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User talk:Cspurrier

Help
Can you help me? --Humberto 2 - (talk) 00:49, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * See note on page. Request requires usurpation and thus will be delayed a week. --Cspurrier - (talk) 17:48, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

 * Tank you --Humberto 2 - (talk) 22:06, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Heads up
m:Meta:Administrators/confirm. EVula // talk // 15:43, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks --Cspurrier - (talk) 17:41, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * My pleasure; always happy for an excuse to use my wide network of accounts. ;) EVula // talk // 18:44, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

 * Also, you might want to tweak your preferences on Meta; you can have the system email you when a message is left on your talk page. It's a damn handy feature, and one that a surprising few number of people actually know about. Perfect for projects that you need to keep an eye on, but don't have the time for (such as Meta for you). EVula // talk // 22:37, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Changing username
Hi, could you have a look at Changing_username? I requested a usurpation, so I know I'll have to wait seven days, but the page suggests posting a message on bureacrats' talk pages. As you've recently edited Changing_username I decided to only notify you. Thanks, Erwin85 - (talk) 21:12, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, did Erwin reply? If not, could you please rename the account? Thanks, Erwin85 - (talk) 20:25, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Changing Username
PLease see my request at Changing username. Thanks --Anonymous101 (talk · contribs) (Note I have no link with the organization anonymous) 17:36, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

RealHeron --> Heron (usurpation)
Hi Craig, please see my request at. As I don't have any edits to my name as RealHeron, this would be a usurpation rather than a change of username, but I was advised to post my request on that page anyway. Here's a link to my en:wikipedia talk page as confirmation that I own the name Heron there:. Regards, --RealHeron - (talk) 13:48, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Archiving question
Hello Cspurrier, how are you? Quick question - when I am going through and archiving stuff, should I protect the print versions as well? Cirt - (talk) 04:13, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * That sounds like a good idea. --Cspurrier - (talk) 19:38, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay - is there a list somewhere of those? I had seen it once before but can't recall the link at the moment.  Cirt - (talk) 22:09, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * They are all linked from Print_edition--Cspurrier - (talk) 16:42, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Cirt - (talk) 17:09, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Do you think there should be a template to indicate archived print editions --A101 - (talk) 18:37, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I do not think it is needed, but archving may be a good time to make sure they all have the right template.--Cspurrier - (talk) 19:15, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Please make my bot's flag
in Bots, this requrest make too long time.--Alex S.H. Lin 08:16, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Print Edition
Thank you so much for your work with the Wikinews Print Editions. Quick question - do those get disseminated anywhere? Cirt (talk) 02:30, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I have been told of a few people printing them and leaving them places. I have also heard a few people comment that they print it daily because they like to read it on paper best. --Cspurrier (talk) 15:52, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Would it be to late to add the 2 football (soccer) match reports that I just completed? Kingjeff (talk) 03:48, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry, it is. They probably got added to the next days one.--Cspurrier (talk) 18:50, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Account donarreiskoffer
When I tried to unify all my accounts on wikimedia projects, this was the only project that gave an error. Apparently I used a different password than on the other projects. Unfortunately I forgot this password. The account on en.wikinews.org is empty in the sense that I never made an edit with it.

I suppose that it won't be too difficult to add it with my other accounts?

please respond on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Donarreiskoffer

Many thanks.--193.121.250.194 06:09, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

French Wikimag
Hello ! I contact you, to know if I can interview you for the Wikimag which is the equivalent of Sign Post on Wikipedia english. - Mikani (talk) 16:56, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem, i don't set you a french interview, so I ask question on this page, soon. And thank you ! mik@ni 15:25, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
 * It's ok ! mik@ni 15:44, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Changing my username
Hello, can you change my username to "Prasuk historyk"? I'm asking because username Prasuk historyk is using by me in the all wikimedia projects. Prasuk (talk) 06:13, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Done--Cspurrier (talk) 15:51, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Many thanks for changing my username Prasuk historyk (talk) 16:26, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Rename request
I do not know where to ask it, you seems the last active bureaucrat so I ask it you. If it would fit better elsewhere, please let me know. I would like to request for a rename from NL-Romaine --> Romaine because of creating a global account (SUL). Could you please rename my account? Thanks! Greetings - NL-Romaine (talk) 23:08, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Done--Cspurrier (talk) 01:19, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks!! - Romaine (talk) 13:20, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Wikinews:Changing username
It seem that a lot of people are addressing Bureaucrats directly about name changes. However, we have Changing username and we used to archive the changes there. Should we do away with that practice? or should direct requests be sent to Changing username so it can be done formally? I really don't care either way, but we should make it the same for everyone. --SVTCobra 01:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I like it when they post it to my talk page because I get a nice big orange bar letting me know about it :). I do not really care, but they do get done faster with a note on my talk page. --Cspurrier (talk) 16:13, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Print Edition
At the end of the Print Edition there is the following text:

"This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Articles published in this Print edition were created by Wikinewsies. Other content released under the GNU Free Documentation License."

However, from discussions with you I understood that unfree content was sometimes included. The above disclaimer needs to make this clear and ideally I'd like to see details of which unfree images are used on the image description page of the Print Edition. Adambro (talk) 11:50, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

ArbCom
Hi, I have nominated you in the upcoming ArbCom elections. Please go to your nomination and state whether you accept or decline. Cheers, --SVTCobra 17:15, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

WN:A - RfA closure
Hi, how are ya? I was wondering if you were willing to close/promote the RfA? It has been over 7 days and consensus is pretty straightforward at this point. Cirt (talk) 03:31, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

FlaggedRevs
If you have not already seen this, please look, comment, and vote both here and on bugzilla. Further assistance such as contact information for Google would be a very useful detail to share and help in petitioning for a listing in their news index. --Brian McNeil / talk 14:52, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Apology
I know you're a checkuser, and you might see this when you get back. Apologies for the cross-wiki vandalism, I was running an Apache web server that unwittingly became an open proxy. However, one reinstall of Windows Vista later, and new firewalls installed, it's a lot more secure. I (the individual posting this message) am not a vandal but I am terribly sorry for the cross-wiki vandalism that this IP's committed (only found it through copies of my access.log file). Anyway, I've no idea how long I'll have this IP for, but I'm terribly sorry for all of this. Thanks, AP aka --82.42.237.84 15:09, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

 * I didn't really check my server's logs very often, but only discovered it fairly recently. Anyway, I'm going to try and make it more secure. Thanks, AP --82.42.237.84 22:38, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Please rename me
Hi, I have changed my username at my homewiki and want to to it here to. Please rename me to Calandrella. Here is confirmation. Thanks, Leo Johannes (talk) 19:18, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

hotline
I think Water_cooler/technical might be relevent to you. Bawolff ☺☻ 18:09, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Skenmy's RfB
It has been over 7 days since this RfB discussion started, and it has unanimous support consensus. I think it can be closed as successful and the candidate promoted. already supported in the discussion and you are the only other bureaucrat that has been active lately, so I thought I'd let you know. Hope you are doing well, Cirt (talk) 14:30, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, took care of it, thanks. Cirt (talk) 06:25, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Request for help
I kindly ask your assistance for the renaming of "dodo" account to something else (anything) here. This in order to proces the request on meta. All your help is appreciated. Thank you. Drini (talk) 19:21, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Done --Cspurrier (talk) 20:02, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Print edition suggestion
Im not sure if you have heard of Doxygen it is a documentation generates I thnk this could help you make it so it auto generates the wikinews print edition but it might take a little work. http://www.doxygen.org/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by DGMurdockIII (talk • contribs) 23:00, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

 * Perhaps even make it a weekly feature? That way, its the same amount of articles, but the work is all concentrated at one point in time? Perhaps even pick and choose what appears? (ie, the original reporting and most popular articles, and anything you personally find interesting.) --  Zanimum (talk) 21:33, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

WN:PRINT
Hi Craig, I noticed that you have been away and was wondering what I need to do to be able to create the Print Edition. I don't have much time these days but still want to help out when I can - Cartman02au (Talk)(AU Portal) 09:13, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for what you have done, I hope to be able to resume it after xmas. --Cspurrier (talk) 22:55, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Wikinews print
Please see this about the phone numbers currently on each issue. Thanks - tholly  --Talk-- 09:11, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

rss tool ;)
Hi!

I would like to use your tool to show news on PL Chapter (Wikimedia Polska). Could you make possible to show first paragraph of the article in feed? (until first double newline or someting).

WarX 19:49, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * May be doable. I should have some time in a week or two to mess with it some more. --Cspurrier (talk) 22:54, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Template:Latest news / RSS
I am going to be making changes to Main Page, well more correctly, sweeping changes. The Latest news template says "Please let User:Cspurrier know before making changes" and as that template is going to be part of my main pages changes, it will be tinkered with. What do I need to know to not break the RSS feed? Or can we point the RSS feed to scrape a new page made just for that purpose (So the main page is safe to be tinkered with to our hearts content)? Thanks. -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 07:58, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * My guess would be that it will be ok. Try the change and let me know if it breaks, revert and I will fix it. --Cspurrier (talk) 22:53, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
 * The main page is also being changed now, and I was wondering if putting the articles into cascading boxes to organize the page more and to conserve space. Would this interfere with the RSS feed? R .T . 01:06, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

RSS tool a bit outdated
Hello. Currently your RSS tool shows data from the end of 2008 (newer articles aren't shown). Is there a chance for updating the data in the near future? --Derbeth (talk) 19:38, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

I cleared the cache with the link and it didn't work. http://toolserver.org/~cspurrier/rss/rss.php?lang=en&family=wikinews&categories0=Crime_and_law&ns14=1&desc=Wikinews%2C+the+free+news+source+you+can+write.+For+more+information%2C+or+to+see+all+stories%2C+visit+http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikinews.org&notcategories=Disputed|No_publish|brief&title=Latest+Wikinews+(custom)&Get+RSS=Get+RSS&categories=Crime_and_law still displays outdated articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.53.16.195 (talk) 09:18, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi, being on the toolserver it is subject to the replag issues. Until S3 is fixed it will continue to be out of date, without anything we can do about it :(. See the tool server blog for more information--Cspurrier (talk) 03:29, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

WN:RFA
Hello. I just wanted to bring a bureaucrat's attention to a RfA that is a week old and needs to be closed (my RfA, Tempodivalse). Thanks. ♪Tempo di Valse ♪ 16:51, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Never mind, another bureaucrat already closed the RfA. ♪Tempo di Valse ♪ 20:29, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

RfA needs closing
Hello, you are one of the 'crats that did not comment in the RfA for. It has been well over 7 days since the RfA started, please see WN:RFP. Thank you for your time, Cirt (talk) 22:37, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * looks like someone took care of it. Sorry it took so long to reply. Other stuff keeping me real busy recently. --Cspurrier (talk) 01:53, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

A penny for your thoughts
Okay, not really, but I am requesting your participation in the following Water Cooler Discussion: OR and Broadcast report. The discussion involves the need for specific policy concerning how Original Reporting relates to information recieved from a broadcast report of an event. This can include both news-style reports and non-news reports, such as a sporting event. Thanks and again, please share your thoughts on this so we can get as many people involved as possible, especially since this relates to an important topic such as OR. —Calebrw (talk) 05:10, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

rss not updating
Spud noticed that the rss feed stopped working (see Wikinews_talk:Newsroom). Somewhere in the back of my mind I believe your the person to notify one that happens, right? Thanks. Bawolff ☺☻ 23:31, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I pinged it on feed burner. It should work now. --Cspurrier (talk) 02:13, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Iceland makes application for membership of the European Union
I was hoping that everyone would be asleep, and I could slip in the expansion that I just found, ironically whilst looking for a possible follow-up article, before a reviewer happened along. ☺ Uncle G (talk) 04:14, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I am in Fiji at the moment, so its the middle of the day :) I updated the reviewed thing, which I guess is what we are supposed to do with it. I have been on wikibreak too long :). --Cspurrier (talk) 04:25, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm just used to there being no reviewers around at this time of day. ☺ Uncle G (talk) 05:09, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I've just done two articles, just for you. ☺ Uncle G (talk) 06:01, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Cool thanks, I have published both of them, as always, good work. I always like seeing Fiji articles on Wikinews. When I had initially planned this trip I had intended to do some OR while I was here. However, the political situation and the fact that my visa prohibits it made me rethink that plan :). --Cspurrier (talk) 06:32, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the offer, but for now, my edits are limited to a very rare fixing of a typo here and there, so for now I'll avoid the hassle :) 70.251.155.153 (talk) 22:59, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

ArbCom election
You are invited to make a statement and accept your nomination at Arbitration Committee/2009 elections. Computerjoe 's talk 17:44, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

WM09
Hey, real quick can you fix up the wm09 article? It needs a venue name. Thx, -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 22:32, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Rss Died again.
Hey, hear you're the Feed-burner guy. The feed has died once again, just FYI. Spud Collab/Opinions 02:03, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * He's already been notified. Bawolff ☺☻ 02:32, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * It is timing out and I am not sure why. I am going to add some sort of safe full back, so this does not happen again. I will work on tracking it down tomorrow when I get home (waiting for my flight in CLT right now, free wifi is wonderful). Its a major pain to try to debug complex problems on a tiny netbook :). --Cspurrier (talk) 13:20, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

ping
Not sure if you're subscribed to wikinews-l or not, if you aren't, there is a message asking about the feed. Cheers. Bawolff ☺☻ 00:06, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Adminship
Thanks for your support, Craig. --InfantGorilla (talk) 18:33, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

OS
You have been granted oversight rights on this project! Congrats. ;) --Thogo (talk) 22:13, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks --Cspurrier (talk) 22:21, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you very much, for your additional investigation at WN:RFCU. Per sock violation practice, I think that we should block all sock accounts, for socking and also block evasion. The master account could then make an unblock request, at the talk page of User talk:Saqib. Agreed? -- Cirt (talk) 03:56, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Socking in itself is not prohibited, only the abuse of socks. As all of the currently detected socks are unused, xe has not violated our policy with them. --Cspurrier (talk) 17:48, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

 * Yes. I do appreciate that. Did you check if the .jp addresses turned up in any proxy lists? Might be too late now, but I have concerns, based on Xe's early edit history, that could use such to fabricate a story. All will really depend on what comes back through Creative Commons. --Brian McNeil / talk 08:16, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
 * The .jp addresses are not on any open proxy list and nmap shows only what would be expected for a normal system. The PK ips do show ports indicative of a proxy --Cspurrier (talk) 17:48, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Cspurrier - the issue is block evasion by use of the various socks. That is an abuse of socks. -- Cirt (talk) 20:42, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Has xe actually used any of the socks while blocked? Having unused socks is not block evasion. --Cspurrier (talk) 20:46, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, this is beginning to look really, horribly, complicated. I'll send you both a couple of emails. --Brian McNeil / talk 10:08, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Fijian Media Crack Down
You may review now H.R.H Sovereign King Bradley The Great, Autocrat of All Australia talk  10:35, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

New ArbCom case
Hello! I've filed a new arbitration case. Benny the mascot (talk) 16:55, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I know you're busy right now, but when you get a chance, could you vote on this proposed motion? Technically the committee already has a simple majority and will pass the decision, but it's nice to get all arbitrators' opinions on it. Cheers, Tempodivalse [talk]  14:12, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

re: Your oppose:
 * I support the oppose - the motion is clumsy. However, Tyranny of the majority suggests a form of review which *can* over-rule 'consensus'. So I disagree with the *basis* test you used, but agree with your decision. -  Amgine | t 16:35, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Query re your Oppose at ArbCom case
Cspurrier, I agree with your comment in your "Oppose", but perhaps some wording could be added, noting that the DR was closed too early and that it should have ran for 7 days, and hold all else the same? -- Cirt (talk) 01:22, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Arbitration case motion
 * As the DR ran so short, it is almost completely unusable as an expression of community consensus. I do not think it is right for us to declare it to represent community consensus. The final sentence is unacceptable as well for the reasons I mentioned. --Cspurrier (talk) 01:40, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

 * I have to say, I fully supported the prior decision, and tried to make my point clear. Do your own digging to see why, and look with an appropriately cynical and sceptical eye. I understand Brian's abstain, but I really, really wonder if he'd look at some of the current contributor base and genuinely see Amgine's prior point. I might cast around remarks about "those who forget the past....", but there are some yet to learn those lessons. --Brian McNeil / talk 22:34, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree, the policy was there for a reason. The policy was never an ideal answer to the problem. However, it was the best we could come up with and I think it still is the best solution (it was my idea after all :)). If userboxes become anything like the hot topic they once were we would benefit greatly by having this policy already in place. I think we (the community) should have had a much longer discussion before and during the DR about the history behind it and the reasons for it, unfortunately the discussion ended much to soon on it. The DR should probably be reopened. --Cspurrier (talk) 01:40, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

RfCU
Per here, please respond. This, I believe, should be treated as a serious matter. --Brian McNeil / talk 00:35, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Shorts format - sources
The sources on the talk page are linked to from the shorts article (as a part of the new short preload template.) The idea was to avoid having a bunch of == Sources == headers in the TOC of the Wikinews Shorts: Date 12, 3456; it's something I haven't figured out yet. -  Amgine | t 01:45, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Steward again?
Craig, thanks for your input concerning the recent issues emanating from the SG and AAA. I must say, I would be very supportive if you ran for steward again. Tony1 (talk) 06:16, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I doubt I really have the activity level to be elected steward again, but I appreciate the thought. --Cspurrier (talk) 20:00, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

RSS srwikinews
Hi, i'm using your RSS tool for RSS on sr wikinews. I want to ask you is there any way to include text in rss, instead of just headlines. Currently, here's how i'm using it. Thanks and best regards ! --Саша Стефановић (talk) 14:44, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * At the moment it is not possible. It is definitely something I would like to offer, but Toolserver policy prevents scripts from providing full article text --Cspurrier (talk) 02:41, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

RSS bug
Hi, i try to use your tool for generationg RSS for uk.wikinews. It works fine for Category:Світ (world), but don't work for new category "Опубліковані" (published) created especially for generating feed of all pages. (Feed is created properly, but don't containt any articles:.

Can you tell me how your tool works, and where problem can be?

And thanks a lot for your work! --Bunyk (talk) 00:12, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Please see my heads up at ArbCom talk page
Please see Wikinews_talk:Arbitration_Committee. Just wanted to keep you in the loop (though not on ArbCom you're a fellow Checkuser and I've notified all of them and tried to keep all local project Checkusers informed at all steps in this process). Thanks for your attention to this matter, -- Cirt (talk) 19:34, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

You're Alive!
Heh.

Good to see, even if it is an "I'm busy in the real world" edit that you're still about.

Might want a look-see at the 'inactivity' policy update currently on the WC. And, at what came out of us having a couple of folks credentialled for the Paralympics. --Brian McNeil / talk 22:33, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the note. I commented on the inactivity policy. The work on the Paralympics was very impressive. --Cspurrier (talk) 22:18, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I replied to your comment on the water cooler. --Pi zero (talk) 00:38, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

WN:PeP

 * I'm looking to move to a closure on this, and have laid out a few concerns on the talk which I'd appreciate your input on.
 * Trying to be as fair on this as I can, without it kicking up a shitstorm. --Brian McNeil / talk 12:43, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Request for reviewing and other assistance
Hi. Next week is the start of the and two Wikinewies will be attending to cover the para-alpine skiing ahead of the 2014 Winter Paralympics. This is part of an effort outlined at IPC Alpine Ski World Championships. Immediately following this event, there will be a Meetup in Barcelona where Wikinews, the Paralympics and efforts to similar sport coverage will be discussed. At the moment, there are only two active reviewers on a daily basis. Demonstrating an ability to get reviews for these types of events done quickly is important for Wikinews credibility and gaining access to these types of events. I would really appreciate it if you could sign up on the IPC World Championship page to review, promote articles published during this period, assist in translating these articles into another language or attend the meetup in Barcelona. Thanks. --LauraHale (talk) 09:28, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Wikinews Writing contest 2013 is here. :) Please sign up to participate?
We've created the Writing contest 2013, which will start on April 1 and end on June 1. It is modeled on the successful 2010 contest. It would be a really great time for you, as a Wikinews accredited reporter, to do some original reporting and conduct interviews. People should be around to interview to prevent a backlog, and several reviewers have access to scoop to make it easier to review any original reporting you do. If you are interested in signing up, please do so on Writing contest 2013/entrants. There is at least one prize on offer for the winner along with the opportunity to earn some barn stars as a way of thanking you for your participation. :D --LauraHale (talk) 10:19, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for CU stuffs
Thanks for doing CU stuffs onwiki.

Lately we've been splitting duties.

You've been doing some of the RFCUs, and I've been trying to shut down things via coordination with CU mailing list and rangeblocks and stuff like that.

Anyways, just wanted to drop by and say thanks, -- Cirt (talk) 19:36, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
 * No problem. Thanks for your work as well.--Cspurrier (talk) 19:39, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
 * , -- Cirt (talk) 03:07, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Please comment on extension installation request
Could you please comment on Water_cooler/proposals? It is a request to install an extension on Wikinews to ease some of our processes around working with university courses. --LauraHale (talk) 03:52, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

An important message about renaming users
Dear Cspurrier,

I am cross-posting this message to many places to make sure everyone who is a Wikimedia Foundation project bureaucrat receives a copy. If you are a bureaucrat on more than one wiki, you will receive this message on each wiki where you are a bureaucrat.

As you may have seen, work to perform the Wikimedia cluster-wide single-user login finalisation (SUL finalisation) is taking place. This may potentially effect your work as a local bureaucrat, so please read this message carefully.

Why is this happening? As currently stated at the global rename policy, a global account is a name linked to a single user across all Wikimedia wikis, with local accounts unified into a global collection. Previously, the only way to rename a unified user was to individually rename every local account. This was an extremely difficult and time-consuming task, both for stewards and for the users who had to initiate discussions with local bureaucrats (who perform local renames to date) on every wiki with available bureaucrats. The process took a very long time, since it's difficult to coordinate crosswiki renames among the projects and bureaucrats involved in individual projects.

The SUL finalisation will be taking place in stages, and one of the first stages will be to turn off Special:RenameUser locally. This needs to be done as soon as possible, on advice and input from Stewards and engineers for the project, so that no more accounts that are unified globally are broken by a local rename to usurp the global account name. Once this is done, the process of global name unification can begin. The date that has been chosen to turn off local renaming and shift over to entirely global renaming is 15 September 2014, or three weeks time from now. In place of local renames is a new tool, hosted on Meta, that allows for global renames on all wikis where the name is not registered will be deployed.

Your help is greatly needed during this process and going forward in the future if, as a bureaucrat, renaming users is something that you do or have an interest in participating in. The Wikimedia Stewards have set up, and are in charge of, a new community usergroup on Meta in order to share knowledge and work together on renaming accounts globally, called Global renamers. Stewards are in the process of creating documentation to help global renamers to get used to and learn more about global accounts and tools and Meta in general as well as the application format. As transparency is a valuable thing in our movement, the Stewards would like to have at least a brief public application period. If you are an experienced renamer as a local bureaucrat, the process of becoming a part of this group could take as little as 24 hours to complete. You, as a bureaucrat, should be able to apply for the global renamer right on Meta by the requests for global permissions page on 1 September, a week from now.

In the meantime please update your local page where users request renames to reflect this move to global renaming, and if there is a rename request and the user has edited more than one wiki with the name, please send them to the request page for a global rename.

Stewards greatly appreciate the trust local communities have in you and want to make this transition as easy as possible so that the two groups can start working together to ensure everyone has a unique login identity across Wikimedia projects. Completing this project will allow for long-desired universal tools like a global watchlist, global notifications and many, many more features to make work easier.

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Nikebrand → Nikegoddess

 * Reason: One administrator says it would be ommericals. But the does not want to rename me. --Nikebrand (talk) 20:54, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi, It appears we no longer have the ablity to rename locally. Please see the request page for a global rename to request your rename. --Cspurrier (talk) 20:58, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Being bothered by User:Pi zero
He is bothering me with rubbish each edit. He is never contributing. He deletes articles comments sites here, although the article is existing. Articles under development are clean up articles. I might not write about RB Leipzig. My started articles have interest and he says that other archived articles are which from amateur clubs, university clubs or something else. He wants to rename my name here and is not rename me. My articles are written after the style such as about other proven football match reports. He is psychic unable to name reasons. Please remove him from the board! He neither productive nor socially competent or educated, for a globally representative on public free sites. --Nikebrand (talk) 21:44, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Please sign new Wikimedia confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information by 15 December
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An important part of that transition is helping volunteers like you sign the required confidentiality agreement. All Wikimedia volunteers with access to nonpublic information are required to sign this new agreement, and we have prepared some documentation to help you do so.

The Wikimedia Foundation is requiring that anyone with access to nonpublic information sign the new confidentiality agreement by 15 December 2015 (OTRS users have until 22 December 2015) to retain their access. You are receiving this email because you have access to nonpublic information and are required to sign the confidentiality agreement under the new policy.

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Pinging for a CU
I've put up an RfCU based on something fishy about a batch of new accounts. --Brian McNeil / talk 22:36, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked all those accounts; obviously can't put a (eg week-long) block on the IP address. Methinks CU needs accompanied with the ability to impose an IP block which is not detailed in RC - not the needed faff to hide it. Might be worth mentioning that on the CU list. --Brian McNeil / talk 23:34, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

RfCU
Have popped up one, based on someone having their annual rant about pi zero allegedly abusing admin privs by stopping them tying pages they don't own in a mess of redirects. --Brian McNeil / talk 14:23, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

Notice of removal of CheckUser rights for inactivity
Dear Cspurrier. I am sad to notify you that as per this request and based on CheckUser policy, considering that you've been inactive on this project for a full year, in accordance with the policy, your CU permissions have been removed. Please refer to RadiX (the steward that removed your permissions) or the stewards noticeboard if you have any questions. Best regards, --MarcoAurelio (talk) 18:08, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Growing Wikinews to counter the Balkanization of the body politic
Hello:

I'm asking all the Wikinews administrators for their thoughts on how Wikinews and the Wikimedia Foundation more generally might respond more effectively to the challenges to democracy and world peace that many people perceive in the rise of the xenophobic right in the US, Europe, India, the Philippines, and elsewhere. I've proposed a workshop on this subject for WikiConference North America, October 18-21, and I've engaged User:Pi zero and User:Gryllida in discussing this at Water cooler/proposals. Pi zero and Gryllida think the numbers I scraped from Wikinews are wrong, because they paint a dark picture of Wikinews.

I think there is a great need and opportunity to grow Wikinews, whether or not the reality matches my interpretation of the numbers from Wikinews.

I hope you will contribute your thoughts to this discussion -- both online and hopefully also at WikiConference North America.

Thanks, DavidMCEddy (talk) 01:29, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

Bureaucrat access removed
'''Note! Your privileges on English Wikinews have been reduced.'''
 * Under the Privilege expiry policy (enacted October 13, 2012) the rights held by your user account have been reduced due to inactivity, or lack of privilege use.

 * Point 4 of the Privilege expiry policy provides for fast-tracking reacquisition of privileges. We all understand that real-life commitments can severely curtail the level of commitment you can give to Wikinews; the privilege reduction is in no way intended as a reflection on your past work, or to imply you are unwelcome. The aim in curtailing privileges is to address security risks, and concern that a long period of inactivity means you may not be up-to-date with current policy and practices.

Only your bureaucrat access has been removed. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 20:56, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

Request for removal of administrator access
Hello. You edited last week but I’m not sure if you were aware of the request to remove your sysop status due to inactivity. Please feel free to comment there. --Green Giant (talk) 20:41, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi Cspurrier, I've removed your administrator and reviewer user rights due to inactivity, as a security precaution. (See WN:PeP for details.) Please feel free to re-request when you're back. Best regards, --Gryllida (talk) 02:01, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

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User talk:Foerdi~enwikinews

Welcome
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Renamed
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Talk:Terrorism expert says Osama Bin Laden could be dead

Speculation
Not sure how I feel about a wikinews article that is basically reporting on one guy's speculations.
 * There have been other reports of this nature on and off over the past few years, perhaps if some of those were included? I believe his obituary was in a Pakistani newspaper at some point and Coalition forces did find a dialysis machine abandoned in Afghanistan, if I recall correctly - but it's not enough evidence to say he's dead by any means, so it's still just speculation...  --LoganCale 17:12, 18 January 2006 (UTC)


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At least eight people die in office fire in Vladivostok, Russia

January 18, 2006

At least eight people have died in a fire in a multi-storied office center, namely, in the office belonging to the Russian Savings Bank (Sberbank), in the Russian Pacific port city of Vladivostok, the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said Monday.

A spokesman said that the blaze broke at about 12:00 local time (02:00 UTC) on the sixth floor of the building. Some of the victims died when they jumped out windows in an attempt to escape the flames. In addition to the fatalities, another 15 people were hospitalized with burns and injuries.

According to firefighters, serious breaches of fire-safety regulations were partly to blame for the deaths. A door to the attic was locked and people could not escape through an emergency exit.

The fire has been almost extinguished. A team of investigators led by the deputy prosecutor of the Maritime Territory, Sergei Luchaninov, is looking into how the fire started.


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Young Iraqi teen death investigated as possible bird flu case

January 18, 2006

Iraq health officials are reportedly looking into the death of a teenaged girl who died near the border with Turkey, which is believed to possibly be linked to the H5N1 Asian bird flu.

The young woman lived near a resevoir used as a stopover for migratory birds traveling from Turkey. Her family kept domestic birds, some of which have been sick and died; it is unknown at this time if any of the birds were infected with H5N1.

The inquiry is being investigated, and blood samples have been sent to Jordan for further testing. Residents in the region fear the virus may have spread from Turkey, where UN official believe the strain exists in the wild fowl population.


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User:FragileFrigateBird

Hello Everyone! I'am the Fragile Frigate Bird!

Iraq: 15 year old girl died of bird flu?

stop critzing me...

Jason Dragonfire needs to realize to work grammer i know myself but iam just saying jason look over your news... --FragileFrigateBird 20:10, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

EVERYONE LISTEN EXPAND OVER THE DAY THANKS!!!!!! --FragileFrigateBird 20:23, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:FragileFrigateBird

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

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I am well enough, thank you for inquiring. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 18:22, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

How are you?

The weather where I live
No, not at the moment :). But damn cold. --Deprifry|+T+ 18:28, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

whats the temp??? its like 50 here but cold and windy.

 * About -2°C, that would be around 28°F if the Internet calculator got that right... --Deprifry|+T+ 18:31, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

snow or rain? --FragileFrigateBird 18:32, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
 * It snowed this morning and all day yesterday but not at the moment. --Deprifry|+T+ 18:33, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

What news are you currently working on? --FragileFrigateBird 18:34, 18 January 2006 (UTC) any good bird stories or weather related? --FragileFrigateBird 18:34, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
 * No news currently in the works, sorry. --Deprifry|+T+ 18:37, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Where I am (Vancouver, BC, Canada) it is cool and cloudy, damp but not raining at the moment. Hoping for a high of 10° -  Amgine | talk en.WN 18:42, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Warm (-3 degrees celsius), with about 3 cm of snow on the ground. Been a warm winter so far. :(--MrMiscellanious (talk) – 18:50, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

you liking sun, rain, snow, etc? all of you!--FragileFrigateBird 18:49, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

dep you their amgine mr and who else???

RE: Apocalypse
The "universal apocalypse date" has traditionally been December 21, 2011 (Gregorian calendar). It's been featured in many books, TV shows, etc. - I'm sure there's a page about it on Wikipedia somewhere... --MrMiscellanious (talk) – 19:13, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

can you describe it in three words??? --FragileFrigateBird 19:14, 18 January 2006 (UTC) i would say like end, darkness, hell... --FragileFrigateBird 19:14, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Explosion, death, gone. This is all derived from the Mayan tales (I don't know much about it, other than there is a descrepency between actual dates - of course, I don't believe that it is the date the world will end.), which some have continued to keep alive on the internet (Google for "December 21, 2011" and you'll see what I mean).  --MrMiscellanious (talk) – 19:17, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Will Jesus come back to earth or is he allready here? --FragileFrigateBird 19:18, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
 * No one knows except him :), but (according to Bible, of course) he should return on Judgement Day (last day of the world). I hardly think that will coincide with the Mayan date, but... --MrMiscellanious (talk) – 19:19, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

jesus black female or male? --FragileFrigateBird 19:23, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

News articles
Wikinews has a variety of policies which must be observed, many of which I linked you to at the top of this page.

Wikinews does not accept articles which are speculative, or predictions about the future. You may wish to review the content guide, and what Wikinews is before attempting to submit articles which are not about news events. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 19:27, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

what about upcoming events amgine??? or anyone??? --FragileFrigateBird 19:28, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Where an event is scheduled (verifiably), it may be reported on in a manner consistent with the neutral point of view. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 19:30, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

why did you minimal the maine story???? cats --FragileFrigateBird 19:39, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

 * The article has a minimum of information; it does not explain the who, what, where, when, why, or how of the news event.

 * I am giving you a warning now: please do not post many news articles which are personal editorials, not news content, or are unverifiable reports. Over-creation of non-news articles and repeated recreation of deleted articles are considered vandalism on this site; the articles may be speedy deleted and the perpetrator may be blocked. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 19:48, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

amgine the news is their... i wrote it and its breaking news hear in portland maine! look at wgme 13 or something... POV and NPOV! amgine reason with us...
 * You need to have the source of where you got the INFO. If its original, it has to be in the form of a news story. Its snowing here, but that does not mean its breaking. Plus, this really is not news. Unless something major happens in that area, then Really its not news at all. DragonFire1024 is Jason Safoutin 19:52, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Write it as a news story, including links to your sources. As it is now it is not able to be developed let alone published. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 19:53, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

How long on Wikinews...
More than a year. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 20:03, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

what have you done??? in means of your favorite articles?? --FragileFrigateBird 20:04, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I do not track articles I start or articles I have substantial contributions to; all the articles are Wikinews's articles, created by the community. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 21:14, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Look at my user page, you will see most of all the articles I published or helped to contribute to. DragonFire1024 is Jason Safoutin 20:05, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

nasty man!

You cannot expand on published articles. If the news changes, then a new article is written. Also the articles I published/started are goos ones. I have gotton good commets on them. Once again, cannot expand on published articles. "5. Wikinews articles are not works in progress. Developing articles are marked with the template. Once written and published they are historical documents; they should not continue to be updated or changed. Especially, they should not be altered to an angle or POV not reflective of the article as it was published. Wikinews is not an encyclopedia."

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Talk:Young Iraqi teen death investigated as possible bird flu case

reuters link works great sorry about the broken link cheers!

Can their be images??? --FragileFrigateBird 18:39, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes, if we can find related images which are freely licensed or are able to be used under the fair use policy. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 18:46, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

have any? IRAQI FLAG! --FragileFrigateBird 18:50, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

young iraqi girl howabout 15 year old iraqi girl? --FragileFrigateBird 18:53, 18 January 2006 (UTC)


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User talk:Vishakh

Eurozone initiative to challenge US internet technology dominance
Good job on this article! The NPOV tag has been removed and the article is published! -  Amgine | talk en.WN 19:10, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:New tsunami could hit soon

could hit soon??? --FragileFrigateBird 19:29, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:Morganst408~enwikinews

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

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Morganst408. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Morganst408~enwikinews that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

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Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:22, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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User talk:Rudy~enwikinews

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

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

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Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:27, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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User talk:Balbir~enwikinews

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

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User talk:Sarangan~enwikinews

Welcome
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Your account will be renamed
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User talk:Lavelle22

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Sunderland v Chelsea Jan 15th 2006
I don't know why this issue hasn't been brought forward to you. But why isn't there any sources or notes attached to this article? Kingjeff (talk) 04:23, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

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Sunderland v Chelsea Jan 15th 2006

January 15, 2006

slumped to their 14th league game without a victory despite a spirited performance against league leaders Chelsea F.C..

Records were set before this Sunday afternoon game kicked-off in the North-East; bookmaker's were offering the shortest odds for an away win in the history of the, as top faced bottom at the. Sunderland, in the middle of a season breaking records for the wrong reasons, were hoping to avoid a result as bad as the 7-0 defeat local rivals Middlesbrough suffered to Arsenal the day before.

Despite pre-match predictions, the Londoners looked out of sorts for much of the first-half, and it was the home side who took a shock-lead on 11 minutes. Jon Terry failed to completely clear a punt into the box, and  pounced with a low, powerful volley in to the bottom corner.

Chelsea were not behind for long; Sunderland defenders were caught-out on 20 minutes, when a cross, which looked as though it was headed out of play, was headed back across the face of goal by. Defenders were caught flat-footed, and Argentinian was first to react with a close-range header.

In the second half Chelsea began to exert authority; they dominated possession and chances and looked most likely to take the lead. Sunderland keeper, suffering criticism from Sunderland fans as of late, made a series of superb stops to deny Chelsea the lead. It was a cruel deflection off the head of which finally gave the reigning champions the lead on 70 minutes, Dutchman  providing the strike. The game's main talking point occurred moments later, as Robben jumped over advertising boards in order to celebrate the goal with the traveling fans. As stewards scrambled to remove Robben from the clutches of the jubilant Chelsea followers, referee, working to the letter of the law, brandished a second yellow card and sent the midfield playmaker off.

10-man Chelsea held on despite a period of late Sunderland pressure. The defeat sees Sunderland remain rooted to the foot of the table on 6 points.

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Talk:Sunderland v Chelsea Jan 15th 2006

I was at the game, and used my own notes to develop this article. This work is entirely my own.

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Bolivia’s Morales announces treason trial for army general

January 18, 2006 President-elect Evo Morales, who will assume office on Sunday January 22, announced on Wednesday that General Marcelo Antezana will face trial for treason after sending 28 aging Chinese-made missiles to the U.S. for destruction at the request from the U.S.

General Antezana, who was dismissed from his position this Wednesday 18, told Bolivian media that Washington had requested the missiles amid fears that Evo Morales would win the presidency. Days later, he retracted his comments. The Defence Minister, Gonzalo Mendez, resigned over the scandal.

Morales' political party, Movement for Socialism, has petitioned the Public Ministry to bring the transitional president Eduardo Rodriguez to trial on charges stemming from their investigation.

Rodriguez, interim president appointed after Carlos Mesa resigned in June, said that he had authorized the destruction, but not the transfer of the weapons, which were the only ones of its kind in Bolivia. The missile handover was an unapproved arrangement between local soldiers and the U.S. military, according to Rodriquez. He made a formal protest to the U.S. embassy on Tuesday, he said. Rodriguez said his decision to get rid of the weapons was based on recommendations from United Nations and the Organization of American States. The army also reported they were a safety hazard. The obsolete surface-to-air missiles were destroyed in the U.S last October.

A U.S. State Department spokesman said that a campaign to eliminate portable arms in Latin America has been on-going in an effort to keep them from falling into the hands of terrorists.


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Dogs rescue owner during diabetic attack

January 18, 2006 In Centerton, Indiana a man is alive thanks to his 2 dogs.

Bill Burns was taking his nightly stroll with his dogs, Butch and Dusty, when he had a severe diabetic attack in a cornfield.

His dogs immediately reacted.

Morgan County sheriff's Deputy, Steve Hoffman, was on a rural road just finishing with a traffic stop, when he noticed a light shining from a cornfield. "I noticed what appeared to be an illumination or a light that was flickering and facing my direction," Hoffman said. When he got out of his car and walked to where he saw the light, he found Butch was holding a flashlight like he would a bone, in his mouth. Meanwhile, Dusty had stretched himself across Mr. Burns to try and keep him warm.

Hoffman said he then noticed that Mr. Burns was wearing a diabetic medical bracelet and immediately took him to the hospital.

Burns says that he does not remember the ordeal, but thinks that Hoffman even seeing the light is remarkable enough for him.

"It's got to be just fate or faith, one or the other," Burns said.

The dogs "definitely are the heroes in the story," said Hoffman.

Burns was in the hospital nearly 4 days before he had been released.

"Had he not had the dogs with him that evening, I think the outcome would have been a lot worse," Hoffman said.


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New Zealand Prime Minister won't visit Waitangi marae

January 18, 2006

The New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark will be attending Waitangi Day commemorations on February 6th; however she will not visit the lower Te Tii Marae, which has been a focal point for protest in recent years.

Her office has said that she would be doing a walkabout on the Treaty Grounds before attending a reception hosted by the Governor General that night.

The Prime Minister hopes her attendance will be trouble free.

The Leader of the Opposition Dr Don Brash is also to attend the attend a reception hosted by the Governor General and the Dawn Service. In 2004 Brash was showered with mud at the entrance of the lower Te Tii Marae. Although this is New Zealand's national day, the commemoration has often been the focus of protest by Maori activists, and is often marred by controversy.

This year co-ordinators will allow all media to attend the Waitangi Day commemorations. In 2003 and 2004 all Non-Maori media were banned from the Marae.


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UK Mobile Data Network Collapses

January 18, 2006

London, UK -- The Vodafone GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) Mobile Data Network within the UK was off the air for several hours, but Vodafone staff were unable to supply any details as to how or why this had happened. The incident seems to have originated within Southern England, but spread "nationwide" within a short period.

Customers were therefore unable to access data services for a protracted period, including WAP browsing from mobile phones, email from personal devices like Blackberries and Windows Mobile Messengers, and full access over data cards from laptops.

Some criticism has been levelled at the company for failing to provide an easy source of information on the problem, with the only realistic option being to queue for a response from a call centre, as no information could be found on their public-facing website. This practice, whilst far from unique to Vodafone within the telecommunications industry, contrasts poorly with the common practice for most ISPs (Internet Service Providers), who conventionally provide a "system status" page on their website.

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Talk:UK Mobile Data Network Collapses

Oddly, despite myself and several colleagues having been afflicted by this problem, the story seems to have been unreported in other media, and I challenge anyone to find a status page on the Vodafone website ! :-(

Bill. M.

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Sharp declines in Intel, Yahoo lead tech stocks lower

January 18, 2006

Sharp declines in technology bellwethers Intel and Yahoo dragged down the tech laden Nasdaq Composite Index Wednesday. The index finished at 2279.64, a drop of 23.05 points or 1 percent. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 Index ended the day with losses of 0.38 percent and 0.39 percent to end at 10,854.86 and 1277.93 respectively.

The world's largest chipmaker fell nearly $3 or 11 percent to $22.60. Internet software giant Yahoo was down nearly $5 to close at $35.18 a loss of nearly 12 percent. Analysts blamed disappointing sales forecasts for the first quarter for today's selloff.

A number of research firms including Citigroup and UBS handed downgrades to Intel stock today. This followed the company's failure to meet analysts’ and its own expectations for revenue and earnings during its fourth quarter earnings release yesterday.

Thomas Thornhill lowered his stock rating to "neutral" and commented on Intel's competitive situation with arch-rival Advanced Micro Devices. “AMD is likely to remain a serious competitor to Intel and Intel’s longer-term risk profile is now higher than we previously believed”


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User talk:85.234.133.162

Hi,

I've moved your story submission to Story preparation/Fire in Vladivostok, Russia as we haven't yet been able to verify it. Note that there is a Russian Wikinews edition; if it gets published there, the chances increase that we will seriously look into the matter.--Eloquence 22:49, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

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Gas leak disrupts London railway service

January 18, 2006 London, UK -- Commuters in the South East today discovered that it's not only problems at Clapham Junction that can cause disruption to more travellers from more than one of the major London stations. A single gas leak near Battersea Park Junction interrupted services to and from both Waterloo and Victoria stations, the 2 main termini covering the areas "south of the river" in the metropolis.

The incident occurred around lunchtime, with trains being cancelled and delayed, and even once the leak had been repaired, the knock-on effects from the earlier disruptions caused delays to peak hour commuters returning home.

The situation was not aided by differential information being made available on travel news sources, a phenomenon that has become a familiar story since the once-unified British Rail was split up into an infrastructure operator and a number of different Train Operating Companies (TOCs).


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Talk:Gas leak disrupts London railway service

1. Story appeared on some travel websites, but not on news sources, leading to some confusion amongst commuter acquaintenances who were aware of the history - " but there was nothing on the news ...".

There is now!

Bill.M.

(2. Re-titled and moved to development as "stub")

3. Title re-amended, as the change from "London Railway Service Disruption" to "Gas leak disrupts London subway service" was WRONG - this refers to surface rail. And "subway" is not an appropriate term for sub-surface rail in UK, where "underground" has been the term used to describe it since London launched the world's first such service over 150 years ago.

Also expanded from stub.

Bill. M.


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Talk:At least eight people die in office fire in Vladivostok, Russia

Possible sources that could confirm enough to take this to publish state...

Unsourced material
This information has not been sourced to either original reporting or published reports:

 * According to informal data, firemen were instructed by their commanders to evacuate first of all the bank's top management staff from other side of the building that was not burning at that moment. In Russian mass media, details of that horrible accident are censored and edited. Many of the reports about the event, which appeared during the first hours in online media, then dissapeared from the websites without a trace. Most of Russian Savings Bank's staff consist of young women 20-30 years old. Eyewitnesses tell about the young woman who was hanging for one hour on the billboard attached to the wall of the building and was begging to rescue her because she had a new born baby at home. Official mass media tells about 9 victims but we suspect that much more people died in that accident because those people who managed to rescue reported that corridors of the building were filled with dead bodies. This information is proved by several independent sources.

--Eloquence 00:34, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Junk Merge
Here is that junk from Fire in Vladivostok, Russia which probably wasn't intended as original reporting in any sence, but might have been. Nyarlathotep 02:07, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

At least 20 dead in the fire in an office building in Vladivostok, Russia that happened on January 16. Because of the lack of fire exits and firefighters' ladders people had to jump away from windows from the 8-th and 9-th floors.

Крупный пожар в офисном здании Владивостока

“Don’t tell “Sorry…” …and only one word in my mind: “Why? Why? Why???”

I live fare from my native city Vladivostok, where live all my family, my mother, my friends, and when I waked up on the 16 of January – in my city everything happened… from radio news I knew about great tragedy in Vladivostok: in fare in business centre 9 people perished. It was 8 floor of building, and it was bank. Staff of it in general is young women, who had families, children. Who went to their job place in the morning with such things, like:”What my daughter will wear in school…” or “What special can I cook for my husband tonight…” Ordinary minds of usual people. But they didn’t back at home.

When I watched TV news – I fall in crying - picture was terrible: tongues of flame in the windows, and women with wild screams were jumping from 8 and 9 floors! At the foot – a lot of people, who try to lay their wear and pasteboard boxes on the asphalt. Firemen can do nothing… they just declare: “Our ladders not so long”. Not so long to help burning people….

Now it’s too late to speak about possible chances to save … people – from dead, their families – from distress, children – from orphan hood…and our souls – from this great sin.

But it time to find answer on such things: Why people dead? Why there were not helicopters, trampolines for the saving? Who is responsible for absence fire technique? Why firemen came not in time? Where are fire-exits? And where could we find true?

Information in official reports became less and less. And nobody comment this horror…We bore in tragedy with “Kursk”, be bear now, we bear over and over, but this wild still malice increases in us, in our children… and I am afraid, so soon – we couldn’t cry, watching dead – we will be zombies… (autor -Anastasia Aralova /aral84@mail.ru/ Jenuary,19,2006, Russia)

Oh, here is the Severe fire with multiple victims in Vladivostok, Russia :Failure to help too which I'll also redirect here. Nyarlathotep 02:16, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

On January, 16th, 2006 approximately at 11:45 in the city of Vladivostok three top floors of “Promstroyniiproekt” building were on fire. These floors belong to Dept #8635 of the Savings Bank of the Far-Eastern Bank of the Savings Bank of Russia. Lyudmila Nikolaevna Feofanova is the top manager of the Dept. Firemen failed, and burning people jumped down from the 8-9 floors, killing themselves against asphalt while firemen were rescuing top-management body of the Savings Bank from the other side of the building where the fire was absent. But that did not served as the reason of creation of this site. We have noted, that in mass media (it is even ridiculous to name them so) the news about the fire may appear, then, in half of an hour they may be deleted or edited. Some mass-media (in particular ANN) have written that in general everything is all right, everybody was salvaged, and nobody jumped down from the windows. IN GENERAL there is no true information on the fire in the central mass-media! There is one news only on www.vesti.ru that firemen have worked well and that’s all. It BECOMES clear, THAT SOMEONE DISABLES THE INFORMATION, SO THAT TO PREVENT IT FROM GOING ABROAD THE BOARDERS THE FAR-EASTERN FEDERAL DISTRICT!!! More or less intelligible information is at the informal forums (http://fire.zloe.net/) where there is something spoken by eyewitnesses. And that is all. That’s why any information on an event which can throw light on the truth will be collected here. If this site is unexpectedly closed, then understand that the authorities have done it.

I've deleted the fourth story. Nyarlathotep 02:16, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm also deleting Terrible true about fire in Vladivostok, Russia, as it should be merged.

About 70 people had died during the fire in Russian bank. While people from burnin rooms were screeming for help, fire men were saving lives of thier bosses who were on another side of the building! (the beginning of http://fire.zloe.net/smi/raskins.html) Guys, I'm from 9th floor, but from another side of the building. TVmen have shown only facade, girls were falling down from 5th floor there. In our side everything was much worse - too high and no cornices. F..ckin firemen instead of fighting with fire were searching in purses and stealing cellphones. One of them was caught with a big PC display. There were no tents to catch falling people. The only people who made efforts to save us were those passing by that time.

For the record, I'm deleting all these shiite version partially because they will distract possible NPOV contributors from writing the article. I'd love to see more articles about defacto state controlled news agencies (U.S. or Russia) surpressing things. Nyarlathotep 15:05, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

A better version
Here is teh version of Severe fire with many victims in Vladivostok, Russia which Brian McNeil recommended as the base point for the article. It is probably the piece which should be merged into this article (or this article should be merged into it). Nyarlathotep 15:11, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

On January 16th, 2006 at approximately 11:45 in the morning in the city of Vladivostok in the Russian Far East, the top three floors of the “Promstroyniiproekt” building burst into flames. These floors belong to Department #8635 of the Savings Bank of the Far-Eastern Bank of the Savings Bank of Russia.

Lyudmila Nikolaevna Feofanova is the senior manager of the department. Firemen were not up to the task, and burning people jumped from the 8th and 9th floors, dying on impact with the pavement below. Meanwhile, firemen were rescuing the senior management of the Bank from the other side of the building where there was no fire.

An independent web site has been created about this tragedy at (http://fire.zloe.net), in Russian. The authors there note that the Russian official mass media, news about the fire may appear, then, in a short period of time are either deleted or edited.

Some mass media (in particular ANN) have written that in general everything is all right, everybody was saved, and nobody jumped from the windows. Loccal television in the Siberian city of Yakutsk is reporting deaths, but the accuracy of those reports is uncertain.

'''IN GENERAL there is an absence of accurate information on the fire in the central mass-media! There is only one report on the site (http://www.vesti.ru) that firemen have done their job well and that’s all. Local citizens are incensed that central-government censorship is preventing the dissemination of full information about the events beyond the borders of the Russian Far-Eastern Federal District. Demonstrations are planned in Vladivostok for 11am on Saturday 21 January 2006 outside the mayor's offices in the city.'''

Protesters are demanding answers to a number of questions, including:
 * Why has only one fire inspector been detained?
 * Who is repsonsible for the lack of adequate fire-fighting equipment?
 * Why were fire engines so slow in responding to the fire?
 * Why were rescue efforts focused on the management of the bank first, when they were not in a part of the building involved in the fire?
 * Why did it seem that rescuers were uninterested in the victims falling to their deaths to the pavement below?
 * Where were the rescue helicopters?
 * Where are the victims who were not employees of the bank?
 * Where were the fire exits?
 * Why was a truck equipped with a tarpolin (for catching jumpers) blocked from the site by local police?

The above represents a translation, with some additional information, of information at the informal site (http://fire.zloe.net/) where there are reports by eyewitnesses, photographs of the events, and organizing information for Saturday's demonstration. Any information which can throw light on the truth is being collected there. If this external site is unexpectedly closed, then it will be suspected that the Russian authorities are responsible for the act of censorship.

Western and independent news agencies with representatives or stringers in the area are urged to cover the demonstration and bring a more accurate account of the events to the world than is being permitted by the Russian government.

Internet gallery with photos of fire People falling out video


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Al Qaeda bomb maker reportedly killed in U.S. airstrike in Pakistan

January 18, 2006

ABC News is reporting that a key Al Qaeda operative was killed in the U.S. airstrike in Pakistan which killed 18 people, including women and children, last week.

An Egyptian chemist, Midhat Mursi, 52, also known as Abu Khabab al-Masri, was identified by unnamed Pakistan officials to ABC news. The sources said he was among one of three known senior al Qaeda members present at the compound that was hit.

"He's the man who trained the shoe bomber, Richard Reid and Zacharias Mousssaoui, as well as hundreds of others," said former FBI agent Jack Cloonan. Mursi has a $5 million dollar bounty on his head and is well-known for his chemical weapons expertise, strange alias, and red beard.

Two Pakistani officials also reported the son-in-law of Al Qaeda's No. 2 leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was also among those killed in the U.S. airstrikes.

Abu Ubayda al-Misri, Abd al-Rahman al-Maghrebi who was Zawahiri's son-in-law, and Mustafa Osman another Egyptian who was an associate of Zawahiri, are thought to be among those terrists that were killed. U.S. officials also say that Khalid Habib, another senior Al Qaeda operative, may have been at the site of the attack.

Pakistani officials have been searching for the gravesights of the 4 or 5 terrorists killed in the attack where three houses were destroyed, but so far have been unsuccessful. Provincial authorities say that sympathizers probably took the bodies to be buried in the mountains to prevent their identification.

"We do not have any evidence to prove that they have been killed, but we have indications that they were there and were among those bodies that were taken away," an unnamed official was quoted by the Associated Press news agency.

Pakistani Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao had earlier stated that the Pakistani government had no knowledge of the identities of the foreigners who were believed killed in the missile attack.

U.S. counterterrorism officials had no immediate comment on the report. The White House, as of Tuesday, has not made mention of any U.S. connection with the attack, but called Pakistan a valuable ally in the war against terrorists.


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New Zealand marks Waitangi Day, 2006

February 6, 2006 Today marks the 166th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand's founding document, in 1840.

Although this is New Zealand's national day, the commemoration has often been the focus of protest by Maori activists, and is often marred by controversy. This year, the morning celebrations at Waitangi were peaceful, and there was only a brief altercation during the afternoon. Celebrations also went smoothly at over 60 other sites around the country, except for a confrontation at Hayman Park in Manukau City between local Maori and National Front members.

New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark did not attend the dawn service at Waitangi today, or visit the lower Te Tii Marae. She hosted a breakfast for Northland civic leaders before taking part in other events around the country. In the afternoon she visited Hoani Waititi Marae in West Auckland, then attended the reception at Government House hosted by the Governor General. The Leader of the Opposition Dr Don Brash visited the upper Te Tii Marae on Saturday afternoon. In his speech at the Marae, Dr Brash said New Zealand needs to stop looking in the "rear-view mirror" and that the speedy settlement of claims is important for all New Zealanders.

The current Labour government has pledged to finish all Treaty claims by 2020, while National's 2005 election policy called for all claims to be settled by 2010.

Dr Brash said National is still committed to settling claims quickly, but because of the current Labour government, National's deadline of 2010 to settle treaty grievances is no longer realistic. The target will be reviewed in a National Party caucus meeting next week.

Dr Brash also attended the dawn service at the upper Te Tii Marae, where he was asked to offer a prayer; he said about the treaty we "ask your forgiveness for our sins...none of us is without sin, we have all fallen short of the treaty promise". The Prime Minister has refused to comment on the prayer.

Dr Brash then visited Hoani Waititi Marae, leaving before the Prime Minister arrived.

This year also marked the first time in a decade that the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) has had a major presence at Waitangi Day celebrations.

Chief of Navy, Rear Admiral David Ledson says "You can either build walls of silence or you can use words to build bridges...we'd sooner use words and conversation to build bridges than sit either side of a stone wall."

At dawn, the RNZN raised the New Zealand flag, the Union Jack and the White Ensign on the flagstaff in the treaty grounds.

This was followed by a church service and cultural displays. Several boats re-enacted the calling ashore of Governor Hobson to sign the treaty. The annual hikoi (protest march) with about 500 people started at lunch time and marched from the lower Te Tii Marae, up to the upper Te Tii Marae and then to the contentious flagpole, where some protestors had a brief standoff with police.

The day closed with the flags being lowered by the RNZN in a traditional ceremony.

Governor-General Dame Silvia Cartwright said in her annual Waitangi Day address. "Celebrations at Waitangi on Waitangi Day have changed a great deal over the years...[now] involving families, schools, youth and community groups...let us as always, remember our history, but let us look forward also to a bright future for our country."

The Governor-General arrived at Waitangi on Saturday, February 4, where she welcomed the Governor-General of Papua New Guinea to Waitangi before she attended a reception onboard HMNZS Te Mana.

Today she attended the dawn service on the treaty grounds, followed by celebrations in Hamilton. She then hosted an afternoon garden party at Government House in Auckland, not at the traditional Wellington Government House venue. This is her last Waitangi Day as Governor-General.

title: New Zealand marks Waitangi Day, 2006