Wikipedia:In the news/Recurring items

This guideline is a supplement to the criteria for the In the news (ITN) section of the Main Page. It standardizes which recurring events are included in ITN.

Scheduled sporting events and other recurring items are different from other ITN candidates, because editors can foresee them and prepare for their potential inclusion. ITN editors have therefore produced this list of pre-approved events, which has been developed through discussion and consensus. The list assists editors in ensuring reasonably balanced coverage (for example of different sports) over time. It also avoids the need to debate an event's importance every time it occurs, providing consistency between years.

Items listed on this page are considered to have already satisfied the "importance" criterion for inclusion on ITN, every time they occur. This does not guarantee the item will be posted. The relevant article still needs to be appropriately updated, be of sufficient quality, and be nominated on the candidates page (ITN/C) before being posted. As with all ITN nominations, the posting (or not) of a recurring item can be weighed against whether it best serves the encyclopedia.

Any changes to this list, such as adding or removing an item, should be discussed at WT:ITN to gain consensus first. Items that are not on this list can still be nominated at ITN/C and discussed individually, where they will be assessed against the usual ITN criteria.

Nobel Prizes
Expected stories per year: 6 (over a period of 6 successive weekdays)
 * Nobel Prize, specifically:
 * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 * Nobel Prize in Physics
 * Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Nobel Prize in Literature
 * Nobel Peace Prize
 * Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Human rights
Expected stories per year: 1
 * Sakharov Prize

Mathematics
Expected stories per year: 1 or 2
 * Abel Prize
 * Fields Medal
 * Millennium Prize

Computing
Expected stories per year: 1
 * Turing Award

Architecture

 * Pritzker Architecture Prize

Expected stories per year: 1

Film
Expected stories per year: 6
 * Academy Awards (Academy Award for Best Picture) (year's award article)
 * BAFTA Awards (BAFTA Award for Best Film) (year's award article)
 * Cannes Film Festival (Palme d'Or)
 * Berlin International Film Festival (Golden Bear)
 * Filmfare Awards (Filmfare Award for Best Film)
 * Dadasaheb Phalke Award

Literature

 * Booker Prize
 * International Booker Prize (both the author and translator, as well as the work, should be included in blurb)
 * International Dublin Literary Award
 * Hugo Awards (Hugo Award for Best Novel)

Expected stories per year: 3 in even years, 4 in odd years (not including Nobel Prize in Literature, listed above)

Music

 * Eurovision Song Contest (year's contest article)
 * Grammy Awards (Record of the Year & Album of the Year) (year's award article)

Expected stories per year: 2

Television

 * Primetime Emmy Awards (Best Comedy and Best Drama) (year's award article)

Expected stories per year: 1

Theatre

 * Tony Awards (Best Musical and Best Play) (year's award article)
 * Laurence Olivier Awards (year's award article)

Expected stories per year: 2

Science
Expected stories per year: about 0.5
 * New chemical elements
 * Both the initial discovery and the official naming by IUPAC or IUPAP (generally several years apart)

Elections and heads of state and government

 * United Nations Security Council elections.
 * Changes in Secretary-General of the United Nations with the new individual as the target.
 * The results of general elections in:
 * All states on the list of sovereign states;
 * European Union elections.
 * Disputed states and dependent territories should be discussed at WP:ITN/C and judged on their own merits.


 * Changes in the holder of the office which administers the executive of their respective state/government, in those countries which qualify under the criteria above, as listed at List of current heads of state and government except when that change was already posted as part of a general election.
 * In Switzerland, elections of new members to the Federal Council, but not normally general elections of the Federal Council or elections to the Presidency, which are generally pro forma.

Exhibitions and summits
For each of these events, the ITN blurb should link to the specific article for that year's meeting.

Economic and political summits
Summits are posted upon conclusion
 * Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summits
 * G7 summits

Celestial events

 * Total solar eclipses (including hybrid eclipses)
 * Any meteor storm, i.e. a meteor shower which reaches ZHR > 1,000
 * Any Great comet

Expected stories per year: 0 or 1 eclipses ; Meteors and comets are impossible to predict, but historically, 0–2 per decade

Space exploration

 * A country conducting its first successful indigenous orbital launch
 * The launch of space stations or installation of new major components thereof
 * Arrival of spacecraft (to lunar orbit and beyond) at their destinations

Sports
Entries which refer to events where men's and women's events are concurrent (unless otherwise specified) are generally posted as a combined blurb, as long as both articles are of sufficient quality. In terms of timing, events are generally posted as soon as a winner is determined. Generally, the specific event article for that year/time period is the target article in the blurb (for example, 2016 Tour de France rather than the broader Tour de France); winning individuals or teams may be targets, but their articles must meet the same ITN quality requirements as the event.


 * The Olympics, as the world's leading multi-day multi-sport event, is accepted as an appropriate "ongoing" entry.
 * The Commonwealth Games was posted as an "ongoing" entry in 2014.
 * The FIFA World Cup is accepted as an appropriate "ongoing" entry.
 * Nominations for various multi-day single sport events for the "ongoing" section of ITN have failed, with a handful of exceptions.
 * The exceptions to this have been the Men's Football World Cup, which was added to "ongoing" in 2014 and 2018, the Women's Football World Cup in 2019, and the Cricket World Cup in 2019.

Athletics

 * World Athletics Championships

Expected stories per year: 0.5 (one every odd year)

Baseball

 * World Series
 * Japan Series
 * World Baseball Classic

Expected stories per year: 2.25 (two yearly, plus one every four years)

Basketball
Expected stories per year: 4 in World Cup years, 3 otherwise
 * NBA Finals
 * Men's FIBA Basketball World Cup
 * EuroLeague (Final Four article)
 * NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Basketball Tournament (combined blurb, both finals usually held during the same week)

Chess

 * World Chess Championship
 * Chess Olympiad

Expected stories per year: 1

Cricket

 * Test series:
 * The Ashes
 * ODI tournaments:
 * Cricket World Cup
 * Women's Cricket World Cup
 * T20I tournaments:
 * ICC Men's T20 World Cup
 * T20 tournaments:
 * Indian Premier League

Expected stories per year: 1–3

Cue sports

 * World Snooker Championship

Expected stories per year: 1

Cycling

 * Tour de France

Expected stories per year: 1

Darts

 * PDC World Darts Championship

Expected stories per year: 1

Football (American)

 * Super Bowl

Expected stories per year: 1

Football (association)

 * International
 * World Cups:
 * FIFA World Cup (outcome and ongoing)
 * FIFA Women's World Cup
 * The following confederation championships:
 * UEFA European Championship
 * Copa América
 * Africa Cup of Nations
 * AFC Asian Cup


 * Club
 * The following continental club championships:
 * UEFA Champions League
 * Copa Libertadores
 * The following domestic leagues:
 * Premier League
 * La Liga
 * Bundesliga

Expected stories per year: about 7, except for the year after the Olympics with 5

Football (Australian)

 * AFL Grand Final

Expected stories per year: 1

Football (Canadian)

 * Grey Cup

Expected stories per year: 1

Football (Gaelic)

 * All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Expected stories per year: 1

Golf

 * Individual, the four majors:
 * The Masters
 * PGA Championship
 * U.S. Open
 * The Open Championship
 * Team:
 * Ryder Cup

Expected stories per year: 4.5 (4 majors + 0.5 Ryder)

Handball

 * World Men's Handball Championship

Expected stories per year: 0.5 (one every odd year)

Horse racing
Expected stories per year: 4+
 * Epsom Derby
 * Grand National
 * Melbourne Cup
 * Kentucky Derby
 * Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing

Ice hockey

 * Stanley Cup Finals

Expected stories per year: 1

Marathons
Selected World Marathon Majors:
 * Boston Marathon
 * London Marathon
 * New York City Marathon

Expected stories per year: 3

Motorsport

 * Endurance racing:
 * 24 Hours of Le Mans
 * Motorcycle racing:
 * Moto GP championship (Riders champion)
 * Rallying:
 * World Rally Championship (Drivers champion)
 * Single seater racing:
 * Formula One championship (Drivers champion)
 * Indianapolis 500
 * Stock car racing:
 * NASCAR Cup Series (Drivers champion)

Expected stories per year: 6

Netball

 * Netball World Cup

Expected stories per year: 0.25 (one every four years)

Rugby league

 * Rugby League World Cup
 * National Rugby League
 * Super League

Expected stories per year: ~2

Rugby union

 * Rugby World Cup
 * European Rugby Champions Cup
 * Super Rugby
 * Six Nations Championship
 * The Rugby Championship

Expected stories per year: 4.25 (four yearly, plus one every four years)

Skiing

 * FIS Alpine Ski World Cup

Expected stories per year: 1

Sumo

 * Promotion of a wrestler to the rank of yokozuna.

Expected stories per year: ~0.3 (from 2000–21 there were six promotions, see dates on list of yokozuna)

Tennis
The Grand Slams: Expected stories per year: 4
 * Australian Open
 * French Open
 * Wimbledon
 * US Open

Volleyball

 * FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship and FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship

Yachting

 * America's Cup

Expected stories per year: ~0.3 (every 3 or 4 years – most recent was 2021, next is 2024)

Multi-sport events

 * Announcements of the host city for the summer and winter Olympic Games.
 * Opening and closing ceremonies of the:
 * Summer Olympic Games
 * Winter Olympic Games
 * Opening of the:
 * Commonwealth Games
 * Summer Paralympic Games
 * Winter Paralympic Games

Expected stories per year: 2.25 (3 in Summer Olympic years, 4 in Winter Olympic years, 1 in odd-numbered years)