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			== Broken archives ==
	'''Recent changes''' • ] \| ]

			As noted by {{User\|Jtayl132}} at ], some of the monthly archives are currently displaying no news, because the pages have dropped into ]. Part of the problem is the switch from {{tl\|Current events header}} to {{tl\|Current events}}, as each day's news is passed into the header template and counts towards the post-expand size. But I've managed to fix ] just by applying <code>subst:</code> to the call to ] (]).
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			Any comments, before I do that to ? -- ] (]) 09:11, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
			:{{Done}} Four of the archives are still in the error category, but they are displaying much more of their content than before. -- ] (]) 09:01, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
			:(More) I happened to notice that {{tl\|Current events}} has undocumented "top" and "bottom" parameters which can reduce the post-expand include size of particular subpages. I've used that on just enough subpages to clear those four archives out of the error category. -- ] (]) 15:26, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

			== Can someone add a protection on the section for december 5th? ==
	==Turmoil in Iran?==
	The UN's recent report in Iran indicates that the Iranians aren't working to decrease uranium enrichment activity, but are increasing it. Worse yet, some parts of the nuclear facilities aren't even being shown to investigators. I'm pretty sure that something as important as this should at least have its own spot in the news, if not the headlines (I mean, a burning boat even got in there).

			Can someone add a protection on the section for December 5th? An IP keeps trying to alter the addition that states that the Amnesty International accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza by removing the genocide mention and replacing it with war crimes when the article's title clearly states that Amnesty believes Israel to be committing genocide. ] (]) 21:52, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
	==German army racist remarks==
	To me that sounds like a very unremarkable, hardly newsworthy incident. Although the omnipresence of racism is sad, it's not really news if it does not have some broader impact.
	:I actually agree. ] 21:34, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

			== Protected edit request on 6 December 2024 ==
	==Florida Withs!!==

			{{edit fully-protected\|Portal:Current events\|answered=yes}}
	The story about the NCAA Basketball Championships states that Florida is the only school to with titles... ] 12:26, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
			change "signs a agreement" to "signs an agreement" ] (]) 18:29, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
	:Huh? Are you saying that Florida is the only team to win '''two''' NCAA championships in two different sports in the same year? ] 21:33, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
			: {{not done}} Two people signed an agreement, so the third-person plural is correct. ] ] 20:21, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

			== Error with page ==
	==Khalid Sheikh Mohammed==
	How about some objectivity? This is Gitmo we're talking about. Not like we can automatically trust what comes out of there, and allegations of torture and censorship of transcripts by the US government have some bearing on the story. Remember, neutrality isn't pandering to mainstream or both sides of an issue, its staying objectionable to the facts at hand. ] 19:45, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
	:Neutrality is staying OBJECTIVE. "Objectionable" means being offensive.] 11:16, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

			The event which is meant to be put in the January 6 category, remains outside of the box. Could someone fix this? ] (]) 08:45, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
	==What on earth is a de facto heterosexual or homosexual?==

			:Someone fixed it, all good now ] (]) 09:16, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
	Just curious. ]
	: Think they were referring to the status of unmarried homosexual ''couples''. ] 21:44, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
	:: What on earth is a de facto couple? Is this something to do with Italian law? People can't be considered couples unless they get official recognition as such? ]
	:::Look up the term '']''. ] 03:25, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
	::::I know what de facto means. It just doesn't seem at all applicable to relationships between human beings. Two people are either a couple or they aren't. De facto is to contrast with de jure, and neither seem applicable here. ]
	:::::I admire your innocence, ]... ] 04:05, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
	:::: Actually, I see Trau's point. One can't be a ''de facto heterosexual'' or ''de facto homosexual'', although it is possible to have ''de facto'' or ''de jure'' relationships. Despite it's frequent use in common speech, ''de facto'' is a legal term and should probably not be used otherwise in an encyclopaedia. No court can RULE that an individual is a specific sexuality BY LAW, although they CAN rule that the relationship a specific couple enter into is valid IN law. Hence "de facto/de jure heterosexual/homosexual" would be an erroneous distinction, although "de facto/de jure heterosexual/homosexual ''relationship''" would not. - ] 02:14, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
	:::::What's to say what exists legally when nothing comes before the court. I forget what the article was now, but if gay couples were getting some benefit denied to single people, presumably it would be possible for someone to get denied and have to prove their de facto relationship status. In other words, as you said there are de facto and de jure relationships. Which is what I said, and what you said and not what Trau said. A de facto homosexual would be a (possibly married) person who's convicted of deviance in some other part of the world. ] 02:22, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
	:::::: Oops, yes I see what you mean. I was going by the original section header ("What on earth is a de facto heterosexual or homosexual?"), but on looking again I see Trau later rephrased his/her question to "What on earth is a de facto ''couple''?", which as we both agree, could be a perfectly legitimate description of a relationship. - ] 03:56, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
	:::::I have no idea about Italian law but in NZ law, couples can be in a de facto relationship if they've lived together in a relationship like marriage for 2 years or something of that sort. Most laws & policies covering people in marriages and civil unions apply to such relationships as well (inheritance, beneficiary, tax) ] 19:08, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

			== Protected edit request on 7 January 2025 ==
	== Europe current events ==
	Im interested to know where is that section.I think its gonna be quite fair if someone makes that section too.There is for each continent current events but for Europe there isnt.Please fix
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	Hi, in my humble opinion, I think it (this request) makes much sense.] 07:04, 15 March 2007 (UTC).</center>
	:yeah - this is really weird that there is no Europe link in the "Regions" bar at the top of the page. ] ] 17:29, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
	Ditto.

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	== Captain America death ==
			Misspelling.
	I added the death of Captain America to the Current Events portal and it was delated with the claim that it lacks international merit, which I believe is unfounded since the story is posted on many news outlets including international ones, specifically CNN and their website, the AP, Variety, and numerous others, but Marvel themselves also publish worldwide. The recent unmasking of Spider-Man was included in the portal and though Cap may not be as popular, he is still known internationally who have never read comic books. This is on par with the death of Superman in 1993 which received international coverage, though was promoted muchly beforehand. In short order this story will surely be as widely circulated, yet is already prominent enough an event to merit inclusion.

			Change the final word in the sentence:
	Heck, I'm Canadian, and I'm posting this. It's of international interest, and I would like to see support in having it returned to the Current Events for March 7, 2007. ] 23:10, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

			"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that the country will not hold presidential elections as long as the country is under martial law, even if Russia puts it as a pre-condition for negotations."
	:The user who deleted it conceeded on ] that my argument for including it is indeed valid, but also dismissed it as just some 'comic hero dies! big deal' which is a personal trivialization that's getting in the way of objectivity. Major news outlets covered this and its a noteworthy addition, and as such I'm returning the information to the main page, though will trim it down a bit as the article itself holds many details. ] 00:08, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

			from "negotations"
	::I'm rather frustrated as it was deleted again, with the claim that AP cannot be sourced. I had also sourced Newsarama and CNN, but on my talk page the user also claimed the death of a fictional character is not news. Contradictory the death of Superman was news, but its not the death itself that's the story per se, but the fact that Marvel published it that is the news. I still hold the Spider-Man unmasking and Superman death as precidents that should merit this being included. Neither user that deleted it has yet responded here concerning their reasoning against mine either. ] 03:20, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

	~~:::I~~ ~~support~~ ~~putting~~ ~~comic~~ ~~characters'~~ ~~deaths~~ ~~on here.~~ ] 18:20, 17 ~~March~~ ~~2007~~ (UTC)		to "negotiations". ] (]) 21:05, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
			:{{Re\|David A Gilmour}} {{Done}}, well spotted. Actually, although the ] is protected from editing, each day's news is not. You can edit a day's news by clicking the "edit" link to the right of the date. -- ] (]) 07:28, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

			== RSS feed ==
	:::I support it as well. ] 09:10, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

			Is there any reason ''not'' to add an RSS feed for Current events? A similar example is the feed for ] (, generated with MediaWiki's ]).
	:::: Yeah I mean, what with a war in Iraq and all the political upheaval, death and destruction, famine, mass genocide and all the cricket I've got to say, as an Englishman, that I couldn't care less about some bloke from the USA dying even if it was Bush. The fact that people are even considering Captain America as an international icon just goes to show the vast naivity of some people. World news, not "North American + a few other places". <small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (]) 15:21, 13 April 2007 (UTC).</small><!-- HagermanBot Auto-Unsigned -->

			This has been brought up before: ], ], ] and most recently ].
	== Logic behind the astronaut headline? ==

			I imagine that the easiest/most standard way to get this done would be to do the same as ] and use SelectedFeeds to generate one feed entry for each day. ] (]) 04:15, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
	Why is this investigation on INT? Any other American murder investigation in and of itself would most likely not pass ITN muster....why would suspicion of an astronaut change that? If there is some significance to this case I fail to see, please let me know, because as it is this is very puzzling to me. --]<sup>]</sup> 18:40, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

	:No one was murdered in relation to the astronauts. --] 19:58, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

	Just mush talk really!

	== '''liverpool fc''' ==

	Does any one think that the liverpool foootball club - take over by gillett and hick should be noted as a rather big story on both sides of the atlantic <small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (]) 21:39, 7 February 2007 (UTC).</small><!-- HagermanBot Auto-Unsigned -->

	:No, this story makes the front page only in USA and UK. Elsewhere, it's only sports news, and not the most important one. --] 22:01, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
	::You are incorrect - any news about English Premiership football makes it all the way to India, lot's of fans over there :) ] 15:52, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

	==Awakening of ]==

	A mayor volcano in Colombia is awakening. This news have gained importance in Colombia since what happen in ], almost 2 decades ago.--] 20:58, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

	== helicopters? ==

	Is the helicopter north of Baghdad a different one than the ] acknowledged was shot down last week? If it's getting difficult to tell the airborne casualties apart these days, maybe they're unfortunately not front page news any more. ] 06:22, 22 February 2007 (UTC) '''From''' the linked article: "Insurgents have shot down seven helicopters in Iraq since 20 January, with many of the 28 killed in those incidents being US soldiers." So that's about two a week. Ugh. ] 06:26, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

	:: Vietnam III - this time America might win! ] 15:53, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
	::: ] ] to ]. What with who makes the decisions in Washington, how could democracy ever fail? ] 20:02, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
	::::Exaclty, I mean the american system is clearly perfect, requires no ammendments or changes to it's original philosophy and is completely uncorrupted by modern politicians. Anyone who disagrees is clearly only doing so because they are being oppressed by fundamentalists or sympathetic terroist groups - it's the only logical answer (on Mars). Oh and one more thing, if I ever decided to emigrate to the USA - please shoot me out of a cannon through a salad slicer. ] 15:10, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

	== this should be updated faster ==

	I've been seeing that Turkish court news here for a week now.This should be updated every 48 hours,not left here.If you go to Yahoo or ggoel,their news is updated evey few hours.We should strive for the same thing here.--]

	: Misplaced Pages is not a news service, in the way that Google News and Yahoo News are. We have ] for that – ] 07:04, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

	: Eh, ] + Misplaced Pages's general articles tend to have a lot of advantages over Wikinews. Either way, ]! ] 10:38, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

	== Upcoming trial of ] ==

	]'s trial opens the upcoming trials box since the portal was created. Such a trial is not mentioned in his article or anywhere else I looked. Do you happen to know if this trial is still upcoming? ] 04:32, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

	: If you can't find any sources that say so anywhere, it's probably best to remove it – ] 08:22, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

	==again==
	Vandal put: "Thomas came out of the closet". I don't know how to revert it and can't find who did it in the History.] 20:03, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

	: Whatever it was, I can't see it now, so I guess it was fixed – ] 23:06, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

	== National People's Congress ==

	Last year, the ] of the People's Republic of China received a place on the front page current events template. I suggest that this be done again for the ], which opens tomorrow. ]+(]) 06:22, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

	== A New Discovery ==

	On March 8th 2007, scietists discovered something very important. On April 4th, they are expecting for all of the planets to line up which will end up in dramatic changes in the tides and the gravitational pull to be much higher. This is the first time it has happened in 50,000 years. This is truly an exciting event!

	:Which appeared to go off with not so much as a blink of an eyelid. I think you would be more correct in saying "This is a truly exciting event, as far as I am concerned" rather that caliming we're all astrology geeks. ] 15:24, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

	== A Popular Site ==


	A very popular educational website for kids is www.beaver.com. it teaches kids math,geography, science, and much more. Parents love the website. <small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (]) 00:51, 21 March 2007 (UTC).</small><!-- HagermanBot Auto-Unsigned -->

	:Relevance? None that I can see. NO ADVERTISING!!!!!! GRRRRRR!!!! ] 15:25, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

	IT SEEMS EXCITING ENOUGH TO NOTE {{unsigned\|199.91.34.33}}

	== increased activity => categories? ==

	Lately there are occasional days with an entire screen's worth of headlines. It's getting a bit cumbersome. Maybe we should introduce an organizational template? We can have commented-in headings for different categories of news, and editors can uncomment when the first news item appears.

	;Economy & Development

	;Politics & Scandals

	;Tragedies & Celebrities

	These headings seem too long... if every pair could be boiled down to a single word?

	Anyway, it would be nice to have things organized as above... from most to least true relevance. ] 01:46, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

	==Who's deleting FA Quarterfinal scores?==

	Please do NOT remove FA Cup scores as they have reached the sixth round proper (quarterfinals). Otherwise, I will report vandalism! ] 5:44 PM US EDT Mar 1 2007.

	== great website ==

	i love this website. I get so much info on it.keep up the good work.
	thank you
	bye <small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (]) 22:43, 11 March 2007 (UTC).</small><!-- HagermanBot Auto-Unsigned -->
	:Thanks for the kind words, and don't forget you can help with the good work yourself! ] ] 18:24, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

	== New Portal ==

	Is there a process whereby you propose a new current events portal, or do you just go ahead and create one? 08:17, 13 March 2007 (UTC){{unsigned\|Dev920}}
	:No procedure as far as I know. I suggest you explain here what the new portal is intended to cover, and wait a few days to get some feedback.-<font face="cursive" color="#808080">]</font> 18:18, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

	: No, just go ahead and make one. Be sure that there are at least a few people prepared to regularly update it, though, as an out-of-date Current Events page isn't a lot of use to anyone – ] 15:43, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
	::Roger. ] (Have a nice day!) 22:51, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

	== Wikinews links ==

	I don't know if this has been brought up before, but should we link to appropriate Wikinews stories? I have been doing this on ], linking Wikinews like another source but only when there are other sources as well. I think it would help in both promoting Wikinews and driving home the fact that Misplaced Pages isn't a news service. ] ] 18:29, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

	: I don't see any harm in it if the Wikinews article is well-written and references more reliable journalistic sources (i.e. definitely don't link to one if it's purely original research). Probably better to link directly to another source as well, as you're already doing – ] 04:30, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

	:: Why does Wikinews need sources? It's a journalistic site with peer review. ] 05:50, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

	::: It doesn't. But since anyone can edit it, ''we'' can't use it ''as a source'', because it isn't a reliable one. At most, we can use an article there as a tertiary source if it cites reliable primary or secondary sources, which is the point I was trying to make – ] 15:42, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

	== Deaths ==

	Do we follow the ITN criteria for deaths? Or do we list in appropriate subcategories even if deaths likely meet ITN criteria for inclusion ] 19:48, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

	== More Linking to Wikinews ==

	Is there any way that Misplaced Pages could link more to Wikinews on this page (perhaps a small icon like a barnstar next to a story)? Wikinews usually covers the majority of the events presented on this page. ] (]) <small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (] • ]) 15:58, 28 March 2007 (UTC).</small><!-- HagermanBot Auto-Unsigned -->

	== Provincial Election result on Main Page ==

	The election result for ] makes it to the Current Events on the Main Page, but ''']''' in ] did not. Clearly there is a regional bias at work here. ] 00:07, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

	:::Apologies, was not logged in when posting that. ] 00:08, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

	::::Only you can prevent bias... by fixing it yourself! ] 07:21, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

	== Phelps old news ==

	The ] ended April 1 - not really current news anymore. ] 15:02, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

	== Nigerian Oil Crisis ==

	] is listed under ''Ongoing armed conflicts'' but the article only gives information for 2004. Is this crisis still ongoing, and is it still a current event? If not, it should be removed. Article needs updating in any case.--] 19:32, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

	:Why are you asking us? Go look! Do it yourself! ] 15:26, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

	==South America region==
	Is not South America part of the world ?
	Why is it not listed as an option in the regionals ?

	Gigas
	:Because no one has volunteered to create and maintain the page. Several of the regional pages are infrequently updated, and adding another one seems pointless unless there's someone with a good track record of wikipedia edits willing to keep it up to date. I thought about doing so, but my experience of maintaining the Oceania regional page for over a year with little interest from anyone else convinced me that there were more useful places on Misplaced Pages to spend my time.-<font face="cursive" color="#808080">]</font> 20:23, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

	== anti-imperialist march in turkey ==


	An anonymous user keeps adding the word 'anti-imperialist' to the description of the marchers in Turkey (4/15). If you add it back, can you update with a cite to a news source that mentions anti-imperialism, or contains any text at all that can possibly be interpreted as suggesting the marchers have a cause other than secularism and opposition to the perceived Islamist tendencies of the Erdogan government, or discuss somehow why the Erdogan government is "pro-imperialist"? ] 17:52, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

	== Inclusion of Cho Seung-hui on recent deaths ==
	Can someone provide justification, in terms of Wiki guidelines and policies, of Cho's exclusion from the recent deaths column? ] 13:40, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
	:I removed his name, I don't know if anyone else did. I see several arguments against it:
	:*Redundancy. The ] is already in several places in current events, including the front page. Cho himself is linked in most of them.
	:*Simplicity. The Recent deaths column is pretty clearly intended for people whose deaths are not in themselves notable "events" -- an obituaries listing. There's probably little reason for duplication in almost all cases, but this doesn't seem like one where there's a need. Are we assuming people won't find out about his death if it is excluded?
	:*]. If we include Cho, we should include all the victims who have articles now (which includes some that are on AFD).
	:*Precedent. If we do that, then we should by precedent include all notable persons who are killed, or who commit suicide, during the course of notable events. That's a lot of people.
	:I would rather have anyone desiring inclusion to be forced to justify themselves, as isn't that ] by policy?
	:These seem reasonable arguments to me. I also would probably not be alone in suspecting its inclusion was a type of ], but I would rather ]. One could respectfully disagree with these arguments, but disregarding intent, I think these are good reasons for exclusion. To date this feature has survived, as far as I can determine, without a formal policy governing its use. I think it can continue to do so as long as it isn't used in a way that, intended or not, is potentially disruptive. --] \| ] 18:04, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
	:I would have argued either way, but Dhartung...quite convincing. ] 06:59, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

	==Johnson Space Center (NASA)==
	Keep an eye on this event. It is loosely commented about on the ] and ] articles. --] \| ] 20:45, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
	:It seems to have sorta blown over for some reason. ] 06:58, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

	===Can't Edit the 'Headlines' section.===
	As one cannot edit the 'Headlines section, please note that the following headline: "The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in the decision of Gonzales v. Carhart." should read:
	"The U.S. Supreme Court, in the decision of Gonzales v. Carhart, upholds the constitutionality of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act." ] 10:28, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

	: Please note that the 'headlines' section is the same as ]. The best way to suggest minor tweaks like that over there would be to post a note at ]. I've fixed this now, but please go there next time. Response is usually quicker there. Thanks. --] 13:31, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

	==Nigerian Election==
	The Nigerian election should be featured in the headlines section. Nigeria is the most populous nation in Africa, and an important regional power. If the French election is listed, so should the Nigerian election. ] 21:09, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
	:I agree. ] 21:10, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
	::Please note that the 'headlines' section is the same as ]. Relevant articles must be updated to qualify. To suggest items on ITN, please go to ]. Thanks. --] 13:59, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

	== Iggy Pop's 60th birthday ==

	Stooges frontman James Osterman, aka Iggy Pop, turned 60 yesterday. Thought it was interesting... ] 22:51, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
	:I know this is way late, but I don't think that was very noteworthy though. ] 05:26, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

	== Guarding history ==

	By chance i'm going trough some of the older events pages (like ] for instance). If i diff to the versions that were originally archived, i find a LOT of changes. broken links, self promotion, vandalism, adding unimportant information etc etc. This is really starting to become a problem in my eyes. It's a lot of pages of course, but apparently few people keep this on their watchlist or something. Perhaps we need to setup a system to tackle this issue a bit more thoroughly ? I don't have any direct ideas, but I see it as a problem that needs dealing with. --] (] • ] • ]) 23:46, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
	: You may want to post a message about the vandalism and other problematic edits at ] and ask admins to put those pages on their watchlists. Hope this helps. --] 14:03, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

	== Man cutting off penis ==
	I don't see anything internationally noteworthy in putting this story up there. It won't have any broader impact, in Britain or abroad. Human interest stories like that just take up space. Unless we are going to post every story on snowboarding dogs or Darwin Award winners, there's no reason to have something like this up there.
	<small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (] • ]){{#if:15:14, 2007 April 24 (UTC)\| 15:14, 2007 April 24 (UTC)\|}}.</small><!-- Template:Unsigned -->

	:Good cutting. Such pseudo-news has no place in an encyclopedia. --] 14:06, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
	::''"Good cutting."'' - An unintentional pun or you just couldn't resist that line? ;) - ] 01:00, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

	==] moved to recent events==

	I just moved this link from ongoing to recent events. I don't think any new news is coming out from this and it's been more than a week. Any objections? <font style="background:#b22222;">''']'''</font> 16:33, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

	Think this is a good move, I support it
	] 20:14, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

	== Kenneth John Freeman ==

	I haven't checked to see if there's even a page on this guy, but he was recently caught in Hong Kong. Kenneth John Freeman was the creator of the most downloaded child pornographic video. --] 22:40, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

	: There doesn't appear to be an article; there's a ], but that's a different person. You can <span class="plainlinks"> yourself if you </span> first, or submit the text of the article at ] and someone with an account will create it for you. Alternatively, you may add it to one of the lists of wanted articles at ] – ] 16:11, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

	== Kenya Plane Crash ==

	Is there any chance of getitng the Kenya Airways plane crash onto the main current events list on the home page?? Thanks --] 11:44, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

	: This page is for discussion of the ] page, rather than the ] itself. Ask at ] – ] 16:07, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

	== Herod tomb ==

	Would it be better for the link on Herod I to link to ]?

	== Idea to help maintenance of the historic events pages. ==

	I think we should add something like to ]. We can then use ] to more easily track vandalism and vanity edits in the older pages. I haven't fully decided on a Category name. Does anyone have any good ideas for that ? --] (] • ]) 02:00, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

	: Sounds like it would be OK, if you can make it work – ] 06:50, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
	::I think the better category name would be ] . I don't see any problems and will make the edit request on the template, and create the category. If problems will result, we can easily revert it. --] (] • ]) 00:01, 17 May 2007 (UTC)


	==Old current events pages==
	We have a ton of pages from 2003 all the way trough to 2005. It might be a good idea to move these pages to our current "Portal:Current events/year month date" format and remove or redirect (to "month year" pages as is the practice for dates outside our old current events pages) the old pages names. It would be a lot of work, and there are some pages which contain content that might not fully belong in the current events history and ought to be moved to normal article space. Regardless. for consistency it would be better I think. --] (] • ]) 22:26, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

	== Wolfowitz away... ==

	How long do we have to keep looking at this guys mug? Please change it.<em>—<font color="Indigo">]</font> <sup><small><b><font color="MediumSlateBlue">]</font></b></small></sup></em> 18:40, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
	:Lol...not a bad idea. ]]] 22:16, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

	== Cutty Sark ==

	The wording for the Cutty Sark bit seems wrong

	''The clipper Cutty Sark catches fire in a dry dock in Greenwich in London where it is being renovated.''

	This makes it sound like it has been moved to the dry dock for renovation. This is where the ship is kept all the time. So the wording could do with changing. ] 12:35, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
	:I agree. I have changed the entry a bit to better reflect the historic importance, and removed the renovation part. people can read that from the article if they want, it's way too confusing to be in the short entry. --] (] • ]) 13:25, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

	== News link for Irish general election ==

	I've replaced the BBC news link as it actually explains from an outside perspective as to what the background is. The RTÉ story says little more than that there's an election underway, as the Irish media are under a moratorium/blackout on election analysis. ] <span style="color:green; font-size:larger"> ♣</span> ] 11:55, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
	:Always a good idea for the POV issues. ]]] 22:15, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

	==Helicopter==
	What's the bullshit with very very brave soldiers in helicopter?
	:It was just pov vandalism. Thanks for reverting it.-<font face="cursive" color="#808080">]</font> 20:57, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

	== How are News articles picked? ==

	Simple Question... Who decides? I assume someone is bieng paid for this part of wiki, and what are their motives for picking one story over the other?

	:No one is being paid. Suggestions can be made at ]. -- ''']''' 12:46, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
	::HA HA... I know wiki is a nonprofit org... the company dosn't profit, but somone has a job to maintain this page, I'm sure!!!! I would love to know their motives... ] 12:51, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
	:No, it really is just volunteers. That accounts for our sometimes rather uneven coverage of news events.-<font face="cursive" color="#808080">]</font> 20:36, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

	Actually, ] is just for those news items which appear on the front page. On ''this'' page, anybody can edit. Though others may remove what they consider not newsworthy, or not newsworthy in a global perspective. Those of us who edit here ''do'' try to keep it to international notability. There are also subpages for regional news items. ] 17:36, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

	== Emily kicked off Big Brother UK for racism ==

	This seems to be a pretty big story in the headlines, especially in the UK. It has been on the front page of most tabloids this week: http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6729673.stm
	:That might be better suited to ]. ] 17:38, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

	== International Space Station ==

	A lot of news stories have been reporting about a massive computer failure aboard the ] during the Space Shuttle's mission ]. I believe Misplaced Pages and Wikinews should watch this closely as a current event. This is far from over.] 21:09, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

	== Removed ==

	* 62th Birthday of Daw Aung San Su Kyi.


	Not of international intrest ] 11:58, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

	== Edit intro feature enabled ==

	See ] and . It mentions this page as an example. Could anyone implement this to show us how it works? ] 12:17, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
	:I decided to try it out, using "&editintro=test". This gives the page ] as the intro text before the edit box. – ] 12:32, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
	::The feature exists for input boxes (see ]) and for links to edit a page. For instance, http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Misplaced Pages:Sandbox&action=edit is a link to edit the Sandbox; http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Misplaced Pages:Sandbox&action=edit&editintro=Main_Page is a link to edit the Sandbox with the Main Page shown before the edit box. So far, I've used the feature on 'click here to edit' links on the Help Desk and on my own User Talk page. --] 16:20, 19 June 2007 (]]])

	:::Ah. So it only works for manually constructed edit links. Those clicking "edit this page" will still get the normal edit window, and there is no way to have the normal introductory HTML comments (such as present in ]) appear as the introduction for those clicking "edit this page"? Only that was what I read the bug report and discussion as providing. ]
	::::Specifially, quoting from : "This request is to enable the editintro feature for existent pages. Many pages at Misplaced Pages, such as ], include fairly lengthy HTML comments at the top to instruct newcomers on how to edit the page correctly. This feature would eliminate the need for lengthly comments like that and make it possible to include wikilinks in the instructions." ] 17:33, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
	:::::The current implementation, in the Inputbox extension, expects the page to be edited via a link or button-click rather than via the edit-this-page button. To add an editintro for every edit to a page would require a change in either the site JS to add the link or a change in the software. --] 09:50, 22 June 2007 (]]])
	I have implemented this feature here; the instructions are located at ]. I've fully protected the page, but perhaps that's unnecessary and it can be downgraded to semi-protection. I'll leave that for others to decide, however. -- ''']''' 02:59, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

	== Leadership Changes ==

	I recommend a new sidebar header - Leadership Changes

	This would be different from Elections and would deal with actual changes in Leadership of a country (or organization). For example, currently the UK is undergoing leadership changes in Prime Minister. France and Israel has recently undergone leadership changes in the office of President. Once could also include a leadership (or regime) change in the Gaza Strip (in a de facto sense).

	<b>Ongoing</b> would be a period where the a new leader has been elected or appointed but has not yet taken office.<br>
	<b>Recent</b> would be where the leadership change has been completed in the last month.<br>
	<b>Future</b> would be a situation where we know that a leadership change will take place, but we don't yet know who it is. (i.e. The US will have a leadership change on January 21st, 2009)

	] 17:46, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

	== ] and its presence on this page ==

	I noticed that ] wasn't listed under ongoing natural disasters on this page. Is there a particular reason for this? It seems noteworthy enough. I've been bold and added it. --] ] 08:44, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

	== optsioon ==

	Tuletisväärtpaber, mis annab selle omanikule õiguse, kuid mitte kohustuse osta optsiooni väljaandjalt või müüa optsiooni väljaandjale finantsvara varem kindlaksmääratud ajal ja hinnaga.

	== Current events in Hong Kong ==

	I haven't been involved in this Portal, and I'm not familiar with the standards here. I've been maintaining ] for a while now, and it's basically been a one-person job. So I've kept the format simple and easy for myself. I personally read online on a regular basis, and I just add notable news items onto the page. My question is, does this Portal have room for the Hong Kong current events page to be integrated into it? If so, would it get a space on ]? ] <small>(] - ])</small> 00:24, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

	== Why are the calendar, events, recents deaths etc. currently under July 1? ==

	rather than running alongside all the current events? ] 18:47, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
	:On 1 July template, the <noinclude>\|}</noinclude> was removed. I've fixed it now --]<font color="red">]</font> 20:52, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
	::Thank you! I checked the Current Events history and glanced at the Edit for July 1, but for some reason it didn't occur to me to check July 1's history. ] 21:29, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

	== ] ==

	Where can I put ] in to this? It's been released today. ] 14:41, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
	:Just add an entry to the 7 July section. Copy the format of an existing entry, and link to a major news source carrying information on its release. If you don't get the format quite right, someone else will tidy it up for you.-<font face="cursive" color="#808080">]</font> 20:38, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

	== Suggest removal of July 6 NYC Radio Station entry ==

	I'm fairly new to Misplaced Pages and thus I am not prepared to be editing content until I am familiar with the rules. However, it seems to me that announcing a new radio station format for a single station in New York City is hardly of world-wide importance. Comments?
	:I agree, and someone else has already removed it.-<font face="cursive" color="#808080">]</font> 20:38, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

	this page is changing

	== Israel's Nuclear Program ==

	Um, can someone please explain how Israel's nuclear program is an ongoing news story? I did a Google News search and all I got was stuff about Iran's program. If there is no appropriate justification I'll remove it,ʈ unless someone beats me to it. - ] 05:57, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
	:Hmmm, case of an anti-israel editor thinking this was needed. Totally stupid, thanks for reporting it. --] (] • ]) 11:21, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

	== ] ==

	Can stories from ] be included here? I linked one today and it was removed by ] (who then left an angry message on my talk page ). Press TV is a new, government run english language TV news station. It thus joins the ranks of ], ] and other government run news stations. Perspicacite seems to believe that because the government in question is Iran, we can't reference it. Is this correct? ... ] 21:06, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
	:I'm going to assume this was an honest mistake on your part. Press TV is the Government of Iran. Please refrain from sourcing your contributions to Press TV in the future. It's not a reliable source. In addition, if the Iranian government makes an accusation notable enough to be included in the current events page then a third-party source, which should be available, is preferable. The Iranian government has been saying the U.S. supports PJAK, PMI, and Jundallah for months. This is not new. ] 21:13, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
	::Your edit to the current events page borders on vandalism. ] 21:13, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
	:::If you had bothered to read the article on Press TV before deleting it, you would see that it is only funded by the government, and not run by them. This is the exact same model as that used by the BBC. Your critique has no merit. mms://217.218.67.244/presslive is the link with which you can watch Press TV if you want to learn about them. --] 23:30, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

	For future reference, Press TV and IRNA are not reliable sources. CNN, whether you like it or not, is. ] 21:22, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

	:Why is Press TV not reliable, but BBC and France 24 are? All are government run. ... ] 21:25, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
	::Uh, no. BBC and France 24 are partially funded by the British and French governments respectively. Neither of them are ''run'' by their respective governments. BBC does not take orders from PM Brown. ] 21:29, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

	:::And why do you think that Press TV does? Further, I've seen China's CCTV referenced here before. China's press is far more controlled than Iran's. Russian media sources are also often quoted... ] 21:30, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
	::::Are you asking me why I think Press TV ''is'' state-run? It's common knowledge. ] 21:35, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
	:::::So your saying there is a ban on media deemed 'state-run'. Is there a list of banned sources somewhere? ... ] 21:41, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
	::::::You need to read ]. ] 21:43, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
	:::::::I don't see Press TV mentioned there. Which point do you believe covers it?... ] 21:45, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
	::Seabhcan, I would like to point out that the site you link to (http://www.mebusa.org/presstv.html) is not a Web page connected with the event described in your edit. – ] 22:05, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
	:::? I didn't link "mebusa.org" anywhere. What are you talking about? ... ] 22:08, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
	::::It seems that this vandal altered the link. ... ] 22:09, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
	::In that case, I would also like to say that the information is relevent. It has been reported by other sources (, the source is ]). – ] 22:32, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
	:::Do you have a source that does not require membership? ] 22:46, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

	Wherever news covered is an iranian issue, PressTV might be a reliable source. For other world news I'd rather see more independent sources than PressTV. And so should be the opinion of any Iranian if you ask me. Most of all, the things referenced here so far by PressTV are simply just not world news. They are quotes of Iranian government officials playing poker with the rest of the world. Totally uninteresting, and as childish as bullies on a schoolyard. --] (] • ]) 23:06, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

	If anyone wants to view Press TV please type this link mms://217.218.67.244/presslive into internet explorer. I think Press TV is going to have a hard struggle getting a fair treatment on Misplaced Pages, based on the strong presence of editors who many suspect are employed by Israel. However, I think this is unfair. As anyone who watches Press TV will see, it seems to offer credible news stories, not just on Iran but on the world in general. Two of the shows I like are "The American Dream" hosted by Mark Levine in the United States and "Between the Headlines" hosted by a charming gentleman in the United Kingdom. I definitely give it a thumbs up. --] 23:28, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

	:Uh... okay thanks for that. Anyway the artilce I was refering to is called "Iraq: Pejak Leader Directs From Germany". Just search it and it should display without a login. – ] 23:30, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
	:: I'm not interested in that particular article thank you. I hope that insignificant article isn't what you tried to add to current events. --] 23:32, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
	:You are being very annoying at most. It's simply not a reliable source. Al Jazeera is many times more reliable and independent, and would be much more acceptable as a newssource. --] (] • ]) 23:54, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
	:: Do you mind at least watching the channel for a day or so before drawing that conclusion? Type mms://217.218.67.244/presslive into your internet explorer. --] 00:05, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

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Broken archives

As noted by Jtayl132 (talk · contribs) at Portal talk:Current events/March 2016, some of the monthly archives are currently displaying no news, because the pages have dropped into Category:Pages where post-expand include size is exceeded. Part of the problem is the switch from {{Current events header}} to {{Current events}}, as each day's news is passed into the header template and counts towards the post-expand size. But I've managed to fix Portal:Current events/March 2016 just by applying subst: to the call to Portal:Current events/Month Inclusion (diff).

Any comments, before I do that to the other 30+ broken archives? -- John of Reading (talk) 09:11, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Done Four of the archives are still in the error category, but they are displaying much more of their content than before. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:01, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

(More) I happened to notice that {{Current events}} has undocumented "top" and "bottom" parameters which can reduce the post-expand include size of particular subpages. I've used that on just enough subpages to clear those four archives out of the error category. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:26, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

Can someone add a protection on the section for december 5th?

Can someone add a protection on the section for December 5th? An IP keeps trying to alter the addition that states that the Amnesty International accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza by removing the genocide mention and replacing it with war crimes when the article's title clearly states that Amnesty believes Israel to be committing genocide. Onegreatjoke (talk) 21:52, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 6 December 2024

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change "signs a agreement" to "signs an agreement" 57.140.108.2 (talk) 18:29, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Not done Two people signed an agreement, so the third-person plural is correct. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 20:21, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Error with page

The event which is meant to be put in the January 6 category, remains outside of the box. Could someone fix this? Vandam574 (talk) 08:45, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Someone fixed it, all good now Vandam574 (talk) 09:16, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

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Misspelling.

Change the final word in the sentence:

"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that the country will not hold presidential elections as long as the country is under martial law, even if Russia puts it as a pre-condition for negotations."

from "negotations"

to "negotiations". David A Gilmour (talk) 21:05, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

@David A Gilmour:

Done, well spotted. Actually, although the Portal:Current events is protected from editing, each day's news is not. You can edit a day's news by clicking the "edit" link to the right of the date. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:28, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

RSS feed

Is there any reason not to add an RSS feed for Current events? A similar example is the feed for On this day (RSS 2.0 feed, generated with MediaWiki's FeaturedFeeds extension).

This has been brought up before: 2006, 2010, 2013 and most recently 2020.

I imagine that the easiest/most standard way to get this done would be to do the same as On this day and use SelectedFeeds to generate one feed entry for each day. Robinmetral (talk) 04:15, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

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