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"This article has been considered by someone as part of David Cameron's ongoing strategy of positioning the U.K. Conservative Party into liberal territory and of wooing the all-important Muslim vote in the U.K."

I removed this, no sources cited and is just obviously opinion.204.99.250.45Opaleg

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US and Iraqi forces kill 250 militants in Najaf fighting

January 28, 2007

According to an official of the Iraqi Interior Ministry, U.S. military and Iraqi army troops killed an estimated 250 militants in heavy fighting over control of the Shia holy city of Najaf. According to an Iraqi Major General, 10 militants were captured. The dead and captured were part of a group of 600 militants based outside of the city who planned to take Najaf, attack pilgrims coming for the Shia holiday of Ashoura, and kill senior Shi'ite clerics, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani among them.

During the fighting, gunmen crashed a U.S. military helicopter with a missile. The two crew members were killed, and their remains were later recovered, according to a military statement. Three members of the Iraqi forces were killed in the fighting, and 15 were wounded, according to an Iraqi police colonel.

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Talk:Thousands protest Iraq war in Washington D.C.

POV
This article is POV, if the counter-protests that happened are not mentioned Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 21:27, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

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SDS?
An IP address added the phrase "From mostly SDS."... any clue? Lyellin 04:56, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * all the SDS stuff appears to be unsourced. United for Peace and Justice is mentioned in the Yahoo! article, which is duplicated (the NPR links also leads to it). will remove it. — Doldrums(talk) 05:03, 30 January 2007 (UTC)


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Talk:Microsoft disgruntled with partner Dell's interest in open source

Title
Could we make this title a little more POV than it already is? — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  22:23, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
 * (a) Suggestions please (b) Damn but your sig is long in wikicode. --Brian McNeil / talk 22:24, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Come on... Don't you agree that the title is a little POV? — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  22:30, 28 January 2007 (UTC) P.S. The only way to get rid of the "Damn" wikicode is to use a template, which we(and I)do not want on Wikinews.
 * I'd like to see a better title, its somewhat POV and enough to discuss a change, but I don't think enough to unpublish. The problem is "whack" is attributed to the corporation when it is a single person who has used the phrase.  The only alternative I can come up with is Microsoft disgruntled with partnet Dell's interest in Open Source. --Brian McNeil / talk 22:36, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
 * No, I'm not saying that we should unpublish. I do like your title better than the current one. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  22:39, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, moved and redirects fixed. --Brian McNeil / talk 23:16, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I kinda liked the "whack" title :) Towsonu2003 02:25, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, the "whack" title did seem to catch my attention, but it just wasn't NPOV. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  03:09, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * The purpose of "whack" was that it was a direct quote. ★ MESSED  ROCKER ★  03:15, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, I realized that :) — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  03:16, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * so it's okay to change the name of the story back? Towsonu2003 18:42, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

I think the old title was fine. It's perfectly npov to use "wack" if its from such a direct verifiable quote (whic is not an accusation). Just mention the quote & source clearly in the article so that people know where the title came from. Nyarlathotep 14:10, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * p.s. Of course, there are a few situations where quotes in titles are pov, i.e. accusations. For example, you can't necessarily use any accusatory word used by Isael's critics in just any related article about Israel.  But here "wack" is an internal quote by microsoft about microsoft (or what microsoft should do).  Such a quote, if verifiable, is always intrinsically npov in any situation.  fyi, Even accusatory quotes are npov if attributed in the title, although these are often not very good titles.

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Wikinews:Community allegedly deletes main page

April 1, 2007

According to allegations laid against the Wikinews community, efforts have been made to delete the site's main page. It is alleged that a vote was taken on whether the name "Main Page" was NPOV and required deletion. The result is allegedly what you see before you.

After, an admin allegedly tried to allegedly make them stop but they did it anyway. It was not deleted but redirected to "Alleged Main Page" due to the Neutral point of view policy.

"We always try to obey the NPOV policy at all times, even when it comes to the main name-space," a senior Wikinews admin told BBC News. "Alleged Main Page is a great title. After all these (great, no, not really, I mean with all the edit disputes...) years of Wikinews nobody even said the original title was a violation of the NPOV policy," he said while he was trying to block an IP from our new source that was really trying to help Wikinews. (We know more about journalism then they do!)

"Uh.. Uh.. I guess this was uh.. an interesting thing that happened and...Holy Crap we got on the news! That's the only thing we care about because we have evil plans to become better than you guys," a newly minted admin said.

"We allegedly follow the alleged NPOV policy at all alleged times," a bureaucrat said.

If NPOV was an actual person he would be allegedly happy about this.

After, it was un-redirected by an admin, who created this website. Of course, that is only alleged. Allegedly. If you believe in such alleged things.

CNN, CBC, BBC, and other main stream media news sources were quick to report on this incident. Allegedly. Of course, this is only alleged and not fully vested in facts unlike this alleged page.


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Suspended letterbox for sale on New Zealand auction site

January 29, 2007

Kerry "maxduck" is trying to sell his letterbox on the popular New Zealand auction site, TradeMe, after his street was suspended from post being delivered to by New Zealand Post.

Earlier last week New Zealand Post announced that it would temporarily stop delivering mail to three streets in Hamilton due to gang violence. The three streets includes 120 houses on Tennyson Road, Dryden Road, and Emerson Place, all the streets are located in Fairfield. Fiona Mayo, spokeswoman for New Zealand Post, said that if they had allowed posties to continue with services then they wouldn't be acting responsibly as an employer.

Ms Mayo said that most residents living within the banned streets have understood why the ban was put in place. She adds that Kerry "has a good sense of humour."

New Zealand Post have said that they will review the ban tomorrow.

Kerry said: "This letterbox is still in good condition, has survived a couple of tags, ash from Ruapehu volcanic eruption and more recently the well publicised 'GUN BATTLE' of Hamilton."

As of writing the current bid is at NZ$25.00, made by Kelley "superwiner".


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We shou;ld really do something about this article. Bawolff ☺☻ 07:41, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I remember well a comment by Eloquence to the effect that meant, "Keep it neat." Frankly, I don't get too excited about stuff that slips through the cracks. -Edbrown05 08:02, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Suspended letterbox for sale on New Zealand auction site

I dunno, this doesn't really seem like news; I mean if we could do a report on the suspension of post to these areas, it'd seem more appropriate IMHO. --Thunderhead - (talk) Congrajulations to Kat! 07:58, 29 January 2007 (UTC)


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Beckham woos US as Disney Prince

January 29, 2007

David Beckham has been portrayed as a fairytale prince as part of a new promotion for Disney.

The footballer took on the role of Prince Philip from Disney's Sleeping Beauty in photographs for a new advertising campaign for the company. In the specially commissioned shots, Beckham is shown in battle with a fire-breathing dragon.

The pictures were taken by America's foremost celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz, in the former England captain's current home of Spain, where he plays for football club Real Madrid.

Beckham described the experience as unique, saying: "I am the Prince and I am sort of slaying a dragon which is something I've never done before, obviously, and it's a very exciting project.

"When I was called about it and asked to do it, I was very honoured and really looking forward to it especially with Annie doing the pictures. I think that she always takes great pictures of everybody and she's always taken great pictures of me."

The portrait was taken months before Beckham signed his multi-million deal with football club LA Galaxy. It is part of an advertising campaign that will be seen across America. The publicity has added further frenzy to Beckham's high-profile arrival to the country, which is already being compared to that of the Beatles.

Leibovitz believes the 31-year-old footballer will grace Hollywood with more than just sporting skills.

"I think he would like to act and it was sort of a stepping-stone to that and I think he would actually make a great actor. He took it very seriously and when he wielded the sword on the horse, he really was very very serious about it and I love that."

Although it is not clear what else may be in the Hollywood pipeline for David and Victoria Beckham, Los Angeles and the United States seem to have already embraced the celebrity pair. Waxworks of the couple have been unveiled at Madame Tussaud's in New York, the Beckham's have launched their own perfume and they recently acquired newly-wed Hollywood stars Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes as very close friends.

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This is a standard news story. It's about one recent event and one event only, making reference to related events as detail. It contains the basic when, where, who, why and how of a news story. It includes sourced quotes. It is unbiased and includes no personal opinion. It is a re-structured and re-written article based largely on one source, a BBC report, which present itself in a similar context. If this not a news story, neither is the BBC News report from where it was sourced.

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Filipino activist leader survives assassination attempt

January 29, 2007

An officer of the regional chapter of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) in Tacloban City, Leyte survived an assassination attempt last Saturday January 27 at around 8 o'clock in the evening.

Flor Acbo, 54, was believed to be the primary target of unidentified motorcycle-riding men who fired shots right in front of the Bayan's regional office in Eastern Visayas and wounded the leg of a man nearby.

Acbo said in an interview that the incident failed to douse his conviction, and condemned the "cowardly attempt on his life".

"It just shows how effective my work in exposing anomalies in government as well the abuses being perpetrated by the military. Instead of being cowed, this would strengthen my conviction to fight for the rights of the oppressed," he proudly voiced out.

The police have yet to complete their investigation.

Acbo, 54, is Bayan regional information officer for two years now.

He said he and his friend Bobby Bongcaras had just alighted from a passenger jeepney, a few meters from his house when one of two men riding a motorcycle fired at them.

According to a report, Acbo and Bongcaras ran towards their respective houses, while the two assailants fled towards the downtown area of this city.

The bystander who was hit was identified as Eric de Guzman, 27, also a resident of the same area. De Guzman, who was hit on his left foot, was brought to the Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center for treatment, report said.

Police Superintendent Anaclito Limbo, Tacloban City police chief, said the gunman used a .45 caliber pistol. The police were investigating the shooting as of press time, Limbo was quoted saying.

Limbo said they had yet to determine whether the attempt to kill Acbo could be due to his involvement with Bayan.

Acbo ran and lost as mayor of Pinabacdao town in Samar during the 1988 elections under the banner Partido ng Bayan.

He also worked as the town's sanitary inspector and was once connected with the Commission on Population regional office.


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Three killed during Hezbollah-led protest

January 23, 2007

-led protesters took to the streets to block all major highways throughout Lebanon. This was a result of the country's not meeting his opposition's demand to abdicate. They burnt tires and cars in and around the capital, enforcing a general strike called for by.

Thousands of police and were deployed across the country. They worked together in opening roads, negotiating with some of the protesters, but refrained from using force.

The riots and clashes left three dead, including two bodyguards for former Member of Parliament, Fares Soaid, who is also a member of Lebanon's. Over a hundred and thirty other people were injured. Clean up operations were on their way, while the Internal Security Forces (ISF) imposed a curfew.


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how do I change the title of th page? It should be 'assassination', not 'slay'. cheers 212.85.28.67 10:12, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * If you register you'll get an extra tab to allow page moves. --Brian McNeil / talk 10:21, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I can't register or login from here unfortuantaly :( 212.85.28.67 11:19, 29 January 2007 (UTC)


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Rename a page
Page move/rename is available if you register an account. --Brian McNeil / talk 10:20, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:Reinhard~enwikinews

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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 Reinhard. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Reinhard~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.

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Talk:Common Sense Advisory announces size of worldwide translation and localization market and ranking of top 20 language services companies

The list of top localisation companies does not seem to be available anymore using the link provided in the article. Reinhard

Updated data for 2007 is available at: http://www.commonsenseadvisory.com/members/res_cgi.php/080528_QT_2008_top_25_lsps.php Thank you. Melissa Gillespie —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.107.60.190 (talk) 17:05, 25 June 2008 (UTC)


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User talk:193.61.101.9

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Sinn Fein votes to accept policing

January 29, 2007

Sinn Féin, the Irish political party widely regarded as the political wing of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, has voted to accept the Police Service of Northern Ireland at an ard fheis (party conference) held in Dublin. 982 party members voted on the motion at the conference, where over 2,500 people were in attendance.

Surprisingly, over 90% voted in support of the motion after leadership forced a vote to cut short a six hour debate. Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams called the decision was truly historic, saying, "Today you have created the potential to change the political landscape on this island forever."

The vote is historic due to the fact that Irish republicans viewed the police and the legal system in Northern Ireland as a unit of British rule since the partition of Ireland in 1921. In fact, from the start of the troubles to the ceasefire in the late 1990s, the Provisional IRA had fought the PSNI's predecessor, the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

Last Monday, a report released by Nuala O'Loan, the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland confirmed collusion between the RUC and the loyalist paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force.

He also he was also willing to meet with dissident Irish republicans such as the Continuity IRA and it's political wing, Republican Sinn Féin; and also the Real IRA, who was responsible for the 1998 Omagh bombing, saying " However, Adams also claimed at a rally on Friday, he felt, "In my opinion, there is only one IRA, and that's the one which fought the British for a very long time."

However, the Continuity IRA and Republican Sinn Féin rejected Adams' offer. Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, the Republican Sinn Féin president said, "Ultimately, it is the British government which will recruit, it is the British government which will train, motivate, and above all who will pay and give the orders to such a police force."

A statement from Downing Street said that British Prime Minister Tony Blair welcomed the "historic decision and recognised the leadership it has taken to get to this point". Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern called the vote a "landmark decision," and that it "has opened the way to Northern Ireland power-sharing."

Blair and Ahern will meet at Downing Street tomorrow.

Sinn Féin's support of policing was one of the obstacles to the devolution process, the other is Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party commitment to power-sharing. The acceptance of the police is what Blair and Ahern believe is crucial to persuade the DUP into setting up a new government.

Ian Paisley said his stand "forced Sinn Féin to recognize support for the police and the rule of law as an issue of paramount importance for which there can be no other way" and that "Sinn Féin must now walk this road, the time for true, visible and open support for the police and law enforcement has arrived."

Some Democratic Unionists believe that Sinn Féin had only made a commitment in words only and that people in Sinn Féin power bases would not report crimes.

Peter Hain, Northern Ireland secretary said the vote was a breakthrough. PSNI Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde welcomed the decision also. Professor Sir Desmond Rea, the chairman of the Northern Ireland Policing Board hoped to see Sinn Féin join the board.

Sir Reg Empey, the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party said it was "a massive step change in the republican psyche."

Social Democratic and Labour Party leader, Mark Durkan said "They now need to sign with no ifs or buts. As Gerry Adams now accepts, nationalist areas need policing."

The transitional assembly at Stormont is due to be dissolved tomorrow in preparation for elections on March 7. However, if the process goes astray and no election occurs, the assembly will be dissolved and remain dissolved indefinitely.

Finally, the Indepdent Monitoring commission is due to release a report on the IRA's commitment to the peace process according to the British and Irish governments.

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Series of earthquakes hit Indonesia, Turkey, and Norway

January 29, 2007
 * On Friday at 10:20 a.m, a 4.7-magnitude earthquake struck the province of Elazig, Turkey.
 * On Sunday at 11:30 a.m. (1030GMT), a 3.8-magnitude earthquake hit southern Norway. There were no reports of injuries, but there were report of some minor building damage.
 * On Monday a 5.2-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Indonesia. There were no reports of injuries.


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Talk:Students insulted on returned New Zealand exam papers

Ok, I know that this is a serious issue, but honestly, this is pretty funny. I would have framed it, not complained! 66.5.125.11 15:32, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I wished I had a comment and then I could be the focus of a news article! --Nzgabriel | Talk 06:24, 31 January 2007 (UTC)


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Bulusan Volcano releases some ash

January 29, 2007

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said that on Friday at 10:18 a.m., Volcano Bulusan erupted for about 6-minutes, releasing ash one kilometer into the air. The institute has issued an Alert Level 1, advising people from entering the permanent danger zone extending for four-kilometers around the volcano.

The Institute said that for a period of 24 hours before the volcano exploded, their seismic instruments had acquired 38 high frequency and 2 low frequency earthquakes at the volcano. Due to a thick cloud cover, direct visual observation of the volcano was not possible.

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User talk:129.7.127.183

hi, i've seen u create a few "Series of earthquake" articles. i appreciate the effort u've taken on them, but i think that calling them a "Series" is misleading unless these quakes are related to each other. a better thing to do would be to update an Earthquakes template, which can be used on the Disasters and accidents portal. if u're interested, i'd be happy to create such a template for u to update. — Doldrums(talk) 15:44, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

 * sure! i've made a start here and will move it to an appropriate place once i've formatted it. take a look at it and tell me what u'd like added/removed/changed. btw, u might want to consider registering. it's easy and has its uses. — Doldrums(talk) 16:11, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * OK, it's up! u can update the list on Portal:Disasters and accidents/Recent Earthquakes and it'll show up on Portal:Disasters and accidents. — Doldrums(talk) 16:41, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

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Username
You really should take a name if you're going to make as good contributions as the article on suppression of science on climate change by the Whitehouse. A well-chosen username adds an extra layer of anonymity to your use of the site (unless you do what I've done and base it on your real name and put that in your sig). It depends what you want to do, and I do know choosing a good pseudonym can be difficult. If nothing else, call yourself TempUser183, that way your IP address will be hidden and in the unlikely event someone wanted to find out who you were there's the Wikimedia layer to go through before they get to your ISP - which they have when you edit not logged in. --Brian McNeil / talk 18:55, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

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YouTube to reward users for posting creative videos

January 29, 2007

YouTube has announced it will share the revenue, yielded due to video clips placed at the site, with their copyright owners. At present day YouTube represents the most popular site sharing on-line video. In 2006 it was acquired by Google Inc. As it was mentioned by Chad Hurley, YouTube's co-founder, at the World Economic Forum, held in Davos, Switzerland, the idea of paying amateur videographers was suggested by the desire to motivate and reward creativity.

The revenue-sharing naturally implies the site's administrators will have to prescreen the video clips before presenting them at the site to guarantee their authenticity. The task is a complicated one, as about 100 million videos are submitted by 70 million users to YouTube every day. It also implies the clips taken by the users from movies, music videos and TV shows will not be accepted as they used to be up to the current time.

It is quite a turn for the company as its initial success was built upon placing all the clips without prescreening them. However, it enables YouTube to avoid confrontation with videos' copyright holders. To fulfill the task of video prescreening, YouTube will have to apply the image-identifying technology elaborated by Google's best specialists.

It is difficult to forecast whether the overall plan will bring further success to YouTube. Consider the competing site Revver that still has considerably less users is found among the first who shared its ads revenue, and GUBA, the site provided with image-recognition screening technology, also does not reach the popularity enjoyed by YouTube.


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This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize a page, you will be blocked from editing Wikinews. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do, since testing in articles will be reverted quickly. — Doldrums(talk) 17:30, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

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American racehorse Barbaro euthanized, co-owner reports

January 29, 2007

Barbaro, winner of the 2006 Kentucky Derby, was euthanized on the morning of January 29, according to co-owner Roy Jackson. Barbaro suffered a major injury to his right hind leg shortly after the start of the 2006 Preakness Stakes.

According to Jackson, "We just reached a point where it was going to be difficult for him to go on without pain. It was the right decision, it was the right thing to do. We said all along if there was a situation where it would become more difficult for him then it would be time."

Barbaro's right hind leg was shattered in the opening lengths of the Preakness race. Three bones in the leg were broken - the cannon bone, the sesamoid bone, and the pastern bone. Laminitis took hold in the left hind leg as a result of the extra weight borne on the leg by the horse. It appeared for a while that Barbaro would recover; however, earlier this month, the horse suffered two significant setbacks that greatly reduced his ultimate chances for survival.

The three-year-old colt underwent emergency surgery on May 20 to fuse two joints in the damaged right leg. Further surgery was required on January 27 to insert two steel pins into one of the healed bones. The latest procedure was especially risky because it because it transferred more weight on to the leg, with the foot resting on the ground not bearing any weight. The right rear hoof was already deteriorating, having developed a painful abscess earlier in the week.


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User talk:Theirishpianist

Welcome
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 * You're doing some excellent work so far. It's good to see some users coming over that will actually do some work in the Mainspace, instead of ediing thier talk page once, and leaving. Please keep up the impecable work! --Thunderhead - (talk) 01:54, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

NBA article
hi, to begin wth, i appreciate the articles u've contributed to Wikinews and look forward to more of the same.

reg. the lead-in line i removed, i'm sorry if the edit appeared a little abrupt. the line i removed is not really way out-of-line, and u wld've no doubt seen similar statements in many other sports news articles elsewhere. the trouble with such a line on Wikinews is that we have a guideline (see WN:NPOV and WN:NOT) that contributors do not add opinions/comments or editorial views on the news events in articles. i guess we're much more stringent on this than the typical news media, the big reason for that is: regular news organisation have a chosen set of journalists who write articles and an editorial process to review such opinion. on Wikinews however, anyone can contribute and there is as of now no formal editorial process - there's no Editor who's word is final, all editorial disputes are to be resolved by discussion and consensus. if comments are permitted, the fear is that they will be difficult to keep "in trim", writing will "degenerate" into a usenet flame-fest - something we'd rather avoid.

the lines in the sand to mind are - no contributors opinion/comment, no characterisation of others' actions (this was the problem with the line i removed ), no speculation or original analysis (eg. He did so because... ). these rules do impose constraints, but we feel they are a necessary evil. — Doldrums(talk) 07:20, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Columbine High School evacuated following bomb scare
Please do not remove sourced information from articles unless you have sources otherwise that say the information is not correct. DragonFire1024 19:46, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Please see sheriff's quote: Most of the threats that have been associated to that school made reference to past events that occurred there [in the past]. DragonFire1024 19:57, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I have read it...several times...and its the same...there is nothing to say that these threats are or are not in regards to past events if there is nothing to back it up. In this case, she says that the threats were of past events. We cannot put into context what these news threats might be in relation to, when we have a direct quote. That is called specualtion and is not backed up by any sources listed in the article or not. DragonFire1024 20:01, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

great work
good work with those templates they look great - keep it up!!--Markie 22:09, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Lead article
Hi,

thank you for updating the lead article. It's important to have a good lead story on our website. Everyone should update it when they think it is appropriate.

However, the first rule about the Lead Article is that "Lead articles should be of international interest". US basketball does not qualify, in my humble opinion. It always a good idea to be modest about your own stories: in the beginning I was reluctant to put stories I started up as lead stories, although in my eyes they were the most important ones (or else I wouldn't have written them).

Anyways just a little advice, it's no big deal. Looks like you have a lot of plans to cover sports over here, you're most welcome because we lacked good sports writers until now. If I can help you in any way, don't hesitate to ask!

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 13:41, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Tournament articles
These tournament things you're doing look good, but I don't know how we're going to incorporate them. This is obviously something for the sports portal or appropriate sub-portal, but you might want to ask on the Water Cooler how best to incorporate the material. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:45, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Minor Changes
Hiya, would you mind marking these minor edits to NCAA Basketball: Championship week continues through Sunday as "Minor Edits" so we can filter them, since they are taking up most of the space on RC? --Thunderhead - (talk) 02:14, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * No problem, I've made that mistake many times before. Thanks for the help. --Thunderhead - (talk) 02:20, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

As another sports person...
As another sports person can you fill in user Jwjoffrion on how to put together an article, he seems to be having trouble with the sources. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:17, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Portal renaming
I've renamed to Portal:NCAA since "March Madness" is not very specific, neutral or compatible with our style guide.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 15:35, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Sports Writer
As one of our chief sports writers I nominate you to bug all the other people writing sports articles to get together on Portal:Sports and make the rest of the wiki ashamed of their contributions.

No seriously, you're doing a great job - someone (hint, hint) needs to make a sports-specific barnstar and award you it. (Thunderhead are you reading this bit about the barnstar?).

At this moment in time we have 4 or 5 people contributing sports articles, they each have their favoured sport and they all seem to be interested in maintaining match results and league position tables. Having done similar work on the wiki I know that this saps your enthusiasm over time, you need other people encouraging you to keep going. So... Get in touch with the other sports writers, your enthusiasm for a sport is probably just the first thing you share in common, and if you build a community around the sports portal doing good coverage I don't care if 70% of our articles are sport, it just sets a challenge for those covering other topics. --Brian McNeil / talk 20:02, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Project Sports
I think you need a project page for sports, how about Sports coverage? With a little help from a few other admins we can probably set that up for you and pester all the other people contributing on sports to take a look and write about what they're covering. Having a central place to discuss what you're contributing will allow you to plan how the portal Sports is put together. --Brian McNeil / talk 19:39, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I made an issues template for basketball you can use if you like — (note accepts one argument —   which defaults to right.) See template:issues for more information. Bawolff ☺☻ 01:33, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Sports Collaborations
Hey there buddy, i noticed you signed Brian's Sports coverage page, and i'm interested in seeing any ideas you have for the Sports portal. I work on football (soccer), and if you'd like to take a look at the portal (Portal:Football), it might give you some ideas. Anyways, i'm just trying to get a start on this sports thing, hope to hear from you. Good work on your basketball articles by the way.—Dark Squall 02:18, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Dark Squall
User Dark Squall is nominated for adminship, see WN:A. --Brian McNeil / talk 10:02, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Re: SportsBot
SportsBot is written in Perl. The source is available at http://fisheye.ts.wikimedia.org/browse/Zach/sportsbot if you want to see how I wrote mine. —Zachary talk 17:22, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I can add to sportsbot if you email your additions to [mailto:zach@ts.wikimedia.org zach@ts.wikimedia.org]. I'll try to get it up and running as soon as I get it. Thanks! —Zachary talk 19:59, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

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Talk:Europe hit by storms, 45 deaths reported

Surely this article need to be published now (with no date bump though) or deleted. Its already over a week old and still in development but seems to be a good article.--Markie 18:12, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree. This article is extensive and ready to be published. TheVault 02:29, 30 January 2007 (UTC)


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Locals claim to have seen a UFO in Honolulu, Hawaii

January 29, 2007

Locals said they saw UFOs in the sky over Honolulu, Hawaii at 6:20 p.m. The KHON 2 television station was able to catch the objects in the sky using their SkyCam. The National Weather Service said that no objects appeared on their radar at the time the objects were witnessed. The Federal Aviation Administration said that they also did not pick up anything unusual on their radars.

The U.S. military had conducted a missile defense test off of Kauai on the same day, but the event did not start until 7:20 p.m.

According to KHON 2 news, Peter Hollingworth, a resident of Honolulu, described the objects as two circling lights about 45 degrees above the horizon. Hollingworth, who was surfing with his son when the objects appeared, said that, "These two little fireballs with a stream behind it. Looked kind of like a shooting star but it just kept going. They changed directions a few times, at first it was coming in then it turned, then it went out then it came back in again.  I was a little concerned. I told him come over and sit with me - this might be the last surf session we ever have together because this thing's coming straight for Honolulu. It looked deadly to me it was kind of spooky.”

Astronomy professor Gareth Wynn-Williams, from the University of Hawaii, told KHON 2 news, "It's probably a contrail of some kind. The air is very cold so the water condenses and forms like drops very quickly and then these drops stay behind the plane until eventually they warm up and they evaporate.”


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User talk:82.21.178.1

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Canada's Conservatives launch new ad campaign

January 29, 2007

The Conservative Party of Canada have taken a new approach by launching a new ad campaign. It is aimed at the Liberal Party of Canada leader Stéphane Dion.

The ads, which will frequently be aired during next weekend's Canadian broadcast of the Super Bowl, criticizes Dion as a leader and also criticizes his past in the government, as Canada's environment minister. They also feature clips from the Liberal leadership debate last fall. The ads are in English but another set of ads will air in French speaking Quebec, Dion's home province.

Dion, who was elected Liberal leader in December, responded to CBC News saying that it will "backfire" on Stephen Harper.

"[Harper] wants to spend all this money to try to attack me in a very negative way, and it'll backfire," Dion said. "Canadians will not be impressed by that." "Mr. Harper has nothing positive to say about his own record."

One ad says that air quality deteriorated when Dion was environment minister. The second ad says that he wants to go back to the previous Liberal government. The third ad says that he is not a leader.

The main ad is entitled "Stéphane Dion Is Not A Leader".


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Talk:West Indies wins the third match of the cricket series against India

How is this OR if there are no notes? — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  01:44, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Because the article has been created by me by analyzing and watching the whole cricket match. So I suppose that fulfills the criteria for OR. Shyam  ( T / C ) 18:50, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, you should have said so. Also, did you watch it on TV or live? — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  03:52, 5 February 2007 (UTC)


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Primary camera on Hubble Space Telescope shut down

January 30, 2007

The primary camera on the Hubble Space Telescope has shut down and is likely to only be restored to partial functionality, according to reports from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

The camera on the telescope, known as the "Advanced Camera for Surveys" or ACS, can be reactivated but will be restored to only one-third of its operating capacity. The restoration will probably take place in mid-February. The camera shut down over the weekend, probably due to a failure of its backup power supply. It was the third such shutdown of the camera in the past calendar year. The camera had been operating on its backup power since June 30, 2006, when engineers switched from the primary power supply ("Side A") to the backup ("Side B") due to a malfunction. A review board was convened on January 29 to assess all options and to decide on a course of action. Their findings will be reported to NASA on March 2, 2007.

The ACS, developed jointly by four American agencies, was installed in March of 2002. It is a system of three cameras, filters, and dispersers which act to detect wavelengths of light ranging from near-infrared to ultraviolet. It is a system that was designed to last five years, according to Preston Burch, associate director and program manager for the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA also indicated that the other four main systems on the telescope remain unaffected and functioning normally. Research work will resume this week using those systems.

A scheduled mission to the space telescope in 2008 is expected to deliver instruments to further upgrade the capabilities of the telescope. It is not known what the effect of the ACS failure will have on the scheduled mission. Burch said in a press release posted on the NASA main website, "It is important that the review board conduct a thorough investigation that will allow us to determine if there are any changes needed in the new instruments that will be installed on the upcoming servicing mission so that we can be sure of maximizing the telescope's scientific output. We are continuing to make excellent progress in our preparations for the servicing mission, which is presently targeted to fly in September 2008."


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Iran to expand military and economic ties with Iraq; will reconstruct nation

January 30, 2007 Iran has announced that the country plans to expand its military and economic ties with Iraq, and that there are plans to build a branch of the Iranian Nation Bank in downtown Baghdad.

Hassan Kazemi Qumi, Iran's ambassador to Baghdad has stated to The New York Times that the country plans to reconstruct Iraq and offer military training and supplies to the Iraqi military force for "the security fight." Qumi said the United States failed in the reconstruction of Iraq.

"We have experience of reconstruction after war. We are ready to transfer this experience in terms of reconstruction to the Iraqis," said Qumi.

In a first public statement, Qumi said that 2 Iranian men who were captured inside Iraq by U.S. forces and then later freed, were indeed part of the Iranian security force, which is in accordance with what the U.S. had always thought. Qumi, however, denied that the men were doing anything illegal, and were in fact in Iraq to conduct "legitimate" talks with the government of Iraq and they "should not have been detained" by U.S. forces.

"They worked in the security sector in the Islamic Republic, that’s clear," added Qumi.

In regards to opening an Iranian Nation Bank in Baghdad, Qumi stated that a license has been granted and issued to the government of Iran to allow a bank to be built in Baghdad. Hussein al-Uzri, a senior official for Iraq's national bank confirmed that a license has been issued and that "[the bank] will enhance trade between the two countries." Qumi says that several more banks will follow including agricultural banks and private banks.

In regards to cooperating through the economy, Qumi states that electricity and kerosene will be supplied to Iraq and that agriculture cooperatives will also be built.

Qumi states that he will not reveal "specific details" of military operations or plans in Iraq, but did say that border patrols along the Iran-Iraq border will increase and that a "joint security committee" will also be formed.

The U.S. has not commented directly on Qumi's statement, but a spokesman for the U.S. Department of State, Sean McCormack, says that any Iranian influence or activity in Iraq is "a negative role in many respects."


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what is the significance of these seemingly unrelated seismic events? Or if they are related, please elaborate. --SVTCobra 02:54, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
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NBA announces starters for 2007 All-Star Game

January 30, 2007

The National Basketball Association (NBA) has released the rosters for the 2007 NBA All-Star Game. The starting rosters can be found on the newly launched 2007 All-Star Game website. The 56th All-Star Game is scheduled to take place on Sunday, February 18 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.

2007 Eastern Conference All-Stars Starters
 * Gilbert Arenas (Washington)
 * Chris Bosh (Toronto)
 * LeBron James (Cleveland)
 * Shaquille O'Neal (Miami)
 * Dwayne Wade (Miami)

2007 Western Conference All-Stars Starters
 * Kobe Bryant (L.A. Lakers)
 * Tim Duncan (San Antonio)
 * Kevin Garnett (Minnesota)
 * Tracy McGrady (Houston)
 * Yao Ming (Houston)

The All Star Website was also launched at about noon EST on January 26. The website features pictures of the players on the rosters and other information.


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Before I begin serious, positive work, I'd like to add the following hoax:

Last Saturday, there was a major victory for cryptozoology. In the Mall of America, Tom Cruise was mugging millionaires. One of the millionaires fled, Cruise persued, and he tripped. He fell into a fountain. He noticed an underwater door in the fountain, and when he entered, he saw the Loch Ness Monster. There was also a subway sation that took him to Loch Ness in two minutes. When the returned to America, he left the fountain. He went into a hunting goods store. The hunting goods store had a large artificial forest. He found bigfoot there. Finally, Cruise went to a bank in the Mall. He saw Trump taking out a huge loan.

Biologists have classified Nessie as part of the Suborder Plesiosauroidea. Big foot was in the genus Gigantopithecus. And Trump was put into a new Phylum, Serpentia. A top cryptologist said that these findings will give cryptozoology credibility. Other cryptologists just said "I told you so".

Thank You. --New News 05:05, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

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Postal suspension lifted in Hamilton, New Zealand

January 30, 2007

The two-day postal delivery suspension placed on three streets in Hamilton, New Zealand has been lifted by New Zealand Post and the posties are back to work delivering mail.

The suspension of deliveries applied to Tennyson Road, Dryden Road, and Emerson Place, which are located in Fairfield. New Zealand Post came to the decision on Friday to put the ban in place because of recent gang violence/conflict. Along with the New Zealand Police, New Zealand Post reviewed the current situation, and also drove along the streets, they came to the conclusion that the situation has now "cooled down," according to New Zealand Post spokesperson, Fiona Mayo and postal delivery general manger, Matthew Nant.

The residents on those streets came out to greet the postie, who was accompanied by business leader Brendon Coker, as she delivered the residents mail. Martha Rollo, Tennyson Road resident for 13-years, said that she was thrilled that her mail was once again being delivered after the "senseless" gang violence had temporarily stopped post. "Why should the rest of the locals suffer because of the gangs. We don't need this hassle." Ms Rollo said that the gang activity has only recently happened.

Vicky Roughan and Kevin Roughan, 12-year residents of Dryden Road, said that the post suspension, vandalism, and gang activity has been a problem for them. Mr Roughan claims that children from the age of nine and up are drinking late at night. "You don't know what the hell's going to happen."

Mr Nant has apologised to the affected, inconvenienced residents.

New Zealand Post state they are going to continue to monitor the situation, however and also have on-going discussion with the local council and police "to make sure we're abreast of any developments in the area."

The gang violence/activity New Zealand Post are referring to is, on the previous Thursday the Armed Offenders Squad was called out where they raided three homes following a shooting, eight people were arrested, and a large number of firearms were seized.

Despite post not being delivered, newspapers were still being delivered, waste collection was still happening, and electricity meter readers were also going around house to house, checking the meters.

Māori Party co-leader, Doctor Pita Sharples, has said that gangs are again starting to imping on on society like in the 1970s. He says we should include gangs into society, instead of disrupting them.

Wikinews previously reported on a letterbox for sale on New Zealand internet auction site, TradeMe, which has now reached a bid of $26.03 by Eliz "polysstew".


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Philippine commission holds retired general responsible for killings

January 30, 2007

The head of the Melo Commission announced they had recommended that retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan Jr. and other commanders be "held responsible for the extrajudicial killings in their respective areas during their tours of duty".

Melo commission, formed in August 2006 by the president to look into the spate of politically related killings after local and international clamor, submitted the 89-page report of the commission to the president last week but the findings have not yet been made public.

Retired Supreme Court Justice Jose Melo said holding military commanders responsible for extrajudicial killings was one of the recommendations in the final report.

Melo reportedly said the investigation of the four-member panel showed that “majority of the victims were leftist-activist-militants” and that the suspected assailants belonged to the military.

He clarified though that they "don’t want to tag the whole military establishment", adding that "only elements of the military who were allowed to do their thing without supervision from higher officers."

He attributed "some of the killings to politicians, some to the security guards of landlords," but Melo pointed to the military elements for majority of the killings.

Earlier, another member of the commission, Butuan City Bishop Juan de Dios Pueblos, on Saturday said the military was involved in some attacks of leftists.

"We have identified that there are killings really perpetuated by the military," he said.

He remarked that the Melo Commission has recommended to President Arroyo that military commanders be held criminally liable if one of their subordinates were found guilty of political murders.

"We are suggesting the criminalization of the command responsibility in order to put more teeth in the aspect of peace and to stop the killings," the Bishop said.

Commission head Melo also confirmed, report said, that among those mentioned in the fact-finding report was Palparan, who retired in September 2006. Leftist groups had labeled Palparan “berdugo” (butcher) for the spate of killings during his tenure as commander in Mindoro, Samar, and Nueva Ecija provinces.

"He has said he inspired them. You can hook the fish through the mouth,” Melo said, referring to a media interview given by Palparan where he admitted he had "inspired" some people to "punish" suspected communist New People’s Army rebels who had committed crimes in their communities.

Palparan was one of four military officials who testified before the commission. They were the only witnesses who responded to the commission’s summonses.

Leftist groups and families of victims had boycotted the hearings of the commission, saying it lacked credibility and independence.

For his part, Jovito Palparan admitted on Monday that some soldiers could be involved in extrajudicial killings of left-wing activists.

"It's possible," Palparan was heard saying in a radio interview, noting that "some [soldiers] are victims so it's not surprising that some get angry because it's their lives on the line."

Meanwhile, human rights group Karapatan called on the Melo Commission on Monday to recommend punishment for the masterminds and perpetrators of extrajudicial killings, which, it said, mostly came from the military.

Dorris Cuario, secretary general of regional chapter of Karapatan in Southern Tagalog, said the initial report of the commission was not enough to solve the unabated political killings in the country. Southern Tagalog covers the province of Mindoro where Palparan's assignment as military commander coincided with escalation of human rights violations reportedly perpetrated by military elements.

"We hope [the report] is not just a facade of the commission to make people believe it was doing something," she said.

Cuario challenged the Melo Commission "to serve justice" by demanding for the punishment not only of the low-ranking policemen and soldiers but also of AFP generals and even Ms. Arroyo, whom Cuario and other militant groups point to as the masterminds of the killings.

Aside from Melo and Bishop de Dios Pueblos, the other commission members were National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Director Nestor Mantaring, Chief State Prosecutor Jovencito Zuño, and University of the Philippines Regent Nelia Gonzales.


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