text:
User talk:Marreta~enwikinews

Welcome
, welcome to Wikinews! Thank you for your contributions; I hope you like the place and decide to stay! If you haven't done so already, you may want to create an account.

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! --Brian McNeil / talk 21:34, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
 * Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced
 * Introduction - overview of the site
 * Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
 * Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Newsroom - The comunity portal
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * And of course, stories need writing!

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 Marreta. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Marreta~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 23:21, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:34, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Marreta~enwikinews


text:
Symantec admits security flaw

January 14, 2006

Symantec, owner of the security software Norton SystemWorks admits the existence of a security flaw that can be exploited by malwares. The flaw is of the "rootkit" type.

A "rootkit" is a set of tools capable of concealing processes, files and other information preventing the detection of malwares such as virus, spywares and invasion programs.

In Norton, the "rootkit" works as the following: a folder named NProtect keeps all the files deleted by the user. It allows files to be undeleted. The problem is that Norton (as a "rootkit") hides the folder not only from the user but also from the operating system. It prevents antivirus and security tools from scanning the folder creating a hiding place for malwares. Symantec said that it was to "ensure that a user would not accidentally delete the files in the directory". They also claim to have no knowledge of any attempt to use this flaw and the problem can be easily solved by a normal software update.

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

title: Symantec admits security flaw


text: User:לערי ריינהארט/DIRMARK

title: User:לערי ריינהארט/DIRMARK


text:
User talk:לערי ריינהארט/DIRMARK

to sysops

 * Please read commons:Template talk:DIRMARK.
 * Please protect template:DIRMARK against moves and edits. Thanks in advance! best regards en:User:Gangleri | T 22:13, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

title: User talk:לערי ריינהארט/DIRMARK


text:
Template:Latest reports football

 category=Football Match Reports namespace=Main count=15

title: Template:Latest reports football


text:
Talk:Interview with Brazilian blogger Ricardo Serran Lobo

Could somebody please do the editorial clean up and write the introduction. It is a really good interview, that is why it should be published soon. --SonicR 22:23, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Having mostly lurked through the interview, I'd like to help but I'm not sure where to start. Is the Portugese version of the article done?  Provided it is more in the style of an article then I could work over a rough translation if someone did it on a /Temp page. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:07, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

The article is good to me. Is it good to you too? Can we publish it? --Carlosar 20:50, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I say, go for it! --Deprifry|+T+ 20:56, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Revision Help
1. mensalão > Mensalão? 2. Good afternoon! My name is Ricardo, I am a publicity man and teacher of web writing, and speaker of the Information Era and Digital Communication, 44. > ood afternoon! My name is Ricardo, I am a in PR/marketing? and teacher of web design/HTML?, and speaker at the Information Era and Digital Communication, 44. 3. At the beginning of the blog, Bloomberg Channel from New York interviewed me too. In Brazil, I have been interviewed by the main vehicles for communication. At the beginning of the blog, the Bloomberg Channel from New York interviewed me too. In Brazil, I have been interviewed by the ''major media? major TV media? major print media?'' 4. The national president of my party asked me to be federal deputy candidate in the next elections. > The National President of my Party asked me to be Federal deputy candidate in the next elections. 5. This country is delicious. - calling a country "delicious" is weird to me, so I'm unsure if it's been mistranslated, or if it's an accurate figure of speech from that region.

I've made minor suggestions where I thought there were errors, I wasn't sure if I should capitalize some words like "deputy" or "candidate" after "federal." Here, if person X was running for Senate, say, they would be Candidate for US Senate, but I'm not familiar enough with Brazil to be sure.
 * 66.55.217.228 08:06, 13 February 2006 (UTC) (MSTCrow from Wikipedia)


text:
Gordon Brown calls for national day to celebrate 'Britishness'

January 14, 2006

British Chancellor Gordon Brown today used a speech addressed to a conference of the Fabian Society to outline his plans for a possible national day for Britain. With the focus of the speech on promoting 'Britishness', Mr Brown asked whether there could be a celebratory day to help develop 'the ties that bind [British] people more closely together'.

"What is the British equivalent of the US 4th of July, or even the French 14th of July for that matter? What is our equivalent for a national celebration of who we are and what we stand for? Perhaps Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday are the nearest we have come to a British day that is – in every corner of our country – commemorative, unifying, and an expression of British ideas of standing firm in the world in the name of liberty responsibility and fairness?"

Former Prime Minister John Major spoke to the BBC Today programme and agreed that the chancellor was "absolutely right" to promote the concept of Britishness, but added "he seems not to mention that many of the actions of the present Government have ruptured Britishness by their own legislation."

A spokeperson for the Commission for Racial equality welcomed the speech, saying "it is important to talk about and identify our shared common values and discuss ideas and find ways to celebrate being British".

Gordon Brown also argued that the British Union Jack flag should be reclaimed from far-right groups such as the BNP, saying "the flag should be a symbol of unity, part of a modern expression of patriotism".

The speech was released in advance to the media on the Labour Party website.


text:
Brazil, Bolivia promise cooperation

January 14, 2006

Meeting yesterday at Itamaraty, Brazil's Foreign Ministry, Bolivian President-elect Evo Morales and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva outlined plans for broad cooperation between the two countries during Morales' upcoming term in office, which begins on the 22nd of this month. Lula's special assistant for International Issues, Marco Aurélio Garcia, mentioned in particular that Bolivia might be interested in development of its petroleum resources with the help of Brazil's Petrobras, as well as in increasing social programs and seeking to deepen its relationship with other governments.

According to Garcia, there are plans to form a bilateral commission to guide cooperation between the two nations in the coming years.

Public statements from the two leaders have characterized the meeting in glowing terms. After the talks, Morales described a "relationship of brotherhood," saying that he looks forward to the help of Brazil, whom Morales says, "leads the region." Asked about whether the close bonds between the growing number of leftist governments in Latin America constitued the development of an anti-United States counterweight in the region, Morales responded, "We are for a culture of dialogue...We are not going to create a bloc against the U.S."

title: Brazil, Bolivia promise cooperation


text:
User talk:67.187.78.188

Please don't remove copyvio notices. If you whish to rewrite the article, Please follow the instructions on the notice. Bawolff ☺☻ 23:25, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Copyright violation
Your comment on the article on the young chess player was uncalled for, but that does not mean that Wikinews contributors do not regret that your copyright was infringed upon. Your discovery of this infringement was in the latter stages of the process this site employs to ensure that we respect the copyright of others and that content reproduced without consent is removed.

I have put this comment above the standard welcome message we extend to new contributors, and would hope that you might review some of the content that message contains. We cannot be held responsible for the poor understanding of copyright law that is prevalent throughout society, but we do try to explain the principles in understandable language whenever we garner new contributors.

Welcome
, welcome to Wikinews! Thank you for your contributions; I hope you like the place and decide to stay! If you haven't done so already, you may want to create an account.

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! --Brian McNeil / talk 23:28, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
 * Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced
 * Introduction - overview of the site
 * Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
 * Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Newsroom - The comunity portal
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * And of course, stories need writing!

title: User talk:67.187.78.188


text:
Portal talk:Football

League Table Copyright
Isn't the FA Premiership league table copyright of the FA??? Frankie Roberto

 * I did some research. See discussion here - looks like the data has to be licensed from the Football DataCo Ltd (11 Connaught Place, London W2 2ET). Unbelievable I know! Frankie Roberto 00:41, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't think statistics can be copyrighted. see comment 26 on the link you provided. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 03:39, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

I've moved the tag here, I don't think it is a good idea to list things like that on Portal pages.

As to the copyright thing, I'm not sure, but it may be down to being able to copyright the manner in which a collection of facts (or statistics) are presented. --Brian McNeil / talk 08:34, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I've emailed jurwiki-l as to rather this is a copyvio or not. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 08:55, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm reading Copyright law of the United Kingdom, from the opening section I suspect we could be looking at some interpretation of "typographical arrangement of a published edition," plus there's a bit on copyright extending to databases. Where that might come into it is if you copy the FA's results, or maintain your own based on independent reports of the individual match results.  --Brian McNeil / talk 10:01, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Do we care about UK law? I thought it is the Foundations policy only to follow Florida and U.S. law. --Deprifry|+T+ 10:12, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * The foundation may not have to worry about it, but I do wonder if it might impact UK-based contributors. --Brian McNeil / talk 10:35, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Some interesting articles:, related but not neccessarily relevant:

 * Boost for papers in football fixtures row - The Guardian, November 10, 2004
 * Publishers win football match - "a 'holdback period' proposed by Football DataCo ... would have meant reports and images coming from football matches were embargoed until two hours after the close of play"!!!
 * Lockout fear over football rights - BBC Sport, 26 October, 2004
 * Fanzine fight for the right to print fixtures - The Guardian, December 21, 2005

On balance, it seems like DataCo are more interested in protecting the 'copyright' of the fixture lists rather than the league tables - but there doesn't seem to be conclusive evidence either way. Frankie Roberto 12:19, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

 * It has been established by Feist_v._Rural that information is not copyrightable and that only the collection of the aformentioned combined with some orginality may be copyrighted. So how you present the league tables, say the font size, the color of the columns etc. is copyrightable but not the actual data itself. (Of course I could be wrong as I'm no lawyer, that's just my interpretation.) --Deprifry|+T+ 10:10, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Found another Court case which is even more fitting. Quote from the comment: "In this case, the Second Circuit found that statistics from an NBA game are facts, and therefore are not subject to copyright law." Voila: The National Basketball Association v. Motorola, Inc.. --Deprifry|+T+ 12:18, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Does this conversation still require the communities attention? If not please remove the undefined tag. - Borofkin 01:35, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Layout
All that fuss aside, this portal is incredibly good looking. --Deprifry|+T+ 10:21, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Agreed, a really well done job. --Brian McNeil / talk 10:35, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Spum has done an amazing job with this. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 22:30, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I changed the line height on Wikinews Football portal because the letters coliding in to each other was driving me crazy. revert if you think it looked better before. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 21:35, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

What the...?
Well, firstly, you must know the fact that the results are public knowledge; any information you get from any of the football club's specific sites is free for people to know, because it's readily, and easily available knowledge. The wierd this is, i can't see why you would even think that match results would be copyrighted..

Let's analyse it;
 * Thierry Henry article i wrote was referenced.
 * Picture on the top logo and bg image is Fair use, and publicity information.
 * The rest of the information could be picked up from a dog anywhere within 10 miles of a football stadium.

Sorry to sound kind of sarcastic, but the FA have to publish the results so that other sites can use them, as they're the governing body. I don't really think they'd make many friends if they copyrighted fixtures and results, because then society really would have gone absolutely barking mad.

Spum 11:43, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm with you 100%, but unfortunately, 'absolutely barking mad' seems to describe the FA's approach to copyright quite accurately... :-( They even tried to sue fantasy league competitions for 'using their data'!! Frankie Roberto 12:23, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Don't worry, I don't think anyone disagrees with you that it would be "absolutely barking mad", I'll oppose any efforts to list this on the deletion request page until we get some feedback from the legal eagles. That may take a while, judging by what mentions I found of their mailing list. --Brian McNeil / talk 15:01, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

 * We could always try asking DataCo or the FA directly...?? Frankie Roberto 16:44, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * No, let the legal mavens look it over, we don't want to effectively ask them to send the foundation a bill. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:48, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

 * You may also want to see discussion of copyright of future fixtures at Portal_talk:Football/Fixtures Frankie Roberto 20:09, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Juriwiki-l people say the data is uncopyrightable, and is not a copy-vio. (however they added that it has to be manually updated, can't be a bot, and can't be an exact copy of the style of the way it was arranged) that is basicly what they said. I would post the email, but their was about seven warnings on the bottom that say not to repost this email, so I'm asking permission first. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 05:47, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Move to Portal:Football (soccer)
I'd like to move this to Portal:Football (soccer) (simply because it is confusing to see just 'Football' in a title; needs to be disambigued), but I don't want to screw anything up at the same time. I'll wait for a week to do this so that anything that needs to be prepared for the move can be adjusted so. --MrMiscellanious (talk) – 22:23, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Nothing will be screwed up. (templates will just be subpages of the old page) but I think you'll meet strong resistance from Spum. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 21:41, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

fixtures/ auto change
What I meant was to create a different template for each day. Then the template link would automaticly change. you can't link with fragment identifiers (#) - they're just be ignored.
 * for example use link:

Would look like you put this in on the 15.

Today it would be the same as:

Which would output:

If you want all for the month do Which produces:

You can also do everything for a year too, or a specific date.

The "/" is good because it will be like a virtual directory. When people browse it they could go back to all that month, all that year, or to the fixtures page or to the portal. It would also be more scalable and be easy to archive. However thats just one way of doing it. Bawolff ☺☻ 06:00, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
 * With the exception of subdirectories arn't enabled in the portal namespace. :( Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 06:15, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for this info, i was having alot of trouble, because i was using 05 (ie) as the date instead of 5 (when making the page) and they would not link. I figured out the problem now, and changed all the recent days i did. It currently goes up to March 5th, 07.Dark Squall 20:14, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

In regards to copyright
Bare in mind, Panini and the other COMPANIES used the statistics as part of profit... we're non-profit :-D Spum 14:02, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Player of the month/week
I changed that to an auto change thing, so this way we could see what the player of the month was previosly, easier. every week it changes. we are currently in week out of 52. Hope you don't mind. Bawolff ☺☻ 18:46, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

intreasting new wikibook
Football (Soccer). Bawolff ☺☻ 19:14, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

links broken
some of the inter-lang links are broken. Bawolff ☺☻ 04:52, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

chelsea crest
needs to be updated!

buh i think it's racism?
There is no UK FA (see the copyright at the bottom of the page) only the English one which you only seem to represent on here. and the badge (of the English footbal squad) is most likely copyright of the English FA. As I'm Scottish I find that highly offensive..you shouldn't call The Netherlands 'Holland' so don't call England the United kingdom...a Scottish king made it the united kingdom. 129.215.149.97 22:02, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm sure no harm was meant. Best way to change that is to go change it. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 00:33, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm
The portal only seems to feature English football...
 * If you mean you want North american foot ball, see portal:football (American), if you mean soocer/football feel free to create stuff from other countries. Bawolff ☺☻ 03:56, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

i am now posting all games from 7 different European leagues in todays matches.Dark Squall 20:17, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

out of date
the news here seems to be really out of date. Could someone update it?
 * Feel free to update it. http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:football&action=edit Feel free to ask if you need any help. Bawolff ☺☻ 23:19, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Football obsessives have obviously not come across Wikipedia - needs a wanabee frustrated Sports Editor to manage it :(

Moved
I moved the "Create Article" and "Create Match Report" boxes into the main area. This makes sense to me, as they are grouped with the articles themsleves, and cause the page to be shorter. Also, it makes it easier to see the "Todays Matches" section. Any compaints?Dark Squall 04:49, 3 March 2007 (UTC) Also, i see no need for the "Players to Watch" section. May i remove it for the time being? i left them there for now, just in case.Dark Squall 04:51, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Yep, feel free to remove/move as you please. Also the players to watch thing might also be a violation of WN:NPOV, in any case its not being updated, so no one's going to complain if you remove it. Bawolff ☺☻ 04:55, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

New Banner
I created and loaded a new banner. I believe this one works better with the scheme of the whole page. If anyone does not like it, please inform me, as i still have the info to change it back.Dark Squall 03:44, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Wow, nice. Yes the new one looks better then the old banner. Are all you football people amazing at desiging portals, because spum's really old (not the one that used to be here) banner was amazing as well. Bawolff ☺☻ 00:41, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I actually thought it was too simple, but i guess not :D If Spum was the one who set the portal up as it is now, i'd say he did a fantastic job.  My personal opinion is that it is one of the best looking portals on here.  I was just wondering, if you notice, the text is still there underneath the black and it says Football Portal.  I was wondering if this could be changed to white, and have some sort of slogan for the the portal displayed.  I havent exactly though of one yet, but im working on it :D.  Thanks :)Dark Squall 01:58, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Clutter
I find the main page very cluttered. All the info is here, and it is annoying to have to scroll for me, so im sure it is for everyone. I am working on a selection bar which will have links to portal sub-pages, which will include: League tables, top scorers, relegation watch (another section i am working on), and Todays results. Todays results will still be on the main page, but a "more button will be included, leading to the subpage. Each subpage will have links to the other pages, as well as the main.  There will also be one league table and top scorers tables on the main page, but these will have links that say "Other League tables" and "Other league top scorers".  The tables that will appear on the front page will be the English Premiership (please god let the people not complain).  I am doing this all in order to make the Portal more sysinced, and easier to read for the casual viewer.  The more in depth viewer will take the time and use the links.  I am comparing this to SkySports.com, and I personal like the setup i am creating easier to use.  This is a forewarning of changes to come, all should be done byt the end of the week.  When it is done, let me know what you think.—Dark Squall 02:37, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Inter-Wiki project idea
I came up with an idea of having an inter-wiki project for Champions League, UEFA Cup and UEFA Intertoto Cup. The idea is we can have match reports from Wikinews and use them on Wikipedia article for 2008-09 Champions League, 2008-09 UEFA Cup and 2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup. There should be no sourcing issues since there is a requirement of 2 sources per match report.
 * 1) This is an inter-promotion thing for Wikimedia Foundation.
 * 2) All match reports would be of the same standard.
 * 3) The standard NPOV will be in the match reports as required by Wikinews and Wikipedia.

There will be 213 matches for Champions League, 359 UEFA Cup matches, 78 Intertoto Cup matches for a total of 650 matches. Therefore, there will be a number of people needed to do this. If you're interested or have any questions or comments, you can ask them here or if you would like to sign-up, you can go here. Don't write how this is too big or a bad idea. This is to survey to see how viable this is. However, if you have some constructive comment or question, then feel free to add. Kingjeff - (talk) 15:05, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

I've scrapped the idea since I'm not with Wikipedia any longer.

Russian Premier League
Does anyone know of any credible sources for Russian Premier League match reports? Kingjeff (talk) 19:04, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

NPOV vs. match report
Are we allowed to make opinions regarding match reports? Donek (talk) 02:24, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Template:Football headlines
I commented out the box of manually updated headlines. For my reasoning, see Template talk:Football headlines. --InfantGorilla (talk) 16:11, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

title: Portal talk:Football


text:
User talk:JayDee~enwikinews

Welcome
, welcome to Wikinews! Thank you for your contributions; I hope you like the place and decide to stay! If you haven't done so already, you may want to create an account.

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 02:05, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
 * Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced
 * Introduction - overview of the site
 * Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
 * Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Newsroom - The comunity portal
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * And of course, stories need writing!

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 JayDee. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name JayDee~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 23:16, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:32, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:JayDee~enwikinews


text:
Canadian teen faces disputed US military tribunal

January 22, 2006 19-year-old Canadian citizen Omar Ahmed Khadr attended a pre-trial hearing on Wednesday, January 11, in front of a military tribunal at the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay in his case involving charges of murder, attempted murder and aiding the enemy.

Khadr was 15 when on July 27, 2002, following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, he was present in a compound near Khost which was surrounded by US soldiers. After a fierce firefight and U.S. bombings of the compound, U.S. special operations forces Sgt. Christopher Speer, who has training as a medic, led a group of US soldiers searching the compound in the belief that everybody inside had been killed. According to U.S. army reports, Omar Khadr, who was wounded by the bombings and the only survivor in the compound, fired his pistol and threw a grenade which killed Christopher Speer and wounded three others. In response, Khadr was engaged by U.S. forces and shot three times, which left him nearly blind in one eye.

While still 15 years old, Khadr was transferred to the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, where he was kept together with adult detainees, separate from other children who received better treatment and some formal education. Now Khadr is 19 and is facing the tribunal operated exclusively by the US military.

The tribunal is referred to by different media organizations as a "war crimes court", a "military commission" or a "military tribunal". Its legality is presently under dispute. The USA has not ratified the international treaty creating the International Criminal Court, so the nature of the tribunal under international law is unclear. The Miami Herald reports that "military defense lawyers and legal observers [condemn] the so-called military commissions as stacked against the defendants", but that the chief Pentagon prosecutor, Air Force Col. Morris "Moe" Davis defended the tribunal, stating that the purpose of the tribunals is to provide a fair trial while addressing an enemy whose actions had not been anticipated under the Geneva Conventions. "We have nothing to be ashamed of, and I'm proud of everybody involved in the process," he said.

The Supreme Court of the US is expected to decide on the constitutionality of this type of military tribunal in the next few months, with oral arguments in March, to consider charges that the "tribunals" violate US obligations under the Geneva Conventions.

Khadr has requested an upgrade to his legal team. The military defense lawyer appointed to him by the tribunal is a 31-year-old army captain, who has never before handled a trial defense and just recently returned from his tour of duty in Iraq.


text:
Talk:Canadian teen faces disputed US military tribunal

"U.S. war crimes tribunal"
This is in the first paragraph of the Post story. Please do not place tags on a story simply because of a personal conflict with the first editor. This easily found link shows the whole world knows and the US acknowledges it is a "war crimes" trial; Please, assuming good faith that your objection is not trollish, reevaluate the untenable position of your tag that "a rose is not a rose". Neutralizer 15:08, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * That's two different cases. One is of a Yemen native, this is of a Canadian.  Confusing, but either way, you should take a look at Amgine's link.  Tribunal and court are two different processes.  --MrMiscellanious (talk) – 15:17, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * MrM. Wrong interpretation on your part. Please re-read.They are BOTH war crimes cases; don't be confused by the US governments shenanigans and weasel words. Neutralizer 02:02, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

I believe the use of the term "War Crimes" will be misleading to readers of the article. It builds the expectation that someone is being charged for an offense such as torturing or ordering torture. It 'may' be possible within the article to reference some sources calling it a "war crime court" provided there is some sourced link to how treatment would be different as a POW under the Geneva Convention. --Brian McNeil / talk 17:30, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Tag Removed
Because of our personality conflict please allow other editors (hopefully other than MrM) to tag articles I initiate; in other words; please stop the stalking. Neutralizer 15:11, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

POV
an army medic was attacking this youth's barracks? -Edbrown05 01:46, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I suppose this is a case of collateral damage from the other side. Also I do think that sometimes the medics are right up there in the front lines. Neutralizer 02:04, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

war crimes court, war crimes charges?
IMHO the wikipedia articles on war crime and the laws of war are completely clear that war crimes and laws of war are a matter of international law. They can, in principle, be judged in national courts, but only under certain conditions and i would be surprised if the US military tribunal would qualify as satisfying the minimum conditions internationally agreed upon.

Secondly, i don't see anything in the sources claiming that the charge is war crime. Killing an enemy soldier is a war crime if it was unnecessary for military strategic purposes. Killing civilians in a way that is unnecessary is also, in general, a war crime (i'm only roughly quoting here). But Khadr is a Canadian citizen, so US soldiers were not enemies. He's being charged with a crime during a time of war but not a war crime AFAIK.

i agree with amgine that:
 * the tribunal is not a "War Crimes court"
 * Khadr is not charged with a war crime, he's being charged with a crime during a time of war

In any case, the whole concept of war crimes and laws of war assumes that this applies to all States - US, Canada, Afghanistan, Iraq, ... Since the US is one of the few States that has refused to ratify the International Criminal Court, it's hard to see in what sense a single country (US) definition of war crimes makes sense.

Imagine that i, boud, make up boud's own rules of wikinews editing and conflict solving and deciding on requests-for-deletions. i then gain admin powers. i document my decision-making on requests-for-deletions on some wikipage (locked by me to allow only my edits). In this (fortunately hypothetical :) case, can we really talk about the wikimedia editorial decision-making process?

Anyway, although i agreed with neutralizer on another page, in this case i agree with amgine. Boud 01:53, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

 * i think we can safely report it as "described as a war crime by Khadr's lawyer".
 * quote from washpost

Khadr's civilian lawyer, Muneer Ahmad, said earlier that trying Khadr before a military tribunal for war crimes alleged to have been committed at age 15 ... [italics mine]

 * the offense does appear to meet the requirements of a war crime (see below). but we dont know whether he has in fact been charged "under the war crimes title".

 * Article 19 of the First Geneva Convention

Fixed establishments and mobile medical units of the Medical Service may in no circumstances be attacked, but shall at all times be respected and protected by the Parties to the conflict.

 * US Code TITLE 18, PART I, CHAPTER 118, § 2441 War crimes

(b) Circumstances.— The circumstances referred to in subsection (a) are that the person committing such war crime or the victim of such war crime is a member of the Armed Forces of the United States

...

(c) Definition.— As used in this section the term “war crime” means any conduct— (1) defined as a grave breach in any of the international conventions signed at Geneva 12 August 1949, or any protocol to such convention to which the United States is a party;

 * see also the opening quote "Military commissions to try enemy combatants held here for alleged war crimes are intended ..." in a defence dept news article covering the chief prosecutor's press conference
 * Doldrums 09:58, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

NPOV name for the article
How about this?
 * Canadian teen faces disputed US military tribunal

disputed is based on the miami herald article:
 * The Supreme Court is expected to decide the constitutionality of the commissions this session, with oral arguments in March. Among those challenging the war-crimes court are a U.S. Navy lieutenant commander and other active-duty lawyers, called JAGs, for judge advocates general.

i think it is NPOV to say that it is a military something - it is not a civilian court.

i don't know about court versus tribunal - there may be some subtle difference in english, but tribunal in French is the normal word for court in english. Boud 15:55, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

B52 attack
Took out the paragraph regarding the B52 attack as I could not see the direct connection to the Khadr case. If there is an imminant connection, please explain and we can put it back in. --vonbergm 18:46, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, the point was that many people claimed that the B52 attack was a war crime by the US - so this may be the reason why there is an attempt by US media (maybe Bush used the term war crimes court?) to claim that war crimes occurred against US forces as well. But i agree it's not really that necessary. Boud 19:41, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I'd vote for reintegration too, but its clearly not trivial to keep it NPOV. I'd say something vaguely like many object to this characterization of murder because the U.S. killed a wedding party.  I felt the version vonbergm removed was too long to be NPOV, but a shorter simpler version should be fine.  Nyarlathotep 21:58, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

medic
There seems to be quite some confusion in the media as to the role of the killed american soldier. Some news sources refer to him as a "medic", implying that he served in the role of a medic, i.e. did not actively participate in combat operations and was clearly identifiable by his uniform as a non-combattant. This seems to directly contradict media reports and reports of a fellow soldier that he was "leading" a group of soldiers that were serching the compound. Howeve sources agree that Speer was "trained" as a medic. IMO it is the most sensible thing to report that he was medic by training, but do not make a comment on what his role at the time of the incident was, as there is no definite information on this. If someone can find a solid reference to settle this question, it would be a great addition to the article. --vonbergm 18:52, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
 * i agree. Boud 19:46, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

wikipedia links
Is there a general wikinews policy which is against having a list of see also wikipedia links? AFAIR brian mcneill changed the section title from see also to References. i agree that if wikipedia links are present in the text, then it's up to the reader to decide which ones to click, but on the other hand, it can also be nice to have a list of the most relevant links. Boud 19:46, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
 * My personal preference is to see Wikipedia articles that have been used as a reference source listed as "References", unless there is only one, and it is significant enough to merit a Wikipediapar link. Prior Wikinews stories that cover the same, or closely related, topic should be under "Related News", then "Sources", and anthing else really depends on the article.  As stressed, this is my preference, and it is just for consistency that I work with predefined sets of section headers. --Brian McNeil / talk 20:36, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
 * You can use wikipediapar even if its not a source, wikipediapar is for showing a "cannonical reference", but not necissarily one which is actually used at all. Here you should have wikipediapar to Omar Ahmed Khadr, as that is the canonical page for updated information.  Christopher Speer's page OTOH has no reason to keep up with the situation (notice even the Speer/Morris lawsuit is updated at Khadr, not Speer).  If an article is really about a list of people, you can use Template:wikipediapars and write them all out by hand.  Wikipediapar(s) are much like pictures: would you put a picture of Khadr or Speer on this page?  Nyarlathotep 21:55, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
 * A picture of Khadr would be quite appropriate for the article. Since wikipedia has one, this should be easily accomplished if one knows how to do it. I don't, but if someone can tell me I will do it. I would not object if someone wants to add a picture of Speer. --vonbergm 00:27, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

publish?
Any more objections or is this ok to publish (once that deletion request is removed)?--vonbergm 00:28, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Congrats to all who worked on this
Ended up being great,imo. Neutralizer 21:11, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

WOOOOOOOOOOOO I LOVE FREE NEWS...I wish I had a job (I don't right now) so I could devote myself more to this. I will have a job after my degree, and during too (many jobs, ha ha ha) but I will need to focus on my scholarly ways. Wish me luck.
 * good luck:)Neutralizer 04:27, 27 January 2006 (UTC)


text:
Talk:Symantec admits security flaw

First i had to discover what a Pov tone is :) I dont believe it had a Pov tone but I changed the the news anyway. All to please my fellows. Marreta

This seeems to have a Pov tone, but i can't put my finger on why. Bawolff ☺☻ 04:08, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes It does seem to have a POV tone. Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 04:29, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

title: Talk:Symantec admits security flaw


title: File:15January2006.pdf


title: File:15January2006.sxw


text:
Ottawa 67's lose to Saginaw Spirit, 7-5

January 15, 2006 The Saginaw Spirit and Ottawa 67's Ontario Hockey League teams faced off in a high-scoring competition Saturday night at The Dow Event Center in Saginaw, Michigan, with the Spirit topping the 67's at a score of 7-5.

The Spirit made their mark in the first period, scoring three goals. Tim Priamo scored the first goal of the night, followed by Tom Craig, who scored his first ever OHL goal. Ryan McDonough rounded out the period with the Spirit's third goal.

The second period continued a lead for the Spirit, with Patrick Asselin scoring another goal for the Spirit, making the score 4-0 before the 67's responded when Julian Talbot shot two goals in the period, making the score 4-2.

Saginaw's Tyson Gimblett and Ottawa's Joe Grimaldi held a fistfight on the ice during second period, with Gimblett drawing a two minute instigator penalty, along with a five minute fighting penalty and a ten minute misconduct during the incident. Grimaldi was charged with a five minute penalty for fighting. Another fight late in the period between the 67's Elgin Reid and the Spirit's Jamie Klie had both in the penalty box for five minutes.

Third period goals, separated only by seconds, from Ottawa's Chris Hulit and Jamie McGinn took lead of the game for the 67's, upping the Spirit by one. The Spirit responded with two of their own from Patrick McNeil and Matt Corrente, regaining the lead for Saginaw, 6-5.

With only minutes remaining, Ottawa pulled their goalie from net to gain a man advantage. Saginaw's last goal of the game was scored by Michael Birner, making the final score of the game 7-5.

The Spirit team maintains second position for their West division, behind the Plymouth Whalers. The 67's are currently fourth in the East division.

title: Ottawa 67's lose to Saginaw Spirit, 7-5


text:
Talk:Ottawa 67's lose to Saginaw Spirit, 7-5

I attended the game tonight, and took all notes that contributed to this article (with the exception for current standings in the league, which were obtained from the OHL Website. I also phoned a portion of this article into the Wikinews Hotline (I do believe I may have made a factual error on the recording, but I haven't listened to it yet).  --MrMiscellanious (talk) – 05:03, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * The audio file can be downloaded from here ([[Media:Wikinews Hotline submission - January 14, 2006 at 10-21pm.ogg|direct link]]) --MrMiscellanious (talk) – 05:39, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Good job, MrMiscellanious! I might quibble about the structure and some of the sentences, but a solid report. We're going to have to work on your purple sports prose though: you don't have enough superlatives. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 06:11, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Title
Should we be including what sport this is in the title? I certainly had no clue who these teams were (which sport) until I read the article. Bawolff ☺☻ 07:37, 15 January 2006 (UTC)


text: File:Wikinews Hotline submission - January 14, 2006 at 10-21pm.ogg


text: File:SaginawSpirit.png

title: File:SaginawSpirit.png


title: File:Ottawa67s.gif


text:
Pakistanis condemn US airstrike

January 17, 2006

Pakistani tribesmen numbering in the thousands protested and some set fire to the office of a U.S. related agency as the people and government of Pakistan for the second consecutive day on Sunday expressed their anger over U.S. attacks on Pakistani civilians along the frontier.

Many major cities in Pakistan were affected by the protests. In the largest city of Karachi, the crowd was estimated at 10,000, with chants of "Death to America" and "Stop bombing against innocent people." Riot police were deployed, but there were no reports of violence.

In a nationally broadcasted speech on Sunday by President Pervez Musharraf, he made no reference to the Friday air strike. "If we keep sheltering foreign terrorists here ... our future will not be good. Remember what I say," he said.

Pakistan's Information Minister, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, said the attack was "highly condemnable" and that his government wanted "to assure the people we will not allow such incidents to reoccur."

Liaqat Baluch, a lawmaker from Mutahida Majlis-e-Amal, said "We demand that Pervez Musharraf resign and American troops vacate all parts of Pakistan and go out of Afghanistan and Iraq." Sahibzada Haroon ur Rashid, a lawmaker from a hardline Islamic party, called the attack "open terrorism."

Protests opposing the government's participation in the U.S.-led war on terror, and the recent series of U.S. attacks along the frontier that killed civilians were held nationwide. Shahid Shamsi, a spokesman for the anti-American religious coalition that organized the rallies announced more and bigger protests in the days to come. He said "Pakistani civilians, including children, were killed," and explained that "principles cannot be broken in the name of (fighting) terrorism."

Unnamed sources in the United States indicate that the missile strikes were intended to assassinate specific Al-Queda members.

The Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz of the ruling Muslim League (Q) party demanded an apology from the United States on Monday. He also said his scheduled trip to the United States will proceed as planned. He will leave Tuesday for talks there on security issues, and meet with business leaders to garner foreign investment.

title: Pakistanis condemn US airstrike


text:
Talk:Pakistanis condemn US airstrike

Duplicate story
Seems to be a duplicate on breaking news. One or the other should be deleted

Edit
editprotected Category:Shaukat Aziz, Category:Karachi, Category:Sindh, Category:Federally Administered Tribal Areas. Ali Rana (talk) 08:52, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ – Juliancolton  | Talk 16:48, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

title: Talk:Pakistanis condemn US airstrike


text: Template:Trans-commons

title: Template:Trans-commons


text:
Template talk:Crown copyright

Does this apply to canada? Bawolff ☺☻ 08:42, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Canada is part of the Commonwealth of the United Kingdom, so yes. —     04:00, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

title: Template talk:Crown copyright


text:
Stardust lands in Utah successfully

January 15, 2006

"All stations, we have touchdown," an announcer declared.

Stardust, a capsule carrying dust from Comet Wild 2, has landed safely in the Utah desert. It also is the first time in history that a space mission has brought back such material.

"The tiny particles that the Stardust mission is bringing back are the most scientifically exciting and technically challenging material that we have ever had the opportunity to study," said Monica Grady of the Planetary and Space Science Research Institute (PSSRI).

When the landing was complete, it drew cheers from excited scientists.

"It's an absolutely fantastic end to the mission," said Carlton Allen of NASA's Johnson Space Center.

"Everything worked so well. What an exciting moment," said Allan Cheuvront, Stardust spacecraft engineer at Lockheed Martin Space Systems.

Many reports are stating from skywatchers, that sighted the speeding capsule as it shot across the sky over the western United States. "We saw it in the sky…it was great," said Paula Nicholson, Public Affairs Officer at the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground.

In 2004, another collector capsule from another spacecraft, Genesis, which collected solar wind particles crashed into the Utah desert, however, the samples did not survive.

After the capsule landed, it activated its locator beacon and helicopter recovery crews successfully located the capsule in the dark. The capsule is reportedly intact from the helicopter observations, and the unofficial touch down time was 5:10 a.m. EST. It will be transferred to a "cleanroom" and is expected to be flown to Johnson Space Center early next week where the capsule will be unlocked for the first time since it landed.

When opened, scientists will find the microscopic dust particles trapped in a porous, pale-blue smokelike material known as aerogel made up of 99.8 percent air that was used to snag the dust in space.

The dust then will be looked at under a microscope to be examined and because this comet is nearly 5 billion years old, they hope it will unlock some of the secrets to the formation of our galaxy and universe.

The capsules speed when it was going through Earth's atmosphere was a record breaking 29,000 mph, making it the fastest man-made probe to return to Earth. Its first parachute opened at nearly 100,000 feet from the ground where it was then guided to a 10-MPH landing in the desert.

The capsule also brought back with it 72 black-and-white pictures showing broad mesas, craters, pinnacles and canyons with flat floors on the surface of Wild 2, which was a staggering 500 million miles from Earth at the time Stardust was launched.

Stardust was launched in 1999 and its trip lasted over 7 years. Stardust traveled about 4.5 billion kilometers (2.88 billion miles), and went around the sun 3 times. In the end, a magnificent achievement for NASA and science in general.

title: Stardust lands in Utah successfully


text:
Protests erupt in Pakistan over US air strike

January 15, 2006

Many Pakistanis took to the streets Saturday to demonstrate against the U.S. air strike of a village on the border of Afghanistan. The main demonstration took place in the city of Karachi, where protestors shouted "Death to American Aggression" and "Stop bombing innocent people", a BBC report claims. Riot police were deployed to keep order.

A rally also took place in the town of Samarbagh, where over 600 people came out to protest, according to the Aljazeera news network. Speaking at the rally, Aizaz-ul Mulk Afkari, a leader from the Hezb-ul Mujahidin group, is reported to have claimed that Washington was targeting Pakistan because of its nuclear weapons.

The previous day, around 8000 tribesmen are reported to have staged a rally in the town of Inayat Qala. The US has not yet commented on the attack.


text: User:Mrmiscellanious/Bias of deconstructive users who allege a pro-US stance and a profound cabal on Wikinews


text:
Israeli PM Ariel Sharon to undergo more surgery

January 15, 2006

Ariel Sharon, 77, is scheduled to undergo a tracheotomy today, which is expected to help wean him off a respirator, which is helping him to breathe, a hospital statement said.

A tracheotomy is a procedure where an incision in the windpipe is made to create a temporary or permanent opening. It will allow for the removal of the breathing tube now inserted in Sharon's throat. Sharon suffered a major stroke on January 4, 2006. Last week, doctors said the plastic tube connecting his windpipe with the respirator would start to cause him damage if left in for too long.

Tracheotomies are routinely performed on stroke victims to reduce the risk of infection posed by intubation.

"The prime minister's condition continues to remain critical but stable," said a statement issued by Jerusalem's Hadassah hospital where doctors have been trying, unsuccessfully, to wake Sharon from a medically induced coma. "This evening the prime minister will undergo a CT test after which he will undergo a tracheotomy. The surgery is aimed at helping to wean him off a respirator machine. It will be conducted in the operating room under general anaesthesia."


text: File:Zawahiri.jpg

title: File:Zawahiri.jpg


text:
User talk:Wonder777

Welcome
, welcome to Wikinews! Thank you for your contributions; I hope you like the place and decide to stay! If you haven't done so already, you may want to create an account.

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! --Brian McNeil / talk 16:08, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
 * Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced
 * Introduction - overview of the site
 * Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
 * Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Newsroom - The comunity portal
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * And of course, stories need writing!

title: User talk:Wonder777


text:
User talk:Devilclaw32

Welcome
, welcome to Wikinews! Thank you for your contributions; I hope you like the place and decide to stay! If you haven't done so already, you may want to create an account.

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! --Brian McNeil / talk 16:08, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
 * Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced
 * Introduction - overview of the site
 * Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
 * Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Newsroom - The comunity portal
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * And of course, stories need writing!

title: User talk:Devilclaw32


text:
User talk:Wabend~enwikinews

Welcome
, welcome to Wikinews! Thank you for your contributions; I hope you like the place and decide to stay! If you haven't done so already, you may want to create an account.

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! --Brian McNeil / talk 16:09, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
 * Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced
 * Introduction - overview of the site
 * Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
 * Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Newsroom - The comunity portal
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * And of course, stories need writing!

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 Wabend. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Wabend~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 23:38, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:40, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Wabend~enwikinews


text:
User talk:Akilax~enwikinews

Welcome
, welcome to Wikinews! Thank you for your contributions; I hope you like the place and decide to stay! If you haven't done so already, you may want to create an account.

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! --Brian McNeil / talk 16:09, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
 * Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced
 * Introduction - overview of the site
 * Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
 * Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Newsroom - The comunity portal
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * And of course, stories need writing!

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 Akilax. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Akilax~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 23:12, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:28, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Akilax~enwikinews


text:
User talk:Dreslion

Welcome
, welcome to Wikinews! Thank you for your contributions; I hope you like the place and decide to stay! If you haven't done so already, you may want to create an account.

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! --Brian McNeil / talk 16:09, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
 * Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced
 * Introduction - overview of the site
 * Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
 * Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Newsroom - The comunity portal
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * And of course, stories need writing!

title: User talk:Dreslion


text:
Chelsea's Robben sent off after "over celebrating"

January 17, 2006

Today, a controversial decision was taken by referee Chris Foy in a recent match between Sunderland Association Football Club and Chelsea Football Club in the U.K. to send off Chelsea's Robben after "excessive celebrations". The decision was taken after Robben proceeded to embrace fans beyond the barriers of the club, which was seen by the referee to be a breach of safety regulations, as well as FIFA policy.

As consensus, ex-match officials watching the game agreed the decision was thought to lack common sense. However, the policy of restricting player celebrations was introduced into FIFA policy last year after safety concerns from various match officials. FIFA rules state several situations in which celebrations may lead to booking;
 * If, In the opinion of the referee, a player makes gestures which are provocative, derisory or inflammatory.
 * If the player climbs on to a perimeter fence to celebrate a goal being scored.
 * If the player removes his shirt over his head or covers his head with his shirt.

However, the rule which BSkyB stated in the pre match commentary was more relevant, because the aforementioned rules were not in any way broken; referring to the fact that perimeter fences were only common in Spanish football. The guideline stated that "leaving the field to celebrate a goal is not a cautionable offense in itself but it is essential that players return to the field as soon as possible".

Despite the justification of the referee's call, both Robben himself, and commentator Andy Gray questioned the common sense nature of the decision, noting that quick thinking and spontaneous decision should be something a referee focuses on, rather than the implicit enforcement of minor rules.

In response to the decision, Andy Gray noted;
 * "I can't believe it, celebration is a natural thing to do.. all he was doing was simply celebrating after a job well done with his fans. It wasn't like he was actually inciting fans because it was his own side. This really is the most silly call I have ever seen a referee make in my history of commentating."


text:
User talk:Draig goch20~enwikinews

Welcome
, welcome to Wikinews! Thank you for your contributions; I hope you like the place and decide to stay! If you haven't done so already, you may want to create an account.

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! Bawolff ☺☻ 18:06, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
 * Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced
 * Introduction - overview of the site
 * Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
 * Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Newsroom - The comunity portal
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * And of course, stories need writing!

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 Draig goch20. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Draig goch20~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 23:16, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:30, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Draig goch20~enwikinews


text: Template:Latest football results

title: Template:Latest football results


text:
Tarja Halonen wins the 2006 presidential election in Finland

January 29, 2006 Helsinki, Finland - The second round of presidential elections in Finland have concluded, with incumbent Tarja Halonen of left wing parties gaining 51,8% of the vote (with 100% of all votes tallied), and former finance minister, Sauli Niinistö of the national coalition party gaining 48,2%. Pre-election studies indicated a close match with both candidates gaining approximately 50% support in polls. Halonen got 53,9% of the advance votes, while Niinistö got 46,1%. Both candidates got close to 50% of election-day votes (January 29). The total turnout in the end was 74,0%, or 3,163,096 voters. These results are to be confirmed by Wednesday. In Comparison, Halonen won the second round against Esko Aho in the year 2000, with approximately the same percentage. Total turnout then was 80,2%.

Halonen failed to win an outright majority in the first round, resulting in a second round against Niinistö, the runner-up in the first round.

A major talking-point in the elections was the possibility of Finland becoming a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Halonen upholds the current Finnish policy of non-alignment and a reliable, independent defensive force, but does not outrule the possibility of Finland becoming a member sometime in the future. Co-operation with NATO will continue and be expanded on, despite the fact that the majority of Finns oppose outright membership.

Halonen will be inaugurated on March 1 for her second term, becoming the 19th president of Finland.

Related news

 * Wikinews: The first round (15.1): Finnish Presidential election held. Niinistö and Halonen goes to the next round
 * Wikinews: Halonen and Niinistö neck-and-neck heading into Sunday's run-off election in Finland
 * Article in English Wikipedia with more detail


text:
Portal talk:Soccer

I agree this should be merged (and there's nothing really to take over), but it should be replaced with a redirect and Portal:Football (soccer) should probably also be set up as a redirect too. --Brian McNeil / talk 18:56, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

title: Portal talk:Soccer


text:
Talk:Protests erupt in Pakistan over US air strike

No Comment ?
Is this a new strategy for castrating stories negative toward the US government's activities? Has the US government simply decided it need not answer any questions at all and has the world's media accepted that? This "no comment" approach does seem a bit new. Neutralizer 19:09, 15 January 2006 (UTC)


text:
Finnish Presidential election held. Niinistö and Halonen goes to the next round

January 15, 2006 Helsinki, Finland - The first round the presidential elections were held today. With all (100%) of the votes counted, no candidate reached more than the number of votes necessary to win. The top two candidates, the social-democrat incumbent, Tarja Halonen with 46,4% and the conservative, Sauli Niinistö with 24,1 %, will go the next round in two weeks time, on the 29th. Finland has its presidential election every 6 years and it decided on the alternative vote system of 50%+1.

Finland is a Nordic country with semi-presidential system of government, in which both president and prime minister are heads of government. The role of president of Finland has become smaller the past years due to changes in the constitution, though president is still head of foreign policy and the commender-in-chief of the Finnish Defence Forces.

One of the main issues in this election is Finland's relation to NATO. Some candidates like Halonen and the green candidate Heidi Hautala oppose and some candidates like Niinistö and Henrik Lax support joining NATO. Though president is not in a position to decide about this, it is considered by some as a signal from the voters if they support NATO supporting or NATO resisting candidates.

Sources/External links

 * Presidential Elections 2006 at the Ministry of Justice's website
 * Vaalit 2006 (YLE), presidential election pages privided by the national broadcaster YLE
 * MTV3 vaalikone, website helping to select the best candidate, provided by the commercial broadcaster MTV3
 * Presidentinvaalit 2006 (HS), the election website provided by Helsingin sanomat, the biggest Finnish daily newspaper
 * Foreign media and candidates in page of Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Wybory prezydenckie w Finlandii 2006 Halonen missade första valomgången


text:
US Justice Department sues American Airlines on behalf of reservists

January 15, 2006

The US government has filed a lawsuit against American Airlines on behalf of three pilots. The pilots were employed by the company while serving in the Naval Reserve and Air National Guard.

The US Department of Justice alleges that when the pilots were called into active duty by the US military, American Airlines denied them employment benefits. The Department of Justice said in a complaint filed in the US District Court in Dallas that American Airlines conducted an audit of leave taken for military service by pilots in 2001. The Justice Department charges that based on that audit American Airlines then cut the employment benefits of pilots who had taken military leave while not cuting benefits of pilots who had taken non-military leave.

Justice Department Assistant Attorney General Wan Kim said "This nation depends on our reservists to faithfully carry out their duty. No reservists, indeed no members of the armed forces, should ever be punished or discriminated against for answering the call of duty."

This is the first class action lawsuit under the 1994 Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act.


text:
Portal talk:Football/Fixtures

Copyright
I hate to start this discussion again, but aren't future football fixtures even more likely to be held under copyright than the league tables?? Frankie Roberto 20:06, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Frankie, i think that you mean well, but i hate to say that your fear is misplaced. The reason why the actual fixtures are the same is because if you took the results FROM LOOKING AT EVERY GAME, added up the points, and put them in the table. Then, if you counted correctly, it would always be the same as any other fixtures for the permier league the world over.

 * Now, i will for the sake of Vacuousness, explain how it works. For instance, recently, Manchester City v Manchester United played, and City won 3 - 1. Now, say - for instance, the Premier league came on the site, and saw "Man City 3 - 1 Manchester united" then the first thing which they would certainly NOT think would be "this data must be copied from us". What i am saying is, the results, as i have, repeatedly said, are PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE, they aren't copyrighted because;

 * 1) The club names ARE COPYRIGHTS THEMSELVES, which we are allowed fair use of.
 * 2) The PLAYER NAMES are COPYRIGHTED INDIVIDUALLY BY THE PLAYER, OR BY FIFA
 * 3) The results could be found if you went 10 miles away from any football stadium.

 * Still, if you wish to, again, flag work up as copyright infringement, my advice would be to firstly, be advised by the corporation you think is being infringed upon. E.g. email the FA, FIFA, or the Premier league. If indeed fixtures are copyrighted, then sanity as i know it is being scraped from the bottom of a minescule barrel. Spum 09:21, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Hi Spum. Sorry to cause any aggro, I think the work you've done on the football portal is great, and I really hope that my fears are mis-placed. My concern was not with the publishing of football results, but of the publishing of forthcoming football fixtures. Doing some quick research, it seems that quite a few fan sites have, unfortunately, received letters from the FA over their publishing of forthcoming football fixtures. Eg the letter posted to BSAD site:

 * "We write on behalf of the Football Data Co Limited which is the appointed licensee of the FA Premier League, the Football League, the Scottish Premier League and the Scottish Football League ("the Leagues") in respect of the licensing of certain intellectual property rights of the Leagues, including those in the fixture lists for this season August 2005 - May 2006 ("the Fixture Lists"), for use by third parties.

 * We have noticed that your website http://www.bsad.org/0405/reports/fixtures.html is displaying Football Fixtures. In order to display the Fixture Lists you must obtain the necessary licence from the Press Association."

 * "The Football League won a case in 1959 which awarded them copyright in their fixtures. Since this time they have marketed their fixtures and in more recent times additional data to go with the fixtures. This activity is 45 years old and therefore not something which is new."

 * "You can purchase a licence in two ways. The first is with the permission of the club and is called becoming a "Nominated Fanzine" the cost of this is £1.00 + VAT. This scheme was put in place to enable sites such as yours to be able to use the fixtures. The second route also requires the permission of the club and involves the payment of a £266 + VAT fee where Nominated Fanzine status is not being awarded."

 * source

 * Frankie Roberto 10:10, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Again, this is UK law. Bawolff asked the Wikimedia legal experts and they are saying it is OK so IMHO we are on the safe side. --Deprifry|+T+ 10:30, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Cool. Let's just hope that the UK law can change then... Frankie Roberto 10:50, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
 * yeah, I think the foundation really only cares about US laws. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 06:11, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
 * All content on wikinews, suposably has to be reusable for free. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 06:13, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, we're using the license, and it's not for a commercial purpose!

 * The site is displaying upcoming fixtures without purchasing the appropriate license. Please remove the fixtures immediately to prevent further action being taken.

Simple, all we do is add the disclaimer to their site at the bottom of the fixtures thing. But, we aren't breaking the law because we're linking to the correct license! By the way; fixtures are different, because they contain the names and information relating to the upcoming matches which are big-money makers. So, all we do i propose, is make a link on the fixtures table, which contains links to ALL COPYRIGHTS relating to football club names and the leage they're in! :-) Spum 09:37, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

title: Portal talk:Football/Fixtures


text:
User:Wwwwolf

I'm not a reporter, I'm a columnist. And I find tpyos ocassionally too if you push me hard enough. And give an extra coffee. Oh wait, I drink coffee, I might be a reporter after all. =)

But seriously, see me in Wikipedia or Meta for more chatter.

fi:Käyttäjä:Wwwwolf

title: User:Wwwwolf


text:
User talk:Loughlin Gethins~enwikinews

Welcome
, welcome to Wikinews! Thank you for your contributions; I hope you like the place and decide to stay! If you haven't done so already, you may want to create an account.

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! --Brian McNeil / talk 21:20, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
 * Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced
 * Introduction - overview of the site
 * Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
 * Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Newsroom - The comunity portal
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * And of course, stories need writing!

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 Loughlin Gethins. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Loughlin Gethins~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 23:20, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:33, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Loughlin Gethins~enwikinews


text:
User talk:Wwwwolf

Welcome
, welcome to Wikinews! Thank you for your contributions; I hope you like the place and decide to stay! If you haven't done so already, you may want to create an account.

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! --Brian McNeil / talk 21:20, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
 * Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced
 * Introduction - overview of the site
 * Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
 * Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Newsroom - The comunity portal
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * And of course, stories need writing!

title: User talk:Wwwwolf


text:
US Senators, EU voice support for Iran sanctions

January 15, 2006 At least 15 United States senators from both the Democratic and Republican parties voiced strong support for sanctions against Iran unless it halts its nuclear program completely, and at least one senator has hinted that military action is a possibility in the future.

Senator John McCain (R-Arizona), said on CBS that "The United States should press for sanctions even if that led to higher oil prices." He also added that "this is the most grave situation that we have faced since the end of the Cold War, absent the whole war on terror."

Another Republican Senator, of South Carolina, speaking on the Fox News Channel, said there should be "tougher measures." He also stated that "all options should be kept open," which could imply the use of military force. However, Senator Graham also said that "we need to work together with our European allies."

The most well-known military action by the US against an elected government in Iran was the Anglo-American covert in 1953 in which Prime Minister  was overthrown and the exiled  was restored to the throne as a.

Senator (D-California), said she "agrees with McCain's assessment of the extent of Iran's threat. Iran has much more opportunity to create devastation in the Middle East than Iraq at this time," she said. "I think it's a very serious threat." Regarding the need for continued international cooperation, Feinstein stated that the issue is a "major test of the international community."

On Thursday, Germany, France, Great Britain and the European Union officially declared an end to negotiations with Iran, a move endorsed by The United States.

On Friday, Russia renewed its call for Iran to resume cooperation with the (IAEA).

"We again call on Iran to reconsider its decisions and return to the state of moratorium and implement full and transparent cooperation with the IAEA, as is foreseen in the appropriate resolutions of the agency's board," Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said in a statement to the press.

Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said "all efforts must be made to ensure the peaceful resolution of the crisis and that diplomatic methods had not been exhausted." He then added that Russia's "proposal" to move the final phase of Iran's enrichment program to Russian territory is "still on the table for discussion." Mohamed ElBaradei, Chief of the IAEA, said in a press release today that he is so far unable to confirm whether Iran's controversial nuclear program is peaceful. "For the last three years we have been doing intensive verification in Iran, and even after three years I am not yet in a position to make a judgment on the peaceful nature of the (nuclear) program." He also added that Iran would only be a "few months from building a nuclear bomb if it has nuclear material at the same time as a weaponization program."

"We still need to assure ourselves through access to documents, individuals and locations, that we have seen all that we ought to see and that there is nothing fishy, if you like, about the (nuclear) program," ElBaradei said.

Iranian Finance Minister Davood Danesh Jafari said on an Iranian radio station today that "any Western sanction placed on Iran, in response to its nuclear development program could raise global oil prices... sanctions on Iran, could possibly, by disturbing Iran's political and economic situation, raise oil prices beyond levels the West expects," he told state radio.

On Saturday, the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said during a rare press conference to address the European Union that Iran will "consider using its control over oil prices as retalliation for potential sanctions on Iran." Today he said, "only diplomacy, not threats to refer it to the U.N. Security Council, could defuse a standoff."

In a press conference on Friday, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said that he had spoken to the Iranian representative in the IAEA in Vienna, Ali Laridziani, who said "Iran is interested in serious and constructive negotiations, but without time constraints."

The United States and the E.U. harshly criticized Annan's "spin" on the Iranian response, stating that because diplomatic talks have reached their limit, the matter should be deferred to the Security Council.

Iran continues to insist that its nuclear energy is to be used to provide electricity for an "energy-needy economy, not to build (atom) bombs."

Iran announced on January 10, 2006, that it was going to "resume full nuclear research."


text:
Talk:US Senators, EU voice support for Iran sanctions

Hit 'n's run comment... The title has a spelling error. --Brian McNeil / talk 22:19, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Title still has a spelling error after change. Went from "Senetors" to "Sentors" - should be "Senators."  --LoganCale 23:00, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

NPOV concern
Good effort but much too much of the article outlines the West's argument and much too little is allotted to Iran's pov. Please be sure to include Iran's proposal that western companies engage in joint ventures to develop Iran's nuclear energy so that all activities would be transparant. Neutralizer 01:52, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Actually, Wikinews article do not need to be balanced in their representation of views so long as the news event is covered neutrally. That said, this article is not neutral, but reads as a list of campaign soundbites. What is the news event being covered here? I will look at this more closely, but on first exam there does not appear to be a specific news event or phenomenon. Incidentally 15% of the US Senate does not sound like a groundswell of support. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 02:07, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I think senators and the EU calling for sanctions and such is news when it comes to thes iran issue. DragonFire1024 is Jason Safoutin
 * What of the POV....??? DragonFire1024 is Jason Safoutin
 * Dragon: Neutralizer tagged this story and momentarily ago he was blocked for a week. So I am afraid you will get no actionable objections from him. Article tags are required to be actionable, so you are free to remove the tag and republish. -Edbrown05 02:42, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I will work on a list of actionable objections. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 03:04, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Actionable issues

 * Article does not deal with a news event or phenomenon; is an aggregation of only somewhat related news factoids. I suggest determining a specific focus, such as the US Congress's response to Iran's announcement or the IAEA assessment report and its immediate ramifications. There can be several articles about the subject, each focused on a different aspect of Iran's determination to continue its nuclear research and enrichment programs.
 * Only three sentences in this article refer to the EU. None refer to sanctions against Iran.
 * The choice of phrasing often implies bias: "Iran continues to insist" while "United States senators ... voiced strong support for sanctions against Iran" (which they have been doing at least since 1979.) Senator McCain presses for sanctions - and thus higher oil price - while the President Iran says it might push oil prices higher if slapped with sanctions but the tone is clearly positive for Mr. McCain but negative for Mr. Ahmadinejad.
 * The last statment on th oil...its a fact
 * Well I am sorry you do not see the issues with Iran as news. But I do. I have to go to work...be back at around 7am (est) Dragonfire1024 is Jason Safoutin

 * It seems sensationalist to include the nuclear symbol. How about we remove it and repalce it with the standard Iran on a map picture?  Nyarlathotep 18:45, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

and few of them would not rule out military action.
This bit misleadingly makes it sound like it's the first time the US ever considered a military action against Iran:
 * and few of them would not rule out military action.

So i've added in a reference to what seems to be the best known US action against Iran, using NPOV wikipedia material:
 * The most well-known military action by the US against an elected government in Iran was the Anglo-American covert Operation Ajax in 1953 in which Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh was overthrown and the exiled Shah was restored to the throne as a dictator.

This is essentially just the first sentence of Operation Ajax. Boud 04:31, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Is this article dead, or ready to publish? I think I took care of any and all grammar issues, and I think POV problems are taken care of as well. webby06 16:14, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Matthew did a great job,imo. I will remove the tag and publish. Neutralizer 18:05, 25 January 2006 (UTC)


text:
Wikinews:Editors/Neutralizer

User:Neutralizer
Special:Contributions/Neutralizer As can be seen from this user's edit history, the user has a long history of disruptive behaviour within the community, and is specifically harmful of the project's goals of neutrality and community development.

Quorum
Person requesting de-editing:  Amgine | talk en.WN 22:33, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Votes
''Please keep this page for votes. Discussion on the talk page. If you put comments on this page, they may get moved there.''

Supporting:

 * 1) Amgine
 * 2) MrMiscellanious – 22:57, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Brian McNeil 15:39, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Jason Safoutin 00:11, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Opposing:

 * 1) Neutralizer 22:48, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) International 04:13, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Rcameronw 09:42, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Eloquence (explanation, also, for the record, I do not appreciate short comments being removed) 23:24, 16 January 2006 (UTC) 23:24, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) Simeon 03:56, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 6) Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 23:00, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

title: Wikinews:Editors/Neutralizer


text:
Chile elects first woman President

January 15, 2006

Michelle Bachelet became Chile's first elected female President Sunday when her rival, Sebastian Piñera, conceded defeat after trailing by six points. Bachelet, a member of the center-left group Concertación, previously served as both Health Minister and Defense Minister.

Outgoing President Ricardo Lagos called it a "historic day" and phoned Bachelet to congratulate her.

At 21:30 local time (00:30 UTC of Monday), Bachelet has said:
 * "Who had ever thought, my friends? Who thought 20, 10 or 5 years ago that Chile would elect a woman as a President? That became possible, because the citizens wanted it to. Thank you, Chile, thank you for your millions of votes. (...) My commitment as President of Chile will be to walk along you one more stretch in this big Avenue of Freedom we have been opening"

Ms. Bachelet supporters are reportedly celebrating her victory.

Results
The following results are based in the third official bulletin delivered at 20:50 local time (23:50 UTC), corresponding to the 99,71% of the total votes.

title: Chile elects first woman President


text:
New Zealand's secrets from 20 years ago released

January 16, 2006

The New Zealand Government is to investigate how 20-year-old top secret papers were released. They show that New Zealand was spying on the communications of Argentina, the Soviet Union, East Germany, France, Egypt, Japan, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, the Philippines, Fiji, Tonga, the Solomon Islands,  South Africa and even the United Nations diplomatic cables.

The leak came when a copy of the Government Communications Security Bureau's (GCSB) 1985-1986 annual report was found among the personal papers of former New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange. After Cabinet signed off, they were released by Archives New Zealand.

According to intelligence expert Nicky Hager, "This is the most secret report and most revealing one ever to come to the public."

Duty Minister Jim Anderton says the report should have been returned to the GCSB after David Lange had read it. "There'll be some investigation by officials as to how the report was not returned and was just left in the archive like this for people to stumble over... I think there'll be some concern about that."

The report also shows that the United States threatened to spy on New Zealand if New Zealand didn't back down on its anti-nuclear legislation.

In 1984 after the New Zealand government passed laws that stop nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed ships from using New Zealand ports, the United States announced that it was stripping New Zealand of allied status until United States Navy ships were re-admitted to New Zealand ports.


text:
Talk:Earthquake south of Medan, Indonesia

Shout box record from mudlark.com.au
mudlark: New tremmor @ 17:50 hrs Nias Time. My desk just moved 50mm to the west. No tsunami warning.

mudlark: Hi Terry, don't know why login failed I'll check with Ned tomorrow. Tremmor at 17:50 13/1/06

mudlark: quake at 04:47, 14/01/06, 3 seconds, RS+/-5


text:
Talk:Chile elects first woman President

The article says Bachelet "will be just the second woman elected to the head of a South American state". Who was the other one? If the author means Isabel Martinez de Perón, she wans't elected, but became president due to Juan Peron's death. If we count people who were appointed, we also have to include Rosalía Arteaga of Ecuador and Lydia Gueiler of Bolivia. And I think we should use other sources, maybe newspaper sources like El Mercurio or the Ministry of the Interior's elections website (www.elecciones.gov.cl).

 * "...the second in South America after Guyana's Janet Jagan and the third in Latin America after Nicaragua's Violeta Chamorro and Panama's Mireya Moscoso." - wikipedia article on Bachelet. - 67.165.67.6 03:33, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

title: Talk:Chile elects first woman President


text:
Earthquake south of Medan, Indonesia

January 16, 2006

Two moderate earthquakes occurred off the island of Nias, on the west Coast of Sumatra. The first earthquake at 5:47 am on Saturday was a 5.0 magnitude centered 30 km below the ocean floor. Twelve hours later the same magnitude quake occurred in the same area.

Neither quake caused any panic on the island that is located in an area of the Pacific Ocean known as "The Ring Of Fire"; panic wouldn't be unexpected because Indonesia was the scene of the Boxing Day 2004 tsumni.

The area of the pacific ocean is referred to as "The Ring of Fire" because of several unstable fault lines located there, and any one is expected to cause a major quake bringing massive tidal waves to the coastlines encircling the pacific.

title: Earthquake south of Medan, Indonesia