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The Simple News
The Simple News
Issue Ten
20th July 2009

Announcements

User Articles
Did you know and Stubs are the topic of Pmlinediter's third Simple News article.
In his fourth article, Shappy talks about Oversight at the Simple English Wikipedia.
Yotcmdr's tenth Simple News article focusses on Stubs, Simple News and Good Articles.

Administrator News
Swine Flu update

As of Sunday 19th July 2009 137,258 cases of Swine Flu have been confirmed. 779 people have now died from it.


QandA
  • The QandA. Every month, a user will be interviewed by a member of the Simple News team. This idea was started by Kennedy. Interviews are generally taking by a member of the Simple News Team - to date this has included Bluegoblin7, Kennedy, Pmlinediter, Shappy and Yotcmdr.

This weeks interview is with Chenzw.

Click here for Chenzw's interview!


The Commander's Choice

The Commanders's Choice. For every edition, Yotcmdr will be chosing articles that need creating, expanding or being attended to. Here is this edition's list:


The News in Brief

Main Stories:


Click here to see the Sport stories


Song of the Fortnight
This week's song is Teenage Kicks (by The Undertones). There are 3 versions: One with Yot singing, the second with BG singing and the third with both singing. Drums by BG, Guitar and Bass by Yot. The Holiday cover which was deleted can now be found here.