don't object to the redirects at your user and talk pages, however. It makes it a chore to see, what contributions you have made here. I wouldn't have said anything if you were just editing/correcting articles here-and-there, but you are voting on deletions, checkuser requests, and more; thus involving yourself in the project more deeply. Therefore, I ask you to change your sig. Thanks, --SVTCobra 00:18, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Ya. I understand. When I set myself up on other Wiki's. I copy my sig template, redirect my user and talk pages, etc.  Normally I'm not active anywhere else.  But since I have become here, I've turned it off. Sorry about that.  -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 05:36, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

That Page
That page you just created I believe will be confused as nothing more than a test page for random edits, as it was by some IP. The Mind's Eye (talk) 00:03, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
 * That IP was me. I am testing the functionality of FlaggedRev's since no one actually understands all of how it works.  I was told by admins on IRC to not use a proper article. -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 00:05, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Cirt just deleted it, I didn't ask him to or anything BTW, he just did. The Mind's Eye (talk) 00:06, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes. So I noticed.... So I noticed... -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 00:07, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Shakata a Q?
Merge all stubs into shorts??? --SpranglingGarter (talk) 05:05, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * That would probably be a very good idea. Honestly, I don't think much of this is worthy of it's own article, especially the local stuff. -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 05:08, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

yep agreed. --SpranglingGarter (talk) 05:09, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

another quickie....
i could just request articles even though they probably will never get reviewed.... --SpranglingGarter (talk) 05:23, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * You can put article requests on Requested articles -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 05:26, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * well my mind if really outa gas so i reqed a article... --SpranglingGarter (talk) 05:30, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Articles
Why don't you have a go at writing another article? The work you did at Potential Wikia mass exodus was good. Anonymous101talk 18:30, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm looking for something. That article was basically handed to me by GreenReaper. -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 18:46, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Exceptional Newcomer Award

 * Iz a barn-butteryfly? Cool, thanks.  You know, I've been on en.wp since 2004, around Commons since early this year and an Admin there for many months... and this is the first time anyone's ever given me an award for anything. -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 23:25, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Zodiac
None of the links worked on WN, so I went to WP and went as high as possible. —Calebrw (talk) 13:21, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Hola
Hi there. I edited that Georgia article, but didn't understand the intended meaning of the first sentence of the second paragraph. It's completely unintelligable, and I don't know much about the situation so couldn't improve it. :) Cheers!  Brynn (talk) 01:08, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ Gopher65talk 01:18, 20 August 2008 (UTC)


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User talk:TheFearow/Archive 1

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

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Ticker
Nice job on the ticker! I would suggest that it'd be a good idea to make the prefixed text ("Latest stories (update)" etc) and font sizes etc configurable. Thanks for creating this! -- IlyaHaykinson 00:42, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Interesting, I didn't notice the ids on the divs which make it all CSS-addressable. I like the version on your copy of the main page; let's see what others say about it.  One little annoyance is that when you mouse-over the story it may want to postpone changing by another little bit: otherwise just as you mouse-over the ticker article the ticker changes and starts pointing to another article.  I'd say that if there is a mousemove over the content div you should add a special 500-1000 millisecond wait after the whole line is rendered. -- IlyaHaykinson 00:54, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Nice, looking pretty good in my opinion. Though it's currently broken for me in IE7. -- IlyaHaykinson 01:06, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Two errors. 1) Line 571, char 1, "Wrong number of arguments or invalid property assignment". 2) L 43 char 2, "Object doesn't support this property or method". -- IlyaHaykinson 01:19, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * And it doesn't display anything. -- IlyaHaykinson 01:20, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't mind implementing if it came to this; the problem that I see is the IE error: until that error is gone I think we can't really push this side-wide. -- IlyaHaykinson 02:48, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I think that's fine; we can fix the IE portion later on. What _is_ the bug by the way? -- IlyaHaykinson 02:53, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I am personally ok with including the script in your page space. I can see other people objecting though. Let's try it and see what happens :-) -- IlyaHaykinson 03:02, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Ok, the ticker is in place. -- IlyaHaykinson 03:15, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I think the randomization of the ticker has a problem: it always randomizes, rather than just starting in a random place and then continuing in order. This means that sometimes you can watch the same headline appear many times in a row. -- IlyaHaykinson 06:22, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I noticed that people want their own tickers, i.e. not just latest news ones. What about changing it so that the default   is something like    , so that you can find the div and then look inside of it for the URL to fetch.  This will make the ticker even more flexible. -- IlyaHaykinson 07:07, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

RE: Syntax
Thanks for inform. Eric Wester 03:42, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi
I'am Grimlock (bureaucrate and sysop on WN fr). I'd like to know if I can use for testing purpose (in a first time) your nice script (i.e. User:TheFearow/public/ticker.js). Of course, I would have to change small things (only translation). Thank you ! Grimlock 14:34, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Hello, I've proceeded to tries but I think I've made some mistakes (as you can see in my fr contributions list) ... I will strongly appreciate your help to insert this script in WN fr. Moreover, the other main users of the project agree with its use on fr. I hope to see you soon on fr ! Thank you in advance, Grimlock 06:30, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
 * P.S. : DPL are activate on WN fr, as you can see on our main page.

Portal:Football
Ok. Banner updated. Layout updated. Colour scheme nearly done. Articles to-do. Anything else? Reply to me or here, it's being watched. lol! Celticfan383 04:27, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Nope. I'll just keep doing minor changes :) TheFearow 05:31, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Do you like the snazzy banner? Heh! Celticfan383 06:56, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Yep! TheFearow 04:31, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

fast for peace
Are you sure that thestory is ready? I just had a conversation with Jcart and he suggested that it was not ready...that I needed to be interviewed with an accredited journalist or someone from Wikinews that I wasnt allowed to post anything?.?Niacey 12:55, 30 August 2007 (UTC)Niacey

If I may jump in here, TheFearow. Here is an excerpt that was left on Niacey's Talk page on August 24: "Yes, Niacey, it was deleted. It went through a deletion request vote and consensus was that it did not conform to article standards. I think with your story, perhaps you might be best to request an inverview with an accredited wikinews reporter. Jcart1534 17:34, 24 August 2007 (UTC)" In addition, there was a more complete conversation here on my Talk page. After the article was deleted as a result of the Deletion Request process, Niacey has resurrected the article and is attempting to work with it. I have not spoken to him/her since, and most certainly never said he/she was not allowed to post anything. On the contrary, I have tried to provide some guidance, but will not be involved beyond what I have already done. Jcart1534 13:12, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia Signpost

Delivered by HermesBot 02:41, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Ticker again
Hello, all my tries did not work to insert the ticker in fr ... But I'm not a programming specialist. I hope to see you soon on fr WN ! Grimlock 06:34, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi again ! Thank you for coming on WN fr ! I think I will be more convenient - for the moment - that you give me the instructions you can not execute to make the ticker work on fr (such as the things you want to add in the Mediawiki:monobook.js, as an example). I did not manage to talk about a possible temporary sysoping with the other main contributors. By the way, thank you again Grimlock 10:55, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Your script is absolutly fantastic and work quite well on WN fr. I will ask for other contributors to include it in our Accueil. Thank you again. Grimlock 11:45, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

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Portal:Football Ticker
Is it meant to be the main headlines? Celticfan383 19:50, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Brilliant! I love it! Celticfan383 10:18, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm coming onto the chat. I like this idea very much. Celticfan383 10:28, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Template:New page
Ooops, I screwed that up and didn't check it. Thanks for keeping an eye out. irid:t 20:49, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikinews Bulletin: September 1, 2007
--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 23:07, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

The ticker
Hi ! I would like to signale you a bug on the french WN ticker. When you are clicking on some links, they lead to an unexisting page because of a problem of URL. As an example, the ticker France : confirmation de l'annulation d'une élection municipale partielle à Anchamps should point to whereas it points to :. As you can easily see it, the ticker code introduce (for a space before :) the following code %26#160.3B which is created instead of a space or an underscore insertion. Have you any idea to debug it ? See you ! Grimlock 09:08, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia Signpost

Delivered by HermesBot 03:30, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

On W
We used to have that already. It failed on WN:DR, so I doubt it will last. :) irid:t 21:35, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Please also note that Category:Overly complex systems designed by TheFearow should not be added to categories you create. We are not Wikipedia. Thanks :)  —FellowWiki Newsie 21:36, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
 * It's pretty buried. You know you can type Article and it will expand, right? irid:t 21:37, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
 * What test?  —FellowWiki Newsie 21:43, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok. Sounds like a good idea.  —FellowWiki Newsie 22:13, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

I just wanted to say
*hug* Thank you for making it go away! Thank you thank you thank you! *hug* irid:t 22:28, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
 * You know what you did. :) irid:t 22:30, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I saw that, actually. I largely agree with everything you say there. Although I balk on moving non-English submissions to other Wikinews languages. It's frustrating enough to cope with articles that we can't read. It's worse to try and navigate a wikinews that I can't read at the same time. irid:t 22:33, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

I just nominated that template for deletion as it has been deleted twice already, and really isn't very useful. Bawolff ☺☻ 21:08, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Question
Are you from Wikipedia? 24.251.234.86 18:56, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Yet another ticker question
Hello the TheFearow. I am mainly active on de.wikinews. Is it possible to implement the ticker there? Of course, I'll ask the community if they want to use it somewhere, first. It's really nice tool. --SonicR 21:53, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Regarding WTF, and, oh by the way
Well, I am really sorry for creating the whole mess surrounding WTF. I wasn't aware that so many people would have a problem with it. I really feel the DR on it is pretty ridiculous, but, what can you do. It doesn't look like it will be deleted (no consensus on what I've seen so far) but, even so, as you and I are the only contributers, we can opt to delete it ourselves.

I mean, if you think that is a better route, since that's how you deleted. :)

Man. Drama. I didn't think this still happened on Wikinews. Heh. irid:t 23:55, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and by the way!
Thanks for including Tasks on two articles. That made my heart warm. :) irid:t 23:55, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi Matt
Confusing username change, but we'll get used to it. Welcome Matt! --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 20:02, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Ticker broken?
The ticker has disappeared from the main page. I have no clue why. Good news is, it is still functioning on the French Wikinews. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 00:25, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

uTube story

 * Not to mention your original reporting, I know. I try to fight... I'll be doing something, trying to fight it I guess. Regards. -Edbrown05 10:15, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Ticker on Wikipedia
Hi,

I'd like to add the ticker to my Wikipedia user page but so far my attempts have been unsuccessful. It's the best feature I've seen so far, and would even love to see it integrated into the Wikipedia main page.

Thanks in advance for the help.  mjwilson  (Talk/Contrib) 15:02, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Could I put the js information in a page under my user page, put the ticker on my user page and have it call there for the code?  mjwilson  (Talk/Contrib) 21:22, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Per Page Javascript
Hello, I'm b:User:Whiteknight from en.wikibooks. I saw your per-page javascript function, and am taking it for a test-drive. Eventually, I would like to implement something like it on en.wikibooks (except it would be per-book, not per page). My current implementation of it is shown at: b:User:Whiteknight/perpage.js. I've already made a few modifications, but the funcionality is basically the same. I do have a question, the script appears to not work correctly in IE7, although it works perfectly in FF. Is this a known issue with your script, or is it an artifact of my changes? Neither javascript nor stylesheets for each page appear to be loading correctly. --Whiteknight Reply 13:43, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

IRC
Hi Matt. I was hoping you might have some advice on the IRC cloak. I am pretty sure I set it up properly and that it was working before (I am not on IRC often). Is there anything I need to do? Should I go through the process to register it again? Thanks! Jcart1534 03:28, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

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JS
Re:

I have just tested this on test.wikipedia with someone who has never been there before. An edit to the site-wide JS immediately showed for them when they went to gen=js, indicating the squids are not caching this at all (at least there, but most likely here as well). This would indicate all changes made to the site-wide JS are near instantaneous. The problem as mentioned on irc is the client-side cache which can exist for up to 31 days, due to the max-age parameter on wikimedia. So, the squids should need no purging. IANAD* Splarka 10:42, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
 * * I am not a developer

 * Hmm, After experimenting and consulting with Duesentrieb, it looks like anon users get:

/w/index.php?title=-&action=raw&gen=js&useskin=monobook
 * and logged in users get:

/w/index.php?title=-&action=raw&smaxage=0&gen=js&useskin=monobook
 * The s-maxage effectively removes squid caching (causing a MISS 100% of the time) for logged-in users and up to 31 days of server side caching for anonymous users. However, in practice, it looks like the squid cache is invalidated as soon as it is edited. But IANAD* ::Bad news: Both still have max-age=2678400 giving up to 31 days of client-side caching... nothing you can do about that! Splarka 11:13, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
 * As a side note (I'm a little late into this conversation), i find if you do a hard refresh of the javascript page (Not the page that includes the javascript, the actual page of javascript), everything updates instantly. Bawolff ☺☻ 06:47, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, but for only you. We wanted to do it for every user, including anons. Matt | userpage|contribs 21:22, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Nominated for Adminship
Just a formality, but I need to let you know on-wiki that I've nominated you :) Thunderhead - (talk - email - contributions) 05:10, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Tasks
Hey,

For WN:SG problems, you can use the automatic message/categorisation using the keyword mos, rather than typing your own. It makes it a lot easier to manage. Thanks! Matt | userpage|contribs 21:03, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Cool, thanks, Matt. Tasks was created during my break so I am not so familiar with it yet. --SVTCobra 21:09, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Article in Spanish
Hi there Matt! I saw you wrote this in the Café. Well, the title suggests some sort of criticism to Colombia and Venezuela, maybe could contain some bias or criticism to Uribe and Chávez (presidents)... Next time please inform me in my user talk (either here or here, as you prefer). In any case, thanks for telling us. Regards, Jurock (reply here) 14:11, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Matt, Thanks for your help and encouragement. Brien

Adminmobile Time!

I'm the first to say congrats! Enjoy the new buttons, and don't kill Wikinews :) Thunderhead - (talk - email - contributions) 07:01, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Nope, you were too early, he was just a user then! now the offical word from the wiki gods ie bcats ;)

Admin status granted
Congratulations, you have just been made a sysop! Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 09:37, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Welcome to the cabal.  —Fellow Wiki  Newsie 15:26, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks :) If I stuff up somehow, feel free to tell me :) Now, off to delete the main page . Matt | userpage|contribs 22:33, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Now go get a room at the Mansion. Thunderhead - (talk - email - contributions) 04:07, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Ooh - sounds nice. But i'm a fan of small houses not mansions :) Matt | userpage|contribs 06:48, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, I felt just too guilty if I saw this and didn't congratulate you. Felicitaciones, chabón! - Jurock (reply here) 02:19, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Interviews
Great choice of project! If you have any questions, let me know. I think what is important in an interview is to have some questions that are open-ended and can lead into other questions. "Have you ever had to confront your own mortality?" If yes, "When?" If no, "How would you like to die?" Asking questions that can beget a lot of follow-up questions makes for a good, interesting interview, and relieves "Do I have enough questions?" anxiety. --David Shankbone 00:21, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Oops
Well, I congratulated and forgot to ask you why I had actually come here. Would you mind attending this petition? It's causing disaster... - Jurock (reply here) 02:25, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
 * ✅ :-) Matt | userpage|contribs 05:24, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Bigtick
I added it to my .js. I like it but one problem, whenever it loads it makes a big huge page re-fresh and suddenly the whole page re-loads. I don't like that.  —Fellow Wiki  Newsie 21:18, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
 * It does? It should only change that one part of the page. What browser are you using? (also, if the sizes are different, it will move the stuff below them. That would be made proper when it actually goes into the main page) Matt | userpage|contribs 21:27, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I use firefox. The first time I seen it, it looked like the whole page was re-loading, but it was the stuff below that was changing, probably because of the image sizes.  —Fellow Wiki  Newsie 13:02, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Audiowiki podcast
Booya Matto, wondering whats up with the Audiowiki podcast and how we might be able to get more Wiki sound clips out to the public. Or are there existing podcast radio peeps we're friendly with can snag some airtime? .:*:*:DAVUMAYA:*:*:. 00:40, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Page counts
Hey Matt - any idea why this tool of yours is no longer keeping track of page counts? --David Shankbone 21:38, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Hey there.
*wave* Been gone, good to see we haven't lost everyone... irid t i [mailto:ironiridis@gmail.com e] 00:01, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah :) Unexpected stuff over the weekend, i'm back now. Also note no nowiki tags are needed around *wave* Matt | userpage|contribs 00:03, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
 * tests* Are you sure? ;) irid t i [mailto:ironiridis@gmail.com e]  00:04, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh yeah, but you can get around that with:
 * *wave*
 * by using a space in front of it, but it doesnt work on non-indented lines. Just put the wave not at the start :) Matt | userpage|contribs 00:06, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Userpage Sharing Project
You've been added as a member of the Userpage Sharing Project. You were added by me because I needed people to test the template with. If you wish to be removed, please contact me here. If not, please add to the top of your userpage (or wherever you want to stick it. Thanks, Thunderhead - (talk - email - contributions) 22:42, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

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Away
I'll be not able to edit as much out of college hours due to my mac having some problems with its Ethernet port. It should get fixed soon and i'll be able to edit properly again. Matt/TheFearow | userpage|contribs 05:13, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Re: Wikinews
Sure. It shouldn't be a problem. =) I'll go stick a request on the bot page. -- slakr  \ talk / 03:07, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

ads.js
I copied your User:TheFearow/ads.js to User:FellowWikiNews/ads.js and also the randomad.js page. I did a hard refresh. It still shows the old moto. Am I doing something wrong?  —Fellow Wiki  Newsie 17:08, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Dont copy them, delete your versions, and edit your monobook.js to be like my monobook.js. Matt/TheFearow | userpage|contribs 20:41, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Renamed yourself again?
Having a bit of an identity crisis? ;-) Bawolff ☺☻ 00:48, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

 * It is a bit confusing seeing you as TheFearow in the edit histories, but your sig is Matt on all the talk and discussion pages. Personally, I'd like to see the sig and username match up. --SVTCobra 01:00, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Whoops, Feel free to update it on Template:SS. I got renamed back so that SUL would work smoothly (no way to merge Matt back in or rename my others to Matt). Matt/TheFearow | userpage|contribs 09:05, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Sorry
OK. I am sorry - I made a blunder. Thank you!Prasuk 11:02, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Expanding Ticker
Hi Matt, I tried to expand the ticker to my wiki. To reach this, I copied the part of common.js, common.css, ticker.js and the js for the stylesheet. I also made a source for the ticker like on your page but somehow it doesn't work. Do you have any idea why this could be?

hsp 19:13, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Make sure you have the importScript function on your common.js. I would check for myself but your RandomSelecting extension is causing errors. When you get that fixed tell me and ill find the problem. Matt/TheFearow | userpage|contribs 20:03, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

 * Hi, can you show me the errors you get? - BLD 85.127.236.106 19:12, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

I've tried it again and copied the common.js, common.css, ticker.js and pagecss.js exactly identically to Donkpedia. The source was on a user account. However, it didn't work. I've really no idea what the problem coud be.

- hsp 16:54, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Interview with Sue Gardner of the Wikimedia Foundation
Could you email the source of this interview (unformatted IRC log) to the wikinews OTRS account so we can add it to the talk page as a reference? --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 20:06, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Template:SS
As a user of this template, I would like to notify you that I have proposed it be deleted. Please see WN:DR where I've outlined a number of concerns about it. Regards. Adambro 00:30, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Template:Lead article/test
you might be interested in User:Doldrums/Template:Lead. –Doldrums(talk) 15:16, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

IRC interview channel
I need to get OPs in #wikinews-interviews...forever :-) Please. We are having an interview there soon. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 00:57, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

pt.wikinews
Hello! I am editor of wikinews in Portuguese, and I would take the "ticker" for that wikinews could tell me what are the codes? From now thank! S ir Lestaty de Lioncourt    ✉  09:04, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

breaking news and the ticker
Hi matt,

two small things;

Your current ticker refers to 'Stolen Generations' - it's actually most commonly known in the singular - 'The Stolen Generation' - just fyi...

secondly you're probably aware of the depressing news of another school shooting - at Northern Illinois Univ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Illinois_University http://www.niu.edu/alert/campus_alert.shtml

which will no doubt be big news very shortly, it's seems very sad and depressing, and I'm sorry to break it......

thanks,

Privatemusings - (talk) 22:14, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Wikinews Bulletin
 Anonymous101 (Talk) 21:31, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Bureacruat
Hello, are you bureacruat? If you not bureacruat, please give me userpage another bureacruat. Prasuk - (talk) 18:47, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Signature deletion warning
Please be aware that I intend to delete the signature template ss which you use per the deletion request. I'd also note the comments at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11414 by one of the WMF developers, Brion Vibber, who says that "templates are disallowed in sigs" in response to the suggestion that not being able to use a template signature is a bug.

I'd therefore ask that you immediately update Special:Preferences to remove the template from your signature. By using this template, you have noted that having long signatures as part of a comment can be a nuisance. I'd therefore suggest that you greatly simplify your signature and carefully consider whether multiple links and different text styles really are appropriate.

I will delete the template after I've run my bot through the pages which it is used and substituted it to maintain the signature as per the template. Adambro - (talk) 19:57, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikinews Bulletin
Here is the latest Wikinews bulletin. Enjoy!

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Comments:Georgia withdraws from South Ossetia

Georgian Can't fight a urban battle ageist the Russia and Ossetian army much as i support Georgia there will lose this war.--KDP3 (talk) 12:03, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Hopefully this will lead to continued peace. War would be devastating for both Georgia and Ossetia.--TBC (talk) 02:29, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

 * I just don't want an other Chechnya. --66.229.12.186 03:20, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Peacekeeping
How did the Russian "peacekeeping" forces gey their mandate to be in Ossetia in the first place ? Lysy (talk) 07:38, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * "In 1992, Georgia was forced to accept a ceasefire to avoid a large scale confrontation with Russia. The government of Georgia and South Ossetian separatists reached an agreement to avoid the use of force against one another, and Georgia pledged not to impose sanctions against South Ossetia. However, the Georgian government still retains control over substantial portions of South Ossetia, including the town of Akhalgori.[22] A peacekeeping force of Ossetians, Russians and Georgians was established. On November 6, 1992, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) set up a Mission in Georgia to monitor the peacekeeping operation Tunafish (talk) 08:19, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

 * But how come the Russians were mandated to do the "peacekeeping" where they are obviously one of the sides of the conflict ? Lysy (talk) 08:23, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

 * The same way US forces are "peacekeeping" some countries in eastern europe... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.243.117.206 (talk) 10:28, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Georgia started destrouing the capital and villages of South Ossetia and Russia truing to stop this... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.222.109.30 (talk) 12:23, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

crazy russian's —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.27.20.42 (talk) 11:21, 11 August 2008 (UTC)