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User talk:N R Pavan Kumar

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Indian teenager finds place among top 50 Indian founders on Crunchbase list
Please address the issues with the article and 'do not resubmit for review without any changes. Cheers, --SVTCobra 20:11, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

 * If you are Pawan Kumar NR in the article, you have a severe conflict of interest and should probably not be writing this article. --SVTCobra 20:30, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

 * Resubmitting an article without attempting to redress review concerns is disruptive to the project. --Pi zero (talk) 02:26, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

 * Besides resubmitting-without-redress being disruptive, attempted self-publication (which doesn't work, btw) is a severe policy violation (as you must already be aware if you've been following edits to the article, which it seems pretty clear you have been). Subject to further discussion, I'm blocking this account to prevent further disruption to the project.

--Pi zero (talk) 19:58, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

Unblock request

 * For perspective in considering your request, please explain
 * What is your intention on this project — what do you mean to do with edit priveleges, were there restored?
 * How did it happen that you did the things that let to the block? Do you understand what the difficulty was with them?
 * --Pi zero (talk) 20:24, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

 * yeah I understood I am new user I m not experienced person, so please forgive me. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by N R Pavan Kumar (talk • contribs) 20:48, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

 * You haven't yet addressed most of what I asked. I would also need to hear more in order to be convinced you understand.  Also, context suggests you aren't altogether inexperienced with wikimedia, though I'll grant possible inexperience with Wikinews.  --Pi zero (talk) 22:22, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

 * Explanation re apparent sockpuppetry would also be needed. --Pi zero (talk) 11:06, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

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Care to explain what K-pop is? --SVTCobra 11:02, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Sure. Words “band” and “singer” makes it clear that it is a music genre (few years ago, that is how I figured it out); which, by the way, was discussed on IRC if it was fine. 103.254.128.130 (talk) 11:05, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
 * It appears in the title, but not the article. --SVTCobra 11:09, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I noticed that during review. It's not ideal.  --Pi zero (talk) 11:10, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Well within 24 hours to make the change. 103.254.128.130 (talk) 11:14, 29 March 2018 (UTC)


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North, South Korea announce summit about 'denuclearization and peace' for April 27

March 30, 2018 Yesterday, North Korea and South Korea announced a top-level summit to be held on April 27. The summit, the third of its kind, was announced in a joint statement released through South Korea's.

The two nations agreed to the summit after talks between North Korea's Chairman of the, Ri Son-gwon, and South Korea's Minister of Unification, Cho Myoung-Gyon.

Minister Cho told a press conference, "Today, both sides exchanged their opinions on matters like a possible agenda for the upcoming inter-Korean summit[...] The two Koreas have decided to join forces to make the summit a success, based on our consensus about how historically significant the summit will be in terms of denuclearization and peace on the Korean Peninsula, as well as the inter-Korean relationship".

The would be attended by North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un and South Korea's President Moon Jae-in, if it unfolds as announced. The previous top-level summits took place in and. Unlike the previous two summits which took place in North Korea, the upcoming summit was scheduled to be held at the, controlled by South Korea.


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Talk:North, South Korea announce summit about 'denuclearization and peace' for April 27

If this gets published ...
... may I suggest this scalable image for the main page: File:Nuvola North and South Korean flags.svg Cheers, --SVTCobra 20:37, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
 * (changed the image to link) I wanted to move the page; remove “and” and use a comma instead; but it would be worth mentioning in the headline what the meet is about; since headlines should say the most unique thing. •–• 20:49, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I more-or-less deliberately avoided that because it is only a "possible agenda" as Cho said. Anyway, I changed it, but put it in quotes. --SVTCobra 20:59, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

KCNA source
I wonder if it has something to do with the "session-id" that's part of the url. I refreshed to a new one. But who knows if only I can click on it. --SVTCobra 06:03, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Anyway, that source is there more for disclosure and balance. I wanted both North (kcna) and South's (korea.net) official outlets in the sources. They are both redundant as far as the information they contain. Cheers, --SVTCobra 06:06, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I've a memory that site has no permanent url for its articles, so that there's no way to provide a fixed article link. If so, we must have encountered the problem before, and I don't recall what we did about it.  --Pi zero (talk) 06:09, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * It wouldn't surprise me if North Korea did something like that. --SVTCobra 06:14, 30 March 2018 (UTC)


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 * Ukrainian missile and drone strike in Russia kills at least 21 people
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Category:Sockpuppets of N R Pavan Kumar

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User talk:LorenzoBrownbill

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Thread:Comments:North, South Korea announce summit about 'denuclearization and peace' for April 27/Will the summit actually progress towards peace?

I don't see how these high level meetings get close to peace. That does not mean they should not try. Dictators, by definition have absolute power and absolutely will not give it up. If Kim Jung Un does reach a deal, he will have to push the international community for immunity since there are known crimes against humanity. My guess is those are just the tip of the iceberg.

The underlying question is do you sellout your morals to appease a regime into a deal of questionable danger from unclear intelligence about nuclear warheads with no reliable delivery system?


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User talk:UJISabrina

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Thread:Comments:North, South Korea announce summit about 'denuclearization and peace' for April 27/Will the summit actually progress towards peace?/reply

Hard to say, but I think it's just Kim Jong-un following in his father's footsteps.


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Category talk:Intelligence agencies

Would cause a massive, cascading problem to down-style this category name? --SVTCobra 23:14, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
 * It ought to be straightforward; I'll take a shot at it. --Pi zero (talk) 23:42, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Looks okay, though I notice one of the subcats has never been set up or populated. --Pi zero (talk) 23:50, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

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Thread:Comments:North, South Korea announce summit about 'denuclearization and peace' for April 27/Will the summit actually progress towards peace?/reply (2)

Not convinced there is evidence to support the seeming supposition that Trump has morals, or that (like some politicians) he simulates having them.

Without such a supposition, the likely outcome of the summit — if it happens — becomes even harder to read, because it's unclear what Trump's motives are, as well as questionable whether he —or, in fact, anyone— would be competent to achieve them.


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Thread:Comments:North, South Korea announce summit about 'denuclearization and peace' for April 27/Will the summit actually progress towards peace?/reply (3)

If I was trying to make this happen, I would for look for a neutral party that both side respected as a moderator and can ensure adherence to any agreement. Immediately you cross out the US, China, and Russia. The only one that comes to mind is Germany's prime minister Angela Merkel.

A first move forward would be the North removing artillery from the DMZ and the US buy back the THAAD III missile defense shield. That is a tall, VERY TALL order.


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Category talk:MI5

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Fill this category Cheers. Green Giant (talk) 00:39, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * MI5 terror threat warning level raised to 'critical'
 * MI5 Chief: surprised and alarmed by speed of radicalisation of Muslims in UK
 * Car bomb explodes near MI5 army base in Northern Ireland
 * UK terror alert downgraded to "Severe"
 * UK threat level reduced to 'severe'
 * Home Secretary says about 30 major conspiracies threaten UK this Christmas
 * British police arrest ten due to terrorism suspicions
 * Police in Britain uncover suspected terrorist plot
 * Wikileaks publishes files on CIA hacking abilities
 * ✅ --SVTCobra 17:10, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

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Wikinews:Water cooler/technical/archives/2018/March

Editing News #1—2018
Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter Did you know? Did you know that you can now use the visual diff tool on any page?

Sometimes, it is hard to see important changes in a wikitext diff. This screenshot of a wikitext diff (click to enlarge) shows that the paragraphs have been rearranged, but it does not highlight the removal of a word or the addition of a new sentence.

If you enable the Beta Feature for "", you will have a new option. It will give you a new box at the top of every diff page. This box will let you choose either diff system on any edit.

Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.

In the visual diff, additions, removals, new links, and formatting changes will be highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.

This screenshot shows the same edit as the wikitext diff. The visual diff highlights the removal of one word and the addition of a new sentence.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and improving the visual diff tool. Their work board is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.

Recent changes

 * The 2017 wikitext editor is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools.  The team have been comparing the performance of different editing environments.  They have studied how long it takes to open the page and start typing.  The study uses data for more than one million edits during December and January.  Some changes have been made to improve the speed of the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual editor.  Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits.  More information will be posted at Contributors/Projects/Editing performance.
 * The visual diff tool was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor.  When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs.  You can also enable the new Beta Feature for "Visual diffs".  The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories and Special:RecentChanges.
 * Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor.
 * The citoid service automatically translates URLs, DOIs, ISBNs, and PubMed id numbers into wikitext citation templates. It is very popular and useful to editors, although it can be a bit tricky to set up.  Your wiki can have this service.  Please read the instructions. You can ask the team to help you enable citoid at your wiki.

Let's work together

 * The team will talk about editing tools at an upcoming Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting.
 * Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and other communities may have the visual editor made available by default to contributors. If your community wants this, then please contact Dan Garry.
 * The  block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens.  This makes footnotes easier to read.  You can request multi-column support for your wiki.
 * If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation.

—Elitre (WMF) 20:56, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

NOTICE: EducationProgram extension is being deprecated

Over the years many issues have been discovered from our engineering colleagues regarding the Education Extension, including security concerns. For this reason, and with a viable alternative platform available, we are starting the process to deprecate the extension and having it uninstalled where it has been activated. This includes this wiki Special:Courses.

This means that the following steps will be taken:

 * 1) New programs are discouraged from using the extension and encouraged to use the Programs and Events Dashboard.
 * 2) Current ongoing programs will be supported, until the month of June, 2018.
 * 3) On June 30, 2018, the Education Extension will be shut down.
 * 4) If you are still running an education program that uses the Education Extension, please take the appropriate measures and also reach out to your colleagues and communities so they are also aware.

It should be noted that data of previous programs that ran on the Education Extension will remain safe, and we are working on documenting how to access that data.

Thus, we invite all Education Program Leaders (and users of the Education Extension) to take the online training for the dashboard so that you can benefit from this tool and make your work easier.

Did you know you can also use the P&E Dashboard at edit-a-thons, writing competitions, and other Wiki-based activities? More training courses for the dashboard are available here, so take a look!

Do you need to communicate with us about this?

 * If you have comments or questions, please reach out to the Education Team at educationAt sign.svgedia.org, or the Programs and Events Dashboard group at dashboardAt sign.svgedia.org.
 * If you use Phabricator, you can also go to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125618.
 * You are also welcome to share questions and comments on outreach.wikimedia.org.

-- On behalf of the Education Team 19:56, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Please test pings in edit summary
1. Read this:
 * "You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. phab:T32750"-- meta:Tech/News/2018/10

2. Sign up at https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/ using a different user name and password (not the one you use here). You may create multiple accounts if you like, just put a note on their user pages.

3. Edit a page and put a username link in edit summary. Confirm that you are receiving the notification correctly.

4. Test at different pages and in different ways.

5. Report bugs to Phabricator.

6. Share this comment with other people on other wikis, in different languages.

--Gryllida (talk) 23:42, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

 * Pi zero said he didn't get a ping when I put his username in edit summary on a user talk page (my own). --SVTCobra 17:33, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
 * And when Pi zero tried it in reply on the HotCat topic below, I did not get a ping or notification. Cheers, --SVTCobra 19:42, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

Notification from edit summary
Greetings,

The ability to notify other users in edit summaries will be available later this week, on 15 March 2018. Other users can be notified if a link to their user page is provided in an edit summary. Some user-made gadgets and scripts that automatically put user names in edit summaries may need to be changed to put a colon in the link, such as User:Example. You can change how you receive these mention notifications in your preferences. This feature was highly requested in the 2017 Community Wishlist survey, and feedback is welcome.

Thanks, happy editing to you. -Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:09, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

 * We heard the same thing a while back in Tech News: 2018-10. Hope it happens this time. Cheers, --SVTCobra 01:04, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

We need your feedback to improve Lua functions
Hello,

If you’re regularly using Lua modules, creating and improving some of them, we need your feedback! The Wikidata development team would like to provide more Lua functions, in order to improve the experience of people who write Lua scripts to reuse Wikidata's data on the Wikimedia projects. Our goals are to help harmonizing the existing modules across the Wikimedia projects, to make coding in Lua easier for the communities, and to improve the performance of the modules.

We would like to know more about your habits, your needs, and what could help you. We have a few questions for you on this page.

Thanks a lot for your help, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 08:52, 27 March 2018 (UTC)


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China's Tiangong-1 space station crashes into Pacific

April 3, 2018

On Sunday, the confirmed the  space laboratory fell out of orbit, with much of the 10.4-meter structure burning up in Earth's atmosphere before the remainder crashed into the Pacific Ocean at 8:15  a.m.  (0015 UTC).

"Through monitoring and analysis by and related agencies," reads a statement from the China Manned Space Engineering Office, "Tiangong-1 re-entered the atmosphere at about 8.15am, 2 April, Beijing time (0115 GMT). The re-entry falling area is located in the central region of the south Pacific." The and partners from eight other countries confirmed the crash.

Tiangong 1, which means "Heavenly Palace 1," was China's first space station. It was launched in 2011 as a stepping stone toward the development of a permanent space station but itself had an expected life of about two years. Authorities recalled the last astronauts in 2013 but continued to use the space station for other purposes until losing navigational control in 2016. Late last year, the Chinese informed the United Nations that they expected the space station would crash sometime in March 2018. astrophysicist Brad Tucker described the station as "tumbling and spinning" for a long time before today's re-entry, which rendered its movements less predictable. The European Space Agency nonetheless described the chance of a person being struck by a piece of Tiangong-1 as extremely less likely than being struck by lightning. According to U.S. astronaut Leroy Chiao, the original plan had been for China to bring the space station down in a controlled fashion as the Russians did with the space station in 2001. In 1979, the U.S. space station had an uncontrolled re-entry that scattered small pieces of debris across western Australia. No one was harmed, but the agency was issued a.

Several memorials to the space station appeared in China's media. Public comments on the ranged from critical ("Re-entry? Everyone knows it's a crash") to poignant ("Goodbye Tiangong-1. You are our hero") and other tributes. One Chinese newspaper, the Global Times criticized the portrayal of Tiangong-1's end in Western media: "It's normal for spacecraft to re-enter the atmosphere, yet Tiangong-1 received so much attention partly because some western countries are trying to hype and sling mud at China's fast-growing aerospace industry."

According to reports, the second Chinese space station,, remains in orbit. China plans to launch a permanent space station by 2022, whereas the United States is currently debating a plan to withdraw support for the International Space Station as of 2024.


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Category talk:Pacific Ocean

April 2018
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 * United States: Jet loses engine cover over Pacific en route to Honolulu from San Francisco ✅
 * Russian spacecraft Phobos-Grunt falls in Pacific Ocean ✅
 * WHOI sub Nereus explores deepest area of Pacific Ocean ✅
 * Volcanic eruption in Galapagos not threatening tortoises, people ❌
 * Hurricane Guillermo forms in Pacific Ocean ✅
 * British sailor resumes around-the-world voyage after stop in Hawaii ✅
 * Pacific Rim braces for tsunami following major Chilean earthquake ✅
 * At least nine missing after Russian military plane crashes into Pacific ✅
 * Underwater volcano erupts in Pacific near Japan ✅
 * Australian–US team of scientists finds Atlantic warming causes Pacific climate trends ✅
 * Strong earthquakes in Indian and Pacific Oceans ✅
 * Rocket carrying NASA carbon dioxide satellite crashes into ocean ✅
 * Rower Tuijn halfway across Pacific in record attempt ✅
 * 7.4 magnitude hits Pacific near New Zealand ✅
 * Annual Japanese whaling campaign kills 30 minke whales ✅
 * Tsunami warning issued after earthquake near Japan ✅
 * Three strong earthquakes strike near New Zealand ✅
 * Captain and four shipping companies face legal action over 2009 Australian oil spill ✅
 * 5.5 magnitude earthquake shakes Tokyo ✅
 * Penguin swims ashore in Peru ✅
 * Underwater volcano causes 3,300 ft column of steam ✅
 * Stranded Russian minisub is trapped by 60 tonne anchor ✅
 * 6.9 Magnitude Earthquake strikes Solomon Islands ✅
 * 2005/01/19 Pacific Northwest soaked with "Tropical Punch" ✅
 * Death toll from tsunami in Southeast Asia increases (title needs correcting?) ✅ (didn't rename, though)
 * Hurricane Jimena intensifies off Mexican coast ✅
 * Hurricane Adrian strikes Central America Thursday night ✅

The above is a proposed list and there are likely to be more candidates. Feel free to amend as appropriate. Cheers. Green Giant (talk) 14:10, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I've been wondering about a Pacific category for years; I never figured out how it ought to relate to other categories, notably to Category:Oceania, which is one of our region categories (informally referred to as "continents"). A related task is to write a usage note for Category:Oceania clarifying what is and isn't included in it.  Presumably, if we're to have a category for the Pacific, it should be in Category:Oceans.  --Pi zero (talk) 14:27, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I’ve added it to Category:Oceans. There is considerable overlap between the two in that much of Oceania is part of the Pacific and undoubtedly there will be many articles which fit into both categories. If we want more distinction, perhaps articles for the Pacific category should be specifically or significantly about the ocean itself, which is what I tried to keep in mind with the above list? For Oceania I'd suggest limiting it to the areas marked on the UN map used on the category page (File:Oceania UN Geoscheme Regions.svg). There might be questions about the borders but I think it pretty much encapsulates a common definition of Oceania. Green Giant (talk) 15:13, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree about Oceania (did you independently find that same map?). A deeper question, though:  when should news about a land mass within the Pacific be put into Category:Pacific Ocean?  If we put everything about, say, New Zealand, the Philippines, and Hawaii into Category:Pacific Ocean, it becomes less of an "ocean" category than a "region" category, and as a region its overlap with Oceania seems more peculiar.  Afaics, I treated Atlantic Ocean somewhat as a catch-all for stuff that didn't go anywhere else:  things about the ocean as a whole, things about events in the open ocean, and some places that didn't belong to any regional category; but I didn't put the Caribbean in it, nor even the Gulf of Mexico (though one could make a case for that).  Those are already tricky issues, and I suppose a usage note at Atlantic Ocean might be in order, if we can get clarity on what it ought to say.  --Pi zero (talk) 15:34, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * No, I realised you’d changed the map after I’d posted here but didn’t think it was worth adding to my comment. However, it is better than the previous Oceania map. In terms of definitions, I agree it would be too much to include land-based articles that can be accommodated in more specific categories. The oceanic categories should be, as you say, for things that happen in, on, around or above the actual water e.g. the space debris that crashed into the ocean, the storms that form in the ocean, the people trying to cross the ocean, etc. Green Giant (talk) 15:49, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I see that is what I did with Category:Atlantic Ocean, although there are also geocats put in it because they are physically in the Atlantic and not physically in any region, though they're politically associated with a country that belongs to a region. (That's Bermuda, belonging to the UK, and the Canary Islands, belonging to Spain.)  I'm not sure off-hand why French Guiana is listed under Atlantic Ocean, though there may well be a good reason.  We may want to rethink what is and isn't a subcat of an ocean cat.  At any rate, not everything associated with those geocats is is the ocean cat; as you say.  I feel I should give all this further attention later today.  (There's new a list of such things, all of which presumably need to take a back seat to review on-wiki and various stuff off-line.)  --Pi zero (talk) 16:24, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Btw I've added a usage note at Category:Atlantic Ocean and similarly expanded the usage note here. --Pi zero (talk) 21:38, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
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Re:this edit, if you are suggesting that it’s in both Asia and Europe, that’s fine but it isn’t solely in Asia. Please be more careful with reversions because you also removed the  and   lines, which aren’t disputable. Green Giant (talk) 17:26, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Amazingly, a revert would notify you, and you would see what the edit summary was; I don't have to go to your talk to leave a note telling you what we had done in the past. Also, my edits aren't going to be sighted by itself. 103.254.128.130 (talk) 17:28, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, it’s a setting in Special:Preferences, which allows you to set which notifications you want. There is also the recent feature of being pinged by edit summary too. Green Giant (talk) 17:37, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * which, by the way, is very annoying and takes more effort for the same outcome. Seriously you want me to write that whole markup on phone? 103.254.128.130 (talk) 17:44, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
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I dislike the "If the United States decides to cease support for the International Space Station, China may have the only resource that keeps humans in orbit." sentence, it reads like a speculation. It raises the question, why would they cease support, and until when is it guaranteed to continue to exist? And why is the support provided only by US and not by multiple countries? --Gryllida (talk) 00:16, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
 * You’re right, so I’ve reworded it and removed the most speculative part. The ISS depends on multiple countries but a US withdrawal would make it difficult for other countries to continue operating it. Green Giant (talk) 00:27, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks :-) Re 2, this may require attribution and specification of time (when did they start thinking of ceasing the support and when would the support end in that case), if information is present only in a single source. Gryllida (talk) 00:29, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I'd perhaps suggest "United States was contemplating withdrawing support for the International Space Station by 2024, according to Jiao Weixin, a space science professor at Peking University" (or 'according to Global Times'). Gryllida (talk) 00:31, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
 * It’s not Wexin; both sources mention the possible cessation of support with the Guardian giving 2024 and CNN pointing to an earlier article which mentions 2024. The start of the funding cut possibility was with the start of the Trump presidency but this isn’t mentioned in either source. Not sure how to phrase it. I’m happy to leave it out. Green Giant (talk) 00:39, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I think we should keep the year. The upshot is that it would happen at around the same time. Darkfrog24 (talk) 00:40, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I'd perhaps suggest "United States was contemplating withdrawing support for the International Space Station by 2024". --Gryllida (talk) 00:41, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
 * The current version is ok, but I'd replace 'is debating' with 'was considering' ('debating' raises the question of who is debating; we probably do not want to include that without specifying the answer). --Gryllida (talk) 00:42, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
 * "whereas the United States planned to retire the International Space Station by 2024"? Gryllida (talk) 00:44, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Factually that's not the same thing as withdrawing funding. "Retiring" it would be more like taking it down from orbit. Presumably, if some other entity took over funding, ISS would continue.  I think "withdrawing support" is more like it. Darkfrog24 (talk) 00:55, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Commas
I wrote this in American English, so the comma goes inside the quotation mark. The comma-outside usage is correct in British English. Hang on while I get some sources.

Here's a handy chart from the style guide of the American Psychological Association.

Here's Oxford Dictionaries on the matter.

Here's Scientific Style and Format (quoting OUP) if you want something more detailed and academic. I hope this puts your mind at ease that the name of the spacecraft has been portrayed properly. EDIT: I remember the Associated Press style guide does the same, but I don't remember their exact words right now. Darkfrog24 (talk) 00:47, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Harrrumph! American English is an oxymoron methinks. It's not worth quibbling over a comma. 😉 Green Giant (talk) 01:14, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Hey, when it was an article about British scientists checking surfers' butts for E. coli, I was untucked commas and centre of the harbour all the way. The language in its glorious variety. Darkfrog24 (talk) 03:58, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Timezones
I noticed that the article uses UTC and GMT. Sure they are the same thing, but is there some rule of using one or the other? Also I loved the part about NASA getting fined. My guess is the payment is delinquent, it got shuffled into those missing moon rock box. AZOperator (talk) 20:26, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
 * They're the same thing? I thought they were different.  Huh.  Well then we have an issue because 0115 and 12:15 don't look like the same time.
 * Actually, a radio station paid the fine for NASA in 2009. It's in the Wikipedia article through the link. Darkfrog24 (talk) 21:53, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Google tells me that 8:15 a.m. Beijing time is 12:15 a.m. UTC, but the quote says it was 1:15 a.m., so let's go with that. Alternately, since the quote gives the standard time in the second paragraph, do we need to adhere to our usual custom of putting it in the first? Darkfrog24 (talk) 21:56, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh dear. Reference time is UTC. There is no a.m. or p.m. in UTC, and it does not use a colon.  8:15am in Beijing is 0015 UTC, and 8:15pm on the US East coast. Unfortunately, this article is in error, and since it's more than 24 hours after publication we're going to have to issue a correction.  The article states that the focal event took place on Sunday, but in fact it did not.  It took place on Monday, local time.  (Also, btw, Monday UTC.)  --Pi zero (talk) 22:16, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Hmm... that's quite a confusing point. I'm pretty sure one of them said Sunday when I reviewed it. If you look at the Guardian article, in the middle it quotes the US JFCC as saying re-entry was "~5:16 p.m. (PST) April 1". Green Giant (talk) 22:38, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Monday 8:15am in Beijing, Monday 0015 UTC, Sunday 8:15pm on the US east coast ("ET", as CNN puts it), and Sunday 5:15pm on the US west coast (PST = Pacific Saving Time). The two sources both say Monday morning, afaics, but CNN mentions Sunday when giving the "ET" equivalent.  --Pi zero (talk) 22:49, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Okay, so if we caught the timezone problem, we would might have caught the correction. Interesting. Well with every mistake comes a lesson. Now did the radio station find the moon rocks? ;) AZOperator (talk) 22:55, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

I figured out what was bothering me about this. I think the correction should say Monday where. The whole cause of the confusion is that it's already Monday in Beijing when it's still Sunday in London. The reader is as likely to get that mixed up as we are. Darkfrog24 (talk) 23:47, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't believe they did, AZOperator. I think the "debris" was probably more Skylab parts and perhaps a few pairs of personalized Buzz Aldrin underpants.  They have yet to resurface. Darkfrog24 (talk) 23:48, 8 April 2018 (UTC)


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Please add Category:2018 Winter Olympics to South Korean city wins 2018 Winter Olympics. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:16, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Done; but in general we try to avoid creating a category until we have three published articles to put in it. --Pi zero (talk) 22:24, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Sure. I'm drafting one now on the unified Korean team. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:29, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
 * That'll make two. Glad to hear it, and I'm not inclined to propose deleting it.  But, as I said, we'd ordinarily wait until after three had been published.  Ordinarily.  --Pi zero (talk) 23:35, 28 January 2018 (UTC)


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The article Western Sydney rallies against goverment's workplace reforms contains a typo in its title (should be government). I can't move the page, as it's protected. In Help:Renaming (moving) a page I don't see a rule that should prevent published articles from being moved for typos, so I guess this should be done by someone who has the right (and probably the help page should be updated, with a guide on how to properly request moving pages which are protected, which is a rather common case here). Thank you! --YMS (talk) 16:21, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
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On Monday, two US legislators, Republican legislators, and, respectively the chairman of the  and the chairman of the , co-wrote a public letter to , executive director of The , about open-source software (OSS) and improving its security. They requested Zemlin to answer their questions by no later than April 16.

The letter contained the following four questions; each of the first two has a further two follow-up questions.  Has the CII [] performed a comprehensive study of which pieces of OSS are most crucial to the "global information infrastructure"?  If not, does the CII plan to perform such a study? What would the CII need in order to do so?  Has the CII, or any other organizations, compiled any statistics on OSS usage?  If not, does the CII plan to perform such a study? What would the CII need in order to do so?

In your estimation, how sustainable and stable is the OSS ecosystem?

Based on your response to the previous question, how can the OSS ecosystem be made more sustainable and stable?

Walden and Harper exemplified, a "critical cybersecurity vulnerability" that allowed the hacking of websites and passwords, and millions of medical records in 2014. They also wrote that, in response to that vulnerability, The Linux Foundation established a multi-million dollar project, the Core Infrastructure Initiative, intended to improve the global infrastucture of such software.

The politicians noted large tech companies like Microsoft, Apple Inc., and respond more quickly to such critical vulnerabilities than distributors and developers of open-source software.

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April 8, 2018 On Friday, thirteen-year-old boy Jesse Hernandez thanked city personnel at the of,  for rescuing him from an underground city sewage pipe near  in Los Angeles four days prior on Monday. The rescue was a result of a search and rescue operation on April 1 — — that took over twelve hours after the boy fell into the sewage by accident.

Hernandez said, "I'm so thankful to everybody who was involved in my rescue. Because of them I'm back with my family. And God for giving me another chance to live."

On April 1, Hernandez and some friends went to play at an abandoned maintenance building. At around 4:30 PM local time, he fell through a that broke, down about  into the sewage, according to  spokesman Brian Humphrey. Adults, immediately told by other children, dialed emergency helpline number 9-1-1.

More than 100 people participated in the twelve-hour search-and-rescue effort. The city workers also used a video camera mounted to a floating device.

The environmentally toxic sewage was floating around fifteen (about 24 ), and anyone falling into it had "slim" chance of surviving, Humphrey said, calling the result "miraculous".

City workers identified a search area for Hernandez's location consisting of 6,400 (about 2 ) of pipes, 4 feet (1.2 ) in diameter. After thoroughly inspecting about 2,500 feet (760 metres) of pipes, at around 4 am local time, they found handprints on sewers via the camera, helping rescuers identify the spot near the, about 1 (1.6 kilometres) from the abandoned building. When they went to the camera's location, the rescuers heard the boy screaming, "Help!"

The rescue workers lowered a hose 11 feet (3.4 metres) down into the pipe to Hernandez. The boy was treated by paramedics for decontamination, used a worker's cell phone to notify his parents he was rescued, and was transported to the hospital. The hospital released him by 11:15 AM, local time.

Later that week, city councilman announced city plans to demolish, or secure, any abandoned maintenance buildings, including the one where Hernandez fell from, to avoid similar situations happening again.


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I suggest dropping "is" and "a", as a matter of ; and specifying California. Thus, "Thirteen-year-old boy in Log Angeles, California rescued from sewage pipe". --Pi zero (talk) 11:24, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Great idea. :-) I am glad the typo wasn't carried over.
 * It would be nice to avoid passive voice, if not in the headline then at least in the first paragraph. I.e. "On Monday, a 13-year-old boy Jesse Hernandez was rescued from a city sewage pipe" -> "On Monday, city officials rescued a 13-year-old boy Jesse Hernandez from a city sewage pipe".
 * Such modification could result in a "City officials rescue thirteen-year-old boy in Log Angeles, California from sewage pipe" but that could be too long. --Gryllida (talk) 21:43, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

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Unblock request
Please type your reason here. Tom Fpg (talk) 16:15, 7 April 2018 (UTC) I want my count I didn't nothing I upload music this is bad?
 * The account has been globally locked, which makes my local block somewhat irrelevant. I'll try to answer the question anyway, though.
 * Locally uploading media on English Wikinews should be done only for purposes related to our news reportage. It's hard to imagine a situation where there would be a valid news justification for uploading music.  --Pi zero (talk) 16:51, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

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Talk:US Republicans query Linux Foundation about open-source security

No warranty
I find this letter intent concerning. Surely the Linux kernel is under the GNU GPL, which provides no warranty (perhaps unlike the whatever end user agreements other proprietary systems come with)? See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html where it says "For the developers' and authors' protection, the GPL clearly explains that there is no warranty for this free software." As far as I can see, if the Linux kernel development dies completely, they would not be liable for any damage that occurs as a result. Gryllida (talk) 00:25, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

"Deadline"
I thought about changing "Deadline" → "a", but the letter also says that Zemlin must reply by no later than April 16. --George Ho (talk) 05:47, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Suggested headline: "Two US Republicans query The Linux Foundation about security in open-source software". --Gryllida (talk) 06:35, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Yes_check.svg|link=|alt=|16px]] Done. --George Ho (talk) 06:52, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Questions?
Could we include the questions in the second paragraph of the article? Would there be a problem with me adding the questions during review? — Green Giant (talk) 21:35, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
 * A reviewer cannot add significant content during review; that's completely contrary to the principle of independent review. Note, btw, we've had to issue a correction on the space station article. --Pi zero (talk) 22:22, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Review of revision 4394844 [Not ready]
@Green Giant and Pi zero: Added questions. --George Ho (talk) 22:58, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Bulleted lists
Just a note. We have generally had a strong aversion to using bulleted lists in news articles. We seek to provide smoothly flowing prose, and are inclined to view bulleted lists as an encylcopedic mode of conveying information, breaking up the smooth flow. --Pi zero (talk) 15:55, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I see your point, but converting to prose isn't easy, especially when copying questions from the public letter. Also, this article uses a table format. Another article doesn't use bullets, but provides lists of bestsellers. I can search for more top-50 lists, bestsellers lists, and other kinds of lists if you're not well convinced. --George Ho (talk) 16:35, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Why not move it at the bottom, and then one could mention "Questions asked to Linux Foundation"? 103.254.128.130 (talk) 17:06, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Moved questions to bottom. However, does, Style guide apply? --George Ho (talk) 20:02, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I disagree with moving the questions down because it relegates them to background information. They are an important part of the letter; indeed this is what Zemlin is being asked to reply about. Green Giant (talk) 20:20, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
 * You could quote a single question, if that is required within the article. 103.254.128.130 (talk) 20:23, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I found Green Giant's argument more compelling, and the questions are also essential if they are needed. Therefore, I changed it back. Why quoting just one question? --George Ho (talk) 20:46, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

to give the “background information”, duh. When all the questions are listed below, and one question which is essential for background information is quoted in the main article area, what is so wrong in that? Haven’t we done that for football and tennis and presidential elections? 103.254.128.130 (talk) 04:17, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Correction needed
editprotected The article, in a significant reviewing oversight, refers to the lawmakers as "two US Republican Party legislators". Wrong. Pallone, Jr. is a Democrat and also was then. This would require a move to something like "US lawmakers query Linux Foundation about open-source security". Augusthorsesdroppings10 (talk) 14:21, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Yikes! You are right. This is going to require a full-blown correction and rename. --SVTCobra 00:10, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ Well, the problem was different than described above. Pallone was not one of the authors. was the correct name and he had a different position than the article said. --SVTCobra 01:02, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
 * The last sentence still says, "Walden and Pallone also expressed praise toward open-source software and cited a 2015 survey conducted by Black Duck Software saying 78% of companies used such software" though. Heavy Water (talk) 01:15, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, fixed. --SVTCobra 01:44, 29 December 2022 (UTC)


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Woolworths, Australia moves single-use plastic bags ban date to June 20

April 7, 2018 In a statement on Wednesday, Brad Banducci, the chief executive of, a large retail supermarket in Australia, announced a plan to ban free single-use plastic bags in Woolworths stores in Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales, and Western Australia. The ban would apply from June 20 this year, eleven days earlier than the deadline of July 1 set by some of the states' legislation.

The planned bans in the stores in Queensland, Victoria, and Western Australia follow state legislation requiring the single-use bags to be banned by July 1. However, Woolworth's plan to ban single-use plastic bags in its stores in New South Wales was voluntary.

Reusable plastic bags would be sold for fifteen cents; canvas, 99 cents.

The change reportedly would affect Woolworths supermarkets, liquor stores, Woolworth Metro stores, and petrol stations that have shops operated by Woolworths.

Advocates of the change have cited environmental concerns. Brad Banducci said, "Our teams have been working hard behind the scenes to accelerate the rollout of this plan so we can start making a positive impact on the environment as quickly as possible".

Starting from July last year, and Woolworths had originally planned to phase out single-use plastic bags by June 30.

,, and the  were already not using single-use plastic bags following state bans, SBS reported.


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