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September 4, 2008 The free-content news source that you can write! Page 1 Top Stories Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events UN aid plane crash kills 17 in anniversary of the Swissair Flight mortgage provider announces Democratic Republic of the 111 disaster. None of the 229 plans to dramatically reduce the Congo people on board survived the size of its business resulting in A United Nations (UN) aid plane aircraft's impact with the sea on the loss of 5,000 jobs. in the Democratic Republic of the September 2, 1998. •Japan's Kyodo news agency Congo (DRC) has crashed, killing reports that North Korea has all seventeen Questions raised about started rebuilding the Yongbyon passengers McCain's choice of Palin, aides Nuclear Scientific Research on board, insist "thorough vetting" Center in retaliation for the according to process United States failing to remove it a source from Various questions have been from a list of states that sponsor the UN. raised about the terrorism. A Beechcraft 1900 According to choice of Alaska Image: Adrian Pingstone. the •At least 15 people die in an Governor Sarah Palin spokesperson "The plane was attack on the village of Musa as Senator John found 15 kilometres (eight miles) Nikow in South Waziristan with McCain's choice for northwest of Bukavu airport. witnesses claiming that United Republican vice There were 15 passengers and States military forces are presidential running mate. There two crew on board." involved. Pakistan later lodges an have been doubts over how official complaint. thoroughly McCain had examined DHS relies on Wikipedia for Palin's background before •The United States Court of asylum information, appeals announcing that he had selected Appeals for the Eighth Circuit court rules against use her to be his running mate on finds "that a reliance on The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of August 29. McCain's advisers information in Wikipedia is Appeals has ruled that the insist that Palin was "thoroughly insufficient grounds for a ruling" Department of Homeland Security vetted," a process that would in an immigration case. was wrong in using the have included a review of all online encyclopedia •Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousaf financial and legal records as well Wikipedia as a Raza Gilani survives an as a criminal background check. reference when assassination attempt. deciding whether to Wikipedia Current Events •The Independent Monitoring allow asylum seekers to stay in Commission reports that the Hurricane Ike becomes the fifth the United States. Provisional IRA has effectively hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic been disbanded as a terrorist hurricane season later organization, but the Provisional Service held in Nova Scotia on strengthening to Category 3. tenth anniversary of Swissair IRA Army Council still exists crash that killed 229 •Flooding from Tropical Storm A memorial Hanna causes 26 deaths in Haiti. Professional wrestler Walter service has been •United States Army troops cross "Killer" Kowalski dies at age 81 held in Nova the Pakistan border and launch a Former professional wrestler Killer Scotia, Canada raid in the Angoor Ada region of Kowalski died in the early morning to Waziristan. hours of August 30th at the age of Image: Outriggr CC- commemorate 81. Kowalski suffered a major •GMAC's Residential Capital BY-SA-CA 2.0 the tenth heart attack on August 8 and If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit en .wikinews.org Thursday, September 4, 2008 Wikinews Page 2 remained in critical condition at a DHS relies on Wikipedia for —United States Court of Appeals local hospital in Everett, asylum information, appeals Massachusetts until August 18 court rules against use when his family took him off of life The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Cary Bass, the volunteer support. Appeals has ruled that the coordinator of the Wikimedia Department of Homeland Security Foundation, gave Wikinews the During a career that spanned for was wrong in using the online following statement on this issue: 30 years, Kowalski wrestled for encyclopedia Wikipedia as a “Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia -- several organizations including the reference when deciding whether almost every article can be edited National Wrestling Alliance and the to allow asylum seekers to stay in by anyone at any time. The vast American Wrestling Association. In the United States. majority of the information is the 1960's and 70's Kowalski accurate and the editors strive to wrestled for the World Wide The department used the write from a neutral point of view, Wrestling Federation. In 1976 he Wikipedia article named laissez- but the nature of the project is won the WWWF World Tag Team passer to decide whether the that at any moment, any article Championship with Big John document was a valid form of can contain erroneous information Studd. identification. This is despite the or pure inaccuracies. fact that the article had a large In 1952 Kowalski was involved in orange notice at the top of the Anyone using Wikipedia as an an incident with wrestler Yukon article saying that "this article original source should be mindful Eric. During the match while does not cite any references or of this fact; and anyone citing performing his signature diving sources." critical information such as a judge knee drop he ripped part of Eric's for use in a lawsuit is advised to ear off. When Kowalski visited him The Board of Immigration Appeals use the sources provided via each in the hospital the pair laughed has stated that it doesn't article's references section, history with each other, the following day "encourage the use of resources and talk page to verify that the the newspaper stated that such as Wikipedia.com in reaching information they are reading is, in Kowalski showed up at the hospital pivotal decisions in immigration fact, accurate.”—Cary Bass and laughed at his victim rather proceedings." They said that they than with him, furthering allowed the decision to stand due Service held in Nova Scotia on Kowalski's image as a heel. to the fact that the information tenth anniversary of Swissair seemed accurate. crash that killed 229 After retiring Kowalski opened up a A memorial service has been held wrestling school. During his time The appeals court noted when in Nova Scotia, Canada to teaching he taught some making the decision that Wikipedia commemorate the tenth superstars such as Triple H, Perry admits that articles will often go anniversary of the Swissair Flight Saturn and Chyna. He has also long periods of time. Below is the 111 disaster. None of the 229 trained Chris Nowinski, A-Train, extract from the court documents people on board survived the Frankie Kazarian, Kenny Dykstra that makes this point: “...The site aircraft's impact with the sea on as well as others. acknowledges [that articles], “may September 2, 1998. become caught up in a heavily Kowalski was inducted into the unbalanced viewpoint and can take Hundreds of search and rescue WWE Half of Fame and Wrestling some time – months perhaps – to personnel and local fishermen Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame regain a better-balanced were mobilised after the crash in in 1996, the Professional Wrestling consensus.” Id. As a consequence, St. Margaret's Bay near Halifax to Hall of Fame in 2003 and the Wikipedia observes, the website’s recover fragments of both the National Polish-American Hall of “radical openness means that any aircraft and the victims. The state Fame in 2007. given article may be, at any given of the human remains was such moment, in a bad state: for that identifying them resulted in Former student of Kowalski, Triple example, it could be in the middle what would remain the largest H said "It's a huge loss. Walter of a large edit or it could have DNA identification operation up was one of the biggest name been recently vandalized.” untill the World Trade Centre performers of his time. His legacy collapsed. will live on forever." If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Thursday, September 4, 2008 Wikinews Page 3 At the ceremony, attended by some 20 recommendations for The UN has identified the victims around 100 people, 229 heart- airplanes have been carried out? as a Canadian member of the UN shaped stones crafted from beach What has gone wrong with the Development Programme (UNDP), rocks and simply decorated with bureaucracy - the inertia for that?" an Indian who worked for the painted stars flowers and hearts asked Rabbi David Ellis. John Butt, Office for the Coordination of were availible for the mourners to who headed the identification Humanitarian Aid, two members of take and place at the foot of the effort as Nova Scotia's chief Medecins Sans Frontiers, one from memorial at Bayswater, one for medical examiner at the time, said France and one from the Republic each of the 229 names upon the it was 'disapointing' that action of Congo. granite monument. Many flowers had not been taken and that it was were also laid there. "not very good to think about The other thirteen were citizens of flying in an aircraft when you know the DRC. Two were employees of The aircraft was a widebodied jet recommendations have been made Air Serv and were the crew. Four which had departed John about the standards of safety and were with the UNDP and another F.Kennedy International Airport in they haven't been adopted." four were civil servants, while the New York at 8:18 p.m. 53 minutes last three worked for Handicap after takeoff pilot Urs Zimmerman TSB member Jonathan Seymour International. and co-pilot Stephan Loew smelt was also critical of the lack of smoke in the cockpit and within action, particularly on the US The UN spokesperson also said three more minutes smoke was Federal Aviation Administration's that "the helicopter landed far visible.