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• Syrian civil war:
  • The children death toll of the Syrian civil war reaches 3,538, with over 60,000 people killed overall. (Al Jazeera)
• In Aménas hostage crisis:
  • The Algerian army stages a final assault on a gas facility near the town of In Aménas, where militants took an unknown number of foreign workers hostage on January 16. Totally at least 23 hostages and 32 terrorists were killed for the four days of crisis. (BBC) (CNN) (Reuters)

• January 2013 Great Britain and Ireland snowfall:
  • Heavy snowfall across the British Isles enters its second day. (BBC)
  • Another 100 flights are cancelled at Europe's busiest airport, Heathrow, with some passengers forced to spend the night sleeping on the terminal floor. (BBC)
  • Four climbers are killed by an avalanche in Glen Coe in the Scottish Highlands while descending the south side of Bidean nam Bian. A fifth member of the party is airlifted to hospital with serious injuries, while a sixth escapes unharmed. (BBC)

• In Bulgaria, an assailant identified as Oktai Enimehmedov attempts to assassinate opposition leader Ahmed Dogan at a party congress of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms. (BTV News)

• NASA’s Curiosity rover finds calcium deposits on Mars similar to those seen on Earth when water circulates in cracks and rock fractures. (NASA) (Universe Today)

• In ice hockey, a shortened 48-game (per team) 2012–13 NHL season begins today with 13 Saturday games after the end of the 119-day lockout. (NHL) (USA Today)
• In association football, FC Shakhtar Donetsk wins the 2013 Match World Cup, played this week at Zayed Sports City Stadium in Abu Dhabi, UAE. (Match World Cup)
• Olympiacos F.C. sacks coach Leonardo Jardim, despite the club sitting 10 points clear at the top of the 2012–13 Superleague Greece. (UEFA) (FIFA) (Goal.com)
• FC Barcelona loses its first match in the 2012–13 La Liga, squandering a two-goal lead in a 2–3 defeat at Real Sociedad, breaking their 23 game unbeaten run. (ESPN) (UEFA)
• Sébastien Loeb wins the 2013 Monte Carlo Rally, the first stage of the 2013 World Rally Championship season. (Reuters) (Autosport)
• The 2013 Dakar Rally ends today in Santiago, Chile. Stéphane Peterhansel wins a record 11th overall Dakar Rally, while French compatriot Cyril Despres captures a fifth motorcycling crown. (Autosport) (AFP via Google)

Ahmed Dogan assassination attempt

• Nominated by Eugen Simion 14 (talk · give credit)

• Oppose It came, it went, it got a hypergazillion views on YouTube. This is a curiosity (shocking to watch, of course), not a front page news story doktorb _words 11:34, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
• Weak support per precedent, the Gabrielle Giffords shooting was posted and she wasn't even the leader of her party in her legislative body as this man is. I'd support it more if he had actually been wounded, but as a matter of fairness it should be posted. 331dot (talk) 12:31, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
  • I've changed my mind to weak oppose. This man seems to have been the only one in danger, unlike the Giffords shooting where many were wounded and others killed. 331dot (talk) 12:36, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
    • It wasn't an attempted assassination apparently, more like a political stunt - TYTN --Kawaii-Soft (talk) 13:33, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Vice President of Indian National Congress

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

• Nominated by Gfosankar (talk · give credit)

• Comments- He is the fourth generation from the Nehru–Gandhi family. He likely to be the Prime Ministerial candidate by Indian National Congress for next general election.Gfosankar (talk) 06:12, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose. We don't usually post changes to the organizational structure of political parties. When he's prime minister, we'll deal with it then. --Jayron32 06:20, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
• Very Strong Opposition The incumbent minister of India was not the Vice-President of the INC. The suggestion by the nominator that he is likely to be the Prime Ministerial candidate of the INC or the UPA should be treated as the personal opinion of the nominator. Prime Ministers in India can be definitely defined only after the results of the Union elections are announced and after the alliances are forged. Besides this organizational changes are not considered as ITN candidates.Regards, theTigerKing  06:53, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose I will die laughing at this. We don't even post anything when someone is appointed as the vice president of a country. ♛♚★Vaibhav Jain★♚♛ 06:59, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose As above. Not a notable or significant position in the context of a Misplaced Pages nomination. doktorb _words 07:32, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose per above. Each day many people are appointed to similar or more important positions.Egeymi (talk) 10:07, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose Not many Indians really bother about it.Leave the whole world! TheStrikeΣagle 10:37, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose. Interesting, but not suitable for ITN as the position is not important enough. The fact that he might be a candidate for PM doesn't make it important enough. If and when he is elected PM, that will get mentioned. 331dot (talk) 10:37, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
• Pile on Oppose. To be fair, this did make very big news in India, and CNN is running an analysis article on its main page. But even when we step aside from the politics, this is not ITN-worthy by a long shot. MikeLynch (talk) 16:49, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

RD: Stan Musial

• Nominated by Bzweebl (talk · give credit)
• Updated by AnEternalEnigma (talk · give credit)

• Comment- He was also on Template:In the news/Important living people. Bzweebl (talk • contribs) 01:39, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, but that is defunct for good reason. --IP98 (talk) 01:45, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

• Support for RD - Hall of Famer, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, one of the all-time greats. --Bongwarrior (talk) 01:44, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
• Support for RD per ITN/DC #2 --IP98 (talk) 01:45, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
• Support for RD Meets ITN/DC #2 – Muboshgu (talk) 01:48, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
• Support for RD I know, I'm a biased baseball fan, but this seems like a no-brainer. AutomaticStrikeout (T • C) 01:55, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
• Support ticker; helps that it's an FA too. Oppose blurb but consensus seems clear on where to put him. Wizardman 03:20, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
• Ready The support is universal, and although it wasn't before, it is well updated now. μηδείς (talk) 03:40, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
• Support - "Stan the Man" was highly notable and worth an RD at the very least. Jusdafax 04:31, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
• Posted to RD. --Jayron32 04:35, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
• Support update to blurb, universally considered one of the greatest baseball players of all-time, one of the most beloved figures in American sports, front page news on practically every American news website, which is unheard of for any athlete, top story in the New York Times , second top story in CNN who named him "one of its greatest, most dignified ambassadors" in baseball five page obituary from the associated press, more reactions should be coming tomorrow, as this news broke during the evening. It is safe to say he was the American sports equivalent to Donald Bradman. Oh and its a FA to boot. Secret 06:50, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Instead of updating to a full blurb, what about nominating if for TFA instead? It has not yet appeared on the Main page. --Tone 20:04, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

• • Probably agree with Tone, TFA is a better place to go, although it is desirable to feature FA content on ITN. However, I wouldn't quite say Musial is the US equivalent of Donald Bradman. While these apples to oranges comparisons are always complicated, Musial wasn't the very best at his sport, merely one of the very best. (note, I'm a St. Louis Cardinals fan). Among living MLB players the closest equivalent would probably be Willy Mays or Hank Aaron. Also, my feeling is that the RD ticker was created in part to allow figures like Musial who are familiar to only part of the Misplaced Pages audience to be posted with less fuss; a nomination for a full blurb in the past would have likely resulted in a bitter debate.--Johnsemlak (talk) 02:56, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

RD for Earl Weaver

• Nominated by AutomaticStrikeout (talk · give credit)
• Updated by Kennvido (talk · give credit) and Hydrargyrum (talk · give credit)

• Oppose I actually considered nominating when I heard the news. In the end I was not convinced he passed ITN/DC #2. 17 years as an MLB manager. Hall of Fame is too inclusive to give every inductee a pass. --IP98 (talk) 01:51, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

ITN/DC #2: "The deceased was widely regarded as a very important figure in his or her field." You don't think Earl Weaver was an important figure? AutomaticStrikeout (T • C) 02:00, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

An important figure, but not a very important figure. He is far from one of the top 10 most important people in his sport, and that's saying a lot, since a top 10 figure in a comparably popular sport like rugby might not pass RD, though I have no precedent for that. Bzweebl (talk • contribs) 02:30, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

17 years, 1 world series, radio show, a book. Basically a run of the mill baseball manager. He wasn't a drugged up loser, but he wasn't very important either. --IP98 (talk) 02:32, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

• Oppose. Yeah, a managing career of one World Series win isn't enough really. Unlike Musial above, Weaver isn't one of the all time greats. He did have a good computer game named after him though.--Johnsemlak (talk) 02:45, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose. Very important manager, one of the great "characters" of the game, still not of the same league as Stan the Man above, who until he died was the greatest living baseball player; and I'm not sure you'd get much debate on that. Weaver was well known, but not "greatest at what he did" territory. --Jayron32 06:22, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
• Weaver was one of the greatest masterminds in regards to pitching, which is the main reason why he was elected to the Hall of Fame relatively fast, otherwise not among the all-time greatest managers, even with those who are still living (Cox, Torre, and a few others). Oppose Secret 06:54, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose Misplaced Pages is not an obituary service. Not significant or important enough a person for the front page (as, no doubt, will be the conclusion upon most of us editors when we pass on too) doktorb _words 07:34, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

2013 Dakar Rally

• Comment It does need work. From reading the lead, I'm not sure what this competition is. I presume some sort of car race, but what kind of car? What's the competition exactly? – Muboshgu (talk) 01:58, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
  • The lead of Dakar Rally does that excellently, an article which the lead of 2013 Dakar Rally has a bold link to. Although I do agree that 2013 Dakar Rally could make some mention in the first paragraph that this is a rally raid. Bzweebl (talk • contribs) 02:26, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
    • I shouldn't have to click through to a second page just to figure out what the highlighted page is about. The term "rally raid" is still not used in the article anywhere, so I oppose – Muboshgu (talk) 18:16, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
• Weak-to-middling support, if someone does the necessary work on the article. Formerip (talk) 02:10, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Didn't notice that it was ITNR. The above more-or-less still stands, though. Formerip (talk) 02:11, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

• Strong oppose and request to remove from ITN/R No offence, I do not get how this managed to make it into ITN/R ever. I have never seen this ever mentioned in the news, none in the history of the event, if it ever appears, it only get a tiny snippets, literally like college football. Only newsworthy to a small minority of motorsport enthusiasts. Donnie Park (talk) 04:04, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

• my nomination is based on what I observed, events that were more deserving that was refused nomination, example the FIFA Club World Cup, which a month ago was heavily opposed, stating that it was insignificant when according an article in the Evening Standard on the 17th December, it stated that it may not be important to people in Europe but it is in South America and ask South Americans and Africans public. Donnie Park (talk) 04:17, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

• I will hold this link as a prime example, it said that it is not in ITN/R and some argues that it isn't significant enough to be listed, so how the hell did this event made it to ITN/R, the only event worthy of being listed was its non-event in 2008 or is that the reason. Donnie Park (talk) 04:22, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

• • It's a top tier tournament in an international motorsport classification. WP:IDONTLIKEIT is not an argument, nor is WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. We post plenty of football, I'm sorry that we didn't post <<insert your favorite event here>> didn't get posted. --IP98 (talk) 12:43, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Before I get accused of WP:IDONTLIKEIT and WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS, to absolutely make it clear that I am not a football person, I tend to edit motorsport related subjects, check edit history. Donnie Park (talk) 14:56, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Being a top level tournament in one classification of a sport is not a pass to main page prominence. We didn't post Larysa Solovyova retaining her women's -63kg powerlifting title in Aguadilla last year. There is no call for your sarcastic closing comment. Kevin McE (talk) 13:03, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

It was a direct response to Donnie Parks remarks. To be clear, I don't care about the Dakar Rally, but it's certainly more broad in scope than "women's -63kg powerlifting". --IP98 (talk) 13:11, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Donnie's comment was that this is not significant enough, not that he didn't like it. I would agree that it is of greater scope than the womens -63kg powerlifting, but your comment was not predicated on scope, but on being top level in a classification of a sport. Kevin McE (talk) 13:40, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

We're way OT here but Donnie specifically linked to the 2012 FIFA Club World Cup as a "prime example". Regarding the tier, in this case it's "rally racing", not, for example "mens age 35-42 closed top 4wd rally raid". --IP98 (talk) 13:49, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

We probably ought to stop, but the top level of competition in rallying is the World Championship. This is only the top level if you chose to focus on one specific sub-category of rallying, the rally raid (power lifting rather than other forms of weightlifting in my example), but then choose to be selective among that subcategory (cars rather than bikes, quads or trucks in your text, -63 kg women in mine). Kevin McE (talk) 14:07, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

• I would agree with Donnie Park that this event seems to be a niche event that is of interest to a very small number of enthusiasts. I've supported it in the past but I believe it wasn't posted last year, plus the article has several issues.--Johnsemlak (talk) 05:22, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

• Comment I will start a proposal to consider whether Dakar Rally should be retained at ITN/R doktorb _words 11:37, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
  • At this point, removing an item from ITNR is next to impossible. –HTD 04:08, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose, and oppose the assumption that that the recurrence of the event is generally considered important enough to post on WP:ITN on the basis of many of the above comments. Kevin McE (talk) 13:10, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
• Support It wouldn't be on ITNR if it wasn't significant. - Presidentman talk · contribs (Talkback) 16:59, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

It was placed on ITN/R with no discussion at all. That is not evidence of a considered consensus. Kevin McE (talk) 18:06, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

• • Unfortunately, too many insignificant events are, that's the problem. If you go to the talk page, you'll see a link discussing whether to remove Dakar Rally from ITNR doktorb _words 17:54, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
• Keep ITNR but I will wait for supporting it for a blurb for now until a map will be added. Nergaal (talk) 20:35, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
• Support I am surprised there is opposition to this. I am against ITNR as such, but this race is historically notable and a record has been set. μηδείς (talk) 04:22, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

RD: Taihō Kōki

• Comment Support RD I would support this if it is picked up by any major news outlet(s) outside of Japan. At least Google News can't find any at the time being. --hydrox (talk) 13:15, 19 January 2013 (UTC) ed: picked up by the Washington Post. --hydrox (talk) 01:01, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

• Update is also needed. μηδείς (talk) 19:49, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
• Support for full blurb. Even if sumo is not a very international sport, he was arguably the most successful sumo player in the modern era (sort of what Pele is for football). Nergaal (talk) 22:44, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Note: I've seen even Russian, Venezuelan, Croatian and Brazilian sources picking up the news of his death. Nergaal (talk) 22:47, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

• Support RD pending update, oppose blurb per ITN/DC #2. --IP98 (talk) 22:49, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
• Strong support as greatest athlete in his sport. Bzweebl (talk • contribs) 00:20, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

• If we have that many sources, surely the nominator or someone else can get three more sentences towards an update? μηδείς (talk) 00:28, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

 Done There's now a five-sentence update on the last stage of his life. --hydrox (talk) 12:07, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

• Support for RD. --Bongwarrior (talk) 01:51, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

• RD support, really worried that we are still so far away from an agreed and publicised consensus on who might get a death blurb in the RD era that this can be seriously suggested for a blurb. Kevin McE (talk) 09:53, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Posted to RD. --Tone 20:44, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

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