Talk:Current events/Archive 14

message: Divol en.wikinews.org/wiki/User_talk:Neutralizer#an_idea_in_order_to_promote suggested a link from http://en.wikipedia's "Current_events" to our en.wikinews site; it seemed reasonable (especially since there is already a link on the french(language) wikipedia's current stories to the french wikinews) so I did ithttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Current_events&oldid=36780189http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Current_events&diff=36780189&oldid=36778582. I hope/think it looks ok? en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Neutralizer Neutralizer 12:45, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to Wikinews at from this site 

message: I contend that the expiration (unclaimed) of a Lottery ticket is not a worthy entry for inclusion in this list of global events. Rather than remove it, I'd ask for direction from a moderator for this page. Richard Allen 23:20, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree that it isn't really of great international interest and I've removed it. Remember that no page on Wikipedia has moderators or "owners" and you should be bold with editing :-) . Evil Monkey - Hello 23:26, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Significance of News items 

message: Does anyone know why we can't edit by day any more? And how to get it back? -- Arwel (talk) 18:11, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You can still section edit. For some reason (due to the info bar on the LHS of the page) all of the edit buttons are lumped at the bottom of the said bar. I'm going to look at fixing it. - Drrngrvy 09:07, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section editing 

message: I guess this may have been suggested before. However, how about a section near where the deaths are and also put up a upcoming executions section with the dates set for American and other countries upcoming executions. Sounds morbid ,I know, but probably of interest to many. Mike 06:40, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Addition? 

message: UK. Moves towards the police state: recording vehicle movements; police DNA database; rise in phone tapping; ID cards and body scanners. (Independent)
This doesn't seem very NPOV to me. --Horses In The Sky 22:12, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. It should be changed. Mushroom 22:15, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: An anonymous editor removed it. Mushroom 22:16, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  UK Police State 

message: Does anyone else find it strange that although there is tons of news for January 15 and January 16, we currently do not have a single news item for January 14? Did nothing happen that day? joturner 00:46, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikinews has stuff for Jan 14. Maybe we should compare Jan13/14/15 with their info and add/move stuff here as appropriate. -- SGBailey 11:27, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  No News on [[January 14]]? 

message: Is wrong with you people?  I added an article about a judge who sentenced a admitted child molester to 60 days in jail.  Do you not think that qualifies as a current event?  It is all over the media...  the whole country is enraged and it is sure to change the State of Vermont for many years to come. --—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.128.126.198 (talk • contribs) 05:09, 17 January 2006.
: Maybe the state of Vermont is in a rage, but not the whole country. I don't see it featured on several major news sites like CNN. joturner 05:16, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Personnally I find it a major event.  A child molester, damn.  I was wondering why you took it in the first place.  It is featured on yahoos front page.  And in case u care, I live in Texas.Joe I 05:18, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  It is not featured on Yahoo's front page. I agree the sentence is unjust, but it isn't even a top story in the United States; it certainly is not a current event for the entire world. joturner 05:24, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, believe it or not, it was on there two hours ago, tho I didn't even find it on the news front page this time.  Oh, well, do what ya like.  Joe I 05:30, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What the hell... 

message: Its over and its not even on the front page.
[expletive deleted] weak.
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*the Conservative party (were in opposition) got 124 seats, with 36.25% of the vote,
*the Liberal party (were the government) only 103 seats, with 30.22% of the vote,
*the Quebec block got 51 seats, with 10.48% of the vote,
*the New Democratic Party (NDP) got 29 seats, with 17.49% of the vote,
*there is only one Independent MP, in Quebec, with 0.52% of the vote.
*By the way, 5.05% voted for parties that didn't get any seats in the House of Commons in Ottawa.
QUITTNER 142.150.49.166 20:48, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  canadian election 

message: How is the following "not notable": 
Italy court asks "Did Jesus of Nazareth exist?" (www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/01/22/christ.book.ap/ CNN)(cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2006/01/20/1403634-ap.html CNEWS)
Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? J. D. Redding 09:12, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a very interesting story, and I'm sure deserves some sort of mention in existing articles, but Current events tends to cover mostly political and world news, not cases like this.  After all, I could sue nearly anyone for nearly anything- whether the courts will rule for me or laugh me out the door is another question.  Ral315 (talk) 14:56, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Atheisists are trying to STEAL Christmas and Easter from the Christians... it is wrong for those atheists involved in this attempted theft to try to steal holidays that are important to and WERE BORN FROM Christianity... they are trying to change what they really are about... Christmas and Easter are not national holidays, they are CHRISTIAN HOLIDAYS! Only Christians should be allowed to celebrate them! if someone does not like hearing happy christmas then they should not be involved in Christmas, and the same thing for Easter.  66.190.167.80 23:12, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Atheism vs Christianity

message: Just started: Current computer and video games events. Feedback most welcome. Jacoplane 20:06, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current computer and video games events 

message: Ok, I can't figure out how to get rid of "Dereks mom" on the page.  I know that the "Current events" tag right before the "To suggest a relevant..." causes the text to show up.  Can any Wiki monks take care of this?D'Iberville 21:12, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dereks mom 

message: Could somebody who knows what's what take a look at User:Sjorford/Playpen#DMY pages and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/January 28, 2006? I'm confused by the large number of pages for separate days that are template-included onto month pages (such as January 2003). It doesn't look like this is a standard that is in use on the current Current events page, although a few selected days were created for January 2006 and then mostly deleted. Is all this Good, or should those day pages be subst'd? Currently, we seem to be promoting two different link styles, to either February 1, 2005 or February 1, 2005. — sjorford (talk) 17:29, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Day pages? 

message: Has the infobox formatting on this page gone wrong? Or am I the only one seeing 
this text displayed in my browser?:
Ŵ{| class="infobox" width="250" style="text-align: center" |- style="background-color: #DDDDEE" | style="padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px" | Time: 22:03 UTC  |  Date: February 2 |-EH EH EH | style="padding-top: 4px; font-size:70%" | Selected world times (DST adjusted):  Astana: +6 tgywrtyhwrty  Bangkok: +7 
 Beijing: +8   Brussels: +1   Cairo: +2 
 Frankfurt: +1   Hong Kong: +8   Johannesburg: +2 
5Y3 6543  London: +0   Melbourne: +11   Mexico City: -6 
E5RYY53W  Moscow: +3&TGWRTYY6nbsp;ERYTHE3U65H  New Delhi: +5.5   New York: -5 
 Rio de Janeiro: -2   Singapore: +8   Tokyo: +9   Vancouver: -8   Warsaw: +1   Wellington: +13  
I'm viewing with Firefox 1.0.4 Malcolm Farmer 22:13, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A template within a template was vandalized. I reverted. Lord Bob 22:13, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Ah,that's better. A template within another template? Oh my. Malcolm Farmer 22:20, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, it was interesting. I don't know the structure of the current events page at all, so when I saw the events page itself had been vandalised, I reverted, but only took out some of the vandalism, so I blinked a few times, then started digging through templateville into the land of esoteric wikidom from whence few return. It was wild. Lord Bob 22:23, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Happened again, removed the "me" from the current events template. (User:AySz88 not logged in). 65.254.5.71 18:53, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: something wrong with formatting?

message: I think there was someone trying to add news about a video game to this page a few days ago. In the future, please point them to Current computer and video games events, which started on January 26. Contributors and general feedback also most welcome ;) Jacoplane 00:37, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: D'oh! I just realized I'd already mentioned this a few comments above. Stupid memory :) Jacoplane 00:40, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Anyway you might want to take another look at the page, because I've messed around with it and now the "edit" button appears next to each day, which is kind of neat. Jacoplane 08:49, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current computer and video games events 

message: Does this really justify a position on the front page? Surely mention of the protests and proposed inquest into the near thousand people believed killed in the Red Sea ferry incident would be more in order? If you have no idea what I'm talking about see  news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article343572.ece (The Inpedendent)S.. 11:35, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: American football article

message: When I click on the page a nude picture came out. Please edit asap
thanks —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Alfiboy (talk • contribs) 22:56, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The vandalism was reverted on the page some hours ago now, although the formatting is erroneous. I'd fix it, but I don't know enough about tables in MediaWiki yet to attempt it... — digitaleon • talk @ 15:33, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Formatting fixed by 84.153.38.218 at 16:01, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Costa Rica Page  

message: Two points on the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy entry for 9 February 2006:
* The link is to the main article, but the supplementary detail actually appears in the corresponding timeline article, and is not referenced anywhere in the main article.
* The supplementary detail wasn't actually cited, and I wasn't able to verify the details about U.P.I.E. campus security seizing the offending copies or the professor at U.S.M. being terminated. I ended up re-wording it because the sources I could find simply stated that the respective administrations had ordered a halt to the distribution of the copies and that the professor take down the pictures, respectively.
This wasn't ever suggested as a candidate for the main page, so I'll assume for the moment that as such it was never posted there. Based on this, I've been bold and updated the original entry. — digitaleon • talk @ 15:55, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A credible reference regarding the originally stated seizures was found, and so the timeline article has been updated. I've updated here as well. — digitaleon • talk @ 21:10, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy ([[2006-02-09]]) 

message: Someone has destroyed the content of this page. I can't figure how to revert it since when I click edit, the proper content appear, but if I go back to current events page, I see "Ross shagged a dog" Why is this
: Oh, I just noticed it was edits by IP 86.133.64.105. It looks like I am stillreading cache from here. Wonder how long it take for it to disappear?
:: F5 will clear your cache.--KrossTalk 20:25, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some malice in action 

message: I've added subheadings for Olympics highlights, for Friday and Saturday.  There's been some discussion on how to handle Olympics news on the main page at Wikipedia:In_the_news_section_on_the_Main_Page/Candidates.  This might be a good way to also handle highlights here, by separating them from other news. -Aude (talk | contribs) 04:11, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Current sports events. I don't see how we need Olympics on current events as it's redundant. I'm removing the section, but will obey 1RR if reverted. NSLE (T+C) 05:36, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The Olympics are an international event of international repute. Saying that we shouldn't have sports on the current events page because of Current sports events is like saying we shouldn't have American news on the current events page because of Current events in the United States. Lord Bob 05:45, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I should append this: I don't think that every little Olympic thing should be on Current Events or anything. But I think that a world record or a controversy or something othe like belongs, even though it is sport-related. Lord Bob 07:00, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That sounds reasonable.  I had forgot about the Current sports events page, but now that NSLE points it out, I think I was aware it existed.  Just maybe a template (like the one on the bottom) needs to go on the top of the Current events page?  or the infobox on the right, be moved to the top, beneath wikinews?  That way it's more apparent that these subtopic current events pages are there. -Aude (talk | contribs) 16:51, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Olympics 

message: What, no mention of the video showing British soldiers beating up Iraqi teenagers? Angr/talk 15:28, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It is the third item at the February 12. Get-back-world-respect 16:00, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Interesting you only warn me, while Dbiv made more than three edits, too, and removed factual information without discussion. It is important to note that the guys were forced to the ground while beaten and kicked. Get-back-world-respect 17:05, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Dbiv now already deleted the same words for the fifth time although they were inserted by two different editors and are factual information reported by every major news source. That is how administrators should behave on Valentine's Day? 
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RR#User:Dbiv http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Current_events&diff=39601408&oldid=39596984
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Current_events&diff=39601936&oldid=39596984
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Current_events&diff=39605921&oldid=39596984
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Current_events&diff=39606771&oldid=39596984 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Current_events&diff=39619813&oldid=39618139 Get-back-world-respect 19:01, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

text: As will be perfectly obvious to everyone who looks at the links, I didn't break the 3RR. They are all attempts at a compromise apart from one revert. The reason why the remarks of the cameraman are irrelevant is that it does not magnify the offence. The Iraqis would be unlikely to understand vernacular English, and neither they nor the squaddies could hear the cameraman anyway. Cameraman would have had to have shouted at the top of his breath and in Arabic to actually be heard by the Iraqi captives. Also would have had to have shouted to encourage the soldiers doing the beating. Therefore I really don't see what it has to do with the abuse of the Iraqis that the cameraman was speaking in English at normal volume. David | Talk 22:00, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You deleted the same words five times although they were inserted by two different editors and are factual information reported by every major news source. Calling that an attempt to compromise is just obscene. As you were already http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/3RR&diff=39625229&oldid=39622473 warned by an administrator you are plain ignorant to claim that it would be perfectly obvious to everyone who looks at the links that you didn't break the 3RR. It does not matter if the Iraqis heard the cameraman back then, they can hear him now, and his language shows the state of mind of the abusers. Furthermore, the dispute was about the guys being kicked at while forced to the ground. You now http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Current_events&diff=39640095&oldid=39639863 deleted this for the sixth time even after the warning. Get-back-world-respect 23:40, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Without having seen any of this argument (having only read this argument on this talk page, I haven't seen the history), from Link 8 provided I would agree with Dbiv that what the cameraman said is of no importance. HOWEVER - I agree Dbiv (and everyone else involved) should stop reverting the page. Get a consensus on it. NSLE (T+C) 00:28, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have reverted the page once, and once only. The other times which GBWR calls 'reverts' were edits to try to reach a compromise. GBWR evidently uninterested which is a pity. PS even the Iraqis who live next door to me in my mostly Arab block in central London would have trouble understanding the cameraman. David | Talk 00:37, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Whatever it is, I would strongly advise both of you to lay off this pag and lay off one another for now. NSLE (T+C) 00:40, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Dbiv, you deleted the fact that they were kicked at while forced to the ground six times even though it was added by two different users and you were warned by an admin. Calling that an attempt to compromise is obscene, and this is not about your neighbours. Get-back-world-respect 00:48, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

text: In the absence of comment I have added back mention of the commentary. --Cactus.man ✍ 11:05, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iraqi abuse video 

message: Ok, obviously my move was, if not a bad idea, for sure a useless idea. But the problem still is there: each time someone has something to add on the current events page, he adds in on the top. Each time someone sees some text which lacks some wikilinks, he goes around wikilinking everything... End result: a stockpile of infos about everywhere on the planet (well, almost... the English-speaking planet?) and about every possible subject. Does somebody really use this ressource? I don't know... Could it be transformed into a useful ressource? Probably - Wikipedia already has, albeit its mistakes and sometimes ridiculous edit-wars. So, maybe someone a bit more experienced than me could give me a clue on how information could, by one way or another, be hierarchized, and put in context (see "current events guidelines") in order not to have to read a whole paragraph to understand that you really didn't care a bit about this particular bit of info... but that you missed that one because all the page was blue and you just stopped scanning it, dazzled and confused? Any idea, Jo Turner ?  Tazmaniacs 02:04, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Style: what about hierarchizing info ? 

message: I wondered if Israel does not break any treaties if the money is not transferred? Who paid these taxes? 84.59.93.80 16:18, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Legal to withhold taxes collected for Palestinians?

message: I'm not a fan of the way Wikipedia covers news, at all.  It covers useless subtrivia news items related to Wikipedia like Joshua Gardner and yet there's nothing on the Indonesian ferry sinking which happened earlier this month.  I couldn't find anything on WikiNews either.
Being that this isn't my area of interest nor do I think it's that notable.  I'm just letting people here know in the matter of Countering Bias.  Here's some useful links for anyone who would consider writing an article, from reputable sources.
*abcasiapacific.com/news/stories/asiapacific_stories_1563609.htm
*www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-02-01-ferry-sinks_x.htm
*news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4672578.stm
There's loads more, but that's a start for anyone interested, it's more notable than Joshua Gardner by a factor of roughly infinity. - Hahnchen 23:49, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Please remember that wikipedia is more than just the english language version. I would not be surprised if this incident was covered in other language verions. Seabhcán 00:15, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

text: I'm sorry, I don't understand.  Is there some particular reason why you can't edit this into the Current Events yourself?  User:Zoe|(talk) 00:18, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indonesian Ferry Sinking 

message: Theres no page on the UAE port controversy. WTF. KI 05:24, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes there is.  It's linked in the Events sidebar. I almost missed it too.  --Mr. Billion 05:31, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: UAE port controversy

message: hey, i looked this thing up on google and does this site have anything to do with VMK? —Preceding unsigned comment added by soundslikefun (talk • contribs) 
:Assuming you mean Virtual Magic Kingdom, then no. See Wikipedia for more about us.-gadfium 04:05, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: VMK

message: I saw vandalism which replaced the "Events by month" section with the previous years & months with "Baby rules!!" or something. I didn't see it in the Edit This Page for current evnts or the Templates: Current Events and Current events articles, nor do I see it in the history. So where was it located? TransUtopian 23:04, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where was the vandalism? 

message: There's almost no content on the Dubai Ports World controversy and there's no page for...
*2006 Abqaiq bombingnews.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4747488.stm Please stop making this into a rediret to Abqaiq. We all know there's nothing in the article about the attack.
*2006 Chittagong textile firenews.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4745894.stm
*Jussi Vilkunanewsroom.finland.fi/stt/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=11874&group=General KI 14:55, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wowee! You mean I can start my own articles? You mean like Chadian-Sudanese conflict? Or how about Tripoli Agreement? Shucks. Who knew. KI 20:49, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  KI is just offering a suggestion. And even though I see you have started articles in the past, I'm going to echo her statement. Go ahead and make the article yourself. And note that we have Wikipedia:Requested articles/Current events. joturner 02:52, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Missing pages

message: Only moments ago it showed no page. Kaiser matias 16:12, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ironically, possibly because of WP:BEANS, someone blanked this talk page when I looked at it. However, if you mean the main CE page, I dunno. I've seen several vandalism things that did not show up in Edit this page or the history either. They're probably nested templates or something but I can't identify them. Anyone? TransUtopian 20:26, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What Happened 

message: Someone continuously deletes the information about the Guantanamo detainees' names being released only after four years of complaints and only 317 of the 490. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Current_events&diff=42265040&oldid=42259070 Could someone else please deal with this? ROGNNTUDJUU! 00:34, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guantanamo detainee information removed 

message: This is a direct volation of the law, i expect Wikinews, to treat it as such, Weather u agree with the law or not is besides the point! Its tha law and SD is in volation of it! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by HP465 (talk • contribs) 21:14, 6 March 2006.
:It's a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade, but not a violation, from what I can determine from the www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11699703 MSNBC article. His written statement indicates the law will not take effect unless the US Supreme Court upholds it. TransUtopian 22:13, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  # South Dakota governor M. Michael Rounds signs an abortion ban that conflicts with the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.  

message: I created a news stub, 2006 Varanasi bombings. Could someone link to it? - Ganeshk (talk) 18:33, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Can the main-page picture please be changed to this? - Ganeshk (talk) 19:58, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Varanasi bombings

message: Should we celebrate 50 million edit on English wiki? It will be soon. --Emx 15:45, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Statistics

message: Why was the item about New Jersey's proposed law regulating Internet access by anon's deleted? It's an issue that concerns the majority of Wikipedia contributors, both IP and logged-in. It's pretty rare to see someone use their real name here. --Uncle Ed 16:44, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Internet regulations

message: The Sable-sur-Sarthe hostage crisis begins... and quickly ends peacefully with no casualties. The gunmen had suffered from depression. abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1705435&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (ABC news) In other news, a potential terrorist boards a plane and quickly decides not to hijack it. So is this really news? This "crisis" has nothing that links to it. MPS 21:04, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it wasn't exactly a non-event - 21 high-school students and two adults held hostage for several hours, school surrounded by police. -- Arwel (talk) 23:16, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Sable-sur-Sarthe hostage crisis

message: When archiving this page it appears the order of events has been left as reverse chronological. This is, in my opinion, incorrect and I've gone into a bit more detail on this page. If you agree or disagree or have any suggestions, please click over and leave a comment. GT 10:52, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reverse chronological order in archived pages 

message: At 0730 EST, Category 5 Tropical Cyclone "Larry" makes landfall near Innisfail, Queensland, Australia.
This information is incorrect.  I believe it is 0730 Australian Time (I don't know the exact acroymn for this though).  I live in Toronto and it isn't even Monday yet. -Tcwd | Talk 00:45, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You are quite wrong, the article is quite correct. Australia has several time zones, one of them is referred to as EST. North American isn't the centre of the world BTW... Nil Einne 11:27, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

text: P.S. I'm not suggesting AEST might not have been better for clarity but it is also incorrect to say that 0730 EST is incorrect since it was 0730 EST, just not what your call EST Nil Einne 11:29, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  TC Larry 

message: I hope this question isn't too stupid, but, (deep breath): There's a time given on this page, over near the calendar, in the format of "21:28 UTC  March 20."  I delved into the guts of this thing and found some variables such as  and others that yield such values, as I'd like to have a calendar/clock in my own Wiki.  But what are the criteria for refreshing these values?  Sometimes I find them one or two hours out of whack, give or take.  Sometimes they're current, sometimes nearly so.  A "hard refresh" (shift + reload in Firefox) doesn't seem to make any difference.  What gives?
Eflester 21:32, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Question About Time 

message: My mistake, the edit summary should read (Revert to Dying). JHMM13 (T | C)   20:30, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  My revert (45310194) 

message: Under the election bit, some French kid writing his age, delete is somebody
:Thanks for pointing that out. I removed it. Lord Bob 20:46, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Grafitti dont know how to get rid of

message: Why is a CNN poll considered news. We all know that you can find a poll to just about agree with any point of view. So Why is one specific CNN poll (regarding Charlie Scheen's view that 9/11 was a government conspiracy) considered news and listed in the current events? It seems that the recent release of Iraqi documents are more newsworthy regardless of your point of view on the current events.
mnw2000
:I have to agree that this poll does not strike me as vital current events... doktorb | words 17:57, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that it is notable, particularly on the day that a 911 trial is also in the news. There is nothing stopping you from adding the Iraqi documents story. Seabhcán 19:26, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is a poll news? 

message: What happened to the calander on this page?  It looks all weird now. 206.47.141.21 20:21, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's much better now. Don't know what happened. 206.47.141.21 14:11, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Calandar on this page 

message: Surely this belongs in Sports. Lisiate 02:58, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: NCAA Basketball Tournament

message: Discussion moved (about switching order of days on monthly news archives), see Talk:March 2006 GT 06:41, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Switched order 

message: The murder with a shovel of a 18 months old kidnapped epileptic boy happens every now and then but Dozens of students suspended...whoaw...the world is breaking apart. User:Ejrrjs  says What? 22:29, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Skewed priorities 

message: The current sidebar (On my machine) forces the section edit tags down to the bottom of the page. Is there a way to fix that on the page or on my machine (That anyone knows of?)? Thanx... 68.39.174.238 02:35, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [edit]'s 

message: Vandalism - sort it out please Wright123 23:03, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Little Black Boy

message: I really feel that this 'article' does not have international interest.  After all, it concerns someone who is a 'minor' US politician.  So I would vote for its deletion. Duncan.france 23:01, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: On the current events page, there's lots of local news, with no international interest such as this Tom Delay (whoever that is) story.  If we delete all of them, the page would be practically empty. 206.47.141.21 12:33, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

text: DeLay was the House Majority Leader, which made him the second most powerful member of the U.S. House of Representatives.  That's not exactly "minor", is it? Brandon39 08:13, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, it is. 206.47.141.21 12:33, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

text:  Yes!Duncan.france 12:31, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

text:  Brandon, you are right it isn't. Front page of the international edition of the BBC News for example. Pcb21 Pete 12:58, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tom DeLay 'news' 

message: The spin-off current events pages (UK/US/Africa etc...) seem not to be that popular, and this page has been drying up a bit over the last few months. Should we be considering merging them back in? Pcb21 Pete 07:51, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge some back in?

message: "The New Zealand Parliament passes an act making New Zealand Sign Language the third official language of New Zealand, alongside English and Māori."
Sounds like a symbolic gesture, that won't do anything substantive for the deaf people of NZ or anyone else. If the editor who put this in feels strongly about it, I can see inclusion in the relevant regional page. But here? --Christofurio 21:02, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I put it here; I regard it as an interesting piece of news to the international community, and a piece of particular importance to deaf people. I'm no expert, but I suspect not many countries recognise sign language as an official language. Someone must agree that it's of widespread interest, as someone else put it on the main page.-gadfium 05:19, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

text: It's not a symbolic gesture. It guarantees/requires government departments to provide resources and interpreting services in sign language and the courts to recognise sign language. Technically, these may have been provided for under anti-discrimination laws and the like but now it's an indisputable fact. These links may be useful www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=0007A677-2F05-1434-9FCF83027AF10190 www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/waikatotimes/0,2106,3629594a6579,00.html. Also the TVNZ article already linked. If it were simply symbolic, do you really think there would have been a 20 year campaign and this event celebrated? In any case, as Gadfium pointed out it's notable because as far as we know, very rare. Nil Einne 08:18, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: New Zealand Symbolic Gesture

message: Shouldn't the Libby news be somewhere? I don't know enough to write it up myself... Nil Einne 08:19, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone added a story saying "Scooter Libby says President George W. Bush okayed leaks that outed CIA intelligence officer Valerie Plame. (LA times)".  But the cited LA Times story says "The court filing makes no allegation that Bush — who has vowed to fire anyone in his administration who was involved in revealing the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame — encouraged or authorized the disclosure of her identity", the exact opposite of what the wikipedia headline claimed it said.  What the LA Times story does say is "According to the new court filing, Libby testified to a grand jury that Cheney told him Bush had approved the release of information from the CIA's classified National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq's Continuing Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction.", so I've amended the headline to say that. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 13:48, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Libby 

message: Iran has undergone a huge change in leadership with the election of the new president. I do not have complete facts but would someone with first hand exprience elaborate. Web Master 07:39, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You may want to start with Politics of Iran, though the page could use some cleaning up. Good luck. -- PFHLai 08:43, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iran's Change in Leadership 

message: I think we should, instead of having to go to the Main page or typing Current events every time I want to check on it. How about WP:CE as the shortcut? Crad0010 19:39, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Either that or WP:CURRENT or both. joturner 19:42, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone yesterday created WP:CE to Wikipedia:WikiProject Mobile Operation System, as in Windows CE. There is a link on the nav bar under the Wikipedia logo on every page though. TransUtopian 17:58, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should we make a Wikipedia shortcut for this page? 

message: I don't think someone writing an editorial generally counts as global news.  A user said that the President of Iran was only expressing his opinion, so why should Richard Horton's opinion be any different?
The difference is that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a president of a large country advocating the annihilation of another nation.  The Lancet editorial is a piece advocating a new method of studying psychoactive drugs.  One is global news, the other isn't. --Mr. Billion 03:48, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In both cases, though, the significance of the expression of opinion depends upon who is expressing it. An opinion by one of the most prestigious journals of medical research in the world, on a sensitive matter concerning the 'War on Drugs' (which is itself an international phenomenon) sounds both notable and global. --Christofurio 20:07, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

text: You are correct.  This story (just like many others on this page) does not belong there.  Some guy's opinion on a subject is not global news for sure.  But that's ok... you need to leave it there to avoid an edit war.  206.47.141.21 14:37, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that's pretty much the conclusion I've come to.  Sometimes persons entrenched on one side of an issue will put something here because it fits their POV, and sometimes they'll fight to keep it here. Calling them on it seems to them to be an attack, and they get very sensitive. --Mr. Billion 16:44, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editorial propounding a new practice in drug study is global news? 

message: * It's US-centric,
* It's not a gigantic situation, not well known outside those involved.
University of the Cumberlands (T) is detailing information on how a partially publicly funded university has dismissed a student due to discovery of his sexual orientation (not actual sexual acts).
Would this be appropriate for Current Events and addition to the calendar? Kylu t 17:28, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You might like to add this to Current events in the United States, but it really isn't of sufficient importance to go on the main Current events page.-gadfium 19:57, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  University of the Cumberlands 

message: He is in the world news every day for a week or so. De mortuis... 13:33, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Nothing about Rumsfeld?

message: "John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia denies being aware of an Australian company giving "kick-backs" to Saddam Hussein during the United Nation's Oil for food programme."
I just wanted to point out that this occurred on Thursday April 13, not Wednesday April 12 as Wikipedia Current events suggests. Evidence: today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-04-13T015333Z_01_SYD289967_RTRUKOC_0_UK-AUSTRALIA-IRAQ-WHEAT.xml Reuters, www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/2006/s1615724.htm ABC Australia, www.theage.com.au/news/national/howards-day-in-the-hot-seat/2006/04/12/1144521401671.html The Age newspaper QazPlm 01:33, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I fixed it. joturner 17:08, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks! QazPlm 11:52, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Howard & the AWB 

message: Why isn't Hu's news on any Chinese websites? Even Google News China refuses to show Hu Jintao's US visit on its front page. Colipon+(T) 18:13, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hu and Bush 

message: Hardly. What kind of a news item is this? This is just a gross, quirky human interest story. I follow current events every day, and this really seems like a misfit news item. -128.227.55.14 14:29, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree - this is real "news in brief" silliness rather than a main news event. doktorb | words 14:43, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead German Mother: Newsworthy? 

message: Along with the other links that box had.  Has been for the past several edits.  How do we get it back? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.135.62.64 (talk • contribs) .
:The link to Current sports events is just below the calendar at the right of the screen. If it disappeared, it's back now.-gadfium 23:07, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sports events link is missing 

message: Isn't it about over now or am I missing something? Perhaps it should be moved from ongoing to recent. -  Pyro19 22:47, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. joturner 23:22, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Muhammad cartoons controversy