Portal talk:Current events/Archive 4

message: What happened to February 12th? Did nothing happen that day? Or did somebody remove the content? --Cdogsimmons 19:11, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Febraury 12, 2007 

message: Although there is nothing wrong with the sentence "The National Court of Spain finds five out of six Algerian men guilty of membership in a terrorist organization..." it sounds like it was a  study that was done.65.93.196.201 03:14, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wording 

message: Forgive me if this is the wrong place to post this, but why it the result from this "Super Bowl" thing a news headline? I gather it's some american football event, but I don't see how a result thereof warrents a news headline, while, say, there was none for the Six Nations victory England had over Scotland, reclaiming the Calcutta Cup. Sports headlines are not world news.
MaKamitt 13:46, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I quit agree. -- Evertype·✆ 19:10, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  World news headline 

message: * Suggested wording for In the news article on Guinea:
In Guinea, a general strike ended with an accord to find a new prime minister. At least 59 people were killed by security forces during the 17 days of demonstrations.
* Reasons for correction: The blurb states that 59 people have been killed in "violent clashes between police and demonstrators" however, it is clear from reading the news that human rights advocates have been saying 60 people were killed by security forces during the strike, and a figure of 59 dead (more than half of them shot in a crackdown on Jan 22) has been confirmed by the Health Ministry, as reported in this Reuters article. Therefore, the original blurb on this subject is reprehensibly inaccurate in its portayal of what has actually happened and should be changed. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/abd23075b5b6851f62247e3db4d1416a.htm
Davdavid 16:01, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correction to Guinea headline requested 

message: Why is the news of Hillary Clinton joining the ranks of 2008 US Presidential nominees deemed worthy of the current events page, while the same actions by Barack Obama, Sam Brownback, and reportedly Bill Richardson are not? Also, I would move to put up news about a recent smear tactic by certain American media outlets against Obama to paint him as a terrorist sympathizer and to incorrectly label him as a Muslim (as well as furthering hostile stereotypes towards Muslims). 1 2 3 4
Fifty7 21:05, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  US '08 Presidential 

message: 2 histories that I havent seen here, the history about Shawn Hornbeck that was find this week after 4 years being kidnapped and looks like he have Stockholm syndrome. also, this week in Cali, Colombia it has been discovered like 6 stack of money (in euro, us dollar and colombian peso) from the drug bussiness. the news say that the money belong to several drug barons requested by the us goverment. In total there is more that 70 millions of dollars, and several bars of gold
if anyone want more info leave me a message, im kinda busy studying so i cant make the article by myself--ometzit<col> 01:42, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kidnapping and lots of money 

message: In the December 29 heading, it says the UK finally paid off its Second World War debt to the US and Canada. It goes on to mention that the UK still has a debt from the Napoleonic Wars. I looked at the news article, and the Napoleonic Wars yet find no proof of this claim. Kaiser matias 10:16, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This article confirms it: BBC. I'll add it as a source AndrewRT(Talk) 20:14, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  UK Debt 

message: A ferry sinks in Indonesia killing over 500 people. A car bomb explodes in Madrid killing two. Guess which one gets featured on the main page?--JyriL talk 15:21, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Importance of events

message: Has any article been created regarding this? If so could it be added on to the Main Page template? Kaushik twin 17:02, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've created an article about it, 31 December 2006 Bangkok Bombings, according to the format used during the Mumbai  bombings, much of what I've created is from Wikinews; hopefully we could have as co-operative an effort as was done during the Mumbai bombings... Kaushik twin 17:11, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: ''Bomb'' blasts in Bangkok

message: Can someone please archive the Sports current-events portal? I don't know how to do it. Thanks -- Mwalcoff 03:25, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sports current events portal 

message: I was surprised to not find n:New UN Secretary General assumes post on the main page.--Andrew c 20:44, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: His appointment was. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:In_the_news&oldid=81273482 . --199.71.174.100 01:31, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New UN Secretary General 

message: Ok, could someone please define severe damage? In the article about the metal object from the sky someone states the house was severely damaged. A hole in the roof and some broke bathroom tiles is not what I would call severe damage. If the whole roof had been knocked off the house, sure... but anything that is not really structural damage is not all that severe. In addition, all the pictures I have seen show the object to be much larger than a golf ball. This all may seem trivial but it is an interesting story - it would be good if the facts reported on the page were at least semi-accurate.--CokeBear 16:14, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Severe?

message: Hello. Today's news says Hitachi broke a terabyte barrier. According to Amazon.com, terabyte drives are on the market from LaCie, Buffalo and Beyond Micro. Maybe someone like Maxtor makes them all, I don't know, but do you think this news is notable as written? -Susanlesch 23:11, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: *Maybe it would help to say that it may be that the comments on the PC World story cited pretty much answer this question. -Susanlesch 04:46, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Hard drives

message: some one should put it. it was in florida —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Crabworld (talk • contribs) 23:04, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  bomb scare 

message: Since most of the regional pages are poorly maintained is it time to consider merging them into the single portal? All except Sports, as the volume of updates on that page is large. If not the regional pages then at least the Sci and tech portal which is looking neglected. --Monotonehell 06:16, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I would support this. I maintain Portal:Current events/Oceania, which is one of the more active pages, but there are rarely updates to that pages from other editors. Other regional pages are mostly in worse shape. Many regions have no such page at all. We've been running these pages for about 18 months, and during this time Wikipedia has grown tremendously, but there seems to be little interest in them. The discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Current_events#Sub-Article_Merges is still relevant, but the issue should be revisited.-gadfium 05:42, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

text: This is alright with me. -- tariqabjotu 05:48, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

text: I'm trying to maintain Current events/Britain and Ireland when I have time, and there seem to have been more editors on it recently. I'll step up efforts on it. Current events/Southeast Asia is doing well, and is an example of how these pages should ideally look if they are going to exist. I seem to remember Current events/Oceania being quite active last time I looked, but it isn't any longer. As for the others, all they look to be pretty much dead which is a shame (especially Current events/Africa, that could be a great victory against systemic bias). the wub "?!" 00:57, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge the sub pages to here? 

message: Who decided to remove videogames from the Current Events - Topic Specific box? I have searched for the discussion related to its removal but have been unable to find it. Sarg 07:37, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Videogames 

message: I'm somewhat confused as to what to do with articles like July 2006 in the Middle East and Portal:Current events/Middle East/August 2006 in the Middle East, which stand alone as the only content in their region, and which are in any event throughly replicated by articles like Timeline of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. Please let me know on my Talk, TewfikTalk 05:50, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Middle East 

message: The US embassy in greece has heard an explosion.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070112/ap_on_re_eu/greece_us_embassy
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/01/12/athens.blast/index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6254399.stm
Richardkselby 06:10, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Us embassy explosion

message: What happened to Portal:Current events/2007 January 10? IT seems to have disappeared. Portal:Current events/2007 January 11 and Portal:Current events/2007 January 9 are there, but 10 is missing. What gives?MPS 15:05, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok nevermind... someone blanked it arbitrarily. AOK now. MPS 15:07, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: January 10???

message: The Kyrill storm has killed 36 or more people in Europe, but of course, who cares about that when you can put Big Brother's inmates' rants on the Main Page. Seriously... could someone change this? Even if the Big Brother racist comments have cause some international repercussion, they have killed nobody. I'd think the loss of 30+ lives is more important than 3 women bitching around in a reality show... -- Danilot 11:43, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: ITN works by people nominating candidates here. You should probably assume good faith rather than slanging accusations around randomly. Regarding the big brother item, it was included after the discussion on the same candidates page I linked to above where it was pointed out that the show has caused riots in the streets, questions in parliaments and international media attention. --Monotonehell 12:25, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Kyrill storm - WTF?

message: Can't fix it. January 19. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.73.99.194 (talk) 16:34, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well it is fixed now 147.188.225.245 09:37, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: Dink did mention the Armenian genocide frequently, but it wasn't the act of writing about it that got him in legal trouble.  The line in question was actually targeted toward Armenians to rid themselves of bitterness and resentment toward the Turks.  If you look at the section entitled "Trial" on Dink's page, you'll see that the headline on the front page is inaccurate.  Dink was persecuted, but not precisely for writing about the massacres of the Armenians.  Hashshashin 01:32, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I see that someone's changed the headline on Dink's assassination.  Thanks--it much more accurately captures the scope of his article.  He of course addressed the atrocities (as well he should have), but he was talking about a lot more.  Hashshashin 19:39, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hrant Dink headline 

message: This is a section that REALLY needs to be rewritten. I don't know how to format things for this page:
"Following the furore over the treatment towards contestant Shilpa Shetty in Celebrity Big Brother 2007 by contestants including Jade Goody have resulted in Jade being evicted by popular vote from the show, to an empty crowd due to heighten concerns over safety after the issue reached a highpoint in UK-Indian relations. (BBC News) "
First of all, "following" doesn't connect gramatically with how the sentence continues; "empty crowd" is an oxymoron: unless the crowd are brainless or something; "heighten concerns" should be heightened concerns; and i htink "highpoint" should be "lowpoint"? 124.149.58.234 09:45, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You just click "edit" and change it, it's easy. Is that better? 147.188.225.245 09:36, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Terribly written 

message: I think that the text shown is slightly POV and violates neutrality. For instance, it should be said that ..Radicals lead, followed by Democrats..Radicals didn't achieve majority as most voted for the democrat bloc.. or something like that. The fact that SRS received most votes means nothing - compared to the last (2003) elections, the Serb Radicals have lost their strength. This news depicts (if I imagine that I know nothing of the subject) that the Radicals are winning and might create the next government. This very unlikely to happen. And most of all, the text shouldn't express this like a braking news - because in Serbia, it is traditional that the Radicals always win most votes. And always the parties of the democratic bloc unite against the "greater evil" and form a government. It has always been like it and does come like a surprise. I suggest rephrasing it a bit (acording to my personal suggestion). --PaxEquilibrium 12:05, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds good to me. It's a wiki, go change it – Qxz 14:53, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  How come when it's protected? --PaxEquilibrium 19:54, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Serbian seventh parliamentary election (2007) 

message: The Robert Pickton serial murder trial near Vancouver is the top story on MSNBC right now and 2nd in most national US news outlets (and top story in all of Canada). Perhaps that should be added to this, not to mention it should be considered to be on the main page (as this trial involves so many murders it will take days or even weeks to sort out). From news reports, it's one of the worst serial killing cases in Canadian history. 
From the AP news release: "If convicted on more than 14 charges, Pickton would become the worst serial killer in Canadian history, after Marc Lepine who gunned down 14 women at the Ecole Polytechnic in Montreal in 1989 before shooting himself."-→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 21:28, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Robert Pickton trial 

message: someone needs to fix the link.toaster 23:00, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Midwest ice storm? 

message: President of Israel, Moshe Katsav, charged with rape in the ongoing investigation since July 2006. Haaretz LeaHazel : talk : contribs 14:51, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Israeli President charged with rape  

message: Hey, I don't know where to report this, but:
216.120.146.60
Changed the January 22nd month with "Attack of the Nintendo Wiis"
Here's the link to his log:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/216.120.146.60
Fephisto 21:19, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the report. It's been fixed.-gadfium 22:05, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: Over 200 people getting sick is a "minor disruption"? User:Zoe|(talk) 21:17, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: QE2

message: Someone with better French than I possess should definitely check out whether these two islands (well, one island and half an island) have already become separate COMs or not. Links: here and here. Thanks! —Nightstallion (?) 22:46, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Saint-Martin]] and [[Saint-Barthélemy]] 

message: I know you don't care but: &.--Steven X 11:07, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Miserable failure google bomb doesn't work any more 

message: It says January 28, 2007 () instead of January 28, 2007 (Sunday) for all the days. It wasn't anything I did because it was fine after I added yesterday by incrementing the day as directed in the HTML comments, but I see no other edits to the portal. So I presume it's a glitch or edit somewhere else in the portal's structure. TransUtopian 07:11, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I noticed this too. The template which I think is responsible is Portal:Current events/DateHeader2, which hasn't changed recently, so I presume this is some MediaWiki change. I'll ask about this at Village pump (technical).-gadfium 07:18, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, gadfium. TransUtopian 07:26, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

text: Now fixed, after I mentioned it on IRC.-gadfium 08:06, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yay! Thank you. TransUtopian 13:06, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The names of the days are gone 

message: It states on Black Sea Forum for Partnership and Dialogue that "after Bulgaria and Romania join the EU...".
Is the change of use still going ahead? Jackiespeel 19:07, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Black Sea Forum

message: Why is this still such a big deal that it still has a place on Wikipedia front page???  Who cares this much about someone who didn't really have any real powers to begin with!  Please remove it and replace it with something more worthwhile. 66.171.76.248 00:10, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No it's not. The president, even though he has no executive role, is the head of state. Would you say the same if a constitutional monarch of a European state was facing serious criminal charges?--Nitsansh 21:41, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Also, Ramon has resigned immediately after he was being indicted. Katzav has only suspended himself, and if he would like he can end the suspension at any time. And the normal sentence for the offense Ramon was convicted for is just conditional imprisonment or several months of jail time that could be converted to mandatory service work. The maximum sentence for the rape case brought against Katzav is 14 years if I recall correctly, and convicted rapists are never exempt from at least several years in prison.--Nitsansh 21:49, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Moshe Katsav

message: Between January 30 and 31, there's an obscene comment, but it's not in the main page or January 31, so it must be in another of the templates, but I don't know which. MeekSaffron 00:32, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's gone. Thank you to whoever corrected it. MeekSaffron 00:36, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  can't see where the vandalism is