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User talk:Vash The Stampede~enwikinews

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

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Hello VTS
Thanks for the catch on the GB vs. Gb units in the hard drive story. Pingswept 16:05, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Hello,

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

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

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Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Talk:Spain says Yes to EU constitution

Spain wasn't the first country to ratify the counstitution, Lithuania ratifed the treaty on 11th November 2004, Hungary on 20th December 2004 & Slovenia on the 1st February 2005. :159753 21:24, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

It looks like Wikipedia's coverage of all this is a bit better than Wikinews's. This article is a bit simplistic and doesn't tell the reader very much.

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Talk:6.4 magnitude earthquake hits Iran

Keep an eye on this article, seems like somebody may be editing it maliciously or carelessly.

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User:TOR

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I am currently a second year student of English philology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.

Currently I try to keep an eye out for the way the site and it's policies develop for later use on pl.wikinews. I might also translate some of the more important news stories from pl. to en. and vice versa.

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I must say that I find the current look and feel of the stub template a bit too blatant. Below are a few proposals presenting different, more lite and less BLUE approaches. All comments and suggestions welcome. TOR 01:44, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Palestinian legislators approve new cabinet for Abbas

February 24, 2005

Legislators in Ramallah have accepted a cabinet with few returning staff after twice rejecting Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia's more staid proposals. "We have agreed in principle with Abu Mazen (Abbas) to let this crisis pass," Fatah MP Mohammed Horani said.

Members of the dominant Fatah party rejected two earlier line ups, before accepting the third late Wednesday after a further meeting with President Mahmoud Abbas. Fatah controls 63 of the 85 seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council.

The legislators were dismayed by a lack of change in the initial offerings, reportedly heavy with old guard politicians from the previous administration. Approximately 70% of the 24 cabinet members are new ministers that have not served before. Reports differ, with Reuters claiming 17 ministers are new, while the Times of London claims 20.

Nasser Yousef has been accepted to take the security forces roughly from behind, and Mohammed Dahlan, currently a security advisor to Abbas, is also in the new line up. Abbas is reported by the CBC as eager to consolidate control in security as part of an effort to clean up corruption and tighten domestic oversight in the occupied territories.

Some of the politicians who will not be a part of the new cabinet include Nabil Shaath, the Foreign Minister, and Saeb Erekat, the Negotiations Minister.

The cabinet will now be brought to the Legislative Council on Thursday for a vote.


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February 25, 2005

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Pope in hospital again

February 25, 2005 Pope John Paul II has been re-admitted to Rome's Gemelli Hospital with a relapse of influenza which saw him hospitalised earlier this month.

He was wheeled into Gemelli Hospital on a partially elevated stretcher, and was waving to people as he entered the clinic.

Later, Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro Valls announced that the pope had undergone a tracheotomy to assist his breathing.

The Pope's re-admittance again raises questions about how long his papacy will last. One of his close aides refused to rule out the possibility of the Pope retiring saying it was up to his "conscience". The Pope has recently indicated that he has no intention of retiring by saying that the call "to guard his flock" was "particularly alive in him".

The operation lasted around thirty minutes, and Navarro Valls said to media that it was a success.

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Talk:Mysterious power failure takes down Wikipedia, Wikinews

I'm curious about the term "mysterious" in the story title. It's clear from the story content that the event had aspects (two separate power sources going down simultaneously) that suggest something other than simple accident. I'd like to see some comment from the people who manage the servers, and/or the people who manage the colo facility, that address those issues. Specifically, what kind of investigation is underway regarding the causes of the outage; what is the most likely cause? Surely this kind of questioning is within the scope of an unbiassed journalist's responsibility. How can WikiNews, as an institution, facilitate such investigative journalism?

Rblumberg 12:38, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

i'm disturbed by the amount of dependence on/references to GOOG, a very for-profit thing. If oracle software is not used for that purpose, can't anyone find a good search engine that adheres to the same principles this entire project is founded on?

another idea i'm having...has anyone noticed that the shutdown occurred just as people were starting to have interest in exchanging ideas about Hunter S Thompson???

http://www.bilderberg.org/ bodies.htm

let's see what happens now

 * Link spamming is not accepted on Wikinews. This comment, unrelated to the article it is attached to and apparently written solely to include a POV and the link, is a potential indicator of vandalism. - Amgine 16:53, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I chose to use the word 'mysterious' in the article as (afaik) no-one knows why both circuit breakers tripped. That's a kinda "it can't happen" thing! However I seriously doubt 'foul play'; colos are very secure facilities. Human error in setting up the power supply system is a far more likely candidate - we just don't exactly why what happened, happened. Dan100 (Talk) 21:21, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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i'm disturbed by the amount of dependence on/references to GOOG, a very for-profit thing. If oracle software is not used for that purpose, can't anyone find a good search engine that adheres to the same principles this entire project is founded on?

another idea i'm having...has anyone noticed that the shutdown occurred just as people were starting to have interest in exchanging ideas about Hunter S Thompson???

http://www.bilderberg.org/ bodies.htm

let's see what happens now

 * Link spamming is not accepted on Wikinews. This comment, unrelated to the article it is attached to and apparently written solely to include a POV and the link, is a potential indicator of vandalism. - Amgine 16:53, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

excuuuuse me... i am NOT a vandal. but i can't help having a POV. if my input to this site is not desired by any powers-that-be, i'll take it to a more anarchist forum. i have tried to regulate myself here, and use discussion pages for the potentially POV inputs of mine. i have no desire to have people click that link, other than to encourage more people to see a pattern supportive of the way i see things. the "POV" about the shutdown being orchestrated by the government? that was in the story this page is supposed to discuss! I was not the one to put it there either. so, can someone clear up this obvious obscurity? am i relegated to the wikipedia page on conspiracy, until i start agreeing more with the mainstream? i felt i was contributing to the discussion initiated above, how can wikinewsians become investigative journalists... where did i go wrong, more specifically, please, than, "You are now a vandal. Go away"

 * In what way are Google, Oracle, for-profit software, or Hunter S. Thompson related to the power outage in Florida? Provide specific and verifiable evidence of the relationship, or the comments are known as "speculative" and are not likely to be welcomed. Making a spurious connection which is unrelated to the article on the article's discussion page, and adding a further unrelated link, is a common trait of "link spamming", which is an attempt to increase a website's ranking in search engine algorithms. It is very unwelcome, and is considered a banning offense. - Amgine 00:30, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Let me be perfectly clear why I edited this page at all in the first place. When I first read this story, there was a line, which I did not know was about to be removed, blaming the DHS for the failure. Then there was also a comment saying that people have said, if Oracle software had been used, this would not have happened, but Oracle is a for-profit company, and Wikiwhatever is committed to free things. There was also a comment saying, use Google to search archived Wikipedia when it is down. So all I did was put those things together and come up with what I thought were relevant comments. One was about whether there is a search engine that is less contradictory with the values here, to "promote" when it is necessary to "promote" one. The other was just an observation I did not know if anyone else had made, which was inspired by what turned out to be considered a vandal's insertion into the story. Is that specific and verifiable? The only reason for the link was as an experiment to see if the government (of the country, not the wiki) would do something to prevent people from making the connections that come so readily to my (unique?) mind. - HumanityAgent 68.8.80.whatever it is
 * In statistics, a correlation may be discovered which has no actual relationship to the subject being examined, an example might be data recorded from a REG by people with green eyes having a statistical difference when compared to data recorded by people with brown eyes. More commonly this would be called "coincidence". It isn't "fact", because all that can be said is it happened, once. It also isn't relevant, unless a further study shows it is repeatable and has a causal relationship. Bringing up an idea without giving a basis or support for the idea is not considered helpful, unless you are doing the research to find the basis or support.
 * Just for your information, a non-commercial internet search system might be DMOZ.org, which is also used by Google. However, Google maintains a cache of Wikipedia, DMOZ does not, which I expect is why Google was suggested in the article. - Amgine 17:41, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Errors
The following statements in the story are inaccurate or misleading in some way:
 * The main database and the four slaves had all ruined the data on their hard disk drives.
 * They didn't ruin it (in the way that normally means - having done something to it to ruin it rather than it being a possible normal consequence of some failure). It wasn't all ruined. It was a small number of pieces with inconsistent information in recently updated areas, sufficient to render the normal automatic correction unable to correct it.
 * which had been out of active use for 31 hours.
 * It was in active use at the time of the failure, applying updates at the maximum rate its hard drives are capable of. This system does not normally get requests from end users because it's used for backup and reporting. that works in two steps: the reporting runs with replication turned off, then replication is turned on again and it starts applying all of the updates which happened while it was generating the reports and continues applying new updates until the next time the reports are triggered. It was behind by more than a day because of the very high update rate last week, which had caused it to accumulate a significant backlog which it hadn't yet cleared. See the log at the end of this comment for more detail.
 * as the last database download was made on February 9, all edits since then would have been lost if all the servers had been in active use.
 * If it had been necessary we'd have asked MySQL for assistance in recovering all but some of the records in the individual inconsistent 16k chunks. To that we would have added the logged updates from the master database server and/or the 31 hours worth on the machine which was fine. Since the recently changed database chunks were the ones likely to have been damaged this would probably have resulted in a more painful and slower recovery process but near complete recovery.
 * It is understood that a failure in the self-protection systems of the servers led to the database corruption.
 * The understanding is incorrect. It was a failure in one or more of the operating system to flush the data (write it to the disk surface and not say it's written untilit really is), the disk controllers to flush the data and/or the hard drives to flush the data. There was enough of this to overcome the method the database server uses to recover from most faults.
 * If the power to a database server is cut mid-write, the database will be corrupted and unreadable without many hours of repair work.
 * MAY be corrupted. It's not certain. It's supposed to be fine - the operating system, disk controllers and drives are supposed to have written the data. In previous incident last year, after a circuit was overloaded and power was cut, the automatic recovery was able to handle it.
 * However a failure - possibly software or hardware - meant that the WAL system on all but one computer was reporting that it had finished logging edits, when in actual fact it had not. This led to all data on each server being corrupted.
 * The WAL system does not report this. It tells the operating system to tell the controllers to tell the drives to write and not say they have written until the write is saved on the hard drive disk surface.
 * This led to all data on each server being corrupted.
 * See above. It was one or more 16k chunks in the most recently updated areas, not all of the data.
 * Many databases other than MySQL do not corrupt their data
 * The database didn't corrupt its data. The operating system, disk controllers, disk drives or some combination of them apparently did, by not writing what they had said they had written. It would have been nice if the database had been able to work around the other parts of the system failing in their jobs, of course. Some others are able to do that. One notable one, with advocates who tend to seek opportunity to criticise MySQL, is PostgreSQL. It's a feature which isn't yet in MySQL, so it's a handy criticism to use. On the other hand, PostgreSQL doesn't come with replication and fulltext search, while MySQL does and the MediaWiki software used by Wikipedia uses both of those features.

Here's the relevant portion of the error log of khaldun, the system we recovered from, with comments: Comment: next lines are the normal stopping of replication at the start of a report job on the 18th (all times are UTC): 050218 0:00:02 Slave I/O thread killed while reading event 050218 0:00:02 Slave I/O thread exiting, read up to log 'ariel-bin.211', position 233347129 050218 0:00:03 Slave SQL thread exiting, replication stopped in log  'ariel-bin.200' at position 76297910 050218 0:36:13 /usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld: Sort aborted Comment: next lines are the restarting of replication at the end of the report job. Took 36 minutes because I aborted it to give this computer more time to catch up on the backlog of updates the compression work had caused: 050218 0:36:20 Slave SQL thread initialized, starting replication in log 'ariel-bin.200' at position 76297910, relay log './khaldun-relay-bin.006' position: 3298418 99 050218 0:36:20 Slave I/O thread: connected to master 'repl@iariel:3306',  replication started in log 'ariel-bin.211' at position 233347129

Comment: next lines are the normal stopping of replication at the start of a report job on the 19th 050219 0:00:02 Slave I/O thread killed while reading event 050219 0:00:02 Slave I/O thread exiting, read up to log 'ariel-bin.221', position 181275051 050219 0:00:02 Slave SQL thread exiting, replication stopped in log  'ariel-bin.209' at position 7548144

Comment: next lines are the normal restarting of replication at the end of the report job - I didn't kill the report job early this time so it ran for its normal duration: 050219 9:49:11 Slave I/O thread: connected to master 'repl@iariel:3306',  replication started in log 'ariel-bin.221' at position 181275051 050219 9:49:11 Slave SQL thread initialized, starting replication in log 'ariel-bin.209' at position 7548144, relay log './khaldun-relay-bin.008' position: 530113822

Comment: next line is replication reporting that it was unable to connect to the master database server to get more data, cause not known: 050219 21:54:10 Error reading packet from server: Lost connection to MySQL server during query (server_errno=2013) 050219 21:54:10 Slave I/O thread: Failed reading log event, reconnecting to retry, log 'ariel-bin.227' position 158061601 050219 21:54:40 Slave I/O thread: error reconnecting to master 'repl@iariel:3306': Error: 'Can't connect to MySQL server on 'iariel' (4)' errno: 2003  retry-time: 6 0 retries: 86400

Comment: next lines are restarting of replication: 050219 22:00:11 Slave: connected to master 'repl@iariel:3306',replication resumed in log 'ariel-bin.227' at position 158061601 050219 22:01:22 Error reading packet from server: Lost connection to MySQL server during query (server_errno=2013) 050219 22:01:22 Slave I/O thread: Failed reading log event, reconnecting to retry, log 'ariel-bin.228' position 218656

Comment: next lines are restarting of replication: 050219 22:01:38 Slave: connected to master 'repl@iariel:3306',replication resumed in log 'ariel-bin.228' at position 218656

Comment: next lines are the normal stopping of replication at the start of a report job on the 20th: 050220 0:00:02 Slave I/O thread killed while reading event 050220 0:00:02 Slave I/O thread exiting, read up to log 'ariel-bin.229', position 185010751 050220 0:00:02 Slave SQL thread exiting, replication stopped in log  'ariel-bin.216' at position 33534449

Comment: next lines are the normal restarting of replication at the end of the report job: 050220 7:22:38 Slave SQL thread initialized, starting replication in log 'ariel-bin.216' at position 33534449, relay log './khaldun-relay-bin.010' position: 288706407 050220 7:22:38 Slave I/O thread: connected to master 'repl@iariel:3306',  replication started in log 'ariel-bin.229' at position 185010751

Comment: next lines are the normal stopping of replication at the start of a report job on the 21st: 050221 0:00:03 Slave I/O thread killed while reading event 050221 0:00:03 Slave I/O thread exiting, read up to log 'ariel-bin.236', position 64857627 050221 0:00:03 Slave SQL thread exiting, replication stopped in log  'ariel-bin.226' at position 112974740

Comment: next lines are the normal restarting of replication at the end of the report job, then assorted transient errors and restarts of replication: 050221 9:53:30 Slave SQL thread initialized, starting replication in log 'ariel-bin.226' at position 112974740, relay log './khaldun-relay-bin.012' position: 905494861 050221 9:53:30 Slave I/O thread: connected to master 'repl@iariel:3306',  replication started in log 'ariel-bin.236' at position 64857627 050221 10:43:42 Error reading packet from server: Lost connection to MySQL server during query (server_errno=2013) 050221 10:43:42 Slave I/O thread: Failed reading log event, reconnecting to retry, log 'ariel-bin.238' position 252645704 050221 10:43:42 Slave I/O thread: error reconnecting to master 'repl@iariel:3306': Error: 'Lost connection to MySQL server during query' errno: 2013  retry-time: 60 retries: 86400 050221 10:45:12 Slave I/O thread: error reconnecting to master 'repl@iariel:3306': Error: 'Can't connect to MySQL server on 'iariel' (4)' errno: 2003  retry-time: 6 0 retries: 86400 050221 10:49:12 Slave: connected to master 'repl@iariel:3306',replication resumed in log 'ariel-bin.238' at position 252645704

Comment: previous line shows successful replication restart after an error. At this point replication is running. Note the position it was last started at: relay log './khaldun-relay-bin.012' position: 905494861

Comment: next line is the first sign that the server has had a power problem, the database serverlogging that it is restarting:

050222 02:40:39 mysqld started 050222 2:40:42  InnoDB: Database was not shut down normally. InnoDB: Starting recovery from log files... InnoDB: Starting log scan based on checkpoint at InnoDB: log sequence number 301 2308281842 InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 301 2313524224 InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 301 2318767104 InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 301 2324009984 InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 301 2329252864 InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 301 2334495744 InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 301 2339738624 InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 301 2344981504 InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 301 2350224384 InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 301 2355467264 InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 301 2360710144 InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 301 2365953024 InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 301 2371195904 InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 301 2376438784 InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 301 2381681664 InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 301 2386924544 InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 301 2392167424 InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 301 2397410304 InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 301 2401056520 InnoDB: 1 transaction(s) which must be rolled back or cleaned up InnoDB: in total 1 row operations to undo InnoDB: Trx id counter is 0 2567935744

050222 2:40:45  InnoDB: Starting an apply batch of log records to the database... InnoDB: Progress in percents: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 4 8 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 InnoDB: Apply batch completed InnoDB: Starting rollback of uncommitted transactions InnoDB: Rolling back trx with id 0 2567935438, 1 rows to undo InnoDB: Rolling back of trx id 0 2567935438 completed InnoDB: Rollback of uncommitted transactions completed InnoDB: In a MySQL replication slave the last master binlog file InnoDB: position 0 13343080, file name ariel-bin.235 InnoDB: Last MySQL binlog file position 0 644188245, file name ./ariel-bin.332 050222 2:50:04  InnoDB: Flushing modified pages from the buffer pool... 050222 2:51:30  InnoDB: Started /usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld: ready for connections. Version: '4.0.22-log' socket: '/tmp/mysql.sock'  port: 3306  Source distribution

Comment, next line shows the SQL part (the part which applies updates) starting. Observe that the last logged point was at './khaldun-relay-bin.012' position: 905494861 and it's now at './khaldun-relay-bin.014' position: 695946861. That is, it had been appling updates to get from the lower numbered position to the postion it started at and was apparently doing so when the power failed.

050222 2:51:31 Slave SQL thread initialized, starting replication in log 'ariel-bin.235' at position 13282058, relay log './khaldun-relay-bin.014' position: 695946861 050222 2:51:31 Slave I/O thread: error connecting to master 'repl@iariel:3306': Error: 'Lost connection to MySQL server during query'  errno: 2013  retry-time: 60 retries: 86400 Jamesday 03:19, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Finnish-French MEP criticise Finnish President and Foreign Minister

The former Finnish rally driver and current Member of the European Parliament for Grand Sud-Est France, Ari Vatanen, harshly criticised Finnish President Tarja Halonen and the current Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja for having an anti-American stance and maintaining old-fashioned ideologies about defence strategies that hark back to the 1970s, in an article in the Wall Street Journal Europe.

The UMP member, born in Finland, said that considering that 94% of the nations in the EU are NATO members, it does not make sense for Finland to not join.

According to Vatanen, when the MEP first tried publish the piece in the Helsingin Sanomat, the newspaper refused to publish it.

Accondingly Helsingin Sanomat, 57% of Finns are against joining NATO, while 23% are in favour.

Helsingin Sanomat is the main newspaper of Finland and the biggest daily subscription-based newspaper in Scandinavia. The paper is independent and non-aligned.


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Toothpaste fills cavities without drilling

February 24, 2005

A paste containing synthetic tooth enamel can seal small cavities without drilling. Kazue Yamagishi and colleagues at the FAP Dental Institute in Tokyo say that the paste can repair small cavities in 15 minutes.

Currently, fillers don't stick to such small cavities so dentists must drill bigger holes. Hydroxyapatite crystals, of which natural enamel is made, bond with teeth to repair tiny areas of damage.

Yamagishi and colleagues have tested their paste on a lower premolar tooth that showed early signs of decay. They found that the synthetic enamel merged with the natural enamel. The synthetic enamel also appears to make teeth stronger which will improve resistance to future decay. As with drilling, however, there is still the potential for pain: The paste is strongly acidic to encourage crystal growth and causes inflammation if it touches the gums.

The paste is reported in the journal Nature.


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 * Maine passes gay rights law
 * Palestinian security chief quits, says too little is being done to curb lawlessness
 * Terri Schiavo dies
 * Chlorine spill in China's Jiangsu province kills 28, injures hundreds
 * Voting in Zimbabwe starts amid accusations of rigged outcome
 * U.S. Supreme Court hears MGM v. Grokster
 * EU nabs US$300 million illegal trafficking in Spain
 * Man attempts to foil breathalyzer by eating feces
 * UN Report: Earth ecosystem in peril
 * Dresden city council wants DNA matching for doggy-doo
 * New Doctor Who quits series, BBC searches for replacement actor
 * New York Times finds flight logs that back Canadian's claim of kidnapping by US government
 * Pressure building on Myanmar to decline ASEAN chair
 * Akayev willing to resign as president of Kyrgyzstan
 * Brazilian president defends Chavez and criticizes US

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Wikinews:2005/March/30

 * Charlottetown, P.E.I. residents rally to support restaurant
 * Fox TV executive takes reins at Paramount studios
 * Egyptians protest against President despite ban
 * SciScoop shuts down
 * Taiwan Nationalists leader visits Beijing
 * British computer magazine discovers electricity cost of running computers
 * Falwell's condition upgraded to "stable"
 * School dinner costs just 49p in Wales
 * Pope gets feeding tube through nose
 * New Zealand praised by NATO Secretary General
 * German retail giant Rewe to open Penny Market stores in Romania
 * Three Romanian journalists abducted in Iraq
 * UN Secretary General Annan cleared of influencing oil-for-food contracts by Volcker report
 * Irish scientists had predicted further Sumatran earthquake
 * Monday night's Indonesian quake toll appears less than first feared
 * O.J. Simpson laywer, Cochran, dead at 67
 * Woman sells name on eBay

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Wikinews:2005/March/28

 * Cure for cat allergies may be close, with help from some mice
 * Another arrest in Minnesota school shooting
 * Stanford women's basketball knocks three-time champion Connecticut out of NCAA tournament
 * New Kygryz parliament backs Bakiyev, lower house of former parliament steps down
 * Ireland's smoking ban a success after first year
 * Space station crew perform successful spacewalk
 * Freak wave drags funeral party out to sea
 * Motive in Wisconsin church murder-suicide a mystery
 * Bobby Fischer sues US Government from new Icelandic home
 * Crowded House drummer found dead
 * Magnitude 8.7 earthquake hits Northern Sumatra, Indonesia
 * Tsunami fears rise after latest Indonesian temblor
 * Foreign governments move to aid earthquake region
 * First bird flu case reported in North Korea
 * Harvard women's hockey loses NCAA title to Minnesota for second straight year
 * IRS goes after eBay sellers
 * China and Taiwan react to "326" rally
 * Four Americans die from mine impact in Afghanistan
 * India may rise as regional power
 * Risk of major US shipyard Bath Iron Works closure termed "substantial" by Maine Congressman
 * Australia silent on UN racism committee condemnation
 * New Zealand Labour Party announces 'early election' list
 * Pakistan admits scientist sold nuke tech to Iran
 * Sri Lanka accepts 'One China' policy
 * Zimbabwe church leader calls for uprising against Mugabe

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Wikinews:2005/March/27

 * Kulov declares newly elected parliament legitimate, Kyrgyz parliamentary conflict deepens
 * Doctor Who returns as UK Saturday night timeslot lord
 * Pakistan admits scientist sold nuke tech to Iran
 * Report reveals Top 10 most-confusing tech buzzwords
 * IBM releases freeware for visualizing document histories
 * Cricket: Sehwag dominates, but India trails
 * Five wounded, two killed in Lebanon blast
 * Former British Prime Minister James Callaghan dies aged 92
 * Lebanon yields to opposition tide
 * Chili finger may have been raw
 * Wendy's sales down in Northern California
 * New Kyrgyz election scheduled after lightning coup
 * Guards uncover 600 ft escape tunnel at US prison in Iraq
 * Togo opposition wants election delayed
 * Harvard's Berkman Center blog group develops blogging tutorials

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Wikinews:2005/March/26

 * Hundreds of thousands march in Taipei
 * Canadian union, railway reach last minute accord
 * Dick, Spielberg among Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductees
 * Massive star cluster found in Milky Way
 * Conservatives plan to reject budget over newly introduced Kyoto amendment in Canada
 * Mozilla Foundation rolls out second security update for Firefox browser
 * NCAA men's division I basketball tournament reaches "Elite Eight" round
 * Multiple parliaments meet in Kyrgyzstan, legitimacy uncertain
 * Chinese government to safeguard old Beijing
 * Fire in Tema, Ghana threatning oil refinery
 * Police, militia confront looters in Bishkek, leaders say city now calm
 * Morogoro Plastic, funded by Barclays, to open $2m network of recycling plants in Tanzania
 * Hundreds of thousands protest anti-secession law in Taiwan
 * Zimbabwe's Mugabe: Vote for us or starve
 * US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld visits Brazil
 * Gender imbalance in Tsunami deaths
 * India to build aircraft carrier by 2012
 * U.S. willing to sell F-16s to Pakistan, India
 * U.S. unveils plans to help India become a "major world power"
 * Deep Impact cruising for comet crash
 * Protests continue at Baxter detention centre
 * Pilgrims journey to Jerusalem for Good Friday
 * Land conflict mars Good Friday in Jerusalem
 * Scientists discover soft tissue in dinosaur bones

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My userpage on Polish Wikinews or in commons.

Sebastian Nanek, 1987-born man from Bochnia, Poland, retired from Wikinews, still active on polish Wikibooks.

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I was an administator and editor of Polish Wikinews. During my time spent here, on Wikinews, I focused on correcting informations and submitting interwiki links on English Wikinews.

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Wikinews:2005/March/25

 * Terri Schiavo's father makes appeal to have feeding tube reinserted
 * Pope John Paul II unable to lead Good Friday services
 * NRA official suggests arming teachers to prevent school shootings
 * Ruling forbids RadioShack brand in Canada
 * Canada considers Copyright Act changes
 * Jerry Springer joins U.S. liberal radio network
 * Taiwan Democratic Alliance for Peace plans massive rally on Saturday
 * Kidnapped Italian journalist refutes American government claims
 * US dog attack owner charged with involuntary manslaughter
 * Five dead, over 200 injured as looting continues in Bishkek
 * Protesters arrive at Baxter detention centre in Australian desert
 * Yahoo adds Creative Commons search for locating reusable content
 * UN Security Council approves peacekeepers for Sudan
 * FARC and Brazilian Workers' Party:the general didn't tell the truth, says former Abin superior to Veja
 * Tsunami toll update
 * Expo 2005 opens in Aichi, Japan

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Wikinews:2005/March/24

 * Canada set to rule on U.S. Army refugee
 * Sony's PlayStation Portable is launched in North America
 * Akayev flees Kyrgyzstan as protesters seize control of Bishkek
 * Entrepreneur's RFID chip implant to open doors, start car
 * PBS cancels 'Wall $treet Week' after 35 years
 * New figures released on Irish income distribution
 * New company to research artificial brain
 * Arab summit comes to an end
 * John Couey confessed to police in 1991 to molesting his stepdaughter; Never prosecuted
 * Woman finds human finger in bowl of chili at Wendy's restaurant
 * Iraqi, American forces raid insurgent training camp, killing 85
 * Ground broken on Northpoint development in Cambridge, Massachusetts
 * Explosion at Texas refinery kills 14, injures more than 100
 * Bush, Martin, Fox hold summit, sign SPP accord

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Wikinews:2005/March/23

 * India signs on to chemical patents to comply with WTO order
 * Harp seal hunt approved by Canada, activists call for boycott of Canadian seafood
 * New Kyrgz interior minister says force may be used, riot police clash with protesters in Bishkek
 * Chess legend avoids 10 year prison term
 * Kazaa Trial concluding
 * Minuteman bike path iced out through Arlington after fourth snowiest winter on record
 * Google launches Google Code project, showcasing open source code, APIs
 * UN Reform: China, South Korea question seat for Japan on Security Council
 * Parker shown the door as Gap spokeswoman
 * 96 dead of Ebola-like Marburg virus in Angola
 * U.S. federal marshals seize killer beds
 * Explosion near Beirut kills three, injures five
 * AU$1.25M reward offer for proof of living Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacine)
 * Australian Govt to lessen numbers of immigrants detained indefinitely
 * NASA's Spitzer space telescope views alien worlds
 * Mother of another Brazilian soccer player kidnapped
 * Kyrgyz government declares elections valid, refuses to declare state of emergency as opposition cements control of the south
 * Icelandic parliament grants Bobby Fischer full citizenship
 * Cambridge, MA, landmark "Gas With a Smile" requests waiver in conversion to Hess Express

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Wikinews:2005/March/22

 * Train derailed by collision with semi in Saskatchewan, Canada
 * US interest rates rise to 2.75%
 * Symbian licenses email technology from rival Microsoft
 * David Suzuki to Visit University of Toronto
 * Creationist sentiments affect Imax business strategy
 * Texas baby removed from life support against mother's wishes
 * Large creature loose in London suburb
 * HSH Prince Rainier III of Monaco is in Intensive care
 * American Thom Mayne snags Pritzker architecture prize
 * Surfwax releases "quick index" to 600k Wikipedia terms
 * Ourmedia.org project launched to provide global repository of "grassroots media"
 * EU looks set to continue arms embargo on China
 * Jury deliberates immigrant smuggler case
 * Romanian defense minister to visit Bulgaria
 * Internet through electrical power network introduced in Bucharest
 * Romanian mobile phone giant Connex to launch 3G network
 * Romanian Visa card transactions increase by 60 percent in 2004
 * Romanian Commercial Bank to launch smart cards in early April
 * Ten dead on Minnesota Indian reservation after school shooting
 * Noted stamp engraver Czeslaw Slania dies at 83
 * U.S. TV networks look to past for future programming
 * Volunteers endure bed-rest study
 * India and Europe team up for moon mission
 * Kyrgyz president orders election probe as protesters seize control of second city

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Wikinews:2005/March/21

 * Driftwood crucifix listed on eBay for $25,000
 * Bank of Ireland to axe 2,000 jobs
 * Kofi Annan unveils UN reform plan
 * Yahoo! snaps up Flickr
 * Possible black hole created in US
 * EU concerned about Microsoft compliance, $5 million daily fine possible
 * Car maker DeLorean dies at 80
 * WSJ: Diller close to $2 billion deal for Ask Jeeves
 * Bush signs historic Schiavo bill into law
 * Violent protests break out in Kyrgyzstan over allegedly rigged parliamentary elections
 * Anti-war march in London

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Wikinews:2005/March/20

 * Lebanon's opposition holds Syria responsible for Beirut explosion
 * Communists protest arrest of FARC chancellor Rodrigo Granda
 * Search engine Google sued
 * South American channeled apple snail discovered in Georgia
 * The man who died in explosion in Qatar is named
 * Powerful earthquake rocks southern Japan, tsunami warnings issued
 * Explosion kills 42 miners in northern China; 27 missing
 * Explosion kills 35 in Pakistan; many injured
 * Explosion kills four policemen in Kirkuk; eight injured
 * Explosion kills Briton in Qatar; dozens injured
 * Explosion injures 11 in Beirut
 * Explosion injures at least 14 in Colorado

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Wikinews:2005/March/19

 * Lebanese President to skip Arab Summit
 * Pakistan test fires nuclear-capable missile
 * Rice pushes for fresh nuclear talks with North Korea
 * Japan will not shoot down missiles headed for allies
 * Europe marks second Iraq invasion anniversary
 * Wales win Grand Slam, RBS Six Nations and the Triple Crown
 * Texas representative proposes to outlaw 'sexy' cheerleading
 * Cassini discovers Saturn moon atmosphere

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Wikinews:2005/March/18

 * Brazilian Abin director: no proof linking FARC money to PT
 * Wolfowitz picked for top spot at World Bank
 * Fireball generated in U.S. laboratory resembles black hole
 * Chechnya chopper crash kills 15
 * English Wikipedia hits 500,000 article milestone
 * Tsunami exposes ancient ruins in India
 * Irish mobile penetration rate hits 94%
 * Drinking habits tied to genes
 * No talks until IRA "criminal activity" dealt with
 * Robot Zoe detects life in Atacama Desert
 * Maradona honored with the keys to Cartagena
 * Tibetans demands that China releases Panchen Lama boy

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Wikinews:2005/March/17

 * Actor Robert Blake acquitted
 * Sci-fi and fantasy author Andre Norton dies
 * 50 Italian parliamentarians call for global summit for "a new financial architecture"
 * McCartney campaign changing minds about IRA
 * The Woodcraft Folk loses subsidy
 * Dog owner to face felony charge
 * Flexible displays soon to be in production
 * "Mao suits" fading away in China
 * Cuba defends China-Taiwan reunification
 * Brazil defends China against human rights violation charges in UN
 * Mars studies find water

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Wikinews:2005/March/16

 * UK Chancellor of the Exchequer makes 2005 Budget speech
 * Suspect in Atlanta courtroom shooting gets hearing
 * Vodafone buys Connex and Oskar
 * Mother of the Detroit Tigers baseball player Urbina was kidnapped by FARC leader

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Wikinews:2005/March/15

 * Israeli General Refused NZ Visa
 * Former WorldCom chief found guilty of all charges
 * China enacts historic "anti-secession" law
 * Taiwanese political parties propose "anti-invasion" laws
 * Brazilian President party received money from FARC, say documents
 * Protesters rally in Beirut
 * Judge strikes down same-sex marriage ban in California
 * Beijing cracks down on manhole cover thefts
 * Cookbook is free reference work community's most active project

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Wikinews:2005/March/14

 * Dutch member of Parliament proposes to abolish the Cabinet
 * Padraig Harrington wins first PGA Tour event; The Honda Classic
 * Slovakia on track to adopt euro in 2009
 * Romania to cancel trains on major line due to road works

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Wikinews:2005/March/13

 * Syria affirms withdrawal intentions
 * Pope John Paul II leaves hospital
 * Bin Laden banished from Islam in Iberia
 * GAA:Dublin too strong for Westmeath
 * France beat Ireland in RBS Six Nations
 * Bright object falls from sky over northwest United States
 * Gay play about Jesus Christ in Brazil
 * Suspect in Georgia courtroom slayings caught

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Wikinews:2005/March/12

 * 3 dead as man on trial for rape escapes
 * FBI suspect Jesse James captured in Rio after five years on run
 * US Senate passes new bankruptcy bill
 * British 13-year-old given life for rape of teacher
 * Canadian airline Jetsgo ceases operations; 17,000 stranded
 * Criminals kidnapping mother of soccer players, in Brazil
 * Comedian Dave Allen dies aged 68
 * Garry Kasparov retires from professional chess
 * Meath/Kildare by-election turnout between 20-30%
 * U.N. reports Afghan opium production is up again

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Wikinews:2005/March/11

 * Atlas V rocket launches with Inmarsat satellite
 * Defendant shoots Judge, three others at Atlanta courthouse
 * US may not have known of Sgrena rescue operation
 * China launches its first private airline
 * BBC's political show makes special edition from Shanghai
 * Many infertile American women want sex selection
 * UK "terror bill" passed after standoff
 * Six-year development framework for Sudan released by UN

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 * United Nations passes Declaration on human cloning
 * Bulgarian government says U.S. killed Bulgarian soldier in 'friendly fire' incident
 * Bolivian Congress refuse president's resignation
 * Colombia extradites guerrilla to the USA
 * Blogshine Sunday pushes for government sunshine online
 * Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa officially resigns
 * US Pulls Out of Optional Protocol to Vienna Convention
 * Selgros Cash and Carry to open two new stores in Transylvania
 * Flat tax boosts average Romanian salaries
 * Bush calls Romania a special ally of the US
 * Microsoft Considering Backport of WinFS to Windows XP

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Wikinews:2005/March/9

 * Cyclone Ingrid crosses Far North Queensland Coast
 * Italian PM rejects US version of shooting
 * Report urges Kenya to ban plastic bags
 * Ancient neanderthal protein sequenced
 * Dead Chechen rebel Maskhadov's son promises to continue father's work
 * Google releases Final version of Desktop Search
 * Trial of alleged Brazilian "chainsaw massacre" deputy begins
 * Children poisoned by tainted cassava in the Philippines
 * Ash and steam reported over Mount St. Helens
 * Brazilian physicist who discovered the pion dies

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Wikinews:2005/March/8

 * Premature aging disease reversed in cells
 * Syria begins withdrawing troops from Lebanon
 * Chechen leader killed by Russian Special Forces
 * British Airways announces new CEO
 * The President of Bolivia resigns
 * China declares "the state shall employ nonpeaceful means"
 * Invisibility shield gets blueprint
 * Peruvians sue Newmont Mining Company over mercury poisoning

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Wikinews:2005/March/7

 * Insulin levels tied to Alzheimer's
 * Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe passes away at age of 98
 * Deutsche Börse quits LSE takeover
 * British Airways CEO set to step down in the summer
 * CIA sending suspects overseas for "rendition"

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Wikinews:2005/March/6

 * Fisichella wins Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix
 * Freed hostage Sgrena, says shooting "no accident"
 * GAA: Westmeath beat Donegal by narrowest of margins
 * Four Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers killed in raid
 * China plans anti-secession law for Taiwan
 * US and France ask Syria to leave Lebanon
 * Boeing allowed to bid for U.S. space launch contracts again

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Wikinews:2005/March/5

 * New York Public Library opens collection of 275,000 digital images
 * Italian journalist wounded after release in Iraq, security officer dead
 * David Blunkett is not the father of Kimberly Quinn's son
 * Irish unemployment rate steady at 4.2%
 * US military developing non-lethal pain weapon
 * Bill Gates receives honorary knighthood
 * World-wide measles deaths drop 40% over last five years
 * Sunflower oil saves at-risk newborns from infection
 * Report finds Afghanistan is on the verge of becoming a narcotics state

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Wikinews:2005/March/4

 * Martha Stewart released from prison
 * Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena freed
 * Former Ukrainian minister found dead
 * New Zealand elects first female Speaker
 * First Swahili office suite released in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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Wikinews:2005/March/3

 * Ex-Ontario Premier Harris to deny Ipperwash allegations
 * Take-Two Interactive profits surge 74%
 * Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo, non-stop around the world
 * Proposal to ban VoIP in Costa Rica
 * Green paper asks for the BBC's Board of Governors to be scrapped
 * Steve Fosset attempts a record flight around the world
 * Martin firm on missile defence results in chilly response from White House

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Wikinews:2005/March/2

 * Blair rejects anti-terror bill compromise
 * Ernst Zündel expelled from Canada
 * Bucharest to be 'rebranded' for 800 million euro

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Wikinews:2005/March/1

 * Jermaine Pennant jailed for drink-driving
 * New version of Firefox web browser released
 * Bomb blast kills Iraqi police, army recruits
 * Britain unveils flu pandemic preparedness plan, buys 14m courses of treatment drug
 * Elan; Biogen withdraw multiple sclerosis drug after death
 * U.S. Supreme Court: Death penalty for juveniles is unconstitutional
 * Green tea component protects heart cells
 * Controversial melatonin supplements confirmed as sleep aid
 * British investors are increasingly interested in Romania
 * New flood warning system introduced in Romania

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Wikinews:Deletion requests/Archives/2004

December 2004

 * Redirected at 02:18, 7 December 2004 by User:Carlosar~enwikinews.

Talk:16,000 protest School of the Americas
This article will be deleted 05 Dec 2004 if there is a consensus about that.

REASON-- Potential copyright violation. ARGUMENTS-- There is a passage taken from Microsoft's web site. It seems it is a promotional material of a kind, but not a press release. So I am afraid it is not something we should not release into the public domain. (The Mediawiki:copyrightwarning says that everything we submit here would be treated as being in the public domain.)

Keep

 * 1) (keep):Is there still a reason to delete this then? Its ready for publishing. Four days after it happened.... :\ -Stevertigo 04:18, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Delete

 * 1) (delete) But can we claim it is a fair use, for example? The impact on the market does not seem to be great, the purpose is kind of research, and portion of the work is not that great, though not that small. I am not sure if a public domain text could contain fair use material, in addition. Tomos 01:37, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) (delete)That passage is at the discussion page. I am the author and I have used it as an example. There are some objections to the passage, I also agree with them and I think it is not worth leaving there, so I will delete it.carlosar Dez 4 11:18 UTC 2004

'''Note:the polemic passage has been deleted. The rest of the page has not been deleted.'''

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Podcasting, Tune In and Enjoy!
This article will be deleted after 10 Dec 2004 if there is a consensus about that.

REASON: not an article, see talk.--Eloquence 01:29, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * 1) (delete) 119 21:20, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) (delete) Wikipropaganda, not  news.--Carlosar 12:00, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 3) (delete) Adveristment. Delete.--Lankiveil 12:41, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC).

 * Deleted but no log.

Category:Orphan Articles
This article will be deleted 10 Dec 2004 if there is a consensus about that.

REASON: This category appears to be pointless.--Eloquence 03:54, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Delete

 * 1) (delete) 119 21:20, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) (delete) The category was my suggestion. Someone has said to me that there is a similar category already, so this category is pointless. Anyway, I suggest you, some way, put in evidence the articles which has been abandoned.--carlosar 11:47 4 Dez 2004 (UTC)

Comments

 * Deleted at 03:41, 19 December 2004 by User:Lyellin~enwikinews.

3 Speed Automatic release new EP "Project Horizonica"
This article will be deleted 11 Dec 2004 if there is a consensus about that.

REASON:Reads like a press release. 119 05:43, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * (delete) I agree but I think it can be fixed. If someone else fix, maybe it can be published, else it should be deleted. --- Carlosar 01:56, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Deleted at 03:42, 19 December 2004 by User:Lyellin~enwikinews.

Peak Oil threatens world economies
This article will be deleted 11 Dec 2004 if there is a consensus about that.

REASON:Almost no content. Posted by an anonymous user and left. 119 05:43, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Delete

 * 1) (delete) ---Carlosar 02:05, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) (delete) Delete, not a worthy stub.--Eloquence 02:20, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 3) (delete) Not very useful for potential futhre development, not many edits or sign of someone working on it. Tomos 22:11, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 4) (delete) Lankiveil 12:42, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

16,000 protest School of the Americas
REASON:Not NPOV article, strong biased (maybe unreliable) source. User: Carlosar 11:45, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Keep

 * 1) (keep) Please remove the deletion request. The alleged issues of bias should be resolved, as there is nothing substantial about the actual event in question that makes it inappropriate for WikiNews, nor is the title inappropriate. If you really are certain there were less than 16,000 present, change the name to 10,000+ protest School of the Americas. CommonDreams.org report 16,000, and I see no reason not to use this figure in the headline, given that the story makes clear that more conservative estimates have also been published. - Simeon
 * 2) (keep)The article should be removed from this category and placed in the review process. The extensive rewrites to tone down bias have gone a long way to making this a news article worthy of further review. --jkrusky 04:15, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 3) (keep)I think the article can be published now because it shows both points of view.--Carlosar 12:23, 11 Dec 2004

Delete

 * 1) (delete) The title itself is biased, and refers to a desputed fact and therefore the numbers should not be in the title. #The authors have made little changes but no real efforts to remove biased comments.  Someone else needs to write this piece from scratch. - chrispet109, Dec 6, 2004.
 * Note:The title has been changed to: Activists protest against School of the Americas.

NOTE:One keep vote has not been counted because it was anonymous.See history for details.

United States uses napalm in Fallujah
This article will be deleted after 11 Dec 2004 if there is a consensus about that.

REASON -- The claims cannot be corroborated/verified. The article violates NPOV policy Carlosar 19:37, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * ARGUMENTS -- Carlosar 19:37, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC) The article claims the USA had used napalm in Iraq. The main source is the newspaper "Aljazeera" which is clearly anti-USA and for-Iraq rebels. The other sources are left-wing magazines which are for-Iraq rebels and anti-USA Iraq politic too. The cited sources are suspectious for me.

Keep

 * 1) (keep) All American news services are pro US and pro occupation. Therefore, if al jazeera can't be cited then neither can American news.  I think this article has some interesting things to say, but is poorly written.  It should be opened for editing and improvement.  The article should be more of a question, "Was napalm used in Fallujah?"  And then have for/against.  But not having an article because it includes references to stories that aren't simply White House press releases is not journalism.  And there is enough of that around.
 * 2) (keep)Disagree with deletion. Article should instead be phrased to clearly attribute claims, including the title.--Eloquence
 * Note: The title has been changed to Aljazeera says United States have used napalm in Fallujah

 * 1) (keep) I disagre with deletion. The fact that AlJazeera reports it doesn't make it biased. In the past AlJazeera has displayed bias (as does CNN, Fox et al.), but they have also been one of the few news organizations that are able to effectively report on occurences in Iraq. However, it certainly needed a rewrite and Carlosar's work on the article has made it much more balanced and worthy of acceptance. jkrusky 20:51, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) (keep) I think the article can be published now because it shows both points of view(against and for its publication) and therefore it is NPOV. Please, be carefull case you intend making changes on it. Carlosar 11:43, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 3) (keep) I think the article is fine. I agree with most comments in favor of keeping it. MikeCapone 19:03, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 4) (keep) Needs some work but I don't see it as having any real POV issue. Sarge Baldy 06:27, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 5) (keep) The fact that all the sources are arguably anti-occupation can be stated clearly in the article. Therefore, there are no POV issues. --194.66.226.95 15:39, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Delete

 * 1) (delete) I agree with deletion. More diverse news sources are needed. All of the sources are Al-Jazeera or cite them. Independent confirmation of this by other news sources needed for credibility. --Dj28 15:05, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) (delete) Ditto. This sounds like Al-Jazeera propaganda. Andrew pmk 22:43, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Deleted at 21:55, 17 September 2005 by User:Cspurrier.

 * Deleted but no log.

Two test pages

 * Weekly by 119
 * Sandbox_mockup_of_Main_Page by 119
 * 119 03:55, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Deleted at 10:34, 4 June 2005 by User:Dan100.

Ukraine and Western bias
REASON Consensus is that the article does not meet NPOV requirement. Suggest it get deleted so it doesn't languish in Peer Review jkrusky 02:33, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Keep

 * 1) (keep) I strongly disagree. I believe the article presents some very relevant information.  It ought to be worked on and adjusted as per peer suggestion (on the talk page) so that it can be published.
 * 2) (keep) I disagree with this article being deleted. It is extremely informative regarding the topic. I do however agree that this article is not straight news, but I disagree that it is editorial. I think it is more analysis.--Herda05 03:28, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Delete

 * 1) (delete) Agreed - okay editorial, poor news.-- Lankiveil 12:35, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC).

 * Deleted at 13:58, 21 January 2005 by User:Tomos.

Equifax claims '14 percent savings' with Windows Server over Linux
REASON - copyright violation. I think this article was created as an example of POV difficulty we have to face. And it is a copy from a Microsoft's web page. The web page seemingly is not a press release, either. So I think we should delete it. Tomos 05:49, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 1) (delete) - but if someone fix, maybe I change my vote. Carlosar 00:34, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Deleted at 18:11, 1 January 2005 by User:Lyellin~enwikinews.

German police attempt to close FetteMama.com for hate speech
This article was an outright lie at the beginning and has since sat as a corrected but one-sentence article. Listing it here as I expect it will not be edited in the next week and then be obviously dead. 119 03:23, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

United States anti-drug efforts in Latin America criticized by WOLA report
REASON -- not NPOV, pure politic propaganda Carlosar 00:42, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC) ARGUMENTS -- Carlosar 00:42, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * "anti-drug efforts in Latin America criticized by report" - Who criticized? The author must be specified in the title(WOLA).
 * what is WHOLA? What people are part of WHOLA? You said: "A criticizes B". But who is A? When a critic is made, you must especify who criticizes what.

 * 1) (keep) Carlosar could you please start talking to people before you throw around deletion requests. I think you're acting out of proportion for the claims you make.119 01:12, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) (keep) I have some critics to this article but I vote for keepping it because nobody else has gave an opinion, and I dont want delete articles(I just demand articles get well written).--Carlosar 11:24, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Published at 04:22, 11 July 2005 by User:RossKoepke.

 * Deleted at 13:56, 21 January 2005 by User:Tomos.

Black Box Voting investigates allegations of election fraud in U.S.
REASON: This is not news. Hopelessly POV at the moment. It could be salvaged, perhaps, but not without a complete delete and rewrite. The actual news story here, though, is not about the election, but about Black Box Voting, and the fact that Bev Harris has been blocked from posting even on Democratic Underground.

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,65928,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_5

Delete

 * 1) (delete) I think it is propaganda.--Carlosar 01:49, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Veteran sergeant accounts US torture coverup
REASON -- POV, bad written, unreliable source, propaganda, innacurate, frivolous. US government has punished the soldiers envolved in the Iraq soldiers bad treatment scandal. It is not precise when saying US government is covering up, since the government has not denied the events and punished the guilts. The article is sustainned only by its mere propaganda.

Keep

 * 1) (keep) very important article, well documented. Reliable source: salon.com Also I edited it down to erase POV disputes. NW 01:42, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) (keep) Very important news story with credible journalist and former U.S. military counterintelligence officer authoring. Also the source, Sergeant Frank Ford is a an honorably discharged veteran and first hand eyewitness. The sources cited, Salon.com and Democracy Now! may have POV, but that does not make the stories they report inaccurate or false without further evidence.--Herda05 00:02, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 3) (keep) I have never heard about breaks of journalism ethics from Democracy Now!, so if they back the story, I would assume they have double-checked the facts.

Delete

 * 1) (delete) Not worth, POV, propaganda. The evidences are weak. Are you sure this news is true? Fake SEAL accuses soldiers of torture -- Carlosar 01:27, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Published at 0:08, 12 July 2005 by User:Amgine.

 * Deleted at 03:10, 17 December 2004 by User:Eloquence.

Doctors find U.S. President Bush in 'excellent' health
REASON -- Lankiveil 05:50, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC). No content
 * ARGUMENTS -- Lankiveil 05:50, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC). See above. The article could potentially be rewritten to have some content other than a bunch of links, but it's not that interesting or newsworthy a topic anyway.

 * 1) (delete) - The article is empty. Carlosar 20:53, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * (comment) The article is empty because Eloquence has already deleted it. See the deletion log available through Special:Log. I personally do not have much problem with this being deleted, though I also think it could be made into an article. Tomos 21:58, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Deleted at 01:47, 9 January 2005 by User:Amgine.

Specific revisions of Getting started
REASON -- potential copyright infringement. Tomos 19:27, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Two versions, and , seem to contain a large chunk of texts from the source cited at the end. It does not look like a fair use. With Mediawiki 1.4 in place, I believe it is possible to remove those revisions only. Delete the whole thing, and select all but the problematic revisions to restore.

 * Amgine notified me that he could not fulfill this request, and I realized that the information given was not good for this request. Oldids that I provided cannot be seen once a page is deleted. So I checked back the restored page and identified the timestamp, which is a useful id info for undeletion. The revisions needing deletion are

 * 11:20, 18 Dec 2004 (195.229.241.169)
 * 18:20, 18 Dec 2004 (by 69.144.150.163)
 * 19:13, 18 Dec 2004 (by Tomos)

 * Note that the third revision is a mere reversion of the two preceding revisions, and there is no reason to keep it after those revisions are gone. Tomos 01:46, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

''I checked the page, and confirmed that the three revisions were deleted by Amgine on Jan 9, 2005. Tomos 15:01, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)''

 * Redirected to Wikinews:Tsunami Help/News Updates and ultimately to Category:2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.

Tsunami Help/News Updates
REASON - Potential copyright violation.

 * argument: There seems to be a text of news article from AFP inserted in the page. Here is the diff: .  If that constitutes a copyright violation, Revision as of 22:16, 29 Dec 2004 to 23:47, 29 Dec 2004 should be deleted. Tomos 00:16, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * delete. MANY copyvios. Davodd | Talk 12:28, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Lankiveil 13:21, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC).
 * If you have a problem with something, instead of complaining, you could do something and fix it. --Randy Johnston 23:09, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * (Comment): I think making use of existing content is good, and my deletion request is about those revisions that contain copyright violations, not the whole page. Tomos 04:28, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:Pope in hospital again

Does anyone have a source for the quotation in the article from the Pope?

title: Talk:Pope in hospital again