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New Zealanders being urged to become condom testers

January 17, 2007

Condom manufacturer Durex is urging New Zealanders to sign up online to become one of 100 condom testers. Already 3,000 New Zealanders, both men and women, have applied to become condom testers, according to Durex.

Durex is recruiting the New Zealanders to test a new line of latex-free condoms.

Durex claims it is using New Zealanders to test the new condoms because, according to the company's surveys, New Zealanders are adventurous in the bedroom. Victoria Potter, spokeswoman for Durex, said: "The overwhelming response to date from Kiwis has certainly proven this."

The 100 needed people for their tests will be selected in two weeks time randomly, the final date for sending in applications is January 31, 2007.

The condom being tested is called "Durex Avanti Ultima" and is free of latex. Instead of latex, it is made of polyisoprene, the first condom to use it. Ms Potter said the new condom is "exceptionally" soft and will provide maximum comfort. The new condom will appeal to those who are allergic to latex.

Ms Potter said: "By becoming a Durex Condom Tester, Kiwis have the opportunity to get steamy in the bedroom and try out another world-leading Durex condom, all in the aid of research."


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Chinese short movie mocks Kim Jong il and his secret agent

January 20, 2007

North Korea's 007, a currently very popular short movie by some Chinese netizens, mocks Kim Jong Il and his secret agent buying Hennessy XO wine from Chinese black market.

As of 3:27 AM, January 20, 2007, China Standard Time, the movie has been watched 1,993,567 times on a single site (6rooms.com) and received 1620 comments.

The talks between the North Koreans are in English; the talks between the agent and the Chinese are in Chinese (now featuring English subtitles). The story part situated in China is as follows:

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The agent first went to a grocery where he didn't find XO, then to a wine store which sells XO, but he complained about the price being much more expensive than the price quoted on the Internet. His accent surprised a girl who recognized his North Korean identity and the saleswoman rejected his buying due to "resulting UN security council penalty." The agent left the store and a white-coated fat man (a black market wine seller) and a black-coated man followed.

The agent checked in at a hotel and received 3 phone calls; one from his commander urging him forward on the mission, one from a whore offering "special service" (to whom the agent replied with "Yes, I need, I need a bottle of XO!"), and one from the fat man asking him to go to a disco bar for XO trading. He went to the bar and watched the fat man dancing to "We Were Forced to Be Gangs" (the music is Michael Jackson's "Beat It"). The fat man found the agent's money was fake (which the agent explained was because North Korea wanted to "ease the pressure that the hostile West put on China for currency appreciation") and a fight ensued. The fat man was defeated and said "Your country is not based on honesty" while the agent said in his mind, "No honesty for your revisionist country."

The agent is about to cross the China-North Korea border and the black-coated man caught up and defeated him by breaking his "Kim Jong Il medal" (which is a devastating psychological strike to North Koreans). The black-coated man revealed himself to be George W. Bush and some Chinese bystanders questioned him on why he hung Saddam ("One Saddam is down but a million Saddams will be up!") and drove him away. The curious Chinese bystanders accidentally broke the agent's XO which resulted in another devastating episode. The white-coated fat man reappeared and said he saw the whole event and was impressed by the agent and gave away another bottle of XO to him.

The agent returned to North Korea and presented the XO to Kim Jong Il (on their way to Kim's residence their eyes were covered in order not to "give the Americans a chance to pinpoint Kim's precise location"). Kim immediately died because the wine was faked and poisonous.

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Talk:New Zealanders being urged to become condom testers

first of its kind...
The use of "first of its kind" makes it sounds like non-latex condoms havent been developed before. However Durex has a line of polyurethane condoms, called Durex Avanti. (see Nonlatex vs Latex Condoms: An Update). Jayvdb 11:20, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I hope this is better: "...polyisoprene, the first condom to use it." --Nzgabriel | Talk 20:36, 17 January 2007 (UTC)


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Talk:New Zealand's NCEA results due today onwards

joy... (previous unsigned comment by 125.237.54.110 at 01:15, January 18, 2007.)


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Apple concerned with iPhone icons' alleged misuse

January 17, 2007 Apple's lawyers are reportedly pursuing legal action against persons whom they claim are wrongfully using icons, interfaces, and other copyright- or patent-protected materials from its new iPhone on other smart phones, which may have features similar to the iPhone's. Apple has also reportedly contacted at least one blogger who posted screenshots of iPhone icons with "cease and desist" requests, although it should be noted that in the one reported case referenced below, the blogger had also posted a download link to an interface containing features allegedly appropriated from the iPhone. Apple's new gadget was demonstrated at Macworld 2007.

Protecting intellectual property can involve a balance between (among other things) allowing some unauthorized use of such material in order to obtain "free promotion" of a company or product, and preventing competitors from "piggybacking" upon original research or upon an established reputation.


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Talk:Apple concerned with iPhone icons' alleged misuse

This article seems biased in favour of some type of open-source use of Apple's copyrighted materials. While it raises legitimate points re: free publicity and the possible effects of a too-aggressive enforcement policy by Apple, it does so in a way that implies Apple should not protect its material. StockGear 16:20, 17 January 2007 (UTC)StockGear
 * I agree, there is an avocacy/POV issue with this article. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:29, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

I think the article is just pointing out a development about the subject. Readers might find this information useful for all we know. That's the objective of news writing: to update. Or maybe I'm missing something.

 * Some critics question this recent move by Apple. With Apple's planned action with regards to its iPhone icons, they wonder what Apple really wants to promote copyright laws or to promote its products.

Which critics? Sounds a little weasel-wordish to me, and the given sources do not say anything about "critics" thinking that Apple is promoting copyright laws instead of products. What's the deal here? 194.157.147.13 15:40, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

I have edited it to eliminate the weasel words and to try to present a more NPOV. StockGear 16:27, 18 January 2007 (UTC)StockGear


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Israeli head of military Dan Halutz resigns

January 17, 2007

The head of the, , resigned on Tuesday January 16, 2007 after an internal review criticized his military's leadership during the war in Lebanon last summer.

Halutz sent his resignation letter to, which according to said, "For me, the concept of responsibility is everything."

Halutz has also been facing criticism after it was disclosed that he sold a portion of his stock portfolio hours after the fighting began on July 12, 2006.


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Report says US military gear sold to Iran and China

January 17, 2007

Fighter jet parts and other U.S. military gear that were to be sold to Iran and China have been traced back to the Pentagon. The gear was not sold directly to these countries, but rather it was obtained by middlemen who the sold it again.

In one case, federal investigators said that a Pakistani middleman purchased arms from the Defense Department’s surplus auction. The arms purchased were Chinook helicopter engine parts, which the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said did successfully make it to Iran.

In a second case, Tomcat parts were bought from the Defense Department’s surplus division. Custom agents confiscated and returned the parts, but later found out that the Defense Department had resold the parts to another buyer suspected of being a broker for Iran. Except for the US, which recently retired its Tomcat air fleet, Iran is the only other country flying Tomcats.

In 2005 alone, the profits made from the Pentagon's public surplus sales were $57 million.

The Pentagon has had previous incidents in the past. In 2003, a Camden, New Jersey company, State Metal Industries, was convicted for selling AIM-7 Sparrow missile guidance parts, which it had bought from the Defense Department’s surplus auctions, to an entity partially owned by the Chinese government.


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User talk:Emily~enwikinews

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User:The Mackem journalist

Welcome to my wikinews office

I'm the Mackem Journalist, I' am from the metropolitian borough of Sunderland in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. I' am a basic academic at the cities University in humanities and Science. I have chosen to join Wikinews and other projects to the creative and learning enviroment inside them. I love to write reports and history books, and I'm very happy to help this project.

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User talk:The Mackem journalist

Welcome to my talk page

Here, obviously, you drop in messages. I will be happy to answer them on your talk pages but only under certain conditions. I will not respond to: Trolling, blatant abuse, and patent nonsense. I don't like swear words or any kind of dodgy comment on my page. So please be sensible.

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Re: Licencing
Hi,

your most welcome to write stories here! The way this site works is that we write the stories ourselves, based on several sources. This way we want to create a free and neutral news source.

What you cannot do is copy-paste stories here from other sites, or put direct copies of press releases, stories from news agencies you might have access to etc. You must somehow rephrase the sources in your own words. Just read some stories and look at there source code (by clicking "edit this page") to get the hang of it, and put ready at the end: this will alert others to review your story, which is probably a good idea for a newbie.

If you have any questions, I'm going away now but feel free to ask them on my talk page, or some else (as explained above).

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 19:26, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

CBB
Yes Prof. Sunderland, go ahead.

It's either I'm or I am by the way. Gary Kirk 16:55, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

 * You were blocked on the English Wikipedia and used a sockpuppet, w:User:Professor Sunderland, to evade the block. Gary Kirk 18:54, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Please remember: It's either I'm or I am. Not I' am. Gary Kirk 21:11, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Updates
To avoid conflicts of info and such, we tend to not update articles once they have been published for a day or more especially if the story is not Breaking News. DragonFire1024 20:40, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:75.89.75.166

CONTINUED DISRUPTION NWILL LEAD TO A BLOCK

STOP
If you continue to deface articals you will be blocked. Ferply 20:35, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:66.163.85.210

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User talk:193.11.177.69

Producer Timbaland "samples" music by copying whole song
Thanks for the background. Hope the copyediting I did is acceptable? ShakespeareFan00 22:12, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Report says US military gear sold to Iran and China

The wording of this article seems to imply that the U.S. gov't was selling material *directly* to people associated with Iran. i.e. "the Defense Department had resold the parts to another buyer suspected of being a broker..." This is not what the cited articles say; they imply that criminals within the defense made illegal sales, or that there was a longer series of middlemen. I dunno, but that's my impression...

65.92.163.68 00:23, 18 January 2007 (UTC)Willsie

 * I agree. From the various sources on google that I have read, it states that Iran was not even supposed to get the parts but that the deal was done through a thrid party. Bush says Iran is the "axis of evil." Why would he want classified or sensitive material sent to an enemy like Iran? DragonFire1024 20:44, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I assumed it was clear from the story but I tried to make it more clear now, if there are still things unclear you can just correct or rephrase them.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 22:27, 18 January 2007 (UTC)


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User talk:The Return of: L33T

Please stop vandalising. Moving User:RyanB88 to I suck BIG dick wasn't too got of an idea. Are you a sockpuppet of the blocked user L33T? Thunderhead - (talk) Congrajulations to Kat! 02:25, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * too got of an idea? ha ha you can't type right.  as for the sockpuppet, did you find that out all by yourself, or did your mommy help you?

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EU report in favour of adopting open source software

January 18, 2007

An EU Commission-funded research studied costs and benefits of adopting open source software, such as Linux or OpenOffice.org instead of proprietary software such as Microsoft Windows or Microsoft Office.

The study was conducted on six organizations from European nations. The study concluded that: in almost all the cases, a transition toward open source reports of savings on the long-term costs of ownership of the software products. In addition, Costs to migrate to an open solution are relevant and an organization needs to consider an extra effort for this. However these costs are temporary and mainly are budgeted in less than one year. The major factor of cost of the new solution – even in the case that the open solution is mixed with closed software – is costs for peer or ad hoc training. These are the best example of intangible costs that often are not foreseen in a transition. On the other hand not providing a specific training may cause an adverse attitude toward the new technology. Fortunately those costs are limited in time and are not strictly linked to the nature of the new software adopted.

The study also reported that they found "no particular delays or lost of time in the daily work due to the use of OpenOffice.org" (p. 283) instead of Microsoft Office.

This is bad news for Microsoft, who is in a legal battle with European Union over its monopolist behaviors. It is also competing with a number of open source software distributors for the market. Microsoft recently released an update to its popular operating system Windows, as well as to its browser Internet Explorer and its office productivity suite Microsoft Office. These products are competing with distributors such as Red Hat, Firefox, and OpenOffice.org.


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Turkish homeless man burns to death after being neglected

January 19, 2007

On one of the very crowded streets of Istanbul, Turkey, an elderly homeless man died of burns thought to have been caused by a fire he lit to warm himself. The police officers who came to help could not extinguish the fire with the small bottles of water which they had.

The man was seen earlier in one of the most crowded streets of Istanbul screaming "I do not have a blanket, someone stole my blanket!". He was offered a cookie and a coat by two passers-by before someone called an ambulance. He was refused admittance to two different hospitals because he lacked identification, and the ambulance eventually left him where he was picked up.

Witness Accounts
He was shaking. He couldn't walk. I brought him 15 - 20 empty boxes and started a fire for him to get warm. I put my coat on him, he was wet. They told us that he died in the morning.

He died in front of everyone's eyes. Like an animal. What kind of a government is this? He was shaking like a leaf. He was purple all over because of the cold. His clothes were smoking. My friends thought he was burning. It was that night's dew that was evaporating... We are ignorant, we didn't know. But someone else called for an ambulance. They came, this guy can in fact walk. He is sane. But that day he was almost unconscious and he couldn't walk. We carried him to the ambulance and thought he was saved. They brought him back an hour later. I asked him what happened. He told me that "they didn't want to provide care because I didn't have an ID to show." For God's sake, what kind of a government is this?

I just saw him the other day. I gave him a cookie. He thanked, but didn't accept. He was shaking, miserable. I would have taken him home, only if I knew.


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User talk:Green Lemur

Welcome
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Philippines article
thanks for contributing to Wikinews. just wanted to let u know once more that Wikinews takes the neutrality of its articles very seriously. pls do make an effort to ensure that an article meets the NPOV guidelines before publishing it. similarly, when a cleanup notice is placed on an article, do make an effort to address the issues raised or discuss them on the article talk page. republishing a disputed article without addressing the issues raised is not a good thing to do. as for the issues in the article, the most serious is that the article reports very serious allegations but fails to give the military an adequate opportunity to respond. for example, article reports the allegation that the military is responsible for killings. has the military accepted the responsibility? do they reject the accusation and blame somebody else? what they say in their defence needs to be reported to make the article more neutral. i look forward to seeing more news reported, and reported well, from the region, best — Doldrums(talk) 06:12, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I have attached several sources to address your issues. Thanks for taking this seriously. Kgargar 06:55, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

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pls do not repeatedly publish a disputed article without addressing the issues raised. it is considered edit-warring and can become a violation of the three revert rule, something that can get a user blocked from editing Wikinews. — Doldrums(talk) 09:00, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Your violation of the three revert rule has got you blocked. Please work together with other users in a constructive fashion, and listen to what people are saying to you.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 21:08, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Thank you. --Kgargar 23:50, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

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anyone can check and raise an alert if they have a reason to believe that a Wikinews article infringes on the copyright of another source. administrators have the ability to delete (not just blank or add a copyvio notice) an article they think is a copyvio.

While judging whether copyright is violated is very easy in some cases (in a "blatant copyvio", text is cut-paste from (or is very similar to) a source which carries a clear copyright notice), very hard in some cases (it needed judges to decide whether Google news violated the copyrights of some Belgian news sources), in other cases, it falls in-between and Wikinews users need to make a call on the issue. Things to note while making this call is
 * 1) copyright statement on source - does it reserve all rights, some rights or releases all rights?
 * 2) nature of duplication - information cannot be copyrighted, only the organisation or expression of information can be copyrighted. so a wikinews article which reports substantially the same information as a source, but is organised and expressed independent of the source may not be a copyvio.
 * 3) license compatibility means that all the rights wikinews releases shld also be released by the source.
 * 4) Wikinews articles are released under a Creative Commons Attribution license. it allows others to copy and use Wikinews articles, even for commercial purposes. so if we use material from another source, then that source too, shld be willing to let anyone use their work (via the Wikinews article) even for commercial use - many sources do not agree to this and make it clear in their copyright license.

Wikinews users are not legal experts and may not always make the right call on these matters, what they try to do is the "safe" thing, if it looks like it might be a copyvio, they point it out so that the article can be rewritten or modified(by using more sources, for eg.) to ensure that it will no longer be a copyvio. if it not modified, they delete the article to play safe. this is because other publishers can take Wikinews to court and extract large damages if a copyright infringement occurs. we want to do everything we can to avoid such a possibility.

if u believe that a particular article is wrongly tagged or deleted as a copyvio, u can identify which one and i or other users can better explain for that particular case. for wikinews policies and general information on copyrights, see Copyright, w:Wikipedia:Copyright and Copyright infringement. see also links to Fair Use in these. — Doldrums(talk) 07:39, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:Amare Stoudemire

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User talk:Wiztermy

This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize a page, you will be blocked from editing Wikinews. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do, since testing in articles will be reverted quickly. — Doldrums(talk) 06:15, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * oops, sorry!!! wrong user. — Doldrums(talk) 06:19, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

I edited a typo on that page? How is that vandalism? Wiztermy 06:18, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

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whew! OK, no biggie then! Wiztermy 06:22, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * sorry again, and thanks for being so cool about it :) — Doldrums(talk) 06:38, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:Allen Iverson~enwikinews

This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize a page, you will be blocked from editing Wikinews. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do, since testing in articles will be reverted quickly. — Doldrums(talk) 06:20, 18 January 2007 (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 Allen Iverson. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Allen Iverson~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 23:12, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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User talk:Deadlyicon~enwikinews

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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

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

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

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:15, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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User talk:USA 1776

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This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize a page, you will be blocked from editing Wikinews. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do, since testing in articles will be reverted quickly. — Doldrums(talk) 06:36, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:Informer64

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Peasant group to rap Philippine military for ‘electioneering’

January 18, 2007

A Philippine daily reported that peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (Peasant Movement of the Philippines or KMP) plans to file electioneering case against Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) claiming that fully armed troops have been deployed in various areas around the country with strong presence of progressive organizations and party lists groups.

The military says that politicians running for elections have sought the military's protection against what it says is harassment and extortion by the Communist Party of the Philippines and its military wing, the New People’s Army.

Danilo Ramos, KMP Secretary General, said they also seek to exclude AFP members from voting in the upcoming May elections, pointing out the possibility of the soldiers as "flying voters".

Prior to that, another group, an urban poor organization Kadamay, hit the increased presence of soldiers in areas where the group is active. The group suspects that the deployment of soldiers in a number of barangays in Quezon City and parts of Metro Manila is an attempt to flush out activist leaders.


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Talk:Airline checks Dell and Apple computers for hazard

Official response
I called QANTAS in regards to the story for the answers however, I am waiting for a official response from public relations. I expect this within the next few days

sincerely

Symode09 08:29, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Title
shouldn't the title read: Australian Airline checks Dell and Apple computers for hazard" ? 76.176.133.106
 * "Australian airline screens laptops for recalled batteries" is more descriptive; the particular brands screened aren't particularly important. —Pathoschild 20:15, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I think an airile checking these two specific brands are more important than the airline's roots in Australia...The title as it is looks fine, and attracts attention to the story. Towsonu2003 21:54, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Agreed, the problem is universal, and this draws people in to learn about one more microcausm of the issue. --  Zanimum 13:12, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

WN:DR
As per the WN:DR discussion I am unsure as to what to add as a warning. Could another admin please fill in. --Skenmy(t•c•w•i) 08:30, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
 * It needs to be deleted IMO. DragonFire1024 08:31, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
 * It passed DR, so it needs a warning message that it may be inaccurate or old. --Brian McNeil / talk 08:39, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
 * It never should have gotton past . DragonFire1024 08:49, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
 * If the information in the article is correct, then a note can be added saying the source is incorrectly labelled. if any of the info is incorrect, then it needs to be corrected using the correction notice. not a bad idea to confirm the contents of the Qantas spokesperson interview (assuming it was done by e-mail). –Doldrums(talk) 09:03, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Symode09 seems to have made claims but has not provide any proof yet.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 09:19, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Can we also remove the link to his blog and list this as a source? — Fellow Wiki  Newsie  14:14, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

list of questions
–Doldrums(talk) 07:35, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) what is "relatively new" about these safety precautions?
 * 2) what is the source for "Quantas is expected to release a statement in a few days"?
 * 3) details about the call to Quantas. who was called - press relations office or customer service? what is "Quantas employee" Sharron role or designation?

They are relatively new safety precautions see http://www.securitypronews.com/insiderreports/insider/spn-49-20060824QantasWatchingOutForDellUsers.html for proof

I didn't follow up their press release (i called and asked them if there was a press release and she said something like "not yet"

I originally called the main line who put me through to PR Symode09 08:32, 5 May 2007 (UTC)


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Sex industry plans live sex-on-demand video for hotels

January 17, 2007

Sex industry producers think over a new service: on-demand live sex video that can be watched from a hotel room. Will this service be popular? Will large hotel chains go along? These and some other issues were talked about during panel discussion at annual Las Vegas, Nevada trade show for sex entertainment industry producers, marketers and payment processors Internext.

There were two opinions on this issue. Gregory Clayman, the owner of the live-action company Video Secrets expressed confidence that in the nearest future sex industry would be selling images of couples making love live over the hotel's entertainment systems.

At the same time Anne Taulane, managing editor of Lodging magazine, said she doubted whether major hotel chains would be enthusiastic about this idea as she was convinced that on-demand sex video was more available to the mainstream than viewing live sex performers over hotel's entertainment system.

The panelists praised Mastercard and Visa programs which helped to reduce chargebacks or refusals to pay for ordered sex video and debated whether requiring a credit card would prevent minors from viewing sexually explicit materials in the Internet. As the result they came to the conclusion that the government must intervene to cope with these problems.


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Cambodian woman found after 19 years of jungle life

January 18, 2007

A woman who disappeared in the jungles of Cambodia at the age of 8, has been found after having lived as a feral child for 19 years. She is identified as Rochom P'ngieng, who disappeared in 1988, when tending buffalos in a remote part of the jungles of north-eastern Cambodia.

Her parents had given up all hope of finding her since it was so long ago that she disappeared. The father of the girl is convinced that the woman is his daughter based on a distinct scar on her back and facial features. Authorities have asked for a DNA test to confirm the girl's identity. Rochom P'ngieng would be 27 years old.

The woman speaks no comprehensible language and thus it is difficult to confirm what has happened to her. She was discovered when a villager noticed that food had disappeared from a lunchbox he had left nearby his home, so he decided to watch the area, discovering the naked woman when she came again for some rice, according to the chief of police, Mao San in Oyado. "It is as if she's part human and part animal", said Mao San. A group of villagers were called together to catch the woman. The woman has had a hard time adjusting to normal life.

"She is strange. She sleeps in the day and wakes in the night," said Mao San.


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UK Celebrity Big Brother loses sponsorship over racism allegations

January 18, 2007

In the United Kingdom, The Carphone Warehouse, Celebrity Big Brother's sponsor, has pulled out after some of the reality TV show's contestants were accused of racism, with which the company did not want to be associated. The Perfume Shop has announced they will withdraw the perfume Shh... of Jade Goody, one of the contestants accused of bullying with a racist undertone. Motorcycle insurance company Bennetts unilaterally terminated its deal with former Miss England Danielle Lloyd to front an advertisement campaign.

The accusations centre around recent comments made by Jade Goody, Danielle Lloyd and Jo O'Meara (a former member of pop act S Club 7) about Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty. The racism row was sparked by Jade's mother, who referred to Shilpa as "the Indian", instead of calling her by her name. She also asked Shilpa: "Do you live in a house or a shack?" There have been remarks over her accent, her alleged lack of hygiene when cooking, and reactions because she touched the food of housemates with her hands. Danielle Lloyd said: "You don't know where those hands have been." Lloyd also commented to Goody about the Indian actress: "She wants to be white".

When asked about the incident in the Diary Room, Shetty said "...I don't feel there was any racial discrimination happening from Jade's end. I think there are a lot of insecurities from her end but it's definitely not racial."

Hertfordshire Police, the constabulary within which the Big Brother House falls, have received numerous formal complaints they will be investigating. Politicians, other celebrities, and fans spoke of their disgust as the UK media regulator Ofcom received a record number of complaints that rose tonight to 33,000. The Commission for Racial Equality is investigating if the footage was manipulated to deliberately imply racism.

Labour Party MP Keith Vaz even proposed a motion in the House of Commons condemning the abuse. He said "If this racist behaviour goes on, they [Jo O'Meara, Danielle Lloyd and Jade Goody] should be asked to leave". Chancellor Gordon Brown, currently on tour in India, told reporters in Bangalore: "I want to reassure people that what British people are proud of is our reputation for tolerance and fairness." Others believe this reflects a racist tendency in British our Western society in general. The newspaper Times of India ran the headline "Big(ot) Brother bullies Shilpa". "What is happening in Big Brother is just holding the mirror to the western society. This is the real, discriminating face of the West.", was the reaction of Bollywood film director Mahesh Bhatt. Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, accused Channel 4 of damaging the country's reputation.

The show was recently losing viewers, but as a result of the controversy, viewing rates are up for the program.


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World University Games 2007 opened in Turin

January 18, 2007

The opening ceremony of 23th edition of Winter Universiade took place yesterday night in Turin. The Universiade, also referred to as the World University Games, is an international event for university athletes organized by the International University Sports Federation.

Representatives of 52 countries took part to the event. The participants to this edition of Universiade are the highest number ever, both in terms of countries and athletes (that amount to 2,700). The Olympic Oath was taken by Francesco Ghedina, nephew of famous downhill skier, Kristian Ghedina while Livio Berruti, world medalist in 200 metres in 1960 Olympic Games, was the last torch relay and ignited symbolically the Olympic Flame. The fire was just symbolic because obvious safety reasons prohibited a real fire inside an indoor arena.

The ceremony show featured the Football World Champion Gianluigi Buffon, goalkeeper of Juventus, the long jumper Andrew Howe and the actor Arturo Brachetti.


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Apple Inc. doubled its profits

January 18, 2007

The American computer company Apple has reached 78 percent increase in its profits during the last quarter, which ended December 30, 2006. This fact is explained by great demand enjoyed by Apple's iPod digital music players during the Christmas and New Year sales period.

As a result of successful Christmas sales, the very beginning of the financial year marked a double increase of the Apple's sales if compared to the $ 565 million profit reaped during the same period of the last year. The company gained the record-breaking $ 1 billion. The overall annual revenue of the company made up $ 7.1 billion in 2006, having boosted from $5.8 billion in 2005. The company's revenue growth is partially explained by the fact that the laptops produced by Apple are also found among the bestsellers.

Even the Wall Street experts have not broadcasted such remarkable results for the Apple computer company. Apple's results were way ahead of market expectations. Its net profit has made up $1.14 per share, while Wall Street expected just 77 cents.

During the first quarter of the financial year Apple Inc. sold more than 21 million iPod players and about 1.6 million computers - it implies the respective growth of 28% and 50% again compared to the previous year. As soon as the results were announced at the New York Stock Exchange, the shares of the American computer company increased by 5 percent.

It should be mentioned that the stock capital of Apple Inc tripled in 2004, doubled in 2005 and increased by 16 percent in 2006. The steady growth is also due to considerable sales of its iPods and computers.

Last week the company presented the iPhone.

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Europe hit by storms, 45 deaths reported

January 21, 2007

Europe has been hit by fierce wind and storms, with gusts over 150 kilometers per hour reported from the UK to Southern Germany. Most major motorways are blocked/shut due to lorries being overturned by the wind.

Most European Airports, Train and Motorways have been affected. Amsterdam has been cut off, with planes grounded, and the train system from Amsterdam city halted.

Casualties and fatalities
According to the BBC, at least 45 people have been killed so far, with more deaths expected. Reports of numbers currently vary as the damage is assessed.

The casualties were distributed as follows:

 * [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|25px]] United Kingdom: 13 (8 in North West England)
 * [[Image:Flag of Germany.svg|25px]] Germany: 13
 * [[Image:Flag of Ireland.svg|25px]] Ireland: 7 - lost at sea
 * [[Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg|25px]] The Netherlands: 7
 * [[Image:Flag of Poland.svg|25px]] Poland: 6
 * [[Image:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg|25px]] Czech Republic: 4
 * [[Image:Flag of Belgium.svg|25px]] Belgium: 2
 * [[Image:Flag of France.svg|25px]] France: 2
 * [[Image:Flag of Austria.svg|25px]] Austria: 1

United Kingdom
The UK saw a total of eleven casualties, most of them in England. All incidents took place on January 18.
 * The first casualty of the storm was the chief of Birmingham International Airport who was killed around 05:45 GMT when his car windscreen was smashed by a falling branch in Shropshire.
 * In the London district of Kentish Town, a two-year-old boy died in hospital after receiving severe head injuries. These were caused by a wall collapsing onto the boy whilst he was walking with his childminder in the afternoon of January 18.
 * A female lorry driver was killed on the A269 in Yorkshire when her vehicle overturned and was blown into a canal.
 * A male lorry driver, who was a German national, was killed on the A55 in Chester in a similar incident.
 * The front-seat male passenger of a car on the A329 was killed when a branch hit the car near Streatley, Berkshire, the driver was injured.
 * A man was blown into metal shutters at an industrial estate in Manchester and died.
 * In Byley, Cheshire, a man was hit by a tree whilst working on a construction site.
 * An elderly man was killed at Humberside by a collapsing shed.
 * A woman in Stockport was killed when a wall she tried to shelter behind collapsed onto her.
 * In Lancashire, a man was hit by a falling canopy at a petrol station whilst refuelling and later died in hospital.
 * In Woofferton, Shropshire, a lorry driver collided with another vehicle and died on the scene.

Germany
Germany was the country most severely hit by the storm, with 13 casualties as of January 21, 2007. Most deaths occurred on the 18th and 19th of January, though some victims were only injured at first and later died in hospital.
 * In the Munich bourough Milbertshofen, an 18-month old child was severely injured by a patio door that had broken out of its hinges. The child later died in hospital.
 * Near Kirrlach in the state of Baden-Württemberg, a motorist tried to avoid a tree that had fallen onto the road and crashed into an oncoming vehicle. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
 * A 73-year old man was crushed by a barn door in Gersthofen in the district of Augsburg.
 * A fireman was killed in Tönisvorst in North Rhine-Westphalia whilst performing storm cleanup work.
 * A 36-year motorist was killed in Hildesheim by a fallen tree.
 * A motorcycle driver slid under a tree in Essen, dying in hospital on January 21.
 * On the B 55 near Lippstadt, a 23-year woman was killed when her car was hit by a falling birch tree.
 * A man was killed when the gable of a nearby building collapsed in Groß Rodensleben in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.
 * In Strausberg in Brandenburg, a 25-year man crashed into a fallen tree with his car.
 * Near Finnentrop, a man died after not noticing a tree that had fallen onto the road and crashing into it.

The Netherlands
Seven people in the Netherlands were killed as a result of the weather. Two people died when a falling tree hit their car between Arnhem and Ede. A man near Oosterhout was killed in a collision with a truck. A motorcyclist died near Leersum after a collision with a tree, as well as a 17-year old boy on a moped in Sint Oedenrode. An 11-year old boy in Riel was blown in front of a car, which drove over him. The boy died on the scene. A 59-year old man in Staphorst was blown off of the roof of his barn, as he was repairing the damage caused by the storm. Six people were injured when a crane fell through the roof of a Utrecht University building. The National Crisis Centre has advised people to stay indoors, the first time such a warning has been issued.

France
In France, a driving instructor in Roubaix was killed when an electricity pole fell on top of her car. The student was severely injured. A 30-year old man died near Abbeville, when a swerving truck crashed into his car. A woman in Lille is missing after the roof of a store collapsed. There was significant damage to the cathedral at Saint-Omer.

Belgium
Two people in Belgium fell victim to the storm; a 16-year old girl in Halle died when a wall she was standing by collapsed and a man died in the province of Liège after a tree fell on top of his car.

Central and Eastern Europe

In Poland, a crane operator was killed in Katowice when a 25-metre-high (82ft) crane broke in half. By January 19 a total of 6 casualties and 19 people wounded have been reported, nearly 800 thousand households lack electricity due to the damage done by the storm, about 500 were damaged.

In the Czech Republic, a fireman died in Slunečná (Liberec Region) when the wind threw a tree trunk on him while he was clearing the road with his colleagues. Two young men died in Vestec near Prague when a tree fell on their car.


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New search engine to search inside Wikipedia

January 18, 2007

A new search engine that was announced yesterday finds articles and links within the English Wikipedia. Wikiseek, run by a California based startup company called "searchme", is a website which aims to be "A better way to search Wikipedia."

Although most keywords work without problems, Digg users have found search terms that the site does not recognize. If you enter "Chicago" for example, it shows no Wikipedia articles at all, and clicking "Chicago, Illinois" leads to an article on West Chicago, Illinois and other related articles to the subject. Similarly, entering "Christmas", "United States" or "PlayStation 3" only provides links to related articles on Wikipedia, although they are in the top 10 of most viewed articles in the English Wikipedia. Searching "porn" comes up with commercial websites linked from Wikipedia, but not the relevant articles in the free encyclopedia. For most articles however, the relevant Wikipedia article is the first result or among the results.

The site says that "The contents of Wikiseek are restricted to Wikipedia pages and only those sites which are referenced within Wikipedia, making it an authoritative source of information less subject to spam and SEO schemes." The site also offers a Toolbar plugin and a Firefox extension to add a Wikiseek search button inside of Wikipedia pages.

Danny Sullivan at the Search Engine Land blog found Wikiseek's results inferior compared to the results from established search engines. SearchMe CEO Randy Adams stressed that Wikiseek is still in a beta phase. He pointed out that they welcome feedback more than the average search engine, which can be posted on their company wiki.

Searchme put a button on their main page, encouraging beta testers to instantly promote the site on Digg. In August 2006, Digg had half a million registered users.

Some media outlets have reported that Wikiseek was created by either the Wikimedia Foundation which runs Wikipedia, or private corporation Wikia, which hosts a collection of wiki communities. Both rumors are untrue, says Angela Beesley, co-founder of Wikia and chair of the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation. "Wikiseek is an independent project with no affiliation with either Wikia or the Wikimedia Foundation."

The Wikiseek site says they contribute the majority of its revenue from advertisement to the Wikimedia Foundation's fundraising effort.


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Talk:New search engine to search inside Wikipedia

That's the exact quote Angela gave me. -- Zanimum 16:44, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

"Many media outlets have reported that either the Wikimedia Foundation which runs Wikipedia, or private corporation Wikia, which hosts "a collection of communities". Both rumors or untrue, says Angela Beesley, co-founder of Wikia and chair of the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation."

Can someone explain this paragraph to me? It doesn't make sense. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:48, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * fixed. --  Zanimum 16:57, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks! The whole thing makes sense now. ;-) --Brian McNeil / talk 16:59, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Chicago
Actually, if you enter Chicago there is a big link to Chicago, Illinois.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 18:25, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

POV
I don't think a story focussing only on the site's problems is a NPOV angle to this story, which I tried to correct a bit but which probably still can be improved.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 19:30, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree. There are some disturbing POV sentences in this story. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  22:08, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Well please fix them.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 22:08, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

 * The site isn't that bad. When I searched for Stephen Harper, the official Wikipedia article on him was the first result. Anyways, I added this info and other edits to the article to balance out the POV issue. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  22:31, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes well done. You should read the original story posted to get an idea where it comes from...--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 22:35, 18 January 2007 (UTC)


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Talk:UK Celebrity Big Brother loses sponsorship over racism allegations

Show
I download and watch this show at home. I must say that it has gotton very messy in there... DragonFire1024 19:51, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Is this really news???
I fail to see how this is of any great significance or why it should be put on the main page. This is something u see in the scroll across the bottom of a news channel not as the breaking story. someone please take it down, this isnt that huge of news. ratman28 11:57, 19 january 2007

 * It has received a lot of attention here in Europe.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 21:13, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Late edits
Please do not make edits to articles that have been published for more than a day or so. Unless it is to correct spelling or clear grammatical errors. --Brian McNeil / talk 19:14, 6 February 2007 (UTC)


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Iran says it's ready for standoff over nuclear activities

January 18, 2007

Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has stated that his country is prepared to have a standoff with the United States.

The move comes as the U.S. decided to send another aircraft carrier to the Middle East.

According to the U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the USS Stennis was dispatched to the region to "impress on Iran that the four-year war in Iraq has not made America vulnerable."

In response to the deployment of additional troops, Ahmadinejad said that Iran was prepared for any possibility in the standoff with the West over its nuclear activities.

"Today, with the grace of God, we have gone through the arduous passes and we are ready for anything in this path. Their aim is to frighten Iran and weaken the resistance of the Iranian nation but they will not succeed," stated Ahmadinejad.

Iran has stated that its nuclear program is strictly for peaceful purposes, but the United Nations disagrees and imposed limited sanctions on the nation last year.

"Unfortunately, some inside the country try to fabricate news and portray a bad image of the great achievement of the Iranian nation [...] prescribe compromise, repeat the words of the enemy. Of course, this will have no effect," added Ahmadinejad.

Ahmadinejad's announcement comes as Iran announces that the country is prepared to begin the installation of nearly 3,000 centrifuges at its nuclear facility, the Natanz uranium-enrichment complex.

According to an unknown European diplomat, "everything has been prepared for assembling [and installing] the centrifuges at Natanz for the beginning of the industrial phase of enrichment. The hardware is now in place."

Ahmadinejad also said that enrichment of uranium will begin at the Natanz facility "very soon" and "bit by bit."


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Anti-Arab article
There needs to be sources for this article: Arab hatessite sparks massive protests. The sources listed ar nothing and come to advertisement sites. If sources cannot be provided the article will be deleted. Also it seems IMO the site was created to do nothing but vandalize Wikipedia. DragonFire1024 21:26, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Iran says it's ready for standoff over nuclear activities

Sources?
Where are the goddamn sources for this piece? Shouldn't something listed as "breaking news" have atleast one link to another news website?
 * Sorry there was a vandal who removed them. Article is fixed, user was blocked. DragonFire1024 21:17, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Title Typo
Title should be "Iran says it's ready for nuclear standoff."70.106.44.3 22:11, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * its and it's have always confused me (and I'm a stickler!). However, I believe IP is correct, as "its" is progressive, so I assume "it's" is "it is".... Where's (Where IS) the style guide? terinjokes | Talk | Come visit the WikiBistro 22:14, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * It's usually means It is...I changed it :) DragonFire1024 22:15, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

 * It's always means "it is". It is a contraction. --24.147.86.187 03:54, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Title
Anyone else think that "ready for nuclear standoff" reminds too much "ready for standoff with nuclear weapons" instead of "ready for standoff over Iran's (allegedly non-military) nuclear capabilities"? The difference is, I think, huge and I would like to see the title rephrased to avoid unnecessary confusion and possible FUD. 194.157.147.13 23:16, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * No because no where does it say nuclear weapons. Assuming the nuclear program is peaceful, it would not be nuclear weapons. And we cannot assume that there are nuclear weapons. DragonFire1024 23:18, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Exactly, we can't, but a "nuclear standoff" sounds as if there were nuclear weapons, therefore I suggest a more neutral phrasing ("standoff over nuclear capabilities" or similar). 194.157.147.13 23:23, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Well sources have to reflect that new title. We cannot assume they are weapons or programs. Only what the sources say. If a source can be found to neutralize that then I think it can be changed. We don't know the nuclear capabilities of Iran...to say so would be misleading. DragonFire1024 23:27, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, exactly! I don't want to say that Iran has nuclear weapons, I want to make sure that people don't get the impression that Ahmadinejad has stated that Iran is ready for nuclear warfare, when what he has said is that Iran is ready for a standoff over Iran's possibly non-military nuclear capabilities. 194.157.147.13 23:31, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * So, if you don't mind, I'd like to change the title to "Iran says it's ready for standoff over nuclear capabilities", which IMO takes no standing on whether Iran has or has not nuclear weapons, whereas "ready for nuclear standoff" could be interpreted as if there were and the Iranians were ready to use them. 194.157.147.13 23:41, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Well I am glad that you made the unanimous decision to change it...thanks for collaborating (sarcasm). DragonFire1024 23:50, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Geez, man, what happened to "be bold"? Ok. Peace. But do you see my point, and do you mind the change, then?Naphra 23:55, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * The change has to reflect what sources say, not what we THINK. I am not disagreeing with you, but in order for this to be ok, we have to find sources for what we "believe." DragonFire1024 23:57, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't quite follow. What I'm saying is that this is exactly why a wording like "standoff over nuclear capabilities" would be better, because we don't have sources that say that Iran has nuclear weapons and therefore saying "nuclear standoff" is a bit risky because it could be interpreted as if there were those, whereas "standoff over nuclear capabilities" would reflect more our present knowledge, and, more importantly, what Ahmadinejad has said ("ready for any possibility in the standoff over nuclear activities", not "ready for nuclear standoff"). Naphra 00:02, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * If nobody will argue this any further, I'm going to go ahead and rephrase the title to "Iran says it's ready for standoff over nuclear activities" which in my opinion better reflects what actually has been said. Comments? Naphra 00:26, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Nuclear activities sounds good to me. I agree that "nuclear standoff" is misleading.--DCo1 00:28, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Current title is good, some of our established contributors are quite conservative in some respects yet liberal with things like the tab.  On a slightly related topic, if people can highlight articles on the glorious leader of Iran I'll properly categorise them having recently added the category. --Brian McNeil / talk 19:40, 24 January 2007 (UTC)


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Iran article
Please resolve the disagreement on the articles talk page: Iran says it's ready for nuclear standoff before changing. DragonFire1024 23:55, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Please do not violate the WN:3RR. You have currently reverted the article two times. 68.187.187.2 01:29, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Please do not anonymously remind me not to violate something I haven't. Naphra 01:33, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

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