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your list of presidential candidates is not complete check the FEDERAL ELECTION COMMITTEE FOR UPDATES AS TO WHO IN RUNNING IN ALL PARTIES. YOURS SINCERELY HIS MAJESTY.
I fixed a typo in regards to the capture of a Mexican Gulf Cartel local boss "El Gafe" in Reynosa. The previous "El Gate" was wrong. However, after I save the page and reload, the typo still remains. Are the edits under review? I've haven't seen this wikipedia behavior before. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.114.196.131 ( talk) 14:52, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
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Counting Houses and Borough buildings are supposedly built for communicating with. I would like to know where I can find my official accountant Jo Wilkinson who has supported me since god knows when. Need to get in touch as soon as possible to meeting and appraisal. sorry for being a pain, I've been chasing you in no attempt of any discussions. Please call me on (Redacted) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.11.4.189 ( talk) 10:00, 27 April 2015
Is there a reason the length of current event coverage continues to get longer and longer?
The reason why I found this current event portal so valuable was in being concise and providing a one line overview or sampling of what is happening globally. And then for those topics of interest there are the corresponding full length Wikipedia pages and links to news coverage. But can we please keep the paragraphs in the individual Wikipedia pages and out of the current events page. There is a lot of value in being concise! And that is being lost.
For example:
US Treasury deputy inspector general for tax administration Timothy Camus testifies before the Senate Finance Committee that, since 2013, criminals pretending to be IRS tax agents contacted more than 366,000 people with harassing phone calls demanding payments and threatening prosecution and incarceration in the largest scam of its kind in the history of the agency. More than 3,000 people were duped out of a total of $15.5 million, with victims in almost every state. Federal investigators believe there is more than one group of perpetrators, including some overseas. Currently, two people in Florida have been arrested, accused of being part of a scam that involved people in call centers in India contacting U.S. taxpayers. Immigrants were the primary target early on. The callers can manipulate caller ID to make it look like they are calling from an IRS phone number. They might even know the last four digits of the taxpayer's Social Security number. (AP)
Could be trimmed down to: "Fake IRS agents target more than 366,000 in huge tax scam" just as AP summed it up in their title.
US state of California Judge Thomas M. Goethals recuses the Orange County district attorney's office from the case of a convicted mass killer, 45-year-old former tugboat operator Scott Dekraai, who has already pleaded guilty to killing his ex-wife and seven others during the October 12, 2011 shooting rampage at a Seal Beach hair salon and turns over further prosecution of the case to the California attorney general's office after finding that sheriff's deputies had lied on the witness stand or withheld information about the misuse of jailhouse informants utilized to gather evidence for prosecutors. The ruling deals a blow to prosecutors' efforts to impose the death penalty. Defense attorneys also wanted the possibility of the death penalty thrown out but the judge refused. (AP)
Could be summed up as: "Judge removes DA's office from California mass murder case of Scott Dekraai" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.98.124.240 ( talk) 17:15, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the feedback. I have started trimming them but it appears we have some sort of new medical or health expert that likes to put in depth paragraphs. Its interesting findings, but the summaries are bit extensive. — Preceding
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I tried the "errors" talk page, but it's broken. There's a bug/troll hack that replaced the letter l with a w. Please fix. Thanks. 2602:306:30BA:28A0:61CB:5A1C:2123:63BC ( talk) 04:07, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
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Someone has put a huge entry above the main current events about some energy company. I tried to remove it but I can seem to edit that part of the page and I tried to revert the edit using the page history but it wasn't there. I think an admin needs to step in here. Elspooky ( talk) 05:48, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
It is exciting to see the growing level of quality content in the current event section. But as this continues to grow I think it would be very valuable to have the option to have a filtered search or filtered view of the content.
For example for me the "Business and economy" and "International relations" sections are critical for what I do, and I want to make sure I have at least seen those headlines on a daily basis. But some of the other sections such as Sports and Science are things that I find interesting, but really only need to scan through on a weekly basis. The content is already subdivided by section, how difficult would it be to develop in a sort feature?
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How do I get to edit this page?-- Sirmagoo ( talk) 12:56, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
Mehil-e-cineyatra ek bahurangi shaam held on 24th May of 2015 at S.K.M. Hall, Patna. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.47.219.95 ( talk) 08:16, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
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Hi there. I'm using this page in my user space for a summary page I created. Which has the side-effect of including my user page in the 2015 category.
I'd like to do this without my user page being included in those categories, this can be done by wrapping the [[Category:*]] tags in <noinclude> tags. See Wikipedia:Transclusion#Markup. Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 08:28, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
It is true, that in Bratislava, thousands of people rallied against EU plan on immigrants, but only a few of them were detained - certainly, thousands of people weren´t detained as it is written here!! -- Laddy ( talk) 21:34, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
This page has relatively minor sports events included (not on the scale of the Olympics) This seems inappropriate to me, and will stop me from using this page to gain information about current events. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.3.175.209 ( talk) 07:18, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
I am not suggesting this needs to go on the Main page, and I am not as familiar with the placement of current events at Wikipedia, but I created 2015 Taiwan water park explosion if others wish to contribute and/or incorporate the link into the current events portal. Thank you. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 19:00, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
What was the exact date of the attack which killed 147 students. I am thinking of doing a memorial service in Nairobi next year on that date. The attack occurred the week following my departure from Nairobi this year. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:BC2F:8A30:ADAB:95A:A92A:D6A4 ( talk) 15:36, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
Last two items in Health and Medicine are lengthy and confusing. Rewording, research, etc. needed. RaqiwasSushi ( talk) 22:26, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
Two statements of the SAME fact regarding the overnight development in Greece. I arbitrarily deleted one of them.-- Christofurio ( talk) 10:49, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
I invite other editors to watchlist Portal:Current events/2009 October 19, as it is being targeted by fans of Dan and Phil. -- John of Reading ( talk) 06:34, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
The first bulleted item in 11 August 'Disasters and accidents' features a link to a disambiguation page for "Buk" when it should really point to BUK. Careful With That Axe, Eugene Hello... 08:05, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
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Should the pages Portal:Current events/Year Month Day use bold headers (leading semicolon in wikitext) to divide events by topic? Jackninja5 occasionally adds bold headers. GeoffreyT2000 ( talk) 23:32, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
this is a free encyclopedia people — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.170.35.23 ( talk) 03:57, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
I ended up accidentally in an edit war. I wanted to maintain the Labor Board headline as it was at the end of the day when it seemed sensible, but another anonymous user has now days later insisted with never any explanation to repeatedly revert it to an older version, and I was not the first to believe it was better phrased this way. I have not done further reverts so as not to actually engage in an edit war, but now the headline is in disrepair. I would like to have settled the conflict one on one with that other user but there has not been any communication from their end. 50.89.166.63 ( talk) 19:23, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
Now I specifically am being bullied. As I was going through the headlines from throughout August to verify instances of late day changes I referred to earlier, I only actually changed one additional day, August 18th, in addition to August 27th, since 68.231.26.111 had already reverted RaqiwasSushi's attempts at compromise. August 18th I documented the specific reasons I was updating it based on what total consensus had seemed to be present that day and that 68.231.26.111 was still relying on late term unsourced edits to push POV. The Wal-Mart story was obviously notable, and I added citations to show so, the Obama administration attribution is the same kind of misunderstanding present on August 27th. In undoing both my edits at August 27th and 18th, 68.231.26.111 accused me of being a revert vandal, which I find highly offensive because 68.231.26.111 has not made any effort to meaningfully participate in any discussion toward compromise or consensus, where I've made every effort to edit fairly and verbosely throughout my contribution history. Whereas at this Aug 17 edit done on Aug 19 and this and this Aug 11 edits done on Aug 12 and 13 one can see additional evidence of 68.231.26.111's pattern to make edits on later days to push unpopular edits whether they are POV (Japan's nuclear reactor restart is not a disaster or accident), not notable (Emile Hirsch's brief jail time only being reported by celebrity news site deadline), et cetera, and I didn't even bother trying to correct those yet, focusing on the more egregiously improper headlines at August 27th and 18th. So while I've not thought or accused 68.231.26.111 of being anything other than a disruptive editor, which I recognize can be perfectly in good faith, I just want 68.231.26.111 to do the edits that 68.231.26.111 does that are not disruptive. 68.231.26.111 on the other hand is name-calling me a revert vandal, so I'll again leave the revert trenches to others, while I try further to understand and prepare myself to Request for Comment before bringing the whole case to administrators. 50.89.166.63 ( talk) 20:29, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
When should subheadings be included. For example, an anon just Pope Francis's visit to the United States to the September 22, 2015, entry. As there is unlikely to ever be another news item on that topic for September 22, should the subheading be there?
The reason I'm asking is that a banned Ann who I track likes to look at the "current event" pages, and frequently adds marginally relevant subheadings. One I remember removing recently was to Columbia-Venezuela relations (so I mistyped the article name). I think the article was on a drug seizure at the border.
Another example is Constitution of Nepal in September 20, 2015. It seems likely there will never be another news item with that subheader.
What are the guidelines for subheadings? — Arthur Rubin (talk) 19:52, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
There's an RfC at WT:WikiProject Years about the practice of transcluding this Portal's archives into mainspace articles. Any input would be welcome. Thanks. DoctorKubla ( talk) 16:02, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
Monday, there was an alert indicating editors could get access to some additional content websites. Remember it appeared at top of 'Current Events' page, hence "news-related" above. Didn't pursue; haven't noticed it since @ Monday noon. Interested. Thanks. RaqiwasSushi ( talk) 20:12, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
The current violent events that are taking place in Israel/Palestine needs its own article. To many killings regarding the dispute of Mount Hermon and clahes around the West Bank. Any volunteers. Mr.User200 ( talk) 18:31, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
Lamar Odom's is a former NBA basketball player and, final divorce decree pending, ex-husband of Khloé Kardashian, an American TV personality whose family has gained notoriety through promotion of itself and their connection to famous people with stories that covered by gossip media. He was near death in a brothel and is now alive. (background) Interesting, but not internationally newsworthy, in my opinion. Recommend removal.
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. RaqiwasSushi ( talk) 14:55, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
I made an entry at Portal talk:Current events/2015 October 25 about premature several premature entries for elections and polls. I think this is a recurring issue, so I'd really appreciate if we tried to wait with posting entries about elections and polls until there are any results. Otherwise, the whole "Politics and elections" section becomes TL;DR. Mikael Häggström ( talk) 07:35, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
should wikipedia getting 5,000,000 article be put in the news or not because we have a new logo and a banner on main page — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5millionarticles ( talk • contribs) 13:10, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
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Add "Helmut Schmidt" to the list of Recent Deaths. The Recent Deaths list is currently empty. Suggest that there should always be at least one recent death such that this list is never empty. 75.149.152.50 ( talk) 17:34, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
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I am human Je suis Paris Je suis Charlie 46.126.190.183 ( talk) 15:52, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
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Sorry, but could someone with the requisite access fix the Salmon entry in the 'Topics in the News' and by extension the 'In the news' section on the main page? At the moment it is worded as follows: Salmon becomes the first genetically modified animal approved by the US FDA as fit for human consumption.
Might I suggest the following edit: Salmon becomes the first genetically modified cultured fish approved by the US FDA as fit for human consumption. Ceannlann gorm ( talk) 20:11, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
Following this discussion, articles such as January 2001 which transclude this portal's archives into mainspace have been turned into redirects (so that "January 2001" now redirects to "2001#January", etc). This is just a heads-up that either the practice of creating these monthly archives should be discontinued entirely, or they should be moved into the Portal namespace (this can be discussed above, see #What should happen to the current events archives?). Thanks. DoctorKubla ( talk) 12:27, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
The discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Years#Using archives of Portal:Current events for month articles includes a note that there is a "clear consensus" that month articles such as October 2011 should redirect to 2011#October rather than transclude Portal:Current events/2011 October 1 etc. To comment on that, please post there not here.
But if that goes ahead, what should happen to the past "current events" pages? They will be very hard to find. I've suggested that the current version of October 2011 should be moved to something like Portal:Current events/Archive/October 2011 and that the box at the foot of Portal:Current events should point to those. I think that part of the discussion belongs here, since it concerns only the portal namespace. -- John of Reading ( talk) 10:33, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
The current crop of the terrorists has been identified as ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State and less frequently, Daesh. Recommend Daesh be the preferred id
An AOL story ( ISIS doesn't want to be known by this name anymore http://www.aol.com/article/2015/11/20/isis-doesnt-want-to-be-known-by-this-name-anymore/21269267/) states:
Egyptologist Kara Cooney repeatedly has pointed out Isis is a goddess from the polytheistic pantheon of Egypt. At least let's stop using her name for this group. For example, Http://www.facebook.com/karacooneyegyptologist/photos/a.10151802202217042.1073741825.117598487041/10153170379042042/ Let's help this become the standard RaqiwasSushi ( talk) 04:40, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
P.S. Placing here to get info up as soon as I can; having computer problem. It probably should be somewhere else; please let me know. Thanks RaqiwasSushi ( talk) 04:40, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
"Daesh" is political spin, and thus represents a POV. -- Harizotoh9 ( talk) 08:48, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
An international agreement about climate change was accepted today by the leaders of several countries in Paris. Should this event be added to Portal:Current events/Headlines? Jarble ( talk) 23:04, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
Someone has added the word "poo" to the page, but I'm not sure what exactly they edited to add that, and thus cannot revert it. — Μετάknowledge discuss/ deeds 19:44, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
Some editor(s) keep adding language into the Current Events pages referencing a non-existing 2016 Economic Crisis article. Nevermind that 2016 only started a few days ago and such a collapse hasn't materialized yet, the only evidence of this is stock price movements in China on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges. Yesterday someone said it was "due to statistics indicating a decline in the Chinese economy." First of all, China's a developing economy which stock market is incredibly volatile, as we saw in the stock market crash in 2015; we can agree on this part. However, I changed the blurb to reflect the stock indexes percentage declines instead of some theoretical "economic decline" that the cited CNBC article does not mention. But more importantly, there is no correlation between stock market volatility and real economic growth or decline in China, much less it affecting the rest of the world. Whoever keeps adding alarmist language into the Current Events pages about some Economic Crisis, please come forward and debate this with me instead of just trying to scare people. 71.114.196.207 ( talk) 10:26, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
Editors started to write a paragraph of stories. Normally, a story is written in one sentence. Why adding another or several more? -- George Ho ( talk) 01:00, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
(See also Portal talk:Current events/Archive 7) The nobots template was added to this page to prevent interwiki-bots from updating it, back when the syntax was different, and the page unprotected (and when we had interwikis and interwiki bots).
Now those things have changed, can we remove the template? All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough, 03:17, 20 April 2014 (UTC).
This election happened just recently. Could you add the name of the new President-elect in the news? Thanks. -- B.Lameira ( talk) 00:30, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
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can u make my page for me i cant make it
Omarr345 ( talk) 17:27, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
Removed the 2016 Moscow beheading [1] entry as it is a sensational one-event story. Article brought to AfD is likely to be deleted. -- Fuzheado | Talk 15:09, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
Victor Grigas ( talk) 04:30, 12 March 2016 (UTC) Also some photos to migrate if anyone wants to: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nathanmac87/ Victor Grigas ( talk) 04:41, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
did u heard about oromo genocide in Ethiopia? if on one heard about it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:304:B086:EF0:38E5:FEEA:9A85:7AC2 ( talk) 11:44, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
Why does the page say the current time is "Time: 14:57 UTC | Day: 7 April" and the news are not up to date? If you click "edit" on the individual day, you can see new pieces of news have been added, but they don't appear on this page. 89.176.248.75 ( talk) 17:45, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia should be consist the details according to country wise and country state wise with the details of history and help full optimistic information♥ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 183.82.30.55 ( talk) 13:48, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
In my opinion, sentence "This means Venezuelans will now lose a half hour of sleep.", is inappropriate since half hour will be lost just once (unless they change time every night). I am aware this is what Guardian has written but time shifting is common in many countries (not one-time as in this case but winter/summer time). Reporting on time shift is certainly noteworthy, reporting on "Venezuelans will sleep less because of government" seems to me quite unfair (although government certainly has responsibility for venezuelan economy). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.220.232.235 ( talk) 19:51, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
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Does anone know if there is any comparable portal in wikipedia for future scheduled events (eg elections, trials, conferences)? Alternatively, is there any support for extending out this page to cover such entries? AndrewRT( Talk) 18:30, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
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The city is part of india not iraq mumbai is in india 65.175.135.214 ( talk) 22:58, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
There seems to be some back-and-forth as to whether a certain category of news is "Business and Economy" or "Business and Economics". First, which is it? Second, is there a definitive list of categories used here? Thanks. -- Christofurio ( talk) 14:51, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
An IP has attempted to add a "Recent Births" section to the sidebar. I don't think this is a good idea, as there have been only two notable births so far this year, and only two in the whole of 2015. I undid the edit, but if anyone disagrees with me then go ahead and put it back. The IP's edit was missing an end-of-table marker somewhere, but that's easily fixed. -- John of Reading ( talk) 07:25, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
I scan through this page quite frequently (just about every workday morning) and a feature that came to mind that would be very useful would be the option to filter the types of stories that show up based upon the categories they fall under. For example, it would be very nice to have the option to be able to show/hide all of the "Armed conflicts and attacks" or "Arts and culture" articles most days so that I can focus in on other key topics of interest. I don't know how easy or not this would be to implement, but if it would not be too difficult to implement then it would make the site even better then the goodness it already is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.169.56.232 ( talk) 14:04, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
On June 30, 2016, Portal:Current events will turn 10 years old. Any plans for this? Should a banner appear on the portal for knowing that it turns 10? GeoffreyT2000 ( talk) 00:38, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
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Under the "Business" section of "Current events", for formality I think [[Brexit]] should be changed to [[United Kingdom withdrawal from the European Union]]. This is the term being used for the article title, and would therefore appear to be suitable. -- Rubbish computer ( HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 20:47, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
Why are my current event edits designated with these alerts:
which apparently delay display of the info? From what I can see, the alerts go away after (time? review? or?) and then the item becomes visible. RaqiwasSushi ( talk) 22:21, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
Why is pokemon go listed as a major ongoing event even though there is not a single entry for it in current events? 71.12.71.15 ( talk) 01:30, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt 109.78.239.160 ( talk) 20:53, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
Today, an item was added and deleted from the current events portal. I was about to delete it myself before somebody else did. Are there any objective criteria for current events notability requirements? If not, doesn't it become rather easy for individuals or groups to push their agenda? -- Gerrit C U T E D H 14:34, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
Over the past few weeks, I have noticed that there have been several article titles posted about the two U.S. presidential candidates that are either completely taken out of the source article's context or deliberately worded to confuse the reader. Specifically, this occurs with articles about Donald Trump. I realize that everyone has different political leanings, which is fine. However, can we PLEASE keep our politics to ourselves? This is supposed to be neutral, and when someone posts an article basically titled "Donald Trump asks Russia to hack the U.S.", its very misleading. Especially considering the source article/video was completely taken out of context. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheSauceCC ( talk • contribs) 19:56, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
Gene Wilder has passed away today. This should be mentioned on the main page. He was Willy Wonka. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrs. Jan Cola ( talk • contribs) 20:17, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
Done
Should be inclued — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.46.187.162 ( talk) 11:48, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
The headline about his death says that he has been the President of Uzbekistan since 1991, this is technically true, but misleading. He was made President of the Uzbek SSR in 1990 and retained the same position when it gained independence in 1991. Additionally he was the Premier of the Uzbek SSR since 1989, so really he has led the country since 1989, not since 1991. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.23.233.241 ( talk) 11:34, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
Done
I find it curious that Wikipedia's "In the news" lists only one Ongoing event, namely the 2016 Kashmir Unrest. Surely, there are other things going on today's world? What about the U.S election campaign and the civil wars in Syria and Yemen? Aren't they ongoing events? - Question from Doctorsundar.
Well-known golfer Arnold Palmer should be among the Recent Deaths on the front page. —[ AlanM1( talk)]— 22:20, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
I am happy to report that the Colombian conflict has ended with the signing of the peace treaty between FARC and Colombian government. Please remove the conflict from ongoing conflicts. Daiyusha ( talk) 08:45, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
I've found a few copyvios by User:GWA88 who is an active contributor at the current events pages. A lot of his additions here are Reuters sourced. I cannot access that site where I live, so I cannot do copyvio checks. Please consider spot checking to see if any of your entries by that user are copy pasted. Many thanks. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 02:54, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
For months, there has been daily updates about Duterte on the portal. They are always myopic and often outright biased. They started before his election when there was a daily barrage of posts on the portal about how awful he is, and then after he won the election there's been daily posts about how awful his policies are (especially with respect to his drug policies). Is there some reason that this one person gets so much coverage here, especially when that coverage is so clearly NPOV and UNDUE? 128.214.53.104 ( talk) 07:39, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
It's actually pretty amazing to see Wikipedia front page celebrating a protest action from 1936 when 200 Englishmen went on a march, and absolutely no mention in the newsreel of over 100,000 participants protesting against Polish abortion bill in 2016, despite worldwide support and coverage by basically every major news portal in length ( Independent, Washington Post, The Telegraph, Huffington Post, Vice, New York Times, LA Times, The Economist, BBC News, Bloomberg). Also, nothing is mentioned by Wikinews. I guess it makes clear what are the priorities of Wikipedians. -- Oop ( talk) 07:46, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
Should this be included on the main page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrs. Jan Cola ( talk • contribs) 20:57, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
Zimbabwean Bond Notes for 2 and 5 Dollars has been released into circulation by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, along with a 1 Dollar Bond Coin. - ( 119.224.80.18 ( talk) 02:54, 29 November 2016 (UTC))
Why is there no talk about the Pizzagate scandal? it is on national news. //tom. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tom afilaka ( talk • contribs) 03:05, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
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The President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro suspends plans to eliminate the 100 bolivar note from circulation, in a country where much of the population lives on cash, without bank accounts. (Reuters)- this is the part that needs editing. The word bolivar is linked to Simon Bolivar, a person. It should be linked to the page detailing the Venezuelan bolivar, a currency. -- Killuminator ( talk) 00:45, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
In "Armed conflicts and attacks", the topic "A U.S. Navy destroyer fires three warning shots at four Iranian fast-attack vessels...", the "(CNN)" link links to an unrelated shooting of an Orlando police officer. 9 3 00:35, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
Why was no news posted for the entire first week of January 2017? Did nothing happen in the world? The last news posted took place on New Years Eve weekend. How many people attend to the Current Events portal? Stevenmitchell ( talk) 12:58, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
The editing instructions for the day-to-day pages read:
The portal currently has entries Debbie Reynolds (Weds), Carrie Fisher (Tues), and George S. Irving (Mon). None of those meet the "died in office" criterion or the "subsequent impact" criterion, and Irving can hardly be said to meet the "prominent" criterion in the papal (JP2) or presidential (Bongo) sense. Should they be deleted? 189.203.188.113 ( talk) 23:37, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
It seems we are now routinely including local-interest news in Portal:Current events, but only local interest news that is of interest to North Americans and Europeans. For example:
If you've ever lived in a 3rd world country, you know that "crazy man attacks people with machete" is a weekly news staple. [2] Just because it happens in Canada doesn't suddenly make it relevant to the rest of the world. And regarding local/regional elections, there are literally thousands of these happening across the world every year. If we include Berlin's local election, why shouldn't we include all the rest of them? I've tried removing some of these stories on occasion, but I'm usually reverted. Can we please make more of an effort to only include news that is actually internationally relevant? Believe it or not, there are actually people that read this page that don't live in North America and Europe. And believe it or not, they don't really care about the price of tea in London. Kaldari ( talk) 06:03, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
I agree, but should we be including things like this? A house fire in Akron, Ohio (US), kills four people, including two young girls. One woman safely fled her attic bedroom. A seriously injured 12-year old girl is revived and rescued 75.143.130.171 ( talk) 16:13, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
I've been personally frustrated with this kind of thing as well. I want at least some sort of systemic logic to work with as a consensus. To my understanding so far, that has been roughly "At least a national scale event for there to be international relevance" and have used that as a rule of thumb. But I never saw any direct explanation from anyone why seemingly local county scale news had to be sustained that I attempted to remove: [3] even though that time multiple users with accounts were interested in keeping the headline, I never understood what made the event internationally or nationally relevant. Others reposting it merely asserted that it was somehow so relevant, as if expecting me to need to prove a negative in response. As it stands notability is so inconsistently evaluated and applied that even between stories entirely within the Euro-American news sphere I feel worthy ones get deleted alongside countless local stories being unnecessarily kept. Sumstream ( talk) 19:39, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
Four years ago this was last discussed. Pigsonthewing and Graham87 both expressed it would better to change it. Semicolons, as I understand it, read differently for screenreader users. It also violates the WP:BADHEAD rule. I'd like to get a consensus to start using bold markup on the current events page. It doesn't change the appearance of the page at all. If this doesn't get anywhere I might take it to RfC. -- Jennica✿ / talk 22:44, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
"More than 600,000 people protest in dozens of cities in Romania and diaspora against..." sounds clunky - could you modify the word "diaspora" more? -- dbabbitt ( talk) 18:33, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
The Somalian guy's face has been up there long enough. If the headline for the President of Germany was just updated on the highlights,an equal rank, his face should be up there by now.-- Sıgehelmus (Talk) |д=) 17:24, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
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Crockett furniture is closing forever after 45 years in bussiness 72.73.115.59 ( talk) 20:18, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
This doesn't seem newsworthy 75.143.130.171 ( talk) 18:48, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
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"An explosion occurs at a carnival in Paris, France, injuring at least 30 people; three or four of which are in critical condition." Change "...three or four of which..." to "...three or four of whom..." Captainllama ( talk) 23:58, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
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There is an on-going ransomware attack by a programme that has been called WannaCry. This has been reported in a number of different countries, causing a major problems with the British NHS, major Spanish telecoms firm Telefónica, and numerous other organisations. [1] [2] [3] — Sasuke Sarutobi ( talk) 16:51, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
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I added this current events as it is a major story, and I provided multiple sources. The BLP issues were considered and the family's view was stated. There have been tremendous efforts to take down this story on current events, with multiple reverts, not to mention swearing at me in my talk page. I think we should discuss it civilly here. Lasersharp ( talk) 17:30, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
Since approx. 2 weeks, there's a Saudi military siege on the predominantly Twelver Shia village of al-Awamiyah. Dozens of Shia civilians are dead, including a child. A Shia mosque was also destroyed. It is the same village that Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr hailed from. It has to be added to the Current events, possibly in the ongoing matters. More information on that : [7] [8] [9] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.220.72.109 ( talk) 08:57, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
Did an event happen which I was not aware of? Why has a cascading administrator protection been put on the current events? It is now impossible to edit the daily current events for any non-admins. exoplanetaryscience ( talk) 01:31, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
You should make it appear as a headline, death toll is already 61 and the government already decreed three days of national mourning. -- 2001:8A0:771B:9901:D4FC:BEF2:4363:ECE7 ( talk) 16:36, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
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your list of presidential candidates is not complete check the FEDERAL ELECTION COMMITTEE FOR UPDATES AS TO WHO IN RUNNING IN ALL PARTIES. YOURS SINCERELY HIS MAJESTY.
I fixed a typo in regards to the capture of a Mexican Gulf Cartel local boss "El Gafe" in Reynosa. The previous "El Gate" was wrong. However, after I save the page and reload, the typo still remains. Are the edits under review? I've haven't seen this wikipedia behavior before. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.114.196.131 ( talk) 14:52, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
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Counting Houses and Borough buildings are supposedly built for communicating with. I would like to know where I can find my official accountant Jo Wilkinson who has supported me since god knows when. Need to get in touch as soon as possible to meeting and appraisal. sorry for being a pain, I've been chasing you in no attempt of any discussions. Please call me on (Redacted) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.11.4.189 ( talk) 10:00, 27 April 2015
Is there a reason the length of current event coverage continues to get longer and longer?
The reason why I found this current event portal so valuable was in being concise and providing a one line overview or sampling of what is happening globally. And then for those topics of interest there are the corresponding full length Wikipedia pages and links to news coverage. But can we please keep the paragraphs in the individual Wikipedia pages and out of the current events page. There is a lot of value in being concise! And that is being lost.
For example:
US Treasury deputy inspector general for tax administration Timothy Camus testifies before the Senate Finance Committee that, since 2013, criminals pretending to be IRS tax agents contacted more than 366,000 people with harassing phone calls demanding payments and threatening prosecution and incarceration in the largest scam of its kind in the history of the agency. More than 3,000 people were duped out of a total of $15.5 million, with victims in almost every state. Federal investigators believe there is more than one group of perpetrators, including some overseas. Currently, two people in Florida have been arrested, accused of being part of a scam that involved people in call centers in India contacting U.S. taxpayers. Immigrants were the primary target early on. The callers can manipulate caller ID to make it look like they are calling from an IRS phone number. They might even know the last four digits of the taxpayer's Social Security number. (AP)
Could be trimmed down to: "Fake IRS agents target more than 366,000 in huge tax scam" just as AP summed it up in their title.
US state of California Judge Thomas M. Goethals recuses the Orange County district attorney's office from the case of a convicted mass killer, 45-year-old former tugboat operator Scott Dekraai, who has already pleaded guilty to killing his ex-wife and seven others during the October 12, 2011 shooting rampage at a Seal Beach hair salon and turns over further prosecution of the case to the California attorney general's office after finding that sheriff's deputies had lied on the witness stand or withheld information about the misuse of jailhouse informants utilized to gather evidence for prosecutors. The ruling deals a blow to prosecutors' efforts to impose the death penalty. Defense attorneys also wanted the possibility of the death penalty thrown out but the judge refused. (AP)
Could be summed up as: "Judge removes DA's office from California mass murder case of Scott Dekraai" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.98.124.240 ( talk) 17:15, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the feedback. I have started trimming them but it appears we have some sort of new medical or health expert that likes to put in depth paragraphs. Its interesting findings, but the summaries are bit extensive. — Preceding
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I tried the "errors" talk page, but it's broken. There's a bug/troll hack that replaced the letter l with a w. Please fix. Thanks. 2602:306:30BA:28A0:61CB:5A1C:2123:63BC ( talk) 04:07, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
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Someone has put a huge entry above the main current events about some energy company. I tried to remove it but I can seem to edit that part of the page and I tried to revert the edit using the page history but it wasn't there. I think an admin needs to step in here. Elspooky ( talk) 05:48, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
It is exciting to see the growing level of quality content in the current event section. But as this continues to grow I think it would be very valuable to have the option to have a filtered search or filtered view of the content.
For example for me the "Business and economy" and "International relations" sections are critical for what I do, and I want to make sure I have at least seen those headlines on a daily basis. But some of the other sections such as Sports and Science are things that I find interesting, but really only need to scan through on a weekly basis. The content is already subdivided by section, how difficult would it be to develop in a sort feature?
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How do I get to edit this page?-- Sirmagoo ( talk) 12:56, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
Mehil-e-cineyatra ek bahurangi shaam held on 24th May of 2015 at S.K.M. Hall, Patna. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.47.219.95 ( talk) 08:16, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
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Hi there. I'm using this page in my user space for a summary page I created. Which has the side-effect of including my user page in the 2015 category.
I'd like to do this without my user page being included in those categories, this can be done by wrapping the [[Category:*]] tags in <noinclude> tags. See Wikipedia:Transclusion#Markup. Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 08:28, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
It is true, that in Bratislava, thousands of people rallied against EU plan on immigrants, but only a few of them were detained - certainly, thousands of people weren´t detained as it is written here!! -- Laddy ( talk) 21:34, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
This page has relatively minor sports events included (not on the scale of the Olympics) This seems inappropriate to me, and will stop me from using this page to gain information about current events. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.3.175.209 ( talk) 07:18, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
I am not suggesting this needs to go on the Main page, and I am not as familiar with the placement of current events at Wikipedia, but I created 2015 Taiwan water park explosion if others wish to contribute and/or incorporate the link into the current events portal. Thank you. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 19:00, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
What was the exact date of the attack which killed 147 students. I am thinking of doing a memorial service in Nairobi next year on that date. The attack occurred the week following my departure from Nairobi this year. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:BC2F:8A30:ADAB:95A:A92A:D6A4 ( talk) 15:36, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
Last two items in Health and Medicine are lengthy and confusing. Rewording, research, etc. needed. RaqiwasSushi ( talk) 22:26, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
Two statements of the SAME fact regarding the overnight development in Greece. I arbitrarily deleted one of them.-- Christofurio ( talk) 10:49, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
I invite other editors to watchlist Portal:Current events/2009 October 19, as it is being targeted by fans of Dan and Phil. -- John of Reading ( talk) 06:34, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
The first bulleted item in 11 August 'Disasters and accidents' features a link to a disambiguation page for "Buk" when it should really point to BUK. Careful With That Axe, Eugene Hello... 08:05, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
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Should the pages Portal:Current events/Year Month Day use bold headers (leading semicolon in wikitext) to divide events by topic? Jackninja5 occasionally adds bold headers. GeoffreyT2000 ( talk) 23:32, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
this is a free encyclopedia people — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.170.35.23 ( talk) 03:57, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
I ended up accidentally in an edit war. I wanted to maintain the Labor Board headline as it was at the end of the day when it seemed sensible, but another anonymous user has now days later insisted with never any explanation to repeatedly revert it to an older version, and I was not the first to believe it was better phrased this way. I have not done further reverts so as not to actually engage in an edit war, but now the headline is in disrepair. I would like to have settled the conflict one on one with that other user but there has not been any communication from their end. 50.89.166.63 ( talk) 19:23, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
Now I specifically am being bullied. As I was going through the headlines from throughout August to verify instances of late day changes I referred to earlier, I only actually changed one additional day, August 18th, in addition to August 27th, since 68.231.26.111 had already reverted RaqiwasSushi's attempts at compromise. August 18th I documented the specific reasons I was updating it based on what total consensus had seemed to be present that day and that 68.231.26.111 was still relying on late term unsourced edits to push POV. The Wal-Mart story was obviously notable, and I added citations to show so, the Obama administration attribution is the same kind of misunderstanding present on August 27th. In undoing both my edits at August 27th and 18th, 68.231.26.111 accused me of being a revert vandal, which I find highly offensive because 68.231.26.111 has not made any effort to meaningfully participate in any discussion toward compromise or consensus, where I've made every effort to edit fairly and verbosely throughout my contribution history. Whereas at this Aug 17 edit done on Aug 19 and this and this Aug 11 edits done on Aug 12 and 13 one can see additional evidence of 68.231.26.111's pattern to make edits on later days to push unpopular edits whether they are POV (Japan's nuclear reactor restart is not a disaster or accident), not notable (Emile Hirsch's brief jail time only being reported by celebrity news site deadline), et cetera, and I didn't even bother trying to correct those yet, focusing on the more egregiously improper headlines at August 27th and 18th. So while I've not thought or accused 68.231.26.111 of being anything other than a disruptive editor, which I recognize can be perfectly in good faith, I just want 68.231.26.111 to do the edits that 68.231.26.111 does that are not disruptive. 68.231.26.111 on the other hand is name-calling me a revert vandal, so I'll again leave the revert trenches to others, while I try further to understand and prepare myself to Request for Comment before bringing the whole case to administrators. 50.89.166.63 ( talk) 20:29, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
When should subheadings be included. For example, an anon just Pope Francis's visit to the United States to the September 22, 2015, entry. As there is unlikely to ever be another news item on that topic for September 22, should the subheading be there?
The reason I'm asking is that a banned Ann who I track likes to look at the "current event" pages, and frequently adds marginally relevant subheadings. One I remember removing recently was to Columbia-Venezuela relations (so I mistyped the article name). I think the article was on a drug seizure at the border.
Another example is Constitution of Nepal in September 20, 2015. It seems likely there will never be another news item with that subheader.
What are the guidelines for subheadings? — Arthur Rubin (talk) 19:52, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
There's an RfC at WT:WikiProject Years about the practice of transcluding this Portal's archives into mainspace articles. Any input would be welcome. Thanks. DoctorKubla ( talk) 16:02, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
Monday, there was an alert indicating editors could get access to some additional content websites. Remember it appeared at top of 'Current Events' page, hence "news-related" above. Didn't pursue; haven't noticed it since @ Monday noon. Interested. Thanks. RaqiwasSushi ( talk) 20:12, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
The current violent events that are taking place in Israel/Palestine needs its own article. To many killings regarding the dispute of Mount Hermon and clahes around the West Bank. Any volunteers. Mr.User200 ( talk) 18:31, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
Lamar Odom's is a former NBA basketball player and, final divorce decree pending, ex-husband of Khloé Kardashian, an American TV personality whose family has gained notoriety through promotion of itself and their connection to famous people with stories that covered by gossip media. He was near death in a brothel and is now alive. (background) Interesting, but not internationally newsworthy, in my opinion. Recommend removal.
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I made an entry at Portal talk:Current events/2015 October 25 about premature several premature entries for elections and polls. I think this is a recurring issue, so I'd really appreciate if we tried to wait with posting entries about elections and polls until there are any results. Otherwise, the whole "Politics and elections" section becomes TL;DR. Mikael Häggström ( talk) 07:35, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
should wikipedia getting 5,000,000 article be put in the news or not because we have a new logo and a banner on main page — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5millionarticles ( talk • contribs) 13:10, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
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Add "Helmut Schmidt" to the list of Recent Deaths. The Recent Deaths list is currently empty. Suggest that there should always be at least one recent death such that this list is never empty. 75.149.152.50 ( talk) 17:34, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
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I am human Je suis Paris Je suis Charlie 46.126.190.183 ( talk) 15:52, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
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Sorry, but could someone with the requisite access fix the Salmon entry in the 'Topics in the News' and by extension the 'In the news' section on the main page? At the moment it is worded as follows: Salmon becomes the first genetically modified animal approved by the US FDA as fit for human consumption.
Might I suggest the following edit: Salmon becomes the first genetically modified cultured fish approved by the US FDA as fit for human consumption. Ceannlann gorm ( talk) 20:11, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
Following this discussion, articles such as January 2001 which transclude this portal's archives into mainspace have been turned into redirects (so that "January 2001" now redirects to "2001#January", etc). This is just a heads-up that either the practice of creating these monthly archives should be discontinued entirely, or they should be moved into the Portal namespace (this can be discussed above, see #What should happen to the current events archives?). Thanks. DoctorKubla ( talk) 12:27, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
The discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Years#Using archives of Portal:Current events for month articles includes a note that there is a "clear consensus" that month articles such as October 2011 should redirect to 2011#October rather than transclude Portal:Current events/2011 October 1 etc. To comment on that, please post there not here.
But if that goes ahead, what should happen to the past "current events" pages? They will be very hard to find. I've suggested that the current version of October 2011 should be moved to something like Portal:Current events/Archive/October 2011 and that the box at the foot of Portal:Current events should point to those. I think that part of the discussion belongs here, since it concerns only the portal namespace. -- John of Reading ( talk) 10:33, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
The current crop of the terrorists has been identified as ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State and less frequently, Daesh. Recommend Daesh be the preferred id
An AOL story ( ISIS doesn't want to be known by this name anymore http://www.aol.com/article/2015/11/20/isis-doesnt-want-to-be-known-by-this-name-anymore/21269267/) states:
Egyptologist Kara Cooney repeatedly has pointed out Isis is a goddess from the polytheistic pantheon of Egypt. At least let's stop using her name for this group. For example, Http://www.facebook.com/karacooneyegyptologist/photos/a.10151802202217042.1073741825.117598487041/10153170379042042/ Let's help this become the standard RaqiwasSushi ( talk) 04:40, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
P.S. Placing here to get info up as soon as I can; having computer problem. It probably should be somewhere else; please let me know. Thanks RaqiwasSushi ( talk) 04:40, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
"Daesh" is political spin, and thus represents a POV. -- Harizotoh9 ( talk) 08:48, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
An international agreement about climate change was accepted today by the leaders of several countries in Paris. Should this event be added to Portal:Current events/Headlines? Jarble ( talk) 23:04, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
Someone has added the word "poo" to the page, but I'm not sure what exactly they edited to add that, and thus cannot revert it. — Μετάknowledge discuss/ deeds 19:44, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
Some editor(s) keep adding language into the Current Events pages referencing a non-existing 2016 Economic Crisis article. Nevermind that 2016 only started a few days ago and such a collapse hasn't materialized yet, the only evidence of this is stock price movements in China on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges. Yesterday someone said it was "due to statistics indicating a decline in the Chinese economy." First of all, China's a developing economy which stock market is incredibly volatile, as we saw in the stock market crash in 2015; we can agree on this part. However, I changed the blurb to reflect the stock indexes percentage declines instead of some theoretical "economic decline" that the cited CNBC article does not mention. But more importantly, there is no correlation between stock market volatility and real economic growth or decline in China, much less it affecting the rest of the world. Whoever keeps adding alarmist language into the Current Events pages about some Economic Crisis, please come forward and debate this with me instead of just trying to scare people. 71.114.196.207 ( talk) 10:26, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
Editors started to write a paragraph of stories. Normally, a story is written in one sentence. Why adding another or several more? -- George Ho ( talk) 01:00, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
(See also Portal talk:Current events/Archive 7) The nobots template was added to this page to prevent interwiki-bots from updating it, back when the syntax was different, and the page unprotected (and when we had interwikis and interwiki bots).
Now those things have changed, can we remove the template? All the best:
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Farmbrough, 03:17, 20 April 2014 (UTC).
This election happened just recently. Could you add the name of the new President-elect in the news? Thanks. -- B.Lameira ( talk) 00:30, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
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can u make my page for me i cant make it
Omarr345 ( talk) 17:27, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
Removed the 2016 Moscow beheading [1] entry as it is a sensational one-event story. Article brought to AfD is likely to be deleted. -- Fuzheado | Talk 15:09, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
Victor Grigas ( talk) 04:30, 12 March 2016 (UTC) Also some photos to migrate if anyone wants to: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nathanmac87/ Victor Grigas ( talk) 04:41, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
did u heard about oromo genocide in Ethiopia? if on one heard about it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:304:B086:EF0:38E5:FEEA:9A85:7AC2 ( talk) 11:44, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
Why does the page say the current time is "Time: 14:57 UTC | Day: 7 April" and the news are not up to date? If you click "edit" on the individual day, you can see new pieces of news have been added, but they don't appear on this page. 89.176.248.75 ( talk) 17:45, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia should be consist the details according to country wise and country state wise with the details of history and help full optimistic information♥ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 183.82.30.55 ( talk) 13:48, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
In my opinion, sentence "This means Venezuelans will now lose a half hour of sleep.", is inappropriate since half hour will be lost just once (unless they change time every night). I am aware this is what Guardian has written but time shifting is common in many countries (not one-time as in this case but winter/summer time). Reporting on time shift is certainly noteworthy, reporting on "Venezuelans will sleep less because of government" seems to me quite unfair (although government certainly has responsibility for venezuelan economy). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.220.232.235 ( talk) 19:51, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
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Does anone know if there is any comparable portal in wikipedia for future scheduled events (eg elections, trials, conferences)? Alternatively, is there any support for extending out this page to cover such entries? AndrewRT( Talk) 18:30, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
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The city is part of india not iraq mumbai is in india 65.175.135.214 ( talk) 22:58, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
There seems to be some back-and-forth as to whether a certain category of news is "Business and Economy" or "Business and Economics". First, which is it? Second, is there a definitive list of categories used here? Thanks. -- Christofurio ( talk) 14:51, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
An IP has attempted to add a "Recent Births" section to the sidebar. I don't think this is a good idea, as there have been only two notable births so far this year, and only two in the whole of 2015. I undid the edit, but if anyone disagrees with me then go ahead and put it back. The IP's edit was missing an end-of-table marker somewhere, but that's easily fixed. -- John of Reading ( talk) 07:25, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
I scan through this page quite frequently (just about every workday morning) and a feature that came to mind that would be very useful would be the option to filter the types of stories that show up based upon the categories they fall under. For example, it would be very nice to have the option to be able to show/hide all of the "Armed conflicts and attacks" or "Arts and culture" articles most days so that I can focus in on other key topics of interest. I don't know how easy or not this would be to implement, but if it would not be too difficult to implement then it would make the site even better then the goodness it already is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.169.56.232 ( talk) 14:04, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
On June 30, 2016, Portal:Current events will turn 10 years old. Any plans for this? Should a banner appear on the portal for knowing that it turns 10? GeoffreyT2000 ( talk) 00:38, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
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Under the "Business" section of "Current events", for formality I think [[Brexit]] should be changed to [[United Kingdom withdrawal from the European Union]]. This is the term being used for the article title, and would therefore appear to be suitable. -- Rubbish computer ( HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 20:47, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
Why are my current event edits designated with these alerts:
which apparently delay display of the info? From what I can see, the alerts go away after (time? review? or?) and then the item becomes visible. RaqiwasSushi ( talk) 22:21, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
Why is pokemon go listed as a major ongoing event even though there is not a single entry for it in current events? 71.12.71.15 ( talk) 01:30, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt 109.78.239.160 ( talk) 20:53, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
Today, an item was added and deleted from the current events portal. I was about to delete it myself before somebody else did. Are there any objective criteria for current events notability requirements? If not, doesn't it become rather easy for individuals or groups to push their agenda? -- Gerrit C U T E D H 14:34, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
Over the past few weeks, I have noticed that there have been several article titles posted about the two U.S. presidential candidates that are either completely taken out of the source article's context or deliberately worded to confuse the reader. Specifically, this occurs with articles about Donald Trump. I realize that everyone has different political leanings, which is fine. However, can we PLEASE keep our politics to ourselves? This is supposed to be neutral, and when someone posts an article basically titled "Donald Trump asks Russia to hack the U.S.", its very misleading. Especially considering the source article/video was completely taken out of context. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheSauceCC ( talk • contribs) 19:56, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
Gene Wilder has passed away today. This should be mentioned on the main page. He was Willy Wonka. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrs. Jan Cola ( talk • contribs) 20:17, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
Done
Should be inclued — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.46.187.162 ( talk) 11:48, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
The headline about his death says that he has been the President of Uzbekistan since 1991, this is technically true, but misleading. He was made President of the Uzbek SSR in 1990 and retained the same position when it gained independence in 1991. Additionally he was the Premier of the Uzbek SSR since 1989, so really he has led the country since 1989, not since 1991. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.23.233.241 ( talk) 11:34, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
Done
I find it curious that Wikipedia's "In the news" lists only one Ongoing event, namely the 2016 Kashmir Unrest. Surely, there are other things going on today's world? What about the U.S election campaign and the civil wars in Syria and Yemen? Aren't they ongoing events? - Question from Doctorsundar.
Well-known golfer Arnold Palmer should be among the Recent Deaths on the front page. —[ AlanM1( talk)]— 22:20, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
I am happy to report that the Colombian conflict has ended with the signing of the peace treaty between FARC and Colombian government. Please remove the conflict from ongoing conflicts. Daiyusha ( talk) 08:45, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
I've found a few copyvios by User:GWA88 who is an active contributor at the current events pages. A lot of his additions here are Reuters sourced. I cannot access that site where I live, so I cannot do copyvio checks. Please consider spot checking to see if any of your entries by that user are copy pasted. Many thanks. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 02:54, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
For months, there has been daily updates about Duterte on the portal. They are always myopic and often outright biased. They started before his election when there was a daily barrage of posts on the portal about how awful he is, and then after he won the election there's been daily posts about how awful his policies are (especially with respect to his drug policies). Is there some reason that this one person gets so much coverage here, especially when that coverage is so clearly NPOV and UNDUE? 128.214.53.104 ( talk) 07:39, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
It's actually pretty amazing to see Wikipedia front page celebrating a protest action from 1936 when 200 Englishmen went on a march, and absolutely no mention in the newsreel of over 100,000 participants protesting against Polish abortion bill in 2016, despite worldwide support and coverage by basically every major news portal in length ( Independent, Washington Post, The Telegraph, Huffington Post, Vice, New York Times, LA Times, The Economist, BBC News, Bloomberg). Also, nothing is mentioned by Wikinews. I guess it makes clear what are the priorities of Wikipedians. -- Oop ( talk) 07:46, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
Should this be included on the main page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrs. Jan Cola ( talk • contribs) 20:57, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
Zimbabwean Bond Notes for 2 and 5 Dollars has been released into circulation by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, along with a 1 Dollar Bond Coin. - ( 119.224.80.18 ( talk) 02:54, 29 November 2016 (UTC))
Why is there no talk about the Pizzagate scandal? it is on national news. //tom. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tom afilaka ( talk • contribs) 03:05, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
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The President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro suspends plans to eliminate the 100 bolivar note from circulation, in a country where much of the population lives on cash, without bank accounts. (Reuters)- this is the part that needs editing. The word bolivar is linked to Simon Bolivar, a person. It should be linked to the page detailing the Venezuelan bolivar, a currency. -- Killuminator ( talk) 00:45, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
In "Armed conflicts and attacks", the topic "A U.S. Navy destroyer fires three warning shots at four Iranian fast-attack vessels...", the "(CNN)" link links to an unrelated shooting of an Orlando police officer. 9 3 00:35, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
Why was no news posted for the entire first week of January 2017? Did nothing happen in the world? The last news posted took place on New Years Eve weekend. How many people attend to the Current Events portal? Stevenmitchell ( talk) 12:58, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
The editing instructions for the day-to-day pages read:
The portal currently has entries Debbie Reynolds (Weds), Carrie Fisher (Tues), and George S. Irving (Mon). None of those meet the "died in office" criterion or the "subsequent impact" criterion, and Irving can hardly be said to meet the "prominent" criterion in the papal (JP2) or presidential (Bongo) sense. Should they be deleted? 189.203.188.113 ( talk) 23:37, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
It seems we are now routinely including local-interest news in Portal:Current events, but only local interest news that is of interest to North Americans and Europeans. For example:
If you've ever lived in a 3rd world country, you know that "crazy man attacks people with machete" is a weekly news staple. [2] Just because it happens in Canada doesn't suddenly make it relevant to the rest of the world. And regarding local/regional elections, there are literally thousands of these happening across the world every year. If we include Berlin's local election, why shouldn't we include all the rest of them? I've tried removing some of these stories on occasion, but I'm usually reverted. Can we please make more of an effort to only include news that is actually internationally relevant? Believe it or not, there are actually people that read this page that don't live in North America and Europe. And believe it or not, they don't really care about the price of tea in London. Kaldari ( talk) 06:03, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
I agree, but should we be including things like this? A house fire in Akron, Ohio (US), kills four people, including two young girls. One woman safely fled her attic bedroom. A seriously injured 12-year old girl is revived and rescued 75.143.130.171 ( talk) 16:13, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
I've been personally frustrated with this kind of thing as well. I want at least some sort of systemic logic to work with as a consensus. To my understanding so far, that has been roughly "At least a national scale event for there to be international relevance" and have used that as a rule of thumb. But I never saw any direct explanation from anyone why seemingly local county scale news had to be sustained that I attempted to remove: [3] even though that time multiple users with accounts were interested in keeping the headline, I never understood what made the event internationally or nationally relevant. Others reposting it merely asserted that it was somehow so relevant, as if expecting me to need to prove a negative in response. As it stands notability is so inconsistently evaluated and applied that even between stories entirely within the Euro-American news sphere I feel worthy ones get deleted alongside countless local stories being unnecessarily kept. Sumstream ( talk) 19:39, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
Four years ago this was last discussed. Pigsonthewing and Graham87 both expressed it would better to change it. Semicolons, as I understand it, read differently for screenreader users. It also violates the WP:BADHEAD rule. I'd like to get a consensus to start using bold markup on the current events page. It doesn't change the appearance of the page at all. If this doesn't get anywhere I might take it to RfC. -- Jennica✿ / talk 22:44, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
"More than 600,000 people protest in dozens of cities in Romania and diaspora against..." sounds clunky - could you modify the word "diaspora" more? -- dbabbitt ( talk) 18:33, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
The Somalian guy's face has been up there long enough. If the headline for the President of Germany was just updated on the highlights,an equal rank, his face should be up there by now.-- Sıgehelmus (Talk) |д=) 17:24, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
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Crockett furniture is closing forever after 45 years in bussiness 72.73.115.59 ( talk) 20:18, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
This doesn't seem newsworthy 75.143.130.171 ( talk) 18:48, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
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"An explosion occurs at a carnival in Paris, France, injuring at least 30 people; three or four of which are in critical condition." Change "...three or four of which..." to "...three or four of whom..." Captainllama ( talk) 23:58, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
The second round of the competition has now closed, with just under 100 points being required to qualify for round 3. YellowEvan just scraped into the next round with 98 points but we have to say goodbye to the thirty or so competitors who didn't achieve this threshold; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Our top scorers in round 2 were:
Vivvt submitted the largest number of DYKs (30), and MBlaze Lightning achieved 13 articles at ITN. Carbrera claimed for 11 GAs and Argento Surfer performed the most GARs, having reviewed 11. So far we have achieved 38 featured articles and a splendid 132 good articles. Commendably, 279 GARs have been achieved so far, more than double the number of GAs.
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There is an on-going ransomware attack by a programme that has been called WannaCry. This has been reported in a number of different countries, causing a major problems with the British NHS, major Spanish telecoms firm Telefónica, and numerous other organisations. [1] [2] [3] — Sasuke Sarutobi ( talk) 16:51, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
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I added this current events as it is a major story, and I provided multiple sources. The BLP issues were considered and the family's view was stated. There have been tremendous efforts to take down this story on current events, with multiple reverts, not to mention swearing at me in my talk page. I think we should discuss it civilly here. Lasersharp ( talk) 17:30, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
Since approx. 2 weeks, there's a Saudi military siege on the predominantly Twelver Shia village of al-Awamiyah. Dozens of Shia civilians are dead, including a child. A Shia mosque was also destroyed. It is the same village that Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr hailed from. It has to be added to the Current events, possibly in the ongoing matters. More information on that : [7] [8] [9] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.220.72.109 ( talk) 08:57, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
Did an event happen which I was not aware of? Why has a cascading administrator protection been put on the current events? It is now impossible to edit the daily current events for any non-admins. exoplanetaryscience ( talk) 01:31, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
You should make it appear as a headline, death toll is already 61 and the government already decreed three days of national mourning. -- 2001:8A0:771B:9901:D4FC:BEF2:4363:ECE7 ( talk) 16:36, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
The third round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 288 points being required to qualify for round 4. It was a hotly competitive round with all but four of the contestants exceeding the 106 points that was necessary to proceed to round 4 last year. Coemgenus and Freikorp tied on 288, and both have been allowed to proceed, so round 4 now has one pool of eight competitors and one of nine.
Round 3 saw the achievement of a 26-topic Featured topic by MPJ-DK as well as 5 featured lists and 13 featured articles. PanagiotisZois and SounderBruce achieved their first ever featured articles. Carbrera led the GA score with 10, Tachs achieved 17 DYKs and MBlaze Lightning 10 In the news items. There were 167 DYKs, 93 GARs and 82 GAs overall, this last figure being higher than the number of GAs in round 2, when twice as many people were taking part. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.
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