User:Chris Mann

About me
Here on Wikinews, I am an administrator and moderately active contributor of both synthesis and original reporting articles.

On Wikipedia (and most elsewhere), I go by the nicknames ConMan/Confusing Manifestation (see w:User:ConMan), and on IRC I use Confusing (since someone took ConMan). I was previously known as User:ConMan here, but have renamed myself in case any potential interview subjects would take offense at the connotations of my nickname (see Confidence trick).

I live in Canberra, Australia, and am employed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Stories I have written / collaborated on

 * November 22, 2007: Australian Liberal Party criticised over fake pamphlets
 * January 22, 2008: Two thirds of Queensland flooded; "disaster zone" declared
 * February 21, 2008: East Timorese President regains consciousness
 * March 12, 2008: Jayant "Dr Death" Patel arrested in Oregon, US
 * April 7, 2008: Wikinews interviews Australian Statistician Brian Pink (OR)
 * April 7, 2008: South Australian father and daughter in sexual relationship
 * April 16, 2008: Stolen Generations used as medical guinea pigs, Australian inquiry told
 * May 1, 2008: An Australian child's vocabulary: it's "I" before "we", both before "you" (OR)
 * May 21, 2008: Colombian rebel leader 'Karina' surrenders
 * May 26, 2008: Australian art gallery raided by police; photographer faces possible indecency charge
 * May 26, 2008: Author Robert Asprin dead at 61
 * May 29, 2008: UK study highlights child abuse by humanitarian workers
 * May 30, 2008: First fertilised fish fossil found
 * June 3, 2008: 'Expelled' fair use upheld
 * June 3, 2008: United States authorities bust multimillion dollar drug ring‎ in New Jersey
 * June 4, 2008: Ovarian baby "miracle" birth
 * June 11, 2008: U.S. teens generally reducing risky behavior says CDC (OR)
 * June 11, 2008: Million-dollar trial aborted on account of sudoku
 * June 13, 2008: Secret files left on train costs UK agent's job
 * June 17, 2008: US Midwest floods raise concerns about water quality
 * June 19, 2008: Police charge Australian man over laser incident
 * June 20, 2008: Scientists say genetic building blocks are from out of this world (OR)
 * June 20, 2008: Guinea coup trial defendant names co-conspirators
 * June 23, 2008: Outgoing Australian Democrats leader predicts new party amidst double dissolution
 * June 24, 2008: We'll always have .paris: ICANN votes for top level domain registration in 2009
 * June 25, 2008: Australians getting drunker, fatter, but among the world's longest-lived
 * June 26, 2008: Conrad Black loses appeal against fraud conviction (OR)
 * August 7, 2008: Online buyers conned by fake Olympics ticket web sites‎
 * August 19, 2008: Teen sex conviction in Australia for Mi-Sex manager‎
 * Plus several minor copy-edits, see my contributions.

Stories in development

 * It's a GLAM wrap: Curators meet collaborators at Canberra conference (OR)

Writing contest

 * User:Chris Mann/Contest