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California bans sale of violent video games to minors

October 9, 2005

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law a bill that bans the sale or rental of violent video games to minors. The bill requires violent video games sold in the state of California to be labeled with a decal reading "18" and makes their sale to a minor punishable by a fine of $1000 per offense.

AB 1179, written by Assemblymember (D-San Francisco), defines a violent video game as one that "enables the player to virtually inflict serious injury upon images of human beings or characters with substantially human characteristics in a manner which is especially heinous, cruel, or depraved in that it involves torture or serious physical abuse to the victim."

The bill also states, "Exposing minors to depictions of violence in video games, including sexual and heinous violence, makes those minors more likely to experience feelings of aggression, to experience a reduction of activity in the frontal lobes of the brain, and to exhibit violent antisocial or aggressive behavior."

The bill will take effect January 1, 2006. Groups opposing the bill, including free speech advocates and the video game industry, already plan to challenge its constitutionality in court.


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More troops for southern Thailand troubles

October 9, 2005

The Thai Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, despatched an additional 1,000 troops to the south of the country to help deal with the widespread violence. This brings the total number of security forces operating in the three troubled provinces to approximately 30,000.

Mr. Shinawatra's recent visit to the region was followed by further shootings. In Narathiwat Province a 40 year old village worker was shot while helping a neighbour repair a fence. Friday saw the shooting of an assistant village head in Yala Province, and an elderly couple were shot in Pattani Province whilst returning from a local market.

The insurgency and campaign for an independent Muslim state in the southern provinces has resulted in an exodus from the area. Estimates put the number of Thai Buddhists who have fled the area at 34,000. There are also some reports that Muslim inhabitants of the area have been seeking refuge in Malaysia.

The state of emergency imposed last month has had a mixed reception. Largely favoured by Buddhists in the provinces, this grants additional powers to the Prime Minister and follows on from martial law having been in place since January 2004. Despite these security measures, over 1,000 people have died in the insurgency.

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User:Gktemplet

I'm based in Piatra Neamt, Romania for two years and hope to write about the Romanian economy and EU accession.

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

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User:Aholtman

Angela Holtmann

 * Welcome to my user page!

I registered as a user with the English wikinews on 9 October, 2005.

Now, I have finally finished kind of a first version of a "personalised" user page. ;-)

News
Here is a list of the news articles I've started/written so far:
 * Russia assumes leadership of G8 for 2006 (3 January, 2006) – a translation of an article from the Russian wikinews
 * Daisuke Enomoto will be the fourth space tourist at the ISS (10 March, 2006) – started as a translation of an article from the German wikinews (with lots of copyediting by Mindspillage to improve the English)
 * Demonstrator in coma - serious allegations against the French police (21 March, 2006) – a translation of an article from the German wikinews
 * Multiple sclerosis more often transmitted by fathers (26 July, 2006)
 * World reacts to execution of Saddam Hussein (1 January, 2007) – a translation of an article (of mine) from the German wikinews
 * Abel prize 2008 awarded to John G. Thompson and Jacques Tits (20 May, 2008) – a translation of an article (of mine) from the German wikinews
 * Alleged war criminal Radovan Karadžić caught in Serbia (22 July, 2008) – a translation of an article (of mine) from the German wikinews (supplemented by Brianmc with two other sources)
 * Russia ends "counterterrorism operation" in Chechnya (started on 19 April, 2009; published on 25 April, 2009) – (with additional information by Sean Heron)

For my news contributions to de.wikinews, click here! ;-)

And this is where I live

 * North Rhine-Westphalia
 * Germany

Contact information
You can leave your messages on my talk page. If you have registered as a user with the English wikinews and provided your email address, you can also send me an email. (As I mostly contribute to the German wikinews, I might be reached more easily through my German talk page.)

Further

 * I will be grateful to all native English speakers for correcting my English.
 * My personal test page (templates, useful links, etc.)
 * Recently noticed: The Wikinews Bulletin :-)
 * t.b.c.

--Angela H.; last modified: 18:57, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

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User talk:Aholtman

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

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 * Thank you very much for your welcome message. [I could have needed a similar message when I started with the German wikinews... ;-) But this was earlier.] If I have any further questions, I will just pose them whereever I think it will be "appropriate". --Angela H. 12:23, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Welcome templates
Just to fill you in a bit more, there's also for IPs who make a noticeable positive contribution,  for people wo do things like a page titled asdfgh or just adding that onto an existing article. The reason the template should be substituted is that otherwise you end up with an edit link that takes users to editing the template.

You probably want to take note of shortcuts as well, you can enter them into the search box at the left to go directly to specific pages such as the water cooler (WN:WC), deletion requests (WN:DR)), admin action alerts (WN:AAA), list of infoboxes (WN:IB), and quite a few more. --Brian McNeil / talk 17:28, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Oh, another contribution to my talk page. :-) Thanks. --Angela H. 18:20, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

While I'm here...
New template for you, see Reactions to the execution of Saddam Hussein and Template:Translated Wikinews, format is:

--Brian McNeil / talk 17:30, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Oh, thank you. :-) A New year's present? ;-) Well, in the German wikinews, we also include the language code as a picture with the corresponding template, but as far as I have seen, there are no language code templates here. What do you think of the "German layout style"? --Angela H. 17:37, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The German front page is something I don't think we could follow, but we should probably be using the language codes, I know User:Stevenfruitsmaak uses them when he uses a Dutch source, you're more than welcome to go and set up templates. I'd shout on the Water cooler to find out where they should be documented. --Brian McNeil / talk 17:45, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Hmm, I am not quite sure whether I expressed myself correctly or whether I got you right. No, I did not want to introduce a new Wikinews front page. The layout question was meant to refer to the translation template. I just saw at least one page with a bit of documentation for language codes. Although I asked myself why there were two parameters (one of them optional) giving exactly the same results… It seems that Stevenfruitsmaak is on a wikinews holiday – preparing his exams. At least, that is what his user page told me. Thank you again for your help. --Angela H. 18:12, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, somehow he did not take his wiki holidays too seriously during the last few days... ;-) --Angela H. 18:16, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes it's difficult to control my addiction, especially if there's interesting news out there... anyway for foreign-language sources I found Template:Languageicon very handy: the first parameter is a two-letter code referring to the language as it is used in the wikimedia projects, e.g. de for German, nl for Dutch etc. The second parameter is the language name in English: this makes it an easy to use template across projects: if you use a German news source like Der Spiegel or something, you can put it behind the source in the sources section like, which gives . The translation notice from Brian seems like a good idea, I've done some translation on Wikipedia but almost never here: the other language wiki's (in my case, the Dutch one), seem to been on permanent wikibreak... I have no idea were there could be more guidance on this subject.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 22:56, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Thank you for your immediate answer. So it's just in case, someone forgets about the language code, that the first parameter was introduced? ;-) Well, the Dutch wikinews really does not have so many articles. A bit in contrast to the German wikinews (and recently also the French version :-)). So I think I got the "language entries" for the article right. Thanks again. --Angela H. 23:21, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Talk page notify
Someone spamed your talk page with a gripe about how the site works. Ignore it. :) irid:t 14:42, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Quiz
A new quiz is up, want to translate it over to de. and do an interwiki? Might encourage other languages to pick up on it. --Brian McNeil / talk 09:26, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Oh, a new week has already started… Thanks for reminding me. :-) --Angela H. 18:44, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi!
Just saying hi! :) Nyarlathotep 19:10, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Oh, hi. :-) --Angela H. 19:20, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

WN:AR
We have someone from de.wikinews with an accreditation request. Can you comment? --Brian McNeil / talk 14:25, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Hi, Brianmc! I hope that my comment on WN:AR can help the community on en.wikinews a bit with their decision. I don't really feel able to vote because I do not know too much about the accreditation on en.wikinews (except for what I just read on Accreditation policy) and have not been involved in other cases. Compared with Sean Heron, in Sean's case my decision would probably have been much clearer (and support), one of the reasons being that he was much more active (on de.wikinews), but — unfortunately — I missed his request somehow. --Angela H. 19:49, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Hi Angela, as you might have seen, from the moment of my updated user page, which predated my request, I've started being more active than before on both en. and de.wikinews, preparing my own articles and contributing to those of others, which I intend to continue no matter what, but which, as I hope, also lends credibility to my request.
 * Currently the votes are balanced and I'd ask you to lend a voice in support - to allow for access to press conferences, starting with the upcoming Frankfurt International BookFair in October where all topics are handled and interview access to dignitaries and interesting authors of many countries is possible. I will be there anyway, but the difference between (F) and (P) on my ID is the willingness of people to talk to someone - or to just hand someone a flyer. Press conference attendance will also come up on political issues.
 * Your support would be very muich appreciated. --Gwyndon 20:37, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

WN:WM2008
Don't know if you've seen the above page, but we could do with a photographer (wink, wink). --Brian McNeil / talk 16:34, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Hmm, first of all you could need someone who creates a link to meta:Wikimania 2008 or http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org on WN:WM2008… ;-) Well, actually, the problem is that I am neither a good photographer – maybe not so important… – nor someone who would be able to join the conference because I won't have my holidays then (and not be able to get any holidays during that period). But anyway, thanks for letting me know! --Angela H. - (talk) 16:48, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Translation help
I've replied to your request on the article's talk page. Kingjeff - (talk) 15:26, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Interwiki links
I've fixed the interwiki liks on Russian mathematician declines Fields Medal. In the future, use editprotected to ask administrators to correct articles. Anonymous101  18:35, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

 * That's a good thing to know. (I should have known about the template - because of this one… ;-) ) --Angela H. (talk) 18:38, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

 * I've added the en interwiki to the German page Anonymous101  18:41, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

 * I know. I just got a "Bearbeitungskonflikt" - whatever this might be in English - with you. I did the same for the English page with the de interwiki. ;-) --Angela H. (talk) 18:44, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

 * Bearbeitungskonflikt is edit conflict in English Anonymous101  18:44, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

 * Yes, of course. I got another one when I tried to welcome you at de.wikinews. So I skipped inserting the welcome message at your talk page. --Angela H. (talk) 18:50, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi !
Nice to see you here :). I was glad to see your article still got released - with the review policy (which is of course a good thing in principle), getting all the finished ones actually published seems a bit of a problem. Cant say how long I'll be hanging round here, but I'm quite happy at the moment :). See you round! Sean Heron (talk) 14:32, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

 * Hi! Nice to see you again. I did not know that you were that active over here. Well, I had to wait a bit until the article was published. (In the meantime, it had been marked "stale" twice, but I was able to find new news everytime. ;-)) Thank you for adding another paragraph to the article. :-) See you. --Angela H. (talk) 09:20, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
 * P.S.: Well, actually I saw some of your contributions before and was going to leave you a message on your talk page, but could not make up my mind on the question which language I should take. ;-)

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Talk:Strong earthquake hits Pakistan, north India, Afghanistan

this is a horrible tragedy

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I've added a link to the Disasters Emergency Committee for anyone in the UK who wishes to help. Maybe people in other countries could do the same for charities operating outside the UK?

ohno
sad for people

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Category:Azad Kashmir. Ali Rana (talk) 12:52, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ – Juliancolton  | Talk 00:00, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

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Category talk:Food

Good Lord, a 'Food' category --> news recipees anybody?! -Edbrown05 16:18, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * topic: Food presentation
 * "the Iraqi pie" --> an odd number of slices by means of a pizza pie cutter
 * start from middle and roll pizza cutter to the fringe
 * repeat 2 more times
 * This makes a mess of the middle, but the fringes are happy.
 * -Edbrown05 16:38, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Move articles to a new category
Per the deletion discussion, isn't there consensus to move this to Category:Food and drink as a sub-cat of Category:Health? --Brian McNeil / talk 14:31, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

 * There was a sense in that direction, yes (here).

 * I'm certainly in favor of merging the two into one under Category:Health.

 * However, can we find a better name than "Food and drink"? That sounds like cuisine; indeed, it's not entirely impossible to imagine we could —at some point— have a Category:Cuisine under Category:Culture and entertainment.  --Pi zero (talk) 16:19, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Your suggestion is, most definitely, encyclopedic. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:47, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Food (and not so much drink) are health, politics and business issues, until you imbibe purely for pleasure, when it becomes cuisine. Nobody writes much cuisine news at Wikinews, but there is no reason why they shouldn't. How about
 * Category:Nutrition and
 * Category:Cuisine ? I think they suit a serious news site.
 * --InfantGorilla (talk) 21:45, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

 * Although the word "cuisine" covers the culture-and-entertainment variants of both food and drink, "nutrition" is really only the health variant of food.

 * I worry about a category
 * (1) if it's difficult to decide, consistently, whether any given article should belong to the category.
 * (2) if it's hard to remember to consider the category, when categorizing a given article that might properly belong to it.
 * I'm a little worried about "cuisine" and "nutrition" based on (2). It may be advisable to have a single category for the health variants of food and drink, lest separating them present difficulties for (1).  --Pi zero (talk) 08:07, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

 * I agree that my suggestions will be hard to remember. The nutrition suggestions was meant to cover, for example, health, famine, drought and bread price riots, but on hindsight, it probably doesn't. We still need better names, and my suggestions don't cut it. While I am happy to see a merger of food with drink, I don't think outright deletion is appropriate, nor is a category description that excludes drought, famine, alcohol taxes or the Common Agricultural Policy. --InfantGorilla (talk) 13:35, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Given that this has now been made a subcat of Health and there hasn't been further discussion for well over a year, I am removing the flag - Cartman02au (Talk)(AU Portal) 07:13, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

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Weekend violence in Darfur complicates peace talks

October 9, 2005

On Sunday, armed men kidnapped eighteen African Union personnel (including military observers and civilian police) in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan. According to AU commission spokesperson Adam Thiam, "They were taken by a dissident group of Jem." The Justice and Equality Movement, or Jem, is an Islamic rebel force deeply involved in the ongoing conflict in the region.

One day earlier two AU personnel and two civilians were killed in an attack believed to be perpetrated by the Sudan Liberation Army. A third soldier injured in the attack succumbed to his injuries on Sunday. Additionally, two personnel are missing and three others were injured.

According to the AU, those who survived identified the attackers' vehicles and uniforms as belonging to the SLA.

Both rebel groups have been in conflict with the Sudanese government and its Arab militia (referred to as Janjaweed) since 2003, although the roots of the violence stretch back to the first and second Sudanese Civil Wars. Since the conflict began it is said that 180,000 people have been killed and 2 million have been forced to flee from their homes. The term genocide has been applied to the conflict although this has been hotly contested. The United Nations has come under intense criticism for refusing to refer to it as a genocide, something the United States has done. The International Criminal Court is investigating alleged war-crimes in the region, although the Sudanese government denies the allegations.

6,000 African Union troops have been dispatched to monitor a ceasefire between the opposing forces, and these latest attacks come on the heels of another round of peace talks. Although both sides have expressed optimism, the AU contends that progress is slow and blames divisions within the Sudan Liberation Army for holding up progress.

The AU has also accused the government of continuing attacks on villages and refugee camps. The Khartoum government denies this.


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Talk:Weekend violence in Darfur complicates peace talks

This is my first full article on Wikinews. I'm looking for a rather brutal critique. If no one has any problems with it I'll publish the article in a couple of hours. Thanks! --Wolfrider 20:43, 9 October 2005 (UTC) Excellent piece, nicely done. And good to see some more news about Africa. I've nothing brutal to say! Rcameronw 22:04, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I'll check back periodically to make sure there aren't any issues. --Wolfrider 22:35, 9 October 2005 (UTC)


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VeriSign acquires Weblogs.com

October 9, 2005 VeriSign Inc. announced Friday it has acquired Weblogs.com. Mountain View, California based VeriSign bought Berkeley based Weblogs.com from Scripting News Inc. for $2.3 million in cash.

Weblogs.com offers a ping service that uses RSS to alert people to new content posted on a blog or website.

Weblogs.com founder Dave Winer told the Associated Press that Weblogs.com had grown to be too big for him to handle. "Actually, I would have liked to sell sooner. Keeping the site running was a perpetual challenge. We would scale and it would just grow exponentially." said Winer. Weblogs.com sends out nearly 2 million pings per day.

“VeriSign has the size and expertise to handle the growth” said Mark McLaughlin, senior VP of naming and directory services at VeriSign. "The Internet has experienced an explosion in both the number of bloggers and the number of daily RSS feeds from bloggers over the past 12 to 24 months, but the infrastructure to support that level of Internet communications has not kept pace," said McLaughlin.

VeriSign has said they will continue to operate Weblogs.com as a free service. However they may in the future charge for additional services.

America Online also recently acquired a similarly named but unrelated blog publisher, Weblogs Inc.

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Hurricane Vince on track for Europe

October 9, 2005

This unusual hurricane season, one of the most active in history, has produced another strange storm. Category 1 Hurricane Vince, which was formed from a non-tropical low today, is forecast to head east towards Portugal, rather than west as is usual. Vince caught forecasters by surprise, since the waters in the area are around 25ºC. Few expected Vince to even form in the cool waters, much less to become a hurricane.

Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center do not expect Vince to be a hurricane for long. It is forecast to weaken as it moves towards Portugal, and to finally become extratropical. In about 48 hours, they believe Vince will be absorbed by a front in Portugal or Spain.

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User talk:69.167.196.4

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

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 22:20, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
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Lions Lose the City article
Thank you for writing Lions Lose the City, however I have a couple of questions. First, which sport or event is this article referring to? Also, where did you find out the information for this article? If you attended the game, you should write down a summary of the game you witnessed on the article's talk page and then put at the bottom of the article. If you saw this event in the newspaper (or anywhere else where news is), you should write which article in which newspaper you got the information from.

I am interested because it is one of our major policies that you must cite where your information came from. Please respond to me as quickly as you can on my talk page.

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Talk:Hurricane Vince on track for Europe

Europe's a big place. Could we be a bit more specific - ie. "Hurricane heads for south-west Europe" or "Hurricane heads for Portugal"? 212.139.54.23 23:10, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

 * It depends what you mean by Europe. Look on a globe and you'll see that the countries of the European Union form a pretty tiny blob compared to most of the Earth. If you include the region all the way to the Urals, then it's no longer quite so small. And Portugal is a pretty small place for a hurricane to hide in (especially in the west-east direction). south-west Europe or the Iberian Peninsula would probably be OK. But then again, it seems that hurricane experts thought that this hurricane should not be heading eastwards anyway (warning: i'm just reading from the article - i haven't cross-checked this at all, and have no background knowledge!) - can they really be confident regarding how much of Europe it will travel through? Boud 01:22, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

This discussion might out-last the hurricane. I agree that "on track" wrongly implies the forcast is certain, and think that "for Europe" is not very specific. I'd know general area immediately if the headline mentioned "The Iberian Peninsula" -- however, I am an exceptional geography student and your own nautical mileage may vary. Vague headlines are somewhat annoying 10:37, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Vince is now back to tropical storm status, according to the NHC. The latest forecast says Vince is quickly weakening and may become a tropical depression or remnant low within 12 hours, so it is possible it never makes landfall on Portugal. A good map of Vince's projected track by the Navy is located here. Here is a great image of Vince's eye from Weather Underground. If it actually hits Portugal, which the NHC doubts, it will be the first time a tropical cyclone ever hits Europe. It is indeed going "the wrong way." 200.74.188.7 16:50, 10 October 2005 (UTC)


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 * Sean Michael Currie
 * Age 20
 * Currently preparing for med school
 * Politically active
 * Writer
 * Media addict
 * Gamer

Articles

 * Saddam Hussein admits to requesting trials
 * Weekend violence in Darfur complicates peace talks
 * African Union hostages freed by Darfur rebels
 * Trial of Saddam Hussein to be televised
 * Malawi appeals for further humanitarian aid
 * Iraq ballots to be audited due to voting "anomalies"
 * South African spies suspended
 * Armed gunmen attack cruise ship off Somali coast

Contact Information

 * Email: [mailto:wolfrider@gmail.com wolfrider@gmail.com]
 * Url: http://wolfrider.typepad.com

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Chinese activist severely beaten by "mob"

October 10, 2005

Guardian journalist Benjamin Joffe-Walt has claimed to have witnessed democracy activist Lu Banglie beaten "lifeless" by a mob on Saturday night. Joffe-Walt and Lu were in a taxi attempting to enter the villiage of Taishi, which the journalist described as "the hotspot of the growing rural uprisings in China".

According to Mr Joffe-Walt, their car was surrounded by a group of about 30 men. When the men recognised Mr Lu, "... they completely lost it. They pulled him out and bashed him to the ground, kicked him, pulverised him, stomped on his head over and over again. The beating was loud, like the crack of a wooden board, and he was unconscious within 30 seconds. They continued for 10 minutes. The body of this skinny little man turned to putty between the kicking legs of the rancorous men."

Mr Lu was later found to have survived but suffered serious injuries. Mr Lu has told the Guardian that he was battered unconscious and later driven hundreds of miles to his home town where he is now recuperating. Civil rights lawyers said they were considering a legal case against his attackers, thought to be a group of thugs hired by the local authorities to put down an anti-corruption campaign against the chief of Taishi village.


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User talk:202.179.137.14

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

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! - Borofkin 07:13, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
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 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
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User talk:66.65.5.211

Welcome
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User talk:63.230.194.194

Welcome
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User talk:86.138.252.206

Welcome
Thanks for experimenting with Wikinews. Your test worked, and has now been reverted or removed. Please use Sandbox for any other tests you want to do, since testing in articles may disrupt the site's working and will be reverted quickly. 86.138.252.206, welcome to Wikinews! Please refrain from using content pages for testing. Here are a few good links for newcomers on how to edit Wikinews:

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Schröder gives up German chancellorship ambitions, makes way for Merkel

October 10, 2005

Social Democrat Gerhard Schröder has given up his ambition to be chancellor in a future government and cleared the way for the current opposition leader, Christian Democrat Angela Merkel, to become the first female chancellor in the history of Germany, officials for both parties confirmed.

Both Schröder and Merkel previously insisted that they become head of government, making chancellorship the all deciding issue whether to form a coalition. Now Schröder is reportedly resigning from politics, but while he may not be in the next government, his withdrawal comes at a high price for the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU).

The Social Democrats (SPD) will take eight minister posts, against six for the CDU/CSU. But who will occupy these posts has yet to be determined. Beside various rumors in Berlin, it has only been confirmed so far that the current Bavarian governor Edmund Stoiber will take over as minister for economy and technology. The agreement, negotiated between Schröder, Merkel, Stoiber, and SPD chair Franz Müntefering, has already been approved by both parties' leadership committees.

Official negotiations for all the details of the future coalition are scheduled to begin next Monday and are expected to last until at least November 12.

The early federal election on September 18 produced an effective stalemate as both CDU/CSU and the SPD got approximately the same votes, with CDU/CSU having a narrow lead of 4 seats in the Bundestag. Neither party was able to form a coalition with their preferred partner, FDP and the Greens, respectively, forcing them to enter talks to form a grand coalition.


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Seltsamer Zufall, dass alle die Menschen, deren Schädel man geöffnet hat, ein Gehirn hatten. Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Wallace and Gromit sets destroyed by fire

October 10, 2005

The sets and props of popular claymation characters Wallace and Gromit have been destroyed in a warehouse blaze this morning in Bristol, UK.

The disaster comes only days after the US release of Nick Park's latest film featuring the characters, The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit, which topped the box office chart and took US$16.1 million (GB£9.1 million) over the weekend. The film is scheduled for UK release this Friday.

Sets and models from the new film escaped as they had not yet been added to the Aardman Animation collection hosted in Bristol. Among the damage caused by the blaze, the character Morph was lost; for many UK children the appearance of this character in Tony Hart's BBC art programmes was their first introduction to stop motion animation.

The warehouse, located near Bristol's central railway station, dated from the Victorian era and was formerly part of Ismbard Kingdom Brunel's Great Western Railway.

Ten fire crews attended the blaze, in which flames shot 100ft into the air, from 0600 BST into the afternoon, but were unable to prevent the collapse of the roof, interior walls and all three floors of the building.

An investigation will begin once the building has been made safe.


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User talk:Yaf201~enwikinews

Welcome
Yaf201, welcome to Wikinews! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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WN:SG
Hi! I'm impressed with some of your edits to the Wikinews styleguide; some of these are great ideas. However, the styleguide is not to be edited without first gaining consensus for these changes on the discussion page. I'm reverting recent changes which were not discussed there until the community has a chance to discuss them. Please bring them up again there! - Amgine / talk 23:18, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Swansea bank robbery article
hi, articles which haven't been published can be listed for deletion. while this one may have "slipped away", i appreciate ur interest and effort to bring potentially newsworthy events that haven't yet been latched on to by the big media, to Wikinews. so long as what we report is sourced or good-fath original reporting, it's ok if our reports are occasionally later shown to be wrong, that's an inescapable problem for any news source. hope to see more from you here on Wikinews, — Doldrums(talk) 08:19, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Yaf201. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Yaf201~enwikinews that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

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

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:41, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:132.69.253.140

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User talk:64.66.99.69

Welcome
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Talk:Schröder gives up German chancellorship ambitions, makes way for Merkel

picture position
it looks weird for me, schroder is in the top left corner but merkel starts at the bottom right of schroders picture and goes through the sources section. not really into picture layout so can't change it myself. this with firefox 1.0.7 on winxp btw. 130.89.11.31 15:05, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Hmm, looks fine to me and I'm also using firefox. What's the resolution of your display? --Deprifry | +T+ 15:10, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 1280x1024 130.89.11.31 15:37, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Made some changes. Please tell me if its better now. --Deprifry | +T+ 15:48, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * looks a little better now, still i would go for putting merkel top right or actually against the side and not beyond schroder like now. this is how it looks for me: http://boneyard.student.utwente.nl/schrodervsmerkel.jpg 130.89.11.31 08:05, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Ok. I've messed a little around with html code. It should work now. I think. I hope. --Deprifry | +T+ 10:40, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Merkel Image
The Image is not PD and has been deleted on commons. Please remove. --82.83.39.157 07:50, 31 August 2006 (UTC)


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Saudi Arabia blocks access to Blogger, Flickr, LiveJournal

October 10, 2005 The government of Saudi Arabia blocked access to Google's Web blogging service Blogger, Yahoo!'s photo sharing website Flickr, and the diary service LiveJournal as well as some other websites through their nationally run Internet Services Unit (ISU) last Tuesday. As a result, English-speaking Saudis were prevented from publishing blogs, reading journals, or viewing pictures on Flickr.

The Saudi Arabian government uses a filtering service provided by the United States-owned company Secure Computing. Similar blocking services have been implemented in other countries, such as The People's Republic of China.

In the past, the ISU had, on and off, blocked access to BlogSpot.com's free hosting service. However, according to activist organization Reporters Without Borders, "blog services [applications] had not until now been affected by the ISU's filters. The complete blocking of blogger.com, which is one of the biggest blog tools on the market, is extremely worrying. Only China had so far used such an extreme measure to censor the Internet."

On Thursday, access to Blogger.com was restored, but Flickr and LiveJournal remained inaccessible. The ISU did not release any public statement about the blocking or restoration of service to any specific website.


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User talk:Karen

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old article needs protecting
i think Second U.S. anti-missile defence system test fails needs to be protected for archiving. i just reverted a vandal edit on it. could u pls protect it. thanks, Doldrums 18:29, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Done - thank you for bringing that to my attention. Karen 19:53, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, incidentally, some other articles published on that date are also unprotected, i think. shall i list them here so u can protect those too? Doldrums 19:57, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

 * I've got to leave for now. I think Amgine is around right now to help. Karen 20:13, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

would u care to...
... work ur magic on Iran's leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei threatens "harm" and "double response to any strike" (yes, i love the title too.) I'm hoping for a quick publiucation, preferably ahead of today's anticipated developments on the issue. thanks, Doldrums 03:36, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

 * There wasn't much for me to edit - the story looks good! Karen 03:46, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

 * any ideas on the title? best i could do was "Iran nuclear impasse heads towards Friday deadline". Doldrums 03:48, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

 * "Iran nuclear impasse continues" is short, and to the point. :) I had more edits to make after more contributors made edits than before. That's usually why I wait until the story is published to edit. Often my edits are lost when sections of text are removed or changed, so I usually don't bother stories earlier in development. Karen 20:21, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Speedy deletion vs. redirects
Hello there Karen! I've noticed that you put the delete tag on Trapped miners rescue delayed because all the content has been merged. For future reference, once you've merged an article into another one, you can simple make it a redirect. To do those, you simply write  #REDIRECT Other article  and then it will direct people to that page. Just letting you know for the future. — THIS IS M ESSED OCKER  (TALK) 19:42, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
 * That certainly makes more sense, Messedrocker. I knew how to create a redirect, but didn't think to apply it in this situation. Thanks for the note! Karen 19:02, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Subject/verb agreement
Hi Karen - thanks for your work in picking out small grammatical/spelling changes.

Just a quick note on 'subject/verb agreement'. Quite a few of these 'mistakes' are when the subject is syntactically singular but semantically plural, ie collective nouns. Whilst some people suggest that collective nouns should always be treated as singular, there seems to be a growing acceptance of treating them as plural (eg "the team have"). In these cases, I tend to go with what 'feels' most natural, although this will probably vary by idiolect (and possibly British vs American english). Frankie Roberto 11:25, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Semantically, the team is singular, while teams are plural. The confusion is when the subject "team" semantically refers to the people on the team. A team really is a singular entity, just like a group, a couple, or (in one edit I made) a threesome. I've also seen problems with "government have". A way to be syntactically singular but semantically plural and still use a verb for a singular noun subject would be to place the singular noun into a preposition modifying the plural subject. "The people of team alpha have done their job."

 * Indeed, but it can be a bit of a judgement call as to whether words like 'team' refer to the individuals or to the group. Both "the government has" and "the government have" both get well over a million hits, with all the top results come from authoritative sources. In most contexts, I can happily swap the singular and plural verb forms with them both still sounding perfectly natural... Frankie Roberto 20:04, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

 * "The government have" is syntactically incorrect, while semantically expressing "Government officials have". Just rewriting the sentence to be both syntactically and semantically correct makes the actual subject clear. "Team" always refers to a singular entity. I do agree that “team” can imply a plural subject, but the implied subject isn't the noun "team". When referring to plural elements of the team, just use a noun to represent those plural elements and add the modifying prepositional phrase "of the team".  If I've failed to make a particular judgement call (I reviewed the last few days' edits.), please let me know.  In every case, I believe rewriting the sentence can make it both syntactically and semantically correct.  I may make mistakes in judgement where I've simply changed the verb tense instead of recasting the sentence.  If you find where I've made a natural-sounding sentence seem awkward, then I probably made an edit in haste. Please let me know if I’ve made a sentence worse. I've seen others edit my edits and I've returned to make revisions, as well. "The team has done well, but the members of the team aren't perfect." Karen 20:27, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Or if you dislike having to use a prepositional phrase when a pronoun refering back to the original subject will do:
 * "The team has done well, but its memmbers aren't perfect." Karen 04:38, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

collective nouns
Frankie Roberto is indeed correct that British usage often treats collective nouns as plurals.

Thus you'll see British usage such as "The team are full of enthusiasm." The usage isn't exceptional; it's merely colloquial. In the example sentence, "the team" simply implies "The team members". Thus, it's correct to replace the collective noun with what it actually implies, which satisfies all parties (the syntactical and the semantic). Why clarify what's colloquially implied? Because Wikinews readers are international, it's best to remove colloquial usage whenever possible. Karen 22:13, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

In Scandal rocks Italian soccer clubs, the sentence "In the day in which Juventus have win the 29th Scudetto for the second year in a row The Naples magistrates are looking into suspicions of "criminal association" and "sporting fraud," begs editing. I'll wait for the story to develop before trying to make sense of the sentence in its current state. Although I've listed it here as an example of a collective noun defying subject/verb agreement, I believe the sentence suffers from other problems. Karen 23:41, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

subject/verb agreement (some)

 * The most confusing pronoun with respect to verb agreement is "some", which is syntactically "one or more", but usually semantically means "more than one". Fortunately, I haven't seen any possible edits which involve "some".

"Some of these owners has received antibiotic cures, because this powder might be anthrax." appeared in Possible Anthrax scare in Norway. Notice "some" is treated as singular, possibly because the low end of the range "one or more" would be (one) singular. If sources could be more specific to indicate "more than one", then replacing "some … has" with "several … have" would be correct and more specific. It's best to avoid the use of "some" because it's quantitatively vague. Karen 20:32, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

recent subject/verb agreement edits

 * An edit I'm currently making states: "there was several sites in Iran which tested positive". Note the misuse of "which", also. What "feels" right is "there were several sites in Iran that tested positive." "Several sites in Iran tested positive" is shorter, doesn't require extra pronouns for verbs, and avoids the use of the restrictive "that" phrase.

 * Usually, when there's a difference between the semantic and the syntactic, the sentence is probably awkward enough that it can be re-written to solve it. Karen 19:18, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Found and corrected in today's published stories:
 * The main concern in many cities and towns are wheter or not the dams that hold rivers from flowing in cities will hold long enough.
 * Found and corrected in yesterday's published stories:
 * As a response to these incidents, the State Police of São Paulo has arrested 82 suspects.
 * Recently found and corrected before yesterday's published stories:
 * Two Ferrari cars occupies the second row.
 * In the drivers' championship, Fernando Alonso won back 2 points from Michael Schumacher and now have 15 points lead.

spot the error!
what (if anything) is grammatically incorrect in Template: Lead article? and how should it be fixed? Doldrums 06:24, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
 * The prepositional phrase "for the Washington D.C.'s branch" modifying the verb "appointed" should be "for the Washington D.C. branch", since the appointment was for the Washington D.C. branch, not for Washington D.C.'s possession. Also, the phrase "coming from 18 years of service to Pittsburgh" intends to modify "a new spiritual leader," but sounds too awkward being set in a phrase seperated from the rest of the sentence by the comma - my suggestion is "The Holy See has appointed a new spiritual leader with 18 years of service to Pittsburgh for the Washington D.C. branch of the Catholic Church." Karen 06:32, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Karen, will you marry me? - Borofkin 06:43, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

 * hey! that was supposed to be my line! :) Doldrums 06:52, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

 * To me, it sounds least awkward of all the edits made so far. Give it a try. Karen 06:47, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

"The Holy See has appointed Donald Wuerl, the Bishop of Pittsburgh, as the new spiritual leader for the Washington D.C. branch of the Catholic Church." is even better. Looks like another point for the team!

The sentence was a bit overloaded, before. Breaking a long or awkward sentence into smaller sentences is much better for copy. Moving phrases closer to the words that they modify will always help, too! Karen 06:56, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Copyedit Project
Karen, as the undisputed Queen of Copyedit here at Wikinews, I'm wondering if you are aware of these pages and projects on Wikipedia:

 * w:Wikipedia:Copyediting
 * w:Wikipedia:WikiProject_Fix_common_mistakes
 * w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Grammar

Wikinews may be ready for a similar project. It would probably involve some method of tagging articles as needing copyediting (e.g. Template:copyedit), and then a page to organise contributors who are willing to copyedit. Whaddaya think? - Borofkin 08:15, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

 * As far as I'm concerned, any story I haven't read should be tagged as needing copyediting. See? Now your exaggerated compliment has gone to my head. I do try to read every published story, though. In general, it's faster to edit the entire story than it would be to tag and wait for someone else to come along to clean it. When the story is too confusing for me to edit, I just mark it with this existing tag: (for example)

 * I think I've only marked a story twice for cleanup - either because it was too confusing or I didn't have the time because I needed to leave soon.

 * My experience with copyediting is somewhat limited to news stories, so I don't venture to other wiki projects. When the user accounts are joined such that I can log in elsewhere by using the same account I made here, I'll be motivated more to make non-anonymous edits elsewhere.

 * Seriously, I do make the same kinds of edits very frequently. I could sure write something about the common mistakes I correct for spelling (occur, occurred, occurring), usage (which vs. that, followed by it's vs. its), style (time and date format), punctuation (said " vs. said, "), duplicate words (the the), and grammar (subject/verb and verb tense agreement).

 * The idea of having a list of contributors who are willing to copyedit would be nice - then a central discussion page could allow non-content-editing contributors to discuss issues and reach a concensus on issues that shouldn't be mentioned in the style guide without disussion. I've a checklist for copyediting; It'd be nice to share with others. Karen 08:47, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I suppose the value of a tag would be that it would contain something like Category:Articles needing copyedit, so all the articles in need of copyedit would be listed in one place (we can't do this with the  tag. Such a system would only be required when our number of articles increases, perhaps beyond 20-30 per day. As a wiki gets bigger, people with the skills need to become "organisers", because there will be (hopefully) too much work for one person to do. I love the idea of a "Karens Top Five", though. Perhaps you could write up a rant about the most common errors and post it to the water cooler? - Borofkin 02:47, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Sorry, I didn't mean to dismiss the idea of a template so quickly. Your planning for the future should start now.

 * A template will be useful later. In fact, I can imagine instead of the long one-pass method of checking every story and fixing as I go would be replaced by a two-pass method where I check every story, tag some, then go back through the list that have been tagged and fix those. In the process, others can participate just by going through the same list. In fact, it would be great to see some of them corrected by the time I get to them, or others correcting them along with me in parallel.

 * I can view and analyse all of my edits for statistics. That's how I picked my examples that I listed above. I started cross-checking the largest number of specific fixes to the contributors and emailed or left a message on a talk page about some of them so they'd not keep writing the same way.

 * This coming week I'll be traveling, so won't have much time until partly through June. But the template is easy to make. I've made one before, and the example from Wikipedia will serve us well. Karen 02:59, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Yep, this is roughly how I was thinking it would work. The template would include Category:Articles needing copyedit, but not Category:Disputed, so the copyedit tag wouldn't cause them to become unpublished. - Borofkin 03:01, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Grammar query
is this ok? "the final 717 jet ever built" to mean "the last 717 to be built", in Boeing delivers final 717 to AirTran, ending Douglas era. it doesn't sound right, but am not sure. Doldrums 08:51, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * The story is perfect as far as I can tell at a quick glance. I'd suggest "the last 717 build" because "the final 717 ever built" seems to state the obvious - there's one (and only one) 717 that is the final one ever. Or "the final 717 to be built" if it hasn't been built yet. Hope that helps. Keep the great stories coming! Karen 09:07, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Or just remove "ever" and state "the final 717 jet built". That's how I'd edit it in the context of the story. Karen 09:11, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

 * My editing is still about ten stories behind. I just jumped ahead to that one and made the edit. Karen 09:14, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

 * thanks! and the credit for writing that perfect story goes to KeithH . Doldrums 09:16, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Didn't he want to de-admin? I hope he sticks around as an admin and keeps contributing. I just assumed (before looking at the history) that you were in the final stages of writing your story. Well, good eye (or ear for what sounds awkward), because making the stories syntactically and grammatically correct doesn't guarantee they're well written. I think "final and ever" sounded redundant in the same sentence. Karen 09:23, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Oh, he's the guy from Hawaii. It was Elliot k who requested de-admining. It's late for me here. I think I'll edit the remaining few stories after I rest. Karen 09:29, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

 * yep, KeithH is one of the few wikinewsies one can listen to (pun intended), he does Audio_Wikinews. as to the 717s, my ear says "The great pyramid was the final pyramid ever built" and "This is the last pizza to be baked by me" are ok, but not with the "is" and "was" interchanged. mebbe it's something to do wi' tense or sumthin'. Doldrums 09:44, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

 * You're probably entirely correct - it has more to do with tense than redundancy. I'm really not a grammar genius, I've just been reading a whole lot of style guides. Don't stop baking pizza, though! Karen 09:59, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

My user page
Thanks for changing the title of the article. FellowWikiNews 00:33, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Stop editing my user page. FellowWikiNews 15:29, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
 * It's . Sorry, but I don't realy want anyone editing my user page. FellowWikiNews 16:47, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Would you prefer me to leave a message to remind you to update headline names when stories are renamed? I can change the headline name quicker than I can leave a message, but I'll make the effort if you feel your user page shouldn't be edited except by yourself. Karen 16:50, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you for being so accomodating, Karen. It is not required to be so, but I appreciate the effort to avoid conflict. I have commented on this thread on FellowWikiNews's talk page. - Amgine 17:04, 11 June 2006 (UTC) (editing not logged in)

Template:Lead (and others)
I personnally thought It looked better with a line return. Could I possibly change it back? Bawolff ☺☻ 22:28, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
 * A line return? There were four extra in Template:Lead and Template:Main_lead. Do you mean you prefer the "» Full story" thing on the next line? I'll change that in both templates and see if you prefer it. Karen 23:53, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Now it looks very strange that way, but at least it's better than before. Hope that's what you wanted. Karen 00:01, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Note that I also recently fixed Template:Lead_2 to be consistent with the two listed above. To make sure these templates remain consistent, they could be nested. I'll see what I can do at a later time. Karen 04:54, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

4.235.177.21
Are you User:4.235.177.21? FellowWikiNews 20:06, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Only until the next DHCP lease expires. Hurry now and try to attack the firewall while you still can. Karen 20:22, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Image on article
Would you have any idea why the image on Rice beats Oklahoma in first round of NCAA Super Regional, 10-4 doesn't appear? If I leave 100px off or increase it to something larger it works fine. The size 100px also works just fine on Wikipedia. Any suggestions? Ashlux 01:11, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Trying to find the answer to this… Karen 01:23, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Yah, thought it seemed weird. Wasn't quite sure were to go (as usual major idling in #wikinews and #wikinews-en) heh. -- Ash Lux  (talk 01:28, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Have you tried reducing it to an 8-bit png with transparency? I'm guessing it might be a 24-bit image with an alpha channel - something related to the image, itself. Karen 01:38, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

I think I'll try uploading the version without transparency before trying to find those options in the GIMP :-) -- Ash Lux  (talk 01:58, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

 * From what I can tell, the resizing is done by the web server, not by the browser. It may be that the program can't deal with a 24-bit png with an alpha channel. When I try to access a resized image from the server, I get no image, leading me to believe that the image conversion broke. I suggest an 8-bit image for the simple logo, but a 24-bit image without the alpha channel may work. If that's the case, mention it on Water_cooler/assistance or Water_cooler/technical so the people behind the scene can investigate. Karen 02:08, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I had the same problem with an intel logo on wikipedia a while back. Although it should work here if it works on wikipedia, as they both use the same thing on their webservers to resize the image (I assume). try increasing it by one pixel. user:bawolff 02:13, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Another article today has a broken image - just a link shows, but the full image is displayed when clicking on the link. My guess is that the image converter is broken. Karen 16:14, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Date template fix
I think I found a fix for Date when wikilinks include the first word of the first paragrpah. I'm guessing it is a bug, but User:Ashlux/Sandbox seems to fix the template. Obviously I cannot fix it up since the template is protected. -- Ash Lux  (talk 01:00, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Alright, User:Brian New Zealand let me make the changes to the template, and they seem to work fine in IE and Firefox. Looks like he left the page at semi-protection, might want to put it back to full too.  -- Ash Lux  (talk 01:42, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Done! Karen 15:39, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Correcting old articles
I've noticed there are older articles that have been archived but need to be cleaned up a little bit. For example, Basra, Iraq raid by UK forces to rescue soldiers from police's source section. Sometimes the articles are missing categories too. Are we going to clean any of these things up without necessarily changing the content of the article? If so, I'm wishing I could actually do it sometimes heh -- Ash Lux  (talk 16:07, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I'll semi-unprotect a list of titles for you, but you should post the list on Admin action alerts per Archive_conventions. I'll respond there when semi-protected and when returned to full-protection. That way we have a place to list the work and the other admins know what's going on and can provide feedback. Karen 16:16, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Also, you should consider being an admin if you're going to be doing admin-like stuff. Tell me how you'd feel about a nomination. Karen 16:18, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Oops!
Thanks for catching the MainLead booboo, guess i shld shld start looking and reading before editing. :) Doldrums 18:56, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I kept your synopsis because it was better written, but I used the whale image because the logo background wasn't transparent. It's still a neat logo, though. Karen 18:59, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Cooler topic ("Related Wikinews"?)
I didn't want to get with your style guide post because there have been other implementations that make sense too, like 'Previously related news', 'Related Wikinews', (maybe that's the best of the other ways to header it).

To me, 'Related stories' can sound almost like a fairy tale... but it is a highly accurate heading, since what came before is no longer news. -Edbrown05 07:42, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

 * 'Related reports'? -Edbrown05 07:45, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

 * To me, a report is a listing of facts, not necessarily a story. Yes, there's some implication that "story" may be a work of fiction, which is why I suggested changing it to "news". The only suggestion you've made that I like is "Related Wikinews".  Maybe together we can push for some consensus on that section header choice. Karen 20:02, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Referer vs. referrer
Believe it or not, when referring to the website that led to you the website you're on now, the correct spelling is "referer". This is due to a typo made when the Apache server was first made a while ago. — THIS IS M ESSED OCKER  (TALK) 05:08, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Right - I know that. I'm just correcting the mistake. Does that mean you're going to uncorrect it? Karen 05:12, 2 July 2006 (UTC) (See HTTP_referer)
 * Yes. Oddly enough, it's been used for so long under the radar that it's considered correct now. Like American English. — THIS IS M ESSED [[Image:R with umlaut.png]] OCKER (TALK) 05:17, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I'll just put quotes around it so people might suspect something's different about it. I'd hate to perpetuate an error. Karen 05:19, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

US soldier arrested for rape and four murders in Iraq
Please do not revert the addition of images to the page as there is a discussion going on in the talk-page and my version is the latest one since the discussion with Birdsmessenger began. Thanks. PVJ  (Talk) 11:51, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Your version is not the latest one. Sorry - see talk page. Karen 11:53, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Please look into this 3RR.
I was recently blocked for 24 hours by Cspurrier for breaking the three revert rule on the Iraq rape article. I have temporarily unblocked myslef (I will block myself so as to complete the 24 hour period), to inform you that though Ealturner also broke the 3RR (as I had mentioned on WN:ALERT), no action was taken against him. Please look at the evidence provided and take whatever action is needed.

1)First Revert 2)Second Revert 3)Third revert 4)Fourth Revert 5)Fifth Revert

PVJ  (Talk)(Opinions) 07:10, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

 * I happened to be reading it when I got the message. I was thinking that after-the-fact blocks are only punitive, not as useful toward the story in progress. I don't know what to say, except I'm sometimes disappointed in some admins' actions - jumping to action instead of discussion. Yes, you're probably not the only one who acted inappropriately. I'll admit I didn't always do my best, either. You need to post links to reversions that others have done if you want them to be made aware of their actions in the 3RR case. Karen 07:42, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Nontheless, I do not think it fair that I should be the only one blocked while Ealturner goes unpusnished. I have temporarily unblocked my self and, after Ealturner is also blocked, I will reset my block so as to compltete the requsite 24 hour period. I, once again, ask you to ensure that equal action is taken against all involved parties so as to remain fair. PVJ [[Image:Flag of India.svg|25px]] (Talk)(Opinions) 12:45, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

 * I asked for clarification - if you went unpunished the first time with just a warning, is that what is happening to Ealturner? Keep discussing in Admin action alerts. Karen 01:09, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Double redirects
Don't worry about fixing double redirects — I have a bot that is periodically ran to fix them. —     23:16, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

 * When I cause or observe double or multiple redirects, I just fix them. If you bot gets there first, then that's less work for me. I appreciate knowing I can leave for awhile knowing the redirects will be eventually fixed, though. Karen 23:19, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Category:Movies
Category:Movies basically exists to say "use Category:Films instead". So when there are articles in Category:Movies, the link can be followed and one can fix the category links to Category:Films. —     07:46, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Despite the lack of actual film, they are typically called "films". Wikipedia follows this convention as well. —     08:04, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I thought about this, too, but then thinking that if "Movies" appears as a redlink, they'll get confused and create it. Category:Movies can basically be used as a holding category, and then at the right time, articles can get transferred. As for the template, if you take a look at Category:Movies, I copied over the layout of Category:Politics. —     08:09, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Neutralizer 3rr title violation
Here

On the day after concensus reached. Against protests in discussion. Ealturner 13:05, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Please also note Neutralise "NPOV'd" this article. There were no complaints for hours before the article was made top headline.

Neutralizer calls the title "Totally 1 sided as well as inflammatory and sensationalist"

The title is "Israeli railroad station bombed. 8 killed, 23 injured"

Please do something about this individual. He is making work impossible. I don't want to leave but I will not take much more of this. Ealturner 13:34, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

just a reminder...
that tha speliing, and grammer erorrs, and typos are accumulating and accummulatin and noones' their to correct them Doldrums

Headline writing== ==

Would you share your thoughts on the headline (and article) ""Jezebel of Jazz," Anita O'Day dead at 87"?

It was changed to ""Jezebel of Jazz" Anita O'Day dies aged 87," which has conflicting tense.

The understood articles in the original head are 'was aged,' though it was changed with no discussion.

Thanks! Mink Butler Davenport 00:28, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

New Policy has users up in smoke
Hello. I am not sure if you check this page anymore, but I thought you might be interested as to what is going on here at Wikinews: Image use policy/New wikimedia policy action plan. I am outraged as well as others...do you have an opinion? DragonFire1024 09:51, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Request for de-adminship
We are currently in the process of voting to de-admin some admins who have not been active recently, including you. If you wish you could say something at WN:A. Thanks. Bawolff ☺☻ 09:51, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

User:Hailey C. Shannon and User:Karen == ==

Hello, what, if any, is the relationship between these two accounts? Cheers, --SVTCobra 00:39, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

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CBC service returns to normal tomorrow

October 10, 2005

Members of the Canadian Media Guild voted overwhelmingly to accept a tentative deal with Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) management after a seven week lockout. The Guild reported 3,514 ballots were cast and 88.4 per cent voted in favour of ratification during their 9 October ballot. Most of the 5,500 unionized workers are expected to be returning to work on Tuesday.

The deal caps contract workers at 9.5 per cent of the full-time work force. The issue of the employer insisting on a larger number of non-guild members lead the union to vote in favour of a strike in early August.

On 15 August the CBC effectively shut down its English-language programming outside of Fredericton, New Brunswick, and its French language service outside of Quebec.

The negotiated agreement includes an individual signing bonus of $1,000, as well as allowing for wage increases of 12.6% over the life of the contract (over the complete period of the contract, to 31 March 2009.)

title: CBC service returns to normal tomorrow


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Use the imported template to import an article into Wikinews which is copyright licensed with a compatible license, such as PD, CC-by, or Journowiki license.

To use the template, replace each section of text with the appropriate information:

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Yahoo launches new Podcast Search

October 12, 2005

Yahoo! announced in its blog Sunday the beginning of a public beta test of its new Podcast search service. The new service makes it easier for people to find and listen to podcasts.

Podcasts are short downloadable audio shows, very similar to a radio show. Podcasts are most commonly downloaded to portable mp3 players such as the iPod for which they are named, but they can be listened to on a computer or burned to a CD as well.

“Yahoo Podcasts offers a comprehensive directory of podcast series and individual shows from across the web, complete with detailed search results, most popular and highest-rated lists, editorial picks, and a full collection of tools you can use. These community tools include ratings, reviews, and the ability to tag audio content, or view the tags that other people add,” Lee Ott wrote in the Yahoo blog.

Yahoo! is the first the large web company to offer a podcast search services. Podcast search is currently offered by several smaller websites including Podcast.net, Blinkx, and Odeo.

“This is something we’ve been working on for a while, it’s a great way for people to find, listen to, and consume podcasts as they grow more popular.” said Yahoo! spokesperson Meagan Busath.

External link

 * Podcasts.Yahoo.com beta

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Talk:CBC service returns to normal tomorrow

what is journowiki??? Even if it's license is "compatiable" should we be using it straight up?? What is journowiki anyway?...This is it's only story....Someone please explain!!! User:FlyingCanuck

Journowiki
Journowiki is my primary project atm. It's a project which is being designed as a curriculum addition for journalism classes at the secondary: think of it as Wikinews for high schools.

Under Journowiki's license it's perfectly okay to copy the article to Wikinews, and to continue modifying it as appropriate. - Amgine/talk 03:01, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Does this go against Wikinews policy? Isn't it a requirement to produce original material? --Wolfrider 14:45, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * No, as long as it is copied from a place with an usable license and it is made NPOV before it is published we can use it. --Cspurrier 15:04, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

"Wage hikes"
The term "wage hikes" has a negative connotation. It should be replaced with a more neutral term such as "wage rises," or "wage increases."

 * Done. --Wolfrider 14:48, 11 October 2005 (UTC)


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U.S. poll numbers sink on Iraq

October 11, 2005

A CBS opinion poll has reported that 55% of Americans disapprove of the United States' position in the War in Iraq. A separate poll published by The Pew Research Center found that 43% of Americans supported an immediate withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, an increase from 36% of Americans who were polled last October.

In addition, an /Associated Press poll of 1,000 Americans showed that 47% of those polled have a "strong disapproval" of the way George W. Bush has been handling the war, compared to 21% who "strongly approve".

title: U.S. poll numbers sink on Iraq