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User talk:Peterhamrin

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User talk:Markrich

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Talk:Remote New Zealand island evacuated as volcano erupts

"due to a volcanic eruption that occurred this morning at 8.21am"

Is that local NZ time? Please label times with the time zone. Thanks!


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User talk:Solve et Coagula~enwikinews

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Wikinews desperately needs more gutsy reporters; please give the project as much time as you can spare. Neutralizer 14:45, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Iran story
Hi, great story; you need to find some newspaper sources and set it up like the other stories with listed sources; don't give up cause this is interesting news. Neutralizer 14:45, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

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No Chernobyl in Iran!!!
Hi there, I appreciate that you wrote that article. However, it's really considered more than an editorial than a news article, so I decided to move it over into your user space. Sorry, but it's our policy. —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 15:28, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

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User:KHatcher~enwikinews

Kathryn Hatcher served on the University of Georgia faculty (1978-2006; now retired) at the Institute of Ecology in Athens, Georgia USA, and previously worked for State of Maryland DNR Water Resources Administration (1974-78). She graduated from Georgia Tech (BCE, 1972) and MIT (SMCE, 1974).

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Talk:U.S. Senate debates raising national debt ceiling

Now that the ceiling has been raised to ~$9 trillion and passed Senate floor, how would I edit the article name? Blu rav3 17:59, 17 March 2006 (UTC)


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User talk:Restfulpaws~enwikinews

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User talk:Snaeemakhtar~enwikinews

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User talk:Gabriele~enwikinews

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User talk:Nikoser

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User talk:Munavar

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New Zealand Department of Conservation leaves Raoul Island, minus one

March 17, 2006 The New Zealand Department of Conservation (DOC) made an emergency evacuation of staff from Raoul Island, the largest and northernmost of the Kermadec Islands, due to a volcanic eruption that occurred this morning at 8:21am (New Zealand Daylight Time).

A helicopter picked up the five available staff, but one missing staff member could not be found before it had to leave. The return journey is 2000km (1300 miles).

The missing man, aged in his 30s, failed to return "after going on a routine mission to check the water temperature of the lake," according to Rolien Elliot, DOC Area Manager for Warkworth.

She said that when two of the others went to look for their colleague where he was thought to be, they “had to retreat due to further volcanic activity and the track being impassable with fallen trees and ash.”

The blast had significantly changed the island's landscape.

"There's been about five hectares of native bush cleared and a lot of mud and evidence of boulders and rocks that have been thrown out of the crater itself," the helicopter pilot John Funnell said to One News.


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Chinese bloggers pressure leads to kitten killer giveup

March 17, 2006

Wang Jue, a Chinese nurse appearing in a disturbing internet video stomping a cat with her high-heel shoes, gave herself up to authorities after bloggers and some print media started a campaign to trace back the recording. In the beginning, she was labeled as the kitten killer of Hangzhou, because it was believed she was from there; but some internauts recognized an island in northern Heilongjiang province.

Wang posted an apology on the Luobei city government official website. She said she was recently divorced and didn't know what to do with her life. The cameraman, a provincial TV employee, and she lost their jobs when internauts discovered their identities.

Nevertheless, since China lacks laws against cruelty to animals, Wang and the cameraman might be freed soon.

The site (http://www.crushworld.net/) where the video was first posted is no longer active.


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Second Gold for NZ: Commonwealth Games

March 18, 2006 New Zealand has won its third consecutive gold medal in Rugby sevens after beating England last night 29-21.

New Zealand qualified for the final game after defeating Australia in the semi-finals 21-19.

The members of the winning New Zealand sevens team were: Soseni Anisi, Joshua Blackie, Tamati Ellison, Nigel Hunt, Tafai Ioasa, Cory Jane, Tenerau Latimer, Liam Messam, Lote Raikabula, Amasio Raoma, Alando Soakai and Onosai Tololima-Auva'a

Meanwhile, Fiji beat Australia 24-17. In the bronze medal play-off.

Also last night Hayden Roulston won silver for New Zealand, in the Track Cycling - Men's Points Race.

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User talk:212.46.113.88

Welcome
Wikinews desperately needs more gutsy reporters; please give the project as much time as you can spare. Neutralizer 23:12, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:Kramoushke

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User talk:Felix-Forever

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Australian DFAT director knew of trucking company involved in alleged Iraqi kickbacks

March 18, 2006

The was told on Friday by a former director of the Middle East branch of the Australian  (DFAT) that she had heard the name "Alia" during her time at DFAT. Alia is the Jordanian trucking company used by the (AWB) and alleged to have been paying kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime.

Previously,, Australia's foreign minister, insisted that nobody in DFAT knew about Alia until it was named in the United Nations report on kickbacks paid to Iraq under the oil-for-food program.

Jill Courtney, a former director at DFAT, told the Cole Inquiry that she heard of Alia some time in 2000.

In a statement provided to the inquiry, Ms Courtney states "When I saw the name 'Alia' in newspaper reports of the Cole Inquiry over the last few weeks in relation to the Jordanian trucking company used by AWB I recognised the name and I now believe that it was a name that I had heard in that context during the time I worked in the Middle East branch in 2000 and 2001."

Ms Courtney told the inquiry that she hard heard or read about Alia as a Jordanian trucking company which was being used by the AWB during her time at as a director of the Middle East branch at DFAT. Ms Courtney said that she could not recall how she came by the information.

Ms Courtney was asked by John Agius SC (counsel assisting the inquiry), "Is there any possibility that you saw it or heard of it as a Jordanian trucking company, and that what you have done when you read about it in the newspaper, in the context of this inquiry, is to learn then that it was being used by AWB, and that you have fused the two matters together?" She replied, "No."


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Original Reporting
The original transcript from the inquiry was used unfiltered from other news agencies. The channel Seven article was used to provide evidence of the foreign minister's comments - Cartman02au (Talk)(AU Portal) 00:58, 18 March 2006 (UTC)


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User:Neutralizer/Bush and McCallum; Skull and Bones brothers

President Bush has nominated Robert Davis McCallum, one of his fellow 15 Skull and Bones brothers who were inducted in 1967, to be the new US Ambassador to Australia.

In Bush's autobiography, "A Charge to Keep", he wrote: "My senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society. So secret, I can't say anything."

Skull members have to give a complete sexual history to the other 14, which apparently helps to reinforce the extreme code of silence that surrounds the society.

The president's grandfather,Prescott Bush, has been accused of graverobbing as part of one of the activities of the secret society and the president's father is a member as well. The headquarters of the secret society is a windowless stone building in New Haven Conneticut known as the tomb. Alexandra Robbins, who authored "Secrets of the Tomb", claims it includes a Don Quixote figure,a devil and a pope with one foot in a white monogrammed slipper, resting on a stone skull.

"What I find disturbing about Skull and Bones is that it's basically the most powerful elite alumni network in the US," says Robbins. "It's essentially a form of nepotism that keeps the same people in power, over and over and over again."

Senator John Forbes Kerry is also a member of the society.

Related Articles

 * Bush nominates a new ambassador to Australia
 * Bush administration drastically cuts penalties sought for in tobacco trial from $130 billion to $10 billion

 * http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2002-09-25-opcom_x.htm


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User talk:Neutralizer/Bush and McCallum; Skull and Bones brothers

Not news, NPOV
Neutralizer: there is no news event in this article which justifies the information of Skull and Bones being a major part of a news article. I understand your interest in this topic, but this is not news - it is a reasonable editorial topic. Wikinews does not do editorials. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 01:13, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Has Amgine seen the sources? It seems to be news in Australia being in 2 major papers tomorrow? I don't think we have the right to dictate that what others obviously see as being news is not news; that's just allowing our pov to censor Wikinews,it seems to me.Neutralizer 01:16, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * It is one article, published in two of a news paper chain's papers. It is remarkably speculative. And Wikinews does have the responsibility to determine what is news. We've also done so. See WN:CG -  Amgine | talk en.WN 01:25, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Added another source; but I do not get the feeling you wish to act in a collaborative way on this article; you just say "no" and that's it; please advise if I misinterpret your comments? Neutralizer 01:32, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I do not see how this article can be other than an editorial. Editorials are not allowed in the main namespace of Wikinews. Please explain how this is a news event? -  Amgine | talk en.WN 01:34, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Its news just as Cheney's connection to Halliburton was news when Halliburton got government contracts. It's obviously news when there is any personal or business connection between important government people which most citizens are not aware of. Neutralizer 01:45, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

I have to side with Amgine on this one, stressing about how Mr. McCallum is a Skull&Bones is implying that this is all a conspiracy to conquer the United States for the Southern Conservative Jesusians. While a brief mentioning in an article regarding his nomination is perfectly acceptable, an entire article devoted to how they're brudders in their little club really isn't for Wikinews. —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 01:46, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Messed; we already did an article on the nomination; this was just in keeping with our "start a new story" methodology. I think the connection/relationship is important enough to be a story (as was the connection between Cheney and Halliburton which generated many news stories) and obviously the sources think so too. I have to go to work so I will not be able to defend the newsworthiness of it any longer and I've concluded it is "taboo" subject matter for a couple of editors here. But I think we're all acting in "good faith". We certainly have published many stories about less newsworthy issues it seems to me. I would not have tried to do this story again except that the Australian papers think its worth an article or 2.Neutralizer
 * I definitely agree that it's good faith writing. Just questioning the reason for an article and all... —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 02:01, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Why do you suppose the Aussie papers did an article Neutralizer 02:03, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Mr Cheney had ongoing revelations of news; his oversight of some of the contracting decisions, the fact he is still receiving salary from the company, and so on. There is no evidence of the same currency with either Mr McCallum or Mr Bush. I simply do not see a current news event which can reasonably be connected in the manner you have done here. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 02:04, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I really have to go; but Cheney has not been on salary, just a pension which will not be effected and I don't think he had oversight of the contracting decisions. Actually, I never could figure out why the Cheney/Haliburton connection was news at all; but if some people think so, thats ok with me. This is much more newsworthy because of the ongoing collaboration that will be happening between these two. I think there is some huge geopolitical event on the horizon that has a lot to do with Australia and McCallum is being parachuted in to manage it. Neutralizer 02:07, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Why its "News"
Its difficult for anyone who has not read any substantive material on this cult to appraise the newsworthiness of the event,imo. If one reads the wikipedia info Skull and Bones including these sections;

 * 3 The U.S. branch of a German secret society
 * 4 Global drug trade
 * 5 Bones and U.S. Education

one may come to the opinions that;
 * 1; Its an important society.
 * 2; The members are very close; perhaps as close as family. However, because it is a secret life long cult, they don't reveal the information willingly. The Vietnam war was largely managed by Averell Harriman, McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy who were all members but nobody knew it at that time.

So, suppose, hypothetically, Bush had a secret, real brother who was the result of his Dad having had an affair and he appointed this brother to this position but the vast majority of people did not know the nominee was Bush's brother; would it be worth an article to disclose that they are brothers and some background information on their personal relationship? If your answer is "yes" then this,also, is news; if your answer is "no" then its not. Neutralizer 02:33, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I understand your fascination with this group. This is not at all news. Membership in the society is a publicly known thing; there is no revelation of relationship. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 02:39, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

 * No. You did not know McCallum is a member; very few people do; so its not a "publicly known thing"...however; as I said; I accept that its simply a "taboo" topic. Have you read the wikipedia information? Neutralizer 02:49, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes. It's gotten ugly and crufty again, and needs to be cleaned up again. Encyclopedic articles do not speculate. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 02:50, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Maybe you are wrong and not wikipedia; possible? Neutralizer 02:52, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Anyway; you have put 2 tags on; what is the NPOV all about? What is the actionable objection regarding NPOV. Everything is from the sources. What exactly is the pov being put forth since you say its all public information anyway?Neutralizer 02:53, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I don't think I can add any more justification for the article and I don't think its a huge news story myself. I do think its interesting,well sourced and that many readers will think its newsworthy so I'll leave it at that. Either some other editors will agree with me or maybe none will; but I think most who read the wikipedia info. might change their minds. It's no big deal either way.Neutralizer 02:58, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't think this is news, and thats all Im going to say. Jason Safoutin 03:01, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

 * representing all views fairly.
 * Including the view that S&B is utterly irrelevant to the decision to select Mr McCallum as ambassador to Australia, - for starters.
 * Articles without bias describe debates fairly rather than advocating any side of the debate.
 * such as the view that the S&B society has a larger-than-life effect in politics, business
 * The neutral point of view attempts to present ideas and facts in such a fashion that both supporters and opponents can agree.
 * I'm afraid I see no effort to meet this formulation of the NPOV.
 * Unbiased writing does not present only the most popular view;
 * or only the least popular. It presents all reasonable points of view.
 * Writing objectively can be conceived as representing disputes, characterizing them, rather than engaging in them.
 * Again, this article appears to be engaging in a persuasive argument.
 * The policy of having a neutral point of view is not to hide different points of view, but to show the diversity of viewpoints.
 * This article does not present any of the multitude of reasons Mr McCallum might be an admirable ambassadorial candidate, but only his membership in the Skull and Bones.

I could go further, but what it comes down to is your article may be a very good editorial, but it is not news and it does not pass the NPOV for me. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 03:08, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Interesting tidbit for another article
But not a news story in itself unless we do an original reporting job on S&B.--Eloquence 04:50, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I would love to do that; but I don't know how to get it past the "notnews" tag? Neutralizer 05:19, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Become a member and do an undercover story. ;-) --Eloquence 05:33, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

 * ok; ya' got me:) Neutralizer 11:23, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Ku Klux Klan comparison
By way of analogy, if McCallum was a member of the KKK would that qualify as a news story? Likely not for people who know nothing about the KKK other than it is a private club. But it likely would for people who knew more concerning what the KKK was all about. It's frustrating for me because I am confident that were the editors here to read and accept the reality of just the Wikipedia information about this truly evil society, there would be many who would think this is an important news event. The power of the S&B collective is unimaginable to anyone who has not spent at least a few hours reading good source information about the cult. Verifiable information indicates that they have been the major force behind Just as I would have the opinion that it should be reported if an important U.S. government official is a member of the KKK (and include some info about the KKK in the reporting article); much moreso do I feel it should be reported if an important U.S. government official is a member of the S&B(and include some info about the S&B in the reporting article). I'll say no more except the life-long allegiance is so strong they even inter-marry (George Herbert Walker Bush) and they participate in occult rituals.Neutralizer 10:51, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * globalization
 * Hitler's rise to power (Prescott Bush,George Herbert Walker,Averell Harriman)
 * bin Laden's assention to a position of power plus the USA's 1980's support of Saddam's regime(George Herbert Walker Bush)
 * the National Security Act-which secretized the US government including the creation of the CIA-(Robert Abercrombie Lovett and Harriman)
 * the Korean War (Lovett)
 * Vietnam war ("cabal in the State Department led by undersecretary Averell Harriman"Harriman,Bill Bundy,McGeorge Bundy)
 * Gulf War(George HW Bush)
 * Iraq war(GW Bush).
 * I can't consume what was said! -Edbrown05 11:03, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Believe me Ed, I couldn't have either had I not read,evaluated and accepted Wikipedia information about this bunch of weirdos. I just added wiki links above. Neutralizer 11:18, 18 March 2006 (UTC)


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Putin promises to continue energy production increases

March 18, 2006

At a meeting in the Kremlin on Thursday of Group of Eight (G8) energy ministers, Russian president Vladimir Putin promised that Russia will continue to increase energy production and to make nuclear energy more accessible.

"Russian companies are already completing projects that have strategic importance for a real strengthening of global energy security," Putin said. Putin, president of the G8 this year, has placed emphasis on energy security at a time when many nations are hit by rising energy prices and fears of supply problems.

Putin spoke of the development of the, which contains 3 trillion cubic meters of gas; of oil and gas pipelines, such as the ones under the Baltic Sea; and of a pipeline from eastern Siberia to the Pacific. Russia has more than doubled oil exports, from three to seven million barrels a day. Putin addressed concerns the current pipeline capacity will not be able to keep pace with demand, saying the projects are "the first in a series that world markets will benefit from soon." Putin also said that the will soon pass laws to clarify the role of foreign investment in future projects.

Some have been wary of the Russian government's growing role in the country's energy market. , a Russian energy company that the government has the majority stake in, cut supplies to the in January, affecting supply in several European countries. 25 percent to a third of the EU's gas supply comes from Russia, much of it by way of the Ukraine.

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China enters the low-cost laptop competition

March 18, 2006

Longmeng, which means Dragon Dream in Mandarin, is the name of a low-cost laptop computer. It was developed by the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. There are conflicting reports about the price: Bloomberg reported the laptop would be priced at 1,500 yuan (about USD 187 or EUR 153), while People's Daily and Shanghai Daily reported a lower price of 1,000 yuan (about USD 125 or EUR 102). The lower price would make the laptop competitive with the One Laptop Per Child project initiated by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

The Longmeng has a Godson II processor, which is equivalent in processing power to the Pentium III. It is actually a computer, a DVD player and a video game player, using the Linux operating system. It is the size of a textbook, 14 x 17 cm. (5 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.) and weighs about half a kilogram (1.1 pounds).

The new laptop was announced by Zhang Fuxin, an ICT engineer. According to Fuxin, the purpose of this project is to provide everyone with a personal computer.

The laptop is marketed by the Menglan Group from the eastern city of Changshu in the province of Jiangsu. They plan to sell 100,000 of the low-cost laptops in 2006. The Longmeng is intended for low-income groups as well as rural-area students.


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Wikinews:Site notice of the week

See also Water cooler (proposals) for discussion.

On this page, you can nominate a link to be featured in MediaWiki:Sitenotice, the notice at the top of each Wikinews page, for a period of one week. The site notice is only shown to logged in contributors; anonymous users see MediaWiki:Anonnotice instead. This allows us to highlight current collaborations, contests, important policies, discussions, votes, and so forth. Simply add your nomination as a new section below, or add your comment in support or opposition. If there is consensus support for the link (or no objections) it will be added to the site notice and featured for one week. Nominations will be featured in the order in which they have been made, unless you specify otherwise (because the nomination is associated with a particular event or deadline) and there is support for special treatment.

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Featured article candidates
I'd like to highlight this for a week. I often write or talk about Wikinews and need a good list of our most exemplary work (so far I've been using my own list from the State of the Wikis, but they're out of date). I think this page is not very well known and featuring it could lead to more participation.--Eloquence 04:32, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes I agree with this. I tried to get that going for a little bit, but no-one voted at all for the things I nominated. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 00:50, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose...for the moment. I am not really in favor of this...yet...I think if we pick and choose feature articles, we would in a sense be going through some kind formal editorial process. News changes everyday and some articles get written better than others on a daily basis. At the moment, this would require a good deal amount of work and constant 24/7 up to date article(s). I also think by picking and choosing, in this sense, would defeat the purpose of this Wiki and could drive some users away. This is not to say I am opposed to this in the future, and having a clear picture of what this would require. Jason Safoutin 01:08, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I disagree, I think this is more of a process for after the fact. Gives the author something to be proud about, and lets us show off what some of are best work is. This is not for the random article of the day that got written well, but more for the article of the month that got written great. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 01:45, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Would this be on the current featured template? or would a new one be created? I would sway more towards it if something like that were done. Jason Safoutin 01:59, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

 * This has nothing to do with the "featured story" on the Main Page. The goal is to identify some of the best work of Wikinews contributors in the past. I fail to see how doing so diminishes anyone's work anymore than choosing featured articles on Wikipedia diminishes the non-featured ones. After all, anyone can nominate any article to be featured; there's no upper limit. All you have to find is community consensus.--Eloquence 20:55, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

 * First off, this isn't an accepted practice. There are no objective guidelines. And it's not being very successful in encouraging good journalism. Second objection is we have no method of promoting featured articles if we had a reasonable practice; in short, what's the point? Until then, let's not not even consider adding this to SNOTW. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 19:30, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Bragging rights. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 22:09, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
 * ?? what does that mean? I should know what my own comment means, but yet it escapes me... Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 03:29, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Story propagation
Another page which has been forgotten - an attempt to more systematically submit Wikinews stories to other sites. Could do with some featuring.--Eloquence 05:38, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Support I was actually discussing something similar to that with MrM not too long ago. Jason Safoutin 00:58, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Support - I think this is something quite important that we should work towards - and it was/can be quite useful in gaining new contributors. Lyellin 18:02, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Spread Wikinews
Something we should all do... Dan100 (Talk) 21:36, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
 * -  Amgine | talk en.WN 07:29, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Audio Wikinews
We really need volunteers to work on this, especially producing daily news briefs for the podcast! Dan100 (Talk) 10:18, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Support. Project can use some exposure.--Eloquence 14:14, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Extreme Unreasonably Strong Support Project is very cool and needs a boost. (man, I wish I had more time away from a phone to do it) irid:t 14:17, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

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Featured article candidates
We need more show-case FAs! Dan100 (Talk) 08:55, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Still oppose this one. Non-standard, not ready for prime-time. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 07:33, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. Let's get this off the ground. --Deprifry|+T+ 09:38, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

See top↑ Bawolff ☺☻ 03:30, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

special:statistics
As we near 5000 articles, I think it'd be good to remind everyone how far we've came. Bawolff ☺☻ 20:44, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Support, together with some other stats which really need to be updated, e.g. Awareness statistics.--Eloquence 09:52, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Interview of the month
Page on Meta many people might not be aware of, yet very important.--Eloquence 09:55, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

A nice cup of tea and a sit down
Feature as "Annoyed? Have a nice cup of tea ..". More a reminder than anything ;-).--Eloquence 09:57, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Sure. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 03:31, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

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Hello,

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

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Mugz. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Mugz~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.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:18, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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User talk:Tomgutz1

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User talk:195.66.108.248

Welcome
195.66.108.248, 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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Monk Article
I have no intentions of deleteing it. however; the sources needed a great amount of work. Unfortunately, most blogs are not new sources and we cannot use them. We also have to use sources in english here on the English Wikinews. Its a great story, good article, just needs to be cleaned up a bit :) Good job :) Jason Safoutin 13:39, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:Ran J.~enwikinews

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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Ran J.. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Ran J.~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.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:23, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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User talk:Whittelo

Welcome
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Talk:Porn star promotes Italian wine

News?
How does an article like this get posted to Wiki News? It's an obvious attempt to promote the winery, the porn star or both. The cited source story was undoubtedly generated by a press release or the writer's personal affiliation with the owner of the winery or the porn star. The idea that a story has value if it appears in a print publication and is regurgitated here is silly. I can see that Wiki doesn't want to become a dumping ground for thinly disguised advertorials, but every story in the realm of business is self-promotional. How about that Donald Trump - building a big building in Israel. Talk about self-promotion.
 * Not only that, I know there i not a "policy" about publishing with one source....but shouldn't that be looked into? I know this article is old, but has anyone really looked into this? Also note, we re the only 2 to comment on this talk page. Jason Safoutin 16:41, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * First, please note that is says to sign your posts using ~ right at the top when you click to edit a talk page. It's really important that you follow this guideline, as it makes communicating with you much easier.
 * Secondly, people can, should, and are encouraged to post whatever they want. As long as they're willing to have it ruthlessly edited and butchered until everyone can agree on it. The Donald Trump article, for example, was total nonsense and I tried to get it deleted. However, there is a news story in Trump knocking down a building and erecting a new one. Not a great news story, but a story none the less.
 * You need to understand the process here. Good articles will float to the top, and generally bad articles will be edited into oblivion or just never published to begin with. This article was published because it is legitimate, PR scheme or not. The Trump article was never published (well, okay, it was unpublished) because there's not enough content to justify it.ironiridis 16:57, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * What exactly constitutes a "legitimate" posting to the Economy and Buiness section? The vast majority of "news" stories about companies and/or business people are by their very nature self-promotional and are generated by press releases and/or telephone calls from the principals to journalists. The notion that a story has legitimacy only when it's a regurgitation of an article appearing in some obscrue newspaper like the Australian is a ridiculous standard. I'm only suggesting that Wiki needs to eliminate the prohibition on press releases and focus on the newsworthiness of the posting instead. Mcduffodonnell 17:37, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Legitimate means there is a news story. You don't get to define that. There is also no "prohibition" on press releases, it just has to be non-copyrighted, original work. That means you take a press release and rework it into an original article.
 * Also, I hate to hit you with another policy thing, but it's considered extremely rude to edit someone else's comments on a talk page. Even if it's an obvious typo; let them fix it. irid:t 17:43, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep in mind, I'm not trying to jump all over you here. You just need to work inside the system for a while to understand how things get done and why policies exist. I know it doesn't make sense when some things are done and some things are blocked. It will make sense (or irritate the hell out of you) after a couple weeks actively editing. irid:t 17:46, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Appreciate editing advisory. I certainly won't correct anyone's spelling in the future. Personally I think Wiki's stated rule regarding press releases is pretty clear. I also think it's misguided. To say that a regurgitation of existing stories is "news" is ridiculous. (Before you go off on me, keep in mind that I'm talking about Wiki's news policy, not you.) Perhaps this is why so few stories get posted to this section.

 * '"Wikinews articles are not press releases. There are a variety of press release aggregators online who provide this service; check the Reference desk (or try News sources on wikipedia) for links to some of them. Wikinews articles address the 5 Ws and H where possible, and attempt to present newsworthy articles which are balanced and have multiple sources, which press releases by definition do not."'Mcduffodonnell 18:21, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

The addition of other sources hardly carries any weight in this discussion. They weren't cited as sources by the "author" when the article was originally posted so to my way of thinking it makes their citation irrelevant. Mcduffodonnell 18:38, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * As I noted before, however, your job as an editor is not to simply regurgitate. If you find a press release that you feel deserves to be posted, find other sources, rewrite, perhaps do some NPOV'ing, etc. That policy isn't saying that all press releases are by default inadmissable, it just says don't just post it verbatim. Therefore, you crack your knuckles and give it that WN flair that we all so appreciate. irid:t 18:42, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Possible sources
Here are some additional source:   irid:t 18:15, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:JorgeReyes~enwikinews

Please see my coments on Talk:A Photo Journey through the Heart and Soul of Cuba. Articles on Wikinews need to be related to a current news event. irid:t 18:03, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Welcome
Wikinews desperately needs more gutsy reporters; please give the project as much time as you can spare. Neutralizer

A Photo Journey through the Heart and Soul of Cuba
Its very well written, and I enjoyed reading it, but unfourtanatly doesn't really fit into our goals as a news source, as its not related to a current event, and doesn't fit into our policy about Neutrality. Perhaps we could find an alternative home for it. some options include putting it into you userspace (moving to user:JorgeReyes/A Photo Journey through the Heart and Soul of Cuba) or as someone else suggested, moving to wikisource. I honestly don't know what wikisources policy's on stuff like this is, so your geuss to if they accept it or not is as good as mine. also might have wiki more apropriate for this. There are also plenty of free web-hosts that you'd be able to put it on the web through them. Bawolff ☺☻ 18:50, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I have moved your article to your user space. The article qualifies as an editorial by Wikinews standards, and as such is not allowed in the main namespace. It is located at User:JorgeReyes/A Photo Journey through the Heart and Soul of Cuba, as Bawolff suggested above. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 08:56, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called JorgeReyes. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name JorgeReyes~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.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:19, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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Talk:Prosecution to proceed with alternate witnesses in Moussaoui trial

Well done
Really great article,Ed. Congrats. Neutralizer 18:11, 18 March 2006 (UTC)


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User talk:Thom5k

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Taipei mayor Ma hopes local HIV midway home "patients out only"

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Taipei mayor Ma hopes local HIV midway home "patients out only"

March 2, 2006 Taipei city Mayor Ma Ying-jeou hoped HIV-infected patients of Harmony Home Association "out only and don't come in" when he was hosting a Public Meeting with community members.

Ma hosted a public meeting in WenShan District. A Chief Of Village from the district complained to Ma that the Harmony Home Association, a halfway-home for HIV-infected people within the district, makes the members panic.

Ma replied that when dealing with this problem, city government must concern both professionalism and feelings of the community.

Ma said that Public Health Bureau would brief the community monthly, and "hope patients of the center stay out only and don't come in." Ma also said to locate another place to provide centralized carring as soon as possible.

This remark disappoints the association. Nicole Yang, secretary general of the association, said she was not invited to the meeting, and stressed that HIV-infected people have rights of residency, but the people in this midway home have no place to go. She said government should help to place them.

Last July, community officials learned about the association. The association, along with carring and housing of under-supported HIV-infected people in Taiwan then have been under heavy disputes.

Source
In Chinese :
 * The newsletter gives Mayor's statement.
 * The article gives the association's response.

In English:
 * The article gives some background.

馬英九：希望關愛之家愛滋病患「只出不進」


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Labor claims victory in two Australian state elections

March 19, 2006

The Australian Labor Party (ALP) has claimed victory in the two Australian state elections held in Tasmania and South Australia on Saturday. South Australia will have a majority government, after being governed with a minority government made up of a combination of ALP and other parliamentary members.

Tasmania
In Tasmania, Labor has been returned to its third consecutive term in government. The party has won 14 seats while the Liberals have won seven, the Greens two. At the close of counting on Saturday night, only two seats remained in doubt.

At his victory speech, Labor leader and premier Paul Lennon said that during the past two terms, Labor has made Tasmania strong.

"We've made the economy strong again," he said.

"We've taken Tasmania from the bottom to the top of the economic pile."

"Now we're rebuilding health, rebuilding education, we're making Tasmania a much better place to live."

"Over the next four years we'll be economically progressive, socially progressive ... and we're going to speak out for children."

Mr Lennon also said that the government can still do a lot for Tasmania.

"We can still have a better Tasmania than the one we've got today," Mr Lennon said.

"I want us to lead the nation economically, I want us to lead the nation socially, I want us to lead the nation with Aboriginal reconciliation."

Conceding defeat, Rene Hidding, leader of the opposition and Liberal Party in Tasmania said that it the result was not unexpected.

"After the disaster of 2002, it was universally accepted that we would need at least two elections to be in a position to win government," he said.

Mr Hidding said that it will be good for Mr Lennon and the state to have a majority government.

"It is good for [Labor leader] Paul Lennon and Tasmania that he will become the premier elected by the people, as opposed to the situation he was forced into," he said.

South Australia
In South Australia, the Mike Rann Labor government was returned to power and will be able to form a majority government. Political observers predict that when counting is completed, the Rann government will have 30 seats in the 47 seat lower house. When brought to power in 2002, the Rann government had to form a minority government with the assistance of an independent member as it did not command a majority in the lower house.

At his victory speech, Mr Rann said that his government will work for all South Australians.

"We made a fundamental promise that we would govern South Australia as if we had a majority of 10 and govern for all South Australians," he said.

"We stuck to that pledge and we will continue to stick to that pledge."

He also promised that independent member Rory McEwan, who gave his support to allow Labor to form its previous miniority government, and Karlene Maywald, a representatice of the nationals, will retain ministerial positions within his government.

"They have made us a better government by bringing the regions and the country to Cabinet," Mr Rann said.

Rob Kerin, leader of the South Australian Liberal Party and opposition leader, has conceded defeat and said it's clear that the South Australian people want Labor to govern them.

"It's up to them who they have govern them, and they've made it clear on this case that they want to have Labor for the next four years, so we respect that decision," he said.

The Liberals are expected to hold 13 seats in the lower house.

It is expected that Mr Kerin will resign as party leader in the next few days.


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More medals for NZ: Commonwealth Games

March 19, 2006 The following is how the medal table for New Zealand looked after the third day of competition for the 2006 Commonwealth Games, in Melbourne, Australia. New Zealand won six medals yesterday. Half of them were in the Women’s and Men’s triathlons.

In the Women's Individual Triathlon Sam Warriner won silver; followed closely by Andrea Hewitt who won bronze.

Bevan Docherty won silver in the Men's Individual Triathlon

A bronze in the Women's 50m Rifle Prone Pair is the 500th Commonwealth Games medal for New Zealand in the 76 year history of the games.

Silver

 * Samantha Warriner - Women's Individual Triathlon
 * Bevan Docherty - Men's Individual Triathlon

Bronze

 * Andrea Hewitt - Women's Individual Triathlon
 * Juliet Etherington, Kathryn Mead - Women's 50m Rifle Prone Pair, Shooting
 * Cameron Gibson - Men's 200m Backstroke, Swimming
 * Peter Latham, Hayden Godfrey, Tim Gudsell and Marc Ryan - Men's Team Pursuit, Track Cycling
 * Helen Norfolk, Alison Fitch, Lauran Boyle and Melissa Ingram - Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay, Swimming

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Thousands in San Francisco protest US wars

March 18, 2006 Thousands of protesters gathered at San Francisco's Civic Center to protest US wars and foreign policy in Iraq, the Philippines, Cuba and other places. Domestic issues were also included in the speeches and signs. The protesters then marched through downtown San Francisco on a pre-planned route. They passed Glide Memorial Methodist Church to protest President Bush's cutting of programs like Glide's that provide food for needy people. The march also passed by the Hilton Hotel, where protesters were calling for a boycott in response to the hotel workers union's difficulty in obtaining a new contract.

Pro-Israel counter-protesters gathered across the street from the war protesters, although their number was much smaller.

California Green Party candidate Todd Chretien suggested that there were ten to twenty thousand war protesters present.

У Сан Франциску демонстрације против САД спољне политике


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Talk:Thousands in San Francisco protest US wars

OR
Can we please have the OR notes? --Brian McNeil / talk 22:14, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I believe the images. Jason Safoutin 22:22, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * What do you mean OR notes? Original reporter notes?  What kind of notes are you looking for?  Muhgcee 22:25, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Sorry for having been imprecise about what was being looked for. I assumed since the Original Reporting tag was used you'd seen the requirement to put reporter's notes on the talk page. --Brian McNeil / talk 22:50, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

The OR notes
OK, I looked over a couple pages and I think I know what you want.

I was an eyewitness, and I was there protesting the Iraq War. I didn't do any interviews, etc. I just listened and took pictures.

By the way, I have more pictures if anyone would like to include them somehow...just ask me.Muhgcee 22:41, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * You could put your pictures up on Commons and link to a category/gallery there. This can be useful as you can then do things like cite the slogans on banners you've got photos of. --Brian McNeil / talk 22:43, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sure thing. I will do that in about an hour.Muhgcee 22:47, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * OK, looks like I won't be getting around to that :-) But still, if anyone has any specific requests for pictures I will let you know if I have it. Muhgcee 03:35, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Photo essay of the event
Here's a photo essay of the event some may find interesting:

http://www.zombietime.com/global_day_of_action_march_18_2006/

I will resist the temptation to add to the breathless reporting in this article other than to say that it does not address who the event organisers were -- international ANSWER -- any background on them, or what the protestors specifically had to say: "Smash the Jewish State" or "I support the Iraqi resistance" or "9-11 was a fraud" or "bush equals hitler" and other constructive, mature, and meaningful slogans. I can only imagine what came out of their mouths... 24.94.246.41 02:47, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * If you find something wrong with the story, then by all means you should not resist the temptation to add to the article. Muhgcee 03:40, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Typo
editprotected "Phillipines" => "Philippines" (2 times in a link) Van der Hoorn (talk) 23:59, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

 * ✅ ♪Tempo di Valse ♪ 18:01, 20 March 2009 (UTC)


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Talk:Sweden celebrates its first national day as a public holiday

Could someone with admin rights please change the flag from to  as the former should be orphaned according to its´ commonspage? Thanks on beforehand. //w:sv:Användare:Lelle1987
 * Done, I will add a section to WN:ALERT for edits to protected pages. Unlike Wikipedia we will have many protected pages and if commons continues "cleaning" images we'll have many edits. --Brian McNeil / talk 22:54, 18 March 2006 (UTC)


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Train kills seven on TV show

March 18, 2006

A runaway train killed seven people and injured eleven more today in the small town of Young, Uruguay, about 235 miles west of Montevideo. The victims were taking part in an Uruguyan reality game show, Desafio al Corazon, or "A Challenge to my Heart," where communities can raise money by performing tasks. The task in this accident was to push or pull a train with two cars attached to it down a railroad track. The train gathered too much momentum and ran down the people in front of it.

One eyewitness, Ana Portela, said that the train was in motion when "somebody slipped and fell under the locomotive, and others were falling alongside it. There were shouts and somebody cried 'my arm!' Everybody was in a state of shock."

Local authorities have declared three days of official mourning as Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez offered his deepest condolences for the victims of the crash. A spokeswoman from the channel airing the program, Mrs. Graciela Baccino stated, "Channel 10 offers its solidarity and support to the families involved in this unexpected tragedy that came, in fact, while they were trying to help others." The money raised would have gone towards a local hospital.

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Second oil disaster in Estonia within two months

March 19, 2006

Estonian and Finnish oil spill response vessels are working on cleaning up the oil spill caused by the sinking of the Runner 4. The Dominican-registered ship sank on March 6 near the Estonian coast in the Gulf of Finland.

This oil disaster may be even worse than the one of February, which was described by the BBC as the worst oil spill that Estonia has ever experienced. In the February spill, approximately 35 000 birds died. According to The Baltic Times, specialists say that this time up to 40 tons of oil might have leaked into the sea from the Runner 4. The ship was carrying, according to MTV3, over 100 tons of heavy fuel oil and 35 tons of light fuel oil.

The ship Runner 4 sank due to a collision with another ship, in a convoy following a Russian icebreaker. The crew managed to leave the ship before it sank.

On March 13, a week after the ship sank, the Estonian Border Guard sent its multipurpose vessel EVA-316 to the site to start the oil cleanup. Around the same time, the Finnish dedicated to the cleanup the oil spill response vessels Hylje, Halli and Seili. Also, the Finnish Frontier Guard patrol ship Merikarku was sent to the site to conduct underwater robot examinations of the sunken ship. According to the Finnish Environment Institute press briefing on this, Estonia does not have adequate equipment for oil spill response in icy conditions, so help was needed.

The reaction to the disaster is criticized by Jouni Pirttijärvi, an inspector at the Finnish Environment Institute (Ympäristökeskus). He says, according to Finland's national broadcasting company (YLE), that the countermeasures should have started a week ago, immediately after the disaster, instead of now. He said, "It's difficult now to get the oil under control. It's spread all around, and ship traffic is spreading it further. We should have come here a week ago. Then the oil would have been closer to the disaster area [the ship's sinking site]. We weren't asked for help [by the Estonians] then, so now we decided to help without asking [before it's too late]." (Translation from the Finnish-language original).

Finland will be paying the costs of the cleanup, as Estonia did not make an official request for help. The Estonian Border Guard's representative Helena Loorents says that Finland was not asked for help, as every day spent in the cleaning costs a lot of money. Estonia simply cannot afford this.

According to Urmas Raudsepp, the director of Estonia's Institute of Marine Research, the oil spill's location was only found out on Thursday March 16. The Finnish ships had, however, arrived at the site on the day before.

Jouni Pirttijärvi also said that the conditions in the site are bad. The wind is over 17 meters per second (38 miles per hour) and it is raining. The oil spill is moving into waters too shallow for the three Finnish vessels, so they can no longer do their job. Hylje will be heading back to Finland on March 19 and the other two might follow within a few days. According to the Estonian paper Postimees, the oil spill is now a kilometer (0.6 mile) away from the Estonian capital of Tallinn.