Talk:U.S. Navy finds soldier shot wounded Iraqi at Fallujah in self defense

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- Amgine/^talk 21:58, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Retitled

I moved the article, to make the title make clear that this is a case against only one soldier, it does not address any other allegations of similar behaviour in Fallujah (there have been many in the press).

New title: U.S. Navy rules soldier shot in self defense at Fallujah unarmed & wounded - Simeon 10:21, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

"fucking" quote

I don't like to see the word myself, but in the interests of accuracy, it should be used; especially since its not beinmg used gratuitously within the article. Also, I did read somewhere(policies?) that Wikinews is an "adult" publication. Paulrevere2005 16:52, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

I think you mean a site for adults (an Adult site is quite something else). I have to agree with Paul on this one. For one, to think that people who read this haven't heared this word already and become accustomed to it, is to assume our readers have never seen another site but us. Second, he current form is rather embarassing, as even my 8 year old (Dutch) sister could tell you what is ment by f*****, so it doesn't really fulfill its purpose. Some people (including me) find it offensive, but they can simply skip that section. If we are going to remove explitives, we should create a more clear policy towards it, as I haven't read anything about censoring out obsenities either. -- Redge (Talk) 00:12, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

I love this f***ing word. And people are prudes. They should get over it, and learn to tolerate other people's morals. But they won't apparently, so we'd be shooting ourselves in the foot to use it unb**ped because it may scare away less hardy readers. Then again, constantly censoring our stories for other people's morals is likely to scare away those readers who like credibility with their news. I wonder if we can do anything here that major commercial networks can't do?

Irony: news is full of murder, death, mayhem, disease, sex, slander, bigotry, hate and fear. And yet we can't report the words a soldier uses when he shoots someone. We report his gratuitous act of violence, but the word fuck is to be censored. Ahah.

I leave it to the author and subsequent readers to decide (which probably means articles end up censored), please don't set a policy on things like this, anyone. - Simeon 06:54, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

I like the way Lyellin did it — using f****** on the first instance, then leaving the 2nd instanced fully spelled. Yep, that hardly forms policy! -Edbrown05 07:17, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Just for the Record Ed, that wasn't me.... I haven't edited this article. Lyellin 03:32, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

Well, I'd say put it there or don't. Don't be halfhearted about it. The guy said it, so if you put his exclamation here it should be complete. Anyway, this is not a site for US citizens only. Others are not as squeamish about this sort of language. One funny effect is that it really stands out now, with all the asterisks. Someone who just skims over the article will certainly not miss this! DirkvdM 15:43, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

It was I who edited out the expletives. I'm British. What more can I say? :) Dan100 (Talk) 15:49, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I forgot to add a smiley :). It is ironic, though, that there is a rather large concentration in the USA of both people who get upset about this sort of language and people who use it. Though the one might explain the other (one extreme usually evokes the other). DirkvdM 20:27, 2005 May 13 (UTC)

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The open letter link is dead.

Protected edit request

Can someone please fix the visual issue being caused by the space before the {{archive}} template? Cheers, Daniel 05:38, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Done Thanks —Zachary ^talk 06:06, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

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'in stead of' => 'instead of' Van der Hoorn (talk) 16:19, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Done — Gopher65_talk 21:41, 12 March 2009 (UTC)