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Merck & Co. found liable for $253.4 million in Texas man's Vioxx-related death

August 19, 2005

Drug maker Merck & Co. was found liable for a person's death concerning the use of the pain medication Vioxx, according to a jury verdict in a Texas court.

The plaintiff's case, headed by the widow of Robert Ernst, who died in 2001 of an irregular heartbeat and of clogged arteries while on the drug Vioxx, was successfully awarded $253.4 million dollars. Vioxx was pulled from the shelves in 2004 after a study discovered it could double the risk of a heart attack or stroke if taken for longer than 1.5 years. However, the US government agency, the FDA, decided in February of this year to allow the product back on the shelves.

Merck's stock price dropped 10% within minutes of the verdict being announced, and continued to fall hours after. There are in excess of 4,200 other Vioxx-related lawsuits pending across the USA.

The company plans to appeal the decision.


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Please merge information into this article into the existing one at Merck and Company found liable for man's death while taking Vioxx drug --Mrmiscellanious 20:04, 19 August 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:Australian Air Force crews "at war" with Veterans' Affairs over compensation

I am beginning to see a lot of simiarities between the Aussie government and the American government; this being one example (Unnecessarily endangering,hurting and then insulting the troops and their families) Paulrevere2005 20:38, 19 August 2005 (UTC)


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Helicopter crash in Afghanistan kills 17/Brief

And, it has been confirmed that a NATO helicopter of the International Security Assistance Force has crashed near Herat in Western Afghanistan.

It is reported that two Puma helicopters collided in mid-air. Officials have said that 12 Spanish soldiers and five crew members have been killed and that five others are missing.


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This doesn't need a comma in the headline. The two possibilities are:
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The second one is not correct since the title of 'Northern Ireland secretary' has been held by multiple people.
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should read 28 year old man ... this was discovered 8 months ago, he has gone for laser surgery and is in recovery now.

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Pages I am using to compile a new Main Page

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Attempt to reopen Western Australia's biggest beef processor

August 20, 2005

Administrators Ferrier Hodgson are working to get troubled EG Green and Sons, trading as Harvey Beef, back open in two weeks. Approximately 600 workers are directly employed by the company, which is both a major employer in the region and the region's largest meat exporter. South West Chamber of Commerce and Industries president Rolf Stene was quoted as saying "It could affect a lot of people, those 600 workers at the abattoir, farmers, shopkeepers, the service industry it would hit a lot of people right throughout the community." The employees have currently been forced to take annual leave.

Many beef producers are owed money by the company. The Pastoralists and Graziers Association (PGA) is still trying to identify creditors and EG Green and Sons are working with the administrators in order to "maximise returns to creditors". Despite the well known brand, the company has been trading at a loss in recent years. Recent expansions may be at the root of the sudden financial problems that forced the company to suspend operations.

Calls by the Opposition for a government enquiry were rebuffed by the Agriculture Minister's parliamentary secretary, Tony McRae, saying "an inquiry would be counter productive." The State Government has at this stage declined to assist EG Green and Sons.


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Indonesian blackout caused by lack of generation capacity

August 20, 2005

A power outage in Indonesia that left about 100 million people without electricity has caused a political crisis. The country's state-owned energy monopoly, PLN, has not determined the immediate cause, and the country's president has ordered the national intelligence agency and police to investigate.

The blackout appears related to deficiencies in Indonesia's power generation capacity.

The power failure follows attempts to deal with the country's growing energy crisis, including conservation and trying to allow private companies to provide energy, which was ruled unconstitutional in 2004. In January, the Indonesian government held a special energy summit to attract investment in their energy infrastructure. At the summit they set the goal of adding 22,000 megawatts to Indonesia's present capacity of 23,000 megawatts, in order to support the country's growth.

The World Bank and others have warned that without more investment in the country's energy infrastructure an energy deficit will result. However, foreign investors remain wary of investing in Indonesia. "The power outage has resulted in worries over an energy crisis which could hurt the nation's industrial sector," said a trader on Indonesia's stock market.

The outage began at 10:23 a.m. local time, August 18, 2005, when power failed along the electrical system that connects Java, Bali, and Madura, causing outages in Java and Bali. Almost half of the country depends on the electrical grid that experienced failures. Some of the main lines on the grid are over 20 years old, according to PLN president Eddie Widiono.

The blackout caused traffic jams in Jakarta, forced cancellation of several international and domestic flights at Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, shut down Jakarta's electric train service, and disrupted hospital operations. Some larger hospitals were forced to delay surgeries while many smaller hospitals could not receive patients. About 1,800 officers were called into action by Jakarta's metropolitan police to deal with short-term problems caused by the power failure.

Candles used in place of electric lighting started six fires in Jakarta alone.

Mulyo Aji, a PLN official, said more power failures are likely in the future as energy demand increases, without any corresponding new supplies of electricity scheduled to come online soon.


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Talk:At least 13 killed in shootings at polling stations in Pakistan

Story as originally posted--may be original reporting
Ten people wounded in firing incidents in connection with local bodies polls at different localities of Karachi.

Ali Bux, a resident of Memon Goth Malir received injuries by firing of unknown persons.

In Frontier and Qasba Colonies, Muhammad Anwar and Rosy Khan received injuries in firing incident. A ten years old boy Adil suffered injuries while sitting in his gallery in shoe market area. Saeed Ahmad, resident of FC area wounded by firing of unidentified persons. Firing incident in Azizabad injured a girl Farzana. Ramzan and Shazia wounded in Joharabad. A restaurant employee Azhar got injures in a shooting incident at Arts Council round about. In Kemari, Mushtaq received injuries after clash.

In union council –4, New Karachi, tension grab the area after clash between two groups but Rangers and Police brought the situation under control.

Names
Someone who understands Middle Eastern naming conventions and Pakistani politics should add the names of people and political groups mentioned in the source article. Theshibboleth 11:42, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Why does Pakistani main page display for Pakistan category?
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Daily Mail: Scotland Yard offered Menezes family US$1m

August 20, 2005

The British newspaper Daily Mail claims that Scotland Yard has offered the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, who was mistaken for a suicide bomber and shot by British police on July 22nd, one million US$ (£560,000) in compensation. The paper quotes his parent as saying: "We will not be bought off. We will not be silenced. This is not about money, this is about justice."

According to Yasmin Khan, of the Justice4Jean campaign, John Yates, deputy assistant commissioner at Scotland Yard, flew to Brazil about two weeks ago and made the initial offer. Khan said: "Money was being bandied about but was not accepted. The family felt it was insulting and was not prepared to be bought off." She also stated that she considers Scotland Yard's alleged actions to be part of a cover-up.

Menezes' cousin Alessandro Pereira told the Daily Mail: "The police knew Jean was innocent, yet they let my family suffer. They let us suffer. Ian Blair (Metropolitan Police commissioner) let us suffer. For three weeks, we have had to listen to lie after lie about Jean and how he was killed. The police met my family yet they still didn't tell us the truth. Did they think because we are poor Brazilians we do not deserve the truth?"

Scotland Yard has denied the reports. A Spokesman said: "The only discussions we have had so far with the family of Jean Charles de Menezes have been about initial expenses. We strongly refute any suggestion that a figure anywhere in the region of one million dollars has been offered as compensation."

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Document reveals U.S., Taliban discussed bin Laden assassination

August 20, 2005

According to documents recently declassified by the U.S., top U.S. and Taliban officials discussed the potential assassination of Osama bin Laden after the in 1998.

The documents were released on Thursday by the National Security Archive under the. They show that the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan, Alan Eastham Jr., met with Wakil Ahmed, a close aide to Taliban leader, on November 28 1998 at the Taliban embassy in Islamabad.

In that meeting Wakil Ahmed told Eastham Jr. that the Taliban would understand the U.S. desire to have bin Laden expelled from Afghanistan. He said that one possibility to "resolve" the "bin Laden Situation" would be if the U.S. were to "kill him, or arrange for bin Laden to be assassinated".

Wakil said the Taliban wanted to resolve the "bin Laden problem" as quickly as possible because a failure to do so would result in American bombing of Afghanistan and the Taliban's "termination".


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Croatian singer beaten in Belgrade

August 20, 2005

Singer Darko Rundek (a French resident of Croatian descent), was attacked on a street in Serbia and Montenegro yesterday. Rundek was in Belgrade performing at "Beer Fest". He left at around 5:00 a.m., with two women from Belgrade, when he was attacked by nationalist Serbs. He was not seriously injured and was released from the hospital shortly after his arrival. The police are still looking for several young male suspects. During his performance there were a few smaller incidents where several people fought with police.

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SABMiller acquires Colombian Grupo Bavaria brewery

July 19, 2005

After months of rumor and speculation, the Colombian brewery Grupo Bavaria, which was founded in 1889 and is the second largest in South America, has been acquired by SABMiller in the biggest merger in Colombian history. In a buyout in which the multinational with headquarters in London will obtain 71.8% of Grupo Bavaria's stock, previously owned by the Santo Domingo family (owner of Caracol Televisión and, until recently, of Avianca). The Santo Domingo family is in turn to receive 225 million shares of SABMiller, which is equivalent to 15.1% of the company. SABMiller is to pay nearly $7.8 billion to complete the transaction.

The news was announced Tuesday at dawn (Colombian local time).

Thus SABMiller, the second largest brewery in the world — surpassed only by Belgian InBev, enters South America through Bavaria's operations in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Panama, where it controls between 79% and 99% of the beer market.

Of the $7.8 billion paid by SABMiller, $3.5 billion worth is stock for the Santo Domingo family, $1.5 billion is cash to buy out the minority stockholders, and the rest, $1.8 billion, will cover the present debts of the Colombian brewing giant.

During recent months, Ricardo Obregón, president of Grupo Empresarial Bavaria, denied the persistent rumors of a possible sale. In addition to SABMiller, Heineken and InBev had been interested in the Colombian company. Obregón will have to inform the head of the Colombian stock market of the acquisition.

Monday, when the international media reported the transaction, Grupo Bavaria's stock rose 5.36% in the Colombian stock market and reached a price of 49,100 COP ($21.23). The dollar fell 13 COP and finished the day Monday at 2,315.55 COP. Nevertheless, Tuesday morning, the stock fell 14.26% to 42,100 COP ($18.19), after the price of the stock had been constant for half an hour. In contrast, SABMiller's stock rose nearly 9 points on the London stock market.


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Check Spanish
Someone should verify that my translation was accurate. (I know very, very, very little Spanish.) Theshibboleth 13:31, 20 August 2005 (UTC)


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Some articles I've started:

February 15

German Constitutional Court prohibits shooting down hijacked passenger planes

February 9

Berlin court repeals preliminary injunction against Wikimedia Germany

January 13, 2006

German intelligence participated in U.S. bombing of Iraq, media alleges

December 31, 2005

Abducted German family freed in Yemen

December 28, 2005

Former German deputy foreign minister and family abducted in Yemen

December 18, 2005

German hostage freed in Iraq

December 13, 2005

Council of Europe rapporteur says CIA abduction claim "credible"

November 29, 2005

German, Iraqi driver abducted in Iraq

November 22, 2005

Angela Merkel elected new German chancellor

November 20, 2005

Israeli Labor Party leaves government; early election ahead

60th anniversary of Nuremberg trials marked

November 11, 2005

German Social and Christian Democrats agree on new government

November 8, 2005

Family of killed Palestinian boy donates organs to Israeli patients

October 31, 2005

Bush nominates Alito to U.S. Supreme Court

October 28, 2005

Body of Rosa Parks to lie in honor at U.S. Capitol

October 25, 2005

Iraqis accept constitution

October 13, 2005

Gunmen, police clash in south Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria

October 10, 2005

Schröder gives up German chancellorship ambitions, makes way for Merkel

October 2, 2005

German Christian Democrats win by-election in Dresden

October 1, 2005

Researchers: Wild gorillas seen using tools

September 28, 2005

U.S. house majority leader DeLay indicted, steps down temporarily

September 20, 2005

Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal dead at 96

September 18, 2005

Results of 2005 German federal election

September 10, 2005

One week before German federal election, the race is wide-open again

September 9, 2005

Malawi food appeal unanswered by world community

September 8, 2005

Death of candidate will delay final results for German federal election by weeks

September 5, 2005

President Bush nominates John Roberts as Chief Justice of the U.S.

September 4, 2005

TV debate between German chancellor Schröder and opposition leader Merkel held

September 1, 2005

Al-Qaida claims responsibility for London 7/7 bombings

First executions in post-Saddam Iraq held in Baghdad

August 25, 2005

German Constitutional Court green-lights early elections call

August 23, 2005

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson calls for assassination of Venezuela's president

Massive floods in Bavaria, Austria, Switzerland

August 21, 2005

Space shuttle Discovery back in Florida

One million pilgrims attend open-air mass with Pope

August 20, 2005

Document reveals U.S., Taliban discussed bin Laden assassination

Daily Mail: Scotland Yard offered Menezes family US$1m

August 19, 2005

Moroccan gets seven years in German 9/11 retrial

August 18, 2005

Pope visits World Youth Day in Cologne

August 17, 2005

Two new schools open in Beslan

Israeli Army begins forced evacuation of Gaza settlements

August 16, 2005

Plane carrying 160 crashes in Venezuela

August 15, 2005

Gaza Strip pullout under way

August 14, 2005

Cypriot plane with 121 on board crashes in Greece

July 27, 2005

Verdicts announced in France's largest child abuse case

July 26, 2005

U.S. consumer confidence drops

Murderer of Dutch filmmaker van Gogh gets life term

July 23, 2005

Man shot on London Underground unconnected to bombing, says Scotland Yard

Many dead in Egyptian resort blasts

July 21, 2005

German president dissolves parliament; elections in September

July 19, 2005

Nearly 25,000 Iraqi civilians killed in Iraq, watchdog group claims

July 18, 2005

Afghan warlord convicted by British court of torture

July 17, 2005

Plane crash in Equatorial Guinea kills 55

July 16, 2005

54 killed by suicide bomber at Musayyib gas station

July 13, 2005

Train crash in southern Pakistan kills more than a hundred

July 12, 2005

Suicide attack hits mall in Netanya, Israel

Intel's offices across the EU raided

July 11, 2005

German opposition launches election campaign

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Copyright
Hi, I'm very sorry but we can't accept stories that are just copy and pastes from other new sources - it's illegal. Everything has to be your own words. I'm sorry about that, but there's nothing we can do about it. Dan100 (Talk) 12:27, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Vinlud~enwikinews

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

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Image:Einstein manuscript.jpg
Welcome to Wikinews, Please provide the source and the license of the image or under how you are claiming fair use. Images without this information will be deleted.--Cspurrier 02:59, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The image has been replaced with an image on Commons. -- NGerda 03:38, August 21, 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 Vinlud. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Vinlud~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 23:37, 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) 06:40, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:216.253.66.47

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

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CBC lockout enters sixth day

August 20, 2005

The labour dispute between the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and its union the Canadian Media Guild continues, with no sign that the sides will return to contract negotiations. The CBC has locked out about 5500 of its union employees, which include broadcasters and technicians. The main disagreement is over the proportion of permanent workers CBC hires.

CBC management wants to increase the number of employees hired under a fixed-term contract basis, as opposed to permanent staff, saying it will give them more flexibility. The Canadian Media Guild calls CBC management's contract offer "little more than a veiled attempt to buy off employees with their own money".

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User talk:81.192.16.237

Welcome
81.192.16.237, 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! -- NGerda 21:41, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
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User talk:NGerda/Archive 5

This is User talk:NGerda Archive 5, performed at 21:44, August 20, 2005 (UTC).

Tell us about yourself
How old are you? Have you ever taken a college level political science class? Do you consider yourself a conservative or liberal? If these answers are already in the archives, forgive me.
 * This question was not meant to be an insult, there is no need to ignore it, I'm just curious about who you are. Your picture shows you as a young person, and I'd like to know more.
 * Sorry 'bout that. I've been pretty wrapped up in things around here, and I've gotten personally attacked by one user. I'll try getting to this within the next couple of days.  -- NGerda 19:14, July 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * The answers to those questions are on my user page, and I am taking a college level political science class this year. -- NGerda 19:20, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

 * So, your a pacifist? Will you still be a pacifist when wahhabist islamic terrorists attack your home town and kill your friends and family because you are not a muslim and their interpretation of the koran says to kill all non-believers?
 * I probably shouldn't be intervening here, but dude - CHILL OUT! Um, I should probably say something enlightened here, but ah well. By the way, indivuduals from all religions have preached hatred in the past. It doesn't mean, however, that the entire religion advocates or condones what they espouse. SoLando 12:30, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * What the hell do you mean CHILL OUT when this guy plays a major part in the running of wikinews. People like him will get this site forever labeled as liberal, thereby ruining it. He's a young fool who needs to be demoted and replaced by somebody with some experience in life. I care about this site, and I'm sick and tired of this guy's bullshit.

 * I'd also like to point out that more people have killed in Jesus' name than any other person in history. :P -- NGerda 17:59, July 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * And I'd like to point out that I despise organized religion in general, while acknowledging that on occasion they ALL do some very good deeds, and of course some bad deeds. I never said I was a Christian. By looking at your picture, your age, and the fact that you are a pacifist, I know your type. I lost a cousin in the world trade center, and I'd like to see you grow up and learn that life is a jungle and killing is a natural part of life. Would you be a pacifist if you came home and found a man raping your 8 year old son, or would you grab your rifle and blow his head off? You will grow up someday, and hopefully learn that pacifism is a dream for those who lack an understanding of human nature and the limits of governments and the law. Based on many of your posts, I consider you a complete idiot. People like you are keeping wikinews from being all it can be. For example, stating that Bush dropped out of college? What a moron, the man is a Harvard MBA with poor public speaking skills. Nobody makes it through the Harvard MBA cirriculum while being an idiot, regardless of political connections. Making a comment like that just shows what a young fool you are. Show some restraint and stop fucking up this site, and this is coming from a long ago graduate who HAS taken A political science class or two.
 * Well I'll let you continue living in your pessimistic, violent, religion-hating world, and I'll continue improving the NPOV and localism standards of Wikinews. Good day to you, sir. -- NGerda 20:52, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

" US police pursue girl over stone"
This story is perhaps worth a write-up, are you willing to cover it? I won't have time as I'll be in California (Santa Clara County) Monday 2:00 pm until Thursday 4:50 pm, perhaps we can meet up somewhere.--Eloquence 00:24, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

In case you're interested, I've created a page at Meetup/California.--Eloquence 00:35, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm going to attempt to cover that story and the Disneyland story, since I live 5 minutes away from Disneyland. The meetup sounds great, but unfortunately I live over 400 miles away from the proposed meetup. Be sure to tell me how it went, and if you travel to Southern California, be sure to let me know! Best of luck to you, NGerda 03:40, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

Bo Bluxo
Took you mothafookin' long enough, jackass. What the hell ya been doing this whole time? lol, Just messin'. Thanks for taking care of him. Now I can go to bed at 4:00 AM (local EST) after dealing with this guy for an hour. -- Ross Koepke Talk 07:53, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry 'bout that, Ross. I honestly didn't see the mess until right before I blocked him. Thanks for cleaning up!  -- NGerda 08:04, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

Edit this page
If you'd bothered looking at the page history, you would have seen that I have already tried what you are doing. Dan100 (Talk) 16:30, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Um, I did bother looking at the page history, and you bolded the text "Edit" not "Edit this page". -- NGerda 16:31, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

CheckIt
User:RossKoepke
 * HAHAHA -- NGerda 02:03, July 19, 2005 (UTC)

I need your help
My comments on the talk page re; the story about 25,000 civilians killed in Iraq. My comments were deleted; maybe you can protect them(the comments) I feel very strongly about this. Paulrevere2005 19:25, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Protecting talk pages is not allowed, since there is no way to protect just a single part. It looks like the problem was you linked to a past revision, then some one went to reply and just clicked the edit button with out first moving to the current revision, this caused your later edit to be overwritten. --Cspurrier 19:30, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Paul, comments on talk pages are considered sacred, and deletion of comments is not permitted at Wikinews. If intentional comment deletion is found out, the user must be blocked.  -- NGerda 20:30, July 19, 2005 (UTC)

Paul, thank you very much for bringing this to my attention. Please, do not hesitate to do so in the future. After carefully reviewing the circumstance, it seems evident to me that there was merely an edit conflict. The new Wiki software accidentally overwrites previous versions in an edit conflict. Happy writing, NGerda 20:38, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree that posts to discussion should be left alone (sacred conveys the point). I am guilty myself of deleting previous posts I made rather than explaining them more fully, or making an attempt to explain the frame of mind I was in when posted as an excuse or apology. -Edbrown05 20:45, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

"Portal" namespace
Nick, it's not a question of moving pages. Creating a new namespace is only something a developer can do. Dan100 (Talk) 14:09, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, thanks. How do we move the pages then?  -- NGerda 16:44, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

IRC
please come onto IRC, i need to talk to you, thankyou.--Ryan524 07:00, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Portals...
I see you put in the portals using the namespace. I am still very confused as to why we need them — the Category:Portal seemed a good solution. -- IlyaHaykinson 06:08, July 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Nick, you might want to try thinking about what consensus means. Go read the Water cooler. While you're doing that, you can set to work reverting your moves. Dan100 (Talk) 21:23, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Protection
Hello, thanks for the welcome. Can you unprotect Image:Breaking.png (I want to crush it)? I don't know why it's protected, considering most images on the front page aren't. 24 17:45, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * OK, no problem, I'm on it! -- NGerda 17:50, July 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks! 24 17:55, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * No prob dude, it's what I'm here for! -- NGerda 22:06, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

confused
Dan blocked me for a few minutes because of 1 word(executed) in a developing story headline...the story seems to have been deleted..here is the new benign version I don't seem to be able to get into developing; July 22, 2005

An eyewitness, Mark Whitby,said;"As the man got on the train I looked at his face. He looked from left to right, but he basically looked like a cornered rabbit, like a cornered fox. He looked absolutely petrified.He sort of tripped but they were hotly pursuing him and couldn't have been more than two or three feet behind him at this time.He half-tripped, was half-pushed to the floor. The policeman nearest to me had the black automatic pistol in his left hand, he held it down to the guy and unloaded five shots into him."

Journalist Chris Martin said;"Then I heard shots. I thought it was three but someone else said five. It sounded like a silencer gun going off, and then there was blind panic, with people shouting and screaming and just running away."

Portals
Because as I've told you Nick, READ THE WATERCOOLER, where you will see THREE complete objections to the change. There is no 'ratification', there is no 'consensus'. Dan100 (Talk) 07:50, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

Just to make it abundantly clear, as you're obviously having a little trouble with your reading:

 * Furthermore, seeing "Portal:" before the title is weird and potentially confusing to readers. Plus it means having to prefix that before putting (eg) United States into the search box. What's the point in that?

 * This is change for changes sake, and positively harms the project. It should not be done. Dan100 (Talk) 10:23, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

 * We can always pull up statistics by making a database query. We can have a DPL that outputs a numbered list that doesn't include things in Category:Portal. I think that the portal namespace is worse than a category for three reasons:
 * The name of the page is confusing, "Portal:Africa" looks worse than just "Africa"
 * Search will not automatically show portals
 * The URLs are harder to give out. Instead of http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Africa, it's got an extra "Portal:" in there.
 * I think with the DPL having more functionality now, it makes little sense to have the separate namespace. -- IlyaHaykinson 13:17, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

Ilya, those are exactly my concerns. We must put our readers first (or what's the point?). There is no consensus for such a namespace. Dan100 (Talk) 16:04, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

 * In order to show my opinion: I agree with those opposing a seperate namespace för Portals. The little benefit of more accurate statistics doesn't respond to the cons, like simpleness of likning ([Africa] instead of [Portal:Africa|Africa]), better URL:s (as mentioned), better page header etc. The localism (making portals for every town, which I support) and "topicalism" (making portals for every topic, which I also support) could be done without the namespace. Väsk 21:50, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

And even more than that Nick, you're messing with things you simply do not understand - after your 'moves', many/all the subpages were broken. Dan100 (Talk) 08:07, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Dan, it got a whole lot of support before that, and I made the switch before the opposition votes came.  If a proposal is greatly supported, and the switch is made and shortly after people express opposition, it is not ok for you to override everyone else and revert all of the page moves.  It should be discussed, not ridden over. -- NGerda 16:21, July 24, 2005 (UTC)

Talk page comments...
Come now Nick, Bush's average was a 77, a C+ - and he did graduate from Yale. :P --Mrmiscellanious 15:26, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
 * But he still can't pronounce "nuclear". :P -- NGerda 19:18, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

Yo.
Get on AIM, then delete this section. -- Ross Koepke Talk 01:16, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I like having a history of times my friends want to contact me. :)  -- NGerda 01:18, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

Hotline/Collaboration + WNN
Nick, I have no problem adding the WNN forwarding to the hotline. However, I think that the current way the greetings are phrased, it's completely unclear what the network is. Especially since the word "network" refers to so many things (Internet? community of people? radio? things to catch fish?). I suggest that you use a description for what it is rather than its name. -- IlyaHaykinson 01:57, July 27, 2005 (UTC) I also added the above to Wikinews_talk:Hotline/Collaboration. -- IlyaHaykinson 02:00, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

Image FUBARing
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:122979main_launch.jpg

Due to your edit of this file, we had a lot of trouble at Wikinews because it was on the main page and in an article. There was a small edit war on the commons which WN was at the mercy of. After taking a long time to identify the problem (thinking it was just our wikicode) I had to create http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wide122979main_launch.jpg which took some time.

While none of that's really important because it should be taken care of now, I wonder if http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:122979main_launch.jpg is still correct. ex: the source says from NASA Which is no longer true. -- 20:22, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm really sorry about that. I should have replaced the link.  The correct link is http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/123520main_1735-lg.jpg -- NGerda 20:49, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

The night shift
What time is it in California? Do you never sleep? I knew someone who lived near Disneyland once in the less glamorous part of Orange County, she said, and she said all the teenagers hung out there getting drunk and doing what teenagers do, only in the middle of Disneyland. Always thought it would make a great alternative The OC :) Anyway, don't stay up all night, it's not good for you! ClareWhite 08:13, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
 * :D Hey Clare! Yeah, the Disneyland fireworks stopped quite a while ago... actually it's been hours!  It's only 1:14 a.m. here, though, and I like catching up with all of you English folk.  ;)  Cheerio, NGerda 08:15, July 28, 2005 (UTC)

Hehe. Well, here it's raining and there are no fireworks every night here. (unless you count the blowing up of suspicious packages...) Oh, to be in sunny California ClareWhite 08:18, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Heh, actually it's been really hot here lately! Like, seriously, it's been melting hot!  But, then again, any weather is better weather than in Mumbai right now.  -- NGerda 08:23, July 28, 2005 (UTC)

bias?
"However, many editors..." - Amgine
 * There are far more than "2 or 3" editors who are in support of the project. See the list on the main WNN page. -- NGerda 04:53, July 30, 2005 (UTC)

I submit that two editor expressed their support for the proposal, which I agree is equally innaccurate. But if you are correcting someone for bias, you should be especially careful to avoid what appears to be equally biased statements. - Amgine
 * Dan100's statement was However, the one or two editors who support this wish to continue working on their proposal. When comments are made on a News section of a project, using the word "this", if I am not mistaken, refers to the project itself, which the following people have expressed their desire to work on improving and editing the project: Ryan524, NGerda, Chiacomo, MrMiscellanious, RossKoepke, Kyelewis, Dcabrilo, Ameer, zanimum. -- NGerda 05:02, July 30, 2005 (UTC)

If you cannot see how your statement might appear equally biased, based on the results of the recent vote (and on which Dan100 may have based his statement), then perhaps you might consider that your judgement on this specific matter might not be wholly objective. I stand by my initial statement; if you are correcting someone for bias you should be especially careful to avoid what appears to be biased comments. - Amgine

Deleting the image
I should have known better. I usually get on the case of others, particularly at Wikisource. I'm still trying to get a hang of what is more "fair-use" images from other news sources, and there is some stuff that is useful that can be copied, but not all of it. That is the real nasty part. In a news situation (as opposed to writing a book that is going to take months or years to complete) sometimes you get caught up in the moment trying to simply put something into the article.

Anyway, thank you for pointing out that the photo was inappropriate. I don't have any objection to having it deleted, and as I pointed out, should have known better. --Robert Horning 03:48, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Hey, no prob at all! ;) If you have any more questions, don't hesitate to check out Policies and guidelines, and if you run into trouble, just give put a message here on my talk page.  :)  -- NGerda 03:54, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

Queer Eyed!
So Nick, how do you like your new Queer Eyeified user page! Don't thank me! Thank the fab five! ;) --TUFKAAP 04:28, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

....Ok you, can Queer eyeify my user page as revenge....

 * LOL! OMG!! AP, you have lit up my week!  First people flat out reject WikiNews Network, then I get flat out rejected at the door at SIGGRAPH, and now my userpage is Queer-Eyed!  teehehe indeed, my good friend!  -- NGerda 05:48, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Template:Block
NGerda: You have that template, which should not be in the main template space, on 13 pages which it should not be on. I strongly encourage you, again, to not use that inaccurrate and inappropriate template except if you then follow it up by removing it after the block expires. - Amgine/talk 01:09, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
 * You moving it to my namesace does nothing to resolve that problem, or any problem for that matter. I use it as a friendly message to blocked users who don't understand what is going on.  If they care about how their talk page works, they can remove it, but most of them leave anyways, so it doesn't really matter.  -- NGerda 01:34, August 10, 2005 (UTC)

There is a block message presented when blocked users attempt to edit -- that message includes a pointer both to the administrator's talk page and email as well as IRC. Perhaps that message should be edited if we feel that it provides incomplete information. I don't really care for the template. --Chiacomo (talk) 02:41, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

New WNN logo?
Look:

Took Davodd's submittal for the WN logo contest and took the words from the current WNN logo. You like? --TUFKAAP 01:34, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Ooh, I do like! Let's work on it a bit more, shall we?  The crescent looks a bitlke the communism symbol.  -- NGerda 01:36, August 10, 2005 (UTC)

... a laugh...
Hi ya' :) still grinning. -Edbrown05 05:17, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
 * ;) -- NGerda 05:26, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

Developing Icon
You are replacing this image: with this one:  - which is a much more confusing graphic. Can we please discuss this? -- NGerda 08:51, August 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * It was in process of loading the newer image. How is a wrench and screwdriver less confusing? -- Davodd | Talk 09:05, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
 * It's simple, and gets the message across: the ideal use for icons and graphics. The new one, on the other hand, is very hard to understand. -- NGerda 09:08, August 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * It's not simple - it looks like a baseball bat and a wrench - and what do either of the tools in the first have to do with writing? The new one is a pen and is simpler to get the point across that writing is in progress. -- Davodd | Talk 09:13, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I like the pen graphic a lot. -Edbrown05 18:13, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Honestly I didn't realize it was a pen (nor screwdriver either). How about having a boader discussion, guys? Like on Watercooler? --Aphaia 00:17, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

speedy welcome
That's the fastest welcome I've had on any wikiproject... before I even registered. And I just wrote one word.

Thanks :) --Chamdarae 20:32, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
 * No prob. ;) If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask me or another Wikinewsie.  Once again, welcome!  -- NGerda 21:37, August 14, 2005 (UTC)

About Andrewbot
Why hello there! How did you find your way over here lil' fella? I'd like to learn more about you: where you came from, who made you, etc. Hi! NGerda 01:16, August 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * My name is Andrewbot and I am an incarnation of pywikipediabot fixing double redirects. My master is User:Andrew_pmk. Andrew pmk 01:52, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

What's going on ?
You having trouble with IRC? I sent a message to your GMail account... --Chiacomo (talk) 02:49, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I responded. -- NGerda 02:54, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Document reveals U.S., Taliban discussed bin Laden assassination

If the U.S. foreign policy folks had killed him then;
they wouldn't have had the antagonist necessary to justify U.S. military and economic invasions(worldwide Americanization/Globalization)..You don't kill all the robbers if you're selling security systems, now do you? U.S. foreign policy managers have,for generations,subscribed to a bastardization of Hegelian dialectic philosophy(you have to have an enemy to move yourself forward) which is why as soon as the USSR started to fade, the Islamic terrorists were nurtured and irritated(by establishing and maintaining a big US base in Saudi Arabia ) as the next global enemy. It is no surprise to anyone who is thinking outside the box (i.e. who has considered the possibility that this war,and a new global enemy, was wanted by the controllers of the US government), that bin laden is alive nor that Saddam was never bumped off(If our 1,861 died to make "the world a better place without Saddam" why didn't we just have him killed?) Even if Bin Laden was dead, we would likely not know it until his replacement was out front; unlesss,and this is the scary part, the game has now taken on a life of its own, and the enemy they manufactured has now become cancerous...Sort of like how some say the aids virus got out of one of our laboratories. One thing is for sure; the more civilians we kill and cripple, whether by accident or intent, the more enemies(family members,friends of victims) we are manufacturing; and I don't think we need any more.Study Hegel's dialectic and you've got a crystal ball. Paulrevere2005 22:22, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, at this point in time the FBI was spending its efforts investigating President Clinton's sexual life, and not following up on phone calls from Florida about men wanting to learn only how to take off and fly a plane and not land it. So sad.  My heart is with the victims of September 11th and their families.  :'(  -- NGerda 22:28, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes,me too; the question is, when and how does the "widow making" and "orphan making" stop? Paulrevere2005 22:33, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I honestly think (and this is just my opinion) that it rests with the media to change the policy-making. The corporate-owned media has a conflict of interest: they are the ones who lobby their interests in congress (such as lower emissions laws), and they are the ones who supply the information to the public.  For too long has the media diverted the focus on important domestic and foreign issues facing the U.S. and world population, forcing us instead to spend our efforts learning about a Michael Jackson trial, a missing white teenage girl in Aruba, and a lost Cub Scout in Utah.  There are much larger issues facing the country and the world. Tobacco use alone kills over 1,000 Americans per day!  You are twice as likely to kill yourself as someone else is to kill you.  95 percent of child abductions are by the parents of the child.  This media needs to be changed. And Wikinews stands a pretty good chance of doing just that.  -- NGerda 22:57, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

 * I feel that the buck stops with the voters; and the younger voters must provide the energy. To me it's discouraging that its the older generation like Cindy Sheehan who actually get out and do something(on either side). It's great to spend time communicating but unless one is willing to actually do something; it's nothing but a lot of hot air. CNN had a poll showing that 97% of Americans do not believe their representatives in congress are acting in the people's best interest. That means that America is no longer a government "of the people". That is a serious degeneration of the fabric of the country; but what is more concerning is that those very politicians who are not working for the people will be reelected by the people because the people have given up on the idea that they should get to know and vote for the best candidate..even if he or she is with the Green Party of is an independent. Just imagine if the entire congress were kicked out and replaced by new people within the next 4 years; is there any doubt at all that it would be better for America and Americans?
 * The media's function is to provide the raw data that people need in order to figure out for themselves exactly what is going on regarding big issues..things like "How did this war start?" "How did the Vietnam War start?" "How did WW2 start?" "Who benefits from wars?" "What would happen if all countries kept all their troops within their own borders until/unless they were needed to stop an invader?" "Who benefits from globalization?""Who benefits from a "police state"...from spying on and searching citizens who have done nothing wrong?" Media needs to aggressively remind people where these wars come from;[]. We had to wait 50 years for the classified information to come out that proved the preceding story; will our media make us wait another 50 years before the information comes out that proves this story?[]"The Islamic "jihad" was supported by the United States and Saudi Arabia"...but still, the people need to demand better media; and fortunately, perhaps wikinews is part of that process. Unless the oncoming tide of reactionary ignorance gets turned around soon; any child born in much of the world this year will never know what it is like not to live in a police state; but I have to wonder; do most people in their 20's even mind if they are under surveillance 24/7?? Would they mind if they had a location chip implanted on their wrist?? Or be required to carry an ID card that is hooked up to GPS??Maybe we just need a new definition for "freedom"..something that is analogous to "on a leash". Paulrevere2005 02:20, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

"The role of political leadership is to shape public opinion."
This statement by the U.S. representative in paragraph 26 of the article's transcript says it all. Any American who still believes that American policy and government is shaped by the will of the people has go it backwards. The will of the American people(public opinion) is to be shaped by the American political leadership. What a beautiful nugget of reality buried within this transcript. Paulrevere2005 23:22, 21 August 2005 (UTC)


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Inter Milan victorious in Italian Super Cup

August 21, 2005

Inter Milan won the Italian Super Cup on Saturday for the first time in sixteen years. The match took place at Stadio delle Alpi in Torino, Italy against the Serie A champions Juventus. The cup is the first opportunity to win a trophy in the Italian football season.

Argentinian midfielder Juan Sebastian Veron scored the only goal of the match. He received the assist from Adriano in the sixth minute of the first half of extra time.

Roberto Mancini, coach of Inter Milan, described the match as "tough". Inter now prepare for a preliminary round match of the Champions' League against Shakhtar Donetsk on Wednesday. Serie A, the top division of Italian football, begins on August 27 with Inter being one of the teams favored to win.


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Talk:Daily Mail: Scotland Yard offered Menezes family US$1m

Has the UK taken up counting in US terminology(even 1 mil.US$)?
May as well count the same way as the boss; right,mate? Paulrevere2005 02:37, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Pay per kill
¿If I pay US$1 M I will can kill one person? ¿It will allow killing people with paying fees? ¿We would can kill Bush and Bin Laden with US$2M? ¡The world would be happier without they! but... I think that the price of one person are infinite 1 trillon dolards isn't enough to pay a person life.--81.172.11.39 17:09, 25 June 2006 (UTC)


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Australian parliamentary security officers allowed to address members as 'mates' again

August 21, 2005

The ban on using the term "mate" as a form of address for fellow Australian security officers has been overturned. The ban was previously reported here on Wikinews 3 days ago. A daily email brief sent to security staff revoked the "mate" ban and suggested that security officers use their judgement about how to address visitors, employees and Parliamentarians. The edit said: "PSS officers are reminded to treat everyone in Parliament House with respect and courtesy, and to be sensitive to the expectations of visitors and building occupants. In particular, PSS officers need to be aware of when a degree of informality may be acceptable and when a more formal approach is required, and should not use colloquialisms where these might not be understood or appreciated."

The decision to ban the word "mate" provoked significant expressions of outrage from Australia's Prime Minister and many other Members of the Parliament.


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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. Coqsportif, 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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Stop reverting your edits on the Blair/BBC article. Look at our policies above to gain an explanation. --Mrmiscellanious 01:47, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * The problem is, you cannot include a source if you did not use it in your article. Besides, not to sound mean, but the article needs a LOT of cleanup and organization before it gets publish status.  --Mrmiscellanious 01:51, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Please read NGerda's links above. They will help you on writing this article.  As for now, it is not publishible in it's form.  If in doubt, ask a few users.  --Mrmiscellanious 01:55, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
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User talk:203.59.158.190

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User talk:164.58.89.3

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User talk:Goober99~enwikinews

RSS system
This looks great. Any chance I can have the original feed URL? Dan100 (Talk) 12:11, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Any chance you could join the IRC channel for a quick chat? I'll be around for about 40mins or so... Dan100 (Talk) 14:19, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

Just in case you don't make it a couple of questions: What happens if a story is deleted? It is removed from the feed? How does it select pages to put into the feed? And do you know why this story appeared in the feed then disappeared today? Dan100 (Talk) 14:25, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

 * It seems to be updating rather slowly now. Any chance you could set it to update every 30-60mins or so? Dan100 (Talk) 10:42, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

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One million pilgrims attend open-air mass with Pope

August 21, 2005

The Catholic World Youth Day 2005 concluded today with a open-air mass by Pope Benedict XVI at the Marienfeld, about 15 km west of Cologne.

Speaking to some one million pilgrims from about 200 countries the Pope called for a "return to God". In his sermon, he condemned the commercialisation of faith and said that "Religion constructed on a 'do-it-yourself' basis cannot ultimately help us".

He announced that the next World Youth Day will be held in Sydney and concluded with short addresses in nine languages in which he called upon the faithful to "walk together in unity".

A journalist working for the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel described the speech this way: "First faith, then morality".

The Pope has been in his native Germany since Thursday. During his visit he met with high ranking politicians, made the first ever visit of a Pope to a German synagogue and spoke to representatives of the Muslim community.


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England win second test of the Ashes series

August 7, 2005

England squared the Ashes series against Australia by holding on for a 2 run victory at Edgbaston in Birmingham.

Australia came close to victory themselves, however Steven Harminson took the wicket of Michael Kasprovic to clinch victory on the fourth day of the game.

The match looked to be in Englands hands following sterling batting from Kevin Pietersen (71, 20) and Andrew Flintoff (68, 73) which left the Australians needing to score 282 to win the match. The tourists were soon in trouble ending the third day at 175-8 with over 100 runs still to score and only 2 wickets in hand.

However on the fourth morning the Australian tailenders scored steadily and despite the loss of Shane Warne for 42 the final wicket pair closed in on the target.

The Edgbaston crowd were reduced to biting their nails as the match came down to the wire; Australia needing just 3 runs to win and England needing just one wicket.

Harmison produced a lifting delivery from just short of a length which Kasprovic could only fend off with a glove through to the England 'keeper Geraint Jones, leaving Australia agonisingly short of a memorable win and the series all square at one match each with three to play.

Scores: England 407 and 182, Australia 308 and 279


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Third Ashes test ends in a draw

August 15, 2005

The Third Ashes test ended in a draw as England ended 1 wicket short of victory. A captain's innings of 156 by Ricky Ponting helped Australia save the game on the fifth day.

When Ponting was dismissed with four overs to go a tense endgame ensued as England sought the final wicket but Brett Lee and Glenn McGrath fought to deny them that prize.

Earlier in the game the batsmen held sway as the third test saw the first centuries of the series from England's Michael Vaughan (166) and Andrew Strauss (106).

With England setting Australia an unlikely 423 to win in just over a day it was Ponting's 156 that was the most significant contribution as he batted for six hours to deny England a second consecutive victory.

The series remains at 1-1 with two matches to play.

Scores: England 444 and 280-6 dec. Australia 302 and 371-9

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Space shuttle Discovery back in Florida

August 21, 2005

The Space Shuttle Discovery has returned to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The 109 ton vehicle was flown back from Edwards Airforce Base (AFB) in California on top of a modified Boeing 747 known as the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. The 3,591 km journey across the United States took 2 days and cost about one million dollars. The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft made pit-stops in Oklahoma and Louisiana before landing in Florida this morning.

On its way back from space, Discovery had to land at Edwards AFB on August 9 because its homebase in Florida reported bad weather.

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Talk:One million pilgrims attend open-air mass with Pope

This guy is cool..a voice of calm in a world gone paranoid...and I'm not Catholic. Paulrevere2005 16:44, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Past-tense headline
Should this story be moved to "One million pilgrims attend open-air mass with Pope"? --Iain 17:30, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * You're right. I've moved the page. --Deprifry 17:39, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

I like the pope. --Chiacomo (talk) 01:27, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Country count
I know that the Yahoo story used these words, but I don't think it's appropriate to say that the visitors were from "almost 200" countries, since even counting Taiwan there are only 193 nations in total, unless you count territories and such like Puerto Rico. EDIT: Any suggestions? --Yarvin 02:09, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

deleted fair use image
Please remove Image:Benedict_XVI.jpg it was a deleted fair use file. 84.148.16.101 00:23, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
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Category pages
We basically try to hide our category lists on Wikinews as they're useless - news does not list itself A-Z! So instead we use our topic/region pages, which use DynamicPageLists to list articles by time. Dan100 (Talk) 09:49, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Just remember - this is a news service, not an encyclopedia :-). We do many things differently to Wikipedia here. Dan100 (Talk) 09:59, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

Portals
Hi there, you will see there has been a lot of discussion about categories/portals on the Watercooler Technical section. It would be really good if you could contribute to that so it can move forward! 194.74.169.134 10:06, 22 August 2005 (UTC) Sorry, that was me ClareWhite 10:19, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * On the front page when you click all reigons countries and topics, and the regoins/countries come up, I want to make Iran a portal....How do I do that? DragonFire1024 is Jason Safoutin 17:18, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Halloooo
Dag Henk,

welkom op WikiNews. Moest je vragen hebben kan je altijd bij mij terecht, in je eigen taal :-D

groetjes uit België,

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Interview to be translated
You can translate any interview you wish, but the one I need translators for most urgently is the one we will be publishing on Monday. Since it's such a large interview, I'm moving pieces over right now so people can start now and go at their own pace instead of having to do a HUGE block on Monday. The link is Story preparation/Past Eurovision contestants give advice to this year's performers, speculate on who will win. So anyone who is interested can start a draft now. I'll leave a notice to that effect on the water cooler. Mike Halterman (talk) 13:46, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Interwikis to pages like 2009/May/2
Hi, your bot added interwikis to pages like 2009/May/2. These interwikis for all days are shown on 2009/May. See on 2009/May/1 where you inserted interwikis noinclude tag correctly. HenkvD (talk) 09:45, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry, fixed now with onlyinclude tag. I apologize.--Bertrand GRONDIN (talk) 23:16, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I did some edit with my bot that I oversighted myself. I fixed the bot, with including  tag. This made some edits that are immediately corrected by myself. Don't worry, these one are sighted and all mistakes are now corrected. Sorry for all desagrements. --Bertrand GRONDIN (talk) 23:47, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

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Talk:CBC lockout enters sixth day

So this is why the noon CBC news hasn't been on the last week. --Mrmiscellanious 18:53, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Categories
edit protected Please add this article to Category:Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Thank you. Green Giant (talk) 17:32, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ --Pi zero (talk) 18:58, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
 * And, fixed after doing it wrong. --Pi zero (talk) 19:03, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

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User:HenkvD

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Talk:Gastric bypass surgery performed by remote control

Missing article
I tried to publish the article Gastric bypass surgery performed by remote control and it not only didn't publish but also disappeared from "articles under development". Do you know what I did wrong ? StuRat 20:23, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Indonesian blackout caused by lack of generation capacity

Why does the mainpage carry the image of a nuclear reactor -- probably in the US or UK -- when as far as I know, Indonesia doesn't have any reactors?
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This is my page, it is currently under construction.Johann Wolfgang... Talk

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User:Johann Wolfgang/Biotable

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User talk:220.255.146.114

Welcome
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