Talk:Current events/Archive 4

message: Is anyone else seeing the word "Bulgarian" (in Bulgarian) at the top of the page as a bit messed up?  In the place where I'm expecting to see some sort of "u", there's a capital A with tilde followed by a ¼ sign.  Anyone know how to fix it?  Is it something fixable in Wikipedia or is it just me? :-)  —LarryGilbert 01:30, 2004 Mar 6 (UTC)
:I'm seeing this as well. — Cyrius 03:28, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a problem only in ISO-8859-1 encoded wikipedias. We are expected to view the letter u umlaut (ü). I think it is entered as a char, not as an escape sequence,  therefore the browsers can't show it properly in ISO-8859-1 encoding. I am a bulgarian and as far as I know the official transliteration of the native language name is "Balgarski". I have no idea why ü is used instead of a. --Borislav 14:33, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

text: 68.167.249.57 00:45, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bulgarian 

message: The current events page says that it has been 911 days since 9/11(in the madrid section).  I changed it to 913 days because tuesday was 911 days since. But somebody changed it back to 911. Can anybody prove me wrong?
:Everyone was too lazy to count so we removed the sentence. Perl 23:09, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I count 912 - 11 Sep 2003 is 730, Oct 1 750, Nov 1 781, Dec 1 811, Jan 1 2004 is 842, Feb 1 873, Mar 1 902 (leap year), so Mar 11 is 912. Korath 23:21, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

text: As the one who added the "911 days" factoid to the Madrid attack item, I stand corrected for not being precise like in the 900 article: there are 911 days between 9/11 and Madrid.  Sorry, --Wernher 23:43, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Madrid attack and 9/11 

message: We're still debating what to do about adding a link on the sidebar to Wikipedia:Community Portal. One possibility is to remove the current events link to make room. This possibility is one of the options in the current poll on the subject. This is a redesigned, restarted version of the previous poll. In fairness to users of Current events, I thought it would be best to publicize the new poll here as well. Sorry I didn't think of that earlier. Vote at Wikipedia talk:Community Portal#New sidebar poll. --Michael Snow 23:26, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Sidebar poll

message: Sorry Nikola, but you have to provide some evidence for it to be proven conclusively to be false that the boys weren't chased. Also, even if UNMIK had said so, it would be a UNMIK reported blah blah blah in order to be NPOV. Saying that the reports are incorrect is most certainly POV. Dori | Talk 23:14, Mar 17, 2004 (UTC)
: I've trimmed the story somewhat. I wondered what had got Nikola so wound up today - he'd left an unusually angry note on my talk page which I'd put down to generic paranoia, but evidently today's events have set off something of a nationalist outburst. Very unfortunate, given that region's history; we'll just have to hope it doesn't turn into a pogrom on either side. -- ChrisO 00:58, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: story on Kosovo

message: According to [this] the AZF has actually planted at least two bombs in its effort to extort money. Why do we have "The terrorist group AZF ceases to exist in France" on the Current events entry? - Texture 18:03, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  AZF story - how can AZF not exist if it is planting bombs? 

message: I'm troubled by the John Kerry story which Ed Poor has added to the page today, though not so much because of its subject as because of its apparent trivialness. Also, is BoycottLiberalism.com really a news source? I think a lot of people are likely to get fed up pretty quickly if the current events page gets filled up with partisan Repubs-vs-Dems sniping. -- ChrisO 12:29, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: John Kerry story - too trivial to include?

message: 68.167.253.29 07:45, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Same here, and as all other language editions show correct characters here there must be something wrong in the language.php, which contains the language names. Probably something related with UTF8. andy 07:53, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)

text: 68.167.249.57 00:45, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  BÃ¼lgarski? 

message: Re: the Girls Gone Wild list above -- I've just gone through March 2004 and deleted most of those stories,  along with other stories that didn't pan out or didn't seem worthy of being recorded for posterity. I'd be grateful if one of the Current Events stalwarts could take a look and check that I didn't kill anything vitally important or leave any ketchup stories. Tnx. –Hajor 14:53, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: And I was summarily reverted a few mins later. Oh, well. –Hajor 15:59, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: See Talk:March 2004. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 16:39, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

text: Sure, Pete, I saw your message, and I'm not sure what you say is entirely wrong. The alternative of debating individal candidates for deletion suggests itself, but that would be immensely tedious. –Hajor 16:50, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll intrepret "not ... entirely wrong" as "basically right". Let's forget about previous months and concentrate on getting future months right. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 17:09, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: painted icebergs

message: What's the thinking behind  - it seems to just to make it more complex to edit this page, with no discernible benefit? Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 08:44, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Given the lack of response, I reverted. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 14:55, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: MediaWiki:News

message: 68.167.255.52 06:26, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: 68.167.255.52 09:34, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)

text: 68.167.255.52 09:34, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, but that doesn't mean you should use it as the archetype "e.g. oh there's another "painted iceberg" story." Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 08:56, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

text: 68.167.255.52 09:34, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)

text: 68.167.255.52 10:22, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, but having stories from Pakistan might just tip the balance in persuading an English-speaking Pakistani that they want to contribute. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 08:56, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  "heated debates" are painted icebergs 

message: If we go around reporting on everything that appears in every consumer rag in every state in the nation, pretty soon we'll be covering people's blogs too.  Let's wait until the mainstream press makes a deal out of it. - Hephaestos|§ 12:32, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Drudge Report item removed

message: :* April 13th 2004 Press Conference of the President is held at 8:30 PM EST by George W. Bush in The East Room of the White House.
This story was removed (and later put back by someone else) by someone who didn't realize that it had a big international impact and was worthy of reporting.
Can I implore you please to understand a story before you decide to remove it.
On the other hand - well-written CEs are less likely to be removed as they will tell you why they are important.
:* Public transportation: TriMet opens the Yellow Line, a new 5.8-mile long addition to its MAX light rail system, which runs through the northern part of Portland, Oregon. This project was completed three months early and $25 milllion under budget. (Portland Oregonian)
With apologies to half a million Portlanders, I removed the above story because I didn't think it relevant to most others in the world.  There doesn't seem to be anything special about the line - it's not the first mag-lev train in the U.S. or anything like that. -- Ke4roh 01:31, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Yet another story removed

message: 68.167.254.126 05:43, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: 68.167.252.153 09:58, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed it slightly to emphasize the fact that they're seeking legal recognition as a news organization, which is why they're doing it. It's also rather controversial, and why it's important. Hope this is better. --Gregb 23:05, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Website announcement 

message: Could anyone insert the date of the elections in Romania ? The president and the legislature will be elected in late November. Thanks
--212.93.128.205 09:53, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: It was there earlier but removed. AFAIK, it isn't having a significant international impact right now, unlike the US presidential election. That's why the US elections are the only ones there right now that are farther away than July. I don't have the best awareness of that particular area of the globe, though, so I'd be perfectly fine with someone more knowledgable than me adding it if it has the requisite current international impact. --Gregb 03:03, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Romanian elections, dates

message: The remmed out guidelines in the sidebar state that:
:Election sections are for up-to-date articles about current or recently concluded elections.  Once articles are updated with results, they are moved to results section, remaining there for one week or until no longer "newsworthy" (due to controversy, challenges, etc.)
The requirement that they "remain there one week" strikes me as unnecessarily restrictive. A list of all the elections in a given month (or at least those with articles) would be more useful, particularly when the time comes to archive the page away as the historical record of the month. What would be the maximum number of elections in any particular month -- 6 or 8 or 10? I think we can allow ourselves the luxury of extending the sidebar to include them all. –Hajor 17:20, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll take the deafening silence my comment provoked as a "yes", then. –Hajor 22:52, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: 67.100.122.101 22:11, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Election results