Talk:German Cardinal Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI

Many thanks to CGorman who wrote the first drafts of this article using Wikinews:Story preparation.

Readers and editors alike may be interested to know that we beat BBC News Online, Reuters and AP to the news. Only CNN, as far as I know, was quicker.

Interestingly, the first media correspondent in the world to recognize the election of a new Pope had occured was Christian Franklin on BBC Radio 5 Live. He happened to be broadcasting live from St Peters Square when the smoke emerged and correctly inferred at once that the smoke had to indicate the election of a new Pope - if the ballot had been inconclusive, the papers would have been kept until the 7pm vote was over and both sets of papers burnt together. Dan100 (Talk) 18:10, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Dan for reacting so quick, its your quick reaction that deserves praise. → CGorman (Talk) 20:41, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Someone removed the space before the archival template — It's causing a big ugly grey box to appear. 68.39.174.238 09:40, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Done I moved things around to where they are supposed to be. However, I am not sure to which grey box you are referring?. If it is the archival warning box at the bottom, it is going to be there. --Jcart1534 11:56, 11 January 2008 (UTC)