User talk:Doldrums/Archive5

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from October 7, 2005 up to July 11, 2006 up to September 5, 2006 up to 26 October 2006 up to 13 December 2006 up to 4 February 2007 up to 14 April 2007 up to 9 January 2008

Lakewood SWAT article

Thanks for all your help with my first news submission! Dlayphoto 05:26, 23 January 2007 (UTC) Thanks for taking a look at my first submission, and considering my request for accrediation. Dlayphoto 03:52, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Philippines article

Why is this article tagged with copyvio when all sources have explicit permission to use all or part of their content? 202.4.4.24 08:57, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi Doldrums! Bulatlat has emailed me saying they have already sent you email about the use of their news articles. FYI. Bulatlat 05:36, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

thanks for clarification

best wishes Fentonrobb 20:11, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

thanks for the message

If they publish before i do can they claim copyright? i am not shure about this. Davidf12 09:06, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

hello again Doldrums

i put the link in the discussion page... Davidf12 09:20, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Planetary conjunction

Do you know if this Planets Jupiter, Mercury and Mars line up, visible to naked eye was vetted after my edit. I was having a login problem... do they periodically change passwords here, or was the db corrupted back when. I really live on wikipedia, but the article screamed it needed help.

I left two notes with others to at least copy edit my expansion. Looking over the summaries, I see you were involved. Shoulda dun that yesterday. Might want to research the date when Mercury will open up the angle enough to be say a fist away. The date could be moved back too from 10th to 14th or 15th, as the other two will be near viewing for a month or more I would guess. Nice to meetchya // FrankB 00:23, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Re:copyrights of Indian goverment works

I've removed the PD notice for the time being, although it's probably usable under the Freedom of Information Act and/or the RTI. I'm also trying to go over the Right to Info Act to see whether we can use it in our fair use criteria. Thanks for pointing it out. Zeest^(Talk)_(Newpages) 09:33, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi

Thanks for the welcome! I'm w:User:Srikeit, an admin on en. I'm rarely active on the other wikimedia projects so you might never see my name popup in recent changes (this may be the only edit I make here :P). But you may never know when my reporting instincts kick in and I get hooked so lets hope for the best! Merci encore --Srikeit 18:27, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Merge

I merged the two articles regarding the Ashes, but can't seem to get the redirect right ([1]). Could you fix it please? Cheers, :) Daniel.Bryant ^{[ T · C ]} 06:01, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Don't worry - I managed to fix it. I dunno what I did, though... [2] Daniel.Bryant ^{[ T · C ]} 06:05, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

RE: accredited reporter template

hope what i've done is good enough until i have the time to edit my template. terinjokes | Talk | Come visit the WikiBistro 00:56, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

thanks

thanks for dealing with Bogan_Downe so quickly. Towsonu2003 07:44, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

article reversion

I was sort of wondering about this reversion... it was reverting a substantial edit to an article which had been published. However, the article had been published only 4 hours previously, and was quite a shallow, stubbish note. Do you normally revert expansions of recently published articles? (best send me e-mail if you choose to respond as I'm not exactly visiting wn regularly) - Amgine | ^sw 20:45, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

I am sorry for comments sounding personal

Merry Christmas. -Edbrown05 08:11, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Merry Christmas again, to pehaps one of the greatest wikinewsians I've known -Edbrown05 08:17, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, Doldrums/Archive5! I have really enjoyed working with you this year, and I am honestly looking forward to another year just like it. Wikinews is a great community, and I am really excited to be a part of it. Again, Merry Christmas! Thunderhead

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Doldrums celebrates Christmas? ★MESSEDROCKER★ 20:27, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

I just give out the cards, Messed, I don't do research. Either way, Happy Holidays! Thunderhead - (talk) ^{Congrajulations to Kat!} 09:31, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

As they say, it's the thought that counts! —FellowWikiNews (W) 16:27, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Username blocks and autoblocks

Hello, Doldrums, about why I invoked autoblock on that username block... when blatantly offensive usernames (such as "COCK COCK COCK") are registered, there's a good chance it's for the sake of vandalism. While they should be blocked for username-related reasons, invoking autoblock isn't a bad idea since it'll prevent them from creating more accounts or vandalizing more. ★MESSEDROCKER★ 20:27, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

File:Santa arrest.JPG HO HO HO! These people got no presents from me this year.

FellowWikiNews is whishing thou a Merry very pegan Christmas , Seasons Greetings, Happy Holidays, Happy Hanukkah, or whatever thou calls it, and realised they had purposefully forgotten about thou. This user is completely thoughtless, doesn't care about Season's Greetings, and therefore DEMANDS you have yourself a Merry Christmas... NOW! Failure to comply will result in going to jail with Santa. (Note: Santa is Satan spelt backwards)! Christmas Story (Children Friendly): So kids, is Santa Democrat or Republican??! Often depicted as an obese man wearing a tasteless red, ermine trimmed suit, Santa Claus is a self-employed Caucasian male who's been married to the same woman for several centuries. It appears likely that he is a churchgoer, insofar as he is a Catholic saint and a former bishop. It has to be assumed here that Claus was released from his vows, or else he would not have been married. Frequent arguments have erupted over the political affiliation of Claus. Ten years ago, Dick Cheney inadvertently dealt a savage blow to the morale of the Republican Party when he misidentified the political affiliation of Santa Claus in his best-selling book, Parliament of Whores. "Santa Claus," he said, "is a Democrat." However it is perfectly obvious from his demographic profile alone that Santa is in fact a Republican. This assessment is often rebutted by Democrats with Anne-McCaffery counter-analysis: Santa Claus has no children. High-achieving professionals without children trend Democratic. While the Clausian canon does not specifically address the issue of Santa's children, numerous extra-canonical sources suggest that Claus did, in fact, reproduce. Numerous Christmas TV movie specials alone support this point. Santa is renowned for an aggressive adherence to a binary naughty/nice list, which suggests an impatience for nuanced moral positions that betrays his Republican preferences. Santa's mere willingness to define individuals along a naughty/nice axis demonstrates his indifference to the philosophical stance of, say, The New York Times. And note that no canonical or extra-canonical Clausian text indicates that Santa ever attended college or, God forbid, graduate school. THE END!!! FellowWikiNews approves of this story.

President Bush signs U.S.-India Nuclear Deal

You tagged as a copyvio. As the main writer of that article, I can assure you that no copyvio occurred. In fact, I strongly suspect that the page you linked to copied wikinews without attribution. JoshuaZ 04:21, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

In fact, looking at their version, they clearly copied it from us- note that they interpolated a quote into the middle of one of my sentences- which suggests that they were copying and pasting stuff from other sources and weren't paying that much attention. JoshuaZ 04:25, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! Wishing you all the best for the forthcoming year. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 16:18, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

vandalism misunderstanding

hi, we seem to have a funny misunderstanding. I wasn't refering to your edit or anything. In my view of that page (which I could reproduce then, but cannot do so now), I was seeing giant letters saying "Mumfum". This thing was screwing up all layout of the page. I tracked the changes and went to a version without the weird giant letters, and removed two letters (as far as I remember) that seemed to cause that thing. after that edit, the page returned to normal. Towsonu2003 07:23, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

RE:Welcome

Thanks! And thanks for making the article neater. I find it awesome that I get to be able to report on something that I experienced only an hour ago! Gzkn 13:57, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Mop

I think there are enough admins on WN-EN. Yje only thing was that there was none at that moment. Requesting stewards help seems to be perfect when it i necessary. Hégésippe | ±Θ± 14:07, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Flag

Does Wikinews:Main Page redesign still need the community's attention?--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 19:29, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

New idea for community goings-on

Hi, (I hope you don't mind this general message, I'm just randomly contacting people from my talk page)

I've had an idea after reading User:Kinnerc/WhereToWikinews? that might make people more aware of what's currently going on on this site, what discussions are being held, where help is needed etc. I've designed a little signpost-like box that I would like to introduce as a newsletter to post on user talk pages. Of course, the majority is copied from the Newsroom, which I think people don't visit often enough. Oh yeah, and the title should probably change :-D

I would appreciate some feedback on the idea, and also I'm interested to know if you would subscribe to such a newsletter. Please go to User_talk:Stevenfruitsmaak/Goings-on.

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 19:49, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

The Fruitsmaak Goings-on Selection

Wikinews community The Arbcom elections are ongoing. Please vote! Commentary pages have been removed again to improve the system, which met with little opposition so far. Archiving is behind since November! Brian McNeil wants some help, so I declare it the official Admin Backlog Collaboration to set this right! Get out your AWB and start archiving!--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 20:17, 7 January 2007 (UTC) Update on RSS feed circulation: readership jumped from 5,500 to 21,000 on December 12 2006, and then increased again to 36,000 on December 20. Currently just over 30,000 readers access the RSS feed each day. Get writing, people are reading! Dan100 (Talk) 14:59, 5 January 2007 (UTC) Wikiversity's Journalism School is looking for contributers and instructors. stats are back. Wikinews seems to be more or less steadily increasing. However, the number of newbies is falling slightly. Current RfAs: None (Munchkinguy has withdrawn his RfA). Wikipedia news - Wikimedia news edit this

Collaboration requests Post new request International interviews/poll on climate warming Flagged discussions Wikinews:Water cooler/policy/archives/2024/September Wikinews:Water cooler/policy Wikinews:Water cooler/policy/archives/2024/June Talk:Main Page Template talk:Stale Talk:At least 20 die in Odesa in Russian missile strike, Ukraine reports Wikinews:Water cooler/policy/archives/2024/January Wikinews:Water cooler/proposals/archives/2023/November Category talk:2016 UK EU referendum Talk:American Museum of Natural History removes statue of Theodore Roosevelt Category talk:2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Talk:Belfast

IT has nothing to do with the newwebsite

it has beign posted in the wrong part, it shouldn't even be posted at all, if anything it should be posted in related links, not soources, the source is the iranian news agency -Nima Baghaei

Ufo vatican article

An anon (I assume, i havn't found the exact spot in the history) published the ufo+vatican article. I found it deleted, and have since reverted it, and de-published because it looks as if there was no concencuss to publish. However I just want to make sure I am correct in the assumption its not ready to publish. Bawolff :-)(-: 06:47, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

OK First of all, we decided it was real, so what are you talking about!?

We decided it was real, and it was published yesterday, so why in the world do you guys keep taking it off! If you dont give a reason, what you are doing is not correct, wrong actually? (:O\ Please dont unpublish something that has been published, thanks. -Nima Baghaei 15:27, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

publishing

actually, i am familiar, and once again you have not provided any reasoning behind the neutrality of the article, first of all its official, he said it, its not different then someone saying a bomb exploded somewhere -Nima Baghaei 15:39, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Abusive User

I wouldn't normally suggest the use of admin power, but User:Nima Baghaei keeps adding an npov to the news story about the US embassy in Athens. From what I can see, he does this to a lot of articles. I assume that it is against policy to attempt to have a revert-war with an admin, especially on a story such as this. I also can see no such violation of neutrality. Do as you must, but this user is beginning to grind on my nerves.

Person above should be banned

The person above should be banned for not showing who they are nor their IP address, I have every right to defend my statement that the article on the attack in Turkey is full of lies, and I will express them because wikinews allows me to show the points of neutrality of this article! Please ban the user above, thanks -Nima Baghaei 16:11, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

• Actually I have added npov to one article smart mouth, and that is the turkey article! -Nima Baghaei 16:12, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Iran response posted

• Ok I posted the Iran's response, now lets put this as breaking news on the top of wikinews!-Nbgoku 18:11, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

check "secret war"

I've responded. Thank you. -- Newspaper 06:07, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikinews:Arbitration Committee/Elections January 2007

You know everything going on in the community and should be nominated, and would definately recieve my vote. The question is, are you interested? Please let me know. -Edbrown05 11:21, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Allow me to add, that I too believe you'd be an excellent arbitrator. --+Deprifry+ 13:30, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

So do I. You definintly deserve a position on ArbCom. Thunderhead - (talk) ^{Congrajulations to Kat!} 15:12, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

thanks for the confidence, guys. i'd be happy to accept a nomination.  — Doldrums(talk) 05:07, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

The Goings-on Selection

Welcome to the first edition of this fortnightly Community Newsletter! If you have comments, please voice them. If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter, you can unsubscribe. If you have news for the next edition, please submit it here.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 00:30, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikinews community The Arbcom elections are ongoing. Please vote! Commentary pages have been removed again to improve the system, which met with little opposition so far. Archiving is behind since November! Brian McNeil wants some help, so I declare it the official Admin Backlog Collaboration to set this right! Get out your AWB and start archiving!--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 20:17, 7 January 2007 (UTC) Update on RSS feed circulation: readership jumped from 5,500 to 21,000 on December 12 2006, and then increased again to 36,000 on December 20. Currently just over 30,000 readers access the RSS feed each day. Get writing, people are reading! Dan100 (Talk) 14:59, 5 January 2007 (UTC) Wikiversity's Journalism School is looking for contributers and instructors. stats are back. Wikinews seems to be more or less steadily increasing. However, the number of newbies is falling slightly. Current RfAs: None (Munchkinguy has withdrawn his RfA). Wikipedia news - Wikimedia news edit this

Collaboration requests Russian Wikipedia: now has over 2,000,000 articles Around 25 million votes already cast as Kamala Harris and Donald Trump go to battleground states British Actress Dame Maggie Smith dies age 89 Russian missile strikes residential building in Ukraine Odesa area, No numbers on hurt or dead Heavy rains hit Southern India Eastern shore of Australia experiences strong thunderstorms as hot weather system enters South Australia Internet Archive Leak exposes 31 million people's Credentials National championships in Philippines to take place at Puerto Princesa Palawan on November No.3 Oregon wins against No.2 Ohio state Hurricane Milton may set record for most tornadoes spawned during a hurricane Rare rain hits the Sahara desert in southern Morocco, causes flooding World Wide Fund for Nature reports average 73% decline of wildlife populations since 1970 Hurricane Milton, Category 3 makes landfall in Florida, United States Jimmie Johnson's Consistency Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis meets with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in UN General Assembly Russian traveler presented an unusual textbook at the literary festival Russian traveler presents book with mysterious title in Yalta WHO declares global mpox emergency, UNICEF prepares conditional vaccine supply agreements Wikimedian blocked globally for 'trolling' Hong Kong journalists Art Outreach By Olusola David Ayibiowu Motivated Visual Art and Science Students in Lagos Schools Flagged discussions Wikinews:Water cooler/policy/archives/2024/September Wikinews:Water cooler/policy Wikinews:Water cooler/policy/archives/2024/June Talk:Main Page Template talk:Stale Talk:At least 20 die in Odesa in Russian missile strike, Ukraine reports Wikinews:Water cooler/policy/archives/2024/January Wikinews:Water cooler/proposals/archives/2023/November Category talk:2016 UK EU referendum Talk:American Museum of Natural History removes statue of Theodore Roosevelt Category talk:2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Talk:Belfast Open polls Please vote in open polls! Add {{poll}} to a page to have it listed here.

Thanks

Hey Doldrums. Thanks for the welcome! I do quite a bit of that myself over at Wikipedia.--Fuhghettaboutit 21:18, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome and assistance. I'm really new this wiki thing and would like to contribute a lot. --Kgargar 05:36, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks to you Doldrums. You are the most celebrated wikinewsian. Hat tip off to you.

Phoenix Lights

The phoenix light document has no references to being flares, it just put there at random. There are more references showing it as a UFO, and none as a flare, so you are lying to the public, please stop or you will be reported. -129.7.127.46 17:27, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

I did point it out to you, you are assuming it was flares, when the article in wikipedia has no source to it, it has a paragraph on it with no references (as if someone just made it up) ... please top lying to the public because I take pleasure in reporting liers. thanks -129.7.127.46 17:48, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

A lot! My first award ever. I should probably also get a free Wikiholism detoxification kit with it, and the trophy for lousiest medical student focusing on exams :-s. But, really, thanks.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 17:20, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

New Quote

Quote

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GONZALES:The fact that the Constitution — again, there is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There is a prohibition against taking it away. But it’s never been the case, and I’m not a Supreme —

SPECTER: Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. The constitution says you can’t take it away, except in the case of rebellion or invasion. Doesn’t that mean you have the right of habeas corpus, unless there is an invasion or rebellion?

GONZALES: I meant by that comment, the Constitution doesn’t say, “Every individual in the United States or every citizen is hereby granted or assured the right to habeas.” It doesn’t say that. It simply says the right of habeas corpus shall not be suspended except by —

SPECTER: You may be treading on your interdiction and violating common sense, Mr. Attorney General.

GONZALES: Um.

Context. Probably too long to put on the page, but still a revealing conversation. --+Deprifry+ 11:10, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Not less interest, but rather increasing obligations at university, among others. I'll try to get more involved in the semester break. --+Deprifry+ 16:17, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

archiving request

hi, is it possible to archive Kurdish Linux launched in Turkey? It seems to attract vandals from time to time (the last edit bf yours was one) and it's old. thanks Towsonu2003 19:09, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

thanks a lot Towsonu2003 19:42, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Hehe thanks

I've been involved in other wikimedia projects, but Wikinews sounded appealing and so I made an account. Thanks for the welcome; it contained a few links that were just what I needed. Can I ask how you had such a fast response time to my editing the article? --GofG 15:47, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

MSNBC_Poll ????

sorry to bother you ther's some kind of problem with the rss fead and don't no wher to post this.i alredy put it in the main page talk page,and you i spoted you from the resent changes buton.

Whats up with rss fead about MSNBC_Poll,this isn't wikinews.Or it's just me?Plus firefox can't display it(i don't have internet explorer) and if i try to vew the source it's just a header.--87.64.21.119 05:39, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WikinewsLatestNews/~3/82701009/MSNBC_Poll:_87%25_of_Americans_want_Bush_impeached

Thanks

Thanks for the welcome to wikinews. --Sir James Paul 23:46, 28 January 2007 (UTC)b

Earthquake

• Yah could u help me create one? I am not familiar with this template coding, thanks! -129.7.127.183 16:07, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

• I did trying making a category:earthquake though -129.7.127.183 16:08, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

• I love the template! Can we start using it? -129.7.127.183 16:37, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

no plural on category:Brief

its category:Brief, not category:Briefs. Bawolff ☺☻ 07:49, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

comment

write, and let write. I got a kick out of that! -Edbrown05 09:20, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

That almost made it to my "Notable quotables", I'm being silly too. -Edbrown05 09:28, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Photo Req Template

The email address specified is controlled by wikinews as stated on Wikinews:E-mailing_photographs. Can i add it or does this page need to be changed. Thanks --86.136.225.72 16:40, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

As stated on the page above it is controlled by MessedRocker.

Don't worry and thanks

I think this template is finished now. Does it need to go through an approval process or can i just use it now??

Appointment to Wikinews Arbitration Committee

To whom it may concern.

Following the elections of January 2007, the Wikinews Arbitration Committee Appointment Committee (WNARBCOMAPCO) hereby appoints you, Ma'am or Sir, to a seat on the Arbitration Committee (ARBCOM) for a term ending on January 31, 2008. The WNARBCOMAPCO congratulates you on your election to this esteemed committee and wishes you the best of luck for your tenure.

Yours sincerely,

--+Deprifry+ 03:27, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Head of the Wikinews Arbitration Committee Appointment Committee Board of Managing Directors (HOTWNARBCOMAPCOBOMD)

thank you HOTWNARBCOMAPCOBOMD and All Those Wikinews Users Who Expressed Their Confidence In UWGBUTTARBCOM (ATWUWETCIUWGBUTTARBCOM). --The User Who Got Bumped Up To The ARBCOM (TUWGBUTTARBCOM) 06:10, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Renaming of article

Hi, I saw that you renamed Assassin of Turkish-Armenian journalist treated as national hero to Reports: Hrant Dink assassin 'treated as national hero'. That might be a bad decision: people who do not know the background will see the heading (which does not attract attention), won't understand what's going on, and won't bother to read the story. I'd be glad if you could reconsider (so that the title says Turkish-Armenian journalist, which will draw more attention for anyone who is interested in conflicts as well as Armenian and Turkish issues. Thanks :) Towsonu2003 07:00, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Seven bushfires near Perth, Western Australia

Thanks for the cleanup on this article, should get interesting over the next couple of days especially Toodyay and Dwellingup fires as we are expecting temperatures to pass 100^oF each day. These are always preceed by very strong easterlies/northeasterlies in the morning with a reversal of winds late in the day. Those images I took at about 1830-1900 tonight that fire didnt look under control then but it was fast running out of dense bushland to burn. I can still see the glow from this fire now. Gnangarra 15:14, 4 February 2007 (UTC)