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User talk:Wolfrider

Welcome
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User: Rcameronw has been blocked for requesting de-admin vote and alleged "trolling"
Just wanted to let people know that, following yesterday's discussion, user rcameronw has been blocked for 24 hours. It was decided that rcameronw's request for a de-admin vote constituted "site disruption". (see article talk page for more info:)

 * I wouldn't necessarily have blocked rcameronw, but I was aware of the block and did not remove it. As concerns the request for de-adminship: no evidence was presented which evidenced abuse of admin power. It's possible that MrM became embroiled in a heated argument among editors and may have behaved badly (he wasn't the only one), but there is no evidence that he mis-used or abused his administrative powers. Requests that disrupt the wiki -- without any evidence -- should be removed. --Chiacomo (talk) 14:37, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the response. Although that was the consensus of the vote, so it really didn't seem to do that much harm. Isn't there a policy that says a user must be warned first? --Wolfrider 15:03, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Chiacomo The concern I have is with the idea that rcameonw's request constituted an act that might "disrupt the wiki". What specifically constitutes disrupting the wiki? rcameonw simply started a vote for the community. Is the actual charge that
 * rcameonw is a sockpuppet? In that case I'd agree that constituted 'disrupting the wiki', and Wolfrider should probably update the Talk:President_Bush_may_veto_amendment_that_bans_detainee_mistreatment with information about the sockpuppets.
 * Also, its difficult to follow this because Amgine removed the de-admin request from the administrators page. I can understand MrM not wanting a personal attack sitting out there, but it has been less than 24 hours from when voting started. Sorry maybe I should be saying this on the watercooler instead of your talk page Wolfrider?--Herda05 16:11, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

 * No, no. It's fine to use my talk page. I'm just wondering what information you mean about the sockpuppets? --Wolfrider 16:19, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Without putting words in Amgine's mouth, in my mind the disruption occured because an unfounded request for de-adminship was consuming resources (the valuable time of our editors) and distracting the wiki from its purpose. As to what other acts may be construed as disruption? I suppose that is largely left to the judgement of the administrators who must apply the blocks. As I've said in other places, one of the reasons we have more than one administrator is to prevent unfair/unwarranted blocks. I've often had a block rescinded because another administrator felt I was overzealous (or just plain wrong!). Any administrator is free to unblock somsone who has been blocked (with a few exceptions). As an aside, consensus != vote and shouldn't on a wiki. On some issues, I know it simply must come down to raw numbers, but I simply despise voting on wikis. --Chiacomo (talk) 18:23, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I think it was merely a heated issue combined with a lack of knowledge about rules and procedures. Thanks for your input though and acting as moderator, it's much appreciated. --Wolfrider 18:28, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Wolfrider, sorry for the late reply. I've was traveling yesterday. If you check the history page
 * Amgine said:
 * Comment MrMiscellanious has been under attack by a person using sockpuppets and multiple IPs including open proxies for some time. He has been listed this time for "repeatedly reverting a published article" - this article was repeatedly published without consensus and while it was disputed, primarily by accounts believed to be sockpuppets. Sockpuppets are used to create the appearance of consensus where there is none.
 * I'm willing to trust he had evidence with which to make that statement.--Herda05 03:34, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I believe you're asking if I have specific evidence of sockpuppetry in that discussion page. I have circumstantial evidence regarding one of the usernames in that discussion. I have evidence of previous sockpuppetry by User:Neutralizer (for which he was previously banned.) And I have extensive evidence of sockpuppetry/Open proxy abuse as regards the "Cowicide Incident", in which MrMiscellanious was the target. - Amgine/talk 05:02, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * So, in relation to that particular discussion (ie. the "detainee mistreatment" spat), how many users did you suspect of being sockpuppets or using sockpuppets? I take it that Neutralizer is one suspect, based on previous form (I don't know what "Cowicide" is, but it sounds pretty messy!) - who were the others?

Rcameronw 07:45, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Shh! Don't say "Cowicide" too loud. PETA will hear you. I am actually also interested in the answer. --Wolfrider 12:29, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * It would seem it's MrM (MrMiscellanious) that continually incites resentment and wasted time at wikinews. Why not remove MrM once and for all so this wikinews can move forward without so much vitriol?  I read the details on the "Cowicide Incident" and looked at the history log. The log shows that it was MrM who incited the vitriol within the "Cowicide Incident" in the first place.  This seems to be a pattern with MrM.

 * Here's where I join in. Cowicide was at first a spammer on the Utah rave article.  Later on, he was repeatedly blocked for personal attacks on anyone who would agree with me that his link was spam on the article.  Asking repeatedly, I commissioned him to link to a video directly (instead of him intentionally driving traffic to his site), which he refused and started his fit.  Acting as childish as he was, he started gathering sockpuppets and some of his "buddies" to personally attack me and all the other editors who tried to say his link was spam.  Then, later - he started his rounds of "right-wing" attacks on me.  As such, he is probably the best example of why self-centered individuals should not touch a computer.  The issue was a spam link - it became spam after I asked him to remove his misleading information on his personal site (such as 'clicking the links above will cost conservatives money!!!!') and link to a video directly on an article, which he refused.  And later, he found ways to annoy everyone by blanking user's pages with vulgar messages (more than mine).  All items of Cowicide's actions can be viewed by the chart of suspected sockpuppet accounts of Cowicide.  --Mrmiscellanious 21:26, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

 * After reading that all that I have a new found respect for MrM. --Wolfrider 22:40, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

 * It's interesting what MrM leaves out of that log of his. MrM looks like a sparkly little unbiased angel in all of this.  Sorry, MrM... I'm not fooled by your incomplete account of events.  As seen in multiple other instances with multiple other people, you brought rudeness and vitriol into situations where there was none before. In the history of the Bush Katrina photo op article (you so kindly left out above) it shows where you and another buddy went on and attacked Cowicide without provocation. Interesting that you skipped over that. This is no anomaly, you are consistently rude and use personal attacks against people on wikinews (particularly those who you deem to have a liberal background). It must get tiring after a while?  All this hostility? Sheesh... just what happened to you, bro?  It's a sad read in the Mr.M history logs. I hope one day you find peace. 219.93.174.109 07:04, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Wow, that has to be one of the dumbest things I've ever read on Wikinews. Anyway, I'm getting tired of the "let's gang up on MrM thing." I offered my talk page in order to discuss something specific, not to get into a flame war. Anything placed on here regarding MrM, or further additions to this section will be promptly removed. --Wolfrider 13:28, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for suporting my nomination to be an admin
Thanks for supporting me on WN:A. Bawolff ☺☻]] 20:17, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

voting 'anomolies'
Wow, I suspected you liked to write, now I know so. Thanks for the news. -Edbrown05 18:31, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Re; Student demonstration article
Since you had previously edited the article/talk; I thought you may wish to get involved on the talk page after seeing what happened to the article within a 5 minute period.   . Neutralizer 11:57, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

The reason, as I see it, for the list
The initial impetus was, I believe, to develop a WN policy for banning problem editors. I did not initially create the page, nor was I consulted in any way about it until after it had been created. User:Neutralizer qualifies as a problem editor, and by ou's actions would easily qualify for a ban on any other wikimedia foundation project. However, I feel that any ban should be accompanied by incontrovertible evidence of persistent and long-term abuse of the site's policies and guidelines, disruptive behaviour, and follow all other site policies.

Realize that this concept for a banning policy is not complete. It is a process, not a single attempt aimed at User:Neutralizer, and so this specific ban may never be brought to the community. It is hardly unique, keeping lists of a user's edits, and does not qualify as baiting - at least according to User:Neutralizer. - Amgine / talk 22:44, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Also very concerned about actions against Neutralizer
Hi there - just wanted to let you know I totally support your watercooler comments. What do you think we can do to get some kind of independent call on this? Rcameronw 01:30, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Let's try to mediate it first and see what the community's opinion on this is. Hopefully we can bring this issue to some kind of close relatively soon. --Wolfrider 02:33, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

cruise ships
My mother-in-law, (whoa, back up... my mother-in-law), took a cruise only to be inturupted by hurricane Wilma. She got diverted from Cozumel <--(sp?) and said anyway that it was the ... "she won't say for the internet" .... other than it worked out... No pirates surely.

Thanks
Thanks for your support with my accreditation request! -- user:zanimum

Informing the community
A wiki community works by making sure everyone is able to be aware of what is going on. I try to keep people who will be affected by events aware of what is happening, which is why I talk to and message members of the board on a regular basis about what is happening on Wikinews and other Wikimedia Foundation projects I'm involved in. Since I'd been asking Mr. Wales for some time to have a look at Neutralizer's accusations as well as finding a neutral third party to investigate me regarding them (Kim_Bruning eventually began doing so), I left a message for him there as well knowing it would be examined by everyone on Wikinews.

Wiki policy is mostly not written down. The policies and guidelines used to explicitly say this, and explained that policy is built by tradition - what works, what gets done. The reason for policy is to keep the community working smoothly toward its goals - in our case producing news articles of what is known and believed now which are archived as historical documents. Anything which disrupts that motion should be worked around, and the work-around would become policy.

Wikinews is the only WMF project which does not have a banning policy in place. There were changes made to the Blocking policy which allows a de facto banning policy. I would rather have an explicit policy - such as an arbcom, or a justification policy, or a quick poll.

Policy is not set in stone, but in order for it to work it must be enforceable. At the moment no policy is enforceable on Wikinews because admins are not following policies, and the community wants policy to be enforced only on people who are not part of a clique. My personal wish is the community would support the enforcement of existing policy and, rather than second-guessing each admin action, would change the policies through consensus which they find problematic. For example, there should be no way an admin can block someone for more than 30 days (the standard on WP) without a user being banned except for open proxies, but the current policy allows this.

Anyway, I apologize for rambling on your user page. - Amgine 20:05, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Edit
Damn, I was just trying to vote for Submarine. Will try to fix it now. Neutralizer 14:39, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Is it ok now?
Thanks for alert; that was careless of me. Please have a look and see if I fixed it back ok. Neutralizer 14:49, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for looking and I will refrain from more edits as I do not want to annoy anyone. Neutralizer 18:03, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Themarcuscreature~enwikinews

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.

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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 Something. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Something~enwikinews that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

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Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:31, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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Chile's Great Wall of Santiago Collapses
Please explain the reason when you tagg something with the delete tag. Unxplained tags will be removed. --Cspurrier 01:20, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

RSS feed
I have no idea what you are talking about! Dan100 (Talk) 08:38, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Article tag removal
Please do not remove a tag without both addressing the issue why the tag was applied and gaining consensus on the article discussion page. Thanks! - Amgine/talk 05:01, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I didn't address the issue because the issue wasn't addressed when the article tag was applied. -Edbrown05 05:09, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

RE: Message on talk page
Thank you for excersizing your first amendment rights. --MrMiscellanious (talk) – 03:53, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Brutal murder spree in Richmond Virginia metropolitan area ends as police apprehend suspected Harvey family killers in Philadelphia
Sorry, comment placed on wrong page. Meet a wikierror. :-) Brian McNeil / talk 17:44, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Welcome
Wikinews desperately needs more gutsy reporters; please give the project as much time as you can spare. Neutralizer 22:21, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

You scared me...
Looking at your last edit to the Florida polling story, I thought you were me! 68.39.174.238 03:25, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

 * HeHe, usually I get blocked because OTHER people think I'm someone else ;D! 68.39.174.238 01:33, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:Rhobite

Welcome
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Try adding one of these to your userpage:

NGerda 01:52, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

 * Interesting idea.. I don't know if I have the discipline to keep that up, but thanks for the tip. Rhobite 01:54, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * It's quite simple, actually. Just remember when you log on and off to change your status.  :)  NGerda 01:56, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:57474484

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Talk:AP Probe suggests Bolton manipulated Iraq inspections to favor War

Page move
I moved this to "alleges" because this claim is being made only by the person interviewed by the AP. We only report the news; we don't decide if people's claims are true or not. --Slowking Man 20:24, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Typo
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Coldplay's new album hits stores worldwide this week

June 5, 2005

The latest album of hit British band Coldplay is due to be released worldwide this Monday (in Europe) and Tuesday (in North America) amid rife anticipation among fans. The album, called X&Y, is the band's third, following Parachutes which came out in 2000 and A Rush of Blood to the Head which appeared in 2002. Combined sales of the first two albums are above 20m copies, making Coldplay one of the biggest bands of recent years.

The majority of music critics have given the album a good review, claiming that the band's songs have become 'tougher' and 'more diverse'. Radio listeners have already sampled some of the new songs such as Speed Of Sound, and the full album has been leaked onto Internet file-sharing networks.

The album, which features 13 tracks collectively accounting for 62 minutes of music, has topped Amazon.com's music sales chart since March thanks to thousands of pre-orders, breaking the record for internet pre-orders previously held by Dido's Life For Rent.


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I have been done with regular english Wikipedia since April 2005 when the banned user Michael kept harrasing me before I left the building.

I will not be returning there until he leaves again!

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Hello Hephaestos, welcome to Wikinews. Hope you enjoy the place and decide to stay!--Eloquence 00:25, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks. I appreciate it. - Hephaestos|§ 22:26, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Thanks for writing the Ministry story. I heard it here first! :-) Cheers! Double  Blue  (Talk) 02:31, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

 * No problem! - Hephaestos|§ 00:01, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

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Amnesty report's criticisms rejected by Bush administration

June 5, 2005

Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International, compared the United States detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to a Soviet-era gulag in that it is "entrenching the practice of arbitrary and indefinite detention in violation of international law," she said. The group's Executive Director William Schulz, on Fox News Sunday, said in response to questioning that they do not "know for sure" whether or not testimonies it has published describing torture and abuse of prisoners by sections of the U.S. military are valid because the U.S. will not give access to the camp to investigate them.

He also said he has no conclusive evidence that U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, ordered torture of detainees at the facility. Schulz had previously referred to "apparent high-level architects of torture,", and included Donald Rumsfeld in that group.

Director Schulz stated that comparing the installation to a gulag was perhaps not the best choice of words. "...they (detainees) are not in forced labor, they are not being denied food. But," he continued," there are some analogies between the gulags and our detention facilities." Schulz alleged that U.S. officials are "running an archipelago of detention facilities," some secret. The report also describes "ghost" detainees who "disappear" and the export of prisoners to countries that are known to practice torture.

During his appearance, Schulz argued that his and other human rights groups should be given broader access to the facility. "We don't know for sure what all is happening at Guantanamo," he said, "and our whole point is that the United States ought to allow independent human rights organizations to investigate." The treatment of prisoners at the facility has been in hot dispute recently, with Amnesty International comparing the facility to a "gulag" in its annual human rights report. Bush administration officials condemned the comparison.

On Friday, the U.S. government released documents indicating that both guards and detainees at the facility had on a few occasions abused the Qur'an, the Muslim holy book.

Prisoners and ex-prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have testified that they have been tortured. David Hicks, still being held, filed an affidavit on August 5, 2004 declaring that he had been tortured, abused and ill-treated during his detention by US military authorities, and that he saw and heard similar treatment inflicted on other detainees. Mamdouh Habib, now free, says about his time at Guantanamo Bay that he was told by interrogators that his family had been killed, and that he was tied to the ground while a prostitute menstruated on him. Professor Christopher Tennant of Sydney University also stated he saw an unsigned medical report from Guantanamo Bay that backed up Habib's claim to have been beaten while in US custody;

"'Well, the main feature of the medical report from Guantanamo was that he had had repeatedly blood in his urine, which is a very significant symptom and a worrying symptom, and that was consistent with his reports both to me and to the specialist physician who also examined him, and was consistent with the fact that, on examination, he had evidence of discolouration to his skin on his right loin, just over his kidney, which in turn was consistent with old bruising and possibly due to being beaten.'"


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Two women first ever to serve on municipal council in Kuwait

June 6, 2005

Following elections in the country of Kuwait on June 2, two women were appointed for the first time ever to the Kuwaiti municipal council. This follows a historic decision on May 16 that granted Kuwaiti women the right to vote and run for public office in future elections.

The Kuwaiti Minster of Social Affairs, Faysal al-Hajji, said that "During its weekly meeting on Sunday, the cabinet named two women to the municipal council for the first time in the history of Kuwait." The women are:
 * Sheikha Fatima al-Sabah, architect and member of the Al-Sabah ruling family
 * Fawziya al-Bahar, engineer.

The positive developments in Kuwaiti politics have been praised by many feminists and foreign observers.

The decision to grant women the vote overcame strong resistance to pass by a 35-23 margin. The only remaining Middle Eastern country that does not grant women the right to vote is Saudi Arabia.

The sixteen members of the council are divided between ten members who are elected by popular vote, and six who are appointed. The ten elected members were all male and mostly conservative. The six appointees were the two women and four men considered to be liberals. The election and appointment results still need to be ratified by the Emir, who has been supportive of the efforts to give women the right to vote.

Although women were not eligible to run for elective office during the most recent election, they are expected to vote and run for office in Kuwait for the first time ever beginning in the 2007 parliamentary elections.


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England off to electric start in Women's Euro 2005 football championship

June 6, 2005

England's woman football team made a dramatic start to their Euro 2005 campaign when a 92nd minute strike gave them victory over Finland in the City of Manchester stadium.

Twenty-nine thousand fans saw seventeen year-old Karen Carney kick the winning goal with a 15-yard shot over the keeper into the roof of the net.

England gained an early lead after a header by Amanda Barr put them ahead and an own-goal from Finland gave them a 2-0 lead at half-time.

But a revitalised Finland scored soon after the interval when Anna-Kaisa Rantanen found the back of the net, and England where under constant pressure from then on. England looked set to hold on for a victory to put them at the top of Group A until the last minute of normal time saw Laura Kalmari score, leaving the match at 2-2.

The England strike team found new vigour with Carney and her fellow forwards putting the Finns under heavy pressure, with Carney eventually defeating the Finnish keeper who had made several dramatic saves in the last ten minutes of play.

England now face Denmark on Wednesday. Denmark are expected to be a tougher opposition than Finland.

In the other Group A match, Sweden drew with Denmark, each earning one point, leaving England clear at the top of the table with three points for Sunday evening's victory.


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I watched the match live on the BBC, but had to go the BBC Sport website to spell the Finnish player's names :-). Dan100 (Talk) 08:34, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

no thanks Dan
2nd lead ---> poof, what's the point -Edbrown05 17:10, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)


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Wikinews:2005/June/6

June 6, 2005

 * Over 1.5m apply for British Live 8 tickets

 * Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs gives opening keynote to WWDC 2005
 * Son of Pelé arrested accused of drug traffic
 * New denunciations of political corruption create severe political crisis in Brazil
 * Mars rover Opportunity successfully escapes sand trap
 * Two women first ever to serve on municipal council in Kuwait
 * Sweden celebrates its first national day as a public holiday
 * England off to electric start in Women's Euro 2005 football championship

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Talk:U.S. wants to impose its "no-fly" list on most Canadian domestic flights

The worst thing about these lists is a citizen can not find out if he is on it by inquiry; only after being embarrassed and held up during travel. Senator Edward Kennedy experienced this himself several times because a name similar to his is on the list.

This type of secret lists which have inaccuracies that may or may not be known and may or may not be corrected,were used by the nazis and have been made legend by Franz Kafka's writings.

Webster's Definition of Kafkaesque "prop. a. 1. Frightening, threating, and bewildering in a vague and unexplicable way; - of situations or regulations. Often used to describe illogical bureaucratic entanglements with no reasonable solution."

The seemingly cavalierness of the current US administation toward the 3 million+ illegals walking across the Mexican border each year (tens of thousands being non-mexican) puts their motives for such a list into question. Dozens of high school students who peacefully demonstrated at the Republican National convention were put on the list,e.g.. Paulrevere2005 12:27, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Then there is the whole concept of locking people up for years with no charges or trials at all; a sitiation that is so incompatible with freedom and democracy that it brings shame to not only the American government, but to we the citizens who have not been demonstrating hard enough against these patently un-american activities. Now our leaders want to force(blackmail) other countries like Canada into the same Kafkaesque, bureaucratic, nonsensical mentality being manifest in America and thereby drag down the priciples of freedom and due process in other countries to the depths we are reaching in our own country.

Misery loves company and so does fascism; imo. Paulrevere2005 12:45, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Whoa
The first time I read the above comments by PaulRevere2005, I thought the same then as I do now.

Precedents are attempting to be established here that will impede travel. They will block people from people. Worse, these friendly restrictions won't go away.

Surely we US citizens understand the risk of another 9/11. How does that mean in forming a defense against it that we lose our privacy. Don't the security check points to boarding an airline invade our privacy enough? Don't the plane's locked cockpit doors secure our privacy enough?

There been no other incident since 9/11. <-- wondering, no i don't think there has been another incident. Is that because of the USA's Homeland Security? -Edbrown05 02:26, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * No, I don't think it is because of the Homeland Security bullshit act. I think the talking heads that are working on developing the digital age are telling the US political leadership that this tracking tool or that is the answer to all their dreams... and it gets sold. -Edbrown05 02:32, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Who is really getting captured by this digital age stuff? What is this mundane spy stuff on digital identity really accomplishing? Why is it being undertaken at all? -Edbrown05 02:36, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Please add this article to Category:9/11. Blood Red Sandman (Talk)   (Contribs) 17:24, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
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Sweden celebrates its first national day as a public holiday

June 6, 2005

Sweden today celebrates its first national day as a public holiday.

At 10 o'clock (CET) the day was officially opened by the Royal family children at the Stockholm Palace. Crown Princess Victoria said that it was a very special day.

During the day, several demonstrations are scheduled in Stockholm and the rest of Sweden.

June 6 is celebrated in the remembrance of the crowning of Gustav Vasa in 1523. The Gustav Vasa-reference is a somewhat criticized in parts of Sweden that weren't a part of Sweden back then.

Since 1983 it's a National day, but it has been an ordinary weekday until 2005. Thus, the Swedes haven't celebrated their National day much at all, compared to e.g. the Norwegians.


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Talk:Amnesty report's criticisms rejected by Bush administration

Of interest...

 * Critical opinion piece suggests AI is veering towards "Noam Chomsky land" by Kenneth Anderson, an American University Law Professor and Hoover Institution research fellow

Just thought I'd mention this as it makes a lot of interesting arguments and draws in a lot of the relevant factors although I suspect it's selective. I've moved it here as it's not appropriate to put it in the article as an opinion piece. Mr. Jones 22:18, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

What should this article be called?
The title of this piece is misleading-- AI doesn't know what's happening because the US won't give them access to validate reports they've had; that's what they're complaining about in the first place. Mr. Jones 13:32, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Well, IMHO most readers can probably read between the lines, even if in principle, that shouldn't be necessary in wikinews. Moreover, is it really that embarrassing to not know for sure? After all, NPOV in wikipedia means that wikipedia knows almost nothing for sure, except that some (named) people/organisations certainly make some claims, and other (named) people/organisations certainly make other claims.

But the whole question of what is the main news point is a tricky one. As more people contribute to wikinews, the question of how to organise the news items and select among them will necessarily arise.

IMHO a better title would be something like Amnesty International claims access to Guantanamo prisoners refused, to focus on the need to have independent verification of the claims. After all, presumably neither people in the White House nor Amnesty International leaders have been present in Guantanamo Bay, and none of them were present at the time of the alleged torture, so in this sense none of them are sure either that torture did or did not take place. The spirit of wikimedia wikis with NPOV is to compare different versions of claims on truth, but it's important that the different versions really come from sources which are independent - if you have many stories all coming from one wrong source, that does not make them any more credible than just the one source itself. Boud 23:10, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Agreed. Very well-written article, but the title makes me think that there has been some new development like a new investigation that is being actively blocked by the US, but in reality it's the same obstruction that's been going on for years now. Sduffy 23:33, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I put an NPOV flag on this article, because it has several examples of bias. Wikinews is supposed to remove bias from its sources, not make them even more biased. Yet this article manages to be even more biased than its sources.

Examples:

 * 1) The title.  "US obstructs Amnesty International investigation into Guantanamo prisoner abuse" has at least two problems.  Neither of the sources refers to "obstructing" and "investigation", which is a legal charge.  Also, referring to "prisoner abuse" is wrong; this should be, at most, "alleged prisoner abuse".
 * That's wrong. AI are not alleging prisoner abuse, though they have some testimony of it. They have (Irene Khan, specifically) criticised the legitimisation of refusal to co-operate with inspections and "entrenching the practice of arbitrary and indefinite detention in violation of international law."  Talking about G'mo prisoner abuse is a red herring.  Mr. Jones 20:50, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Neither article refers to US officials as being "inflamed", which is a highly loaded term.  We are supposed to defuse the bias of our sources, not add to them.
 * Agreed. I would say something like "strongly condemned". Mr. Jones 20:50, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) This article describes US officials by saying that they "responded with disdain".  That is very POV treatment of US response.  This article makes no attempt to describe the reasoning behind the statement of US officials, and merely presents them as indifferent or irresponsible.
 * Again, I would say that they condemned the report. Mr. Jones 20:50, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) The source articles refer to "whether" Rumsfeld approved torture.  However, this article removes the doubt, and merely states "...showing that... Donald Rumsfeld ordered torture...".  It should say, "showing whether...".
 * "seem to show" is probably clearer, but better would be a brief discussion of the nature of the evidence. Mr. Jones 20:50, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * "seem to show" is probably clearer, but better would be a brief discussion of the nature of the evidence. Mr. Jones 20:50, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

This article, overall, is "inflamed" in its treatment of the subject, compared to its original sources. It needs to be held to Wikinews level of NPOV, which is a higher standard than the Mainstream Media, not a lower one. DouglasGreen 02:08, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Huh? -Edbrown05 02:52, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree, DG and SD. I'm renaming it to "Amnesty criticism of access to and precident set by Guantanamo prisoners rejected by Bush administration". A bit long, but hey, I'm rejecting the tyranny of excessive concision. Mr. Jones 20:50, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

can't say anything 'round here
have a tag
 * [[Image:Stop hand.png|20px|Stop!]] The neutrality of this article is disputed. Please see its talk page and try to resolve any actionable objections.

the tag is "absurb", but of course that doesn't imply in any way I'm pissed off by them.

 * I dont think that the tag is absurb. Also I agree with other users who didn't agree with the title. The title is completly untrue.

It seems that the author is trying to make the readers believe in something that he believes. I think that it is valid when the author shows a personal point of view, however you cannot force the reader believe in what you are thinking. Most readers are inteligent people and they know when somebody is "forcing" something.

I am nothing totally against your point of views, however you must write carefully, otherwise you are in risk of becoming ridiculous. And if a lot of people here in Wikinews begin to write like you, I think that Wikinews will be ridiculous too.

I think that you would like to write that the AI found solid evidences that the US is torturing prisioners in Guantanamo. But I think that there are not solid evidences suporting this claim.

There are another thing too. We should not take us too serious. Do you think that everybody believe more in Wikinews than Reuters or Associated Press, for example? Do you think that you are "changing" the world writing here in Wikinews? No. Nobody is, neither you or me. Wikinews is an experience at the best. -Carlosar 04:20, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Changing the world? Hardly. Maybe Trying to change wikinews. Neither your intelligence nor mine was insulted by this article. Yet, it gets a tag. I really don't take it that seriously, I'm bored... so lately instead of writing I've been commenting. -Edbrown05 04:33, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Also, I did no research myself on this article, I took it from where it stood when I came upon it. Really the only contibution I made was to say "US officials were inflamed". -Edbrown05 04:41, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * "absurb" refers to the Bush response to these allegations -Edbrown05 04:50, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * shut up ed, for months at least. Edbrown05 05:00, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Take it easy, Mr Brown. Maybe make suggestions on the discussion page? But do be bold, and don't get sore if you get reverted, make a good case instead :-) Mr. Jones 20:50, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC) (p.s. it's spelt "absurd")

Moved page from "Amnesty report's criticism of access to and precident set by Guantanamo prisoners rejected by Bush administration"
I just moved this page because "precedent" was misspelled and the title's grammar was unwieldy. Mr. Billion 18:42, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)


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International Criminal Court to investigate crimes against humanity in Darfur

June 9, 2005

The International Criminal Court has announced an investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Darfur region of Sudan.

51 names of suspects have been handed to the ICC by a UN inquiry into the crisis, in which up to 350,000 people have been killed and more than two million displaced by a militia force, the Janjaweed ('men on horses'). The attacks, repeatedly called genocide by the U.S. administration, are directed towards black Africans.

Kolawole Olaniyan, Director of Amnesty International’s Africa Programme, said: “This announcement brings hope for justice and accountability for the victims of killings, massive forced displacement and rape in Darfur.

“However, for it to be meaningful for the people of Darfur, there must be a commitment on the part of the Sudanese government to fully support the ICC investigation – including by protecting victims and witnesses and arresting and surrendering persons subject to ICC arrest warrants.

“The victims cry out for justice, not for the cosmetic actions of a government that still denies that mass rape has been committed and has shown itself to be unable and unwilling to address the crimes being committed in Darfur. There should also be reparations for the victims who have lost everything and are facing a third year of misery and insecurity in camps”.

The government of Sudan has so far refused to accept the validity of an international investigation.


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New denunciations of political corruption create severe political crisis in Brazil

The Brazilian Deputy Roberto Jefferson told the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo that the ruling Workers' Party (PT) has paid Brazilian deputies 30 thousand Brazilian Reals (US 12 thousand) each, every month. Deputy Jefferson is the President of the Brazilian Labour Party (PTB) and he is accused of directing a corrupt scheme that involves the Brazilian postal service. The PTB is an ally of the government.

Jefferson's allegations increase the severe political crisis regarding the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Lula has convened a special meeting to discuss the crisis in the government. Because of the recent scandal Brazilian stock markets went down and the U.S. Dollar increased its value in relation to the Brazilian Real.

The Brazilian Senate and the Chamber of Deputies are discussing the installation of a special congressional commission to investigate the allegations. The first attempt of the Brazilian government to prevent the creation of the Congress' special commission (convincing some deputies not to endorse the commission's creation) has failed. Now the government is trying to stop the creation of the commission in the Senate and is lobbying against it in the Congress, trying to influence both senators and deputies.

The opposition party, PSDB, criticized recently the efforts of the Brazilian government to stop the special commission of investigation, using the influence of the Minister of the Economy Antonio Palocci.

The Workers’ Party published in its webpage a note denying Jefferson’s allegations and saying that it supports investigations by Brazilian authorities. The Brazilian Minister Waldir Pires has said in an interview with Agencia Brasil that the denunciations of corruption are appearing more because the government is fighting against them. He also blamed previous governments by the corruption.

In a note in the Workers’ Party website, the party accuses the former-President Fernando Henrique Cardoso government of corruption.

On April 2005, the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Cesar Maia, denounced the Workers’ Party payment to deputies.

The allegations of Jefferson marks the beginnings of a severe crisis in Brazilian government. This is the most severe crisis since the impeachment of the former President Fernando Collor de Mello in 1992.

Politicians from the opposition said that they don't want the impeachment of Lula, however they demand the investigation of all denunciations and that the guilty be punished.

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Some excerpts of the interview of Roberto Jefferson:

Diputado brasileño dice que el partido de Lula pagaba R$30 mil a parlamentarios en pago de apoyo Jefferson diz para Folha de São Paulo que PT pagava mesada de R$ 30 mil a parlamentares em troca de apoio


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Talk:New denunciations of political corruption create severe political crisis in Brazil

I know that I am not using sources in English, however the subject is very hot and bland new. You decide if you want to publish it now or wait until it appear on international media. If there are someone who knows Portuguese can do a investigation about the story. In Wikinews Portuguese there are a lot of information, however in Portuguese. I tried to do the best I could. Any help is welcome. --Carlosar 19:14, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

tried to fix a minor english error
payed should be paid -- I don't seem to have the rights to make the change. Elinruby 00:40, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ Thanks. --Pi zero (talk) 00:54, 13 April 2017 (UTC)


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Talk:Mars rover Opportunity successfully escapes sand trap

This is really strange. is there but if I try to link it as Image:1R171155999EFF55TIP1314R0M1.JPG it doesn't work. -- 66.41.105.138 19:16, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * That's because this is Wikinews, not Wikipedia. The image has to be on Commons or on Wikinews for you to be able to include it in an article. That image isn't on Commons. Uncle G 19:33, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)


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Son of Pelé arrested accused of drug traffic

According to the Brazilian newspaper O Estado de São Paulo, the newspaper of TV Globo informed that the former-goalkeeper of Santos Football Club and son of the famous soccer player Pelé, Edinho, was arrested in company of another 17 persons. The police accuse them of drug trafficking and connections with a criminal organization in Rio de Janeiro.

The arrest happened this Monday, June 6, by morning.


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User talk:Yoharryo~enwikinews

Welcome
Yoharryo, 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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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 Yoharryo. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Yoharryo~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 23:40, 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:64.81.33.205

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User talk:85.74.48.59

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User talk:65.150.47.59

Welcome
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User talk:66.41.105.138

Welcome
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User talk:206.13.39.33

Welcome
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User talk:130.243.92.119

Welcome
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User talk:68.54.6.228

Welcome
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User talk:200.228.29.141

Welcome
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User talk:194.74.169.134

Welcome
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User talk:203.134.111.194

Welcome
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User talk:69.156.172.71

Welcome
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User talk:65.2.250.245

Welcome
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User talk:199.64.0.252

Welcome
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User talk:Kyelewis~enwikinews

Welcome
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whoops
Sorry, I mis-read which direction you were the moving the pages and blocked you! Thanks for the clear-up help; sorry I wasn't around earlier to block the vandal sooner. Dan100 (Talk) 10:56, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * No problems - i'm used to seeing wiki-spam, though as the only spammed wiki that I usually deal with, the EveryDNS FAQ wiki, doesn't have image upload capacity, i'm not used to seeing goatse-style pictures around. *Welcomes himself to WikiNews*. I kinda like the place. Kyelewis 11:03, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Wikinews radio
Hi Kye,

thanks for your support with the WNN. I hope we can move the functionality of your wiki into Wikinews itself soon. In that regard, I have two requests:

 * Could you add the following note in boldface on the wiki frontpage: This wiki is used purely to demonstrate and test the processes and technology that will be used for Wikinews Network. Please put only a minimal amount of information on this wiki; activity should take place on http://en.wikinews.org/ if at all possible. Thank you!
 * Are you interested in helping to get the broadcasting features you added into MediaWiki properly? I'm a CVS admin, so I'd be happy to give you access, but we'd have to agree on the implementation strategy first (with the other developers as well).
 * The best setup would probably be as an extension. Extensions can implement special pages, see e.g. the Makesysop extension and the BoardVote extension. The "hooks" concept is documented here.
 * I'm not quite sure what the best strategy would be to put additional preferences in an extension, but I'm sure it's possible somehow, perhaps on the special page itself. Is there a specific reason to have the broadcast password separate from the regular user password? You say it's not as secure as a wiki login password, what is the reason for that?
 * The main reason to have it as an extension is that it won't be relevant for most MediaWiki installations and should only be enabled for Wikinews. If it can't be made into an extension at all, a global $wgBroadcastSupport option that, when disabled, hides all the relevant functionality would be a requirement. But it would be difficult to get that into the main development branch.

I'd be interested in your thoughts. Thanks,--Eloquence 18:31, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Future talk 2
Hello, I would like to invite you to attend our second future talk, it will be held on Monday, August 1 at 21:00 UTC. It will be held on the Wikinews IRC channel #wikinews For more information please see the page on meta The main topics will be audio Wikinews, WNN and portals/neighborhoods It would be great if you will be able to attend. --Cspurrier 15:42, 30 July 2005 (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 Kyelewis. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Kyelewis~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 23:17, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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

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User talk:Grohk~enwikinews

Welcome
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Thank-you for your steps towards compliance with our license in regards to mirroring. Bawolff ☺☻ 23:35, 24 December 2005 (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 Grohk. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Grohk~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 23:15, 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) 06:31, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:66.50.169.240

Welcome
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User talk:69.143.132.70

Welcome
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User talk:69.22.252.84

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User talk:172.198.203.47

Welcome
172.198.203.47, 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! → CGorman (Talk)  20:55, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
 * Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced
 * Introduction - overview of the site
 * Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
 * Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
 * Style guide - how articles should look before publishing
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * Audio Wikinews could always use more contributors
 * And of course, stories need writing!

title: User talk:172.198.203.47