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Wikinews:Admin action alerts/Archive 1

Protected pages
Fixed - Amgine Moved - Amgine
 * MediaWiki:Blocklogtext
 * Sentence needs copyediting - Amgine
 * Please fix the Main Page by moving the Welcome template above the main table opening brace. I've posted an example at this page to show the fix. — DV 01:48, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Super Deletion
This is not a normal deletion request, as it requires some extra steps, according to Jamesday, to execute correctly. So I'm posting it here as well.

Two prominent Wikipedia contributors have made a request to perform a "super delete" on this page, because it contains a log of what they regard to be a private conversation, in which they participated, a few entries back in its history.

I won't quote anything from the log per the above requests, but an anon IP questioned whether Jimbo said anything interesting in this log to justify keeping it. In fact, Jimbo made a number of comments about Wikinews concerning the viability of firsthand reporting, a behind the scenes comment about the BBC, and a mention of another collaborative site called "Indymedia".

A number of Wikinews contributors have posted questions about these issues on this site, and this log was a rare opportunity to hear from Jimbo on these questions.

I'm sorry that Jamesday (who made a single three word remark in the discussion) and Sannse (who also made only two brief remarks in the entire discussion) feel so offended by this log appearing on Wikinews.

Although I think the log is noteworthy, if an Admin could please "super delete" this page and all of its history, (and the "archive tables" whatever Jamesday is referring to) hopefully that will help satisfy Jamesday and Sannse to move on past this episode. Deleted - Amgine

Jan. 8

 * MediaWiki:Anontalkpagetext
 * The link to IP address should be updated to IP address - Amgine 03:53, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Site notice banner
Admins, please consider changing the site banner to the following, more compact appearance:

If you agree with this change, the site banner text is stored on the "Sitenotice" page under "MediaWiki".

The current banner needlessly chews up an extra line of space at the top of every page. In addition to the smaller text, I omitted the "last update" date because contributors can use watchlist to monitor the site news for changes, and the old date makes the site look like it hasn't been updated in a while.

Thanks.

Protected pages
Special:Allpages shows instead of 'NextPage', 'Next page (Record_computer_outage_at_UK_government_department)', which I feel is a bit much. Next page would do, and the user can figure out themselves where it starts. Or else break the information up somehow. Because of that arbitrary page title, I happened to think our page was broken. Simeon 20:58, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * I have to say, that's a very odd bit... but it is not something which is configurable. That title is added to the link so it knows where it had gotten to alphabetically in displaying all the pages; it literally is the next page it will display. - Amgine 02:37, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism in progress
Actually, it appears to be done now, handled by User:Eean and User:Ronline. IP 61.51.144.243 spammed a half-dozen pages with a link to "www.lingshengdown.com/hexian.htm 和弦铃声|和弦铃声下载". Request an IP block if it comes back up? - Amgine 07:31, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Support King Ho Cheung 03:52, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Blocked user
I blocked User:Squeakfox for 24 hours. The reason, vandalising Pinochet arrested after Supreme Court ruling with speedy delete, copyvio (copied from his article Two women strangled in further political violence in Honduras) and 'Noise' takes on 'Fockers' in weekend box office race with copyvio (copied from same).

The original Two women... article was copyvio'd when the author was asked for sources, and he responded:
 * Majority of above text taken from SecurityProNews and this  direct article. dif

Squeakfox removed the copyvio and expanded the Wikinews article, and explained the Security ProNews article was a copy of the Wikinews article. The Security ProNet article is now 404.

Squeakfox created a series of articles, Security ProNet use of Wikinews articles creates deletion chaos, Security ProNews use of Wikinews articles creates deletion chaos, Use of Wikipedia articles creates deletion chaos, and Use of Wikinews articles creates deletion chaos, stub articles, and posted some them (variously) to the Main Page via Template:Latest news.

I don't believe there was any premeditated harm intended by Squeakfox. I believe the user could be a valuable contributor, but needs guidance on use of sources and verifiability. User may also be a contributor at Security ProNews (which is also carrying other Wikinews articles.) - Amgine 23:05, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * It appears the auto-unblock is not working. I unblocked Squeakfox as soon as I noticed this. Someone else may have been autoblocked? See Special:Ipblocklist - Amgine 07:34, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Unblocked #2 after autoblock expired. - Amgine 22:24, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Squeakfox was blocked out for 48 hours instead of the 24 hours due?--Squeakfox 01:34, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Super Deletion
This is not a normal deletion request, as it requires some extra steps, according to Jamesday, to execute correctly. So I'm posting it here as well.

Two prominent Wikipedia contributors have made a request to perform a "super delete" on this page, because it contains a log of what they regard to be a private conversation, in which they participated, a few entries back in its history.

I won't quote anything from the log per the above requests, but an anon IP questioned whether Jimbo said anything interesting in this log to justify keeping it. In fact, Jimbo made a number of comments about Wikinews concerning the viability of firsthand reporting, a behind the scenes comment about the BBC, and a mention of another collaborative site called "Indymedia".

A number of Wikinews contributors have posted questions about these issues on this site, and this log was a rare opportunity to hear from Jimbo on these questions.

I'm sorry that Jamesday (who made a single three word remark in the discussion) and Sannse (who also made only two brief remarks in the entire discussion) feel so offended by this log appearing on Wikinews.

Although I think the log is noteworthy, if an Admin could please "super delete" this page and all of its history, (and the "archive tables" whatever Jamesday is referring to) hopefully that will help satisfy Jamesday and Sannse to move on past this episode. Deleted - Amgine

Protected pages
Fixed - Amgine Moved - Amgine
 * MediaWiki:Blocklogtext
 * Sentence needs copyediting - Amgine
 * Please fix the Main Page by moving the Welcome template above the main table opening brace. I've posted an example at this page to show the fix. — DV 01:48, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

— DV 04:19, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Protected pages

 * Please, could an Administrator change the weather template usage on the main page, where the line reads (ignoring the "nowiki" markup):

to use this line:

This change allows our readers to see the latest weather map using a template which works for both the Weather page and the Main Page.

Thanks. — DV 23:59, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Done - Amgine 00:06, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

March 29

 * Could one of the Administrators please fix a formatting problem on the Main Page?

 * In the current Main Page layout, there is usually a large gap above the "Browse latest news by:" section in the second column.

 * A simple change would fix that problem. Just replace the following lines:

 * class="MainPageBG" style="width:40%; padding: .5em; border: 1px solid #cfcfbf; background-color: #f0f0ff; text-align: center;"|

 * with the lines:

 * class="MainPageBG" style="width:40%; height:1%; padding: .5em; border: 1px solid #cfcfbf; background-color: #f0f0ff; text-align: center;"|

 * This change will cause the "Browse latest news by:" section to always be flush with the top of its column box. It also gets rid of the gap below the Browse latest news section, allowing the Developing stories section to appear higher up on the page.

 * Please follow this link to see the result when this fix is applied.

 * — DV 11:35, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Done, thanks for the code, made the task very easy... except the servers are incrediably slow today! CGorman 15:38, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * CGorman, thank you for quickly taking care of this request. — DV 18:08, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * No problem. CGorman 19:39, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * I think someone tried to slip in a HOAX article.I just put the article "Church's Report finds Rumsfeld, Bush ordered torture" in for speedy deletion and think an administrator should remove it from the developing stories section and try to ban whoever submitted it in the first place. Paulrevere2005 23:14, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Got it. Thanks for catching that! -- Davodd | Talk 23:45, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

March 31

 * Can I invite an admin to protect the Date and Source templates? Source was recently vandalised which of course disrupts every article on the site. Both are stable in their format - neither have been altered (for a good reason) for a long time and I don't think they need to be open to all editors. Dan100 (Talk) 09:23, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Opposed. Where does this creeping protectionism stop?
 * First it was the Main Page. Then it was old news articles. Now there's a proposal to start protecting templates that could be used to disrupt "every article on the site".
 * There is one act of vandalism on the Source template in its entire history, from an IP which resolves to Belgium of all places. Dan100 fixed it 12 minutes later, which is great - this is a sign that we have enough alert RC monitors to make any vandalism short-lived.
 * I just finished adding the well-received "Wikinews" template to add to all articles that reference another Wikinews story in the Related stories section. Suppose that gets used on a bunch of stories, and a vandal alters it for a few minutes one day. Will that template then be protected as well? Wonder if I want to try a subtle style change to try and improve it later on? I shouldn't have to be an adminstrator to contribute neat ideas like that and be able to further develop and maintain them. It's simply not the wiki way to protect pages at the drop of a hat.
 * There needs to be a line in the sand past which further protection is detrimental to the wiki nature of Wikinews. A single act of vandalism is not enough to justify a sacrifice of the wiki spirit. Protection should be a last, and temporary resort. Giving up a little bit of liberty to edit the site, for the illusion of a bit more safety from vandals, will only show that we deserve neither liberty nor safety.
 * Sure the Admins can protect a template here, and a template there. Always with a promise that this is the last one, or that this was a special case. That's how restrictions on liberty always sneak in without anyone seriously objecting until it's too late.
 * If this is done for pragmatic reasons, I will understand, but it is corrosive to the Wiki spirit. — DV 10:30, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I'd like to withdraw this proposal, if I may. It seems that a better way to avoid such meta-template problems is simply to use 'subst:' in the templates when they're used. That would mean altering the templates would have no effect on existing articles. Dan100 (Talk) 11:55, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * You have restored my faith in the wiki spirit!
 * However, won't "subst:" obscure the use of templates for new or casual contributors?
 * People tend to learn best by example. If experienced editors use "subst:" with templates, the evidence that a template was used is eradicated for less experienced contributors who look at the article's markup later on for clues.
 * Also, while it's not impossible to copy and paste the expanded template contents from older articles into newer articles, now that we have a lot of stories that are related to each other, it would be nice to be able to copy and paste the new "Wikinews" source template instances from one story to another using the template instantiations and not the expanded template contents.
 * It's great that you're looking for a technological alternative for your proposal. — DV 12:30, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I changed the writing guide and reporting tools to use Subst, but it's not a widely known or understood function :(.
 * I mean, I think we need to use either this method or protect templates (which I agree isn't a good solution). Otherwise the risj for massively site-disrupting vandalism is too great, in my opinion. Dan100 (Talk) 17:40, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * You have restored my faith in the wiki spirit!
 * However, won't "subst:" obscure the use of templates for new or casual contributors?
 * People tend to learn best by example. If experienced editors use "subst:" with templates, the evidence that a template was used is eradicated for less experienced contributors who look at the article's markup later on for clues.
 * Also, while it's not impossible to copy and paste the expanded template contents from older articles into newer articles, now that we have a lot of stories that are related to each other, it would be nice to be able to copy and paste the new "Wikinews" source template instances from one story to another using the template instantiations and not the expanded template contents.
 * It's great that you're looking for a technological alternative for your proposal. — DV 12:30, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I changed the writing guide and reporting tools to use Subst, but it's not a widely known or understood function :(.
 * I mean, I think we need to use either this method or protect templates (which I agree isn't a good solution). Otherwise the risj for massively site-disrupting vandalism is too great, in my opinion. Dan100 (Talk) 17:40, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * It's great that you're looking for a technological alternative for your proposal. — DV 12:30, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I changed the writing guide and reporting tools to use Subst, but it's not a widely known or understood function :(.
 * I mean, I think we need to use either this method or protect templates (which I agree isn't a good solution). Otherwise the risj for massively site-disrupting vandalism is too great, in my opinion. Dan100 (Talk) 17:40, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I mean, I think we need to use either this method or protect templates (which I agree isn't a good solution). Otherwise the risj for massively site-disrupting vandalism is too great, in my opinion. Dan100 (Talk) 17:40, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Heavy lift Delta IV rocket launch problems

January 8, 2005

A launch on December 21, 2004 by Boeing with a new "Delta IV Heavy" rocket from Cape Canaveral failed to place a 'dummy' satellite into geosynchronous orbit, but the launch was considered successful by Air Force officials.

The dummy satellite, the purpose of which was to monitor the Delta IV launch, as well as two experimental nanosatellites, provided by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to take digital photos of cloud formations and to test the effectiveness of materials in spacecraft, were lost.

Boeing's Vice President for Expendable Launch Systems, Dan Collins, said that the rocket malfunction was caused by a shorter first stage burn than was expected. This was compensated for during flight, however the fuel lost in the process limited final stages of the burn and was responsible for the payload not achieving orbit.

A Boeing spokesman, Robert Villanueva, agreed that many flight objectives were achieved, but did not call the launch a success. “We do have an outstanding issue we need to work on before our first operational launch next year,” Villanueva said.

Boeing was paid at least $140 million by the U.S. Air Force to place a 'dummy' satellite into geosynchronous orbit, 22,300 miles from Earth, according to the FAA. The launch was a demonstration for the Air Force's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program.

Collins also reported, "We now have enough information and confidence in the Delta IV Heavy to move forward with preparations for the upcoming Defense Support Program launch in 2005. The mission has met all its major objectives. The US Air Force - was very, very happy."

The 23-story rocket, a heavy-lift variant of the Delta 4 family, lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Dec. 21 at 4:50 p.m. (2150 GMT). The launch was delayed three times in December due to weather problems and technical glitches.

The Delta IV Heavy is scheduled to carry the final Defense Support Program missile launch detection satellite to orbit this August. A National Reconnaissance Office classified payload is set to be aboard the second operational launch scheduled for December 2005.

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Talk:Heavy lift Delta IV rocket launch problems

Rewritten from Heavy Lift Delta IV Rocket Launches because of copyright issues. - Samatheson


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User talk:Samatheson

See Security ProNews use of Wikinews articles creates deletion chaos and please check more carefuylly in future before sticking deletion notices over a perfectly good article Squeakfox 18:05, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC) Squeakfox 15:08, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)==Welcome== Samatheson, 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! -- Davodd | Talk 07:20, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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Hi, thank you for joining Wikinews. I have just read your contribution and noticed that there are two pages with the same text. I am not sure what has happened exactly, but is one or the other containing potentially infringing text from another site? I was confused after seeing that one is commented as Heavy Lift Delta IV Rocket Launch Problems, but the same with the previous article here: Heavy Lift Delta IV Rocket Launches.

Also I was wondering if you used some text from this source.

Just to be clar, I am not so much scrambled or alarmed about what you did, but just want to know what is going on so that I can help doing some clean-up job, like deleting potentially infringing text (if there exist any) from the history of any page. So may I ask you to tell me about those things?

Thank you for your time, and I hope you will stay around. Tomos 09:08, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:12.64.72.96

Welcome
12.64.72.96, 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! -- Davodd | Talk 07:22, 8 Jan 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!

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User talk:69.3.238.93

Welcome
69.3.238.93, 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! -- Davodd | Talk
 * 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:69.3.238.93


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User talk:Tem Noon~enwikinews

Welcome
Tem Noon, 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! -- Davodd | Talk 07:26, 8 Jan 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!

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 Tem Noon. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Tem Noon~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 23:35, 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) 06:37, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:144.139.139.73

Welcome
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User talk:Umbra-dweller~enwikinews

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 * Style guide - how articles should look before publishing
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
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 * And of course, stories need writing!

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

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

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:39, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

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User:Davodd/sandbox

My collection of re-usable codes:

August 2, 2005

Abuse of Admin powers
Hello. After having read your posts on the Watercooler, may I suggest a few things?
 * Admin abuse is a serious offense. If you believe that an admin is abusing his or her powers, it may be more effective to address this issue on the Administrators page, since more admins read changes to that page more often than they read the Watercooler. There you can:
 * under the Admin action required portion, ask for an admin action to be reverted by another admin.
 * start a Requests for de-adminship vote to remove the person's admin status.

 * Disputes with admins. Being human, Wikinews admins will make mistakes. It may be more fruitful if you use their User talk:Xxxxx page to address an issue before going to the community for resolution. This may:
 * allow an admin to justify his or her actions, citing wikiproject policy.
 * additionally it may provide a more speedy resolution to your problem, and/or;
 * avoid hurting feelings/causing unneeded animosity in the community, and/or;
 * show the community that you took a constructive or collaborative approach to resolve an issue before resulting to a more drastic action. It may improve your credibility among folks who don't know know you well by helping you not appear to be rash in your actions if and when you ask the community for disciplinary action.

Other than that, thanks for volunteering to make sure all administrators do follow the rules and do not abuse their powers. -- Davodd | Talk 15:56, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

title: User:Davodd/sandbox


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User talk:24.68.60.188

Welcome
24.68.60.188, 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! -- Davodd | Talk 08:22, 8 Jan 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:24.68.60.188


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User talk:24.234.190.15

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At the Archive desk, you can ask for help on researching the archives of Wikinews.

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US Navy Los Angeles-class attack submarine runs aground near Guam

January 8, 2005

The USS San Francisco ran aground, or hit bottom, while underwater approximately 350 miles (563 kilometers) south of the South Pacific island of Guam today at about noon local time (2 a.m. UTC).

It is unknown the full extent of the damage and injuries, but at least one person has died and several lesser injuries are known. The submarine is on the surface now and is on its way to a port in Guam.

The Los Angeles class submarine had no reports of damage to the reactor plant, which is operating normally.

Military and Coast Guard aircraft are enroute to monitor and assist in the situation.


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Interesting new cancer detection method--April 11th, 2005
Scientists have developed a new method for isolating individual cells and detecting if they're cancerous.

Using a gallium-aluminium-arsenide micro-sized laser, they illuminated individual cells. Based on the reflection that came back, they could figure out the location of each individual mitochondrion (a power-producing part cells). When cancer infects a cell, these mitochondria spread out from their original positions near the nucleus of the cell.

Based on the position of the mitochondria, it is possible to say if the cell is cancerous or not, and that is what this laser can do. Scientists hope to use the method during surgery to see if they have missed cancerous clumps, or even for early detection, as the laser can detect the signs of cancer long before symptoms.

This method promises to help during surgery, help with early detection of cancer, and much more.

Source: New Scientist (subscription required to read entire article

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New hope for diabetics--April 10th, 2005
A new medical treatment means that diabetics may not have to live with insulin shots all of their lives. Instead, their blood cells can be "reconfigured" to create insulin.

Scietists had earlier managed to create insulin-producing cells from human embryonic stem cells. While this works well, there is no way to obtain these cells from each patient specifically, so patients would be forced to stay on anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their lives while their immune system tries to attack the foreign cells.

So several scientists from the University of Kiel in Germany tried a new approach. They exposed human white blood cells to the same chemicals they used to make the embryonic stem cells create insulin. And it worked! The white blood cells now created insulin, and when injected into diabetic mice, it lowered the mice's blood sugar level to normal.

Because the white blood cells can be obtained from the patient themself, they should not be rejected by the immune system, meaning one shot could last many years without needing constant blood sugar testing and insulin injections.

This is one discovery that has the potential to change many people's lives.

Homeopathy might actually work--April 8th, 2005
Homeopathy has many skeptics in the scientific community. The idea that a medicine can be diluted so much and still have a healing effect is ridiculed by many, but supported by others.

So one woman set out to prove it wrong for once and for all. Madeleine Ennis decided to do her own test of homeopathy, completely independent of others. A histamine solution was diluted many times, and its effectiveness was then tested versus an undiluted solution.

In a surprising result, the homeopathic solution was just as effective as the real stuff. Madeleine Ennis isn't happy, especially after four labs all replicated the results, but she admits that it is possible that homeopathy is actually right. However, she would like others to help her in her investigation, as homeopathy is in violation of many laws of chemistry.

Homeopathy supposedly works because as the solution is diluted, the particles of the actual medication leave an "imprint" on the water molecules. To most, this seems ridiculous. And in clinical trials, homeopathy has proven no more effective than a placebo. But Ennis's tests show that something squirrely is going on. Keep watching to see what turns up.

Rats are smarter than you think--January 12th, 2005
A two part series, about rats.

Rat—the Fighter Pilot
Now, you’re probably saying “What?” But seriously, rat bits can pilot an airplane—actually, an F-22 Raptor.

Scientists placed 25,000 rat neurons in a dish and inserted an electrode array connected to the simulator. The cells then receive electrical pulses which indicate the angle of the plane’s nose above or below the horizon. The neurons’ response controls the airplane.

At the start, the plane was zooming up and down. After a while, the rat brain managed to “learn” and began to pilot the airplane steadily.

Don’t worry; rats won’t be taking over the Air Force any time soon.

Source: Discover Magazine

Rat—the Linguist
That’s right. Rats can also, among their many talents, determine the difference between several languages.

Researchers trained rats to respond to Dutch or Japanese (some rats did one, the other rats did the other language) and then get a treat.

The rats were then separated into several groups, where they listened to the language either by a native speaker, a synthesized voice, both languages, or finally, either one backwards. The rats did not respond to the opposite language or either language backwards.

Source: MSNBC News

Maybe that’s why rats are so hard to get rid of. They’re smarter than we thought.

Turkey Power
A new power plant in Minnesota aims to bring new meaning to the words "bio fuel."

The power plant will, seriously, run on turkey dung. Lots of turkey dung. Enough turkey dung to power 55,000 homes, and probably raise quite a stench.

There are already three plants of the type in England, but this is the first major plant in the USA.

Turkey dung is apparently much better than cow or pig dung, because it is drier. In burning the dung produces phosphorus and nitrogen, which is then used as fertilizer. It also does not emit any more waste than the dung would in naturally decaying.

Quite an idea.

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Missile defense failure
The US missile defense shield has failed in another critical test--the missile is nearly in service. Early this morning (December 15th), in the test range in Alaska, the target missile took off with instruments and a dummy warhead. The "interceptor" missile was to launch a few minutes later. But a few minutes before the planned launch, the missile experienced "an unknown anomaly" (government speak for "a problem) and automatically shut down, stopping the test.

This is one of many times this month the attempted test was aborted, other times due to weather or other mechanical failures. It is also the first time the missile was flying with the intended booster rocket (in earlier tests a substitute was used).

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New hope for patients with brain tumors
A new drug has been proved to double the median survival rate of brain cancer patients. The problem is, brain cancer is different from other cancerss: tiny tentacles of cancerous cells spread through the brain, making physical removal impossible. Normal drugs cannot eliminate the tumor easily, and there aren't many other options.

That's where IL-3 comes in. IL-3 is a new drug which kills the cells quickly and without harming normal, unharmed cells. IL-3 is admitted into the cells via receptors which are typically only on immune system cells, and not on any brain cells. Then the drug destroys the cancerous cell, quickly and easily removing the tumor.

Because IL-3 is too large to get to the brain through the blood, it is pumped into the patients brains via catheter (ouch). The patients are awake, and can walk around with the drug on an IV stand.

Studies show that the drug doubles the median survival rate to about 44 weeks, and 35% of patients had their tumours reduce in size or disappear completely. Several are still living, three years later.

I say, good luck to the patients!

Clouds on Mars!
Yes, that's right. The Mars rover Opportunity has snapped some amazing pictures of what appear to be Martian cirrus clouds, and it's not seeing hallucinations. Scientists theorize that these clouds are only produced when Mars is at its farthest point from the Sun, when it receives much less sunlight. The clouds are believed to be made of, yes, frozen water. Martian wind is moving them along at a nice speed of 20 miles per hour.

This comes along the same time that Spirit found some interesting rocks on Mars. A mineral called [w:goethite|goethite]] (never before found on Mars) was in one rock, and another had an amazing chemical structure.

Those rovers have certainly turned up more than we thought they would.

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Watch your pants
A bit of scientific history for you...

In the 1920s and 30s, New Zealanders faced an interesting problem. A nasty plant called ragwort was infesting their farms and lands, and ragwort is extremely poisonous. Animals would die from eating it, and no pesticide was found for it.

Until sodium chlorate, that is. The government began advocating the use of sodium chlorate on ragwort, not realizing how potentially dangerous it is. Sodium chlorate forms an explosive compound on contact with some organic materials, including cotton, which was sensitive to touch and heat. The farmers, of course, got the stuff all over their trousers. Then, suddenly,

BOOM!

go the trousers, when a match gets near them, or someone hits them. Some people died, and others had rather scorched personal regions from the experience.

Watch your trousers!

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User talk:RichardWeiss

Hello, your recent edits were assumed to be a test of th Wikinews system.

Welcome
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Your (deleted) story
I didn't delete the story; an Administrator did. I did remove the dead link from the front page because there was no story there anymore. You may want to ask the same question in the Water cooler and discover why the story was deleted. I do not know the reason, personally. -- Davodd | Talk 20:19, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * It seems to have been restored - I re-added a link to it - it is now on the Copyedit section of the Front Page. -- Davodd | Talk 20:32, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The story I marked for deletion
To be honest, I don't quite understand your article, but basically our work is public domain, so anyone can copy it and do what they want with it. Dan100 21:27, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The sources are missing
Please explain your comments re Honduran article?--Squeakfox 14:49, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * I did not say anything for/against the article. I just asked for the sources so we can check the story. -- Carlosar 23:13, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Re: Security ProNews use of Wikinews articles creates deletion chaos
In reference to your comment, I didn't mark it for deletion, I merely pointed out the link to Security ProNews while trying to find more information on the story. Sorry for the confusion. - Samatheson 06:31, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Your article(s)
Okay, I understand this article is very important for you. As I've discussed with several others here, it sounds like an excellent story, and we have attempted to find corroborating stories elsewhere to support and expand it. We have been unable to find verifiable sources.

If you could please locate other supporting sources for your article, I would greatly appreciate it.

You said previously, when asked for sources, that your article was primarily taken from the Security ProNews site. Obviously if your article is drawn from another we would like to see that other article. We don't have a problem with articles which re-state the information from another, but we generally cannot allow exact quoting. In the United States (where our servers are located), an article which copies another is illegal unless you have permission from the copyright holder.

Articles which are written on Wikinews are released into the public domain, which gives others permission to copy the articles.

At this point I am not sure what the status of the article is, but if I have not answered your questions clearly enough, would you please ask me on my talk page? - Amgine 23:43, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * I will be removing the copyvio, and reverting the article to its former state, and I apologize for the mistake and confusion. The dif caused the confusion, as Sametheson's addition was mistaken as yours - stating where you had found the text rather than Sametheson's stating he had found a similar article. The creation date on Security ProNews is still available (via the search) and shows 2005-01-07 creation date, after the 2005-01-04 Wikinews creation date.
 * I apologize again for the error in marking this article as a copyright violation. - Amgine 01:42, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Just wanted to keep you up to date with the issue about the auto-unblock. This feature is currently broken on all Wikimedia projects. I will be keeping a much closer watch on the block system due to this issue. - Amgine 00:51, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Now I have to apologize for misinformation; the developers said they fixed it earlier today. - Amgine 00:55, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Something you might be interested in knowing
There is now a Spanish-language Wikinews as well: http://es.wikinews.org I think your name was on the list of people asking for the es.Wikinews, so wanted to make sure you were updated on the progress of the project. - Amgine 22:36, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Changing an article's title
An article's title may be changed without creating a new version of the article by using the "move" tab. This will ask you what the new article name should be, then changes the article's name and creates a redirect at the old article name. Using this technique is preferred because it preserves the article's history of contributors and development.

This is not an issue for this particular article of course, I'm just writing this in case you need to do this again in the future. It will save having to delete an article, and is actually easier for you to do. - Amgine 16:49, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Adding an article to the main page.
An article is not added to the main page directly, but to the Wikinews archives pages. In turn, the archives pages are shown on the main page for a limited period of time as "latest news".

This link should always point to the current day's archive, where you can [ add your articles]. A link to add an article to the current archive is also always available through the article workspace, as has been the case since early January at least.

By the way, why are you using "SqueakBox" when your account name is Squeakfox? I'm just curious. - Amgine 03:23, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I should change it. I am SqueakBox at Wikipedia (having originally been squeakfox there) as well as elsewhere. box is my dog, nd I had called him Fox but my Spanish speaking partner misheard me and was calling him Box for months till i realised, hence the name change on a general level. must get back into wikinews, Squeakfox 19:23, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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User:Cap'n Refsmmat/UseTemplates

Interested in including Science News on your page? Here are instructions.

Science News is built with two templates, User:Cap'n Refsmmat/ScienceNewsTemplate and User:Cap'n Refsmmat/ScienceNewsArchive. The first one is the latest article, while the ScienceNewsArchive is all of the older articles (I may break the page into three and put one on a seperate page to keep size down). If you want to have the latest article on your page, type where you want it to appear. If you want the archives to appear, type.

I admit they are rather long, but that is because I have it on my user page. Soon I hope to have the column on a seperate page.

However, if you would like to place a single article on your page and don't want it to change when I put in new articles, you may just copy and paste. But PLEASE, include a reference stating who wrote the column and/or a link to this column.

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User:Weltonch777/Sandbox

WC/Water cooler data overflow fix.

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Wikinews:Water cooler data overflow fix

If we all agree to use the following to start topics in the Water Cooler area (or something similar), we can avoid the problem of having WAY to much data downloaded straight form the main Water cooler page every time it is loaded.....

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Talk:Pinochet arrested after Supreme Court ruling

is identical to an article another article and may have been copied from it

 * Actually this article is from Voice of America which is in public domain. -- IlyaHaykinson 00:37, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)


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Wikipedia
Hello, I would like to remind you that we can not copy paste from Wikipedia, as they are GFDL and we are public domain, unless the Wikipedia authour will release their work into PD. --Cspurrier 00:30, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Wow, you're kidding, that's a major shame. BryceHarrington 00:50, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree, unless we pick GFDL as our final license, we are stuck with this rule --Cspurrier 00:52, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Seems like a good argument in favor of picking the GFDL then. I would also presume that if something other than GFDL was selected, then Wikipedia would likewise be prohibited from incorporating WikiNews material, which would make it a double shame.  Does this cover linked images, too?  BryceHarrington 00:55, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
 * This is one of the top reasons. IIRC none of the licenses we are looking at would prohibit from incorporating Wikinews stories into GFDL text. I am in favour of keeping Wikinews under PD or almost pd license. I think our best bet is to encourge Wikipedia users to relase their work into PD. Images are a different story, GFDL images can go on commons and most fair use images can go on Wikinews directly.  --Cspurrier 01:14, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

I wonder if the licensing could be done on an article-by-article basis? I.e., in general articles are done as PD, but one would have the option of making it GFDL if one wished to incorporate Wikipedia material. Of course, this would add a complexity to the process, but it would enable us to produce much better news articles in much less time by leveraging the work of the parent project. Perhaps if the included text was marked as from Wikipedia, then someone could go back and rewrite it to be PD, later. BryceHarrington 01:52, 23 May 2005 (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:172.157.125.156
 * I think licensing done on an article-by-article basis is a bad idea, it makes thing confusing and can very quickly force everything into GFDL. BTW If you want to read more about the inital debate see |here., there is another page about it somewhere ,that I can not find. --Cspurrier 01:57, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
 * While some derivative content may be used from Wikipedia, it cannot be the primary source for a given article unless it is a current events article. Even then, it would probably be better to find laternative sources. Any Wikipedia article which covers a news story can be linked to using, , or , depending on the circumstances. - Amgine/talk 06:18, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

Here's yer badge...
Wear it with pride! And, of course, thanks for cleaning up, and telling me to look. - Amgine/talk 19:03, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Page blanking
Howdy!

I notice you blanked an editorial submitted by an IP. It's generally considered rude to blank pages or mess around in a user's "personal" space. Since this is an IP, it's a bit different.... No harm done, I think, but I thought I'd just drop you a note. --Chiacomo (talk) 22:20, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Uhh, it's my *own* IP. I just hadn't been logged on when I first edited the article. And again, I did not submit the original piece. The original submission was a copyvio and I didn't think it was acceptable as submitted, so I rewrote it. I'm frustrated that my simple attempt to help is being met so harshly. BryceHarrington 22:22, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry if I've come across as being harsh! I'd not meant to be... I didn't know it was your IP -- I just noticed the page blanking and thought I'd point it out if it was an error. Thanks for your help and your contributions to Wikinews! Again, apologies if I sounded harsh in some way above. --Chiacomo (talk) 22:28, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I wanted to delete the page first because it wasn't "my" editorial - it was someone elses that I was just trying to help clean up. Second, because it was attached to my IP address instead of my account, which is silly.  And third because there's no purpose to having it attached there; no one else would be likely to read it anyway so it's as good as being deleted (without any review process I'll note!) anyway.
 * I have to say, this has been extremely frustrating. I have long been a fan of wikinews, and helped a bit at the very beginning, and read it on a weekly basis but generally haven't had time to contribute lately.  But I had a couple hours today and decided to help.  I looked at all the articles in development, and the article in question was the most interesting one to me, so decided to help there, by de-copyvio'ing it.  I thought it was an interesting article well worth having on Wikinews.  The fact that it was from a US Army captain rather than from some random person, made it seem newsworthy to me.  Certainly the article could use from some work to make it less NPOV but I am surprised that instead of letting people work on continuing to improve it, that it got brushed aside so quickly and harshly.
 * Needless to say, I will think twice about contributing to Wikinews in the future. BryceHarrington 22:44, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called BryceHarrington. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name BryceHarrington~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 23:14, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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Welcome
24.128.253.10, 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!
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About the Canadian Government Rocked by Sponsorship Scandal article...
This sounds like a great start to an article. Can I suggest you expand it, and find sources to support your factual statements? Sources are probably easy to locate, and the links CGorman has provided above include an explanation of the template. - Amgine 18:18, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Shouldn't we be using the workspace to list this kind of thing, not a difficult-to-reach template? Dan100 23:03, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Minor edit?
Are revisions to these lists (adding or removing a single entry) minor edits or regular edits? I'm a bit uncertain what constitutes a minor edit, even after reading the Help:Minor Edit page.

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Wikinews:How to edit a page

Wikinews is a wiki, which means that anyone can easily edit any article — and those changes are posted immediately to that article! No approval is required, and no special login is needed.

This page tells only how to use the wiki interface to edit. To find out more about writing for Wikinews, such as policy, style, legal issues, and communicating with other users, please see the Introduction.

Editing existing articles
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You can experiment in the sandbox.

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Everything is tracked on the wiki, you can see older versions using the history tab.

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 * See the Wiki markup page to see how you can format pages.
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