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Talk:Wikinews investigates Wikipedia usage by U.S. Senate staff members

You can view research used in writing this artice at Wikinews:Story preparation/ Research-United States Department of Justice workers among government Wikipedia vandals.

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U.S. Senate staff whitwash Wikipedia?

Lede
We need to rewrite the lede paragraph. I'm working on it here.

Senator staffers, using IP addresses assigned to their Sentors, have been editing the online free encyclopedia Wikipedia. In some cases, they have removed negative facts about their Senator from the articles.

can we ban them?
guys, i say we ban them. if a regular person was doing this vandalism they would be banned so why not these frauds?

syndicated "John Boy and Billy" radio show
The morning radio broadcast has twice done segments in the last month about Wikipedia. The first was a derisive account of the John Seigenthaler Sr. controversy. The second, coming about three weeks later, examined the encylopedia's entry of its own show, John Boy and Billy. After all their giggling and joking about themselves, the final upshot of the broadcasted segment was that they found the Wikipedia entry largely true with regards to their own show, dispite the entry of a rumored allegation of a lawsuit against one of their cast (I think that the happenstance that Wikipedia recorded it impressed them). -Edbrown05 01:11, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * How does that relate to this story? Growing recognition and awareness. -Edbrown05 01:16, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I would just like to say, excellent work by wikireporters. Congrats 69.194.69.193 04:46, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Let's keep case studies of popularity out for now, and keep the article on course. --  user:zanimum

Publish?
It looks fine now, can we publish before it's really old news? -- user:zanimum

Ideally, it will be published before 2:00 P.M. CST today, or 20:00 UTC, but Amgine, who voice mailed several senate offices involved, has only received a reply from the office of John McCain so far, and from Carl Levin's office. The press officer had wanted to talk to Amgine today. Daniel Bush 14:51, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Grreat work

Bawolff ☺☻ 23:21, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Indeed, very nice article, and kudos to all those who did the research. I want to point out to editors, though, that we need to watch out for POV remarks here!  I already found several POV statements in the article.  Keep in mind that we really cannot comment on whether or not this editing is negative; we can only report what has been found.  Cllewr 00:12, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Wow! I'm posting that next time someone complains about the smily in your signature.  :)  Nyarlathotep 22:16, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Congrats
Great work guys! sinblox (talk) 01:49, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Ditto; good job. Neutralizer 02:50, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I should have said this earlier... Great catch! Cowicide 07:38, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Whatever happened to the Republicans?

 * Thanks for writing this up. BUT, the source data included edits by Santorum, Ensign, and quite a few other Republicans.  This report includes not a single reference to a Republican edit or Vandalism.  It sure appears to be political bias from here.

 * VERY POV. What's up with that?!!! Cowicide 04:44, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

 * OK, NO RESPONSE?!!! Shouldn't this article FAIRLY reflect the involvement of BOTH political parties or get taken down for a POV violation???? I don't think much more time should be given without a valid response before this article is tagged with POV in dispute. Cowicide 05:16, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Senators Conrad Burns and Norm Coleman are both Republicans. Only edits from senate offices that were to articles related to those senators were included, except for what was probably an edit from Santorum's office's which removed a reference to a neologism for a mixture of fecal matter and sexual lubricant that was named after him in a contest by a Seattle newspaper. John Ensign's office's alleged edit, as explained, was to an edit on Harry Reid, inserting "rightfully" into a quote with him criticizing George W. Bush, and because Ensign is from the same state as Reid, I had doubts as to which senator's office made the edit.

As for an edit that may have come from Senator Snowe's office, that could have come from Collins's office as well. I at first thought seniority was a factor in IP addresses being assigned, but this thought was eliminated as it seemed not to correlate much of the time, and it seemed more random. Two out of five is pretty even. We, by which I mean the user Amgine and I, thought Tom Coburn's edit may have come from McCain's office because he was senior, but his office denied it, meaning we'd still have to question John Kyl's office.

I have "Edits seemingly coming from Rick Santorum's staff members that removed a reference to an effort to redefine Santorum's last name as a neologism meaning "the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex" were removed." into the miscellaneous section.

If more senators reply to Wikinews voicemails sent out by Amgine, then another article would probably be written. Thank you for your concern. Daniel Bush 05:20, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

 * "...because Ensign is from the same state as Reid, I had doubts as to which senator's office made the edit..."  Thanks for your response Daniel. Why not mention that in the article and the continuing investigation with McCain and others?  Can't this story develop over time?  Just seems like a lot of Republicans are getting a pass here.  Not to mention, why are the democrats listed first?  Why not try alphabetical order?  Just curious. Cowicide 05:33, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I should note that I didn't write the first comment about there being no republicans. I just find the article unfairly slanted against Democrats in style and substance.  Cowicide 05:42, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

When I listed senators involved, in an introductory sentence now taken out, "Several edits from Senate staffers were made to articles related to the Senators that supposedly owned those addresses, including those from the staffers of Joe Biden, Dianne Feinstein, Tom Harkin, and Conrad Burns," I listed from memory before double checking research notes. The order listed was also the order I wrote senatorial articles on. Biden and Harkin stuck out in my mind because I saw Biden appear on the Daily Show, and I had known Harkin's name before when he appeared on C-SPAN speaking about child obesity, while Senator Feinstein was speaking on C-SPAN today in a debate on an asbestos-related bill. At the time, Burns came last. I did Coleman's edits last in the investigation because the Associated Press had already covered it, and then when other editors said I should definitely include it, I put it below all the others when I wrote. I am rearranging subsections in the order described, but this article, according to Amgine in the #wikinews channel, the article, now "published," has already been under the gaze of many reporters, and major changes may be cumbersome.

Also, it would be useless to mention names being checked if those names turned out not to be involved. Along with the Republicans that aren't being mentioned from uncertainty, there is Carl Levin and Harry Reid. Did you find this to be a suitable reply? Daniel Bush 06:02, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

 * As one of the co-investigators, it seems to me this article could clearly be improved. I strongly encourage Cowicide and others to examine the contributions from each of the IPs in the Senate block (the IPs from 156.33.0.0 to 156.33.255.255), assess and evaluate their edits, and then add the more balanced and neutral facts here. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 06:03, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes, thank you Daniel. Sorry for flying off the handle.  Amgine, thanks for your response as well.  The proxy IP edits are very interesting.  Also, that range 156.33.0.0-156.33.22.255...  I wonder how well the FOIA and the Senate's network operations center will mesh together for logs? Ok, I'll start digging, but if any of us mysteriously disappear I hope there is a good wikinews article about it. Cowicide 08:26, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I took a quick look at the ever noble U.S. House of Representatives (why just stick with the Senate?) I see that they are also apparently up to some squirrely behavior. As you'll see there, IP address 143.231.249.141 (U.S. House of Representatives netrange is: 143.231.0.0 - 143.231.255.255) decided that the article would be "better" if they removed valid ties to (cough) Tom Delay. Now why on earth would Congressman Thad McCotter (R-MI) want to distance himself from good old Tom Delay? Beyond me.

While we are at it... It would seem IP 143.231.249.141 made some "enhancments" to remove this info "Musgrave received $30,000 in campaign contributions from former majority leader Tom DeLay's ARMPAC.". Now thats a naughty, naughty Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO). I'm beginning to think Congress and the Senate is (cough) unethical or maybe even corrupt. My world view has been shattered. Cowicide 08:26, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Dagnabbit... Speaking of unethical edits...  Jeez, you'll see there that IP 143.231.249.141 (from once again, the House of bad Rep IP range) decided facts are pesky and so unnecessary in this day and age. Congressman Dan Lungren (R-CA) just doesn't think anyone should focus on the fact that he only "received 38% of the vote." Why focus on the negative? Hopefully Lungren can go back into that article some more and shiny it up till it makes us all feel more positive and happy. What a humanitarian! God bless Lungren. God bless them all. Or... should they all just go to hell? Oh, I can't decide Cowicide 08:43, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

You know, I just thought of something crazy... with all this "nice and ethical" behavior going around. could it be that the Bush admin's secret wiretaps on Americans were used to spy on Bush administration political rivals? NO WAY! That could NIXON.. (cough).. I mean, NEVER happen here in the good ole' U S of A! That's crazy talk! I must be on good drugs or at least some choice bad ones. Nevermind. Sorry... crazy talk... crazy cow...  Anyway, Amgine... is there a way we could automate the search for these Senate & Congress IP ranges or is that something that's already been set up? I'll be glad to write a cgi script or whatever if it'll help speed this process up. Goodnight. Cowicide 08:56, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

 * To relieve your concerns, all US House edits are proxied through 143.231.249.141. I have personally contacted a couple of House Reps, and at least one of these has admitted to having staffers edit the article inappropriately due to a lack of familiarity with Wikipedia: they have since corrected their errors and are working with the community to improve the article neutrally. At the same time, the house is known to house a few people-staffers as well as elected officials, with strong senses of partisanship. Since we do not know *who* is making these edits, it is difficult to assign blame to the politicians when it might be the janitors instead. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 09:02, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

 * PS: I would encourage you to discuss this on http://pov.wikicities.com - a site which was set up specifically to have this kind of discussion.  Amgine | talk en.WN

 * They edited the articles "inappropriately" due to a "lack of familiarity" with Wikipedia?  Seems like a "lack of familiarity" with ethics to me.. but I'm a crazy cow.  I really doubt it was a self-loathing Democrat janitor going online at the house of reps computer system and making these changes to make the Republicans look better.  I think we can deduce otherwise.  Why not just put the facts in place and let the public decide if it smells fishy or not?  We can make it very clear that it "could have been a rogue janitor" in the article if you'd like.  As far as POV goes, I'll be glad to take your advice and discuss POV there.  But, don't you think this article could benefit from at least a smattering of the info about the republican article changes I mentioned above?  Like I said, add the janitor clause and let the public decide for themselves what to think about all of this maybe. Cowicide 09:28, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

 * No, I'm afraid I don't. This article is about the Senate, not the House. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 09:39, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Would it be too much trouble to change the title to "Wikinews investigates Wikipedia usage by U.S. Senate & House staffers" ... or would that add too many Republicans into the mix? Just kidding... er, mostly. : \   Cowicide 09:59, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Because all the House edits were already covered, twice, but unfortunately because they come through proxy servers, so members will have to be identified by the articles they wrote rather than their addresses. Edits to Marylin Musgrave's article were already mentioned in the article before this.

I agree that "Dozens of small corrections to grammar, spelling, or small facts—many of them related to the Senate—show Senate Wikipedia users have sharp eyes for details and help improve Wikipedia's accuracy." has a very positive slant and should be changed. Here was the article in its first draft form. Should positive edits have been kept at the bottom? Also, I'll be sure to include "janitor" edits in the next article on this that we'll be writing next week or so. Daniel Bush 16:12, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

looks to me like POV is in favor of Senate, if anything.
What happened to this article? Why remove Wales' quotes among other things? This article was chopped up.

In particular:

Senators' staff members have sometimes had to fight to correct inaccuracies. An edit to Jay Rockefeller's article by his staff removed information which may have been biased or untrue. The staff member who edited said, "Apologies, I was new to using Wikipedia, and I didn't fully realize the workings of the website," after other users continuously reinserted the information. The staffer removed the suspect paragraphs twelve times until another Wikipedia user finally removed the information. This was followed by the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, getting involved four days later after the page had continually shifted between versions.

This has a completely different intent, meaning, and message than what was originally written.

 * You're right. We did further research into each edit we focused on, and for this one we found that the Rockefeller staff were correcting misinformation in the article. Sometimes, you know, the people whose job is politics (or a specific politician) are right, and aren't trying to spread misinformation. This was one of those times, and we caught ourselves before saying something which would have been untrue. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 09:06, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Ok, was still editing, I'm new at this... one sec

Of note:

Dozens of small corrections to grammar, spelling, or small facts—many of them related to the Senate—show Senate Wikipedia users have sharp eyes for details and help improve Wikipedia's accuracy.

Finally:

Why try to hide the Wales' quote in Coleman between a different edit in question. The edits in concern are ones that change the public record, or change to an arbitrary POV. If the Senate were simply correcting spelling and grammar mistakes, no one would care, and this article wouldn't exist. Yes, try to stay 'neutral,' but that doesn't mean hide the truth.

Even if that previous edit in question was legitimate, it doesn't make sense to take a positive viewpoint of the Senate if you're supposed to remain neutral.

Pretty much everything seems to have been euphemized in favor of the Senate... last example:

The same addresses from Biden's office edited the article on the Hamas, which has recently won a majority in the Palestinian Legislative Council, and is listed as a terrorist organization by Australia, Canada, the European Union, Israel, and the United States, to give its first two paragraphs a slightly biased stance by removing information about its social welfare programs.

wtf is a 'slightly biased stance'? come on now folks.

-niNja

 * In reviewing literally thousands of edits, the majority of edits found were improvements or neutral edits to en.Wikipedia. The majority of edits were to non-Senate topics; sports- and college-related topics would probably top the list. (That research was not done for this article)

 * I'm not addressing the specific question of Mr. Wales's quote in the Coleman section. The primary reason it is in this section is Mr. Wales was commenting to the AP about the Coleman edits; we did not have the chance to interview Mr. Wales for this article.

 * The "reason" the senate edits are newsworthy is because there are a few highly questionable edits which are probably unethical, and they were committed on behalf of (and even possibly at the behest of) individuals who legislate ethics in the USA. At least, that is my opinion.

 * The focus of this article was on Senate-related edits. There were other edits which were clearly vandalous (including an amusing one to Carrot cake, of all subjects) but which were not followed-up on because there was simply too much material to make a reasonable news article. Even edits to Senate articles were passed over in favour of a very tiny sample of edits. Keep in mind we also did not present the dozens of new articles created on historical political figures, or the vandalism-fighting, done by Senate IPs. Believe it or not, some of the IPs appear to occasionally do RC patrol. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 09:37, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Ok, majority of edits good or neutral, that's fine. I'm not saying you should have included every 'negative' edit, I'm saying you should not have made a conclusion that Senate edits are good, like you did (Clear POV conclusion)... you should have included info that said most edits were 'improvements or neutral', but there were some 'negative' edits...negative being changing the public record, vandalism, or POV...

I'm saying that's not what came across or was done. Re-read the article and tell me with a straight face it's not heavily biased towards the Senate.

It's almost like a praise article, thanking the Senate for contributing to wikipedia.

-niNja

 * Yeah, the article should actually just have a part where it comes out and thanks the Senate. LOL, Ninja... and "...wtf is a 'slightly biased stance'? come on now folks. ..." ROTFL, Ninja! Hahaha! I don't know Amgine... but the RC patrol, carrot cake and historical figure changes could make a hell of an interesting story.  Seriously mostly.  Amgine, I know you are trying to keep your contacts alive by tip-toeing through the tulips here, but remember.... be bold.  Burn some bridges if you have to.  I swear, if you mysteriously disappear we'll write a kick ass article about you (that might be changed later by a rogue janitor, alas).  I'm going to get some people to contact the Congresspeople and Senators.  BTW, did you contact any of the Republicans I mentioned above with the proxy action?  Cowicide 09:50, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

 * niNja: That's a reasonable characterization. I happen to disagree with it, but clearly cannot convince you otherwise. As for the other edits, they may yet be written as articles. They just didn't fit the focus of this article. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 10:01, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Where can I get access to the relevant information? (edits, IP address owners, etc.)?

-niNja

 * Ninja, using history & whois lookups - or just look for IP's within those ranges for now - If you need some help email me privately. Me and some buds have begun to find some pretty interesting leads and a script is in development to help sort through all this madness and find more scum... (cough) I mean, unwitting, innocent mistakes... right... - unless Amgine wants to step up and let us know if there's already a script of some kind available? Cowicide 10:27, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I don't really have time to go tracert'ing or digging through garbage cans... I would think if an investigation had already been done, a report or analysis of some kind should be available? (you know, the evidence)

-niNja

 * In the spirit of wiki, they seem to be bogarting on the analysis and notes for the investigation? I dunno... Check their talk pages maybe they have some info there.  Crap, you think we have time for this?  Quit whining and hit those trash cans. ; )  Seriously though, this really is a serious article and important for our country.  Trying to control Americans through 1984-style propaganda tactics is something we need to STOP.  The American public's proverbial boot needs to kick some ass here or we'll further degrade towards despotism.   Cowicide 10:45, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Some of these are pretty serious claims... what happens when wn gets a subpoena? You can't just say "go look through the garbage cans."

-niNja

 * Hey, if the Bush admin can dig through our garbage cans without a warrant... just kidding.  Keep in mind, these "garbage cans" are logged IP addresses, edits, etc.... These are the same bits of evidence used by the FBI and the NSA for their investigations.  Keep that in mind while digging.  Cowicide 11:05, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

No, I'm saying to publish this information, and claim an investigation was done, I would hope that digging should already have happened... and be in presentable form, because regardless of wn's intent, other parties may wish to take legal action based on such claims, if verifiable. If wn is subpoena'd I'd guess they would be required to provide evidence for the article they published, assuming the court order was in the U.S.

-niNja

 * Actually the digging is in progress. I agree that a background report needs to come out... it will.  So will other articles.  Stay tuned. Cowicide 11:35, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

This link, mentioned at the top, shows all my research. Also, Chris Shays's article's staff member editors have already been contacted by Amgine, and they apologized, which will be included in the next story. Before and after Amgine reorganized the first draft, and our copyediting, I asked #wikinews and sometimes #wikipedia if it was all right, and no one had any problem, and it's a shame that these things were only noticed after the "developing" stage ended, where it was listed on the sidebar. I replied to a comment in the "What ever happened to the Republicans?" section, too. Daniel Bush 16:26, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Looks like most blatantly pro-Senate comments were modified... that's good. I'll look into the evidence link this evening. No personal opinions of mine have been expressed on this site to date, besides opinions on the development of the article. The reason the (mine at least) comments couldn't be made before it was published as the special report, was because the slants in question didn't exist.

Note: It's also the reason I posted on the discussion page, rather than neutralize the article myself.

-niNja

Language choice
First off, kudos to all investigating this. It's a great example of what the knowledgeable Wikinews community can do. However, I do have a problem with this line early on in the piece:

 * "The investigation showed the vast majority of edits to Wikipedia from Senate IPs were beneficial and helpful."

The first time I read it, I couldn't figure out if it was "beneficial and helpful" to the Senators (ie. spin), or to the community goal of NPOV. So perhaps some precise wording would help? It might also be useful to contrast the findings in this article compared to the mainstream media attention Wikipedia got for "banning" Congressional staffers and IPs from editing it. Examples of what was written in the MSM:

 * "Congressional staffers appear to have been engaged in doctoring their own bosses' entries, the Washington Post reported. For example, a campaign promise by Rep. Martin Meehan, D-Mass., that he would serve only four terms is gone." Sci-Tech, Washington Post

 * "Contributors to Wikipedia, the online user-written encyclopedia, have exposed extensive efforts by political staff in Washington to change the biographies of senators and congressmen in order to show them in a more favourable light." MSNBC

For better or worse, the majority of the reporting has been about the "problem cases."

It seems this Wikinews piece is a contrarian piece given the MSM exposure (ie. the majority of edits were not "spin" per se, but edits that the Wikipedia community would find to be useful additions to the body of knowledge and compliant with NPOV). If this is true, this article/investigation should make this clear. It wasn't to me until I read more and more of the article. -- Fuzheado 04:47, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Good call, Fuzheado. I'll claim poor language choice when rushing to press; that isn't an excuse but an explanation. A clear case of my bias as a wikimedian showing. "What? not everyone equates beneficial and helpful as referring to Wikipedia?"

 * Daniel_Bush (the major force in this article) added "to Wikipedia" to that sentence. I'm wondering if that makes clear enough that the measure of "good" versus "bad" is based on Wikipedia's standards of verifiability, neutrality, and improvement to the article in question? -  Amgine | talk en.WN 06:17, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

IP addresses
This might challenge some of the Senate IP address information in this article...

Vandlas may never be known

 * Yes, it might! the data records on Wikipedia strongly suggest physical IPs, rather than DHCP. However, DHCP is logged, and the Senate Segeant At Arms could clear all of this up by either making the logs publically available, or making available the Senate's IP mapping with the physical locations. We have contacted the Senate SAA on at least two occasions, and have received no responses other than an out-of-office auto response to the second inquiry. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 19:42, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Yeah, I've talked with compatriots who've been trying to get in contact with Senate SAA on this log matter. Strangely silent.  "We hear you knocking, but you can't come in" type thing?  I hope not.  I'm thinking it will require the FOIA and even then they might try to pull some BS "national security to hide corruption" blockade to try to hide from the American public.  But we should all at least try.  Good luck on your end Amgine.  Cowicide 20:07, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Ah, the Senate isn't subject to the FOIA. There's absolutely nothing to compel them to give you the logs. Lawandorder

 * I wonder if those logs are shared by anyone? i.e., the United States Secret Service (which is, believe it or not, subject to the FOIA to some extent) may have access to those logs and/or store them/mirror them. I know it's even more of a long shot but the FBI is subject to FOIA as well.  Also, I just got a communication about "Operation Daylight" within the U.S. Senate.  Apparently it publicizes the Senate's activities extensively with IT but I don't know much more.  Maybe it will open some doors (logs), but that's doubtful. Has anyone contacted the EFF about this?  We need those logs.  Otherwise, behind the scenes things need to happen to get a judicial committee going that can compel the SAA to bring the data forward. [What's that? I hear the sound of log files being deleted with DoD 5220, NSA and Gutmann electronic shredding standards as we speak...]  Cowicide 03:28, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I think it's a long shot that any executive agency would have reason to hold the IP logs of the U.S. Senate ... separation of powers really precludes that, and the way the branches of the government work I really, really doubt the Senate would be excited to share computer logs with anyone, even another government agency. The Senate Rules committee governs internet usage guidelines, they'd be the ones to talk to about if this is a violation of their guidelines. If they say yes, then there may be reason for them to open up who's doing what. But their defense is going to be: Isn't Wikipedia meant to be edited? In the end, does it matter who's doing it, really? They're just going to be smart enough to do it from their home computers next time, anyway. Lawandorder 04:13, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Another problem with this state x 2 IP blocking theory -- what about the standing committees? They all have offices with their own staffs that could very well be making the changes, too... Lawandorder 04:18, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

I was guessing that some IPs ranges above 100 would be assigned to standing committees and miscellaneous positions, such as Pages, as explained on my research page, but I never really looked into it. I had that feeling looking at the contributions of one IP address, since the edits were all on world government. I never really even thought there might be a pattern like with the Senate blocks 1 to 100, but the world government article editing IP correlated with the Subcommittee on Defense in an alphabetically arranged list of committees and subcomittees, an IP editing Operation Just Cause and Pentagon City, Virginia correlated with the Subcomittee on (military) Personnel, and an IP correlated with the U.S. Senate Committee on Budget edited the article on ranking Democrat member Kent Conrad. Daniel Bush 05:57, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Lawandorder asks, "... In the end, does it matter who's doing it, really? ...".      Uh, yes, it does in a democracy. Cowicide 00:20, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

In the news
Article on Conrad Burns that references wikinews (Without a link!) http://dailychronicle.com/articles/2006/02/09/news/wikipedia.txt -Ravedave 23:39, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
 * There's several other articles mentioning wikinews listed over on the Water Cooler. Some of those have links to us.  Whilst the source you cite mentions potential flaws in the openness of the wiki process it trusts our research enough to consider our conclusions newsworthy.  That is what really pleases me, and besides anyone who reads that can google for wikinews and come straight here. --Brian McNeil / talk 23:46, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree with yuo 110% Brian. I think that the direct mention of Wikinews as "wikipedias fact checker" is enough to say that we are very credible. I am happy to see the nationals piking this up. I am so proud of everyone. :) Jason Safoutin 23:50, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
 * ALSO: Washinton Post: "This crime-scene-style investigation..." WOOHOO! Jason Safoutin 00:00, 10 February 2006 (UTC) Wikipedia's Help From the Hill
 * Oh yeah, congrats too :) -Ravedave 00:01, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Great story - well done, it deserves to be picked up, a lot of reporters wouldn't have the understanding of how Wikipedia works - or the time - to do this sort of investigation ClareWhite 09:51, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * YeY! Now the foreign press is geting us :) Capitol Hill caught wiki-cheating News.com.au, mmmm Australia :) Jason Safoutin 00:11, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Much ado about NOTHING!!!!
Despite all the backslapping that I've read here, an important, fundamental concept underpinning Wikipedia has been trampled: People from all viewpoints are invited to make edits. Even with the Neutral Point of View (NPOV) policy, every contribution in its essence contains a Point of View (POV). This idea that American politicians should not contribute to their own biographies or limit how they edit is rank hypocrisy. Elected politicians have always trumpeted their accomplishments and downplayed their mistakes. They should contribute to Wikipedia. Nevertheless, those contributions are then subject to editing by subsequent editors with perhaps different POV. The result (in theory) is an objective article of general worth. To think that Joe Biden, Evan Bayh, Norm Coleman, or others are not interested in their own biographies on Wikipedia is absurd. They should be very interested. They should add and edit as much as they see fit. Of course, other editors will do the same. The net result produces a democratized article.

Also, I believe that the promoters of this "scandal" miss another important fundamental concept of Wikipedia: Important articles will undergo a much higher volume of editing than other articles. This fundamental theorem ensures that the only worthy information ultimately remains within such articles. I invite all the elected officials to edit as zealously as possible. I invite all other editors to do the same! 75.21.194.195 16:18, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

 * If they contribute, they MUST do it as autographers, not as anonymusers.


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Citation of Google's Webmaster Guidelines
I'm not sure how to go about citing this source. There's no date or author included on the page, and of course it isn't a news agency. The citation looks pretty skimpy. Is there a better way to do this? Ajohnson 23:03, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

At the bottom of the left hand column of a normal WikiPedia page, one finds a link to citation info, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Cite&page=Certified_Server_Validation&id=37961451 The analagous page doesn't exist here yet, but the info is more or less the same. Elvey 07:00, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

(Good job Google!)

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Clarify amounts (3kg from puppies, remainder from other sources)
I think the claim of 14 packets in the BBC article is a mistake. The other sources make no such claim. However, the DEA press release states: there have been 14 separate seizures of heroin. Also, this DEA photo shows 7 bags and this other DEA photo shows the bags are approx. 500 mL each. That would add up to a total of roughly 3.5 L. This is similar to the DEA's figure of 3 kg.
 * It's cruel and rediculous, and no way to make serious money. -Edbrown05 00:38, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

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Iran demands that IAEA end surveillance of its nuclear program

February 7, 2006 Shortly after ending its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the government of Iran has now ordered the IAEA to discontinue some of its surveillance of Iran's nuclear facilities. Tehran has also asked the agency to remove any and all signage from their nuclear sites by the end of next week.

This is in response to the Saturday resolution by the IAEA to report Iran to the United Nations Security Council, which was made without waiting for the director of the IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, chairman of the IAEA, to finish preparing a report on (and ) nuclear programs for the regular IAEA meeting scheduled for March 6. ElBaradei had given Iran until March to answer IAEA questions. By a vote of 27 to three (with five abstentions), and without the information in ElBaradei's report planned for March 2006, the IAEA recommended that the matter of the Iranian nuclear program be brought before the Security Council.

The recommendation claims that there are serious concerns about Iranian nuclear aims, and the agency does not have confidence that the program is intended solely for civilian or other non-military use. Although the meeting was taken without waiting for ElBaradei's March report, the recommendation requests ElBaradei to make his report anyway, including a list of "steps Iran needs to take to dispel suspicions about its nuclear ambitions" by March 6.

The IAEA's resolution calls for Iran to reinstate a freeze on its nuclear programs, consider ending construction of a plutonium-producing heavy water reactor, and to continue allowing the IAEA's purposes and actions in Iran. However, the council will not implement any further action until ElBaradei makes his full report on March 6.

ElBaradei also reported to the IAEA Monday that Iran would also demand a reduction in the amount of facilities inspections from the agency, and that they would discontinue their agreement to the Additional Protocol of the (NPT) if the agency reported Iran to the Security Council. This protocol entitles the IAEA to hold unannounced inspections of facilities, increased surveillance capability, and placing IAEA seals on nuclear equipment.

Other diplomatic ventures are being planned. On February 16, Iranian officials will meet with the Russian government in Moscow to discuss the possibility of Russia enriching uranium for export to Iran in exchange for a halting of its nuclear enrichment program. And Wang Guangya, China's ambassador to the UN, said Monday that "Even with the adoption of this IAEA resolution, it is the belief of most of the members there that a diplomatic solution is the way out within the framework of the IAEA."


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U.S. expels Venezuelan diplomat

February 7, 2006 The U.S. State Department declared last week that Jeny Figueredo Frias, the chief of staff to the Venezuelan Ambassador, was persona non grata and given 72 hours to leave the country. "We don't like to get into tit-for-tat games with the Venezuelan government like this, but they initiated this and we were forced to respond," said department spokesperson, Sean McCormack.

The earlier action by Venezuela had been the February 2 expulsion of U.S. naval attache, John Correa. Accusations were made that he had been passing secrets from the country's military to the Pentagon.

Tensions between Venezuela and the United States have been on the rise lately, resulting in several verbal broadsides from notable figures on both sides of the conflict.

In an interview with the Miami Herald, Donald Rumsfeld compared the Venezuelan President, Hugo Chávez to Adolf Hitler, "He's a person who was elected legally -- just as Adolf Hitler was elected legally -- and then consolidated power and now is, of course, working closely with Fidel Castro and Mr. Morales and others."

On February 5th, Chavez responded with a similar comparison, saying "I think Hitler could be a nursery baby next to George W. Bush." He told a rally of supporters that Bush was "worse than Hitler" and vowed to buy more arms to defend his nation as their diplomatic relations deteriorated.

Jeny Figueredo received a "hero's welcome" in Venezuela upon her return Monday. "I'm not a victim, I feel proud," said Figueredo. Speaking to a crowd of supporters gathered in Caracas, she shouted: "Down with imperialism!"

According to Figueredo, she had become a very uncomfortable person for the Bush administration as she was in charge of managing Venezuela's plans for subsidized oil to the poor US underclass.

Tensions have also increased due to Spain's sale of weaponry to Venezuela, including U.S. technology. The United States has attempted to block these sales.

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I am wondering if this issue is deserving of it's own "info box" yet? Neutralizer 03:29, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I think that might be appropriate, as the number of attacked embassies are steadily increasing. The norwegian embassy in Tehran was attacked only hours ago, and the norwegian embassy in Damacus has been attacked recently. Danish embassy in Tehran attacked again. If not in an "info box", information on the embassy attacks should be updated and gathered, perhaps in one article. Ehjort 20:37, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * http://odin.dep.no/ud/english/news/news/032171-990290/dok-bn.html (Norwegian mininstry of foreign affairs) Ehjort 20:36, 7 February 2006 (UTC)


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Thanks... a side note. It strikes me as inappropriate to remove a source simply because it is formatted incorrectly. If you reformat the article itself, as well, as was done... you don't know what information came from where. Deleting a source in that situation would invalidate an article. NiNja 10:45, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:Iran demands that IAEA end surveillance of its nuclear program

back to develop
my understanding, from the sources, is that iran has ended its cooperation with the additional protocol it signed up to earlier, not coop per se, as this article suggests. i find a few other problems with this article (believe iran would have "instructed" IAEA rather than "demanded", its not a "so-called" additional protocol, that is its actual name, there is no mention of the fact that what iran is withdrawing is cooperation that it earlier volunteered, not co-op mandated by NPT or treaty obligations). i intend to tag this article to develop while these things are sorted out. Doldrums 09:43, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

 * have fixed some of these. more issues remain. am changing the lead paragraph, source is this statement in

E. Khalilipour, vice president of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran [states] "all voluntarily suspended non-legally binding measures including the provisions of the Additional Protocol and even beyond that will be suspended." ... "All the Agency's containment and surveillance measures which were in place beyond the normal Agency safeguards measures should be removed by mid-February 2006." (italics mine)
 * Doldrums 06:28, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

NPOV
I agree with Doldrums.
 * I've heard a lot about Iran's pov on this issue which is not represented in the article at all. For one thing, I think they are allowed to drop out of the NPT ; for another, nothing is mentioned at all about the atomic/nuclear weaponry of Iran's neighbors; India,Pakistan,Israel,Russia and now the USA. Neutralizer 19:30, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I have been asked to review this article. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 22:01, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I will admit that I did not look into the particulars of the NPT enough to give it sufficient context in the article. I also should have further stressed the significance of the timing of the IAEA decision in relation to ElBaradei's report. However, I think Neutralizer's concerns on the capabilities of other nuclear nations is not especially necessary. While it is worth noting, discussing it at any length in a news article starts to run dangerously close to the line between reportage and commentary, IMO. As DragonFire once mentioned to me, when you say things like what you want manetioned in the article about other nuclear powers, you tend to leave the inference to readers of a certain level of hypocrisy from these nations.
 * While I do agree with that view to an extent, that is not the issue at hand in the article. The issue at hand is a situation that the world deems a threat, and Iran's response to the international community's actions. Addressing any hypocrisies is not a matter of maintaining NPOV. It's a matter of debate and discussion amongst people who must be properly informed of current events, which is what journalists are supposed to do. I know it's NPOV that you're promoting when you raise such questions, but I think the desire for reporting the story first should also get prime consideration. If the story is the most important thing in your mind, the POV issues should resolve themselves (with the help of better context that I did not provide as well I probably should have...)MattM 23:02, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * MattM wrote: The issue at hand is a situation that the world deems a threat, and Iran's response to the international community's actions.
 * For this particular report, i think we're probably OK, but since you bring up the subject and since this crisis is far from over, i think it's worth pointing out that the world and the international community here need to be NPOV-ed. Which states deem Iran's actions to be a threat? There are about 200 states in the world. What did the representatives of most of the world's states, or at least of those party to the NPT, say were there concerns about in May 2005? Please read Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and then a few source documents:
 * http://www.un.org/events/npt2005/
 * http://www.un.org/events/npt2005/statements/npt02malaysia.pdf
 * i think you'll find that the international community was concerned about Iran and North Korea, but it also deemed the non-disarmament by the powers most aggressively putting pressure on Iran right now - US+UK+France - to be a threat, and it considered Germany, the other major power pressuring Iran right now, to also be a threat (in the sense of violating the NPT) by its nuclear sharing.
 * Was the IAEA extraordinary meeting a few days ago genuinely representative of the international community? If so, why were the points of the May 2005 meeting missing? Was the IAEA extraordinary meeting an open meeting where bloggers and journalists were able to document the process to guarantee its fairness? Do the representatives of the NAM (non-aligned movement) constitute part of the international community? Was India blackmailed by the US in order not to vote against the proposal? (Google a bit and you'll find the answer.) Do the POVs of governments of states which are not accused of violating the NPT (i.e. excluding Iran, N.Korea, US, UK, France, Germany, China, Russia) constitute the POV of the world or the international community?
 * BTW - just to state my personal POV - personally i would prefer that no country uses nuclear power for civil or military purposes, even for civilian reasons, the radiation problems and difficulty of separating civil/military roles are too risky, i also am aware that human rights violations are systematic in Iran and that Ahmadinejad has made extremely anti-semitic public statements. Nevertheless, IMHO the month-long 2005 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) counts for a much more NPOV representation of the opinions of the international community than the result of one single short meeting (presumably less than a day). Boud 23:47, 8 February 2006 (UTC)


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Hamshahri newspaper plans cartoon response

February 7, 2006

The Iranian newspaper Hamshari daily has stated that it will publish anti-Semitic cartoons in response to the Danish Mohammad cartoons. The newspaper, owned by the Tehran city council, says that the anti-Semitic cartoons will lampoon the Holocaust, following denials by the Iranian government that the Holocaust even happened, and will show "America and Israel's crimes and plundering". The newspaper has launched an international competition to find the most suitable caricatures about the Holocaust.

Farid Mortazavi, the paper's graphics editor, said to the Guardian newspaper that "The western papers printed these sacrilegious cartoons on the pretext of freedom of expression, so let's see if they mean what they say and also print these Holocaust cartoons."

Mr Mortazavi said that the February 8 edition of the paper would invite cartoonists to enter the competition, with gold coins as prizes for the 12 winning artists -- the same number of cartoons that appeared in the conservative Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten lighting the touchpaper for fury which has swept around the Islamic world. According to the article alongside the original "Mohammad cartoons" in the Jyllands-Posten newspaper in late September 2005, the cartoons were intended to show that:

 * The modern, secular society is rejected by some Muslims. They demand a special position, insisting on special consideration of their own religious feelings. It is incompatible with contemporary democracy and freedom of speech, where you must be ready to put up with insults, mockery and ridicule. It is certainly not always equally attractive and nice to look at, and it does not mean that religious feelings should be made fun of at any price, but that is less important in this context. [...] we are on our way to a slippery slope where no-one can tell how the self-censorship will end. That is why Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten has invited members of the Danish editorial cartoonists union to draw Muhammad as they see him. [...]

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has criticised the argument of freedom of speech employed by European newspapers to justify publication of the cartoons.

 * If your newspapers are free why do not they publish anything about the innocence of the Palestinians and protest against the crimes committed by the Zionists? the Mehr news agency quoted him as saying.

Anti-Semitic cartoons will be chosen rather than anti-secular or anti-Christian cartoons for the response to the Danish newspaper despite the fact that Denmark has only a small Jewish population of between 6000 and 7000.

In related events, Mr Jahjah of the Arab European League have launched a similar Freedom of Speech Campaign in which they hope to demonstrate that European News Media are only willing to publish anti-Muslim cartoons, and will not publish anti-Christan or anti-Semitic cartoons. The first of these cartoons (drawn by Nabucho) is shown on this page.

Paul Belien of the Brussels Journal noted that "The three AEL cartoons posted so far have been very instructive in that they have all mocked the Nazi persecution of the Jews and the Holocaust, as if Mr Jahjah wants to emphasize that islamofascism is indeed the ideology he adheres to."


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POV, Speculation and Truthfullness Issues
Spandex 19:02, 7 February 2006 (UTC) Jason Safoutin 12:35, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * It's not clear that the Iranian government has "denied the holocaust even happened"... the only information pertaining to this is a translation in which it was described as the "myth of the holocaust". In the context, it's not clear that the meaning was that it "never happened".  Also, it wouldn't be the first time his words have been made to seem more inflamatory after translation.  I dunno.. as I said.. it's not clear.. but being as this is a "news" site, debatable things should probably be somehow noted rather than presented as fact?
 * It is possible that the real reason for publishing anti-semitic cartoons is to try and inflame the situation in Palestine and Isreal. (speculation and a little POV)
 * ....is an unusual response to the Danish newspaper... (POV)
 * Denmark has only a tiny Jewish population... (probably factual, but is it?)

 * That entire paragraph was POV analysis and was removed by Neutralizer before I could get to it. ;-)--Eloquence 12:50, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree as well, only before I could get to saying that it was it was gone. :) Jason Safoutin 12:51, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

last paragraph
Removed information on Danish Jews in Holocaust as it is irrelevant to the article and suggests that the reason for the small number of Jews in Denmark is that they left Denmark during WW2 (which is false as most retuned after the war). Also added a second source to support that there are only few Jews in Denmark and added an estimate of the number to quantify "small". --vonbergm 17:23, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Hamshari Response
There is no logic behind the proposed 'tit for tat' Jewish cartoons just like there was no logic or justification for publishing the original cartoons. I would actually like to see some more cartoons being published about Christians at a later date. I think the world should be unanimous in sharing the lowliest of the modren morals. --Dr. T.A.Mian, UK, 7.2.06

"Mohammad cartoons"
Do we really need the constant scare quotes on this phrase? Isn't the wikilink on the first occurance enough? Ajohnson 19:12, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

POV
'LOVE BEGETS LOVE' and 'IF YOU DIG A HOLE FOR OTHERS YOU FALL IN IT'

Anne Frank
What's this stuff about Anne Frank being an avid supporter of such-and-such, didn't she die very young in the hands of the Nazis. -T.L. S. (193.166.179.48 10:23, 9 February 2006 (UTC))
 * She was a relatively sophisticated German teenager. In the Anne Frank museum in Amsterdam it states that she believed that everyone should be equal, and should be free to express their views. She believed that this freedom of expression would prevent conflict and the rise of racial hatred (as happened in her home country). Rnt20 14:54, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * never read "Anne Frank's diary" ?? very sad story Jacques Divol

"Free Speech"
Did it occur to anyone that the Iranian complaints seem to labour under the misconception that "Free Speech" means "you must print everything", rather than "you may print anything you like"? Why would a newspaper print cartoons they consider in bad taste just to prove they support "Free Speech"? Let the Iranians print their own cartoons, but not accuse papers of double standards: "Free Speech" means that you are free to entertain double standards if you like. 83.76.220.51 19:58, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Hamshahri
There is a typo in the name of this article. It should be Hamshahri.


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Military presence increased in Melbourne for 2006 Commonwealth Games

February 8, 2006 Police Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon has warned of an increase in police and military activity in Melbourne, Australia, in preparation for the Commonwealth Games. Officials say a major security sweep of Melbourne is underway at the athletes' village.

A 24-hour temporary police station inside the 20-hectare Parkville site will be staffed by 109 officers. The station will house a monitoring centre for the village's closed-circuit TV network. Melbourne's newest police station, keeping tabs on nearly 6000 athletes and officials from 71 countries will operate for seven weeks.

Ms Nixon said people should not be alarmed. "They will be seeing, over the next month or two, an increase in some air activity and perhaps military on the streets coming into place for the support they'll give to the Games." Commissioner Nixon says the defence forces have an important role to play.

"You won't certainly see an armed soldier walking down the streets of Melbourne, that's not the security level that we have and the presence that we need," she said. "Military will be there, they'll be checking trucks and cars going into venues, they'll be doing all of that."

More than 150 Defence Force personnel and police moved on to the village site on Tuesday. Games Minister Justin Madden said the sweep would continue until athletes arrived at the village on March 5. Sweeps of all venues will take place before the Games begin. More than 1200 defence staff have been seconded to the Games security team. F/A-18 Hornets and Black Hawk helicopters will enforce a 75km no-fly zone around the MCG.

Every vehicle that enters the village - and every other venue - will have to first pass through a bomb search bay that includes X-ray machines. Army security sweeps are continuing across all venues. These, combined with comprehensive bag and personal checks at Games time, are seen as the best way to guard against a terrorist strike.

"If people ring up and say, 'Oh look, there's a bomb in it', we'll be pretty much able to say 'no, there's not'," Commissioner Nixon said.

While security is being stepped up at the village, Ms Nixon said there is no direct threat to the Games overall. "We have a medium-level of security at these Games," she said. "The risk assessment is we have no direct threat to the Games, no evidence at all."

The Victorian Government has declared Birrarung Marr, Alexandra Gardens, Albert Park and the Yarra River to be official Games venues, giving police the power to enforce tough anti-protest laws. A similar ruling on Yarra Park - home to the MCG - will also come into effect.

Games laws provide for fines of $2000 for offences such as blocking access, erecting signs, kicking stones or throwing missiles in "venues".


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9/11 conspirator Moussaoui ejected from court

February 7, 2006 , the only member of the U.S. September 11, 2001 attacks to be brought to trial, was removed four times from a Monday court session in Alexandria, Virginia where jury selection is underway for the penalty phase of the trial over his guilty pleas to conspiracy. Moussaoui disrupted the proceeding with verbal outbursts directed at the judge.

Appearing before the U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema at the Albert V. Bryan United States Courthouse, the citizen of France Moussaoui began calmly by saying with a heavy French accent that, "I want to be heard by this court before the proceedings start."

Judge Brinkema warned Moussaoui that it was not the proper time for him to speak. But Moussaoui, 37, who was unrestrained by shackles and wearing a green jump suit labeled with the word "PRISONER" across the back, said "These lawyers are not my lawyers," referring to the defense team led by federal public defender Gerald Zerkin. "Everybody here know that these people do not represent me."

The unsolicited comments prompted the judge to dismiss him. Moussaoui offered no resistance as he was led away by marshals, but shouted over his shoulder to the judge, "I don't want them to represent. I'm al-Qaida; they are American. They are my enemies." He said of the proceeding, "This trial is a circus."

A jury pool of 18 members, six of whom will serve as alternates, will be selected from the group of 500 potential jurors who appeared Monday. Four court sessions were convened that day to begin sorting through the candidates, and Judge Brinkema allowed Moussaoui to return for each of the three remaining sessions. She instructed potential jurors, "If any of you feel that that outburst or the way he conducted himself might affect the way in which you would go about judging this case, you need to clearly put that statement on the jury questionnaire."

These instructions were repeated to each group of potential jurors after Moussaoui conducted similar outbursts during the remaining sessions, which resulted in his further dismissals.

Moussaoui, in a surprise, pleaded guilty in April to six conspiracy charges of terrorism, leading to yesterday’s start of the jury selection to decide whether he will spend the rest of his life behind bars, or be executed for his involvement in the 9/11 attacks.

Moussaoui was arrested on immigration charges three weeks prior to the attacks. The prosecution contends that he could have prevented the attacks by alerting authorities to the Al-Qaeda plans while he was jailed in Minnesota after his arrest.


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Talk:U.S. expels Venezuelan diplomat

I dont understand why this story is still in development. It was fine until some editor didn't read it and put it back into development. If any editos read it please put the article back into Publish state.
 * You put it back into publish, while there was (and still is) an issue with it. You can assert that it was done in retalliation to the Venezuelan's excharge of a US attache, but you cannot claim it is unless you attribute where you got it from.  --MrMiscellanious (talk) – 21:00, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Hello. First, the retaliation is true:
 * Mr McCormack said the move was a direct response to the action taken against Capt Correa, and Ms Frias was "the most appropriate" choice. "We don't like to get into tit-for-tat games like this with the Venezuelan government, but they initiated this and the US chose to respond," Mr McCormack said.
 * Second, in the article title, shouldn't be "expells" instead of "expels"? --Julián Ortega - My talk 21:12, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm not at all questioning whether or not it is true, I am stating that it needs to be referenced in the main article (and not by means of the sources section, either). In order to become more factual, we need to include more detail, especially when statements are made.  Adding that quote would be perfect in solving this issue.  --MrMiscellanious (talk) – 21:17, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Inline links
If the inline links are to articles cited in the sources, then I think they should be taken back out. It looks unsightly, and it encourages people to go read the story elsewhere before they've even finished our version. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:23, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Publish
Ok I think that this article is ready to be published again so will someone please do that, or is this article that alot of people have worked on, just gonna be kept in limbo

Published
I feel the article met NPOV standards at all time and was being constantly improved but, now it definately meets such requirments and I feel that it should be published and not kept in development.--The 13th 4postle 00:43, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
 * It has been published. --Chiacomo (talk) 00:44, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

good work
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Norway-led peacekeeper base attacked in Afghanistan

February 7, 2006 Demonstrators today attacked a Norwegian peacekeeper base in Meymaneh,, north-west Afghanistan. The demonstrators fired at the base, threw hand grenades and. 32 Norwegian, 16 Finnish, three Latvian and one Icelandic peacekeepers were present at the camp during the attack, say the Norwegian Defence Forces.

According to local authorities, says, four demonstrators were killed. The amount of injured demonstrators varies between five and 30, depending on the source. In addition, five Norwegian peacekeepers were injured. The original attack consisted of around 700 demonstrators, says. There was a 'core' team of around 30 armed demonstrators within the crowd.

The peacekeepers fired teargas and warning shots in response to the demonstrators' attacks. Britain has, according to BBC, sent 120 reinforcements. Fighter airplanes have fired warning shots around the crowd. According to some sources, Afghani police and military were sent to the area as well.

The purpose of the demonstration remains unknown, say the, but it is believed that the demonstrations have a connection with the Muhammad cartoons published by.


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This username is blocked as it may be considered offensive or inappropriate under Wikinews's Username policy. If you would like to discuss this with me, I may be contacted via [mailto:amgine@saewyc.net e-mail], in IRC, or on my talk page when you are not logged in. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 21:49, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

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

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Talk:Norway-led peacekeeper base attacked in Afghanistan

How do you put a different wikipedia.org link in the sources template to what the text is. Say, I want to put "Norwegian Defence Forces" as pub but want the link to go to "Military of Norway" in wikipedia. Or another one, I want to put "STT/MTV3" as the publisher, but since there's no wikipedia article on STT, then have the link go to "MTV3"? --HJV 22:10, 7 February 2006 (UTC)


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Opposition attacks government over involvement in wheat kickbacks as Australian Parliament resumes sitting

February 8, 2006

The Australian Parliament resumed sitting February 7, 2006, with the Australian Labor Party Federal Opposition attacking the Government during Question Time over its involvement and knowledge of illegal kickbacks being paid by AWB Limited to Saddam Hussein.

Opposition leader, Kim Beazley, and Shadow Foreign Affairs minister Kevin Rudd asked all of the Opposition's questions during Question Time and focused solely on the Oil-for-Food program.

One item of interest during the session was a statement to the Parliament on March 25, 2003, where the Prime Minister John Howard had said "...the oil for food program has been immorally and shamefully rorted by Saddam Hussein"; questions arose when the Prime Minister first knew of the rorts taking place and what action he took into investigating AWB. The Prime Minister has stated that he "[denies] that the government turned a blind eye" to warnings that he has received and at the time "it was common between the government and the opposition that the AWB was an organisation of total integrity and repute."

Beazley later moved a censure motion against the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs Alexander Downer for their "failure" to investigate warnings and their "gross negligence in allowing AWB to provide AU$300 million to the Saddam Regime". The motion failed along party lines.


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Journals tackle scientific fraud

February 7, 2006 After a rapid succession of cases of major scientific fraud, scientific journals are questioning the effectiveness of the current peer review system and asking what their role should be in policing fraud.

Less than a month after the confirmation that South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk's cloning results were falsified, another case was discovered. A Norweigian researcher had made up patient histories of about 900 people for a study on cancer. Richard Horton, the editor of The Lancet, in which the research appeared, has responded to the scandal, "Peer review is a great system for detecting badly done research, but if you have an investigator determined to fabricate an entire study, it is not possible to pick it up."

While carefully examining the data for every publication would be prohibitively expensive, several techniques to screen for falsified data have been developed. For example, images can be checked for after-the-fact manipulation. The scandals have led to some readers looking more carefully at suspicious papers for evidence that the data are human-manufactured. Jan Hendrik Schön's fraud was partly revealed due to just such analysis by readers in 2002.

Some institutions are taking further steps to prevent fraud. In October, Emory University introduced a tip line where people can anonymously report suspicions of scientific misconduct. So far, five investigations have been launched based on reports to the tip line.

While many are working to deter future scandals, some scientists have pointed out that such fraud does not discredit all science. Dieter Imboden, the president of the Swiss National Science Foundation's Research Council, has said: "Bear in mind that every experiment will be repeated at some stage and it is one of the important principles of science that only things which can be verified independently by different groups are considered to be safe scientific facts."

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User talk:141.158.199.84

In regards to Nittanypages: I'm very glad that you added wikipedia to your site, but this isn't the place to tell the world about it. Wikinews is for objective reporting on current events. I unfourtanatly don't believe your site is covered under that. If you disagree with me, please feel free to contact me. Bawolff ☺☻ 00:20, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:New Zealand recalls squid boats

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Albuquerque Academy Chargers Win Final Game to Finish 13-1

February 8, 2006

The Albuquerque Academy eighth grade basketball team used tough defense to close out the 2005-2006 season with a win, 46-30 over Los Lunas.

The Chargers spread things evenly in the first quarter; five players scored for the team in the period. Both forward Jon Cabarrus and guard Dylan Gordon followed their own shots and scored on putbacks. Forwards Xavier Moya and Chris Thompson provided tough inside defense on one possession. While Los Lunas managed several rebounds, they were unable to get any baskets over the outstretched arms of Moya and Thompson.

Cabarrus scored on another putback for his fourth points of the game late in the quarter, helping Academy to a twelve to eight lead at the end of the first.

The second period was a low scoring one for both teams. The Chargers scored just nine points, but also held Los Lunas to only three. Both offenses were struggling when guard Andrew Matthew stole the ball and made a pass to Gordan, who threw another pass to fellow guard Jordan Fleisher, who took the ball and scored on a layup.

With a minute in the half, reserve Matt Brown took a pass and drove the length of the court for a layup. Academy ended the second half with a twenty-one to eleven lead.

Academy again spread the ball around in the second half, with eight Charger players scoring. Leading the way in the second half was Patrick Zacharias, who scored seven points in the half.

Gordon connected with Thompson on a play that gave Thompson a layup. Gordon stole the ball away from Los Lunas and made a pass to Thompson while sandwiched between two Los Lunas defenders. Thompson received the pass under the basket and scored on a layup.

Los Lunas came back with a three pointer by #24 and some layups by other players. The quarter ended with Academy still holding the lead, 33-22.

AA was again playing tough defense midway through the fourth quarter until #32 hit a three pointer, sparking a small Los Lunas rally, but it was not enough to overcome the offense and defense of the Chargers.

Zacharias scored on a tip in of a Gordon shot that hung on the rim and fell out. Zacharias was also fouled on the shot and made the free throw to complete the three point play. Team manager Lincoln Stanfield also saw action in the game, and even scored his first points of the season at the end of the fourth quarter. With less than fifteen seconds left, Stanfield received a pass underneath the basket. His shot didn't fall, but he was fouled with seven seconds left. Stanfield's first free throw bounced up after hitting the rim but didn't fall through. His second shot bounced high in the air two times before falling through the hoop. Stanfield threw his arms up in celebration over his made shot, putting an end to Academy's 14-1 season.


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Outrage in Mexico after Sheraton Hotel evicts Cuban officials

February 7, 2006

An order given by the U.S. Treasury Department to the Sheraton Hotel in Mexico City to expel 17 Cuban officials visiting the capital has sparked political outrage and has been strongly condemned by the Mexican government.

Mexico's Foreign Relations Department has started a probe and warned that it could fine or even close the hotel if it can prove the hotel violated Mexican laws.

The Cuban officials visited Mexico last week to attend a meeting with U.S. energy executives. They moved to another Mexico City hotel on Saturday after the Sheraton Hotel evicted them.

According to Kirby Jones, president of the U.S. - Cuba Trade Association, the U.S. Treasury Department pressured the hotel's owner, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, claiming it was violating a 1961 law that bans U.S. companies from doing business with Cubans.


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