User:Brian McNeil
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My first edit here was on January 15, 2005; it just doesn't seem like I've been at this so long. In addition to the above accreditation I have been granted Administrator, Bureaucrat, and CheckUser status by the community. I serve on the current project Arbitration Committee which is — thankfully — inactive. I'm on the Wikimedia Foundation's Communications Committee. An OTRS volunteer helping manage the press queue, and have over 100 articles to my name.
I have accounts on Meta, Commons, Wikisource, and Wikipedia, as well as a few on other languages for interwiki.
If you want to know some of the more odd things I get up to, give The Credit Crunch Blues a listen, the lyrics are mine.
Useful pages
My Contributions
Here is a list of some of the articles I've done. Those listed are ones where I've started them and done a reasonable amount of the work. I do not list work on articles started by others unless all their contributions were removed. The list has not been consistently maintained, thus some articles may be missing. (FA denotes articles which have been selected as featured articles — i.e. some of the best work on Wikinews.)
- "Listening to you at last: EU plans to tap cell phones". Wikinews, October 19, 2009 FA
- "UK scientists advise heart attack-susceptible to get flu shot". Wikinews, September 22, 2009
- "Amazon dips into memory hole to retrieve Orwellian works". Wikinews, September 5, 2009
- "Thai political landscape still haunted by Thaksin". Wikinews, July 8, 2009
- "Kung Fu star Carradine found dead in Bangkok hotel". Wikinews, June 4, 2009 rewritten from 2 sentence short
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- "UK Home Secretary announces ID card pilot launch". Wikinews, May 7, 2009
- "Obama's transition website 'frees the content'". Wikinews, December 2, 2008
- "Thai PM barred from politics, three parties dissolved". Wikinews, December 2, 2008
- "Tourists struggle to escape as Bangkok airport blockades enter sixth day". Wikinews, November 30, 2008
- "Thai PM declares state of emergency over airport blockades". Wikinews, November 28, 2008
- "Third day of 'King Taksin operation' sees Bangkok airport closed". Wikinews, November 26, 2008
- "'King Taksin operation' enters second day, Thai government disrupted". Wikinews, November 25, 2008
- "Opposing Thai protesters mass, PAD to march on parliament". Wikinews, November 23, 2008
- "Another grenade attack in Thailand injures eight". Wikinews, November 22, 2008
- "Thaksin's ex-wife appeals tax evasion conviction". Wikinews, November 21, 2008
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- "Grenade attack on Thai protesters kills one, injures at least 20". Wikinews, November 20, 2008
- "Thaksin to return to Thai politics". Wikinews, November 19, 2008
- "Scotland's First Minister does comedy sketch for charity". Wikinews, November 15, 2008
- "UK revokes visa of former Thai PM". Wikinews, November 8, 2008
- "Thailand's "Truth Today", Thaksin tonight; pro-government protesters mass at stadium". Wikinews, November 1, 2008
- "2008-09 Wikipedia for schools goes online". Wikinews, October 22, 2008 FA
- "Thailand's fugitive ex-PM sentenced to two years for corruption". Wikinews, October 22, 2008
- "Thai-Cambodian generals in talks after border clash kills two". Wikinews, October 16, 2008
- "Sixth arrest warrant issued for Thailand's former PM Thaksin". Wikinews, October 15, 2008
- "Thai Queen attends protester cremation as report indicates explosive tear gas used". Wikinews, October 14, 2008
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- "Thailand protest cancelled at last minute". Wikinews, October 13, 2007
- "PAD plan protest for Monday; Thai political crisis ongoing". Wikinews, October 11, 2008
- "Thai PAD protest leader arrested while voting". Wikinews, October 5, 2008
- "VP candidate Palin accuses Obama of terrorist links". Wikinews, October 5, 2008
- "Associated Press goes after bloggers for copyright violation". Wikinews, June 25, 2008
- "Wikinews interviews team behind the 2,000th featured Wikipedia article". Wikinews, April 13, 2008 FA
- "Wikinews interviews: Tony Benn on U.K. politics". Wikinews, August 12, 2007
- "Michael Moore's new film 'Sicko' leaked via P2P". Wikinews, June 14, 2007
- "Demonstrators demand Buddhism be made Thai national religion". Wikinews, April 26, 2007
- "Ample Rich directors ordered to pay US$616 million taxes". Wikinews, April 24, 2007
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- "Sex tour operator pleads guilty in Cleveland court". Wikinews, March 11, 2007
- "Thai Prime Minister to consider lifting martial law". Wikinews, October 21, 2006
- "Clinton calls Fox interview "conservative hitjob"". Wikinews, September 25, 2006
- "Thai election rerun likely in November". Wikinews, September 10, 2006
- "Thailand may create new province to honour King". Wikinews, August 30, 2006
- "Thai king endorses October 15 general election rerun". Wikinews, July 23, 2006
- "Truckload of trouble for Thai Rak Thai". Wikinews, July 7, 2006
- "Embattled Thai Election Commission hands TRT case to Attorney General". Wikinews, June 6, 2006
- "By-elections fail to provide way out of Thai political crisis". Wikinews, April 24, 2006
- "South Thailand election reruns hit by violence". Wikinews, April 23, 2006
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- "Sondhi may face arrest over lèse majesté allegations". Wikinews, April 17, 2006
- "Seven south Thailand constituencies face one horse race". Wikinews, April 10, 2006
- "Thaksin departure doesn't signal end to Thai political crisis". Wikinews, April 5, 2006
- "Third of Thais vote 'none of the above'". Wikinews, April 3, 2006
- "Thais head to the polls for snap election". Wikinews, April 2, 2006
- "Turn up and don't vote, urge anti-Thaksin activists". Wikinews, March 28, 2006
- "Thai police forward anti-Thaksin PAD accusations to Corruption Commission". Wikinews, March 28, 2006
- "PAD petitions election commission for Thaksin's disqualification". Wikinews, March 23, 2006
- "Shin Corporation defamation suit fails". Wikinews, March 15, 2006
- "Thousands of Thai protesters prepare to march on Government House". Wikinews, March 13, 2006
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- "Arrests for kite flying in Pakistan spring festival". Wikinews, March 12, 2006
- "Bangkok blast injures two tourists". Wikinews, March 9, 2006
- "Thaksin rebuffs resignation calls while elite call for appointed PM". Wikinews, March 6, 2006
- "Opposition may boycott Thai election; demonstrators want Thaksin out". Wikinews, February 26, 2006
- "Thai snap-election set for April 2, 2006". Wikinews, February 24, 2006
- "Narathiwat raid recovers stolen weapons". Wikinews, February 21, 2006
- "Leader of 1992 pro-democracy uprising joins calls for Thaksin's resignation". Wikinews, February 20, 2006
- "Thaksin escapes Constitutional Court scrutiny". Wikinews, February 16, 2006
- "Sondhi may face legal action from Thai Rak Thai party". Wikinews, February 12, 2006
- "Thai ministry orders work halted on much-delayed Ongkharak reactor". Wikinews, February 10, 2006
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- "Insurgency targeting of teachers causes south Thailand school closures". Wikinews, February 8, 2006
- "First Iraqi case of Avian Flu reported". Wikinews, January 30, 2006
- "Thai government reportedly planning Internet censorship". Wikinews, January 26, 2006
- "Sondhi continues using Thailand Weekly show to attack PM". Wikinews, January 14, 2006
- "Thai civil rights lawyer Somchai Neelapaichit presumed dead". Wikinews, January 13, 2006
- "Thai forces on alert for second anniversary of Narathiwat armoury raids". Wikinews, January 4, 2006
- "Indian Ocean tsunami, one year after". Wikinews, December 26, 2005
- "HIV vaccine trial ready to roll in Thailand". Wikinews, December 22, 2005
- "CPJ names and shames countries who jail journalists". Wikinews, December 14, 2005
- "Thai Government rejects amnesty proposal for southern insurgents". Wikinews, November 29, 2005
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- "Myanmar Junta threatened with sanctions by UN body". Wikinews, November 21, 2005
- "Thai PM sues media critic for one billion Baht". Wikinews, November 17, 2005
- "Thailand forces registration of prepaid phones to thwart insurgency". Wikinews, November 15, 2005
- "Sony to suspend use of controversial CD software". Wikinews, November 13, 2005
- "Pirates hijack Thai merchant ship off Somali coast". Wikinews, November 12, 2005
- "EU's human rights court endorses Turkish headscarf ban". Wikinews, November 10, 2005
- "Japan-Korea premiers' meeting in doubt over shrine visit". Wikinews, October 28, 2005
- "Thai PM promises action on suspected militants". Wikinews, October 27, 2005
- "Anniversary of Tak Bai incident marked with lawsuits". Wikinews, October 25, 2005 FA
- "South Thailand insurgents blamed for five bombs". Wikinews, October 21, 2005
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- "Insurgents kill monk and burn temple in south Thailand". Wikinews, October 16, 2005
- "US extradition request blocked by Dutch court". Wikinews, October 13, 2005
- "Thai PM sues newspaper for 500 million baht". Wikinews, October 12, 2005
- "More troops for southern Thailand troubles". Wikinews, October 9, 2005
- "Five soldiers killed in Southern Thailand". Wikinews, October 6, 2005
- "Three detained for Thai marine deaths". Wikinews, September 25, 2005
- "World Food Program told to leave North Korea". Wikinews, September 23, 2005 (Also audio version.)
- "Sony restructuring plan includes 10,000 job cuts". Wikinews, September 23, 2005
- "India subsidizes girls' education to offset gender imbalance". Wikinews, September 23, 2005 (Also audio version. Title changed from mine by StuRat - an improvement)
- "London bomb suspect returned from Italy". Wikinews, September 22, 2005 (Also audio version.)
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- "South African typhoid outbreak protest dispersed with rubber bullets". Wikinews, September 22, 2005
- "Vatican denies church is shielding war criminal". Wikinews, September 20, 2005
- "Musharraf denies making rape remarks". Wikinews, September 19, 2005
- "Thai media mogul drops newspaper takeover attempt". Wikinews, September 18, 2005
- "UN agrees on reform document". Wikinews, September 17, 2005
- "Musharraf's rape comments spur controversy". Wikinews, September 16, 2005
- "Chavez wants UN uprooted from New York". Wikinews, September 16, 2005
- "Seven face deportation after UK dawn raids". Wikinews, September 15, 2005
- "Israeli court orders controversial wall rerouted". Wikinews, September 15, 2005 (Used as Lead article.)
- "Wal-Mart accused of workers rights violations". Wikinews, September 15, 2005 (Thanks to Bawolff for adding the logo and box.)
Quotes
"Take your t.v. tube and eat it
And all that phony stuff on sports
And all those unconfirmed reports
You know I watch that rotten box
Until my head begin to hurt
From checkin' out the way
The newsmen say they get the dirt
Before the guys on channel so and so"
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- Frank Zappa, from Trouble Every Day
"There is a minority of intellectual pacifists, whose real though unacknowledged motive appears to be hatred of western democracy and admiration for totalitarianism. Pacifist propaganda usually boils down to saying that one side is as bad as the other, but if one looks closely at the writings of the younger intellectual pacifists, one finds that they do not by any means express impartial disapproval but are directed almost entirely against Britain and the United States"
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- George Orwell
"Internet Explorer's CSS rendering: WYSIWTF"
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- User:6Yankee (597075) on Slashdot.
Trophy Cabinet
I, —MESSEDROCKER (talk), hereby award you the Wikinews Trophy because you archive stories like a **censored**. 21:39, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
I, Amgine, hereby award Brianmc the Wikinews Trophy for Archival Efforts (above and beyond the call of duty but please don't stop now!) |
This award is presented to Wikinews reporters upon their 50th published news article.
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| The Barnstar of National Merit | ||
| I Anonymous101talk, award Brianmc this barnstar for excellent reporting on Thailand Anonymous101talk 12:00, 30 November 2008 (UTC) | ||
| this WikiAward was given to Brianmc by Anonymous101talk on 12:00, 30 November 2008 (UTC) |
Miscellaneous stuff
- An attempt at a compact main page design
- User:Brianmc/Israel-Muslim relations coverage
- User:Brianmc/Definitive article template
- User:Brianmc/Wikinews questions Senior Counterterrorism Counsel of HRW on Camp Delta and more
Media mentions
- mis-attributed at a WMF "media officer", but quoted
- Cited from article on "Anonymous will be stopped"
- Interviewed by The Canadian Press
- Brian McNeil on Citizen Journalism interview for OurBlook done by Sandy Ordonez, former Press Officer with the Wikimedia Foundation (User:WikiBlue).
Work in progress-projects
Works elsewhere
- The Credit Crunch Blues, Creative Commons licensed
- I'd Like...
- Headaches on copyright/licensing with this one, and still just a very rough mix
- A Day in a Hero's Life - Windmill, Norway. Due for commercial release before mid-2010.
- (Part 2 features the somewhat mis-quoted lyrics I composed.)


