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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.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Paul. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Paul~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.

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Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:20, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:Fephisto

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Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Fephisto. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Fephisto~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.

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

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User talk:NthDegree99

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User talk:Nozzmoe

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User talk:BWD~enwikinews

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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.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called BWD. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name BWD~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.

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Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:14, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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Talk:Saginaw Spirit victorious in first home shootout

I like this... I like this. Now I'm not the only one writing Spirit articles! :) --MrMiscellanious (talk) – 20:47, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

And the sport is...
The sport this article is talking about isn't mentioned until the 5th paragraph, it does assume knowledge of the teams and competitions that will not make any sense to people outside North America. Brian McNeil / talk 20:52, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Category to add
Category to add: Category:Ontario Hockey League. —Zachary talk 21:24, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * This is also missing Category:Sports and Category:Ice Hockey. —Zachary talk 21:32, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Done--Mark Talk 21:36, 13 May 2007 (UTC)


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Seven-year old Tennessee boy chased by police

January 11, 2006

A 7-year old Tennessee boy who was eager to get his driver's license got an early education when he decided to take his parents pick-up truck for a joyride.

The boy, whose name was not released, remembered to wear his seatbelt and even used his turn signal when he was supposed to.

Police chasing the boy initially thought they were chasing a drunk driver. "He was weaving all over the road. He couldn't stay in his lane," Officer Josh Laverette said.

But when the truck came to a stop in front of a house, police saw that it was a boy, a second grader, barely 4 feet tall, behind the wheel. "He was so short he had to sit up close to the steering wheel," Laverette said. "Whenever he would brake, he would pick himself up with his left foot and stomp on the brake with his right."

The boy had barely avoided several collisions, authorities said.

When police began to talk to the boy, who managed to park in front of his own home, "He said the reason he took the vehicle was because he wanted to get his license," said Laverette.

"There were like probably five city cars and three county cars and a state trooper" all of which were chasing the pickup, said Susan Daniel, a witness to the incident. "It blew my mind because we actually watched him put on his turn signal and turn, and we could see when he went past that he had seat belts on," Daniel said. "Then to come find out it was a child, I was really shocked."

The boy was charged with driving without a license, eluding police and leaving the scene of an accident. He is expected to appear in juvenile court next week.


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Talk:Seven-year old Tennessee boy chased by police

by reverting, which was NOT copy vio, it makes it not a news story. there is NO meaning to what the previous "article" said. I dispute your claim. Dragonfire1024
 * I read what was there, and I read the source cited as copyvio. There were significant sections which matched word-for-word.
 * That, incidentally, isn't passing comment on the quality of what is there now, you've cleaned up a lot after this contributor and their only response has been to demand you do more. --Brian McNeil / talk 22:19, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Actually there was a user that sited it as copy vio which it was not. Copy vio is if someone is trying to take claim to the story personally. That was not the case. DragonFire1024

 * Unless you are claiming that the text you posted was either a) written by you or b) gathered from a public domain source or one with a compatible license, then it was indeed copyvio. I agree that the previous version is fairly unreadable. I'm at work, I don't have time to clean it up myself. -- Phyzome is Tim McCormack 22:23, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Is this re-write any better now? DragonFire1024 6:36 PM (EST)

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Do people support a rename to "7 year old chased by Tennessee police", or does anyone prefer "7 year old Tennessee boy chased by police"? Nyarlathotep 15:16, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I'd prefer the latter. The former adds some confusion as to where the boy is from, as in "Arkansas boy chased by Tennessee police", whereas the latter lets the reader assume the police are from the same area. On another note, this title is a little misleading.  Wasn't it more of a car chase?  The current title makes it sound like a chase on foot. -- Phyzome is Tim McCormack 15:19, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes, but the first sounded better, IMHO.. whatever. Nyarlathotep 17:24, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

I would like to say i started it and i hope you thank me someday!


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Talk:Chinese block of Wikimedia enters tenth week

zh.wikinews does not exist (yet ;)
i don't live in China (honest!) and my browser says for the page http://zh.wikinews.org/ Wiki does not exist. In other words, the chinese-language wikinews project has not yet started.

Isn't it a bit confusing to mention both wikipedia and wikinews in the first sentence of the article, if people in the PRC don't have a wikinews site anyway?

Sure, some of them read other languages and may read en.wikinews, ja.wikinews, etc. but from my experience of language barriers in many parts of the world, probably most wikimedia readers/editors in the PRC are mostly interested in the chinese language wikipedia: zh:wikipedia, rather than en.wikinews, ja.wikinews, ...

IMHO there's no point mentioning wikinews (even though i'm sure we have consensus that wikinews is a Good Thing). Boud 23:01, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I agree with the Wikinews point, removed it. sinblox (talk) 00:13, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm inclined to disagree. Whether or not Wikinews is available in Chinese is irrelevant. When a news organisation reports on its parent company, it should acknowledge that it is owned by that company. The Sydney Morning Herald, when reporting on Fairfax, should acknowledge that it is owned by Fairfax. The same goes for The Times of London (say) and News Corporation. I'm replacing the bit about Wikinews for the moment. --Fipe 02:38, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Sure, i think it's good that some people remember that wikinews (or wikipedia) articles can in practice be read on websites where readers have little or no knowledge of wikimedia, except that it's the name of some organisation. Personally i tend to expect that anyone i've met already knows and understands what wikis and wikimedia are (for the obvious reasons :P, ok i'm exaggerating a bit, but not that much), and that everyone else on the internet should know, but i realise that these are rather ambitious expectations. Anyway, it's clear that unless it's sure that the reader is aware of the potential conflict of interest, it should be mentioned. It looks to me like the text has been corrected a bit to satisfy both this criterion and the main intent of my own comment. Boud 21:37, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Too self referencing?
I made this one of the lead stories. I'm a little concerned my edits have been too self referencing to Wikimedia, esp the references. Comments? sinblox (talk) 00:14, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * (((...(GNU's)... Not Unix) Not Unix) Not Unix. Boud 21:51, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Possible Source/Related Info
I don't know the legitimacy of this source or if it should be in the same article, even, but this article talks about China's new internet police: World Tribune - China's new online police warn: 'Internet is not beyond the law' --LoganCale 01:24, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Not a "ban"; it's a "block"
Wikimedia has not been "banned". No agency has passed laws or rules banning Wikipedia, or evoked any existing laws or rules to justify the banning of Wikipedia, or attempted to take any action against anyone who continues to access Wikipedia via other means. What appears to have happened is that government agencies / ISP's have blocked Wikipedia. The page should be renamed. -- 65.95.96.233 02:10, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Somebody renamed it. By the way, if you create an account you can move pages. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 00:26, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Last sentence
The current last sentence ("It has recently been criticized by the media for being too easy to edit, with the highest profile cases including John Seigenthaler Sr, when an anonymous user falsely claimed Seigenthaler was involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy on his encyclopedia entry.") seems extrempely irrelevant. I'm going to delete it.

 * My main reason for that was to provide some context and background on what Wikimedia is, even if we are self-referencing ourselves. The Seigenthaler event was fairly big and I think worked to show NPOV towards what Wikimedia is at the end. sinblox (talk) 22:56, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

"upsetting students and researchers who say that it is having a significant impact on their ability to conduct research, and even pass civil service exams"
"upsetting students and researchers who say that it is having a significant impact on their ability to conduct research, and even pass civil service exams". Wikipedia doesn't help pass exams really. It's not good enough yet.
 * If students and researchers are saying this, then it's an NPOV fact that they claim this. See also Wikipedia and Britannica about as accurate in science entries, reports Nature. Boud 21:47, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

 * As a student and avid reader, I can say that the majority of Wikipedia articles go beyond my needs for studying or just researching for fun. If something does not look right, I get some books and do a Google on the topic so I can give back to the Wikipedia community as it does so generously to me. I thought President Hu was cooling down a bit on the restrictions? I guess not... ~ clearthought 15:30, 26 June 2006 (UTC)


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Thank you for catching that spelling error. Bawolff ☺☻ 23:27, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

No problem... :) 69.143.159.10 03:47, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

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WE currently don't allow editorials in the main namespace. you contributation was moved to User:202.69.163.8/Philippines. Bawolff ☺☻ 00:16, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

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Internal audit reveals IRS improperly identified hundreds of thousands of taxpayers as potential frauds

January 12, 2006

An internal audit of the IRS has found that the IRS has improperly identified hundreds of thousands of taxpayers as potential cheats and frozen refunds. Many of the taxpayers are unaware their refunds are frozen because the IRS does not notify taxpayers of their investigations. The audit found that 80% of a sample of cases flaged as potential cheats were actually legitimate refunds.

Many of the frozen refunds were from the poor. The median gross income from the sample was $13,300 with a median refund of $3,519. The median delay was 8 1/2 months.

Republican Senator Charles E. Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said "Refunds have been a source of abuse recently, but we need to make sure taxpayers have proper due process when the IRS decides to freeze a refund." he noted that taxpayers "can't effectively challenge the IRS' actions."

Democrat Senator said the IRS was after fraud "at the expense of honest taxpayers who need these refunds for food, medicine, home heating and other basic needs."


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World's biggest polluters won't cut back on fossil fuel

January 12, 2006 Six of the world's major polluters, who participated in this week's Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (AP6 or APPCDC), have launched a multi-million dollar fund to develop clean-energy, but stressed they will be heavily reliant on polluting fossil-fuels for generations to come.

Green groups, labelling the talks a sham, have condemned the climate talks which were held in Sydney, Australia as a "coal and nuclear pact" between the big polluters and fossil-fuel firms. Australian climate change observers have attacked the AP6 outcomes as grossly irresponsible, saying the Federal Government is willing to accept the reality of runaway climate change.

A communique released by the AP6 states: "We recognise that fossil fuels underpin our economies, and will be an enduring reality for our lifetimes and beyond" - the document said. Green groups say the pact has missed a vital opportunity to commit to renewable energy sources. They say the two-day meeting failed to make any serious commitments in combatting global warming.

Combined, the United States, China, Japan, India, South Korea and Australia, account for around half the globe's greenhouse gases. The six countries set up the summit as an ulterior method of tackling global warming outside the Kyoto Protocol by, they say, focussing on "clean-energy technology."

Nuclear Power, clean coal technologies, geosequestration and industry-driven environment funds were some of the proposals raised at the summit. Unlike the Kyoto Protocol the six nations have not set any targets to cut greenhouse gases.

Climate change observers have broadly criticised the AP6 as a waste of time. Australian Climate Institute's Clive Hamilton says the meeting did little to cut greenhouse gas emissions. "I think really this conference is about trying to protect the long-term future of the coal industry," he said. "If you look at the sort of business people who have a seat at the table at the conference in Sydney, they overwhelmingly represent the polluting industries rather than those that will at some time in the future replace them - the renewable energy and energy efficiency industries."

CSIRO chief scientist Dr David Brockway says the technology required to reduce greenhouse emissions is not viable for industry.

"It has to be borne in mind that anything we are going to do to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and intensity from the Australian economy will come at a cost," he said. "What we are doing at the moment is doing research to try and reduce the size of that additional cost. I would say in a five to 10 year timeframe a number of these technologies will become viable."

An AP6 communique issued at the end of the conference said reductions in greenhouse gases must be achieved without hindering economic growth - "the partnership aims to mobilise domestic and foreign investment into clean and low-emission technology by fostering the best possible enabling environments," it states. Some of the world's big mining and energy firms attended the talks and pledged to improve efficiency.

Green groups, who were left out of the conference, say the talks were aimed at subverting Kyoto - which obligates some 40 developed countries to cut greenhouse emissions by 5 percent below 1990 levels during 2008-2012. "Basically, they haven't agreed to do anything in terms of serious commitment," said Monash University climate change expert Professor Amanda Lynch. The United States and Australia refuse to sign Kyoto claiming its mandatory greenhouse gas cuts would threaten economic growth.

Australian Prime Minister John Howard said, "experience has taught us that seeking arbitrary targets doesn't result in achieving practical solutions to global climate change." Mr Howard stressed the importance of maintaining economic growth to alleviate poverty, while cutting greenhouse emissions. He said the summit had injected "an overdue dose of realism into the debate about climate change. We believe it is possible to tackle issues of greenhouse gas emissions and the challenge of climate change without reducing living standards," he said. "The world will go on using fossil fuels for many years into the future because it's more economic to do so. So therefore it's elementary commonsense that you should try and make the use of fossil fuels more greenhouse gas sensitive, you should try and clean up the use of fossil fuel," he said.

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) have dismissed Mr Howard's comments as misleading and irresponsible. The WWF's chief executive Greg Bourne said, "in my whole business career, I have never seen a more misleading public statement as that... If the statements made today become a reality, this will lock us in to a four-degree rise in global average temperatures, when two-degrees is considered extremely dangerous," he said. "There couldn't be anything more irresponsible than to knowingly embark on a path towards massive increases in emissions and runaway global warming."

The AP6 nations said in the final communique that the eight public/private partnership taskforces created at the conference, will draw up action plans by the middle of 2006 on issues including renewable energy, power generation, cleaner fossil fuels and coal mining.

Environmentalists said the Sydney pact was doomed to fail because it did not impose targets on its members which comprise nearly half of humanity. The New South Wales Nature Conservation Council said the group's voluntary approach was a "licence for government and business to do nothing". "Without any incentives or penalties there is no reason for industry to move away from burning polluting coal and oil," said the council's Cate Faehrmann.

The AP6 countries encompass: 49 per cent of world GDP; 48 per cent of the world energy consumption; 48 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions; and 45 per cent of the world's population.

Many scientists say global warming is melting glaciers, raising sea levels and will cause more intense storms, droughts and floods. Current levels of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere are higher now than at any time in the past 650,000 years, research from Antarctic ice cores shows.


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Hi -- I did infact mean the Chinese government, not the Chinese. Sorry about that and thanks for correcting it. sinblox (talk) 05:13, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

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Shooter of former Pope John Paul II released from prison

January 12, 2006 Mehmet Ali Agca, jailed in 1981 for shooting and injuring former Pope John Paul II in Rome has been released from Turkish prison. A Turkish court had determined that he had already completed his sentence with time served.

Agca shot the Pope as he rode around St Peter's Square in a open-topped car. Agca was a Turkish militant who was a member of the nationalist Grey Wolves; however, his motives for the shooting remain unclear.

Agca was sentenced to life in prison in Italy, before being pardoned by former Pope John Paul II in 2000 and extradited to Turkey to serve jail time for the murder of Abdi Ipekci, a journalist. Turkish citizens were outraged that he served only four and a half years for murder.


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Colombian unions reiterate their accusations against Coca Cola

January 12, 2006 The workers of Coca Cola in Colombia reiterated their accusations against Coca Cola for violations to the collective agreements after denying that the world wide campaign they are moving forward has political interests. Javier Correa, president of SINALTRAINAL, the National Union of the Food Industry, denounced that Coca Cola continues to violate the worker’s right of association. He declared that of 8,700 employees only 2,300 have a direct contract with the company and that contractors and sub-contractors have no right to join the union organization. In addition, SINALTRAINAL denounced that there is a persecution campaign against its members that has resulted in attacks by paramilitary groups.


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Talk:Shooter of Former Pope John Paul II Released from Prison

I've merged in Turkish man who tried assassinate Pope John Paul II released after 25 years and am deleting that article. Nyarlathotep 12:07, 12 January 2006 (UTC)


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Talk:Colombian unions reiterate their accusations against Coca Cola

Google turned up a recent source that references the Columbia/Coke story...

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Lobbyist giant shuts down due to ties with Jack Abramoff and Tom DeLay

January 12, 2006

The Alexander Strategy Group (ASG), one of Washington's top lobbying operations, plans to shut down at the end of January.

Edwin A. Buckham, the company's owner and former top DeLay aide, said Monday that the company had been fatally damaged by the publicity surrounding the federal investigation of the lobbyist Jack Abramoff and former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-TX).

The company was founded in 1981 and has thrived due to its connections to Tom DeLay. Its current clients include Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Microsoft, and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.

DeLay has been indicted for money laundering and other charges in Texas. ASG employed DeLay's wife, Christine, for four years.


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My name is Valmi Dufour. I am somewhat active on Wikipedia, where I have a userpage. I also somewhat maintain a blog, in French.

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User:Valmi/HC Release

11 JANUARY 2006

Hospitality Club Welcomes 100,000th Member

Dresden, Germany -- The Hospitality Club is an online organisation dedicated to putting travellers in contact with locals offering to host them for free. On 11 January 2006, five years after its creation by German student Veit Kuehne, it welcomed its 100,000th member in over 200 countries. The Club website is at www.HospitalityClub.org.

Hospitality Club was the first online organisation to offer on a major scale the possibility for travellers to find and contact locals open to cultural exchange. Hosts may offer a free roof to visitors, or simply give them a tour of their city or share a meal with them. Back home, one may in turn opt to open their door to other travellers.

The whole system is entirely free. The safe and efficient operation of the 30+ languages website and its database, bulletin board, and chatroom depends on the work of hundreds of volunteers from around the world.

How It Works

Anybody can join as long as they provide their real name and mailing address, though this information can be hidden from other members. New members will be invited to fill their profile with information about themselves and their preferences. Visitors will use those profiles to select whom to contact in a city that could count hundreds of potential hosts.

The prospective guest sends his first message through the website, a measure taken to avoid members receiving spam in their email account. They must provide their full name and passport number and should provide information about their trip.

Upon receiving this message, a prospective host will visit their guest's profile and read feedback provided by other members that met them in the past. With all this information they will decide whether they are able and willing to host the member.

Goals

The Hospitality Club is a non-profit, non-commercial project. It was founded on the belief that bringing people together and fostering international friendships will increase intercultural understanding and strengthen peace.

'One day, everyone will have the opportunity to visit any country knowing that someone will be waiting to receive them with open arms,' says Kuehne. 'People will travel in a different way, meet each other and build intercultural understanding through personal contact.

'There will be many members in places like Israel and Palestine, Northern Ireland, the Balkans, Chechnya, Rwanda, or Timor who will exchange hospitality with each other, and in small steps the Hospitality Club will have helped making peace a lasting vision for our wonderful planet,' he adds.

History

The Hospitality Club succeeded to Hospex, a 1991 attempt at using the Internet to add dynamism to the concept created by Servas after World War II. The Club succeeded in making hospitality exchange simple and free, and in making it accessible to the average traveller by introducing strong security features ranging from spam protection to passport control and a sophisticated feedback system.

It took from late 2000 until the beginning of 2004 for the network to grow to 10,000 members, but the growth has since then been exponential. Less than two years later, the Club has already passed the 100,000 members milestone. Kuehne now is aiming at nothing less than a million members soon. At the current rate of growth, this once incredible dream would come true in less than two years.

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Not europe north america! for 7 year old story.

I urgently agree. 70.92.174.251 04:14, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

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Hospitality exchange organisation grows to 100,000 members

January 12, 2006

The Hospitality Club became the first hospitality exchange network to pass the 100,000 members milestone on January 11, 2006. Its closest competitors, CouchSurfing and GlobalFreeLoaders, have 40,000 and 30,000 members.

Hospitality exchange organisations are dedicated to putting travellers in contact with locals offering to host them in their house for free, or simply offer them a tour of their city or share a meal with them. Besides the obvious financial advantage, the Hospitality Club believes that "bringing people together and fostering international friendships will increase intercultural understanding and strengthen peace."

Servas Open Doors, the oldest network, in fact formally views itself as a peace initiative, and there are also a number of smaller hospitality exchange networks which focus on specialized audiences, such as Agritourism.

Veit Kühne from Dreseden, Germany, who founded the Hospitality Club in 2000 while he was still a student, believes that "one day, everyone will have the opportunity to visit any country knowing that someone will be waiting to receive them with open arms. People will travel in a different way, meet each other and build intercultural understanding through personal contact."

"There will be many members in places like Israel and Palestine, Northern Ireland, the Balkans, Chechnya, Rwanda, or Timor who will exchange hospitality with each other, and in small steps the Hospitality Club will have helped making peace a lasting vision for our wonderful planet," he adds.

Hospitality Club was the first online organisation to offer on a major scale the possibility for travellers to find and contact locals open to cultural exchange. The whole system is entirely free, and hosting fees are supported by Google advertisements. The safe and efficient operation of the 30+ languages website and its database, forum, and chatroom depends on the work of hundreds of volunteers from around the world.

Anybody can become a member, but they must provide their full name and address, for security reasons. All members have a profile they can fill with information about themselves and their preferences, to help prospective visitors contact the person most likely to welcome them.

The most often mentioned drawback of the system is lack of security. The main difference between hospitality exchange networks and other social networking platforms such as Orkut or LiveJournal is that the former's ultimate objective is to allow for face-to-face meetings. Users should realise that there is a risk involved, although according to Frenchman Jean-Yves Hégron, main software developer of the Hospitality Club, "By using the Club you have the same level of risk as the one you face whenever you get out from your home."

Discussion about strategic or security issues is not allowed on the website's forum, hence critics often mention lack of transparency in how they perceive decisions are taken by volunteers in Hospitality Club. Another point of critique is the fact that there is no legal organisation behind Hospitality Club, and the domain name is registered to the founder of the Club himself. Messages containing links to other hospitality exchange networks were at some point deleted without further notice though this policy has since then been reverted. Exponential growth of the network has also caused server failures alike to those observed in Wikipedia until recently.

The idea of free hospitality exchange is not new. Servas was the first organisation to develop it, right after World War II. It still exists to this day, with over 15,000 members, and is represented as an NGO in the United Nations. Because democratic, paper-based Servas is perceived as bureaucratic by some, Hospex was created as the first online network in 1991.

Hospitality Club succeeded to Hospex in August 2000, introducing innovative security features ranging from spam protection to passport control and a sophisticated feedback system, thus making online hospitality exchange available to travellers with higher safety concerns. From 1000 members in July 2002 to 10,000 in February 2004, it quickly grew to 100,000 on 11 January 2006 and is expected to reach the million in about two years.

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Talk:World's biggest polluters won't cut back on fossil fuel

Nice article. Nyarlathotep 15:12, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

More economic?
The Australian PM says it's more economic to stick with fossil fuels.

Financially economic? Environmentally economic?

Or, more pertinent than (though related to) those two, economical in terms of survival; that is to say, we as a species win.

To oversimplify some more:

this planet is our habitat. If we kill our habitat, we will DIE-aiieeee! [Dilbert-style Tarzan/ninja screams]

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To feauture or not to feature. Vote over here. Bawolff ☺☻ 01:57, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Explain the caption source pls
"Economic growth and pollution is said to be the major cause of climate change"

What is the source of this? This doesn't even begin to make sense. The major causes of climate change in the past have been dramatic events like meteorite impacts or geological events. In fact, since the beginning of the industrial revolution it's relatively safe -- albeit subjective as all statistical inference is -- to say that there has been little climate change at all. A recent study even suggests that forests can be major produces of greenhouse gases.

 * Gday anonymous commentor, the final sentence in the article says: Many scientists say global warming is melting glaciers, raising sea levels and will cause more intense storms, droughts and floods. Current levels of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere are higher now than at any time in the past 650,000 years, research from Antarctic ice cores shows. Please feel free to edit the caption if you like! cheers, elliot_k 08:23, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Remove The Bad Pictures
Would an admin mind removing the frames for deleted pictures? --Thunderhead - (talk) 18:40, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
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Talk:Hospitality exchange organisation grows to 100,000 members

It read too much like an ad when I started editing it, so I tried to stick in more mentioned of other hospitality services. BTW, I'm not confident that CouchSerfing is 2nd, although it seems to be. Anyway, please mention as many of the others as is reasonable and provide active links to their wikipedia pages. We edon't want this to be an advertisement for one service over another. Nyarlathotep 15:38, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Certainly, thank you. I took much of the material from the release which is why it sounds pretty much pro-HC. Will try to mention more such networks. --Valmi 16:27, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * If you're aware of any criticism of HC, then it should also be incorporated somewhere, or just generic criticism of the genre of organisations. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:45, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Tried to address with one paragraph about the inherent problems of free hospitality exchange and one critic of most organisations involved in this "business". Thank you! --Valmi 17:52, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

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This still reads, to me, as a press release or advertisement. In what way is this a news event? -  Amgine | talk en.WN 22:36, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I think this is a significant story. The news is that those organisations that were maginals for decades have known shown that they are becoming a significant factor in the touristic industry. With background information since the subject is little known even though it is notable. Is that angle not stressed enough? Do you have any suggestions in how to improve the article in that regards? --Valmi 11:49, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

 * If you can suggest/make any specific improvments, great, but they story should be fine in theory. Anyway, I'd rather see this than Apple's new iPod.  Plus, the existance of compeditors should make this article easier to NPOV than an article about Wikipedia passing some number of members.  Nyarlathotep 19:09, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Merge in & NPOV
User:Guaka just posted a new story at Hospitality Club reaches 100,000 members. Here is teh contents, as I'm redirecting it here.

Hospitality Club reached 100,000 members. The Club is an international, Internet-based hospitality service of approximately 100,000 members in many countries all over the world. Its members use the website HospitalityClub.org to coordinate accommodation and other services, such as guiding or regaling travellers. Hospitality Club is currently the largest such hospitality network.

HC was founded by Veit Kuehne in 2000. There is some criticism about the fact that there is still no official organisation after 6 years.

Recently there has been some controversy over how the club is managed and about the fact that messages containing links to other hospitality exchange sites like CouchSurfing are deleted under the guise of "spam checking".

As this obviously makes NPOV critisisms slightly beyond those covered in the article, which should be considered. Nyarlathotep 19:15, 13 January 2006 (UTC)


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US General invokes right against self-incrimination in Abu Ghraib case

January 12, 2006 Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, a top US commander who supervised the detention and interrogation of detainees at Guantanomo Bay and Abu Ghraib facilities declined to testify in a court-martial proceeding, by invoking his right to not implicate himself, the Washington Post reports. This is believed to be the first time that the role of senior officers in the prisoner abuse scandal has formally surfaced.

Gen. Miller declined to testify during the court-martial trial involving two dog-handlers who are accused of detainee abuse. An attorney for one of the accused is seeking to question Miller on whether he ordered the use of dogs to frighten detainees during interrogations.

Gen. Miller's lawyer has stated that the decision to decline testifying was taken as Miller has been repeatedly interviewed over the last several years, and that he stands by his previous statements made to Congress, Army Investigators and lawyers.


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Hospitality exchange organisation grows to 100,000 members
This article reads to me as a press release, rather than a news article. What happened? The questions traditionally addressed by a news article are What? Who? Where? When? Why? and How? I'm not sure the article can address these questions because what is being written about doesn't appear to be a news event, but a corporate event. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 22:39, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

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Hundreds dead in Hajj stampede

January 12, 2006 According to the Saudi Interior Ministry over 345 Muslim pilgrims have been killed in a stampede during the annual Hajj pilgrimage near Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

The stampede at Islam's most holy site happened at Jamarat Bridge, during an event where pebbles are thrown at a pillar to represent the stoning of Satan as part of the final rites of the Hajj. The stampede began when luggage from a bus tripped pilgrims at the eastern end of the wall, causing a bottleneck. Those who were tripped were then crushed by the wave of people behind them.

Muslims are required to make a pilgrimage to Mecca during their lifetimes, if physically or financially possible, as it is one of the five pillars of the Islamic faith. Saudi officials had already provided safeguards by installing an oval wall with padded edges to protect pilgrams from a crush, installed security cameras and placed over 60,000 security personnel in the area.

This is not the first time deadly stampedes have taken place during the Hajj, with the deadliest stampede during the 1991 Hajj, in which 1,426 pilgrims were trampled.

Last week, at least 76 people were killed when the Al Ghaza Hotel near the Masjid Al Haram (Grand Mosque) collasped, the cause of which is unknown.

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President Bush tours Katrina affected region

January 12, 2006

President George W. Bush made a stop over in two of the worst hit cities by today. His stops included, Louisiana, and , Mississippi.

The president made small speeches in both cities, with references to the many problems that still exist due to a lack of housing, the slow pace of Small Business Administration Loans, problems with homeowners insurance payments and the urgent need for bridge rebuilding. "People in faraway places like Washington, D.C., still hear you and care about you," Bush said standing in a gymnasium at St. Stanislaus College in Bay St. Louis. "I recognize there's some rough spots. We're going to work to make them as smooth as possible."

Bush also recognized and promised that his administration is learning the lessons of its "all-to-slow" and "much-criticized" response to Katrina. "Obviously the federal response in parts of this devastated area could have been a lot better. We want to know how to make them better. We want to make sure that when there is a catastrophe of any kind, this government, at the federal level, is capable of dealing with it in conjunction with the state and local governments.We want to know how to make it better," Bush said during his speech. "I just want to assure you, we are, we are."

Bush went on to praise the city's success in getting the essential utilities, such as, water and electric "mostly" on-line. He also said that federal tax incentives will encourage businesses to create jobs and promised that the new levy system will make the city "both safer and more attractive for investment." He also added that all those things will help New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf, back into a "shining part of the South." He also said "New Orleans is a great place to have a convention" and a "heck of a place to bring your family."

Bush promises that the federal government has allocated 85 billion dollars for reconstruction efforts, $25 billion of which has already been spent on mostly the effort to clean up the debris and provide temporary housing for citizens.

struck the south central U.S. on late August 29, 2005.

Katrina first made landfall in, Florida on August 25, 2005 as a category one hurricane resulting in dozens of deaths in South Florida and spawning several tornadoes.

Katrina then passed over Florida and headed into the Gulf of Mexico where it strengthened into a massive category 5 storm.

She then made her second landfall on the morning of August 29, 2005, near, Louisiana with winds at 125 MPH and a central pressure of 920 mbar, a strong Category 3 storm.

Katrina is quite possibly the strongest hurricane on record ever, but estimating the size of storms from before the 1960s (the pre-satellite era) is difficult to near impossible.

As of January 4, 2006, the confirmed death toll from Katrina stands at 1,386.

Demographers estimate of New Orleans' 400,000 residents prior to Katrina only 25% have returned.


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Reggie Bush to go pro

January 12, 2006

USC running back  has decided to enter the  and forfeit his final year of college football eligibility. The winner is the favorite to be the top pick in the draft, in which case he would play for the.

Bush rushed for 1,740 yards during his final college season, and led the Trojans to the Rose Bowl. Quarterbacks of the  and  of the  are also likely to among the top draft picks this year.

But Vick, who was kicked off the Hokies team for repeated brushes with the law off the field, had his chances in the draft further reduced by his latest misdemeanor arrest Sunday for brandishing a firearm at a man he believed made a comment about the young woman he was with.

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Talk:President Bush tours Katrina affected region

Someone can work this out! someone because need more users for wikinews

True Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060112/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_36

Bush sat next to Mayor Ray Nagin and speaked!

 * The title needs to be changed but the article has merit - Cartman02au 20:46, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Made headline change, removing template. -Edbrown05 21:03, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

The word is "spoke", by the way. -- user:zanimum

Deletion
I see no need to speedy delete the article. The article needs work that is all - Cartman02au 20:46, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

thank you cartman and i know cartman in south park is bad but hey if you can write news and no bogus stuff feel free to expand.

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visit?? it seems strange will it work? dragon disagrees he did not speak... not questionings reps or dems or inds or anything.
 * This story is hardly close to being anything publishable, spend some time improving it if you want, or better, create an account and put your money where your mouth is by changing the headline yourself. -Edbrown05 21:32, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

 * For one...he was there. I saw he and his motercade on live tv. unless it was propaganda, he was there. Visit may have been a light term but he was still thaere. and he DID speak....I would call what I saw LIVE onTV too that he was giving a speech...what else would it be? The article has total merit and is valid. Show me what Bush did NOT do...that I said he did do...DragonFire1024 20:56, 12 January 2006 (EST)

The correct word is "affected", not "effected".

neutral
Is this really neutral without any references to alll the grandstanding and such durring the catastrophe? We need some related stories links at minimum. Nyarlathotep 10:10, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Typo
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'is is' -> 'is' Van der Hoorn (talk) 18:25, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Done — Gopher65talk 21:00, 5 March 2009 (UTC)


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New DNA tests find executed Virginia man was guilty

January 12, 2006 New DNA tests done on Roger Keith Coleman, the Virginia man executed in May 1992 for rape and murder, find him guilty of committing the crime.

The results were announced by Governor Mark Warner during a Thursday afternoon news conference. "The confirmation that Roger Keith Coleman’s DNA was present [at the crime scene] reaffirms the verdict and the sanction," Warner said.

The tests end more than a decade of debate by death penalty advocates on both side of the Coleman issue. More than 1,000 have been put to death in the United States since the penalty was re-introduced in 1976. Coleman maintained his innocence in the 1981 crime up until the time of his execution, and never admitted guilt.

The Coleman tests, if he were exonerated, would have been the first time a person who was executed would later be found innocent. A report issued with announcement states that testing standards performed today on the DNA evidence could only share a profile similar to another’s DNA in 1 out of 19 million people, a level of precision not possible at the time of his conviction.

The order for the re-test is one of the last official acts performed by Governor Warner, who will step down as governor on Saturday. The testing was done in Toronto, Canada by the Ontario Centre of Forensic Sciences, whose findings report that Coleman could not be ruled out as the source of a sperm samples found from the crime scene.

The attorney for Coleman argued that his client did not have time to commit the crime, and that tests showed semen from two different men was found inside the rape victim, Wanda Fay McCoy. The attorney also said that another man bragged that he murdered her.

The governor at the time, Douglas Wilder, allowed the sanction to proceed against Coleman after he failed a lie-detector test administered shortly before the execution was carried out.


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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Gbinal. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Gbinal~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 23:17, 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) 06:31, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Gbinal~enwikinews


text:
User talk:MaxZolt~enwikinews

Welcome
, welcome to Wikinews! Thank you for your contributions; I hope you like the place and decide to stay! If you haven't done so already, you may want to create an account.

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! --Brian McNeil / talk 23:11, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
 * Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced
 * Introduction - overview of the site
 * Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
 * Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Newsroom - The comunity portal
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * And of course, stories need writing!

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 MaxZolt. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name MaxZolt~enwikinews that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

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

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:21, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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) 06:34, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:MaxZolt~enwikinews