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User talk:68.161.137.75

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Coal miners trapped in West Virginia mine

January 2, 2006

At approximately 6-6:30 am EST, the Sago coal mine, near Buckhannon, experienced an explosion.

6 miners escaped shortly after the explosion, but 13 miners are still trapped in the mine, almost one mile underground, where methane gas is accumulating, making rescue efforts difficult.

Nearby homes have been evacuated due to the high levels of methane gas, and fans are being used to help disperse the gas.

At this time it is unclear what has caused this explosion.

The mine is owned by International Coal Group Inc.

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/


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Template talk:Wikipediapar

Template:Wikipediapars allows the linking of multiple articles. editprotected Who in hell protected this? Redirect it to Template:Wikipedia --Diego Grez return fire 13:54, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Unprotected and redirected. Watch the language, please. Benny the mascot (talk) 14:00, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * =P --Diego Grez return fire 14:01, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * It was protected as a commonly used template, and existed as it some point some people liked this one, and others the other (although really its kind of stupid to have two). Anyways, please remember to remove the editprotected template when done. Bawolff ☺☻ 11:32, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

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PepsiCo buys Poland's Star Foods

January 2, 2006

PepsiCo has acquired Poland's, a leading maker of snacks, for an undisclosed sum. The deal strengthens its position in Poland in snacks sales such as. More than half of PepsiCo's total sales is from snacks, less than 20% is from soft drinks.

Star Foods was selling potato chips under the brand Star Chips, and corn snacks under the brand Mr. Snaki. Star Foods was privately held by the Mitzalis family, Advent International, Copernicus Capital Partners, and Cazolico S.A.

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New Zealand's South Island and southern North Island struck by storms/Brief

Storms in New Zealand
South Island and southern North Island are lashed by high winds, rain as a heavy low approaches. Power outages in Wellington, and the airport is closed with flight diverted to Palmerston-North. Met Service has severe weather warnings up, and predicts bad weather for the next 10 days.

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Wikinews:Briefs/January 2, 2006

New Zealand's South Island and southern North Island struck by storms
South Island and southern North Island are lashed by high winds, rain as a heavy low approaches. Power outages in Wellington, and the airport is closed with flight diverted to Palmerston-North. Met Service has severe weather warnings up, and predicts bad weather for the next 10 days.

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Evgeny Adamov will be extradited to Russia

January 2, 2006

Following 8 months of deliberations,a Switzerland court has decided to extradite Evgeny Adamov to Russia, rather than the United States, where he will face corruption charges. The US warrant for the arrest accused Adamov, a former nuclear energy minister, of diverting $9 million slated to improve Russia's nuclear security to private projects in the US and Russia. He was arrested while visiting Switzerland to help his daughter who had had her bank account frozen.

Mikhail Kamynin, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said "We are plased with the Federal Court's decision, although we are talking about an independent court. Therefore, we assume that all the formalities will be fulfilled in the shortest time ."

Adamov has defended himself, admitting that he put US money into his private accounts, but claiming that this was common practice in Russia and was necessary to shield the money from hyperinflation and instability in the banking system.


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User talk:85.250.212.44

Passport photos web site launched
This article is currently listed on the deletion requests page, and as such is not considered publishable. Please do not remove the Dr tag, or publish this article, until it has passed through the process there. Please do feel free to improve the article so it is less likely to be deleted! -  Amgine | talk en.WN 20:36, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Please take heed of the above comment, unsigned "votes" on the deletion requests page will be ignored and the deletion request tag should not be removed until that has been resolved. Repeatedly moving this to published is just likely to annoy an administrator and get you blocked. Brian McNeil / talk 19:46, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:Row over Australian flag at Bondi Pavilion

Title a little bit misleading
I dont think the flag has been banned at Bondi. The title should be changed - 202.173.128.90 20:54, 2 January 2006 (UTC) (didnt log in - Cartman02au 10:46, 3 January 2006 (UTC))
 * I think I agree. Simeons recent changes to the article have improved it greatly, but the title still needs work. The word "banned" is very misleading. How about "Australian flag will not be flown over Bondi pavilion"? - Borofkin 02:06, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I like the new title. The problem with the word "banned", by the way, is that there is not agreement that anything resembling a ban has actually occured. Specifically, Waverley council, who is at the centre of the dispute, completely reject the suggestion that it has been banned. I like the new title, it more accurately reflects the content of the article. - Borofkin 04:20, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * The new title is great, explains it perfectly - Cartman02au 10:46, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Fixed Title

 * I've changed the heading. A brand new title to appease the revoltiong masses! : :) Happy Gnu Yr --elliot_k 05:03, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the clarity edits, by the way.--elliot_k 06:20, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * The new heading is much better. The impression I got before was that the council for Bondi were banning Aussie flags all over or burning them LOL - Cartman02au 10:47, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Flag image
When the article is unlocked can someone change the image from the PNG to Image:Flag of Australia.svg. 202.180.83.6 00:53, 8 February 2006 (UTC) (Greentubing (en:WP talk)).
 * Done. - Borofkin 00:55, 8 February 2006 (UTC)


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Peruano, if an article has been deleted, you are not allowed to re-create it. It is against our policy. However, if you insist this article exists, bring up the situation at our water cooler, and we may undelete it. —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 21:44, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

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 * I've unblocked you because you wrote on WN:DR right before I blocked you. I'm assuming good faith that you didn't previously read your talk page. However if you recreate the article again I'll reblock you. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 22:02, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I have responded to your undeletiion request. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 22:07, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:Colec~enwikinews

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User talk:Skritek~enwikinews

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User talk:Spum

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 * Those images arn't at commons yet. They just have to get moved to eventually. You can link to an image at commons the same way as any other image. Unprotecting football.css. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 17:38, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

 * When you upload images, could you please include the source url so others could check the copyright status. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 23:19, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Football portal
LOL, I almost wrote portball. Anyways.

You my sir, have made the Football portal looking FUCKING UBER-SEXY HOT!! :) :D I love the way it looks, keep up the good work! --TUFKAAP 02:39, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Images from BBC
Sorry, BBC images are copyright - not "released for use in news articles". I'll let you clean up the links to it before I delete it. --Brian McNeil / talk 12:51, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I've taken out the image, you could do a version of the Wikinews logo with a football instead of a world map for when you can't find a usable image. --Brian McNeil / talk 13:02, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Good to hear you're back
Good to here you're back. Happy editing. Bawolff ☺☻ 09:32, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Image:TopLogoGoalkeeper freetouse pleasebelieveme i am not lying.png
Please be advised that is has been requested for deletion by User:Stevenfruitsmaak on WN:DR. Bawolff ☺☻ 01:01, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:Adityan~enwikinews

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Renamed
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User talk:John bolton

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User talk:Jspierre~enwikinews

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User talk:Kjkolb

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User talk:Cohesion

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User talk:J Raghu

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Australian government to consider dropping US FTA amendment

January 3, 2006 An amendment of the US Fair Trade Agreement insisted by the opposition may be dropped after lobbying by the US Pharmaceutical Industry.

Mark Latham, former opposition leader negotiated the "evergreening" amendment to ensure that drug companies could not extend patents to fight off cheaper generic versions of their medicines. Companies caught doing so may receive multi-million dollar fines. The US Pharmaceutical Industry claims that the provisions are harming investment.

Acting Prime Minister, Mark Vaile said "We will have a look at it, if (the evergreening issue) is raised by the Americans".

"(But) the US will have to prove that Labor's evergreening amendment is commercially detrimental, not just philosophically detrimental."

A Health Department secretary will travel to Washington on January 13 to discuss the issue before a formal review of the FTA in March.


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The article was started by me if anyone is interested - Cartman02au 21:10, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Title is too long. Not punchy enough. Needs shortening.
 * I agree but it is difficult to describe it without it being so long - Cartman02au 01:59, 4 January 2006 (UTC)


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Broadway Market Café occupied against gentrification

January 2, 2006 For several weeks, a group of local residents has kept Francesca's Café on 34 Broadway Market, Hackney, East London occupied day and night to prevent its demolition and conversion into luxury flats by property developer Dr Roger Wratten.

The occupation was evicted on 21st December by police and bailiffs, and workmen began a partial demolition, but a new group of supporters re-occupied the building on 26th December and have begun rebuilding it including new walls and a replacement roof.

The café was bought by Dr. Wratten from Hackney Council as part of a number of sales in the street, now surrounded by controversy, and was run by Tony Platia who had worked there for over 30 years. Hundreds of people have attended the café in the past few weeks to show support.


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Thanks - I uploaded a file to wikicommons but it was much too big - doesn't seem to like external linking of images - thanks for fixing it anyway! Catch 21:35, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I didn't fix it. (Deprify probaly did) You can't link external images. to scale the image use syntax like this [[image:blah|55px]] see Help:Images and other uploaded files

-- thanks!Catch

No problem Bawolff ☺☻ 22:30, 2 January 2006 (UTC) By the way you can sign your name by using four tides ( ~ ) If you didn't already know. Bawolff ☺☻ 22:30, 2 January 2006 (UTC) Wait it says so in the welcome, so you probally already know☻. oh well. Bawolff ☺☻ 22:31, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:Vasek7

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User talk:Easy

Hello And welcome to wikinews. Hope you like it here. Some links: And if your unsure of something you could look it up in the big boaring manual. Feel free to ask me or anybody else any questions you might have. Feel free to join us on IRC (chat) at irc://irc.freenode.net/wikinews (currently need an IRC client, working on getting the web interface back). Happy editing. Bawolff ☺☻ 21:49, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
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Please tell me if you found this greeting clear, and easy to understand, as I'm trying to make it better. Bawolff ☺☻ 21:49, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

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I hope this gets to you??? Your help will be much appreciated as I sort out how to do this.

I'm on Firefox and don't have IRC installed.

Thank you, Easy

 * Sorry I took so long to respond. I've been busy and havn't been patrolling RC recently. An easy way to get irc on firefox is get the chatzilla Its an extention and is very easy (its what I use) You could also use the web interface, which is now online (click real-time chat at the top). Welcome to wikinews. Let me know if theres anything else I could help you with. (responding to image further down the page). Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 00:02, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Nevermind, I'll respond here. The images unfourtanatly are not okay :(. We're not allowed to use images from competing news organizations. We have no deal with Aljazera. See Fair use and Licensing. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 00:11, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Nevermind I lie. Only one of your images was not ok. the other one was fair use so it had to be uploaded here instead of commons (for political reasons) (I transfered it) Great work and welcome to wikinews. Happy editing! Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 00:31, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

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Bolivian President-Elect takes 50% pay cut to aid social program funding
This article looks really cluttered with three graphics on it, personally I always try to avoid or minimalise any encroachment on the sources area with graphics or infoboxes. Can you pick one to drop and clean it up a bit? Brian McNeil / talk 16:51, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Sorry for the clutter. I find 'useful' photos often as relevant as the article. Would smalleer size work better? say 100 pixels? The map is for location and small size is fine so someone can click to enlarge and see a bit more of the lay of the land. I'll move the map up so it is out of the sources area - thanks for letting me know about this form of presentation.

I'm not sure if the first two photos are considered 'public' or not so they both may go soon. I need help sorting that out too.

Also how can the title be adjusted?? It would be shorter and read better and hopefully not loos meaning by making programs plural and remove 'funding': Bolivian President-Elect takes 50% pay cut to aid social programs

I hope to hear back soon from you or someone else about the above. I'm not sure how the communication works, how to contact others etc - yet.

Your help is much appreciated. Thank you.
 * To respond to someone, you need to write on their talk page, I have a link in my ~ signature (you should put that at the end of all entries on talk pages). Can you detail where the pictures came from on the talk page, or image pages, then someone better versed in copyright than me can give you an opinion.
 * My main issue is that, for an article of this length, you really can't fit in more than two images. I liked the map, and had resized it as I prefer to make things legible enough that people don't go clicking off to an image that there's no easy way back from.  How many images looks good is a personal opinion thing, but if you can keep them from interfering with the sources section it'll probably look a lot better. Brian McNeil / talk 17:20, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

The article looks a lot better now, but if you picked up those pictures off of Reuters and Aljazeera then you're probably violating copyright by using them. If you want to set up a custom signature, that's under "preferences" at the top of the page, and you'll probably be best looking it up on Wikipedia to find out a bit more about that. The code for my signature, in the Nickname field on preferences is, Brian McNeil / talk and I have the raw signatures checkbox set.

As to where to respond to people, it depends. Some people will respond on their own talk page, leaving you to look at your contributions or watching their user page to see if they've responded. Others make life easier and respond on your talk page, there's basically no hard-and-fast rule for it - just don't edit other people's comments.

Renaming an article may only be done by people who have accounts (that includes you). The link is at the top of the page, labelled rename, just click on it and you'll be presented with a chance to change the name and explain why. What you have to watch is if the article is being renamed for a second or subsequent time. The old title you're renaming from will be correctly set up as a redirect to your new name, but older names for the article will need manually changed to redirect to the latest title. That might take a bit of practice, and it more likely to encourage you to think carefully when naming articles. :) Brian McNeil / talk 19:36, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

It's easy for me to respond here now you've got the cute little link to talk in your signature. The pictures will be picked up by someone on commons and looked at, if your username is attached they should get back to you here. Looks to me like you're getting the hang of Wikinews quite well, glad to have another enthusiastic contributor. :-) Brian McNeil / talk 21:09, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I just checked, the article is currently published. I didn't investigate when that was done. Brian McNeil / talk 13:44, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

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Thats hard. I'm probally not the person you should ask. you might be intreasted in. you could also use the advanced search in google to serach for cc content (but thats web search only, not images). I'm really not the person to ask. Another place is http://creativecommons.org/image/. Just make sure to check, I want to use this photo comercially. You should really ask someone else who knows more then me though. See also Images Finding_images_tutorial Image. Bawolff ☺☻ 21:05, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
 * http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 21:05, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Also read Fair use. Image use policy, Licensing . Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 21:08, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:Bolivian President-Elect takes 50% pay cut to aid social programs

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In my opinion the title of the article is POV. --SonicR 22:02, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

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Colombia signs FTA with Mercosur

January 2, 2006

President Alvaro Uribe signed, on December 30, 2005, a law that ratifies a FTA with Mercosur and gives Colombian products preferential access to a market of 230 million people. Colombian entrepreneurs will also be able to import materials and capital goods from Mercosur at lower costs due to reduced tariffs resulting from the agreement.

The agreement’s asymmetry clauses favor Colombia because it allows the gradual and progressive reduction of tariffs and likewise gives Colombia the opportunity to gradually reform its production system to adapt it to the requirements of future negotiations within the scheme of Mercosur and the South American Community of Nations

This agreement along with previous treaties signed with the Andean Community, Mexico, Chile and the FTA with the United States currently under negotiation, highlight the geographic position of Colombia as a center for investment.

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Note both of these sources are in french. So I couldn't verify the article. Bawolff ☺☻ 22:41, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * It is not French, but Spanish!--Tequendamia 22:42, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

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Bank of America completes acquisition of MBNA

January 3, 2006

Bank of America Corp. has completed its acquisition of MBNA Corp. in a deal worth about $34.2 billion. Bank of America now has 40 million active credit card accounts. MBNA was a leader in affinity marketing with relationships with organizations like the NFL and L.L. Bean. Shareholders of MBNA will receive .5009 common shares of Bank of America plus $4.125 in cash for each share. MBNA had 24,700 employees prior to the deal, Bank of America had over 177,000. 6,000 of those jobs will be eliminated saving the bank $850 million by 2007. Bank of America is the world's second largest bank.


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OCTranspo's "new year" of efficiencies?

January 2, 2006

Anyone riding the OC Transpo Ottawa municipal bus service's express bus routes this morning and this afternoon, in the Ottawa area, was probably greeted with an empty bus, and inherently, a "fast and efficient" ride. This is in part because most government workers where off from work still celebrating their Christmas holidays and buses were operating on a "holiday schedule;" a lack of planning on behalf of OC Transpo.

Though, according to OC Transpo, the "Holiday Schedule" means buses this week shall be running a little less often, in reality there isn't that much difference than the regular schedule. To be more precise, from 05h48 until 07h20, on the express 27 route there will be 5 less buses during the "Holiday Schedule" compared to the "Regular Schedule."

"This is probably going to be fine for the rest of this week, when government employees start coming back to work", said Yves Roy, an OC Transpo driver, "but today was a holiday and it appears that express routes only had an average of about 2 to 4 passengers."

"On my ride in to work, at around 6:10 a.m. this morning, nobody else got on the bus. It was like having a personal stretch limo to myself," said Patrick Roy, a guard for the commissionaires. Also, at around 4:15 p.m. another OC Transpo bus driver, whom wished to remain anonymous, stated, "You are the first person I picked up today." He had been working since the morning doing express runs. He then added, "This is a waste of tax payers money."

Ottawa's BRT "Transitway," has indicated that it cost approximately 42.58$ CAN per hour to run a diesel bus. It is estimated that 729 express buses ran today for approximatelly 7 hours costing approximatelly 217,287$ CAN. The cost of operating OC Transpo is split between transit fares collected and the tax base (mostly municipal, with some federal and provincial contributions.)

"We then continued to talk about waste of fuel, employee pay, insurance liability issues and even went into details about such hot political items as the Kyoto Agreement and conservatism," said Patrick. "Once the driver reached Place d'Orleans the second passenger joined in the conversation. The driver then took a faster alternate route and dropped us off not far from our homes."

According to Peter Dickson, editor at The Ottawa Citizen, last year OC Transpo buses followed a 'reduced' Sunday schedule and this created havoc on the system. Peter asked, if "perhaps this year they where trying to compensate for this inefficiency?"

Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), OC Transpo's union representative has indicated, "At current fleet levels, Ottawa's roads would be choked with about 40,000 more cars each rush hour if not for OC Transpo." ATU suggests 70 per cent of trips in Ottawa are now made by car. However, seemingly, due to returning vacationers and other reasons, today may have created an increase in the use of cars and influenced this statistic. According to city councillor Clive Doucet's web page "Currently, 17% of all trips residents make in Ottawa are on public transit, up from 15% in the mid-nineties. As a comparison, Paris’ modal split is 40% or higher taking public transit while Los Angeles’ modal split is around 2% for public transit." Analysing ridership on a large scale seems to be an important element for the city.

According to Ottawa Mayor Bob Chiarelli, "We used to be able to plan a transit system for up to 12 years ahead, with assured funding." This of course is in reference to provincial government funding. "It would make me happier if we took all of the (fuel taxes) and put them into the transportation infrastructure," Mr. Hunt, president of the Canadian Automobile Association says. "But we don't have a plan."

"Usually OC Transpo bus drivers have two 4 months bookings, for the fall and the winter and two 2 months booking for the spring and for the summer," said Yves Roy. "For the first time in March 2005, there was a special 1 week booking for the March break that rearranged and redistributed drivers of certain high school bus runs. During previous march breaks, drivers would show up usually waiting 30 or more minutes in an "idling" bus."

Is there such thing as to much efficiency? Today is an example of buses and drivers being very efficient. On the other hand, it may be a lack of efficiency within OC Transpo's booking department, upper management and the governments.

Source

 * Regular Schedule for express bus route 27
 * Holiday Schedule for express bus route 27
 * Amalgamated Transit Union - Local 588
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13 coal miners trapped in West Virginia mine

January 3, 2006 13 American coal miners were trapped 2 miles (3 kilometers) inside the Sago coal mine in the US state of West Virginia. They were trapped since 6:40 am Eastern, Monday, January 2 following a methane gas explosion which caused the shaft to collapse. Rescue operations have commenced and at last report they were 1,400 feet from the location of the miners.

Governor Joe Manchin, who lost an uncle in a 1968 mining disaster is there along with families who held a vigil in the Sago Baptist Church.


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Talk:OCTranspo's "new year" of efficiencies?

Original reporting
I am the person that experience this. So I am the original informant. Any questions? Just leave a blurb on my w:user:CyclePat page... or leave it here! 03:10, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Clean it ?
Things about how your discussion with the driver went well aren't really that interesting. The whole story is a little too ... not so important, to anyone outside of Canada I guess, maybe trimming it down to just the fact that this bus driver agrees that this is wasting money. And btw, it's a little sensationalist, since there is ALWAYS people to pick up, and this well, can be considered a waste, but imagine you're a guy on the street looking for a bus and there ain't any. It's kind of biased reporting, but whatever. --80.172.138.55 20:45, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I think the issue here is not how long I waited, it's more about how many buses were on the road!!! --72.57.8.215 22:27, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Well if you mean "sensationalist" in the sense of sensationalism, as per attempting to arouse (as by lurid details) a quick, intense, and usually superficial interest, curiosity, or emotional reaction.  (as per the definition from Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary), I couldn't possibly comment on that.   Except I can say that considering this was a part empirical study but also a part personal experience it may have had an angle toward my "political views."   I think it is the duty of a writer to keep this "curiosity" in the reader.  The main idea here is to realize that OC Transpo could have done something about this one day Holiday, clearly knowing there would be thousands of people off work.  (I could have gone into more empirical data and examples:  ie.:  Gotten data for how much it cost to run a bus, calculate it times the amount of extra buses.  Compared it to the amounts spent today.  Etc.  As for "interesting" conversation with the bus driver (I figured it's the time of elections here in Canada and it would be an interesting subject to add, my left winged conservative ideas.  Anyway, we are talking about Xpress buses.  There will usually always be a regular bus that pass to pick you up.  So yes I did empathise (with myself!).  So I don't know what other angle their is to take...  (I'll reread my text and see)  Had the bus been late (kind of like today but probably a little more) and had I waited many more minutes (like today...), I don't think it would of bothered me.  What bothers me is the idea that all those buses where running, spuelling fuel fumes, and possibly (maybe even almost hitting a child, like the pm. bus almost did when a kid decided to run) (Though it is possibly the regular cost of things, the question is, why are the buses there in the first place!)   Again, the 2nd of January, a "New years" holiday for most of Ottawa, would have been according to me a totally acceptable day to have reduced bus schedule.  This is also because it would have reflected the same principal that happens on the weekends.  That is, of course, no government workers on the weekend, hence no express buses.  The idea of having express buses where founded in large part because of "government workers."  Today, I jumped on the express and only 2-3 seats where left. (meaning there must have been an average load for drivers.)  All this to suggest, perhaps...  a reduces schedule instead of a holiday schedule would have been more appropriate for Monday (seemingly a holiday for most people).  w:user:CyclePat --72.57.8.215 22:19, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup before develop
While Original Reporting is encouraged, personalization of articles is not. As we are a wiki, no one can "claim" articles as their own; nor do we mark an article as being written by someone on the article page (Original notes are denoted here on the talk page). Please remove any and all personalization ("On my ride home today...") that isn't quotes. Thank you. --MrMiscellanious (talk) – 01:15, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm fairly new to this. Can you please site your source on wikinews policy. I believe this gives the location of the interview and is fair use. --72.57.8.215 04:40, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

 * The source is fine, absolutely fine... I think What MrM is concerned about is the first person references in the article. Instead of "On my ride home today", it might read, "A passenger returning to his home today", etc... As a stylistic note, you might not use "Today", you might use "Thursday" or whatever. --Chiacomo (talk) 04:47, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

 * meuh! not as interesting anymore, but changed a few things.  --72.57.8.215 05:11, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Thank you! --72.57.8.215 05:12, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Primary Authors Comments
"This morning when I caught the bus, it took me about 22 minutes to get from Orleans to Downtown. Nobody else got on the bus except for me and my father and usually it takes me about 32 minutes.  It was great, however I question the efficiency of our bus scheduling" w:user:CyclePat Copied here from article page by Chiacomo (talk) 05:23, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

I'll see if I can talk to someone from OC Transpo either than a driver
I've sent a request for OC transpo to comment on this article via their comments online about 2 days ago. I haven't received a response. I guess I'll have to schedule a rendez vous interview with Brian young, OC transpo's supperintendant. That might give another angle right!?! --72.57.8.215 12:12, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

I decided to publish this
I`m w:user:CyclePat, and the last few edits where done by ... moi. --131.137.245.200 20:54, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Everyone Else
I think that it should be mentioned that not everyone has holidays same as the government. I had school, and I am sure all retail workers had work on Jan 2.

I was greatly upset by Octranpo’s cuts during the week of the 26-30. Because service was a Sunday schedule on the 27, I had no way to get to work at 8 am. This is just a symptom of the fact that OC ignores non-government workers, and those who do not go to and from downtown during rush hour.--Mabba18 19:41, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Numbers?
There has to be a problem with the numbers in the news story. It says something like 729 express buses operating for 7 hours. There's no way 729 buses were assigned to express routes. I gather you might mean there were 729 buses on the road during the rush-hour time periods of 6am-9am and 3pm-6pm (or thereabouts) totalling 7 hours. This ought to be fixed. 209.71.200.236

 * I guess this is original research from looking at their web site. I counted all the express routes running that day. then I counted all the runs. I multiplied,... and well there where so,,,,  probable mistake.  maybe a bus might have done two runs?  I'll check my spread sheet.  I can't remember. original research thought... I dunno if that counts?  Does it?--72.57.8.215 04:20, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

I see where there may be a mistake... The numbers here are for the amount of bus runs in the morning + afternoon. Adding to about 729 buses... bus runs!!! So how many buses where there really out there? Probably less considering one bus can probably do 2 to 3 runs in the morning. So we should divide that by 2 for the morning... 729/2 = 365 or 729/3 = 243. Well say there was 243 buses in the morning. At a cost of 42.59$ per hour x 243 = 10'346.94$/per hour. So most bus do about 3 hours in the morning and 3 hours in the afternoon. So an average of 6 hours. 6 hours x 10'346.94 $/hour = 62'081.64 $. A big difference from the suggested, $186,246 I had suggested for the same 6 hours. Sorry. I forgot to factor in the fact that one bus can do more than one run.


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OCTranspo and searches
Thanks for the excellent article and the nice note. I would expect the article to show up in searches soon. It will also appear on the front page when published. I'm just looking after that now. --Chiacomo (talk) 03:40, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

RE depublishing

 * I removed it because at first the article was a 2 word title and was 2 or 3 sentences, if that, long. Articles with NO sources should not be published. There was NO original tag either. So if I had not depublished it, then someone else would have. Besides, the article has since been edited, sourced, title changed, and published. Jason Safoutin 19:27, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

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User:72.57.8.215

I'm more commonly know as w:user:CyclePat.

Articles I added:

 * OCTranspo's "new year" of efficiencies?

 * Conservative Canadian government sworn in

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Sydney Opera House 'No War' activists face court for paint cans

January 3, 2006

Two activists convicted for painting the words "NO WAR" in five-metre-high red letters on the highest sail of Sydney Opera House in March 2003, are facing court action again to prevent them from auctioning the equipment used to paint the controversial sign.

Dr Will Saunders and David Burgess were sentenced to nine months periodic detention and ordered to pay the Opera House Trust $151,000 for malicious damage to the building on March 18, 2003.

The pair spent six months in jail for painting the slogan on one of the sails of the Opera House on the eve of the invasion of Iraq. The protesters say they wish to auction the equipment for humanitarian causes in Iraq.

Police confiscated the paint can and two brushes used in the incident and have now applied for a court order to have the can and brushes destroyed. They are saying such an auction would contravene proceeds of crime laws.

Saunders said they wanted to auction the can and send the proceeds to humanitarian causes in Iraq. According to The Australian newspaper, Mr Saunders said the auction could be conducted by a registered charity to raise money for the Mother and Child Hospital in Basra.

He said the can should also be preserved as an important piece of Sydney history.

"We want to give the surplus money that we've raised, and anything extra we can make from an auction – not only the paint pot ... I think we can raise many many thousands of dollars," he said. "We'd be happy to come to any reasonable arrangement with the police about how this auction takes place ... it's just mean beyond belief, petty-minded just to destroy it."

The matter will go before a Sydney court on January 16.

Meanwhile, the world-famous Sydney Opera House is one of 21 international landmarks short-listed to become the new Seven Wonders of the World. The list includes modern landmarks such as Paris' Eiffel Tower and older candidates like the Colosseum in Rome and China's Great Wall.


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Miners survive underground fire in Tasmania

January 3, 2006

Three miners have escaped uninjured after being trapped underground by a mineshaft fire on Tasmania's west coast. The men took shelter in a chamber more than a kilometre underground. A worker noticed smoke coming from a shaft at Avebury nickel mine on Trial Harbour Road near Zeehan at 7.45am.

The blaze started after a truck working 400 metres underground toppled and caught fire. It took nearly five hours for rescue teams to bring the blaze under control, move the burning truck and reach the trapped miners.

Allegiance Mining chairman Tony Howland-Rose said the workers were safe. "The emergency response procedures in place at Avebury were activated and resulted in the vehicle fire being extinguished and the safe rescue of the miners," Mr Howland-Rose said.

Ambulance crews say the men appear to be in good health. Queenstown Police Inspector Mark Beech-Jones says rescue workers reached the men just before midday.

"We've dispatched a number of ambulance service personnel there just to give them a check up but from our initial discussions with them, they are fine," he said.

The Avebury nickel mine is a new project for the Sydney-based company - Allegiance Mining. Allegiance suspended trading on the stock exchange this morning. Mr Howland-Rose said the suspension of trading would be in place until it became clear what had happened at the mine.

The mine is undergoing a $60 million redevelopment and was due to resume mining later this year.


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Lookin for a CC pic of the NO WAR graf... Anybody got one?--elliot_k 07:02, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

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Southern Ocean whale slaughter to resume

January 3, 2006

The international environmental organisation, Greenpeace, have been shadowing a Japanese whaling fleet currently operating in the Southern Ocean in Australian Antarctic Territory. They claim a minor victory against the six-vessel fleet, saying no whales have been killed since Christmas Eve. However they expect a resumption of whaling and protest activity soon.

Greenpeace has two ships, MV Esperanza and MV Arctic Sunrise, active near Antarctica, in an effort to disrupt the whalers, who intend on slaughtering over 900 Minke whales and 10 Fin whales in the region this summer. The activists aim to stop the Japanese whaling fleet as it tries to catch nearly 1000 whales for what is claimed to be scientific research.

Greenpeace chief Steve Shallhorn states that the protesters have chased the six-ship fleet northwards, with the vessels now away from the designated whaling zone. Greenpeace plan to maintain their efforts to keep the whalers in the public eye.

"What the fleet is doing is trying to outrun Greenpeace so that it can sneak back into the whaling grounds and resume the kill," he said. "And for that very reason, we're doing our very best and are succeeding in keeping up with the factory whaling ship. We are certain that they do not want any further publicity."

He said Greenpeace will continue its high-speed tailing for as long as it takes. "We're capable of staying out there for many more weeks," he said. "The [Japanese] fleet is clearly embarrassed by having their actions exposed to the world, since the spotlight on their activities shows what it really is - commercial whaling with a very thin disguise."

The whalers have been unable to kill any whales since Christmas Eve due to poor weather and harassment by Greenpeace vessels, and the Washington-based Sea Shepherd ship, RV Farley Mowat. The Sea Shepherd is operating independently of Greenpeace but say they are working towards a common objective – "the shutting down of illegal whaling in the Southern Ocean."

Greenpeace expedition leader Shane Rattenbury says the whalers have a season of about 100 days. "Their quota is 945 whales. If you lose, say, 10 per cent of those through bad weather, they've got an average they need to catch of 10 a day and it's gone 10 days now without having any whales," he said. "That starts to add up pretty quickly. They're under a bit of pressure to get on with the business."

Japan's Institute for Cetacean Research have rejected the claims made by Sea Shepherd, that Japanese warship was being sent to Antarctica to protect the fleet against the activists.

The Japanese institute spokesman condemned Sea Shepherd over the claim by Farley Mowat captain Paul Watson, who called on the Australian Government to keep the peace.

Sea Shepherd had requested the presence of the Australian navy to monitor events in the Southern Ocean. However, Australia's environment minister, Senator Ian Campbell, said that Sea Shepherd's threats to attack the fleet "risk setting back the cause of whale conservation many years".

Capt Watson said yesterday: "Stop threatening us, Mr Campbell, and charge us if you believe we are acting unlawfully. Stop posing for the Japanese [who] are in blatant violation of international conservation laws."

Japan's Fisheries Agency, which conducts the whaling, said the claim was a tactic by Sea Shepherd to try to raise the stakes for extra publicity.

"This is why the environmentalists' campaign in the Antarctic is a PR stunt: every time they get some media coverage there's always some member not too far away asking the public for money," an agency spokesman said in a statement. "Only this time, it completely backfired and now people will question what these groups say."

The spokesman had no response to Greenpeace's claim that another vessel had joined the whaling fleet and was refuelling the ships within the boundary of the Antarctic Treaty's nature reserve.

Mr Rattenbury said the 57 activists and crew aboard the Greenpeace ships were in good health following a quiet New Year's Day celebration on deck under a midnight sun.

He said his ships were not in contact with the Farley Mowat, which is believed to be closer to the Antarctic ice shelf. The Farley Mowat's weblog quoted ship captain Paul Watson as saying the Sea Shepherd group had no conflict with Greenpeace, despite earlier British media assertions.

"As far as I am concerned both Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace are working towards a common objective – the shutting down of illegal whaling in the Southern Ocean," said Paul Watson.

Greenpeace believes the fleet killed at least 25 whales from the time it contacted the whalers just before Christmas.


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Bomb blasts in Athens destroy Finnish diplomat's car

January 3, 2006

Three home made bombs exploded during the night in Athens, Greece. One of the bombs destroyed a Finnish diplomat's car. No one was injured in the bombings and a Greek group claiming to be anarchists has told local media that it committed the bombings as retaliation for the jailing of fellow anarchists. The Finnish Foreign Ministry has said that it believes it was an accident that Finnish diplomatic property was damaged - as all the evidence points to this -, and Finnish diplomats in Athens are said to be calm.


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US survey finds advertising contributes to increased underage drinking

January 3, 2006

A survey to test whether exposure to alcohol advertisements affects alcohol consumption by young people found that advertising does contribute to increased drinking, including among underage drinkers.

Researchers from the University of Connecticut surveyed 15 to 26 year olds, who reported their alcohol consumption over the previous month. The research then correlated this with the respondent's exposure to advertisement, and the money spent by companies on alcohol ads. The alcohol industry's measured media expenditure is roughly $1.8 billion per year.

The study found that those youngsters exposed to more ads also drank more, and that markets with greater alcohol advertising expenditures also had greater alcohol consumption. These findings also oheld for drinking by those younger than the legal drinking age of 21 years.

Alcohol use by the youth has been a matter of public concern, as it has been linked with lowered educational performance, risky sexual activity, motor accidents and addiction. Other surveys have found that underage drinkers account for 20% of alcohol consumption. Alcohol advertising is not subject to federal legislation, the industry follows a voluntary code of conduct.

While many studies have found an association between alcohol advertising and use, the question of whether the link is a causal one is still unanswered. The present survey uses market-level measures of advertising to address criticism of previous studies that relying on self-reported exposure to advertisements might be biased as those who drink may be more likely to pay attention to, and remember the ads.

The study found greater ad-spending in a market was related to both higher levels of youth drinking and steeper increases in drinking over time, which continued until respondents were in their mid-twenties. The link also held the other way: less alcohol advertising associated with less drinking, more modest increases in consumption over time during the respondents' early twenties and a steady decline in consumption after this period. The results are consistent with findings from studies of advertising bans.

The study was funded by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

The industries voluntary guidelines specify that 70 percent of the audience for its advertising be at least 21 years old, the legal drinking age. Industry groups have claimed that its advertising affects only those older than the legal drinking age and that advertising at best causes brand switching. Reacting to the study, representatives of the alcohol industry in the UK, which has one of the highest youth drinking rates in Europe, said that there was a strict system in place controlling advertising. But studies have found that there is often greater concentrations of alcohol advertisements in media aimed at youth than at adults.


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Talk:Southern Ocean whale slaughter to resume

Greenpeace is not an agency, that implies they are a government organisation. Brian McNeil / talk 16:37, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

By the way, I think the title (especially "slaughter") is POV. --SonicR 16:40, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * not really, killing animals is slaughter. Doldrums 17:00, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

If killing is slaughter, then killing should be sufficient to describe what is happening to them Telewis 20:05, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree. Article is tagged and back to develop until the title and its content is sorted out in conjunction with the NPOV policy.  Please view it and what Wikinews is not.  --MrMiscellanious – Happy New Year – 02:13, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Please read my responses below... I have addressed the concerns. --elliot_k 02:21, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

 * About the word "slaughter": its first definition indicates killing (of animals) for food. (slaughter) -  Amgine | talk en.WN 02:22, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

What's the Deal with this Story?
I know that Wikinews was created in an effort to create an unbiased, uninfluenced, neutral source for news but where else is this whale story being reported? Is it not fair to question the possibility of this being planted by Greenpeace? For example, look at this quote from the article:

"The activists aim to stop the Japanese whaling fleet as it tries to catch nearly 1000 whales for what is claimed to be scientific research"

If this were truly a neutral story, it would read more like, "The Scientific Japanese Whaling Fleet...1000 whales," Then, later on, have a paragraph dedicated to disputing the exact nature of the said fleet.

Not only does this story need to be heavilly edited, but it needs to be deleted all together. --Secretwanderer 21:54, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

I think you are probably right given the first written headline that said "slaughter" instead of "kill." That being the case, why didn't you, yourself, take the story down? 209.133.130.105 22:30, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * The reason that they are not described as "The Scientific Japanese Whaling Fleet" is because there is a dispute as to whether the fleet is really scientific in nature. Therefore, Wikinews reports that the fleet claims it is scientific, and Greenpeace claims it is not. Also, there is no such thing as a "plant" on Wikinews. Members of Greenpeace are entirely welcome to come here and write about whatever interests them. Their work will be subject to the same processes as everyone else. - Borofkin 00:32, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Author's Response
1. The story has been widely reported - have a look at the Sources under the article. Try a GoogleNews search for "Greenpeace/Southern Ocean Whales". There were over 350 global stories on the specific issue of Japanese Whaling Fleet in the Southern Ocean from January 3, 2005. This is definately a News story.

2. The title deliberately reflects the nature of the Whaling. Killing and slaughter have different meanings: ie "the killing of animals especially for food"; "to kill in a violent or brutal manner" etc. Whereas "Killing" = simply means "to put to death". Therefore I have reverted the title to reflect this.

3. Whilst I tend to focus on issues of Activism, I am definitely NOT a member of Greenpeace. :)

I'd appreciate it is folks would articulate their concerns, and point out exactly why this story is "biased"

Thanks for the responses, --elliot_k 01:49, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Even I think the title is POV, and I'm vegan. 'Slaughter' certainly has a negative connotation, while 'killing' is a fairly neutral term for the death of something caused by another. There's no reason why 'slaughter' should be used over 'kill'. -- Macaddct1984 15:12, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Please explain
Why you have removed this article from the front page? What are your concerns exactly? Please articulate your reasons for removal. I beleive I had addressed the concerns above. What precisely is the problem? --elliot_k 02:39, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I agree. I removed the article from the lead position because it had be tagged as NPOV; I do not agree with tagging it NPOV for the title because the term used is used correctly, but until the tagger responds here I feel we must respect the opinions of other contributors who have expressed their opinion on this page. Hopefully they will respond with actionable reasons for the NPOV tag. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 02:42, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

 * In regards to the 3rd Lead - Fair enough. But its a bit rough to simply tag things without proper reason. I simply do not understand the reason behind "MrMiscellanious'" action. I am particularly concerned that it has been dumped back in "developing". --elliot_k 02:46, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * And why is that? This article has tons of unattributed source material which you do not claim as original reporting.  Remember, it isn't good to just dump sources and expect people to sift through them to verify the authenticity of the claims.  --MrMiscellanious – Happy New Year – 03:11, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Please define the hyperbolic term: "Tons"? All the material is from the articles cited. The story is about Greenpeace's actions in the Southern Ocean. Where is the bias? Please articulate your concerns explicitly.--elliot_k 03:16, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * MrM, how many times must we go though this? Your npov concerns must be specific and actionable. Also, I am very dissapointed that you have told Elliot, a committed contributor who has written many comprehensive articles about controversial topics, to "View NPOV policy", without further explanation. I think he is deserving of more respect than that. - Borofkin 03:23, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I do not listen nor do I respond to demands of operation. If you have something to say, say it to my talk page.  This article is based on a Greenpeace survey, and the portions of it in the article are not attributed properly.  In order to maintain NPOV status, they must be. --MrMiscellanious – Happy New Year – 03:26, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Hmmm, now I AM confused. Which "Greenpeace survey" are you referring to? Where in the article is this mentioned? Which "portions of it not attributed properly"...? I am confused and dismayed at your actions, MrMiscellanious. I'm happy to work through your issues, but at this point you have not necessarily clarified your reasons for putting this article back in Developing. Thanks, --elliot_k 04:41, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

 * What is this "Greenpeace survey" of which you speak? - Borofkin 04:37, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

I have untagged the article. Of course, anyone is free to retag it. I ask that if you do tag it, you'll provide citations on this talk page. --Chiacomo (talk) 04:42, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Not Really News
While it may have some emotional value for many of the readers who become aware of this event, it hardly qualifies as news in the strict sense of the word. There is little broad appeal and the story itself ends up looking more like an appeal from Greenpeace itself.

The efforts of a group "trying" to block the killing of whales is just not news. If someone is injured or a vessel sinks, that might qualify.

 * Hmmm. What exactly is "news in the strict sense of the word"? And to whom? Define NEWS... --elliot_k 16:35, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, of course, anything COULD be news. "Middle-aged Australian man wakes up, eats smaller breakfast than usual" COULD be news, but who cares? One of the inherent problems with Wikinews is that stories like "Whale slaughter" get posted while hundreds of others with much broader appeal and or significance are not. I personally don't have any interest whatsoever in this story. I have the same reaction when looking at the local newspaper. A number of stories in the paper I might skip right over. The difference is that Wikinews is written and assembled by the public. So many non-events or public relations items will show up rather than news that affects a larger number of people in a more significant way. --Telewis 16:58, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

 * You say: "stories like "Whale slaughter" get posted while hundreds of others with much broader appeal and or significance are not". What do you mean by that? Don't they all get posted? Surely the idea of YOU writing the news YOU want to see is the whole point of this project? I don't see your point when it is YOU who can post stories... I don't get your point at all... Let me ask, though, why is the massacre of 1000 whales, condemmed by millions, inside a whale sanctuary NOT news? The story is the fight to save the whales. Its a globally important story. One with massive appeal. Personally I couldnt give a toss about "Televangelist Pat Robertson claims Sharon's stroke is "divine retribution"... Or who is hosting the Academy Awards for gods sake? Who cares? Not me! This is why I write the stories I want to see... Just like you can! --elliot_k 04:02, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps I am engaging in a bit of hemispherism in not thinking this story is very important. I understand it has much broader appeal in Australia and regions than it does in the U.S. For that I apologize. And, too, I believe that this outlet should allow the public to bring forth articles that are being ignored by the popular media. I only WISH I had the time to write more articles, but I am glad that you wrote that one. Thanks and keep up the good work. --Telewis 08:15, 7 January 2006 (UTC)


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Presidential candidate of Haiti, Dany Toussaint, arrested by United Nations troops

January 3, 2006

Former senator and former police chief Dany Toussaint was arrested by United Nations troops on alleged possession of illegal weapons. According to police sources Toussaint was arrested by Chilean troops when they found the weapons on him in Cap-Haitien. Toussaint was driving through a police checkpoint when the troops spotted the weapons and arrested him.

One police official said, "Dany Toussaint was carrying several weapons for which he has no valid authorization."

Among the alleged weapons are those obtained from parliament when Toussaint became a senator, but they were to be returned when his term as senator ended. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has suspected Toussaint of drug trafficking in the past. Toussaint was also the suspect in the 2000 murder of a radio journalist, Jean Dominique. Currently Toussaint runs a private security company.


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Russia assumes leadership of G8 for 2006

January 3, 2006

Russia became chair of the "Group of Eight" (G8) on 1 January. It took the chair from Great Britain. The G8 summit will take place in July in.

Russia joined the club of the highest developed countries in the world in 1997. Before, the "Group of Eight" had been the "Group of Seven", the members being the U.S.A., Canada, Japan, Germany, France, Great Britain, and Italy.

As the chair country, Russia is planning to discuss the following issues among the G8-countries:

 * securing of energy
 * struggle against epidemics
 * struggle against
 * avoidance of spreading of
 * regional conflicts
 * promotion of development of third world countries
 * collaboration in environmental protection

In 2007, the chair of the "Group of Eight" will be passed to Germany.

Source

''This is a translation of the Russian article "Россия — председатель «Большой восьмёрки»" from the Russian wikinews, see.

Russland übernimmt den G8-Vorsitz Россия — председатель «Большой восьмёрки»