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Note: Earlier discussion is on [[Talk:British and Irish December 2004 events]]

== Reporting police investigations and court cases ==

Please be careful when reporting news of police investigations and court cases. I've just reworded a bullet that made misleading statements about the investigation into the murder of Amy Williams. It is ''extremely'' important not to infer anything that is not explicitly stated in the source material, ''especially'' when a court case is or might be involved. The terminology used by police (and by trained journalists reporting these events) is carefully chosen to avoid accusations of prejudice should a court case follow. Several high-profile cases have been thrown out - and newspapers found guilty of contempt of court - because of prejudicial reporting. Thanks. -- [[User:Avaragado|Avaragado]] 15:00, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==Jerry Springer - The Opera==
In true operaratic tradition many of the lines are repeated many times, thus increasing the number of profanities; but the claim that "Jerry Springer - The Opera" contains 3,168 "F-words" and 297 "C-words" is misleading because it is based on the fact that frequently many members of the cast are singing these words together. Thus in some cases 30 or 40-odd occurences have been counted when it is in fact one occurence sung by the entire cast. [[User:Jooler|Jooler]] 10:10, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
: You're right. I've updated the news item accordingly. -- [[User:Avaragado|Avaragado]] 11:30, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)⏎
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It's a bit sad that we have 4 red links on recent deaths here. [[User:Jooler|Jooler]] 23:15, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)