Portal talk:Current events/Archive 7

International relations
Why do we need a specific subheader about "International relations"? All international relations are political, they are already covered by the header Politics. 94.212.31.237 (talk) 10:48, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Darfur conflict
Who is responsible of crimes omitted in Darfur while the international Community failed to bring them to justice —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.210.191.7 (talk) 23:02, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Suggestion: RSS feeds for current events
Especially with these new updates to the formatting of the current events page, I get the desire to receive the updates via RSS. I know that Wikinews offers their news in RSS feeds, but there is something nice about the short categorization and importance/gravity of the articles highlighted in this portal. I'm not particularly sure how it would be implemented if people like it, but I just figured I'd put the idea out there since I was thinking about it.

Possible implementations:
 * Daily feed with one article per day with all the news items of the day
 * Category feed (now that we have categories, this would make sense) with each feed having each news item as a separate article
 * Complete feed of all events with each news item having a separate article
 * The last idea would be more work, and is more of a fantasy type idea, but to have a feeds for each Ongoing Event/Topic in the News since they get updated with new articles over the course of days.

I'd certainly like to hear your thoughts on it, both on the feasibility and the idea itself.

Navysealltblue (talk) 08:27, 31 July 2010 (UTC)


 * One of the powerful things about Wikinews is the DynamicPageList, which allows one to generate lists of recent news stories in specific categories. The usefulness of this is demonstrated by the number of Wikipedia's Portals (about 200) that import Wikinews stories via this method (see User:Wikinews Importer Bot/List, which of course includes the Current Events page).


 * Unfortunately (or fortunately?) Wikipedia's Current Events page contains a much more comprehensive list of news headlines than Wikinews does. It would be nice if Wikipedia's Portals could somehow make use of these headlines, instead of importing headlines from Wikinews. But I don't know how feasible this is. Perhaps one could make separate subpages (under Portal:Current Events/ somewhere) for each news headline, in the same way that some Portals do for news items, or Did you Know items. I don't know how feasible this is.. but it sure would be great if something along these lines were possible. Mlm42 (talk) 01:31, 4 August 2010 (UTC)


 * I think that it would certainly be good if one could subscribe to an RSS feed. It would also be good if some way of importing headlines were to be possible. Capitalistroadster (talk) 02:32, 4 August 2010 (UTC)


 * I searched this discussion for a way to get a RSS feed for these news events, because they are always so, as the first poster describes, short and important. Is there anyway of getting this done? 132.229.201.79 (talk) 17:40, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Classification of mass shootings
I initially posted the Connecticut shootings under Law and Crime. It has since been moved to Armed conflicts and attacks. In my view, Law and Crime seems to be the most appropriate spot as it appears to be due to individual causes rather than part of a wider movement. Capitalistroadster (talk) 02:32, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Where is the History page for the. Topics in the news (box)?
Where is the History page for the. Topics in the news (box) (or what ever it's called)? How can I find it?--Alcea setosa (talk) 17:39, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
 * The box is Template:In the news, and you can see its history as for any other page. It is difficult to find the page from the current events portal, because it is transcluded indirectly via Portal:Current events/Headlines. However, if you view the source for Portal:Current events, you will see a list of all transcluded templates at the bottom of the page.- gadfium 20:53, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you.--Alcea setosa (talk) 00:51, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Eternal Links
Well in this text don't has Eternal links and References,or don't need ?
 * Each story added to the daily news pages needs to have an external link to a news source. The guidelines for this are given in the edit notice that can be seen when editing any of these pages, or at Portal:Current_events/Edit_instructions. The "Topics in the news" do not use external links, but every item must link to an appropriately updated Wikipedia article. Information about this section can be found at In the news.- gadfium 21:49, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

About merging Science and Technology into Current Events
Please do not merge Science and Technology portal into Current events, because as it is now, the former is short enough to be useful as a home page for a web browser. --Peterhil (talk) 21:57, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

"State of New England"
"After a federal investigation by the United States, 47 foreign-born gang members are arrested in the U.S. state of New England, including members of the "True Somali Bloods", "True Sudanese Bloods" and the "Asian Boyz". Over half are arrested in the U.S. state of Maine. (Portland Press Herald)" Someone with an account might want to change that to "region". --128.192.189.146 (talk) 01:04, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Variety
Would it be possible to add a bit more variety to the in the news section? 5 of 6 stories today involve death: Bombings in Iraq, Somali militants storming a hotel, plane crash in China, hostage crisis in the Philippines, and a mine collapse in Chile. The only non injury/death related story is about a record breaking runner. Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 16:56, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
 * see WP:ITNC to make suggestions of your own.  ~DC  Let's Vent 17:07, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Vandalism
Please admins reverse the vandalism. A body of text has been removed from the 1st SEptember date. --Lemur12 (talk) 08:49, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Edit request
Please remove " [[bn:সমসাময়িক ঘটনাসমূহ ]] ". The page does not exist on the Bengali Wikipedia. Thank you.--  Forty two  11:37, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   11:53, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Suggestion for page design
It's not easy to see, where to go from here: Where to go to suggest new items? What to do, if something seems wrong? That should be changed. -- Tomdo08 (talk) 22:54, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
 * See the top of this page, where there's a series of yellow boxes. The third box down, with a blue arrow, explains how to report errors or suggest new items for "In the News".- gadfium 00:58, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Unlock
Unlock the page, it´s against actually everything wp should be standing for. --93.82.13.24 (talk) 23:07, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
 * It's a highly visible page that has no need to be edited on a regular basis and has been subject to persistent vandalism from autoconfirmed accounts. However, the portal pages which list each day's current events are not protected. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   23:15, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

'Topics in the News': 'Newly discovered planet...' item is ambiguous
The item reading: "A newly discovered planet, Gliese 581 g, is found to be in the habitable zone of its parent star, where liquid water may exist." is ambiguous. Where might the liquid water exist - on or in the parent star, or in "the habitable zone"? As it stands. with the subsidiary phrase immediately next to the 'parent star' makes one think that that is where it may exist. But surely it is thought possible that it exists on the planet Gliese 581 g.

I suggest that the item be rewritten as follows:

"Liquid water may exist on a newly discovered planet, Gliese 581g as it has been found to be located in the "Goldilocks" or habitable zone of its parent star".

Incidentally, why is it not possible for Joe-Public to edit the 'Topics in the News' Duncan.france (talk) 06:58, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

alleged?
The bomber isn't "alleged" anymore since she's been convicted. --72.224.241.4 (talk) 12:45, 26 September 2010 (UTC)


 * This is not a good way to make a remark: It's impossible to know what item is meant. Also it would have been better to suggest a new item, if relevant enough. And here is the wrong place anyway. -- Tomdo08 (talk) 22:54, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

ok. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anumalasunil (talk • contribs) 13:25, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Vandalism
Someone want to remove the "Your mom is the capital of my anus!!!"? I'm not even sure how that got on there...-- Pyho T / C 01:31, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

There is vandalism on the page. Instead of showing news events for October 15, 2010, it reads "Your mom is the capital of my anus!!". Please fix this immediately. Gaandolf (talk) 01:33, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
 * This was due to an edit to Portal:Current events/2010 October 15 and was fixed 15 mins later. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:00, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

I tried to get some real information regarding this topic, spent 20 mins trying to figure out what this idiot wrote about, and he never did answer my question.

thanks a lot —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.7.226.123 (talk) 22:13, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Simon Cowell
Has a deal been signed? The link is to a different story, apparently? Nasnema  Chat  20:57, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

UDFy-38135539
The recent announcement, that UDFy-38135539 is the most distant object ever identified, was in the news for several days but has disappeared from the archives. It was published in the 21 October 2010 issue of Nature, and other places. Wwheaton (talk) 23:48, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * It is listed on October 20, which has now scrolled off the page. It was also listed on Template:In the news, but has also now been replaced by newer items.- gadfium 02:03, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

slight error
On the main page in the sentence "In preparation for the Seoul summit, finance ministers of the G-20 agree to reform the IMF and shift 6% of the voting shares to developing nations and countries with emerging markets." it's "Seoul summit" that should be bolded, not "IMF".radek (talk) 06:21, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Errors in the "In the news" section should be pointed out at WP:ERRORS, not here.- gadfium 08:24, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

How to edit this?
I'm not sure how to edit this page, but the following item Researchers at CERN announce that they have trapped antihydrogen atoms for the first time. seems to be contradicted by antihydrogen atoms which states they were created in 1995.
 * 86.24.102.89 (talk) 16:54, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
 * The current researchers have managed to trap (ie confine) antihydrogen atoms. They were by no mean the first to create them.- gadfium 20:19, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Problem with calendar
Why does the calendar have December 30 highlighted when it's December 6/7? Kaldari (talk) 23:31, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Insider trading
Shouldn't the ongoing "insider trading" investigation in the US get its own "ongoing events" tag? --Christofurio (talk) 00:21, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

John Lennon anniversary
Could someone clarify whether or not this qualifies as a current event. The 30th anniversary of Lennon's death received widespread media coverage yesterday, and had been added by someone to today's page. I reoved it from there, and reposted it as one of yesterday's events. My edit was reverted by another user, but after discussion they agreed to leave the decision whether or not to restore it up to me as neither of us are sure whether there's a guideline to cover this sort of thing. Any thoughts? TheRetroGuy (talk) 18:39, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

What Is a Disaster?
The United States "loses track" of 119,000 planes, with uncertainty over who has access to them That's included under the heading "disaster." Sounds like a big paperwork snafu to me. Shouldn't "disaster" be limited to matters that caused death and destruction? not the unavailability of registrations??? --Christofurio (talk) 01:46, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Whose life makes news out here?
Few days ago, a terrorist bomb incident in India, which killed 2, and injured 37, never made it the current event and is in fact currently nominated for deletion, while another similar incident in Europe makes it to the main page. There must be a wiki rule to explain this! --Ekabhishektalk 04:11, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Actually, the Indian incident is listed at Portal:Current events/2010 December 7, but has since scrolled off the bottom of this page. If you believe it should appear in In the news, please suggest it at In the news/Candidates. However, it may now be too long ago for that section.- gadfium 05:51, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Mistake or Intentional Error? Sunday December 19th 2010,
Under disasters it reads "13 people, including 5 children and 3 women are seriously injured after a powerful explosion at a Qassam rocket training site in Rafah due to Hamas storing ordinance in densely populated civilian areas. (The Jerusalem Post)"

However, the page linked to (http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=192130) was written in October of this year. The contributor of this suspicious story is only known as 116.232.15.6 Dturne (talk) 04:27, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I've removed the item. Thanks for pointing it out.- gadfium 05:28, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

uk:Вікіпедія:Поточні події
Please add to interwiki uk:Вікіпедія:Поточні події.--Dƶoxar (talk) 15:36, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Done.- gadfium 19:30, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Edit request from Stanqo, 15 January 2011
bg:Портал:Текущи събития --Stanqo (talk) 12:37, 15 January 2011 (UTC)


 * ✅ JohnCD (talk) 15:51, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

WP:ARBPIA
"*Result: Both editors have reverted on the subject of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, so I am notifying both of them of the discretionary sanctions under WP:ARBPIA. We expect that people will carefully work to reach consensus even on transitory pages like those under Portal:Current events. EdJohnston (talk) 18:05, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I just can't accept WP:ARBPIA on the portal:current events....it would be very detrimental to this fast moving highly viewed portal. Consensus on such a page is reached normally by us editors quickly re-wording and adding new news sources to articles numerous times within an hour or two until we can both agree. This portal receives ~40k views a day, month old news receives 500 views a day, 2 year old news 50 views/day. It's important editors are not restrained and can move quickly to take out problems. WP:ARBPIA would do more to keep POV within the article than to remove it. The 1RR rule is meant to slow stuff down and keep status quo, to apply it to a page which grows from nothing each day and is easily the fastest growing, is not helpful.
 * Besides that, does that mean each article on the portal is seperate from others on the page and 3RR would only applying to a single article and not numerous article changes being reverted??? Passionless   -Talk  19:44, 27 January 2011 (UTC)" - from a 3RR dispute, please comment and let other involved editors know this new rule.  Passionless   -Talk  19:57, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
 * There is no 1RR restriction at Portal:Current events or its subpages. Read the notices carefully, which were addressed only to User:Passionless and User:PopularMax, as a result of a complaint at WP:AN3 Please ask any follow-up questions at WP:AN3. EdJohnston (talk) 20:15, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Why problem Thai fight CAMBODIA at PRAH VIHEA not talk in wikipedia?
Thai fight cambodia at border near Prasat Prah Vihea not have news in wikipedia? ហេតុអ្វីមានពត៏មាននាក់ទងទៅនឹងការវាយប្រហាររបស់ថៃមកលើ កម្ពុជា នៅក្នុងគេហទំពរ័របស់ វីគីភិដឿ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.154.101.36 (talk) 11:05, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
 * This is included in the entry for 5 February and has a detailed article at Cambodian–Thai border stand-off (although the article is flagged as needing an update). There's also a mention of a related situation in the 6 February entry. If you think it should be included in "In the news" at the top of the page, the place to go is WP:ITN/Candidates.- gadfium 19:01, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Chirstchurch Earthquake
There has been another large earthquake in Christchurch, NZ. More damaging than the one in September 2010. Deaths have been "confirmed". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.63.142.115 (talk) 01:31, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Ivory Coast
Clashes have occured in the Ivory Coast with New Rebel forces battling government forces, see Ivorian Civil War page for details. Enlil Ninlil (talk) 06:06, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Error on February 26
Under February 26, it mentions Christy Clark and links to the Liberal Party of Canada. This link should be replaced with a link to the British Columbia Liberal Party, as Clark won the provincial party leadership, not the federal leadership. Also, the BC Liberals are in fact officially severed from the federal Liberals, so there is no relation between the two parties. 64.180.212.125 (talk) 04:35, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
 * You can change this yourself by going to Portal:Current events/2011 February 26. Regards &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:24, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Interwiki
Please update interwiki: an:Wikipedia:Actualidat ang:Wikipedia:Efenealde belimpas ar:بوابة:الأحداث الجارية ast:Uiquipedia:Fechos actuales be-x-old:Вікіпэдыя:Актуальныя падзеі bg:Портал:Текущи събития ca:Viquipèdia:Actualitat ceb:Wikipedia:Mga panghitabo cs:Portál:Aktuality da:Wikipedia:Aktuelle begivenheder de:Wikipedia:Hauptseite/Aktuelles ee:Portal:Nusiwo le dzɔdzɔm el:Πύλη:Τρέχοντα γεγονότα eo:Vikipedio:Aktualaĵoj es:Portal:Actualidad eu:Wikipedia:Albisteak ext:Proyeutu:La troji las notícias fa:درگاه:رویدادهای کنونی fi:Wikipedia:Uutisarkisto fr:Portail:Actualités et événements ga:Vicipéid:Cúrsaí reatha gan:Wikipedia:新出嗰事 gl:Wikipedia:Actualidade gu:વિકિપીડિયા:વર્તમાન ઘટનાઓ he:תבנית:חדשות ואקטואליה hi:प्रवेशद्वार:हाल की घटनाएँ hy:Պորտալ:Ընթացիկ իրադարձություններ ia:Portal:Actualitates id:Portal:Peristiwa terkini ja:Portal:最近の出来事 ka:პორტალი:ახალი ამბები kk:Портал:Ағымдағы оқиғалар km:វិគីភីឌា:ព្រឹត្តិការណ៍​ថ្មីៗ ko:위키백과:요즘 화제 ku:Portal:Bûyerên rojane la:Vicipaedia:Nuntii ml:വിക്കിപീഡിയ:സമകാലികം mn:Wikipedia:Сүүлийн үеийн мэдээ सद्य घटना ms:Portal:Peristiwa semasa mzn:ویکی‌پدیا:وقایع کنونی new:विकिपिडिया:हलिम बुखँ (ग्रेगोरियन पात्रो) nl:Portaal:In het nieuws oc:Portal:Actualitats e eveniments pl:Portal:Aktualności pms:Wikipedia:Neuve pt:Portal:Eventos atuais ro:Portal:Actualități ru:Портал:Текущие события sh:Wikipedia:Aktuelno-Актуално sq:Portal:Ngjarjet e tanishme sr:Портал:Догађаји su:Portal:Keur lumangsung sv:Portal:Aktuella händelser ta:விக்கிப்பீடியா:நடப்பு நிகழ்வுகள் th:สถานีย่อย:เหตุการณ์ปัจจุบัน tl:Wikipedia:Kasalukuyang pangyayari uk:Вікіпедія:Поточні події vi:Chủ đề:Thời sự wuu:Wikipedia:近段辰光个事体 yi:פארטאל:אקטועלע געשעענישן zea:Wikipedia:In 't nieuws zh:Portal:新聞動態 zh-classical:維基大典:世事 zh-min-nan:Portal:Sin-bûn sū-kiāⁿ zh-yue:Portal:時人時事 JAn Dudík (talk) 09:24, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorting them is a good idea. But this change would seem to remove about 14 interwiki links. Can you confirm if this is intentional? &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:48, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Hey
Fifty-three African Union peacekeepers were killed in Somalia today (March 4, 2011). B-Machine (talk) 22:30, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Here's the article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110304/ap_on_re_af/af_somalia_peacekeepers_killed B-Machine (talk) 22:34, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Edit request from Crobinson898, 10 March 2011
edit protected

Requesting removal of the following comment on the main portal page: "Laura's birthday!! Woooo LEGAL!!". It's not quite as newsworthy as rest of the page's contents!

Crobinson898 (talk) 01:33, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks, already dealt with.- gadfium 04:46, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Edit request from Presidentman, 10 March 2011
edit protected

There is vandalism on here, please remove the line between the headlines and the other current events.

Talk to you later, Presidentman (talk) Random Picture of the Day (Talkback) 01:49, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks, already dealt with.- gadfium 04:46, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Sendai earthquake loose on the Ongoing events tab
It's currently not under any particular section there, and it's making my spider sense tingle. How about we create a new one, named "Disasters" or something, for such lovely occasions. Just a thought. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.114.172.212 (talk) 14:47, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

"North Korea announces that its Supreme People's Assembly on April 7."
I think someone accidentally a verb here. Sorry if this is the wrong format to report this. --thejoewoods (talk) 04:02, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

"OTTAWA—A Commons committee has passed a report recommending the Conservative government be found in contempt of parliament. -The first time in Canadian history."
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/957379--committee-finds-harper-government-in-contempt?bn=1 - I feel that this should find some time on the main page.Paradise coyote (talk) 19:45, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
 * The place to nominate it is at WP:ITN/C. I suspect editors there do not usually read this talk page.- gadfium 00:06, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami
Former article title; this is currently a redirect to renamed 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, please change to direct link. Thanks in advance. Dru of Id (talk) 02:18, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Currently linked 3 places, not linked 1 additional place in description. Dru of Id (talk) 02:28, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Appears to be already done; please note anyone can edit the subpages for each day. — G FOLEY   F OUR  — 02:36, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

With the info above, I've fixed the dailies. GFoley seems to have gone offline; the one I can't see how to get to (and that initially caught my eye) is in 'Ongoing events' - 'Disasters'. Dru of Id (talk) 06:02, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
 * That was in the Portal:Current events/Sidebar, which also isn't protected. ✅ — G FOLEY   F OUR  — 15:02, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks! and now I know... :D Dru of Id (talk) 03:15, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

USS Barry error
The USS Barry is incorrectly formatted; it should be USS Barry instead of USS Barry. Evan.oltmanns (talk) 12:33, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Stray bracket
If I see right, there seems to be a stray square bracket in this sentence med conflicts and attacks


 * 2011 Syrian protests: Witnesses and rights activists say Syrian government security forces killed at least 15 anti-government protesters in Daraa, bringing the death toll for the week to 21. (The Australian), [(BBC)

Hope it is set right.  Yes Michael? •Talk 18:39, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ I believe. FYI, that is on Portal:Current events/2011 March 24 which isn't protected. — G FOLEY   F OUR  — 21:19, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

News to Main page
Please add this news in main page. It's the trending topic of Indian sub-continent today. Please see Anna Hazare's hunger strike- Wikinews --Surya Prakash.S.A. (talk) 11:23, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Finnish parliamentary election 2011
Hey!

I'd suggest that there be something like "Nationalist True Finns take a landslide victory in the April 17, 2011 parliamentary election in Finland", because, according to Wall Street Journal and BBC, the result (200 seats in the parliament, the True Finns jumped from 5 seats to 39) could affect Finland's position on bail-outs of EU countries that are in the middle of debt crisis. -- Frous (talk) 00:06, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
 * The election is covered on the current events page at Portal:Current events/2011 April 17. You can edit this page yourself. If you want to see it in the "In the news" section on the main page of Wikipedia, the place to go is linked at the top of this page - WP:ITN/C. There is already a discussion there at WP:ITN/C.- gadfium 00:43, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

A Visit From the Goon Squad
Suggest possible modification, announcement made a few hours ago, about a HBO adaptation.
 * A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (pictured) wins the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. HBO announced a TV adaption.

--Green Cardamom (talk) 05:00, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Subpages renaming proposal
Hi all. I'm wondering about having pages like Portal:Current events/Turkey/2007 August 7 moved to Portal:Current events/2007 August 7/Turkey, and so on. That'd make it easier to find/sort them in subpage listings such as Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Current events/. Besides, Portal:Current events/Turkey is not really a nav page, while Portal:Current events/2007 August 7... also isn't, but could (should?) easily fulfill that function, by including an automated list to its subpages. What do you think? --Waldir talk 16:30, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Present tense?
I guess it's down to personal style but it really bugs me that all the news articles are written in the present tense when (by definition!) they refer to events that have already happened in the past. 24ten (talk) 21:39, 10 May 2011 (UTC)


 * I bugs me too, when you read a news report or an article in a newspaper it is all past tense; so why not write the news articles in past tense?--Connelly90&#91;AlbaGuBràth&#93; (talk) 15:35, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

this sentence is not clear
. What does this sentence mean "The Ivory Coast Constitutional Council confirms that Alassane Ouattara won the 2010 presidential election reversing a decision that incumbent Laurent Gbagbo that sparked a brief war. (Al Jazeera)"? Presumably it should say "reversing a decision in favour of the previously incumbent Laurent Gbagbo which sparked a brief war" but you probably need to check the wording that the Al Jazeera website does use. Also there is a Red link for Ivory Coast Constitutional Council which could perhaps be pointed at Ivorian_presidential_election,_2010 as that article at least mentions it frequently

EdwardLane (talk) 14:39, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
 * For that, you want Portal:Current events/2011 May 5 (which appears on P:CE through transclusion). That page isn't protected. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   14:46, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

May 21, 2011 Domesday theory?
Shouldn't this 2011 end times prediction be talked about as it is a current event or should I say current prediction event? AJona1992 (talk) 12:50, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
 * There are several lines about it in the 21 May section. There is also a discussion at In the News Candidates about whether it should appear in that section.- gadfium 20:49, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

June 8 = IPv6 day
Seems to be worth a mention IMO. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:09, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
 * It's already there as the final item at Portal:Current events/2011 June 8. If you want it on the main page try In the news/Candidates. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:18, 8 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Ah I see it now. Nevermind then. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:20, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Sports news in the main news pages
Pages Portal:Current events/2011 May 3 onwards have had a selection of sports news added. Is this appropriate? If not, can this be spelt out in the Portal:Current events/Edit instructions so that I refer editors there for guidance? -- John of Reading (talk) 07:38, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
 * 1 team changing couch is not a news to paste in this page--Feroang (talk) 02:20, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
 * "Sports: The Vancouver Canucks defeat the Boston Bruins by a score of 1–0 in Game 5 of the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals, to take a 3–2 series lead. (NHL)" that is not a relevant news to be here, the result of 1 game in a national competition is not enough--Feroang (talk) 18:48, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

June 11

 * Just noticed this under the News headlines for June 7: "School politics 14-year old boarding school student Raymond Wang (me) got a reminder from his residential staff Dan that he was in Dan's personal space. I decided to go off on a tangent and said, "I thought of a math usage of 'personal space'". Dan just gave me the silence treatment out of the blue skies and told me it was an ignorable comment. Dan usually only ignores my highly inappropriate comments. Seriously, what is wrong with making a math context? It seems all so innocent. If Dan is going to ignore my innocent comments out of the blue sky just to be mean, THAT IS FINE WITH ME because I love the way he lies". from 173.76.205.127 and deleted it as this definitely does not belong on the Current Events page. Qazox (talk) 05:38, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for removing that. There's no need to post it here though; just remove the inappropriate text, place a warning on the poster's talk page, and move on. See WP:Vandalism for more on this. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:30, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

Kabul hotel attack
In the Current Event portal, under the InterContinental it said all 8 of the attackers were killed. However, on the main article for the hotel, it says 9 attackers were killed. It maybe just a minor typo, just thought it needed to be addressed. Loopus9 (talk) 20:12, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
 * This can be fixed by editing the Portal:Current events/2011 June 28 page. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:15, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

communitst hard liner needs some help for July 11
An anonymous IP, User:70.162.171.210, is POV-pushing on current events and calling me a "communitst hard liner" for reverting them and insisting that the original neutral version of the Obama story is "communist propaganda". Can someone else please take a look. Thanks. Kaldari (talk) 17:23, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I've used my 3 reverts, so it's out of my hands at this point. Kaldari (talk) 17:32, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Does anybody read this thing? Kaldari (talk) 18:15, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, the IP finally reverted themselves. Kaldari (talk) 21:14, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

What? No 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup?
Seems to me like gross negligence. --Jerome Potts (talk) 17:28, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Ah nvm i found just a little. --Jerome Potts (talk) 17:30, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Amy Whinehouse death
I believe the news of her death should be on the main page. News of her death are growing in numbers on google search news. AJona1992 (talk) 17:14, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Agree, Winehouse is internationally renowned, article Amy Winehouse is quite detailed and has photos. Thuresson (talk) 18:23, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Jesus, now it's the top, pictured story? 92 other people were murdered and a barely-working diva finally killing herself is the world's biggest news?Planet-man828 (talk) 05:49, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Gold fish
A pair of Goldfishes were found alive after months without food, after the Christchurch earthquake in February (Jimmyeditor (talk) 23:49, 27 July 2011 (UTC))
 * The miraculous feat of two goldfish surviving months without food is slightly undermined by the fact that there were originally five goldfish in the tank. Three goldfish have "disappeared". The survival of two (perhaps the fastest swimmers) is is not really newsworthy, I think. bobrayner (talk) 02:41, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeh, I guess so. But quite fascinating information. (Jimmyeditor (talk) 05:06, 29 July 2011 (UTC))

Uruguay wins the 2011 Copa America
Uruguay wins making it the most successful team in the tournament's history with 15 wins since 1916. This has to be more notable than Amy Winehouse. Hamsterlopithecus (talk) 08:13, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Indian Cricket Tour in 2011
After over 2 years of holding the No. 1 spot in the International Cricket Council's rankings, England replace India as the top rated Cricket team in the world after beating them by two clear tests in their tour of England Torqueing (talk) 14:25, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Helicopter crash, Afghanistan
I believe the 2011 NATO helicopter crash is notable enough to be featured in the front page. It is the largest loss of live of NATO/US troops in Afghanistan in a single incident since the war began. thoughts? Wikifan Be nice 12:08, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Wrong venue - see ITN/Candidates. -- John of Reading (talk) 14:43, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

United States federal government credit-rating downgrade, 2011
The link in "Standard & Poor's downgrades the credit rating of the United States government to AA+ for the first time." should go to United States federal government credit-rating downgrade, 2011, not United_States_public_debt. Brightgalrs ( /braɪtˈɡæl.ərˌɛs/ )[1] 16:03, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

POV on recent Israel-Hamas conflict?
"Hamas and Israel end a de facto truce after Israel responds to attacks in southern Israel with air strikes on the Gaza Strip." The above, which is the text currently displayed in current events, seems to imply that the 'de-facto truce' collapsed due to the Israeli response to Hamas, rather than Hamas' attacks. Am I to understand that Hamas is not to blame for the ending of the truce when they launched several attacks against Israel? I do think that someone needs to take a look at this as a POV issue that is either blaming Israel for the truce collapse, downplaying Hamas' role in the collapse of the truce, or both.--L1A1 FAL (talk) 02:03, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Whay not split the sentence so it becomes ""Hamas and Israel end a de facto truce. Israel responds to attacks in southern Israel with air strikes on the Gaza Strip." - does that not separate out the ending of the truce with detail about what happened? Cheers Fishiehelper2 (talk) 07:13, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
 * That sounds a little better. The original seems to imply that the Israeli response is the cause of the end of the truce. Separating the events does clear that up a bit. Thanks--L1A1 FAL (talk) 18:32, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

The status of Wikinews
Half of the past week's Wikinews sections have been completely blank. Is this due to the recent forking of that project (and associated exodus)? If it seems unlikely that we will have daily items from Wikinews going forward, perhaps we should only include the section if there is actually something to put in it. Thoughts? Kaldari (talk) 05:06, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Vandalism
The source links for the welsh mine disaster have been changed to Golden Triangle India. Please revert back. Osarius : T : C : Been CSD'd? 17:40, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Current events Sports
I wonder if some attention might be paid to the last remaining child page of this one, Portal:Current events/Sports. It is currently little more than a scoreboard of sports events with no description, covering a large slice of borderline notability sports, second and third-tier levels of sports with no explanation of notability or sourcing and also seems to function largely as a Guide to upcoming events with the onformation at the top of the page not actually conveying current event information but advising of upcoming events. I am... concerned. Perhaps in its current form it should just be moved to Wikinews? --Falcadore (talk) 00:54, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
 * (Partial answer) This is a typical portal page, acting as a "useful entry-point to Wikipedia content" (WP:Portal). Most portal pages don't have references; instead they have blue links to articles with more detail and references. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:04, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Simple link change
Can an Administrator just change the Wikinews link for September 28th from "http://en.wikinews.org/wiki//en.wikinews.org/wiki/Journalist_forbidden_to_leave_Belarus" to "http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Journalist_forbidden_to_leave_Belarus". It also looks like this is happening to all Wikinews links. Much appreciated. --   Luke      (Talk)   23:05, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
 * (I'm not an administrator, but just happened to be watching this talk page)
 * These parts of the page are edited automatically every few hours by the Wikinews Importer Bot, so I'll leave a message for the bot owner. I don't think it is worth fixing them directly, because the changes will be overwritten by the malfunctioning bot. If you want to try fixing them temporarily, the pages you need to edit are Portal:Current events/Wikinews/Today, Portal:Current events/Wikinews/Today-1, Portal:Current events/Wikinews/Today-2 and so on. These are only semi-protected, so you should be able to do it. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:49, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

India vaccination
Regarding 170 children in India vaccinated against Polio per year, that figure is in fact backed up by the BBC article (which actually says that that many are treated on each of two days). I'm a bit concerned, though, because assuming 2 or 3 doses per person, a bit of basic arithmetic leads to absolutely ridiculous figures on India's population, life expectancy, or both. I haven't removed the entry since it's supported, again, by the article cited, but either they're redundantly vaccinating children (from an abundance of paranoia about effectiveness or record-keeping, or whatever other reason) or someone erred badly. -- Pakaran 20:16, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Can we replace QANTAS with LOT Polish Airlines Flight 016 ?
QANTAS was already covered earlier, when the strike started. As long as we are focusing on airlines, why not feature the story of LOT Polish Airlines Flight 016? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk to me 23:41, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I think you mean to direct your comments to WP:ITN/C. This page is for discussing the current events section, not the "In the news" pane which also is included on the front page of Wikipedia.- gadfium 00:10, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Mario Draghi
I think that the installation of Mario Draghi at the ECB, occurred on November 1st, deserves a place in the News on the main page. Thanks, Alex2006 (talk) 07:10, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
 * To make suggestions for the top right panel on the main page, use In the news/Candidates. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:50, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Ooops! Done, Thanks! Can you please have a look, if I did anything wrong? Ciao, Alex2006 (talk) 08:08, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
 * It looks ok to me, though I'm not one of the regulars on that page. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:20, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Marathon
"The New York City Marathon begins with over 45,000 runners participating in the 28-mile run."

Marathons are 26.2 miles, and if you click on the link to the page New York City Marathon it says 26.2 there, too. Bar Code Symmetry  (Talk) 15:02, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Someone has fixed it. You are welcome to fix such mistakes yourself too.- gadfium 19:40, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Actually I fixed it myself...Bar Code Symmetry  (Talk) 20:16, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Current Events for January 17, 2009 (Thursday)
Why do the current events section for the 17th look really bad (improperly formatted) right now. Is someone willing to fix this? --YAYsocialism — [ Unsigned .]
 * Someone is advertising on the front page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheThomas (talk • contribs) 04:44, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Whoever fixed the spam, thank you. I could not fix it due to the page being fully protected. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheThomas (talk • contribs) 04:49, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
 * No problem, it took a while to track down where the portal pages are actually stored! (A lot of templates being transcluded). 2help (message me) 04:55, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Minor earthquakes
What's the deal with listing all the minor earthquakes lately? Earthquakes over 5.0 magnitude happen every single day somewhere in the world. Such earthquakes are local news events, but typically not considered international news. Of course since I live in Oakland, California, I might be a little jaded. Kaldari (talk) 23:10, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Innovation or experiment
First of all, I'm from the Korean Wikpedia, so I'd appreciate if you understand me for my bad English. I always thank all Current Events editors' efforts 'cause everyday I can get the world news information most easily and quickly here. As a reader, I came up with an idea that could make the process more effective and attractive. That's about changing contents categories from thematic to regional. Check out this and this. As I expected, a user undid my revision, and thanks for that. (We have met before at the Korean Wikipedia) What do you all editors think about that idea? I think it's better to categorize more contents, and also looks better than the established custom. You can arrange each country's name in alphabetical order, and even segmentalize states in a nation category. (like in case of UK, US, and other federal states) The another advantage is that each categories can just represent the article of each countries. It looks better when the category headword is blue like that. In conclusion, I'm very interested in the development of this portal of Wikipedia. So I'd like anyone of you to advance an opinion about this. Thank you. LyJPedia (talk) 09:44, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't have a string strong opinion on this, but I saw your post at VP/PR. Given that the current events pages have so few entries, usually, I think the current set of standard headers is fine. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:57, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Breaking up by country looks very scattered. There's usually only one entry per country. What about by continent? I probably prefer the current approach though. Fences  &amp;  Windows  21:59, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Which you both pointed out is thought to be because the custom is accustomed to thematic taxonomies. Don't anybody think this change will help better growths of daily contents? LyJPedia (talk) 03:15, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I can't see how it would affect growth. The thematic ordering is fine for the amount of content we currently have. It may be that national ordering would be more appropriate if we had considerably more content. At one point, several years ago, we did have a similar scheme, with several subpages such as "Current events in Australia and New Zealand". They all fell into disuse and are now redirects.- gadfium 19:57, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Maybe your opinion is reasonable. Then I'd just hope this page grows further enough for that suggestion to become more appropriate. But also still wating for other views. LyJPedia (talk) 23:59, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

NZ John Key wins a plurality
What does 'plurality' mean here?? Perhaps a better way to express the actual situation would be to say: "John Key's National Party just fails to gain an overall majority in the New Zealand general election. 00:10, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
 * What does "plurality" mean? The same thing it means anywhere else? --  tariq abjotu  00:26, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
 * See plurality, meaning 4: "A number of votes for a single candidate or position which is greater than the number of votes gained by any other single candidate or position voted for, but which is less than a majority of valid votes cast". However, it would be more informative, and less obscure, to use the wording suggested above.- gadfium 04:53, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Date format on wikinews blue box differs from the two green boxes above and below
Right now the green ones say 6 December 2011 and the blue one says December 6, 2011.

Can this be adjusted? JByrd (talk) 20:25, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
 * This is caused by an inconsistency in Portal:Current_events/Inclusion, and would be easy to fix. It would need an admin, though, since it is a fully-protected page. But both formats are consistent with MOS:DATE, so how do we choose? -- John of Reading (talk) 21:36, 6 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Actually, It was a change in Current events header that changed the format. I've changed it back. — Edokter  ( talk ) — 19:00, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * That change was two years ago; from your comment at the help desk, Edokter, you were under the impression that it was only changed two days ago... BencherliteTalk 01:12, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Watchlist
I've just added today's subportal, Portal:Current events/2011 December 11, to my watchlist. Tomorrow's hasn't yet been created. Is there a fast way I could put into my watchlist multiple now-nonexistent subportals like:


 * Portal:Current events/2011 December 12
 * Portal:Current events/2011 December 13
 * Portal:Current events/2011 December 14

and so on, starting from tomorrow or January 1 or whatever other date? Or do I have to come here every day and watchlist the day's subportal, it already being created? --Theurgist (talk) 22:29, 11 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes. Create such a list in your favourite word-processing software, click "edit raw watchlist" and paste it in. BencherliteTalk 23:00, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Damascus Bombings
There is no credible source that the attacks are suicide bombings. Can we please change the title of the article in the news section? — Preceding unsigned comment added by OpTioNiGhT (talk • contribs) 15:00, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I've copied your comment to Main Page/Errors. -- John of Reading (talk) 19:03, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

Improving visibility of related current events via template link
It strikes me that there is no way to add a direct link in Template:Current_related to the target article about a related event. IMO we're not doing a good service to the reader by mentioning that there is some major related event related to a given article but not linking it (and linking to the CE portal instead). The pageview stats suggest that most people are landing on WIkipedia via the main Costa Concordia article but are almost certainly looking for the coverage on the Costa Concordia disaster. Not displaying a link to this article prominently (but only at the end of the intro paragraph) may potentially result in losing many readers who don't realize that the event is covered in a separate article. DarTar (talk) 17:20, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Don't be misled by the pageview stats. Yesterday and this morning, the Costa Concordia was the bolded article on the main page. Following the closure of the AfD of the split-off article, the change to the bolded article was made at 11:30 UTC. Mjroots (talk) 17:34, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I was not aware of the AfD and change in emphasis. Still, direct hits via search engines are probably the main cause driving that burst in traffic. DarTar (talk) 17:52, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
 * (e/c) already allows for this, so I have edited the Costa Concordia article so that the banner includes a clear link to Costa Concordia disaster. The links on the main page go directly to the disaster article as well. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:36, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Excellent, thanks DarTar (talk) 17:52, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Date error

 * I seem to have inadvertently created a name with the wrong date on it. Capitalistroadster (talk) 00:36, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed. You wrote "February" rather than "02".- gadfium 02:59, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Edit request on 13 February 2012
Korean Wikipedia's interwiki had been changed to ko:들머리:요즘 화제. Please change this :)

kwan-in (talk) 11:46, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ --CapitalR (talk) 14:23, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Don't submit the via Google News links
They require the login process, even when I have already done it. Plus Google News is not even a distribution media, but more like a personal tool (as it says on the screen they require login) so please submit the links of the real active, easily accessible websites instead. LyJPedia (talk) 03:47, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

A plot to assassinate Vladimir Putin after the Russian presidential election, 2012 is foiled by Ukrainian and Russian intelligence services (February 27, 2012 (Monday))
Reporting by the BBC shows that this plot was stopped weeks ago and the fact that a spokesperson for the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) does not confirm to the BBC but later does confirm to Kyiv Post that is was a plot to kill Putin (a superior officer instructed her to tell the press it was?) shows there is something fishy with this "news". It looks like a publicity stunt for Putin to help him get reflected as President next Sunday to me and may fall into Propaganda. —  Yulia Romero  • Talk to me!  17:51, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Communist Party agrees with me. —  Yulia Romero  • Talk to me!  19:23, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Creating page

 * For some reason, page creation does not work for me. I try pasting the text and preview shows errors. I would like to add the AFrica Cup of Nations final and the Grammies. Capitalistroadster (talk) 02:01, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Same for the 14th. I'd like to add Obama meeting with the Vice-President of ChinaCapitalistroadster (talk) 02:15, 14 February 2012 (UTC)


 * No idea! I've just created Portal:Current events/2012 February 15 without a problem. I pasted from Portal:Current events/Edit instructions, changed the day, previewed and saved. If this happens again, I suggest you post your wikitext here inside  tags. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:54, 14 February 2012 (UTC)


 * It looks like there is a BRFA for User:28bot to take over SoxBot's responsibility. --   Luke      (Talk)   01:47, 15 February 2012 (UTC)


 * It has been working except today where it has duplicated Sunday. Capitalistroadster (talk) 08:39, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
 * It has done so again. Capitalistroadster (talk) 00:05, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Today's page wasn't created by the bot. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:53, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Putin elected for the third time, not the second
Hallo, Putin has been elected President of Russia for the third time (first term 2000-2004, second term 2004-2008), not the second. Please correct, thanks, Alex2006 (talk) 07:39, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Errors in the "Topics in the news" section should be reported at Main Page/Errors. Someone else has already reported this one.- gadfium 07:54, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks!Anyway, Repetita iuvant :-) Alex2006 (talk) 08:13, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Image of Robert Fico
Don't know if it's worth changing or not, as both images appear to be cropped in the template anyway, but perhaps File:Robert Fico crop.jpg should be used rather than File:Fico and Cvetkovic.jpg. The first image is a smaller crop of the second. -- Peter Talk page 21:41, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
 * You might like to make this suggestion at ERRORS, as this talk page does not cover the contents of the "In the news" pane.- gadfium 00:42, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

The bar at the top
What do you think of this edit? At minimum, the link text needs to be clearer, and the target page SOPA initiative/Post-blackout activities and initiatives needs more watchers. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:14, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I did that because these statistics seemed wrong and sad. That the brainstorming from Wikipedians' proudest hour were being dustbinned through neglect... I can't even express what it makes me think. That News Browser bar used to have enough links to justify the amount of screen real estate it takes. My thinking is that the best news sources often contain opinion and commentary, and this is the closest we can get without violating policy -- activities and initiatives specifically intended to protect Wikipedia's continued existence. I do agree more people should watch that page and I hope more people will participate in improving it. Starboard Bow (talk) 21:02, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Sunday Times video
BBC News is running a video secretly filmed by Sunday Times reporters showing British Conservative Party co-treasurer Peter Cruddas offering access to the Prime Minister for £250,000. Will add this with refs as soon as they are available. Paul MacDermott (talk) 22:09, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Remove Category:2010
Remove Category:2010. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 18:59, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I've updated it. I think it is appropriate for it to be both in Category:2012 and the subcategory Category:2012 by day, since this page deals with multiple days.- gadfium 22:35, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Bad grammar
I've been reading the Current events page for years and the grammar has been getting progressively worse and worse. These days it seems like half of the entries have some grammatical error, which is pretty sad. And some of the errors are glaringly obvious. I was trying to fix them for a while, but there are just too many. I think this page needs more people reviewing the quality of the entries. Kaldari (talk) 20:29, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

More notable news, perhaps?
What a terrible selection of "Topics in the News" stories. If there's a minor municipal election in Yurupistan, it goes straight to the front page, but if North Korea launches a missile, or they finally arrest someone in a highly racially charged shooting in the US, better luck pitching some other news feed. Is the entire point of this template to shut out any news that might actually be relevant to Western readers? Or are the editors just so sheltered they wouldn't know of anything that happened north of the Mediterranean? --SchutteGod (talk) 21:02, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Question
How come this page is fully protected, whereas its sister portal Portal:Current events is not even semi protected? extra 999 ( talk ) 08:35, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Could you clarify which pages you are talking about? The page Portal:Current events is fully protected, though most of its component boxes have their own edit links and are not protected. This page, Portal talk:Current events is semi-protected. For the reasons, check the logs for Portal:Current events and Portal talk:Current events. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:41, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

April 2012 sidebar
I just created Portal:Current events/April 2012/Sidebar. Which suggests that either nobody noticed the redlink at April 2012 for 24 days(?) and/or that we need a better mechanism for creating sidebars. Also, I'd appreciate it if someone knowledgeable could check my archiving of Portal:Current events/March 2012/Sidebar - I copied the last March-date-stamped version of Portal:Current events/Sidebar and updated the edit links - was there anything else I needed to do? Thanks. DH85868993 (talk) 09:18, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Adam Yauch death
Adam Yauch (MCA) died today who was one of the members of the Beastie Boys, one of the more successful and influential hip hop acts in the last 30 years. I would suggest is important enough of a person in music to be included in one of the current events headlines.▪◦▪ ≡S i R E X≡  Talk 21:57, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Rochdale Sex Traffickers Gang
This gang of pedophiles were convicted of multiple offences on 8 May 2012 and became the first in Britain to be convicted of sex trafficking.' Ankh '. Morpork  20:11, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
 * You can add it yourself. See Portal:Current events/2012 May 8.- gadfium 23:51, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom?
I'm curious as to why the particular "of the United Kingdom" was selected for a woman who's sovereign of more independent countries than just the United Kingdom and which were part of the pageant that's the subject of the recent events piece in question. After lengthy debae, it was decided to remove the biased "of the United Kingdom" qualifier from the title of Elizabeth II; yet, here it has reappeared. -- Ħ   MIESIANIACAL  15:53, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II
In the template for ongoing events the diamond jubilee needs to be mentioned under the celebrations heading. It is a year wide event, the jubilee tour of the UK and the commonwealth is not over and won't be until the year is out. --Thanks, Hadseys (talk) 23:32, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Order of notability
Shouldn't Nadal be mentioned first and pictured rather than Sharapova, since he's more notable? Crzyclarks (talk) 20:37, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
 * You can raise this at ERRORS. This talk page does not include the "Topics in the news" section.- gadfium 23:04, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

"Finest player"?
Though I agree with the comment that Andriy Shevchenko is "the finest footballer Ukraine has produced since independence from the Soviet Union", I wonder if it may be too subjective a description for the Current Events portal? Grutness...wha?  10:04, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Death of Andy Griffith
Andy Griffith, an actor, Grammy Award winning Southern-gospel singer, writer, and known famous for his lead role in the Andy Griffith Show, has just passed away recently on July 3, 2012 at 7:00 EST at age 83. I am not absolutely confident with this be put up, but it's just a request to look at. Healablemarrow4 (talk) 04:08, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
 * He's already mentioned in the "July 3" section of this page. There was a suggestion that he be mentioned at the top right of the main page; the discussion is at In the news/Candidates. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:56, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your response!Healablemarrow4 (talk) 18:36, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

"Police Clash with"
We've got two successive stories in July 11th that both begin with the phrase "Police clash with..." Of course police are clashing with various folks all the time around the world, but couldn't we go for some variety in the phrasing? --Christofurio (talk) 19:11, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Aurora Shooting
KUSA-TV in Denver is reporting "70 wounded and 12 dead", so you all might want to update the main page. -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 02:27, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

Anaheim shooting
Is there an article on this already? If not, why the blindspot? Volunteer Marek 02:35, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
 * You are welcome to add it to Portal:Current events/2012 July 22.- gadfium 04:02, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Quagmire Comments
The following was tacked on to the Typhoon Bolaven bullet:
 * "and in other new Glenn Quagmire has escaped prison only to get with another woman, and another, and 27 more women. Glenn Quagmire is a very dangerous man and will cause harm to you, if you are a woman. Thank you and have a nice day. :)"

Seems to fail the rules for this page. Xianjiro (talk) 22:46, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, if you see nonsense like this then please feel free to remove it. See Vandalism. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:35, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

The McGuire Sisters
The obituary link to Dorothy McGuire goes to the actress instead of properly to the singer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tyoda (talk • contribs) 15:19, 11 September 2012‎
 * using the [edit] link in the sidebar. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:35, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Non-English sources
In response to the removal of items with non-English language source in accordance with the posting guideline "News stories must be in the English language; no other languages please", User:Wakari07 restored the item, again with non-English sources and says |"please consider an online translating tool". Unless and until a consensus is reached to change the current guideline, I think it needs to be adhered to. For that reason, I'm reverting the non-English language sourced item again. I'm fine with a discussion about changing the guideline to consider whether non-English sources can be used. Thoughts please? -- PopularMax (talk) 21:47, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I interpret that as meaning the text ("news stories") added to portal:Current events must be in English. Non-English sources ("news sources") are fine everywhere else in Wikipedia; I can't see why they wouldn't be fine here too, although for convenience of verification we would prefer that English sources be linked to.- gadfium 02:57, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I think it should be obvious that the news stories added to the portal be in English, just like content added everywhere else in English Wikipedia has to be in English (with some limited exceptions when referring to foreign language concepts, etc) and we wouldn't need a specific guideline for the text to be in English here. My understanding is that this must therefore be referring to the source for the item and that it's specified in the posting guidelines specifically because it is does not follow the same principle for sourcing as in the rest of the encyclopedia. Question is, is that justified? --PopularMax (talk) 05:21, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree with gadfium here. I was surprised when I saw these edit summaries in Recent Changes. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:02, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Here's what I see as being the problems with non-English sources:
 * Reliable Sources and Verifiability - if an item is sourced to a non-English news outlet, it is not immediately accessible to someone who does not understand that language - firstly to assess whether it is in fact sourced to a reliable news organization, and secondly to assess whether the item is accurately reported from that source. Google Translate and the like are of limited use here - the results of these tools are not highly accurate (and even not available for many languages) and accuracy is important for verifiability when you want to be sure that the item is free of POV, mistakes or complete misrepresentation. While it's true that elsewhere on en.wikipedia, non-English sources are acceptable, in these cases there is presumably time to examine the sources, discuss, get an accurate or verified translation, etc. Since things are more fast-moving on the ITN page, there may not be time for such an examination or discussion. It would thus be preferable not to have items sourced to references that are difficult for most users to verify because they are not in the language of this wiki.
 * In any case, whenever there is an English langauge source of equal quality and relevance, it should be preferred over the non-English per WP:NOENG. There are also many news outlets in non-English speaking countries that publish in English (for example, NHK, Xinhua, Der Spiegel, Tibet Post, to name but a few) so it's not as if there are no English sources for significant news events from other parts of the world.
 * Notability - Furthermore, a story that is not published in at least one of the thousands of online English language news agencies, is likely not of international significance and will probably fail to meet the guideline that "Stories added to the main portal page should be of international interest. Stories of only regional or topical interest belong in their appropriate sub-pages, if any."  Non-English sources are a red flag for this problem, though of course there may be some exceptions (say, an early breaking story first reported in local foreign language media before being picked up in international English-language media) -- but the points made above under verifiability will still apply to this case. PopularMax (talk) 03:15, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't agree with language as a defining criterion for notability. Wakari07 (talk) 19:18, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
 * ref and ref Wakari07 (talk) 19:32, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Also, DPA is DPA, Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH (dpa), in any language. Wakari07 (talk) 19:41, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I did not say language is a defining criterion for notability. I said that lack of English language sources is an indicator of non-notability, since there are many news agencies that publish in English even in non-English speaking countries. Therefore, if there are only sources in one language, it's indicative of a story that has not achieved some international notability. You  also haven't addressed the other issues, of reliability and verifiability of non-English sources. PopularMax (talk) 20:06, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

Hillsborough disaster
Why is the Hillsborough disaster not mentioned? IMO it should be on the front page - this is big, big news in the UK, front page of pretty much every national paper, the Prime MInister has given a public apology etc. etc. GiantSnowman 21:50, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
 * You are welcome to add it at Portal:Current events/2012 September 12. For the "In The News" section of the front page, please join the discussion at WP:ITN/C.- gadfium 03:58, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Extra-bold links
The box ends with a "More current events..." link, wikilinked to Portal:Current events. This is fine for the Main page, but is a useless self-referencing link when it is transcluded here. Since the HTML 5 rollout it has become very distracting. At least in Firefox 14, it is displayed in very heavy black letters, much bolder than ordinary bold text. I propose that the template be given a parameter so that it doesn't display the link at all when it is transcluded here. -- John of Reading (talk) 18:00, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

More Current Events
The words 'More Current Events' as displayed on the main page would be better used if they were used to link to actual more current events. Right now,they are just words. Any comments? --HarshAJ (Talk)(Contribs) 15:24, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
 * On the Main Page itself, it is a useful link - the reader is taken from the Main Page to Portal:Current events, where there are indeed more current events. But, as I suggested in the previous thread here, the words are useless on the Portal:Current events page. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:26, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I see it now. Sorry! --HarshAJ (Talk)(Contribs) 04:44, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Editprotected
Please add the protection template to Portal talk:Current events (preferrably the banner version) since the talk page is protected.

-- 76.65.131.248 (talk) 11:06, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done And I moved your request here from Portal talk:Current events/temp so the request is more visible. Anomie⚔ 20:24, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Biased headlines
The space allocated to [in the news] section is limited to 5 entries. Why do I see two topics about the recent event of the theologically-racist movie reactions like they're so important? Why do I not see for instance the news about Japan/China clash or the recent UN event... Either the news section is biased, or outdated in a weird fashion. Thanks for noting. hkernel (talk) 19:04, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
 * This is not the right place to discuss the "in the news" headlines. Try Wikipedia talk:In the news.- gadfium 22:34, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

WikiLeaks leak
I can't edit the main page, but why is this listed under the armed conflict section? The recent leak deals with diplomatic cables--wouldn't it be a better idea to put this under the already existing "International Relations" section? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.227.236.75 (talk • contribs) 00:05, 29 November 2010

Tim Tebow
We should mention that Tim Tebow is up for trade since the Broncos got Manning Greenble (talk)

Mo Yan
The first line says, "Chinese novelist and short story writer Mo Yan,(pictured) purveyor of hallucinatory realism, is awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature." Something needs to be done about "(pictured)" and the comma right before it. Erik (talk &#124; contribs) 21:05, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Now it says, "Chinese novelist and short story writer Mo Yan(pictured), famous..." Still the same spacing issue. Erik (talk &#124; contribs) 21:06, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
 * The SpaceX line no longer needs "(pictured)" either. Erik (talk &#124; contribs) 21:11, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
 * This is the wrong place. Report errors in the In the News section at WP:ERRORS.- gadfium 00:10, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Paddy Roy Bates
Does the death of Bates really merit being included in the news feed? 331dot (talk) 11:36, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
 * To suggest changes to the topmost box at Portal:Current events, please post at Main Page/Errors. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:26, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks 331dot (talk) 12:40, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

Inserting "opinion" statements into news
Please do not include words such as "disgraced" in news bits on the current events. This was done with the Lance Armstrong newsbit on the 22nd of October's current events. The following facts were strong enough on their own to illicit that opinion from readers in the end i would think, adding the comment at the start is not needed and does not adhere to a nutural point of view. Thank you.

Evenios (talk) 18:32, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

US Presidential Debates
There is no mention of the just concluded presidential debate in the news. --Kendirangu (talk) 09:41, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Deaths
What's with keeping all the September deaths in late October? This is the first time I've seen virtually two whole months?-Kiwipat (talk) 19:45, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Down to two weeks now. -- John of Reading (talk) 19:59, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

BC earthquake
Which day did the earthquake in British Columbia, Saturday or Sunday, as it is listed under both? - Presidentman talk · contribs Random Picture of the Day (Talkback) 23:15, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Length of current event posts
It seems lately that many current event posts have been an upwards of 3 or 4 sentences. It says under the posting guidelines that you should log entries in complete sentences, indicating that it is permitted to write more than one sentence. I just want to get an idea on how long entries should be in the current event portal. --   Luke      (Talk)   00:20, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Topics in the news: Baseball World Series
Why are the results of the Baseball still in "Topics in the News"? This is a comparatively local event, to keep the scope correct you would need to include many other sporting events of the same calibre and reach such as Cricket, Rugby or Soccer results.

The topics in the news section is "prime real estate" on this page, this item seems misplaced (having been there so long).

For example we here in Australia don't get mainstream news media coverage about the Baseball, yet we do about the US presidential debates. Elena the Quiet (talk) 04:39, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
 * This isn't the right place to comment on the "In the news" box. I think the right place to discuss early removal of this item would be In the news/Candidates, but you may find that no-one notices. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:46, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Undecipherable news blurb
"Sir Nicholas Hytner, Sir Nicholas Serota, Julian Lloyd Webber, Richard Rogers, Sir David Hare and Grayson Perry are among the cultural figures to criticise the "incredibly shortsighted" policy of excluding creative subjects from the core qualification at 16."

How is anyone supposed to have any idea what this means? Qualification for what? 16 what? Kaldari (talk) 03:12, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
 * There's a link to a story in the Guardian newspaper. Please, rewrite that blurb to make it more intelligible.- gadfium 03:56, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Portal :Current events on Urdu Wikipedia
Hi, Portal :Current events on Urdu Wiki has been created. So I request to add interwiki link of it. ur:باب:حالیہ واقعات

--محمد شعیب (talk) 17:54, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done — Mr. Stradivarius  (have a chat) 09:25, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Even Coverage
There have now been 6 articles published by wikinews as breaking news and appearing on current events covering the conflict in Gaza. There have been 0 articles published about the conflict in Israel. Regardless of the reason it appears impartial. Eframgoldberg (talk) 22:17, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

Deleted Current Events
I know in the last several days I have put up several articles from credible news sources, i.e. breitbart, the telegraph, fox news, J post, Ha aretz, and they end up being deleted with no explanation. Please be careful to check and make sure articles are not removed purely for political reasons, and if an article is removed please provide a valid explanation as to why.Eframgoldberg (talk) 22:44, 20 November 2012 (UTC)


 * As stated above, new current events must be nominated at the ITN candidates page; if they have not been nominated and supported by consensus, I would imagine any suggestions will be removed. 331dot (talk) 23:24, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I am not talking about the "In the News section" which is what the candidate page is for. I am talking about the daily current events.Eframgoldberg (talk) 02:01, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
 * "This page provides a forum for editors to suggest items for inclusion in Template:In the news (ITN), a protected Main Page template, as well as the forum for discussion of candidates. This is not the page to report errors in the ITN section on the Main Page—please go to the appropriate section at WP:ERRORS.

This candidates page is integrated with the daily pages of Portal:Current events. Under each daily section header below is the transcluded Portal:Current events items for that day (with a light green header). Each day's portal page is followed by a subsection for suggestions and discussion." The page is for ITN or in the news suggestions the locked box on top. I am asking that if someone deletes a current daily event (not ITN) that they provide an explanation.Eframgoldberg (talk) 02:03, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Yesterday I reverted an unexplained deletion of the "HonestReporting" news items and posted a uw-delete1; the response was a repeat of the deletion with a polite edit summary with an explanation. So this later edit summary is incorrect, and after that we're in edit war territory and should be discussing the items on the talk page. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:33, 21 November 2012 (UTC)


 * All I was asking was that people give explanations for their edits or deletions so I can follow whats going on and possible talk or fix it. Eframgoldberg (talk) 22:15, 21 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Also only one article had one source from honest reporting. the others that were deleted were sourced from telegraph, bretibart, nbc, fox news etc. There were at least 3 events deleted.

I would never consider an edit or deletion by some one pretending to be anonymous polite nor any explanation for doing so by such a person. ≈ Learve (talk) 12:55, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

December 1 link error
Under "International relations" it says: "North Korea's state agency KCNA announces ... " but that KCNA "is a commercial classic hits music radio station in Cave Junction, Oregon," (i'd fix but it's 3.30 AM and I'm going to bed! Yaaaaawn! ) - 220  of  Borg 16:31, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ Sleep well. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:08, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

Daily Mail articles
Kind of concerned about a couple of entries for today from the Daily Mail which sound like the kind of things that get them all lathered up:


 * There are calls for helium party balloons used at children's parties to be banned. (Daily Mail)
 * Schoolchildren in Sweden are being banned from an old tradition of dressing up as gingerbread men for a Christmas parade because their teachers fear the costumes could be considered racist. (Daily Mail)

Maybe if we could find a different source they'd be ok. The Daily Telegraph is covering the helium balloon story, but it only seems to be the tabloids who've picked up on the second story. Any thoughts? Paul MacDermott (talk) 12:44, 11 December 2012 (UTC) Appears both have been removed now. Cheers Paul MacDermott (talk) 17:36, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Wikinews stories
Why do two Wikinews stories which occurred on 8 December (concerning Hillary Clinton and Stuart Hall's solicitor) keep appearing as yesterday's headlines in the Wikinews stories sections of this page? It's been happening for about the last week now and nobody seems to have fixed it. Paul MacDermott (talk) 11:48, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I've left a message at User talk:Misza13. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:55, 19 December 2012 (UTC) amended 07:36, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Hopefully someone can update it. Paul MacDermott (talk) 11:36, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't know why but shows that something changed December 10. Since then Portal:Current events/Wikinews/Today keeps being added to and removed from the list (+130 and -130 in the page history ). PrimeHunter (talk) 12:56, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I have replaced the out-of-date story links with direct links to the pages at Wikinews that the bot should have copied. This at least gets "Solicitor of presenter Stuart Hall denies indecent assault" off the page after a fortnight. I hope this is only a temporary workaround. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:07, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
 * (More) And it was a very temporary workaround - within 15 minutes, the bot overwrite my workarounds with the latest stories! Bizarre. Let's hope it keeps the updates flowing now. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:17, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
 * (More) Nope, the pages are out of date again. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:56, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Just a quick note to say it seems to be happening again. Those pre-Christmas high winds that struck Texas appear to be hanging around. :) Paul MacDermott (talk) 13:22, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I've posted at n:Wikinews:Water cooler/technical in case there are any experts over at Wikinews. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:01, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

I'm here again. "California judge disqualified from predatory lending case" and "Nigeria fireworks fire kills one, injures dozens", two stories from 27 December, are currently replicated across several days. Paul MacDermott (talk) 16:24, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Purging the pages at Wikinews doesn't help, but blanking the pages here has worked for me. I've just blanked Portal:Current events/Wikinews/Today-2 again, and perhaps the bot will import the Oxfam story. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:03, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
 * ...and that worked, so I have blanked the others as well. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:19, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Addition to top
I think the following box should be added to the top of this page. Mikael Häggström (talk) 19:35, 28 December 2012 (UTC)


 * The "Headlines" are shared with the Main Page, so the proper place to discuss that box is WT:ITN or Main Page/Errors. For the others, I'd prefer to have the discussions started here, since this page is watched by nearly 4000 editors, while the subpages have very few watchers. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:47, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I redirected the "Topics in the news"-link to Wikipedia talk:In the news. Anyway, if we choose not to have this box, I think the talk pages of each of the other included ones should state something like to following at top "Discussions relating to this page is preferably done at Portal talk:Current events ". Mikael Häggström (talk) 21:56, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I've put a note at the top of the talk pages of News Browser, Calendar, Sidebar and Events by month with a link to here so that entries are actually found by someone. The rest of the talk pages seem to be acceptably active. Mikael Häggström (talk) 09:17, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Revised version
Although most of the discussion is preferably done here, I still find it useful to have links to the subpages. Thus, I'd like to have a box such as the following at top:

Mikael Häggström (talk) 20:10, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I've added it now, but it's still open for further revision. Mikael Häggström (talk) 10:52, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Edit request
No reason to have to update this category every year when we have magic to do the job. FallingGravity (talk) 03:07, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 14:55, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Resignation of Bulgarian Government
Hi. I was wondering, shouldn't the protests in Bulgaria and the resignation of the Bulgarian government be in the list of top current events? --SlipknotRlZZ (talk) 16:59, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
 * See WP:ITN/C, where this is under discussion. You are welcome to join in there.- gadfium 19:58, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

2 minor edit requests for March 1 news
Currently the news reads: "al-Qaeda's most feared commanders in Africa Abdelhamid Abou Zeid is killed by Chadian forces in Northern Mali. (Voice of America) (Reuters) (BBC)". It should be something that makes sense like "One of al-Qaeda's most feared commanders in Africa, Abdelhamid Abou Zeid, is killed by Chadian forces in Northern Mali. (Voice of America) (Reuters) (BBC)".
 * Done.- gadfium 03:12, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

The sentence about the SpaceX flight should include a link to Falcon 9 and/or a link to SpaceX CRS-2. Kbog (talk) 23:50, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Seems to already have those links. One is piped from "launches".
 * You could have made these edits yourself. The individual days are not protected so you can use the edit button beside the date.- gadfium 03:12, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I never noticed that button. Thanks Kbog (talk) 23:38, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Edit request
Could someone remove all of the interwiki links per WP:WDATA? It's pretty clear that the bots haven't been here for two years, since the page was fully protected. FallingGravity (talk) 05:47, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done. I think I put all of the links in the right places, but if you could check my work I'd appreciate it. — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 08:49, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
 * After moving the Silesian version of Template:In the news to its respective Wikidata item, everything looks good. Thanks for answering my requests here! FallingGravity (talk) 09:20, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

23 March 2013
I see: Recent deaths: : Chinua Achebe. What about Boris Berezovsky (businessman)? He is an important person and should be mentioned. --Brateevsky (<b style="color:#0000ff;">talk to me</b>) 19:00, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
 * That's being discussed at In the news/Candidates You could add a comment there. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:43, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Wikinews
I notice that the number of wikinews articles has now dropped to less than 1 per day, far below it's [[Media:Wikinews Articles Per Day.png|peak]] of 16 per day. Is it time to consider removing these links from this page as they don't seem to be adding much? AndrewRT(Talk) 19:32, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Worldwide current events/Sports events
Is it time to remove the topmost navigation box, at least temporarily? Portal:Current events/Sports is mostly blank, and has been since the last content was archived on 15th February. The sidebar is more up to date, except for the calendar at the top, but that was being maintained by just one editor,, who hasn't edited since mid-April. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:58, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Update: has returned, so it is not time to remove the topmost navigation box. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:28, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

nobots
is an incorrect call to nobots, which does not take any parameters. Regards, Illia Connell (talk) 03:34, 13 May 2013 (UTC)


 * ✅, thanks. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 09:04, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Why Snowden's case are not in the news
Is it not big enough? Raintwoto 23:09, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Snowden is mentioned on the entries for June 9 and June 11. For the discussion on whether to include it in the "In the News" section, see ITN/Candidates.- gadfium 03:41, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Linked picture to the resignation of Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas
Please change the picture of Czech Prime Minister to any other official picture. The currently linked picture is from the funeral of former Czech President Vaclav Havel.

I hope, it was just an unwanted link from the act of resignation to the funeral, but seems like a bad joke...
 * Since the topmost box is shared from the Main Page, I have copied this comment to Main Page/Errors, -- John of Reading (talk) 19:21, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Obama's energy and climate speech
Here is a roundup: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/06/25/2213341/invest-divest-obama-goes-full-climate-hawk-in-speech-unveiling-plan-to-cut-carbon-pollution/

Here's what Michael Mann said about the President's plan: https://www.facebook.com/MichaelMannScientist/posts/545737035482503 -- Ssilvers (talk) 02:45, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

Portal:Current events/Sports
There is a proposal to redesign Portal:Current events/Sports. Please comment at Portal talk:Current events/Sports. -- John of Reading (talk) 19:32, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Removal of Wikinews links
I propose to remove the Wikinews articles sections, for the main reason that they are almost always empty. In the few articles that appear in a timely manner, except for occasional interviews of debatable interest, no substantial information is provided above Wikipedia coverage or what is found in primary sources. It has been given its chance, more than any other sister project, but ultimately the same reasoning behind the external links guideline applies, and on the merits there is no justification for automatically linking to Wikinews. Cenarium (talk) 06:42, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I support this and I think it's a no-brainer. If anyone wants to go ahead and make the changes, the page that needs to be edited is Portal:Current events/Inclusion. Shii (tock) 11:04, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Without objection, so ordered. (this is a WP:BOLD edit meant to provoke discussion, so if anyone disagrees go ahead and revert and give your reasoning.) Shii (tock) 04:58, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

The consensus found there to remove the wikinews link from the Main Page ITN section indicates support for removal here as well. Cenarium (talk) 14:42, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 20 July 2013
39.32.21.61 (talk) 16:09, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
 * You haven't explained what you want changed. Note that each "dated" box has its own "edit" link - those pages are not protected. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:23, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Lemurs vs. bus crashes
I find it absolutely offending and aggravating that whomever ultimately choose the final articles for the headlines prefers to highlight the discovery of a new lemur to major loss of lives or groundbreaking political events. I can understand we can't always be numbering deaths and disasters, and that life is made of other things, too, but COME ON! A lemur? And only 5 days ago, another fossil mouse specimen? Are you guys even following what this "news" guy is doin'? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.206.171.153 (talk) 21:43, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden was not an intelligence analyst. 98.218.180.142 (talk) 02:36, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

A story of great significance
The Guardian is now embroiled in an incident that has profound implications for the freedom of journalists and of the internet. It's receiving coverage in a number of the biggest news outlets. Tony  (talk)  11:50, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Vandalism
Right under the "Topics in the news" section there is a line that says "have you ever had sex". I cannot figure out from which template this text is transcluded. Can someone please remove it ASAP? -Zanhe (talk) 21:03, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
 * This has been fixed. For future reference, if one of the daily news boxes has been badly damaged, it can still be edited using one of the links at the top of this page, the talk page. They are in the box beginning "The more dynamic subpages of Current events...". -- John of Reading (talk) 16:44, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Yosemite Rim fire
I created a stub at 2013 Yosemite fire since the event seems to meet notabillty criteria for events per WP:GEOSCOPE and coverage. --DarTar (talk) 23:51, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

My edit did not show
Under today's section of Armed Conflicts (8-29-2013), I put up a single bullet and put the wikilinks Syrian Civil War next to it, then double bulleted the rest of the articles (for lack of a better word) under that first bullet. For example, this is what I did:


 * Syrian Civil War
 * Topic 1
 * Topic 2

ETC. But after I saved the page, the changes don't show up. I even refreshed the page a few times and it still won't show up. Shadow Android (talk) 11:29, 29 August 2013 (UTC)


 * You edited a transcluded page Portal:Current events/2013 August 29 so you may have to purge Portal:Current events to see your changes there. I guess you didn't do that. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:20, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
 * So that was the problem. Thanks. I did not know that you have to purge to see updates on this page.  Shadow Android (talk) 12:33, 29 August 2013 (UTC)