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User talk:FellowWikiNews/Archive 4

Note
OK, it is time for your joking to end. You are potentially offending people, both here in the Wikinews community and the wider readership. What you are doing could be seen as vandalism and you could get blocked from editing Wikinews for it. Be careful and be serious from now on, especially on talk pages like this one.

Hi!
Hi! Please go to User talk:FellowWikiNews/Archive 3 for past discussions. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  18:13, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Ariel Sharon
That article on Ariel Sharon's death is realy in bad taste. That a news body must prepare for anythingin advance may be true, but it is sick how it apears on the main page of the newsroom, as a prepared article. I am not the only one whose found it sick, please do something about it. TownCrier 21:55, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
for sorting out my epidemic of }}} Fentonrobb 21:23, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * No problem. My job is to take care of things on WN. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  21:28, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Terinjokes
terinjokes User Page / Talk 03:57, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Talk:Reactions to the Iraq Study Report
Thanks very much for advice about refreshing the page - I had been doing that for a long time but to no effect. Seems the lack of a verb was the problem. Yet another wikimystery. :-) Fentonrobb 21:22, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

thanks
Thanks for the welcome. As you can probably tell I suck at html, took in college but forgot most if it. I hope I can contribute as much as possible. Free news written by YOU is the most amazing thing I have ever seen. I worked for a newspaper for a couple of years but got tired of reporting and moved to auto mechanics. Maybe wikinews can re-establish the old curiosity gene in me! First things first though. learn about this site. thanks again

Ericb 17:33, 10 December 2006 (UTC)ericb

Wikinews:Administrators.
I did already, please view Special:Recentchanges before posting on my talk page :D (I hope that didn't come out mean, I meant it to sound sarcastic) terinjokes User Page / Talk 22:17, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * No, that did not sound mean. I'm addicted to Recent changes anyways. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  [[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|18px|I am Canadien!]] 22:27, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

No!
Ah FellowWikiNews! I'm sorry if I offended you... speaking I didn't use the official template, nor did I add the categories :D I drank to much carbonated soda a few hours ago, maybe whenever I open a soda, I get an automatic ban! Is that possible within MediaWiki? terinjokes User Page / Talk 22:58, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Drop A Line
Ello, FellowWikiNews! Thought I'd drop a line to see how you were doing. Haven't heard from you in a while. Hope to hear from you soon! Thunderhead (talk) (Check out my RFA test) 23:23, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * You'll have to excuse the slang, but talking on IRC sounds great! I'll be on more often, I hope, but midterms are coming up, and ... ugh. Thunderhead (talk) (Check out my RFA test) 02:00, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Terinjokes's Sincere Apology
Today, December 11th, 2006. I, Terinjokes made a few irrational decisions while sugar high. One of these decision resulted in offending a fellow wikinews user, FellowWikiNews.

After visiting FellowWikiNews's user talk to leave a comment in response to Administrators, i was informed that I had new messages, or so I thought. Turns out I, again, fell pray to FellowWikiNews's practical joke. In a rather dry response, I sarcastically nominated one of FellowWikiNews's user pages for speedy deletion. Despite not using the official template, and removing the categories, I still realise that I broke some Wikinews policies, and breaking the trust of FellowWikiNews. Its the latter that saddens me more.

It takes a long time to gain the trust of a community, and it hurts me to lose the trust of FellowWikiNews. My tasteless joke backfired, destroying the very thing I made the joke upon.

I hope FellowWikiNews excepts my apology, as I prepare for the long road of regaining his trust. I, after breaking policy and vandalising another user's userpage, deserve whatever consequences I've brought against myself. terinjokes User Page / Talk 23:35, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

User:Language123
I can understand possibly blocking the user but the user had zero prior warnings and you indef blocked and protected the user's page- was such an extreme measure necessary? (It might be that I'm just use to the 'pedias where that would be seen as very extreme behavior(I'm still learning the ropes over at wikinews). JoshuaZ 22:54, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I think that its pretty clear that user:Language123 isn't here to contribute to Wikinews. He should stay blocked because he is a vandal. According to our username policy, inflammatory, deliberately confusing, and other inappropriate usernames are not allowed, and in certain circumstances, admins may block accounts with such usernames. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  [[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|18px|I am Canadien!]] 23:23, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

The Wikinews Religion (Wikiisim)

 * I'll bet you anything some guy with nothing to do is going to write a Wikiisim Bible, and it'll be all my fault! Thunderhead - (talk) 03:45, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * At least you'll become famous for creating Wikiisim, the only faith dedicated to Wikiholics!!! — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  [[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|18px|I am Canadien!]] 03:49, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * True, very true. Although these are just random things :P Thunderhead - (talk) 03:51, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * "And He shall profess a faith dedicated to Wikiholics, and deny his fame" Wikiisim 1,888:1,000 — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  [[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|18px|I am Canadien!]] 03:55, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Okay, man, you're getting a little insane now, Thunderhead - (talk) 05:47, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Fellow, you had really 'ought to send the WikiBible to Jimmy, I'm sure he'd get a kick out of starting a religion! Unlogged comment by Thunderhead. To confirm, leave a message here.
 * Ok, I will send the Wikibible to Jimmy Wales, ASAP. Just kidding. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  [[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|18px|I am Canadien!]] 17:06, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but The really reformed church of wikipedia already exsists. - Religion and Wikipedia. Bawolff ☺☻ 06:37, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Use of Canadian flag in signature
Do you realize using the flag in your sig makes making checking appropriate use of the flag more difficult? I'm sure there's other people I should be grumbling to about this for use of country flags, perhaps you could do it on my behalf. --Brian McNeil / talk 19:16, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok, so how about PVJ? He has the Indian flag in his signature and has used the flag in his from the start. Check out the links to Image:Flag_of_India.svg. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  [[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|18px|I am Canadien!]] 23:13, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * In general images in signatures aren't a good thing. The above mentioned issue is a problem but there are other considerations as well. Among a multitude of issues, they slow down talk page loading for people on slower connections, they add to server drain, they are potential targets of vandalism or denial of service attacks (by uploading a different image in place of the one you have in your signature). JoshuaZ 04:05, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Flag fun
When you've worked out a way to put the flag in a sig without messing up the "what links here" can you tell me (and PVJ) what his signature should be. I'll turn that into a search/replace for AWB and fix the problem there (his username/sigs).

Incidentally, you need to consider whether or not this is going to need stuff protected all over the place. What if someone vandalises the template? Won't a change to the template require the refreshing of hundreds of pages? Please have a think about the issues highlighted on Wikipedia's page about signatures, and if you think it should be a open discussion which Brion can be asked for an opinion on then stick it on the water cooler. (Brion would be involved if a template is going to be used in thousands of places and we needed to know what the impact on the servers would be). --Brian McNeil / talk 20:41, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I will not have a flag in my signature. I can't work out a way to fix this problem. Also, will PVJ still be allowed to have a flag in his sig? FellowWikiNews 21:00, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Brian, I see your point. Perhaps we need to protect Template:Archive? Thunderhead - (talk) Congrajulations to Kat! 21:34, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

 * Thanks for the nice Christmas card. Merry Christmas to you too and all the best! — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  18:07, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

 * And thank you for your Christmas card! Thunderhead - (talk) Congrajulations to Kat! 02:21, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Merry Christmas to you too, and a Happy New Year! Zeest(Talk)(Newpages) 06:35, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
Thank you for the card/amusing story, hope you have a good holiday season and a prosperous new year. --Brian McNeil / talk 08:46, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Merry Xmas
My personal message for you can be found here.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 16:27, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Merry Christmas from me too. Bawolff ☺☻ 21:29, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

P.S. Shouldn't santa live in the real noth Pole, not some fake city in the states thats not in the north pole. Bawolff ☺☻ 21:29, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok, I will change it to the North Pole :) — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  21:38, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, FWN. thanks for the neat card. — Doldrums(talk) 06:48, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

RE: Merry Christmas
Thanks for your message. Merry CHristmas and a happy new year to you my friend - Cartman02au (Talk)(AU Portal) 08:36, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Merry Christamas
I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a happy new year for 2007 Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 23:32, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
to you

Jacques Divol

Using wikipedia as a source for logos
You shouldn't use wikipedia as a source for [non-wikipedia] logo's as Wikipedia has a lot of users who don't know what there doing, and half the time the image won't be there tommorow. (Especially if there isn't a source on the image at wikipedia) Bawolff ☺☻ 03:08, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Contest
If you can get hundreds of points in four days then be my guest. Basically, the contest has been over for quite a while, so I figured it'd be best to end it at least a *bit* early. ★ MESSED ROCKER ★  02:23, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Re:Unauthorized Personel Only
You so stole that from me on WY :P Feel free to keep using it though, cause I stole it from someone on Wikipedia! Shhhh! Thunderhead - (talk) Congrajulations to Kat! 05:14, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, you stole my user template and my user talk template :P — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  18:29, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Point taken :) Thunderhead - (talk) Congrajulations to Kat! 20:07, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

User talk:FellowWikiNews
i don´t got fooled by this, which says everything about you. You are very stupid. --Wikineuser 11:47, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

 * And you are a vandal, no? — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  16:37, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Reasons for Litvinenko's conversion to Islam revealed
I have received an email from the author of the article, saying that he wishes to dual-license the work. If you like, I can forward it to you. --Munchkinguy 16:59, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I have put a notice on WN:AAA just to get other admins imput. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  17:06, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

 Sheboygan Teen Talk

Thanks for contacing me about  Sheboygan Teen Talk! Please go to  www.sheboyganteentalk.co.nr and try one time. If it does not work, please email me with your first name and I will help you sign up. Thanks and nice hearing from you...  Asher Heimermann  21:39, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Image:Fallen arches.jpg
It's hardly neutral; it gave me the impression that we get a kick out of McDonalds misfortune.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 12:37, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't like McDonalds anyways :P — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  18:21, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Portal:Vancouver
Whatever, you actually created the Portal:Vancouver, British Columbia after I created the Portal:Vancouver and just copied the content over. The Category wouldn't have made a difference since the Portal:Vancouver already imports from the category. Mkdw 03:31, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome and the patience with my newbieness
I appreciate it. :-) -Fsotrain09 20:07, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

 * No problem :-) I used to be a newbie too. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  20:53, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Happy (Gregorian) 2007!
Hi! Thanks...  Amgine | sw 02:26, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * It's a big world, big ocean, big bay, and then there is Annapolis, Maryland. Go to Baltimore's Inner Harbour, more people and more lights. -Edbrown05 03:04, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Re:User:Troll King
Yes, I saw that article, but I am of the opinion that his name is a violation of WN:U. PVJ(Talk)(Newpages) 08:35, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

I'd appreciate your feedback...
...on my latest post on WN:AW.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 13:03, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you!--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 21:57, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Imposter
YES! Awesome! *Thunderhead breaks into a strange dance* Thunderhead - (talk) Congrajulations to Kat! 23:03, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * LOL. I have been impersonated three times on WN. It makes me feel flattered that someone acctually wants to impersonate me... — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  00:27, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

"Jimbo Wales"
I'm not so sure, that was a talk-page post, not a national TV-show! "LOL" indeed 68.39.174.238 22:54, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

New idea for community goings-on
Hi, (I hope you don't mind this general message, I'm just randomly contacting people from my talk page)

I've had an idea after reading User:Kinnerc/WhereToWikinews? that might make people more aware of what's currently going on on this site, what discussions are being held, where help is needed etc. I've designed a little signpost-like box that I would like to introduce as a newsletter to post on user talk pages. Of course, the majority is copied from the Newsroom, which I think people don't visit often enough. Oh yeah, and the title should probably change :-D

I would appreciate some feedback on the idea, and also I'm interested to know if you would subscribe to such a newsletter. Please go to User_talk:Stevenfruitsmaak/Goings-on.

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 19:47, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

The Fruitsmaak Goings-on Selection
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Wikinews community

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Collaboration requests
Post new request  category=Ready addfirstcategorydate=false count=25 suppresserrors=true namespace=Main   category=Stub addfirstcategorydate=false count=25 suppresserrors=true namespace=Main   category=News with items needing expansion addfirstcategorydate=false count=25 suppresserrors=true namespace=Main
 * International interviews/poll on climate warming

Flagged discussions
 category=Flag suppresserrors=true
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Adding content from Wikipedia
Oh, I forgot. How silly of me. --Munchkinguy 01:58, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * That's okay. I didn't know that until I asked User:Bawolff. He knows alot about copyrights, etc :) — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  02:01, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Any other changes you would like to make before the article is published? --Munchkinguy 02:05, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't think it would hurt to publish. Interesting story... — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  02:07, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

CBS blog criticizes stations' coverage of Tigger incident
BTW, thanks for "We are not allowed to change original quotes on Wikinews." That's hilarious. -- Zanimum 18:16, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Huh? I don't understand. How is it hilarious? — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  20:13, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I just found it amusing that you were defending my transcription. I transcribed it from a video that, indeed, they did use lazy slang in. It's just interesting to see people defending my choice to quote them using the improper English they used. I don't know, it was just a half-second grin that I ended up posting about on your talk page. -- Zanimum 15:50, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  21:11, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:Eag

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

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! --Brian McNeil / talk 19:58, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
 * Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced
 * Introduction - overview of the site
 * Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
 * Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * If you're interested in audio recordings, Audio Wikinews could always use more contributers
 * And of course, stories need writing!

PCR story
I don't see why you are editing this story further: it needs to be cleaned up in the form of a news story. It has to change radically in order to get published.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 23:40, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Inappropriate stories
If you don't feel you can make a story work you can nominate it for deletion by putting on it and filling out the appropriate entry on deletion requests. Otherwise the story will just be deleted as abandoned. The alternative is you try and make it into a story by finding more than one source and chopping it back to 2-3 paragraphs that assume no knowledge by the reader, this point is probably where you've gone wrong in your initial effort. --Brian McNeil / talk 17:19, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry to see us lose a story, but I'm much happier to see a contributor who has some sympathy for the editorial process. Hopefully you can bring news to the site in the future. --Brian McNeil / talk 19:58, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Interview
Please read my response on this page: Request_an_interview.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 21:31, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: PREXEL-Q
Dear Jack,

I'm leaving for the Easter Holidays, so unfortunately I won't have the time right now... I'll post it on the Requested Interviews section.

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 14:21, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

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Wikinews:Briefs/January 14, 2007

The time is 6:21 PM (ET) (23:21 UTC) on Sunday January 14, 2007, and this is Audio Wikinews News Briefs.

Toxic wetlands may be cause of thousands of bird deaths in Western Australia
Australia

Western Australian government authorities say they believe a toxin may be responsible for the recent mystery deaths of an estimated 5,000 dead birds found around Esperance - on the state's south eastern coastline.

New Zealand Green party rates other parties on climate change policies
New Zealand

The Green party of New Zealand has ranked other political parties in New Zealand based on their policies and action taken on climate change. The results were announced at a Greens picnic today by co-leader, Doctor Russel Norman at his State of the Planet speech.

Serial killer on the loose in Mumbai
India

The serial killer stalking Mumbai's streets claimed another victim last night. A senior police official said that they had found food at the crime scene, indicating that the victim had been offered food before being killed.

Closing statements
We invite you to visit wikinews.org for more details on these and other news reports. This has been Audio Wikinews Newsbriefs. Thank you for listening, and enjoy the rest of your day.

This recording has been released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.

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User talk:WikiLeon

Welcome to WikiLeon's talk page at Wikinews

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User talk:Robink~enwikinews

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

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome!
 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
 * Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced
 * Introduction - overview of the site
 * Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
 * Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * And of course, stories need writing!

Additionally, thanks for experimenting with Wikinews. Your test worked, and has now been reverted or removed. Please use Sandbox for any other tests you want to do, since testing in articles will be reverted quickly. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  01:25, 15 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 Robink. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Robink~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 23:25, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:36, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

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User:FellowWikiNews/Guestbook

''Autographs. I'd appreciate it if you sign below. I always like to know if someone's reading my user page. Leave a comment, if you want. But please remember to be nice :)''

 * 1) Yay! I am the first person to sign this page! — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  01:59, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Sure. --Thunderhead - (talk) Congrajulations to Kat! 00:01, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) This page is too wide for my browser and I have to scroll it. ;-) --Brian McNeil / talk 18:44, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Yes. I have the same problem in IE :)  — F  e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  23:35, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) Fourth... oh, the misery. ThirdEchelon 06:31, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 6) Do I get a prize? Neebs 15:41, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 7) Hello! Kamope (talk) 13:16, 23 February 2007 (UTC) update on sig>>>>>  Kamope  talk
 * 8) Please sign my guest book. Qmwnebrvtcyxuz  16:09, 3 March 2007
 * 9) Ha! I reverted a vandalism to your Guestbook. Good to meet you. 69.138.202.79 13:59, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 10) Best userpage I have yet to see. Herb 23:51, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 11) Signed Terra What do you want? 19:22, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

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User talk:202.72.153.92

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

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome!
 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
 * Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced
 * Introduction - overview of the site
 * Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
 * Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * And of course, stories need writing!

Additionally, thanks for experimenting with Wikinews. Your test worked, and has now been reverted or removed. Please use Sandbox for any other tests you want to do, since testing in articles will be reverted quickly. Bawolff -)(-: 03:02, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

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 Welcome To My Talk Page Click Here To Leave me A Message.

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New Zealand Commerce Commission investigating Australian company

January 15, 2007

The New Zealand Commerce Commission is investigating Australian-based lottery competition company, TMG Asia Pacific Pty Limited, under alleged breaches of the Fair Trading Act after quite a few text-based lottery competitions have been running on New Zealand television.

To enter the competitions, the entrants must answer a simple question and then text the answer to a special text number, 8555. The competitions are shown during advertisements on New Zealand television stations, and include possible prizes of televisions, game consoles, exercise equipment, and more.

The Commerce Commission said that they have received around 180 complaints regarding the text competitions and the charges they incur on their mobile phones. The charges are when a person texts the correct answer to 8555 they are agreeing to sign up to their subscription based services which charges them NZ$3 for each text message received. A maximum of $15 is charged a month unless the special keyword to stop receiving text messages: STOP is texted. The Commerce Commission said that the complaints reflect that the entrants do not know about the subscription, even though the advertisements briefly state in fine print that the competition is a subscription competition, how much a received text costs, etc at the bottom of the ad.

An employee of TMG Asia Pacific Pty Limited questioned about the subscription charges claimed that the majority of the charge for each text message sent to competition entrants goes to Telecom New Zealand, and a fraction is paid to them.

The director of Fair Trading for the Commerce Commission, Deborah Battell, said: "[180 complaints] is an exceptionally high number of complaints for a single issue."

"The Commerce Commission is investigating whether the disclosure of the terms and conditions of these promotions was adequate," Ms Battell said.

In November of 2006 the Commerce Commission had contacted TMG Asia Pacific to discuss their concerns over their promotions. Ms Battell said: "The company has been made well aware of our concerns. The Commission has now asked the company to respond by 4pm, Thursday, 18 January 2007."


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Comments:New Zealand Commerce Commission investigating Australian company

Stupid
All those 180 people are in my opinion, stupid. I have seen all these ads and on every single one of them it states that it is subscription service, how much it will cost (including the maximum cost), provide a website and more. The message at the bottom of the ad can be read many, many times before it disappears. So there is no excuse. --Nzgabriel | Talk 06:31, 15 January 2007 (UTC)


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User talk:PVJ59/Archive 3

Glad to see you back
Good to see you listened to people and came back as a contributor. Wiki is addictive, to feed the addiction you've got to make some choices on how you interact with other people. I fully expect you to be looking to introduce the non-recognition of Israel issue into articles, what I'm hoping is that you can be critical of whether or not it is appropriate before you bring it to the community.

For your self-imposed admin probation I can try to look to help out as our timezones are closer than yours and most of the US-based contributors. However, I'm on a big work project at the moment so if you do shoot something at me on my talk it might not get a quick response. --Brian McNeil / talk 19:34, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Welcome back, I'm glad you decided to stay, hope to see you around! --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 01:07, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

 * We missed you, man! Hope you decide to stay with us for the duration! I, too, am also at work on a big project for school, so it'll take a while on my talk page. Thunderhead (talk) 01:14, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks guys. PVJ(Talk)(Articles I have written) 05:15, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

DD News and further contributions from my side
Hello PVJ59, welcome back to the portal. Thanks for your comments. They made me more clear that we could not copy paste the material directly here from DD News site. I have mailed regarding it to DD. I am still waiting for their reply. Probably they would deny to reproduce the material as well. I will collect many of the resources before publishing any news here. Could you explain me what India Main Digest is available for on India WikiBureau? Regards, Shyam  ( T / C ) 11:35, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Template:Unblock
Hey, I wanted to let you know that I filled your request for an unblocking template that you made on WN:WC. It's at Template:Unblock. Let me know if you like it. I adapted it to WN from WP. Thunderhead (talk) 23:22, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * No problem. I actually made it a while back. (Well, technically speaking, I stole it from Wikipedia and edited it [a little...]). Glad you enjoyed it Thunderhead (talk) 01:29, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Since you archived your RFDA...
...does that mean you've resigned? —     23:54, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

White male
You can be sure that I'd plaster "white Italian-American male" across the title of another rape article if that info was brought to my attention. Now it may very well be that the Jerusalem Post would never have brught the ethnicity to my attention if it had been Israeli men doing it. I donno.

Ethnicity is a sensitive subject, but one must be able to refer to it. Using the plural form of an ethnicity makes a generalization, which is why I eliminated from the original title. A singular form does not read that way.

Now there is a place for "affirmative action" where you actively try to counter other people's biases, like say of the Jerusalem Post here. But affirmative action is mostly about assessing the results of side efforts & maintaining knowledge of the problem.

For example, a buisness using affirmative action will not simply higher a woman instead of a man beacuse they assume that his letters of recommendation are unfairly more exaggerated.. even though this is very often true! What the buisness instead does is measure its highering & promotion rate realitive to applicant pool. And make extra sure that you place job ads in places where women will see them.

Why would one limit ones correction like this? Simple because it'll blow back in your face otherwise! Heck consrvatives will try like hell to characterize even this "maintaining knowledge of the problem" as reverse discrimination.

Anyway, here you mostly just ran up against a subject which is a little sensitive to me, my step mom works at a rape crisis center. Nyarlathotep 15:22, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

And if you have an doubts about my polotics, I suggest you look at [Top U.S. military officer recommends removing all troops from Baghdad] and note the one wikilinked word in that article. Nyarlathotep 15:31, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Arab as a slur
How exactly is "Arab" an ethnic slur if it's the commonly accepted name of a group of people? Or was the label being used inappropriately? —     01:24, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

I think if the word is used in a negative context it can be considered an ethnic slur. It would depend on the context the word was used in.--Shaoken 00:21, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Article standards
Hi,

Can I ask you to work on 2 things that I have to pick up in archiving. First is sources, you're guilty of writing a lot of articles with a single source. There are potential copyright issues when a single source is used, can you try and get 2 for all articles as a minimum?

Second is date format. The wikinews standard is Month, Daynumber Year. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:53, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Talking about date standards, We have a template that automaticlly formats the date based on user preferences in special:preferences, Do we want to use it? seems like a better solotion to me. Bawolff ☺☻ 05:05, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Interesting article
Not sure what to make of this. Nyarlathotep 14:07, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the change to the article. I am new here ^_^ Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington 13:24, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

RE: RFAtest
Thanks for supporting my RFA test, but what do you mean by I might not have to wait until February? Thunderhead (talk) (Check out my RFA test) 04:50, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

DU
Depleted uranium isn't a weapon of mass distruction by any streach of the imagination. Both it and plutonium are about as poisonous as lead or other heavey metals (afaik, all heavey metals are unhealthy). Depleted uranium is worse than normal lead because its also soewhat radioactive, but its not *that* bad. Heck, the French were still putting depleted uranium in paint until surprisingly recently (another thing your not supposed to do with lead). DU just one more pollutant which ought to be avoided. Nyarlathotep 00:39, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Israel Existence Map
Noticed you put that map on the article about the UN calling on Israel and Palestine to put an end to the violence. First off, no one else here supports that map being anywhere on the site, and second the map had no reason to be there. The arab parties involved have their perspectives already pointed out.

Now I don't what to sound rude or anything, but it seems like you are attempting to force this issue even when it's clear that no one else supports it. Everyone here knows about your... views on Israel and it's right to exist, but if you keep doing things like this you'll only fuel the idoits who bash you.

I have one suggestion, which is that you don't work on stories involving Israel. While every article you've done on Israel has been NPOV, you personal views create a conflict of interest. That's one of the basics of journalism. But if you don't want to then I'll drop the subject.--Shaoken 08:46, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Adminship thanks
Hi there! I'd like to thank you for your support to become an admin, it's greatly appreciated! -- Zanimum 14:28, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the award
Hi PVJ, I am very thankful to you for awarding me. I will try to cover featured stories related to India. Regards, Shyam  ( T / C ) 08:18, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Inaccurate headline "Four dead, most without power in Washington, US after Northwest storm"
Hi, I saw that you were the one who changed the title of Four dead, most without power in Washington, US after Northwest storm away from the previous one. The new title is completely inaccurate. Please see my comments at the talk page. 24.20.181.30 08:09, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * renamed it twice! good now me believing. -Edbrown05 08:39, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

copyrights of Indian goverment works
hi, i see u uploaded the 1971 War surrender photograph as a "work of the Indian government, [...] is in the public domain". while government work => released to public domain holds for the US, it does not always hold in all countries, such as the UK. according to the HAND BOOK OF COPYRIGHT LAW published by the Indian HRD ministry, governments works are by default copyrighted by the government. as i understand, this means they are not in the public domain, but i think a good deal of latitude in fair use may be available. cld u pls check with someone who's knowledgable about copyright issues (Bawolff springs to mind) regarding this. i know that the pic is on WP and tagged as PD, but the 'pedia uploader can get it wrong too, on occassion! thnx & reg, — Doldrums(talk) 07:46, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * no probs. incidentally, u may not get much help from the RTI act. as its name suggests, RTI makes publicly available information possessed the governments, does not necessarily mean that we can reproduce or republish works produced by the government. — Doldrums(talk) 10:01, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * WP discussion about this. — Doldrums(talk) 10:16, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Signature
We have a slight problem with your signature. See here and be sure to follow the link over to wikipedia's policy on signatures.

The basic upshoot is that if someone vandalises that image every instance of your signature will be vandalised, and there will be a huge surge in database activity to update every page where you've signed.

Sorry, I'll try and bring this issue to the water cooler when I finally finish up work, we need a sig policy. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:13, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

image:1971_surrender.jpg
Just a reminder that images should have appropriate copyright tags on them. Bawolff ☺☻ 01:16, 22 December 2006 (UTC) Ignore that last statement. Apearently the copyright on it's fairly complex. Bawolff ☺☻ 21:31, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Ping
Edbrown05 09:25, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas! Wishing you all the best for the forthcoming year. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:18, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Your name
I noticed you have been signing your posts with Zeest. Would you like me to rename your account?--Cspurrier 04:25, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

User:Troll King
This user created Australian 1976 Cabinet papers released which was not (imo) vandalism. Why did you block him infin? — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  18:31, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

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Bollywood stars Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan engaged

January 15, 2007

Legendary Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan has confirmed that his son Abhishek and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai were engaged last evening at a private ceremony at the Bachchans' residence in Mumbai.

It is believed that the younger Bachchan proposed to his bride-to-be in New York, soon after the Toronto premiere of his new movie Guru. The media had been following the romance between the two closely for some time past, but this is the first time they have come out in the open about their relationship. Rumours that the couple were planning to spread the know began to spread in November last year, when they visited the Sankat Mochan Temple together, with some even saying that they had already been married even earlier at the Meenakshi temple in Madurai

According to one daily, the wedding will take place either on February 19 or March 7 at the Hyatt Mumbai. "The children have decided. We are very happy and thought we should go ahead with the ‘roka’ ceremony. It was held in the evening.", Amitabh Bachchan said of the ceremony, which was attended by the family's close friends, including Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh, Aishwarya's parents, and industrialist Anil Ambani and the latter's wife Tina Ambani. The couple have now flown to Ujjain to take a holy dip in the Ganga.


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Internet pirates want their own nation

January 15, 2007

The Pirate Bay, a file-sharing website based in Sweden, seeks to purchase its own island nation in an attempt to escape copyright laws. A group of people has launched a campaign to collect money via the Internet to acquire a former British sea platform situated in the North Sea, six miles (9.6 kilometers) off the British coast.

The Pirate Bay states that the platform, named Sealand, will give users an easy way of sharing files protected by copyright in other nations. According to the statement made on the website, those who invest in purchasing Sealand will receive citizenship in it.

The platform was occupied in 1967 by the associates and family members of Paddy Roy Bates, a former radio broadcaster and former British Army Major, who now form its royal family. Prince Roy and Princess Joan Bates and their son Prince Regent Michael are willing to sell the platform for £65m. The royal family claims that it is independent and outside of any country's jurisdiction.

The sovereign status of the platform is disputed. The Government of the United Kingdom extended the territorial waters from 3 to 12 nautical miles after 1987, placing Sealand in its jurisdiction. However, Prince Roy simultaneously expanded the territory of Sealand and claimed continued independence. (See Sealand on Wikipedia.)

Hired estate agents from Spain estimate the price of the floating island to be about 504 million pounds. The Swedish website mentioned that it was looking for alternatives to acquire Sealand. It also mentioned that if the "Internet-pirate" community is not able to buy Sealand, it will look for another small place to claim as its own.

The Pirate Bay website was closed for some time in May 2006 due to Swedish police raids. The site was later re-opened from the Netherlands before moving back to Sweden.

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Comments:Next Tigger story, so far without a title or clear purpose

Are we done with the Tigger attack yet?
Is the Tigger story really newsworthy folks? Is it even news at this point?


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Talk:Bollywood stars Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan engaged

This doesn't seem to meet noteriety to be here. Certainly not to be the featured article.--209.214.33.102 19:09, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Let me take a guess...because it's not about Western celebrities?--195.229.242.86 12:28, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I suppose I do sound a litte Western-centric, don't I? I really don't care about celebrities in general. A little too gossip-magazine for me, eh. I guess it's okay to have, but I'd have something more political as the featured story.--67.72.98.105 (same person, different computer) 03:20, 17 January 2007 (UTC)


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User:Fuhghettaboutit

I am an administrator on the English Wikipedia and make the occasional edit here.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger to visit Canada

January 15, 2007

Arnold Schwarzenegger, best known for his role in The Terminator and being the Govenor of California (which earned him the nickname The Governator), has been invited by the Prime Minister's Office to visit Canada.

Schwarzenegger is reported to have higher expectations for reducing greenhouse gas emissions than Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

"I hope it means they are serious about taking the kind of actions that Arnold Schwarzenegger is taking in California on climate change," said Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May.

Environment minister John Baird said he and the Canadian government are concerned about the climate.

"We're concerned about the huge climate change challenges," said Baird. "The erratic weather we've had this winter is a huge wake-up call."

The Canadian PM and "The Governator" first met when they went to Mexico for the inauguration of Felipe Calderón, the president of Mexico.

No date has been set as to when the meeting will happen.

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Hydrofoil collides with cargo ship near Sicily

January 15, 2007

A hydrofoil and a cargo ship have entered into collision this evening, at around 18:15 Italian local time (17:15 UTC) near the harbor of Messina, Sicily, Italy.

The hydrofoil, named "Segesta jet", was doing a regular passenger service from Reggio Calabria to Messina, carrying 151 passengers and 6 crew members.

The cargo ship is reported to be the "Susan Borchard", registered in Antigua and Barbuda.

The number of people dead or injured is not currently established, but during the night the number of fatalities rose to 4.


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Saddam's co-defendant decapitated while being hanged

January 15, 2007

Saddam Hussein's half brother and former chief of the Iraqi secret police, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, along with the former chief judge of the revolutionary court, Awad Hamad al-Bandar were hanged today in Baghdad at approximately 3:00 a.m. local time for their role in the 1982 killing of 148 Shiite Muslims in the village of Dujail.

Although efforts were taken to prevent a repeat of the controversy surrounding the perceived impropriety that followed the cellphone video of last week's execution of Saddam Hussein, including confiscation of reporters' cellphones and requiring all individuals present to sign a statement that they would not engage in Shiite chants and taunting, outrage is already being heard from many quarters over an apparent miscalculation by the executioner resulting in al-Tikriti's decapitation by the noose.

Shaken by the mishap, officials waited seven hours before announcing the execution and waited another six before showing to reporters a three minute official video of the hangings, who were told that it would not be shown again.


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User talk:216.8.14.89

Hello,

Your recent contributions constitute vandalism and have been reverted. Should you believe that your contributions are *not* vandalism, please argue your case on your talk page, or in WN:ALERT.

Further vandalism will result in a 24 hour ban. Please contribute to Wikinews in a constructive fashion instead. PVJ(Talk)(Newpages) 04:35, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

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New Zealand's threatened species list updated

January 16, 2007

The publication titled New Zealand Threat Classification System list was updated today and replaces the first edition done in October, 2002.

In the new publication the New Zealand Department of Conservation updates the classification of 5819 plants and animals native to New Zealand. Around half of those 5,819 plants and animals are listed as threatened and the rest require more data to determine if they are threatened. 44 of those have had a significant change in their status, this is mainly thought to be because of more data available on their species.

The new list will be used to help the threatened plants and animals in the future and prioritise which are the most in danger.

Honourable Chris Carter, minister of conservation, said: "While New Zealand has shown the world that we are world leaders in habitat restoration and pest eradication, we must not become complacent. Human-induced threats and the introduction of predators and pests continue to plague our native species."

The list is used by many people who want to help conserve New Zealand's wildlife, and help reduce the risk of extinction to any of New Zealand's native species of animals and plants.

Hon Carter said: "This list is an important tool used to guide the Department of Conservation and other organisations which focus on species conservation."


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article is copyvio?
First off, we really appreciate your contribution.

But sometimes users submit an article from somewhere else, not realizing that Wikinews cannot keep copy-and-paste versions of articles which are published elsewhere under a restrictive copyright. An article created in this way is a copyright violation, and Wikinews policy is to erase these even if they are excellent article ideas.

Another problem which sometimes comes up is press releases: Press releases are sometimes excellent sources, but they do not qualify as unbiased news articles so they can't be published as they are. Two key things to remember about press releases is that they're usually written to represent the viewpoint of an involved party (Thus likely running foul of our Neutral Point of View policy). And second, they are generally covered by copyright which can conflict with our open editing approach.

A better way to get an article on an exciting subject published here is to write an original article following the guidelines described in writing an article, or to write a brief explanation of the subject and include the url address of articles or websites to use as sources. If you are part of the story that the article is about, you may also wish to consider requesting an interview rather than writing the article yourself.

Thanks again! — Doldrums(talk) 15:23, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Internet pirates want their own nation

What an incredibly stupid idea! Legislation can be purchased for far far less. Nyarlathotep 12:35, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Not to mention it will simply be attacked. 166.127.1.200 13:54, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Not really possible
According to Google, 504 000 000 British pounds = 982.5984 million U.S. dollars. Somehow I don't see The Pirate Bay scraping up $1 Billion any time soon.
 * Acording to FreeNation, they are loooking for cheaper alternatives. Bawolff -)(-: 02:07, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

doesn't look like this article is written up to the wikipedia standard.
 * Of course this is Wikinews. Improve it then!--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 17:12, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Once they get the island...
Can I smoke crack there?
 * I don't think Prince Roy has outlawed it, and I don't think the new owners will either... ★ MESSED  ROCKER ★  02:54, 17 January 2007 (UTC)


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Victoria power grid collapses due to spot fires

January 16, 2007

Large parts of Victoria were hit with power outages after bushfires near Benalla knocked out power transmission lines connecting the state to the national electricity grid at approximately 4:00 p.m. local time. Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo were all affected.

Paul Price from the national electricity grid supervisor NEMMCO said that today set an all-time record for electricity demand.

Emma Daniell, from the power supplier SP AusNet said the result of the fires "prompted an automatic load reduction system to kick in, reducing power supply to customers". These rolling blackouts are occurring across the surrounding suburbs lasting one hour a time.

The blackout affected about 200,000 homes, 1,200 traffic lights and "mobile base stations". Trains and trams were reduced to a crawl, with buses replacing trains between Essendon and Kensington railway stations, and on the Werribee loop.

Geelong was the region worst affected, with the entire city losing power from 4 p.m. Power was restored to the central business district area shortly after 5 p.m., however many parts of the city were not restored until 8 p.m.

The Australian Open tennis tournament was not affected.


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Portal talk:Australia/Workspace

Hi, I have started an article "Victoria power grid collapses due to spot fires" (my first), and would love some help with editing and process. Please let me know if I have done anything wrong, or could do anything better. Jayvdb 13:18, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Cisco sues Apple for iPhone trademark

note that Apple's device is not iPhone, but IPhone.

another device was copyrighted years ago called the iPhone.

 * That's not what Wikipedia is saying...--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 14:56, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

editprotected There is a minor misprint: "fill" should be "file" in the text "This became the reason for Cisco to fill a lawsuit ..." . Thanks JordanSamuels - (talk) 13:14, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ thanks! (→ Zachary ) 14:21, 10 April 2008 (UTC)


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Screenshot licensing
Fair use rationale:
 * Impossible to illustrate the telephone without displaying the copyrighted elements of it.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 12:21, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

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Google and Yahoo remain on the top of the U.S. web search market

January 16, 2007 At present day Google Inc. holds the leading position on the U.S. Web search market. With the gain of 0.4 percent reached in December, its share of the market has increased to 47.4 percent. Yahoo Inc. follows Google in second position - as stated by a Monday survey, it has also ranked higher.

According to comScore Networks Inc., a firm dealing with Web audience measurement, Microsoft Corp. is in third place. However, its share decreased 0.5 percent to 10.5 percent of Web searches performed by American users. The slight decline has also been suffered by Ask.com's share - it diminished by 0.1 percent to reach 5.4 percent.

The United States has been named by the comScore Networks Inc. the largest Internet market in the world. Google's share of the U.S. Web search market has continuously grown during the recent period of over a year. As for Yahoo, its share of the market became 0.3 percent higher, having reached 28.5 percent in December compared to November, as marked by the survey.

U.S. Web users carried 6.7 billion searches in December - that means from November the overall number of searches increased by 1 percent. Since December, 2005 the number of U.S. Web searches has become 30 percent higher - 3.2 billion searches were conducted by web users on Google sites and 1.9 billion searches on Yahoo.


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User talk:Aranews

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Clashes in central Bolivian city kills two

January 16, 2007

Fighting broke out between rioters and civil defense groups in the central Bolivian city of Cochabamba on Thursday, January 11 leaving 2 dead and 240 injured.

Coca farmers backing the government of president Evo Morales attacked government buildings and set fire to part of the local government offices in Cochabamba.

The rioters were demanding the resignation of the state governor - a critic of president Morales who supported a move to give Bolivia's states greater autonomy.

Opposition political parties have demanded an investigation into allegations that president Morales' ally, senator Leonilda Zurita, delivered supplies to the demonstrators who have laid siege to the local government building.


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User talk:John Vandenberg

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Fair Use (respnse to your comment on talk page)
This is not legal advice but I would say that any more that one (maybe two) page(s) of the document being copied could be considered a copyvio. It depends how you use it as well. If you posted a small part of the document as part of a news article it would probably be OK, while if you just posted one paragraph on the internet randomyly it would not be OK,  --A101 - (talk) 07:33, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

 * Thanks. I will be trying to report extensively on the content therein.  I'm OK with the legal aspects; im more concerned about policy and practise here on Wikinews, as I have very little experience here. John Vandenberg - (talk) 10:20, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Rename
Your rename is done. I think you'll need to re-unify under the new name. --Brian McNeil / talk 08:53, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Market Data bot
Hi, thanks for the advice. I've changed the code to include the template documentation ;). About the code, is in a project at google code and runs in Toolserver. I have a poor style of coding in Python (such as my english level), but the bot runs OK :P. If you are interested, I can send you the link with it... =). Thanks again ;) Superzerocool 13:16, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I would like to see the code; someone else has a similar bot for a different set of data. If we three put our code together, I think we can make a good skeleton bot and check it into pywikipedia.  Then we can each have small bots which are subclasses of the core bot. John Vandenberg (talk) 16:57, 21 March 2011 (UTC) My python and English is good, but my perl and Spanish is not so good.

Raw Opals spend week preparing for London Games
If Raw Opals spend week preparing for London Games is the article that Irenah is counting as having written (which pizero, myself and u9of99 both worked extensively on) with out having come back to write anything else, when coupled with the huge amount of assistance she has received for w:Ellie Cole on the GA level to the point where I don't think you can say she wrote it herself and with the EXTREMELY late submission for the GA that required a major cue jump on an article really not ready for nominating at the time, I will be very disappointed. I sincerely hope this is not the case, and that the Opals article and Ellie Cole are not counting for her eligibility. She can't write GAs with out help, and she has yet to demonstrate she can write Wikinews. She hasn't demonstrated that she is will continue to contribute to Wikinews or Wikipedia following this. She hasn't demonstrated that she will be able to go to London and write. u9of99 and Aussielibrarian have demonstrated a much stronger commitment to both projects and a better ability to contribute to both projects. If you're dead set on sending her above one or both of those guys, I would hope it would be made crystal clear to her that she needs to spend as much of her free time learning to contribute to Wikinews as she can by doing OR and more OR and more OR on English Wikinews so she can actually contribute when she gets to London. --LauraHale (talk) 11:23, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

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Wikinews:Briefs/January 16, 2007

The time is 16:30 (UTC) on Tuesday January 16, 2007, and this is Audio Wikinews News Briefs.

Saddam's co-defendant decapitated while being hanged
In Baghdad, Saddam Hussein's half brother and former chief of the Iraqi secret police, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, along with the former chief judge of the revolutionary court, Awad Hamad al-Bandar were hanged yesterday at approximately 3:00 a.m. local time for their role in the 1982 killing of 148 Shiite Muslims in the village of Dujail.

Although efforts were taken to prevent a repeat of the controversy surrounding the perceived impropriety that followed the cellphone video of last week's execution of Saddam Hussein, including confiscation of reporters' cellphones and requiring all individuals present to sign a statement that they would not engage in Shiite chants and taunting, outrage is already being heard from many quarters over an apparent miscalculation by the executioner resulting in al-Tikriti's decapitation by the noose.

Hydrofoil collides with cargo ship near Sicily
A hydrofoil and a cargo ship have entered into collision last evening, at around 18:15 Italian local time (17:15 UTC) near the harbor of Messina, Sicily, Italy. The number of people dead or injured is not currently established, but during the night the number of fatalities rose to 4.

Bollywood stars Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan engaged
In Mumbai, legendary Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan has confirmed that his son Abhishek and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai were engaged last evening at a private ceremony at the Bachchans' residence.

Arnold Schwarzenegger to visit Canada
Govenor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger, best known for his role in The Terminator, has been invited by the Prime Minister's Office of Canada to visit the country. Schwarzenegger is reported to have higher expectations for reducing greenhouse gas emissions than Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Internet pirates want their own nation
The Pirate Bay, a file-sharing website situated in Sweden, looks forward to purchasing Sealand, which is a former British sea platform situated in the North Sea. This way, the website wants to escape international copyright laws. The platform claims to be independent and outside of any country's jurisdiction.

Closing statements
We invite you to visit wikinews.org for more details on these and other news reports. This has been Audio Wikinews Newsbriefs. Thank you for listening, and enjoy the rest of your day.

This recording has been released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.

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Bravitude and Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation on the main French TV network

January 17, 2007

The newly elected Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation scheduled talk on the main French TV was met with questions about a last minute deletion of the entry for bravitude, (a neologism used by Ségolène Royal, the French socialist presidential candidate and commonly heard in the French media). It was deleted from the French version of Wikipedia not long prior to the televised appearance by Devouard. The decision to delete the entry apparently perplexed the anchor commentator, who judged the term was currently noteworthy and felt his view was shared by many Frenchmen today.

Chair Nibart-Devouard then explained that since Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers, its articles can be and are edited by almost anyone with access to the Web site. Therefore any article, including one on bravitude, can be added to this Wiki encyclopedia... but the article can be modified or even deleted if the verification process leads to a consensus to do so.

One might speculate whether the French media interest in the French Wikipedia's deletion of the term bravitude will result in sufficient discussion to warrant this neologism being restored to the French Wikipedia.


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Talk:Victoria power grid collapses due to spot fires

Merging
I have added information from Victoria power grid collapses due to spot fires to this article. I have also included the sources as well. Rob 17:04, 16 January 2007 (UTC)


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Talk:Victorian power infrastructure hit by bushfires

Merging
I have merged the information from here with the primary story. Rob 17:05, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * redirected to Victoria power grid collapses due to spot fires. — Doldrums(talk) 17:49, 16 January 2007 (UTC)


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String of church fires in Greenville, NC cause concern

January 16, 2007

Numerous city, state, and federal agencies are involved in the investigation of a recent string of church fires this past weekend in the city of Greenville, North Carolina, U.S.A.

A police spokesman said two Baptist churches were believed to be set on fire and a third was broken into this past weekend. Damages are estimated to be over US$1,000,000.

City of Greenville Police, Greenville Fire Department, North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms are a part of a joint task force set up to investigate these incidents.

Evidence from the fire scenes have been sent to the state crime lab for analysis.

A US$10,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest of the perpetrators of this crime.


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Additionally, please refrain from using Wikinews to promote websites --+Deprifry+ 19:34, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

"crazyarabs" site
This site features nothing but advertisement. It has certainly not created any uproar or press coverage which would be rather surprising given that it has, once again, virtually no content. It's only apparent purpose seems to be generate income for the owner. Do not post this article again. --+Deprifry+ 19:47, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Bravitude and Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation on the main French TV network

Who is the chairman? Jimmy certainly isn't an Anthere prefers chairwoman over chairperson, if I remember correctly. What is the context? Even briefs need more than this. -- Zanimum 20:00, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Anthere herself seems to prefer the word chair not to have to choose between the alternates.
 * Anyway, if it is the only thing wrong in my brief please rename it yourself anyhow you want because an IP can't rename and this brief must imho be published same day that the other bravitude entry. 82.224.88.52 20:10, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, chair, that's what I meant. --  Zanimum 15:47, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Questions
Bawolff -)(-: 23:28, 16 January 2007 (UTC) To add to that, what is the significance of the word bravitude. To the average english reader its some random french word that they don't know the meaning of. Why does the TV person think it warrents an encyclopedia article. Wikipedia is (like most encyclopedias) not a dictionary. (for that matter why does it warrent a news article?) Bawolff -)(-: 23:39, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * What does bravitude mean?
 * where are you trying to link to? (currently its french wikipedia, where theere is no article. if you want to show its been deleted, how about deletion log, if you want to see the entry, how about french wiktionary)
 * What does main french tv station mean? I am unsure, but I am fairly certain there is more then one tv station in french (or do you mean main France tv station, wehich is still ambiguios, and sounds like where promoting one over the other).

 * What a roar!... describe, describe, desribe. -Edbrown05 04:08, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

 * A roar? Why should people be forced to do further research to find why a story is relevant? --  Zanimum 15:51, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

bravitude story already printed
Too late anyway to talk about that because as I was just noticing my French readers the main story about bravitude has already been printed. 82.224.88.52 07:26, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but w:bravitute seems to be gone, and this article was missing a date template which is a prerequisite to being published. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:16, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

What is this bravitude invading my english Wikinews, which is apparently 'on the rise' day after bloody day?
Headline. Neebs 03:50, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

 * On top of that, what's with us reporting about some foreign military or clashes in far away lands? Who needs those? They're not in my country, so they're irrelevant! --  Zanimum 15:50, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm talking about a French word, which is being SEARCHED for, not a war. I could go google 'narish' 100 times, and it would be on the rise. Neebs 20:27, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

 * The video link is no more available : let me suggest this one : http://lci.tf1.fr/politique/2007-01/balladur-verrait-bien-royal-academie-francaise-4884552.html?xtmc=bravitude&xtcr=6 Alencon aka 82.224.88.52 (talk) 11:41, 10 June 2012 (UTC)


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Anti-Arab website article
One of the sources for this article isn't listed in DNS, the other is a link farm with no article to back up the content of our piece. Consequently I have reverted this to a version with the cleanup tag. --Brian McNeil / talk 20:56, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

wikinews standards
I myself was desesperate yesterday not to get my first entry published this year ; it should be ok now but I think we were both not cautious enough in our first writing and I must agree with

19:32, 16 January 2007 Deprifry (Talk | contribs) deleted "Anti Arab Website Sparks Uproar" (spam for site with virtually zero content and lots of ads)

that yours doesn't look serious according to the wikinews standard of publication. 82.224.88.52 21:04, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:Terinjokes/Archive 4

RE: Happy January
Thanks! Thunderhead smells copyright violation :) Thunderhead - (talk) Congrajulations to Kat! 23:03, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * LOL. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  23:14, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Orkut
Hi, I believe you owe me an Orkut invite (whatever that is). Thanks, --Nzgabriel | Talk 08:41, 4 January 2007 (UTC).

User:Terinjokes/AW.rss
I don't think that will work as it won't send the right mime type. You can only convince Mediawiki (to my knowladge) to send it as text/html text/javascript or text/css. You need it to be sent as application/rss+xml which I think can onbly happen with some sort of mediawiki extention or if its on a seperate server. Bawolff ☺☻ 17:42, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually some readers proablly won't care. some will which is a problem. Maybe some wikimedia developer would be able to tell us some way for http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=user:Terinjokes/AW.rss&action=raw&ctype=application/rss+xml . Bawolff ☺☻ 17:47, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * For refrence's sake (I know you already know): they said no - 8490. user:Bawolff 06:55, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Audio
Nice that you uploaded, I'll listen at home tomorrow. I wont be able to keep up at this rate though, I was thinking maybe we can find a small number of back-up volunteers? Like a schedule were you can plan when you can't read one and someone takes over.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 22:32, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I agree, I was thinking exactly that. Maybe we should first have a clear idea of how to organise it and then ask some of the former contributors on their talk pages or something.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 09:21, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I used Audacity. It allows simple cutting and pasting. I used the previous recordings to copy from. The "official wikinews theme" as indicated on the wikinews briefs page *cough*... sucks. :-D If you want you can copy-paste the starter and finisher themes from my recordings, or alternatively I could add them for you, post-factum.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 18:08, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

newsletter idea
Hi, (I hope you don't mind this general message, I'm just randomly contacting people from my talk page)

I've had an idea after reading User:Kinnerc/WhereToWikinews? that might make people more aware of what's currently going on on this site, what discussions are being held, where help is needed etc. I've designed a little signpost-like box that I would like to introduce as a newsletter to post on user talk pages. Of course, the majority is copied from the Newsroom, which I think people don't visit often enough. Oh yeah, and the title should probably change :-D

I would appreciate some feedback on the idea, and also I'm interested to know if you would subscribe to such a newsletter. Please go to User_talk:Stevenfruitsmaak/Goings-on.

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 19:49, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

The Fruitsmaak Goings-on Selection
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Wikinews community

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Collaboration requests
Post new request  category=Ready addfirstcategorydate=false count=25 suppresserrors=true namespace=Main   category=Stub addfirstcategorydate=false count=25 suppresserrors=true namespace=Main   category=News with items needing expansion addfirstcategorydate=false count=25 suppresserrors=true namespace=Main
 * International interviews/poll on climate warming

Flagged discussions
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Have a look at the news template I designed...
Template:Article-audiobrief.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 20:12, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:USAMAN

wikinews standards
I myself was desesperate yesterday not to get my first entry published this year ; it should be ok now but I think we were both not cautious enough in our first writing and I must agree with

19:32, 16 January 2007 Deprifry (Talk | contribs) deleted "Anti Arab Website Sparks Uproar" (spam for site with virtually zero content and lots of ads)

that yours doesn't look serious according to the wikinews standard of publication. 82.224.88.52 21:04, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:125.248.244.131

wikinews standards
I myself was desesperate yesterday not to get my first entry published this year ; it should be ok now but I think we were both not cautious enough in our first writing and I must agree with

19:32, 16 January 2007 Deprifry (Talk | contribs) deleted "Anti Arab Website Sparks Uproar" (spam for site with virtually zero content and lots of ads)

that yours doesn't look serious according to the wikinews standard of publication. 82.224.88.52 21:04, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:Robbie dee

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Canadian CEO surrenders to police

January 17, 2007

Adam Spencer, 26-years-old, and former (CEO) of Emexis Integrated Solutions Inc. turned himself in yesterday morning. His family and his lawyer were with him.

This came after a Canada-wide police search was started on January 12, 2007. The Oakville, Ontario man disappeared last year after asking for money from Canadian investors to help his company Emexis go public. However, Spencer did not take Emexis public as promised.

Eighty-nine investors, who, at the time, believed Spencer, have come forward to police.

"The long and the short of it is that he did not meet his obligations in terms of what he promised his investors," Mr. Peter Leupen, one of the investors who helped Spencer, said. "He promised us a dividend on an initial investment and that never happened."

"He's genuinely dishonest, I think he's immature and putting the best gloss on it, he let the money he was collecting go to his head. He was spending it like a drunken sailor on boats, houses, race cars, everything but what he was supposed to be spending it on," Mr. Symon Zucker, a Toronto lawyer who the investors sought help from.

Spencer was last seen before Christmas and recently returned to Canada. Detective Jeff Thompson said Spencer was in Chicago, Illinois for the weekend.

"It appears that he was not in any hurry to face the music," said Thompson.

Spencer will go to a Toronto court on Monday.

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User talk:208.121.76.61

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I've reverted you removing sources from an article. If you have good reason to remove them, please list it in the edit summary, so I know what your doing and don't revert you. Bawolff -)(-: 02:10, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:Williamborg

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New Zealand's NCEA results due today onwards

January 17, 2007

New Zealand's NCEA (National Certificate of Educational Achievement) results for each student will start arriving today onwards. The results will be posted online today and have been sent out sooner than in previous years.

Around 136,000 students took part in the 2006 external exams and NZQA (New Zealand Qualifications Authority) say 85% of them will receive their results in today's, Wednesday, mail. Student's living in rural areas will receive their results on Friday. Scholarship results will be sent out sometime mid February.

Bali Haque said that it was a huge logistical operation to get all the results out but said that it went smoothly.

Each student already knows their results for their internal results but are awaiting their grades (not achieved, achieved, merit or, excellence) of their external end-of-year exams.

NZQA said that the marking of over a million NCEA papers and scholarship papers went smoothly despite having a mistake in a level two mathematics paper. However NZQA says no students will be affected by the mistake.

After results have been received, students will then receive their answer booklets.


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Mine
Haven't received mine yet, and I live in an, according to Wikipedia, "outer suburb" of Christchurch. --Nzgabriel | Talk 03:40, 17 January 2007 (UTC)


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Islamophobe article
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BREAKING NEWS: Everything is normal.202.76.142.198 06:59, 17 January 2007 (UTC)