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Reviewing an article for publication is a demanding task. This page gives you some tips to help you through it.

Only a small part of the review process is visible on the wiki — some edits that you make during your review to improve details of the article, nudging it closer to publishable quality; and of course the climactic edit where you submit your review, passing or not-readying the current draft of the article. The machinery on the wiki that coordinates that visible process, like the template and the "Easy Peer Review" gadget, is explained at Reviewing articles.

This page is about the larger, behind-the-scenes part of the reviewing task. About a third of it is a classified list of things to remember to check.

How much to do
Peer review serves two vital purposes — one absolutely vital in the immediate event (right now!), and the other crucial for the future (which starts now): quality control, and teaching.

 * Note: A handy rule of thumb is, if it should ever happen that nothing else came up during review, always try to find some useful copyedit or other to make before submitting the review: looking for a useful copyedit can help keep you focused, and seeing the visible evidence of the copyedit can help keep authors focused. A passing peer review with no preceding edits by the reviewer should be a rarity, and a situation that submitting contributors should strive towards.

Quality control
Peer review makes sure no article gets published until and unless it is up to the standards of the project. That starts with legal concerns —the author and reviewer are both potential targets for lawsuits if plagiarism or libel is published— and continues through fundamentals like accuracy and neutrality with immediate potential to damage our reputation to an ever-widening range of stuff that still cumulatively could corrode the reputation of the project (even little things add up to significant corrosion, with time). That range of stuff is the subject of the checklist, below.

Of course reviewers aren't perfect, and little things may get through (alas), but big problems shouldn't (note: the legal stuff, copyvio and libel, are big problems). A misspelling might get through, but if there are a lot of them, you should catch that; and so on. By the time an article is published, it should be good enough that, even if no later improvements were made, it would be a credit —rather than an embarrassment, or even a black mark— to Wikinews.

Quality control isn't just a safeguard against inexperienced authors (or malicious ones) doing things they shouldn't; just as you the reviewer aren't perfect, experienced authors aren't perfect either, and in reviewing an experienced author's work, you are their safety net against goofs and blunders. Don't relax your reviewing standards just because you expect the author to know what they're doing; it probably will take you less time to review experienced authors' work, but that's just because there probably will be fewer problems for you to deal with.

Teaching
You aren't just accepting or rejecting the article, you are pointing out to the author(s) what should be done differently, what can be done better, and how to do those things. You are teaching, and the success of Wikinews going forward depends on everyone continuing always to learn to do better next time (including you, of course). Newcomers are starting along a steep learning curve, and even Wikinewsies who have been here for years and written hundreds of articles aren't past learning (and yes, you can be the vehicle for that even though you may have far less experience they they do — keeping in mind that you too may learn).

So writing informative comments when not-readying, and writing helpful suggestions when passing (on any given criterion, as well as overall), and not giving things a semi-apathetic pass when they aren't acceptable enough to be repeated — are all vital to help Wikiniewsies grow, which is where the future of the project comes from.

Changes too large to remain uninvolved
As reviewer, you are well placed to see changes that would make the article better, but are too substantial for you to make during review without disqualifying yourself from publishing.

If the article is already acceptable for publication, here are three options:
 * Occasionally, if you are in sufficiently real-time communication with the author (such as by IRC), you might choose to hold up publishing while you negotiate with the author to make improvements. Be careful not to become too involved simply by virtue of your suggestions, even though the author is the one who actually edits the article.
 * Publish, and in doing so, mention possible improvements in the review comments. This may or may not result in improvements to the current article, but either way it allows the author to consider your suggestions for the future.
 * After publication, edit the article, submitting improvements for another reviewer to review. Be careful not to let the publication blur in your mind with your edits:  if the article isn't acceptable without your changes, it doesn't pass review in the first place.  Also note, even if your edits would be acceptable to another reviewer, they may fall through if there isn't another reviewer currently available to review them.

If an article is not acceptable without changes that would disqualify you from publication, and there is another reviewer currently available, you may choose to give the article a not-ready review and then undertake the edits yourself, disqualifying yourself from further review. This doesn't work if you can't arrange for another reviewer to take over. Also, be sure to consider how the author is likely to feel about it.

Avoiding review collisions
Usually, when you start to review an article you should put the under review template at the top of the article. In addition to warning reporters not to edit the article but instead to leave remarks on the talk page, it also lets other reviewers know that you're doing this one.

Sometimes, if you're "just" doing a "quick" not-ready, it's tempting to not bother with the under review tag. However, that can lead, surprisingly often, to minor accidents where two reviewers not-ready the article simultaneously. The current (venerable) review gadget doesn't prevent that from happening: when submitting a not-ready review, the gadget does not detect whether somebody else has edited the article since the revision you are looking at as you review. It does detect this for a passing review; but not for a not-ready.

Very rarely, Wikinewsies have collaborated to get an article about a breaking situation out the door extremely fast, with a reviewer starting on one part of the article while a reporter is still writing another part elsewhere on the same page. Naturally, we don't use under review in that case. Things can get quite hectic; there are no standard tools to help with such a situation, nor likely can there be since such situations are by definition exceptional. Expect to muddle through.

Scheduling review
Volunteer donations of labor to news production tend to come in large discrete lumps under time constraint. Somewhat true of news writing, this is even more true of review.

Effective review calls for intense, immersive concentration by a sapient mind — able to recognize what's important, how the parts of the story fit together, etc. The deeper the immersion the better, so it generally has to be done all in one block of time. Even if someone has the expertise and mindset for review, large blocks of time like that don't present themselves often (hence, we expect that a review-assistance device that significantly speeds up the process —without compromising the human element— could greatly increase an expert reviewer's ability to deliver reviews). Volunteer or not, a person can generally only deliver about four hours per day of intense concentration, which review has to share with the rest of your life; keep that in mind as you budget your time.

A review also has to be done on somebody else's timetable, whenever a reporter submits an article rather than when the reviewer happens to have time free and the mood takes them. Rates of submission can vary widely; in modern times we've had some long dry spells often followed by massive pile-ups on the review queue, far exceeding what the active reviewers could handle. The inevitable result has been some articles being lost because they went stale waiting for review. Experience has taught us that this happens sometimes —articles going stale waiting for review— even in times when we have large numbers of active reviewers; it's been suggested that however much review labor we provide, demand will still expand to exceed it. Sooner or later a reviewer will likely have to choose which submitted article to review first, knowing that some of the ones they don't choose will go stale as a result.

Historically, there was a tendency to review the oldest submitted article first; even now (as of this writing), Category:Review is often informally called "the review ". This choice of review-order makes sense if one expects all the articles on the queue to be reviewed promptly, because the oldest one on the queue is presumably in most immediate danger of losing freshness while some other article is being reviewed. However, if there really isn't going to be time to review them all before some go stale, reviewing the oldest first has some unfortunate consequences. It maximizes how old our articles will be when published; and, because the articles that get reviewed are likely to be almost stale at review time, it minimizes the change that any not-ready review can be responded to before the article's clock runs out — which lowers the absolute publication rate since that not-ready review has consumed scarce review labor on an article that doesn't produce a publication. Other scheduling strategies you may wish to consider:
 * Review of original reporting may sometimes be deferred a bit (even if you consider yourself up to that — it's admittedly a demanding sort of review that novice reviewers likely shouldn't attempt), since OR may be a bit more staleness-resistant (depending on the nature of the OR). Don't overdo it, and beware of OR that has hidden weaknesses that will present more of a problem if not flagged out promptly by a reviewer.
 * Individual stories are sometimes especially desirable to review promptly because their content is especially valuable if published quickly, or because they're especially vulnerable to losing freshness quickly.
 * Articles likely to be easy to review might be done first. This can apply to articles that are obviously unacceptable, but sometimes those can be quite difficult to review because while the judgement of not-ready is obvious, writing helpful review comments may be quite laborious.  It is an awkward irony of review that inexperienced reporters, whom we are particularly keen to support, generate articles that occupy a disproportionate share of available review.  Skilled veteran Wikinewsies may be good at writing medium-to-short articles that are easy to review and pass (though of course it depends on the individual, at which point accumulated reputation comes into play).  Triage may be especially important at moments when we're overwhelmed by a large number of poor submissions (which, yes, has sometimes happened, for one reason or another), since the few articles that would be viable if reviewed in time might starve for attention unless done out-of-order.
 * Articles that have been not-ready'd, and revised and resubmitted, may be desirable to prioritize so that if they have, in fact, been successfully fixed, the effort to do so doesn't go to waste.
 * If all articles are more-or-less equal in nature, and there are likely far more of them than can be reviewed in a timely fashion, it may make sense to review the most recent first. If the same number will end up published anyway, this strategy maximizes how fresh they are when published; and, if combined with prioritizing re-reviews, it may also give some not-ready articles time to be revised and resubmitted.

Within a given review
Our advice on the subtasks of a review: don't let anyone else tell you what order to do things in. (The order of the checklist below is a way of arranging the list, not a recommendation for arranging the review process.) Any order that works best for some reviewers is sure to fail miserably for some others. Try to find an arrangement that plays to your strengths.

Some reviewers don't even do the subtasks of review in a sequential order at all. Some do, perhaps breaking up the review into a large number of subtasks taken one-at-a-time. Others may do a large clump of subtasks in parallel, and then another large clump — for example, all the subtasks that only require looking at the article itself, then all the subtasks that involve comparing it to the sources (or vice versa: all the comparison subtasks and then all the article-only subtasks). Some reviewers, though, can and will simply read through the article and the sources and remember to do all the things that need doing, effectively doing all the subtasks in parallel.

There are a couple of devices that might be helpful in taking temporary notes during your review process (depending of course on what your review process is), without risk of accidentally saving changes to the wiki. You might, for example, set up a scratch copy of the article and highlight portions to indicate verified-by-source, possible-copyvio, or whatever else you want to note. The devices differ in how conveniently things can be marked up, how flexible the interface is, and how robust they are against losing the contents of the scratchpad.
 * The more robust device is the breadboard, into which you can write any wiki text at all —such as copy-and-pasting the contents of the article— and then edit or mark it up. It is moderately robust, in that while it won't survive closing the browser tab, if you navigate away and back (using the "back" button on your browser), your edits should still be there.  You can highlight portions of your text using background color.
 * A lighter-weight device is the On Screen Edit gadget. It allows you to mark up a scratchpad copy of the article in various ways, directly editing the appearance of the scratchpad copy (in a  fashion) rather than working with the underlying wiki text.  The scratchpad is fragile, in that if you ever navigate your browser away from the page for any reason, your edits are instantly permanently lost.

Checklist
This is a quick-reference list of some rules and guidelines that, as a reviewer, you might like to be reminded of. Besides reviewing an article for publication, there are a few items that only matter for changes to an article after publication; and the list might just be useful when writing an article, too.

Don't follow the list blindly. Some items are hard policy, others are guidelines, and some guidelines are softer than others. As a thinking reviewer, you can judge which are most important, when the spirit is more important than the letter, and when an article has a problem even though the problem isn't mentioned here (nor, for that matter, in any of the policies, guidelines, and help pages); hang on to that thinking advantage!

The size of the list is a compromise. As the list is meant to serve as a quick reference, it has been kept short. Too short, though, and some details under a general item might be overlooked despite the general reminder. (Compare the five-item checklist on the peer reviewed template.) Ideally, each item listed would be just specific enough to remind you of any further details omitted under it.

If there are other things you think should be added, by all means, |suggest them!

The news story

 * Is it News? — News is
 * Specific.
 * Relevant (probably to more than a few hundred people).
 * Fresh (for synthesis: event within a week, new details have come to light within 2–3 days; OR may extend shelf life, sometimes by a lot).
 * After publication, significant edits should be made only within the first 24 hours and should not be self-sighted (they require peer review).

 * Headline (article page name) — See here.

 * Prose — Clear, concise, unambiguous. (Details here, especially here and here; also, here.)
 * Prefer active voice and active language, and promote the human aspect of the story (using quotes, etc.).
 * Use simple, plain English. No cliches or metaphors.
 * Attribute every factual claim to its source, within the story text and without interrupting its flow.
 * Attribute to non-news source when possible. Don't attribute uncontroversial non-exclusive information to a news source.
 * Don't direct-quote a source unless (very rarely) the source is part of the story.
 * Tense. Generally, use past, or present perfect.  For timelines, present.  For future events, say they're "scheduled", "planned", or the like.
 * Concentrate on the new facts.

 * Lede — Typically, the first paragraph succinctly answers the six basic questions:
 * Who What Where When Why and How.
 * Typically 50–80 words.
 * Oughtn't have too much detail; and once read, newsworthiness should be clear.

 * Body
 * At least another couple of paragraphs after the lede.
 * Avoid single-sentence paragraphs. Paragraphs of 50–80 words are usually about right.
 * Each paragraph should cover a single topic.
 * Article content should get gradually more detailed.

 * Balance
 * Is it presented in a neutral way?
 * Does it cover all the most relevant/interesting points of the story?
 * Are parts of the story given undue weight? Is there excess, encyclopedic content?
 * Is the relevance explained for an international audience?
 * Are controversial claims attributed? Is exclusive information attributed?
 * Be on the lookout for disagreements between sources; resolve the discrepancy, back off to a weaker claim agreed on, or acknowledge the discrepancy.

Other elements

 * Article templates
 * date/dateline — don't use dateline unless the reporter was actually there
 * lifecycle control — review, breaking review, under review, tasks, editing, develop

 * Citations sections
 * Sources — bulleted; source; note Citing syndicated (wire agency) content.
 * Related news — before Sources; bulleted; only articles published before this one.
 * External links — after Sources; don't use at all without good reason.
 * Other — Strongly discouraged as encyclopedic: References. Never: See also.

 * Categories
 * At least one geographical category — something from this hierarchy:

 * }
 * At least one major topic category — one of these.

 * Infobox
 * If any appropriate infobox can be found, use the most appropriate one.
 * The list of all infoboxes is here.
 * Don't trust the infobox to add appropriate categories; the categories should stay even if the infobox is later changed.

 * Peripherals
 * Picture(s) — caption, image source. See Image use policy.
 * Displayed quotations.
 * Have your say.
 * Miscellaneous — Translated quote, WikimediaMention, PhoneContact, etc.

 * Wikilinks should be internal to Wikinews whenever possible. Use mainspace redirects.
 * Check all non-Wikinews links to make sure they work. (Those links —including Wikipedia links— don't turn red when broken.)
 * Article links should go in Related news, Wikipedia in External links.

Copyvio
A lot of copyvio consists of passages copied from source and then "scuffed up". Sometimes a lengthy sentence or even several sentences will be copied this way; there may be only a few places where more than three consecutive words or so are identical to source, yet the whole lengthy passage may have the same grammatical structure and the same content words in exactly the same order, adding up to the same long passage as in the source — to someone who can read and understand the text, as a computer cannot.

Copyvio detector tools

 * For the verbatim-copied passages, there's a duplicate-detector tool, at dupdet. With some work, the tool may also be useful for spotting copied-and-scuffed-up passages, by studying the context surrounding verbatim passages.
 * See also Earwig's Copyvio Detector, at copyvios. This can analyze via external links present in the article itself, search engines for other websites, or both at the same time.  It offers whole-document analysis rather than addressing individual passages, and the percentages offered should be interpreted accordingly.

The On Screen Edit gadget
Select the gadget on your user preferences. With Javascript turned on (you'll need that for the Easy Peer Review gadget too, of course), "On screen edit" will appear as an option on the toolkit on the left side of each page.

Open a tab viewing the article (not editing it), and click the gadget. You're now in on-screen edit mode. A toolbar appears at the top of that copy of the article.

To shade part of the text to some color, or to strike it out with a horizontal line ( like this ), highlight that part of the text and click the appropriate button on the toolbar. You can also delete the highlighted text entirely with the delete key; and, once you've clicked anywhere in the article body, you can even add text. All without having any effect on the saved version of the article.

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BBC News say sixteen, but the spokesperson only talks about fifteen. Please clarify this before review. — μ 21:38, February 24 2010 (UTC)


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The comment "It is our belief that his intention was not to hurt anyone, but just to prove a point." is unbelievable. Did someone actually write that? About the guy who flew his airplane into an office building during normal business hours??? Didn't intend to hurt anyone? Gosh. Maybe I'm overly cynical, but my bet is that the pilot intended to kill a whole lot more people than he actually did.

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Dawn Brancheau, a whale trainer, died in an accident at the in Orlando, Florida on Wednesday, at around 14:00 local time. The incident involved an 18-year-old, Tillikum, also called Tilly. The  report that trainer Brancheau has 16 years of experience. Brancheau was reported dead after being recovered from the pool.

Witness to the incident Victoria Biniak told, "He was thrashing her around pretty good. It was violent. [The whale] ...took off really fast in the tank, and then he came back, shot up in the air, grabbed the trainer by the waist and started thrashing around, and one of her shoes flew off."

In response to this accident, SeaWorld San Diego canceled its Shamu show, a show involving the whales at the San Diego location. "We're terribly saddened by the loss of the member of our SeaWorld family, it doesn't matter what park," David Koontz, a spokesperson for SeaWorld San Diego said.


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Welcome
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Concern
Please see this. Before my copyedit, the state/country where this occurred was mentioned neither in the title nor article text, making it more difficult to understand for an international audience. This shouldn't have gone unnoticed through review. Tempodivalse [talk]  01:32, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

 * I forgot the whole international thing for a moment there. I put the state as part of a wikilink and for whatever stupid reason, I forgot to add it mentioning the state. The fault it mine. I'm a bit tired after the day. -- Mike moral  ♪♫  01:41, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

 * Don't worry, we all make mistakes sometimes. I frequently don't put enough context in my articles either. :-) Tempodivalse [talk]  02:09, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

 * Meh, the precise location wasn't exactly the point or important IMHO. "Killer Whale goes on rampage" much more fun. -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 01:43, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

 * "the precise location wasn't exactly the point or important" = ????? Describing *where* something happens should be our number one priority when reporting. Remember the five Ws! :-b Tempodivalse [talk]  02:09, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

 * And the H... -- Mike moral  ♪♫  02:13, 25 February 2010 (UTC)


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I was really shocked when i saw the article and what the killer whale did to the trainer in front of thousands od people watching. But if they already knew that it had issues why diddnt they release before this accident happened ?Brideezy (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 04:57, 11 March 2010 (UTC)


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Let's be fair, it is called a KILLER whale. Is it really shocking it KILLED someone?


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Well, one of the sources did say it has already killed in back in 1999.


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OMG


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OMG what?


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This is one of the dangers of their job. About every ten years, it seems like, a trainer at one of the marine parks gets killed or seriously injured.


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It's been 11 years, but who's counting? :p


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Three Google executives found guilty over Italian video

February 26, 2010 An Italian court convicted three Google Inc. executives Wednesday of criminal charges for breach of privacy. , Google's chief legal officer, Peter Fleischer, its global privacy counsel, and, a former executive, were given six-month suspended prison sentences after being found guilty of violating the Italian privacy code.

The Google executives were convicted for not removing a video uploaded to in 2006, showing an  boy in  being beaten and insulted by teenage bullies at school. The video was up for two months, during which it was viewed 5,500 times. Google Italy pulled it down two hours after being notified by police, following complaints by the boy's father and Vivi Down, an Italian organization representing individuals with. The uploader and several of her classemates were sentenced to ten months community service by a Turin court.

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u know i dont see y they didnt kill the whale after it killed the first two people?


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Three people arrested in connection with murder of shop owner in West Yorkshire, England

February 25, 2010

A spokesperson for has announced that the police force have arrested three teenagers in connection with the death of a shop owner in West Yorkshire, England. The three are currently remaining publicly unidentified. 63-year-old Gurmail Singh was killed after he was physically involved in a robbery of his shop, the Cowcliffe Convenience Store, that occurred on February 20, 2010 in the town of.

The spokesperson said that one person aged 18 and two people aged 17, all of whom came from the Huddersfield region, had been detained in connection to Gurmail Singh's death on Sunday. The shop owner had sustained head injuries during the robbery. A post-mortem examination carried out on Singh determined that he was impacted in his head nine times by what was possibly a hammer.

Detective Superintendent David Pervin stated: "These men have been arrested as a result of the tremendous public response to my earlier appeals for information about this incident." Pervin pointed out that he still needs information from members of the public, and requested that any local people operating cameras in the area should contact the police. He also made a direct appealed to those involved in the attack: "[t]hey know who they are. The spotlight is already directly upon them and I call on them to do the right thing and hand themselves in now before we knock at their door and arrest them."


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Up to 270,000 civil servants to go on strike in UK in March

February 25, 2010

According to reports from BBC News Online and Sky News Online, a maximum of 270,000 civil servants will go on a strike in the United Kingdom due to a dispute over reductions to redundancy terms in the public sector. Staff that are due to get involved in the strike, which will last for 48 hours between the dates of March 8–9 2010, will include driving test examiners, court officials, coastguards, tax workers, customs officers, and members of staff from Jobcentre Plus.

The UK Government has stated that the money that will be salvaged by the taxpayer after the modifications will amount to £500 million (US$760 million, €564 million). Individuals who are members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) took part in a vote in February 2010. The union announced that 81% of members had voted in favour of a ban of working overtime, and that 63% of those polled supported blockages.

Mark Serwotka, General Secretary of the British trade union for civil servants stated that "[t]hese cuts, which will see loyal civil and public servants lose tens of thousands of pounds if they are forced out of a job, are more about crude politicking than making savings. We have suggested ways in which the Government can make these savings whilst protecting the rights of existing members, yet it seems intent on penalising the people who keep this country running."


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Thank you. -- Rayboy8 ( my talk ) ( my contributions ) 14:44, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
 * It's way too late to add an update notice on the article. Just link to this story as "related stories" in the other article. Thanks. --Diego Grez return fire 19:12, 14 November 2010 (UTC)


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US actor Dennis Hopper dies at age 74

May 29, 2010

Actor, director, and artist has died today at the age of 74. He was known to suffer from prostate cancer since October 2009.

He was born Dennis Lee Hopper on May 17, 1936 in Dodge City, Kansas. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the. He made his first television appearance in 1955, and appeared in two films featuring, ' (1955) and ' (1956). Over the next ten years, Hopper appeared frequently on television in guest roles, and by the end of the 1960s had played supporting roles in several films. He directed and starred in  (1969), winning an award at the, and was nominated for an as co-writer of the film's script.

Hopper was unable to build on this success for several years, until a featured role in  (1979) brought him attention. He subsequently received critical recognition for his work in ' and ', with the latter film garnering him an nomination for. Hopper's more recent work included a leading role in the television series .

Hopper was a prolific photographer, painter, and sculptor whose works have been exhibited worldwide.

On January 12, 2010, several months after the cancer diagnosis, Hopper had filed for divorce from his wife Victoria Duffy leading to an extended public feud between the couple over the course of the following months.

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10 billionth song downloaded from Apple's iTunes Store

February 25, 2010

Ten billion songs have been downloaded from the iTunes Store, an online digital media store which is owned by Apple Incorporated. Louie Sulcer, of Woodstock in Georgia, downloaded "Guess Things Happen That Way" by American musician, Johnny Cash, which became the ten billionth song downloaded from iTunes. Sulcer won an iTunes gift card worth US$10,000 (approximately £6,550 or €7,380), after purchasing a song on the iTunes Store to win the prize.

Beforehand, Apple had launched a competition entitled "Countdown to 10 Billion Song Downloads", where the person to make the ten billionth "entry" of a song from the iTunes Store would win the gift card. An "entry" could be created by either downloading a song from the iTunes store, or by filling in a form on the Apple website.

The rules of the competition stated that "the downloading of the 10 billionth song is considered to be either the downloading of the 10 billionth song from iTunes or the receipt of the non-purchase entry after the download of the 9,999,999,999th song, whichever comes first." Below is a table of the twenty most downloaded songs of all time from Apple's iTunes Store. The list was initially placed on the website.


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Actually it's properly called an orca, and they are referred to as 'killer whales' not for their violence towards humans but towards their prey.


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Could you please tell me how an article can be moved/renamed. Thanks. --  Ashot  ( talk ) 03:25, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Hit the drop down next to View History (if you are using vector) and hit "Rename" -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 05:30, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I am using Vector, but I can't find drop down next to View History. I have only * Read * Edit * Add comment * View history * Unwatch there. --  Ashot  ( talk ) 09:23, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

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I couldn't help it. this had to be said. Hope it doesn't complicate your dispute resolution. --SVTCobra 03:33, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

FYI

 * Regarding the preceding message, http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Wikinews%3AWater_cooler%2Fproposals&action=historysubmit&diff=965667&oldid=965600.
 * Wikinews:Requests for arbitration: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Requests_for_arbitration --Soy Rebelde (talk) 06:45, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

You have got to be kidding me. Words cannot even begin to explain ... oy.... -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 06:54, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

My Response
Jon, yes, it is a train wreck from my point of view as well. I have actually been on here for one day and if you read that proposal, I was enthused about WikiNews. Now, I can easily name three adversaries because of one wrong person. You requested my reply, here it is: There you have it Jon, my response. --Soy Rebelde (talk) 07:48, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) "This is one MINOR incident." If the terms used were anything but c*** I would agree that although offensive, not something worthy of my pursute. However, that is not the case, and being on the receiving end of it, along with being of the particular sex that I am, I don't agree with your assessment at all.
 * 2) The fact that you did not address this on the initial water cooler page even after it continued to receive ridiculous statements in line with the tone set by User:Blood Red Sandman, links to statements that were posted on your page, did not exactly instill in me the trust in your ability or willingness to be partial or extend a certain sensibility here; sensibility that I by no means think is asking for too much.
 * 3) As for my sex being "advertised" is another cop-out as I see it. A person's complete lack of common sense and decency that keeps them from knowing that certain words are off the table until you know with absolute certainty you can use them around someone, is not and should not be my problem.
 * 4) On a personal note Jon, what if on top of being female I told you I was underage? Are you married? Do you have daughters, sisters? It may sound cliche but it's a valuable argument.
 * 5) I don't entertain the idea of turning my head at something like this, and explaining why repeatedly is tedious for me. I am a fair and reasonable person, even though it obviously does not seem so from where you are standing, but Jon, you don't exactly seem it to me either. I don't like to pass judgment because I see you are trying but, I think your goal is to just sweep this under the rug and belittle it.
 * 6) You yourself admitted that user is a tad on the outskirts of society atm. Remove his admin status, at the very least for a few months and block him and the other user for a week. That's what I think is fair.

Hokay: I think you're missing some key factors here. First, you are disrupting our wiki with a relatively small issue (IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS). I agree it was wrong, BRS and M8 have been sufficiently warned as is my policy. They know if they step out of line they will find themselves in a load of trouble, and blocked. I have no qualms blocking a user for any sort of repeat behavior, but a first time, one off offense is not that. Hell, even on Wikipedia, you can't block a spammer without 4 previous warnings. Also, I'd like to, in the nicest way possible, point out that I don't care what you feel is fair. What is "fair" for you and your Wikipedia background could be considered a vicious vendetta on Wikinews. We. Are. Not. Wikipedia. I know what the standard block lengths are, standard punishments are... I've down this rodeo for more than 2 days. Hell, BRS could get on tomorrow, see the message, and immediately apologize. He may realize the error of his ways, and feel terrible for saying such an offensive thing as "beside the fucking lead of the article!" (because remember, that is where this all started). In the end, you need to cool off and reread steps 1 through 4 on Dispute resolution. You've got 2 down, try 1, and 4 for now. -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 08:24, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) The word cunt was is offensive, as is nigger, spic and fucktard - to name a few.  Simply saying the word out loud, which is essentially the case here, does not make it a personal attack.  They did not say "Hey Soy, you're a cunt", that is an attack at you.
 * 2) I addressed all the users involved.  What did you want me to do on the water cooler page?  I'm seriously at a loss here.  I could have said "Hey kids, play nice now", but I did so in a more personal setting.  As for Tempo's comments, I would have rather they didn't post anything, but unfortunately between the two postings of mine on your talk page, I was at dinner, so I couldn't clamp down any more.  By the time I was back, you were already on to ArbCom
 * 3) No. Simply no.  You can't claim it is a personal attack on you if they don't know.  It is much like if I said "Man, black is the worst" and you say I'm racist because you're African American, when really I was just talking about my dislike of the color black.
 * 4) So now we've gone from knowing nothing about to you to knowing that you are Female and under 18, which explains your behavior I'm afraid to say.  You being underage is not an excuse.  If you are so young that swearing is a serious issue, I'm sorry to say but your parents should be keeping a better eye on your internet habits.  Truth be told, the internet is a dirty place where you find a lot of use of the first amendment (Freedom of speech for our unlearned and non-American friends).  You are going to run into images and text that you don't approve of.  Either go elsewhere or suck it up.
 * 5) You don't have to "turn your head", you stood up and said you have issue with the language - I can understand that, hell I can even respect that.  But you have been here for 2 days - you aren't a cop, you aren't even a trust user... in fact we don't even know you.  I've been around for a while, I know most of the major players.  I know how to deal with them and I know what to do.
 * 6) I never said they were on the "outskirts of society", I just said they were having issue IRL.  Death/tragedy in the family, that kinda things.  Because he's grieving over the loss of a loved one, I should take away his admin status that he WORKED HARD for?  Then block him too?  While he's down there, why don't I just kick him in the balls a few times? My father died when I was 16, I understand loss and grief.  I'm willing to cut a guy a LITTLE slack, which I've sufficiently done.

I have received five different comments from other users regarding antagonism that began from the user's end. He might be the friendly and lovable WN troll, but to me, someone from the outside who up until coming into contact with him was making valuable contributions and having healthy dialogue, it seems the dynamics here are unhealthy and questionable; and it is crystal clear to me. Your logic that this is WN and not WP therefore it's all good, fails. Both are under the Wikipedia Foundation umbrella. I also see what your intentions are and I am smart enough to know Jon that I'm following protocol. --Soy Rebelde (talk) 10:06, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

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Jon, it's not your Wiki. Get over it! Chao! :) --Soy Rebelde (talk) 10:09, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh, but it is... but it is.... -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 16:28, 27 February 2010 (UTC)


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i think thats great what she posted its a full up date of this week and people who reads this post something it will only make her better!

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Thread:Comments:Whale kills trainer at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida/OMG WHALE RUSH/reply (9)

To be fair one of the individuals that the whale killed, did sneak in and got naked in his tank. --KDP3 (talk) 23:59, 25 February 2010 (UTC)


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Russian Wikipedia reaches half a million articles

February 26, 2010

The Russian Language Wikipedia surpassed 500,000 articles at 10:02 UTC on February 25, 2010, after "Ys", an article about a Joanna Newsom album, was created by Nurse fiction, a newcomer to the Wikipedia.

The Russian language Wikipedia is the tenth largest language edition of Wikipedia, boasting over three hundred and fifty "Featured Articles" and 930 "Good Articles", shown to be the best in the freely-editable encyclopaedia. Russian Wikipedia is also one of the few languages to adopt the Flagged Revisions system.

Wikipedia is a multilingual encyclopaedia that can be edited by almost anyone with an internet connection, meaning that the Russian Wikipedia has 437,862 registered users with 12,929 making at least 1 edit within the last month. The youngest known user is 10 years old, and the oldest is 80.

Last year, the Russian chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind Wikipedia, started active work supporting Wikipedia editions in the numerous languages used in Russia — such as Tatar, Chuvash, Ossetian and Yakut.


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For some reason I could not post a reply to your statement in the "Proving a point???" thread.

Where do you get the information that he set the house on fire with his wife and kid in the house?

Every news article I read indicated that they pulled up to the scene while the firefighters were already on site. That would preclude them from having been in the burning house.

If you want to vilify him for an act of domestic terrorism, that seems to fit his actions, but the claim of setting the house on fire with occupants inside appears to be false unless you can provide the source for the information.


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Thread:Comments:Whale kills trainer at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida/OMG WHALE RUSH/reply (10)

MMM... interspecies erotica. ;) But yeah, that guy had it coming, I don't want a naked man humping me. However, I don't want to be randomly grabbed either and thrashed about.


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Google claims assisted?
In the current draft it says that "Google claims it even helped the Italian police identify the bullies in the video and the person who uploaded it." I've changed that, removing the word "even" as unnecessarily POV. But I'm concerned about the phrasing in that I don't see anything in the sources that disputes this claim or makes it seem unlikely. I don't see why we don't just make this stronger, such as "Google has pointed out that it helped..." Thoughts? JoshuaZ (talk) 03:54, 26 February 2010 (UTC) -- "The Google executives were convicted of not removing a video uploaded to Google Video..." Was not removing a video really the official name of the crime they were convicted of? Bawolff ☺☻ 09:13, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

✅ --Adi4094 (talk) 09:24, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Problems
The paragraph on what Robledo said, all but the last sentence, is essentially copied from the San Francisco Chronicle article.

The last sentence, on what Vivi Down said, I can't verify from the sources, but that might be because I'm not in a position to access the Financial Times article. --Pi zero (talk)

 * I addressed the first matter by reducing the paragraph, and addressed the second by removing the sentence pending verification. Frankly, I felt leaving those problems for someone else to deal with stood an uncomfortably high probability of merely causing the article to go stale, which would do no-one any good at all.  I do think the article is worthy as it now is (yes, that is what a positive peer-review means), but if someone could verify the deleted sentence and restore it, that would further improve the article.  --Pi zero (talk) 21:39, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

✅ Last para of FT article --Adi4094 (talk) 10:38, 28 February 2010 (UTC)


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It's very telling that this is actually considered news.


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i dont think the whale should be killed. he is called a KILLER Whale. Seriously these people know wha they get into when they train with these animals. I'm sure he doesnt want to be in an okay sized pool. He wants room 2 swim around in and be with way more whales. maybe they should give them their freedom!


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SeaWorld officials already stated they have no intent to euthanize the animal.


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Not "Russian Wikipedia" but...
..."Russian language version of Wikipedia" is the correct wording. Wikipedia language versions are not national versions, as for example the german language version of Wikipedia is read and written in DE, AT, CH. --Kolja Kreß (WMDE) (talk) 10:26, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

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Thread:Comments:Chip and PIN 'not fit for purpose', says Cambridge researcher/Those in positions of power shirking responsibility and lying?/reply (2)

Going back as far as 40 years ago, the Banks and Insurance companies have always been considered the dregs of high-technology. Sure they have massive computer systems, but they have consistently dragged their feet toward any reasonable security systems, not to mention modern accounting systems.

One can only assume that they intend to maximize profit against the cost of implementing proper systems -- even though, ironically, here in the States, banks very often forgive the charges to customers who dispute them. That must cost a huge amount of money, but they seem to prefer to avoid embarrassment in the press than to actually fix their broken systems.

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Inquest held after air rifle shot kills 10-year-old boy in Swansea, Wales

February 27, 2010

An inquest was held this week after a 10-year-old boy died after being shot with an air rifle in Swansea, Wales. On September 27, 2009, Rhys Johnson and his friend, aged 12, took, without permission, an air gun which belonged to Rhys' father. The two boys played with it near to the location of the Johnson house in the district of Llansamlet. They were unsupervised when they were shooting the gun at a bucket that was hanging in a tree and a tin can that was placed on a box.

The friend, who has remained anonymous, shot Rhys Johnson in the heart with the .22 caliber Webley Vulcan air gun at close range. Johnson died in a hospital at 0211 BST the next day from said wound. Philip Rogers, a coroner from Swansea, recorded the verdict as an accidental death. He was told that the friend had no intention of shooting Johnson. Therefore, no legal action has been taken against Johnson's friend accordingly.

Detective Sergeant Nigel Morgan of South Wales Police said that "Rhys was standing to his left calling [his friend] and laughing. The boy held the rifle at the butt in his right arm with his finger on the trigger. As he turned he felt the gun to be heavy. As it fell away he pulled it towards him and accidentally fired the trigger. Rhys was holding himself to the chest—he thought he was joking then he thought he's shot Rhys in the hand. He saw no blood and Rhys ran to the house." The detective stated that the friend "was crying and apologizing for what happened."

Rhys Johnson's father, David, age 36, an engineer in a workshop and the owner of the air rifle testified, "I would allow him to use it if he was with me when I was up the garden or we were spending time together. Rhys would have shown interest in it from when he was about eight-years-old." The coroner urged "anyone with children to try and ensure that such weapons are not used without parental supervision," going on to say that he was "sure Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were not aware the children were using the weapon unsupervised."


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I've tagged the two articles you created, The investment promotion challenge for the Eastern Cape and New tourism horizons for the Eastern Cape lure investors. I don't think they're appropriate for Wikinews, since to me they read more like press releases from an organization than news. Also, more importantly, they have have no sources. One of the core policies here is that everything must be sourced, to prevent the publishing of false or inappropriate content. For more information, you might want to have a look at these links: Content guide, Writing an article and Style guide. Please contact me at my talk page if you have any further questions. Thanks, C628 (talk) 15:34, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
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At least fifteen dead after stampede at Mali mosque

February 26, 2010

According to a government official, at least 26 people were killed in a stampede on Thursday at a historic mosque in the northwestern city of Timbuktu, Mali.

"There were 26 killed and 40 wounded," Oumar Sangare, the Internal Ministry spokesman, told Reuters. However, other news agency reports put the death toll as low as fifteen.

An official, who requested to remain anonymous, said the accident could have begun as a result of renovation work on the Djingareyber mosque—which is made primarily of mud, and was built in the fourteenth century. Construction work blocked off some of the roads, and that could have been a factor in the incident. "The mosque is being renovated, financed by the Aga Khan, and the work is carried out by South African specialists," the official told the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.

"Because of these renovations, the passage on the north side of the mosque is closed off. On that side, to get through, the faithful found an improvised alleyway. But the alley couldn't take the number of people using it. So there was a stampede. Somebody shouted 'someone has died' and panic took over," the same official went on to say.

Others have remarked that rescue services responded "very quickly" to the stampede, and helped the "many injured."

The Xinhua news agency reports the stampede started when an elderly woman fell in one of the town streets near the city's main mosque, where a sermon was being conducted in front of a large crowd; a passersby then rushed to assist the woman, apparently disrupting the crowd's movement and causing the stampede.

"People were circling the mosque, a ritual at each Mouloud [the observance of the Prophet Mohammed's birthday] and there was a huge crowd build up," commented Mohamed Bandjougou, one of the witnesses to the event, to AFP by telephone. "There were at least fifteen dead. The bodies were taken to the morgue."

Authorities warned the number of injured may actually be higher than reported, saying that "we cannot rule out the fact that the number of those injured will increase because some of them are still hiding in their homes instead of coming to the hospital." A hospital source commented that some of the people hurt were in critical condition, and needed to be evacuated to the capital, Bamako, as soon as possible.

The mosque's imam, who gave his name as Asseyuti, commented on the incident. "We're in mourning. What happened is a real trauma. We accept the will of God. He gives us life, he takes it away," he said.

According to an official statement, Malian president Amandou Toumani Toure is traveling to Timbuktu from Bamako in light of the stampede.


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Thailand's Supreme Court today ruled that the family of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra be stripped of 46.3 billion baht (US$1.4 billion) in frozen assets, more than half of a contested $2.3 billion fortune. According to the court, the seized assets were illegally gained while Thaksin was Prime Minister; specifically, his familial involvement and connections with Shin Corporation.

In a statement released by the court, the judges said that Thaksin had adjusted government policies to favor telecommunications businesses, including Shin Corporation, a large telecommunications company owned by Thaksin, and his family, and sold to a Singapore investment firm in 2006. Additionally, Thaksin was alleged to have deposited shares held in Shin Corporation with family members whilst in office - a move to avoid, under Thai law, illegally holding any company stock while Prime Minister. Additionally, he was found to have unfairly promoted a $127 million loan to Burma – benefiting a satellite communications firm controlled by his family.

In a response from an undisclosed location outside Thailand, Thaksin contested the ruling, claiming the case was politically motivated and that, "the court was used to get rid of a politician." In his remarks, he said that he came by his wealth legally, and he would continue his fight against both the ruling and the party that ousted him in 2008. In Thailand, Thaksin's red-shirted supporters publicly opposed the verdict; although, no significant disturbances have been reported despite government warnings over the possibility violence. Instead, protesters say they plan a mass demonstration against the ruling sometime in March.


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