Talk:Current events/Archive 9

message: 66.167.253.66 05:04, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Talk:August 2004 in sports#Adding icon next to Olympics stories|Discussion]] from [[Current sports events]] 

message: Often a political campaign in a democratic country will complain that an opposing campaign is "attacking" its candidate for office. The Wikipedia should not endorse these complaints but merely report them.
For example, the Kerry campaign began in March 2004 to label the Bush campaign was "an attack machine" and complained that their opponents were engaging in negative campaigning. They have consistently portrayed their opponents as (a) having no worthwhile proposals of their own and (b) concealing this via relentless unfair criticism of Kerry.
Rather than buying into the Kerry campaign's POV, our Wikipedia articles should report neutrally on their rhetoric:
*The Kerry campaign called Pataki's remarks "a venomous attack" (assuming it was the campaign that evaluated Pataki's remarks that way, and not just a Kerry supporter who happens to be a Wikipedian).
It should go without saying that this goes both ways, but I'll say it anyway: any attempts by the Bush campaign to label criticism of Bush as "attacks" should also be labeled in the same way.
*The Bush campaign called Kerry's remarks "a deliberate misreading of Bush's MSNBC interview" and blamed the Kerry campaign for inciting the terrorism at the Russian school (assuming the RNC actually said this)
Note that the bullet items above are hypothetical; I'm just using them as examples of the type of thing we have to do, to remain neutral. --Uncle Ed 15:11, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Who's attacking whom?

message: Hello Current Events people! (I seldom edit this). I think we need to categorize a lot of the events that happen during the year. I know that we already do this (:Category:2004 in sports etc), but we are perhaps not doing it consequently. I've created the category :Category:Conflicts in 2004 and I wonder what you think of this. I want :Category:2004 to cover "What happened in 2004?". Without conflicts and stuff like that, it lacks major parts. Other missing things seem to be the US Presidential campaign, which I can't find from the 2004 category. Thus we might need :Category:2004 in politics etc. ❝Sverdrup❞ 15:04, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Categorization

message: Who deleted the current events from 1 to 7 Sep? Shouldn't there be a link that directs the reader to these older stories?  13:55, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I've reinstated them. It looks like User:The King Of Gondor pressed "Save page" twice in quick succession and the page got accidentally truncated. It happens sometimes, no big deal as it's easily fixed. -- Arwel 14:09, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

text: Sorry.  Really, I am. -- The King Of Gondor 18:39, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  deletion of 1-7 Sep 04 

message: I just wanted to point out the increasing usefulness of this page.  I saw a reference to the North Korean mushroom cloud here, with links to appropriate background information, hours before I could find so much as a single article anywhere else on the web.  Even now, there are links to more background information than any "real" news source could boast, and the North Korean explosion tidbit has been superseded by a Saudi electoral tidbit which is now not being reported anywhere mainstream, while Wikipedia already has a report and links to useful background information...  Just wanted to make a note of this. Tuf-Kat 07:48, Sep 12, 2004 (UTC)
:Ain't it cool? -- Cyrius|✎ 07:51, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  North Korean mushroom cloud 

message: I've never been involved with this page before, so I'm not quite sure exactly what qualifies as a current event.  I looked over the archives but couldn't make a call on this one, so I thought I should bring it to the attention of the regulars here.  Is a bill not yet approved a current event?  If not, should it be sent to VfD as 
What Wikipedia entries are not #16 A news report?  Thank you.  SWAdair | Talk  04:31, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current Event or a VfD candidate? 

message: What will it take to have a web feed for the current events page or for the wikipedia home page?
Lot of people use RSS to stay updated with the latest news. The latest version of Firefox has enhanced support for syndication! Sridev 20:47, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  RSS feed