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User talk:68.145.109.64

Welcome
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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! → CGorman (Talk) 17:22, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
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User talk:81.214.99.179

Welcome
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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! → CGorman (Talk) 17:22, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
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license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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User talk:216.209.153.178

Welcome
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User talk:155.201.35.52

Welcome
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User talk:82.193.222.2

Welcome
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 may disrupt the site's working and will be reverted quickly. 82.193.222.2, welcome to Wikinews! Please refrain from using content pages for testing. Here are a few good links for newcomers on how to edit Wikinews:

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Controversial Berlin opera features interactive drug usage

August 26, 2005

Berlin's Neukoellner Opera House is causing a stir with its new production, The Yellow Princess.

The story presented in the French opera, by Camille Saint-Saens, is of an artist "whose life is dictated by a love for drugs and Japan." As a result, the performers smoke cannabis joints on stage, and the theatre itself is encouraging the audience to join in.

Artistic director Bernhard Glocksin says that the theatre is claiming the metaphorical "artistic licence", to excuse the actions of the actors and audience, which are against German law. Glocksin was quoted by Ananova as saying opera would be "improved with a few joints and some appetising lines", noting the production was partly an experiment, to see what they could "get away with."

"Artistic licence" is at par to an "artistic liberty", where something is exaggerated or changed for the sake of the art itself. For example a visual artist painting a landscape might move a tree to another area of their work, for better balance, or a poet ignoring pentameter when writing a traditional sonnet.


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Wikinews:Why "Portal:" is bad

The "Portal:" namespace is bad because:

 * 1) Pages can't be found via the search box unless a user clicks Search - clicking Go or hitting enter will always fail to find page in the "Portal:" space.
 * 2) It looks weird - the BBC is happy to say just to have Africa as the title of their pages, why can't we?
 * 3) If you want to exclude portal-type pages from DPLs, just add category:portal to portal pages (most/all already have it, I understand) and exclude that category from your DPL.
 * 4) It's extra complexity - Keep It Simple, Stupid (KISS principle), Less is More, "Perfection is achieved not when there's anything left to add, but when there's nothing left to take away".

If you read this, please don't "answer" here. Instead put your own arguments at Wikinews:Why "Portal:" is good.

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Man allowed to keep deceased friend in warehouse freezer

August 26, 2005

Russian businessman Xiao Li Bei has received permission to keep his deceased friend in an industrial freezer.

Police in the town of Novosibirsk discovered the body during a routine health and safety inspection of Xiao's warehouse. Xiao, of Chinese ancestry, told police that his friend died of natural causes two years prior.

Challenged in court on the issue, prosecutors allowed Xiao to continue on as he has, unless evidence contrary to the natural death claim arises. There is no Russian law against personally storing human remains.

Xiao commented "I just thought it would be easier to store the body myself. There's so much bureaucracy here I knew the paperwork would be endless otherwise. And I have a large industrial freezer in my warehouse."


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Wikinews:Why "Portal:" is good

 * 1) Fundamentally, namespaces have meaning. If we do violate that meaning, we're going to run into problems in other areas where it is interpreted. Categories have the Category: namespace, Wikinews has the Wikinews: namespace, Images have the Image: namespace, and articles have the Main namespace (no preceding text).  It just makes sense for Portals to have a respective portal namespace.  This namespace has been created, so now it's just a matter of moving the portals over to it. It's a good idea from an architectural point of view to maintain semantics of a namespace.
 * 2) Another reason for putting portals in the Portal: namespace is to have a separate article count. We often publish the overall number of articles. But this includes the ever growing number of portals and is therefore misleading.  By having their own namespace, we can publish statistics for portal pages only as well.
 * 3) It simplifies the process of creating portals, and automatically filtering them from relevant lists, as adding a category is not necessary. Just putting the page in the right namespace is sufficient.
 * 4) It also affects the Special:Allpages display. If they can filter by namespace, readers no longer have to view these pages when looking at articles.

See also Wikinews:Why "Portal:" is bad.

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Wikinews talk:Why "Portal:" is bad

There is a factual inaccuracy that needs to be addressed - BBC actually has the prefix 2/hi/africa/default.stm for Africa, not simply "Africa", as the page says. -- NGerda 18:40, August 26, 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:68.168.219.26

Welcome
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World Health Organization declares tuberculosis emergency in Africa

August 26, 2005

A World Health Organization (WHO) committee comprising of 43 African health ministers has declared a tuberculosis emergency on the continent.

The number of tuberculosis (TB) cases in African countries per year has quadrupled since 1990, and continues to rise. Now 540,000 people die of the disease in Africa every year.

Worldwide, TB kills two million people a year; the only deadlier disease in the world is HIV/AIDS.

Some African countries such as Tanzania and Malawi pioneered TB control strategies that were later adopted around the globe. But they were not successful - Malawi saw the number of TB cases a year rise by four times over the past 15 years. Poverty, poor health systems and HIV have been blamed by the WHO for this.

Funding is a particularly critical issue. Eight of the nine worst affected African countries reported that, for 2003, they had short-falls in the funding their TB control programmes needed. However the WHO stresses that money alone will not end the crisis - health systems must be improved, and the rate at which health professionals are lost in the region must be reduced.

Africa is the only region in the world to be experiencing an increase in TB cases - in the rest of the world, infection rates are either stable or falling.


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User talk:Graue~enwikinews

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Your account will be renamed
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Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Graue. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Graue~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 23:18, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:194.247.47.81

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Hotel quarantined after anthrax scare in US state of Michigan

August 26, 2005

A Midland, Michigan hotel was temporarily quarantined Thursday night when a letter with suspicious white powder was opened at the Ashman Court Hotel on Main Street.

A hotel employee is said to have opened the letter around 16:00 UTC time on Thursday. Shortly after, the police, FBI and HAZMAT teams were called to the building. Preliminary results from FBI tests showed that the envelope did not contain the deadly bacteria anthrax, as first thought.

The letter contained "a threat" according to local reports, however details were not released. It is also unknown as to what substance the white powder is.

This is the second anthrax scare on the city this year, exactly four months ago the Midland Daily News office, located across the street to the hotel, was sent a similar envelope with suspicious powder. It is not known if the two cases are related or not.


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User talk:71.105.96.175

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User talk:70.92.135.39

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Additionally, I'd like to work with you on a new article about Hurricane Katrina. -- NGerda 21:03, August 26, 2005 (UTC)

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Hurricane Katrina strikes Florida, kills seven

August 26, 2005

As hurricane Katrina moves beyond the Floridian peninsula, death tolls have begun to surface. On Friday, the official count was seven dead, at least five missing. 4 people in Broward, 3 in Miami. The forecast for Hurricane Katrina predicts that it will continue on its present northwesterly course and approach the panhandle of Florida and the Mississippi delta region in the next few days.

Katrina made landfall on Friday in southern Florida's and  metropolitan areas. Packing 80 mph winds, it downed trees and power lines as it slowly crossed the peninsula. It swamped some areas with as much as 12 inches of rainfall.

Katrina is now a category 4, and gaining power over the warm waters of the.

Large portions of Broward, Miami-Dade, and Menroe counties have no electricity, and thousands of customers in the tri-county area have no cable service.

Hurricane Katrina is responsible for the collapse of a highway overpass, under construction, and for a warehouse fire in Metro Fort Lauderdale.

Schools in Miami-Dade and Broward were closed when the storm made landfall. Menroe County schools were in session.

More on Hurricane Katrina as the storm progresses.


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User talk:68.69.141.85

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User talk:81.241.0.41

Welcome
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User talk:199.214.165.74

Welcome
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User talk:210.72.12.70

Welcome
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User talk:65.87.181.28

Welcome
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User talk:Rainbird~enwikinews

Welcome
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Additionally, I'll fix that volume conversion for you. ;) -- NGerda 23:15, August 26, 2005 (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 Rainbird. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Rainbird~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 23:21, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:68.54.242.154

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Talk:Controversial Berlin opera features interactive drug usage

Err, Ananova's "news stories" are all fake as far as I know.
 * Yeah, truly incredible stuff. Reminiscent of The Rocky Horror Picture Show audience participation, only worse. -Edbrown05 06:42, 27 August 2005 (UTC)


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User:Hurricane Angel~enwikinews

Mostly a Wikipedia editor, however also doing news on occasion... hopefully. --Hurricane Angel 05:39, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

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Wikinews:Briefs/August 27, 2005

Audio Wikinews transcript – 2005 08 27 – 1100 UTC
The time is 1100 UTC on Saturday 27th August, and this is Audio Wikinews: News Briefs.

Hurricane Katrina strikes Florida, kills seven As hurricane Katrina moves beyond the Floridian peninsula, death tolls are beginning to surface. On Friday, the official count was seven dead, at least five missing. The forecast for Hurricane Katrina predicts that it will continue on its present northwesterly course and approach the panhandle of Florida and the Mississippi delta region in the next few days.

Katrina was downgraded to a tropical storm as it made landfall on Friday in southern Florida's Miami and Fort Lauderdale metropolitan areas.

Katrina turned back into a hurricane with winds of 100 miles per hour - or 160 kilometres per hour - when it reached the warmer Gulf of Mexico waters.

World Health Organization declares tuberculosis emergency in Africa A World Health Organization committee comprising 43 African health ministers has declared a tuberculosis emergency in the continent.

The number of Tb cases in African countries per year has quadrupled since 1990, and continues to rise. Now 540,000 people die of the disease in Africa every year.

The only more deadly disease in the world is HIV/AIDS.

UK study claims men more intelligent than women In a study accepted for publication by the British Journal of Psychology, Dr. Paul Irwing (Senior Lecturer in Organizational Psychology at Manchester Business School) and Prof. Richard Lynn (of the University of Ulster) conclude that men are on average five points ahead of women on IQ tests. The study also found that men outnumbered women in increasing numbers as intelligence levels rise. There were twice as many with IQ scores of 125, a level typical for people with first-class degrees. When scores rose to 155, a level associated with genius, there were 5.5 men for every woman.

Closing Comments
Thank you for joining us today. To receive more up-to-date news items as they occur, please visit wikinews.org.

And, be sure to check out our daily full-length audio news program, called Audio Wikinews: Full Report.

This recording has been released into the public domain. This applies worldwide.

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Talk:US satellite radio provider Sirius unveils portable player

This article is a pure advertising puff piece for Sirius with not much news value, I suggest de-publishing it, or otherwise modifying with context about other products and the industry. Lexor 11:57, 27 August 2005 (UTC)


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To any admin, please fix the spelling of Antartica, it should be Antarctica. Thanks. Lexor 12:48, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Links to active country portals
This issue was discussed here and the links have been in place for over six months. The rationale for adding links to country portals is that Oceania is a region that many have never heard of, with a disputed definition, whereas Australia and New Zealand are clear political entities with which many millions of people identify, and have active Wikinews portals maintained by active communities. Please initiate a discussion if you want them removed. I've added them back for the moment. - Borofkin 01:23, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:85.124.107.143

Welcome
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If I have in anyway abused my admin powers, please direct them to the Administrator page and list me for de-sysop. But don't accuse me of doing something I haven't just because we don't see eye-to-eye on issues. I respect your issues, and you should respect others' opinions as well. And yes, NPOV is a huge problem on Wikinews. The project was made so that there would be no Point of View made, something that many want to change. That is not open journalism - that is satirism. I will not allow others to express favoritism to anyone in articles, nor will I allow articles on WN to be portals for biased materials. Userpages, talk pages are exempt from that. --Mrmiscellanious 14:32, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Furthermore, wiki is for everyone, not just people who share your views. --Mrmiscellanious 21:33, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:67.172.75.82

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Writers meet weekly at Ashland Underground

August 27, 2005

Every Wednesday at 6 p.m., writers of any genre meet at an informal writers' workshop at the Ashland Underground, located at 220 W. Main in Ashland, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

A project of the Chequamegon Bay Word Affiliate, area writers have met each week for almost three years. The group of published and aspiring writers first began meeting at the Black Cat, a local cafe, but recently moved to the Underground, where a member book cooperative has been set-up for affiliate and community readers.

The Chequamegon Bay Word Affiliate also holds its annual Earth Day Reading each year at the nearby Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center.

Writers of any and all skill levels can meet at the free workshop, and are encouraged to bring their latest works.


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User talk:129.186.157.182

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Two arrests made in Zotob worm attack

August 27, 2005

Turkish and Moroccan authorities arrested two suspects who are believed to be the creators of the worm that took down  computer network and crippled other computers in the U.S. and worldwide earlier this month. The FBI traced an electronic trail that led to two men from the Middle East and North Africa. An 18-year old Moroccan,, is believed to have written the worm in return for a payment from a 21-year old Turk Atilla Ekici. Both were arrested Friday and await prosecution in their respective countries.

It appears that Essebar and Ekici never met personally, and conducted the entire cyber crime through contact with each other over the internet. The online monikers for the two is believed to be "Diabl0" for Essebar and “Coder” for Ekici.

The speedy pace at which investigators made arrests is credited from working closely with the Microsoft Corp., and Moroccan and Turkish authorities, said the FBI assistant director Louis Reigel. "Had we not had those entities involved in this investigation, I suspect it would still be ongoing today." Microsoft investigators began in March to analyze an e-mail variant called Mytob, which emerged in late February. The two suspects are believed to have authored the predecessor to Mytob, known then as 'Rbot'. These worms could plant in infected computers a backdoor that could be used to gain remote access to the computer and their networks at a later date.

The release of the Zytob worm yielded more evidence of the perpetrators’ identities. The motive for the attacks appears to be financial gain and not terrorist related. The two men allegedly forwarded stolen financial information to a credit-card fraud ring, according to the Moroccan government.

The 5-year-old operating system is most vulnerable to attack. The worm uses a flaw in the Windows Plug and Play service; a flaw for which Microsoft has issued a patch. But an August 23 Microsoft advisory notes that some non-default configurations of Windows XP Service Pack 1 systems could also be at risk. XP SP2 users are not at risk.

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User talk:80.229.28.53

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User talk:81.165.78.4

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User talk:70.249.154.22

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User talk:66.82.9.67

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User talk:165.170.128.65

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User talk:66.96.18.19

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why am i blocked by mrmiscellaneous? he gives the reason 'Open Proxy'. and it's an 'infinite' block. wth? no edits can be made whatsoever.

 * It appears that this IP address has been blocked because it is an Open proxy and has been blocked in accordance with an existing policy prohibiting editing from open proxies. Is it possible your ISP uses open proxies? --Chiacomo (talk) 04:40, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I have reviewed the block and checked for open proxies. I see no OBVIOUS open proxy and I am unblocking this IP. --Chiacomo (talk) 04:49, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:HellBlazer

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User talk:219.88.190.240

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User talk:24.19.127.190

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User talk:64.229.184.110

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User talk:66.44.141.166

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User talk:80.3.160.7

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Wine cork prevents fuel leak on train

August 27, 2005

A cork was temporarily used to fix a fuel leak on a British passenger train. The leak was created when the train struck a concrete block that vandals left on the tracks.

Train service on the Paddington to Exeter line was stopped around Bath. This abrupt stop created a hole in the sightglass which helps monitor fuel levels. Worried the incident could cause a fuel leak, staff decided to use the cork of a wine bottle found in the buffet car, to block the hole. An incident that people worried would cause a delay of hours, was cleared up in around 20 minutes.

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User:Zanimum

Hi there, I'm Nicholas Moreau, and I'm one of 23 accredited Wikinews reporters, and a Wikinews Administrator.

A quote from my article, "Canada's St. Paul’s West (Ward 21) city council candidates speak", was cited by The Toronto Star and Metro Toronto Edition.

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Articles I've written

 * ORIGINAL: aka from scratch.
 * OBOP: original, based on a press release.
 * The rest are based on news reports.

2007
9 articles written.

 * "Children of Men" wins Scripter award for writing, 12 Jan
 * CBS blog criticizes stations' coverage of Tigger incident, 11 Jan
 * Teamsters site suggests Tigger pardoned, 10 Jan
 * Teamsters Union comments on Tigger incident, 10 Jan
 * "Prada", "Illusionist" among screen adaptations up for USC Scripter, 9 Jan
 * Makeup Oscar nominee list narrowed to seven, 9 Jan
 * Full video of Tigger incident reveals different story, 9 Jan
 * Accusations Tigger threw punch fill airwaves as teen claims neck injuries, 8 Jan
 * Television actors acknowledged by SAG Awards nominations, 4 Jan

2006
54+25 articles written.

 * Rolling Stone prints story based on Wikipedia vandalism, 22 Dec
 * Fastest "zorb" ride set by New Zealanders, 11 Nov
 * Toronto and Rockettes kick into the records book, 11 Nov
 * Dove ad viewed more than 3 million times on YouTube, 4 Nov
 * Template:TorontoElection, 24 articles over a week (ORIGINAL)
 * Interview with Bill Blousfield, Regional Council candidate for Wards 1 & 5 in Brampton, Canada, 30 Oct (ORIGINAL)
 * Interview with Vicky Dhillon, City Council candidate for Wards 9 & 10 in Brampton, Canada, 26 Oct (ORIGINAL)
 * Interview with Stephanie Beaumier, City Council candidate for Wards 1 & 5 in Brampton, Canada, 24 Oct (ORIGINAL)
 * Interview with Chuck Jeffrey, Regional Council candidate for Wards 2 & 6 in Brampton, Canada, 23 Oct (ORIGINAL)
 * Interview with Innocent Watat, City Council candidate for Wards 3 & 4 in Brampton, Canada, 21 Oct (ORIGINAL)
 * Interview with Brodrick Thorpe, City Council candidate for Ward 10 in Mississauga, Canada, 17 Oct (ORIGINAL)
 * Interview with Dalbir S. Kathuria, Regional Council candidate for Wards 9 & 10 in Brampton, Canada, 12 Oct (ORIGINAL)
 * Barbra Streisand heckled during concert, 12 Oct
 * Chinese ban on Wikipedia lifted for now, 12 Oct (ORIGINAL)
 * Dove's Real Beauty looks at photoshoot techniques in commercial, 12 Oct
 * Imagination Movers to shoot Disney series pilot, 11 Oct
 * Interview with Derek Begley, Regional Council candidate for Wards 9 & 10 in Brampton, Canada, 10 Oct (ORIGINAL)
 * Interview with Curtis Grant, Regional Council candidate for Wards 2 & 6 in Brampton, Canada, 6 Oct (ORIGINAL)
 * Interview with Mathew Njenga, City Council candidate for Wards 2 & 6 in Brampton, Canada, 5 Oct (ORIGINAL)
 * Interview with Olive Rose Steele, City Council candidate for Ward 6 in Mississauga, Canada, 27 Sep (ORIGINAL)
 * Mayfield Exposed! highlights artworks of Brampton high school students, 23 Sep (ORIGINAL)
 * Interview with Sean Semper-Whyte, City Council candidate for Ward 6 in Mississauga, Canada, 23 Sep (ORIGINAL)

 * Interview with Navdeep Gill, City Council candidate for Wards 2 & 6 in Brampton, Canada, 23 Sep (ORIGINAL)
 * Interview with Tony Ciufo, City Council candidate for Ward 10 in Mississauga, Canada, 22 Sep (ORIGINAL)
 * Two-millenia-old Chinese guard gets unwanted new recruit, 22 Sep
 * Fight for consideration as hockey's hometown rages on in Canada, as a premier takes issue, 22 Sep
 * Forget driving to the Olympics, says Beijing, 22 Sep
 * Head of CBC network considers defecation as pleasurable as sex, 21 Sep
 * Barbara Walters to interview Terri Irwin, 20 Sep
 * Comedian pushes talk show host Charlotte Church over the edge, on air, 18 Sep
 * Nickelodeon to cease broadcasting temporarily in US, to encourage play, 15 Sep (OBOP)
 * Paris Hilton too costly to ridicule, says Charlotte Church, 15 Sep
 * Larry Sanger announces Wikipedia fork, 15 Sep (major contributions to others' ORIGINAL)
 * Canadian Governor General speaks on Montreal shooting, 15 Sep
 * MySpace to expand to mobile music, 12 Sep (OBOP)
 * Interview with candidate Vicky Colbourne, Brampton Regional Council Wards 2 & 6, 12 Sep (ORIGINAL)
 * MySpace to take on iTunes, 7 Sep
 * Disney Adventures magazine to take on India, 7 Sep
 * US talk show: Daily Guinness attempts to return on talk show Live with Regis and Kelly, 7 Sep (OBOP)
 * Wikinews interview with America's Got Talent finalists At Last, 2 Sep (ORIGINAL)
 * 41st Jerry Lewis telethon to run Sunday, Monday, 2 Sep (OBOP)
 * Mario Lopez favored to win Dancing with the Stars, 1 Sep (OBOP)
 * Wikinews interview with America's Got Talent finalists Celtic Spring, 31 Aug (ORIGINAL)
 * Kids TV star Lunar Jim to tour malls in Canada, 31 Aug (OBOP)
 * Film from Nunavut in Canada's north to open TIFF, 29 Aug
 * Man confesses to 1996 murder of JonBenet Ramsey (my add ORIGINAL)
 * CBC looks for Winnipeg news program host, 15 Aug (ORIGINAL)
 * Malaysia bans film "The Last Communist", 29 May
 * Sculptor to teach animation maquettes at VAB Creative Studio, 26 May (ORIGINAL)
 * RAGGS debuts on Australia's Seven Network, 19 May (OBOP)
 * Events cancelled at Humber due to college strike, 8 May (OBOP)
 * Sault professor sides with students during college strike 8 Mar
 * Ontario college teachers begin strike, 7 Mar
 * Nominations announced for 78th Academy Awards, 31 Jan (OBOP)
 * SAG Awards handed out, 30 Jan (OBOP)
 * Many SAG Awards presenters announced, 21 Jan (OBOP)
 * Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf inaugurated as Liberian president, 17 Jan
 * Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations released, 13 Jan (OBOP)

2005
26 articles written.

 * Gallery seeks Control themed mail art for exhibit, Nov 26 (ORIGINAL)
 * International exhibit of chair art starts in Canada, Nov 21 (ORIGINAL)
 * Grenade set off outside Tajik ministry, Oct 15
 * Joachim to attempt breaking record for static cycling, Oct 15 (ORIGINAL)
 * Suresh Joachim breaks ironing world record, Sep 27 (ORIGINAL)
 * Irish dancing record broken in Cork, Sep 12
 * New movies, 9 September 2005, Sep 9
 * Afghan-Tajik border control transferred from Russia, Sep 8
 * UN holding recruitment exams in under-represented countries, Sep 7
 * Award show producers try Emmy Idol, Sep 7
 * Portia de Rossi talks about Ellen DeGeneres, sexuality, Sep 7
 * Cape Verde to launch first public university, with Brazil's support, Sep 3
 * Swazi princess beaten by government official for wild party, Sep 3
 * King of Swaziland seeks thirteenth bride, continues to cause ire, Sep 2
 * New Caledonia prepares for 2011 South Pacific Games, Sep 1
 * Wine cork prevents fuel leak on train, Aug 27
 * Something's up at Shoppers World, Aug 27 (ORIGINAL)
 * Man allowed to keep deceased friend in warehouse freezer, Aug 27
 * Controversial Berlin opera features interactive drug usage, Aug 26
 * Brampton MPP to hold community barbeque, Aug 25 (ORIGINAL)
 * Brampton, Canada and Marikina, Philippines seeing double as cities twin, Aug 25
 * Winners of international postcard-sized art exhibit announced, Aug 25 (ORIGINAL)
 * Canadian city announces first Studios of Brampton tour, Aug 25 (ORIGINAL)
 * Canadian woman faces 234 counts of double-doctoring, Aug 24
 * Butter sculpture returns to Canadian National Exhibition, Aug 24 (ORIGINAL)
 * Mixed success for Brampton Day at Ontario Place, Aug 24 (ORIGINAL)

2004

 * Florida's Walt Disney World launches revamped attractions, 16 Nov

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Afghani heroin shipment shot down in Tajikistan

August 27, 2005 On August 22, Tajikistan border guards spotted and shot down a home-made aircraft carrying heroin, on route from Afghanistan.

Tajik officials say that the piloted paraplane was transporting 18 kilograms of heroin above their southeast border. Border guards launched a search operation to find the pilot, believed to be wounded.

The deputy head of Tajik's border troops, Sabza Sarkorov, said to the media that this was actually the first narcotics interception of its kind. Smugglers have used paraplanes to move drugs across the border for three years. Earlier attempts to bring them down have been unsuccessful until now.

The country is a prime route for illegal drugs from Afghanistan, which is the world's top opium producer.


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This template had a streamlined look to Template:Continents, as they are both the top-level templates for their respective portal types. Can we please restore this? -- NGerda 23:52, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
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 * As long as it's not something as offending as that yellow, I think we will be fine. What's wrong with the blue one? --Dčabrilo 00:00, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
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Template:OtherTopics merge with Template:Topics
Does anyone object to me changing all the weather pages to template:Topics from Template:OtherTopics? The other page is only used by the weather pages and this template looks much nicer. Also if we get more sections its easier just to maintain one template. If no one objects i'll change them tommorow and make Template:OtherTopics redirect to this one. Bawolff 21:16, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
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I think this should be a sub-Topic, under 'Culture and entertainment'. If we get too many top level topics, it will grow into being a problem. -Edbrown05 22:20, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Afghani heroin shipment shot down in Tajikistan

The title of this article is confusing. The word "heroin" is easily mistaken for "heroine" and would then make no sense. Maybe a title more like "Afghani plane containing heroin shot down in Tajikistan" would be better? --Zandperl 00:15, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Even simpler - add the word "shipment". So it becomes "Afghani heroin shipment shot down in Tajikistan" Imroy 01:07, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for calling this out. The headline has been renamed. -Edbrown05 01:47, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

The second source says the aircraft was hang glider. Also by searching with Google, both hang glider and paraplane appears. Which is correct? - Marsian / talk 00:08:24, 2005-08-31 (UTC)
 * Maybe... hang gliding incules paragliding, thus the aircraft was paraplane? - Marsian / talk 00:17:22, 2005-08-31 (UTC)
 * shooting down a "paraplane", or "hanglider", cruising across the skyline with a motorized propellor would be a hard shot, imo. -Edbrown05 00:20, 31 August 2005 (UTC)


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Lance Armstrong disputes French doping results

August 27, 2005

Accused of EPO doping by the French cycling daily L'Équipe in a four page story on Aug. 23, cyclist Lance Armstrong appeared on CNN's Larry King Live TV show Aug. 25, saying he did not trust the French testers or the French testing system, and that his urine was manipulated to falsely accuse him of doping.

Dr. Christiane Ayotte, director of a Montreal doping detection laboratory said that ethically critical and important scientific questions were raised by the EPO doping allegation against seven-time Tour de France winner Armstrong.

USA Cycling official Gerard Bisceglia said these L'Équipe charges were unfair and lacked credibility. Bisceglia is chief executive of USA Cycling, principal authority over Armstrong for cycling sports in the United States.

L'Équipe released Paris lab data allegedly finding banned EPO in five year old samples of Armstrong's urine, originally taken after he won the 1999 Tour de France. No official source would confirm medical identification of Armstrong as provider of the anonymously tested urine, and to do so would be a violation of World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) regulations.

Armstrong suggested motivation for such manipulation is a French national hatred of all non-French sport winners, and specifically because a French rider has not won the Tour de France for a quarter century. As evidence of malice toward him, Armstrong cited a French newspaper poll in which he was named the third most hated sportsman in France.

Dr. Ayotte is Doping Control director at Canada's Institut National de la Recherché Scientifique in Montreal, which is a WADA certified lab nearest to WADA's Montreal headquarters. Ayotte is also a world class scientific authority and instructor on sports doping detection. Dr. Ayotte's expert opinion has significant influence on the outcome of WADA regulatory decisions.

L'Équipe reported that the EPO detection method used was experimental, which raises a scientific question. All experimentally based forensic evidence is subject to the close scrutiny of scientific opinions before it can be used in a disciplinary or legal proceeding.

Ayotte expressed surprise that chemical testing of 1999 urine could have been done in 2004 at the French national anti-doping laboratory at Châtenay-Malabry. She said that she routinely instructs all doping laboratory organizations, that previously detectable EPO protein deteriorates and disappears after two or three months, even if the urine is frozen.

Ayotte thinks that a new statistical mathematics model was used to reanalyze numerical data resulting from earlier chemical testing. "My interpretation is that retesting itself must have been conducted in 2000 or in 2001, but the results were reviewed using the new mathematical model that is now being developed in Paris."

Ayotte does not question whether the new type of analysis is correct; rather she questions the ethics of long-delayed test results.

The first ethical problem is that this adverse finding cannot be confirmed with second samples. There are normally available two urine samples, "A" and "B". The Châtenay-Malabry EPO findings were based on Armstrong's "B" samples. Armstrong's "A" samples were depleted in 1999 for tests that did not include EPO, because no EPO test was available that year.

Without addressing the ethics problem, Dick Pound, the head of WADA, said. "You can count on the fingers of one hand the times a "B" sample has not confirmed the result of the "A" sample".

Both France and USA officials observed that L'Équipe's unofficial adverse finding was not consistent with WADA regulations. French Sports Minister Jean-François Lamour said that without the "A" samples, no disciplinary action could be taken against Armstrong. USA official Bisceglia confirmed that WADA regulations require a confirming "A" test to prove guilt.

The second ethical problem, according to Ayotte, is that an athlete charged with doping long after the athletic event, has no way to submit to additional testing to disprove an adverse finding. This same ethical problem was also stated by USA official Bisceglia.

The third ethical problem for Ayotte is that L'Équipe disclosed Armstrong's medical identity. "It seems to me," Ayotte continued, "that this whole thing is breach of the WADA code. We are supposed to work confidentially until such time that we can confirm a result. By no means does this mean that we sweep a result under the carpet, but it has to meet a certain set of requirements."

In a further ethical complication, the medical identification of Armstrong is completely unofficial and is made only by L'Équipe. Ayotte characterized the disclosure as "leaked".

Châtenay-Malabry's lab refused to confirm L'Équipe's claim that the urine samples belonged to Armstrong. Nor is it likely that Châtenay-Malabry will ever identify Armstrong, because WADA regulations require that all single "B" samples used for experimental testing must remain permanently anonymous. Ayotte said, "I'm worried, because I have a great deal of respect for my colleagues in Paris. I am concerned that they did not cover their backs before being dragged into a very public issue of this kind."

Lance Armstrong has responded on his LanceArmstrong.com website, branding L'Équipe's reporting as being "nothing short of tabloid journalism." Armstrong says: "I will simply restate what I have said many times: I have never taken performance enhancing drugs."

Further confusing public understanding of the EPO doping claim is Armstrong's statement in his autobiography, It's Not About the Bike: he said he received EPO during his cancer chemotherapy treatment. "It was the only thing that kept me alive," he wrote.

Armstrong last received chemotherapy EPO in late 1996. Apparently speaking from his knowledge of conventional EPO testing, Armstrong agrees that traces of 1996 synthetic EPO should not have been present in his 1999 urine. There are now tests to distinguish natural from synthetic EPO. But it remains an unresearched scientific question whether the sensitivity of the experimental new method could detect use of synthetic EPO from three years previously. By scientific analogy, the polymerase chain reaction process can detect as little as a single molecule of DNA.

Jean-Marie Leblanc, the director of the Tour de France, said that Armstrong owes cycling fans an explanation. Armstrong subsequently provided an explanation claiming urine test manipulation.

Leblanc also said; "For the first time—and these are no longer rumors, or insinuations, these are proven scientific facts—someone has shown me that in 1999, Armstrong had a banned substance called EPO in his body."

"When people start using comments like, 'irrefutable scientific evidence,' that's a pretty strong statement to make," said Bisceglia, "when the person you're making it about has never been given the opportunity to refute the statement. You're making claims about something that took place in 1999. Based on what I've read, it's pretty clear that any opportunity to have a black-and-white resolution to this case has been destroyed."

Bisceglia said that USA Cycling, the governing body in the United States, lacks the officially required evidence, and therefore will not investigate the L'Équipe report.


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Australian MPs demand Islamic headscarf ban in schools

August 28, 2005

Australian Members of Parliament Bronwyn Bishop and Sophie Panopoulos have called for a ban on the wearing of Islamic headscarves in Australian public schools, saying it is an "iconic act of defiance." They are concerned about Muslim women failing to reveal their faces in photographic identification, and claim that this could be a security risk.

Bishop and Panopoulous are both members of the Liberal Party of Australia which is the major party in the governing Coalition. Bishop said there is a clash of cultures occurring in the country: "In an ideal society you don't ban anything," she told a television interviewer. She indicated she was talking of a ban only in schools, not at home.

Australian Muslims have angrily disagreed, say they should be allowed to comply with their religious doctrine. The moves to ban the Islamic headscarf - the hijab - began in France where it is banned from government schools.

The Australian Prime Minister, John Howard has responded stating that he is against any ban.


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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 Woseph. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Woseph~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 23:40, 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) 06:41, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

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Category:News articles by date

Browse through articles by the date they were published.

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title: Category:News articles by date