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February 28
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February 28, 2021
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(Posted) RD: Joseph Duffey
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): WaPo
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by AllegedlyHuman (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
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Nominator's comments: American academic and bureaucrat. Unsuccessful Dem nominee for U.S. Senate seat in Conn. in 1970. Article needs some work. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 18:23, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment I have taken the liberality of moving this nomination to 28 February. Lettlerhello • contribs 15:23, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
Oppose Article is tagged.Support looks better now. Lettlerhello • contribs 15:25, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- @Lettler: everything is sourced now. —Bloom6132 (talk) 15:32, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 23:05, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
2021 Golden Globes
[edit]Blurb: Nomadland (director Chloé Zhao pictured) wins 2 awards including Best Motion Picture - Drama at the Golden Globe Awards (Post)
Alternative blurb: The Crown wins four awards at the 78th Golden Globe Awards.
News source(s): CBS News The Washington Post
Credits:
- Nominated by The Image Editor (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Nominator's comments: I know that this isn’t listed at WP:ITNR, but it’s still a pretty big awards show that merits a blurb. The Image Editor (talk) 13:43, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- I've added an altblurb. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 14:42, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose as we generally have not posted the GG in favor of the Oscars as the principal award for US film industry. We did post the GG once before in 2017, but that was on La-La Land's record breaking results [1] which made it stand out, but that's the only time I can immediately find, and I don't think this case rises up to that. --Masem (t) 15:24, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose per Masem This post was made by orbitalbuzzsaw gang (talk) 16:51, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose based on article quality. The article does not have enough prose describing the ceremony itself. It's a giant table farm with little prose; as with other awards ceremonies/sporting events, the minimum quality requirement for posting is a prose synopsis of the actual event. I don't see that here. --Jayron32 17:05, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Poor man's Oscars. P-K3 (talk) 23:42, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose based on article quality, lacks of deeper coverage and prose, lots of tables. CommanderWaterford (talk) 11:47, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose on article quality, very little text and many of the tables appear unsourced. Joseph2302 (talk) 12:17, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Glenn Roeder
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): BBC
Credits:
- Nominated by Black Kite (talk · give credit)
- Updated by The Rambling Man (talk · give credit)
Article updated
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Nominator's comments: English footballer and manager. Article has some unsourced statements. Black Kite (talk) 17:50, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
Oppose for now As the nominator said, some refs are needed before I can support this. Article is also tagged for lead expansion.Support looks good now. Lettlerhello • contribs 20:21, 28 February 2021 (UTC)- Support added some citations. RIP. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 10:42, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Support looks well sourced now, and lead has been expanded to an appropriate length. Joseph2302 (talk) 11:49, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Posted Managerial stats table needs a cite, but is otherwise generally sourced.—Bagumba (talk) 14:37, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Johnny Briggs (actor)
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): BBC News; The Guardian; Sky News
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Bloom6132 (talk) 15:30, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Looks good for RD. Lettlerhello • contribs 16:25, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support good enough. CommanderWaterford (talk) 17:29, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support satisfactory for RD and nice to see a filmography with every entry sourced JW 1961 Talk 18:02, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted Stephen 23:06, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD/Blurb: Milan Bandić
[edit]Recent deaths nomination
Blurb: Long-time Mayor of Zagreb Milan Bandić dies at the age of 65. (Post)
News source(s): The Washington Post, ABC News, Jutarnji list, B92
Credits:
- Nominated by Vacant0 (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Tezwoo (talk · give credit), Vacant0 (talk · give credit) and IndexAccount (talk · give credit)
Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Long-time mayor of Zagreb, notable and well-sourced Vacant0 (talk) 13:29, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
Oppose Tagged for neutrality. Definitely not fitting for a blurb; if the present issues are fixed, it would be fine for RD.Support with cleanup. Lettlerhello • contribs 16:25, 28 February 2021 (UTC)- Oppose NPOV Tagging. CommanderWaterford (talk) 17:31, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment Definitely not a politician at a level of importance for a blurb. RD is sufficient once the article is fixed up. --Masem (t) 17:36, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose I oppose the blurb, as the death of any city mayor is not important enough for a blurb. Oppose RD on current quality, until the neutrality issue is resolved. Joseph2302 (talk) 21:58, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose blurb -- not notable enough for a blurb. Support RD once article is cleaned up. -- Rockstone[Send me a message!] 00:23, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Support RD conditional on the neutrality issue being resolved, as everything in the article is properly sourced. Mlb96 (talk) 07:49, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- @Lettler: @CommanderWaterford: @Masem: @Joseph2302: @Rockstone35: @Mlb96: NPOV has been fixed in the article and the article is now well-cited. Vacant0 (talk) 12:02, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Support RD on quality improvements. --Masem (t) 15:34, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Support RD Considering that improvements have been made, I shall vote in favour. Sadkσ (talk is cheap) 16:36, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Posted Stephen 22:50, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
February 27
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February 27, 2021
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RD: Louis Nix
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): ESPN
Credits:
- Nominated by AllegedlyHuman (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Sunshineisles2 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Former NFL player and Notre Dame standout. Reported missing a few days ago, confirmed dead today. Only 29. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 06:54, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Still needs a few more citations.
Also, why is the December incident mentioned in the "Death" section if he survived it?Mlb96 (talk) 07:19, 28 February 2021 (UTC) - Oppose references needed. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 09:40, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose needs more references. Also surely there's more than a few lines that can be said about an NFL player's career? Joseph2302 (talk) 22:00, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Ng Man-tat
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The Straits Times
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Robertsky (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: Renown Hong Kong actor. Death announced on 27 Feb. The article still in process of updating and sorting out ref issues. – robertsky (talk) 23:31, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose tagged and needs plenty of refs. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 09:40, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- @The Rambling Man: have updated the articles with references. let me know what else may be required. – robertsky (talk) 14:10, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support a well remembered actor, well remembered for his work with Stephen Chow. 86.9.227.81 (talk) 21:57, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Odd that a IP would randomly find this... either way, please read WP:ITNRD. Lettlerhello • contribs 23:33, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose needs grammar cleanup, see things like Chow revealed that he didn't want to lend money to Ng as it would become a downward spiral for Ng and Ng wouldn't have broken free from his gambling habit. Lettlerhello • contribs 23:36, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
Opposeneeds a copyedit, as there is some confusing grammar, such as On 2 January 1952, Ng Man Tat was born in Xiamen, Fujian to a family of 3 other siblings, him being the second child- I assume this means he had one older, and 2 younger siblings, but the sentence currently he was the 2nd and 4th child. And the example above. Joseph2302 (talk) 01:43, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- @Joseph2302 and Lettler:, I have broken up these lines. I should stop the habit of editing in the middle of night. Do help to fix the article where possible, thanks! – robertsky (talk) 05:03, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Comment I have done some necessary cleanup. I'm still bothered by some things; for example, do we really need a paragraph about Ng's grudge against another actor? Lettlerhello • contribs 15:16, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Support Referencing and copyediting issues seemed to have been addressed. Marking ready. SpencerT•C 16:14, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
- Support looks good to go now. Joseph2302 (talk) 16:27, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
- Support looks fine. Lettlerhello • contribs 00:24, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 03:34, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: John Mallard
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Evening Express
Credits:
- Nominated by Davidstewartharvey (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: death announced 26 Feb, one of the creators of the MRI scanner Davidstewartharvey (talk) 12:40, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
OpposeIt's a stub; it needs to be expanded before it can be eligible. P-K3 (talk) 23:39, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- P-K3 I have updated the article. It is no longer a stub. Davidstewartharvey (talk) 10:59, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Looks good now, thanks. P-K3 (talk) 21:25, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- P-K3 I have updated the article. It is no longer a stub. Davidstewartharvey (talk) 10:59, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Now much improved and suitable for RD JW 1961 Talk 21:31, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 06:00, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Peter Gotti
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): New York Daily News
Credits:
- Nominated by Lettler (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: Mobster, brother of John Gotti. Should be good for RD. Lettlerhello • contribs 20:34, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Referenced, appropriate depth of coverage. SpencerT•C 04:29, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose can't believe a free image is being used within three days of this person's death. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 09:42, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- The Rambling Man, the image on the page is there under fair use, not free. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 17:11, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- I meant "non-free" image. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 18:12, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- The Rambling Man, the image on the page is there under fair use, not free. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 17:11, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Referenced, fulfils WP:ITNCRIT CommanderWaterford (talk) 17:36, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Looks ok. P-K3 (talk) 21:26, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 19:32, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Can't believe we only waited three days before using a "fair use" image on an article that's now a target on the main page. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 20:03, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Can't believe anyone would hold up a nomination on those grounds. It's no longer reasonable for someone to go get a picture of him, which fits the spirit of WP:NFCC. Not sure why 3 days or 3 years or 3 decades makes a difference. - Floydian τ ¢ 15:56, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
- TRM I hear what you're saying, but for me that issue isn't a red light for posting like lack of referencing, copyvios, or poor article quality. Other ITN admins may feel differently. That said, I feel this is something worth discussing on the article talk page. SpencerT•C 23:09, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
- Can't believe we only waited three days before using a "fair use" image on an article that's now a target on the main page. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 20:03, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
February 26
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February 26, 2021
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(Posted) RD: Irving Grundman
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Montreal Gazette; NHL; CTV News
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
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Bloom6132 (talk) 18:29, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Support refs + depth of coverage fine. SpencerT•C 19:25, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Posted Stephen 22:53, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: D. Pandian
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The Hindu
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Ktin (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Gfosankar (talk · give credit)
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: Indian politician. Article meets hygiene levels for homepage / RD. Article has shaped to a nice C-class biography. Ktin (talk) 19:22, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Good for RD. Lettlerhello • contribs 20:16, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 02:04, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
RD: Hannu Mikkola
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Motorsport.com
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: World rally champion. Top tier driver for much of the 1980s. Waluigithewalrus (talk) 04:59, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Needs many more citations. Lettlerhello • contribs 16:50, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose tagged, and rightly so. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 09:43, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Sadly, with only 2 edits in the last 2 days this under-referenced article doesn't look like it will make the grade JW 1961 Talk 23:39, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Manfred Gerstenfeld
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Jerusalem Post
Credits:
- Nominated by Ktin (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Joseywales1961 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Israeli economist and author. Article should be ready soon. Ktin (talk) 04:19, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Seems to be good for RD. Lettlerhello • contribs 17:26, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support ISBNs
would be ideal (I'll have a look later)now added otherwise looks ok for RD JW 1961 Talk 18:26, 27 February 2021 (UTC)- Joseywales1961, Wow! That was brilliantly done JW! I was struggling quite a bit with this one last night! Looks great! Ktin (talk) 20:20, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Ktin, yeah they are a pain alright, I wish people would add them as they are adding books to articles! JW 1961 Talk 20:25, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Joseywales1961, Wow! That was brilliantly done JW! I was struggling quite a bit with this one last night! Looks great! Ktin (talk) 20:20, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 02:02, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
(Closed) Shamima Begum loses in Supreme Court
[edit]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.
Blurb: The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has unanimously supported the appeal of the British Home Secretary against Shamima Begum being granted leave to enter the United Kingdom. (Post)
News source(s): Supreme Court judgement, 26 February 2021
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Moonraker (talk · give credit)
Article updated
- Support - Notable case and we don't usually post these on ITN. --WaltCip-(talk) 19:43, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support article is thin but good enough, and it's interesting that the UK will just straight up revoke citizenship from someone born in the country for supposed crimes committed abroad. Even the country about which we dare not speak isn't so cruel. --LaserLegs (talk) 19:45, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose, she lost her plea to return to the UK while arguing her case to have her citizenship restored, not the actual case to restore her citizenship. Abductive (reasoning) 19:47, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- True, Abductive, but that may never come to trial. Moonraker (talk) 20:18, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- It doesn't say that in the article. What if she wins? Then this posting will look pointless. Conversely, if she loses, then that can be posted to ITN. Abductive (reasoning) 20:25, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Abductive see the section “Reactions”. Moonraker (talk) 20:53, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- As you may have noticed, I and many other editors despise Reactions sections. And this one does not change my arguments above. Abductive (reasoning) 21:21, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Abductive see the section “Reactions”. Moonraker (talk) 20:53, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- It doesn't say that in the article. What if she wins? Then this posting will look pointless. Conversely, if she loses, then that can be posted to ITN. Abductive (reasoning) 20:25, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- True, Abductive, but that may never come to trial. Moonraker (talk) 20:18, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose some countries ban the re-entry of purported terrorists, some just deport them to another country altogether without charge indefinitely. Comme si, comme ca. This was never going to happen. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 19:57, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Actually, The Rambling Man, it was ordered by three Lords Justices in the Court of Appeal. Moonraker (talk) 20:18, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose from the news reports on this, the decision is not creating a landmark case law in the UK, which usually is what we want to see in such cases for ITN. --Masem (t) 19:59, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- No one is saying “landmark case”, Masem. The BBC says “potentially major implications for Ms Begum's case and others like it” here. Moonraker (talk) 20:57, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Which may be important for those people, but not for national or international law. That's the issue; when a case only has a narrow application, it doesn't make for good ITN story. A landmark ruling, which would set case law for a large portion of a country's population (eg like last year's Bostock ruling on work discrimination against LGBTQ from SCOTUS) is the type of stuff we are looking for. --Masem (t) 21:12, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- No one is saying “landmark case”, Masem. The BBC says “potentially major implications for Ms Begum's case and others like it” here. Moonraker (talk) 20:57, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose however one looks at it, it's just a court case involving one country with no international impact. Banedon (talk) 21:03, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- ^^^ "this is bait"! Anyway, I'm not sure how someone with Bangladeshi parents who comes from the UK, went to Syria and "married" someone from the Netherlands involves "one country" but yeah, YMMV and you know this is a bogus oppose, I'm not going to point you at the boilerplate, but you knows it! The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 21:17, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Probably because this doesn't actually affect any of those countries. It is beyond disingenuous to suggest that this affects Bangladesh just because she is Bangladeshi. The only country that this affects is the UK. Mlb96 (talk) 18:35, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- ^^^ "this is bait"! Anyway, I'm not sure how someone with Bangladeshi parents who comes from the UK, went to Syria and "married" someone from the Netherlands involves "one country" but yeah, YMMV and you know this is a bogus oppose, I'm not going to point you at the boilerplate, but you knows it! The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 21:17, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose – Seems somewhat less than widely impactful. – Sca (talk) 23:09, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support The article is good and I'm seeing coverage outside the UK, eg NPR and Washington Post. P-K3 (talk) 23:58, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose - Nice to see a nation not kneeling to a terrorist, wish news like this could go in the "well duh" bin of judicial outcomes. Might support if she gets ₤10 million for all her hardship, but otherwise I fail to see the significance of this outside of the United Kingdom. - Floydian τ ¢ 07:27, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Doesn't seem to be a very notable event. ITN should just post landmark court cases which this doesn't seem to be afaict. Nixinova T C 08:50, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose - Just a local immigration case. STSC (talk) 05:47, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose The coverage is pretty unknown outside the United Kingdom. I rather support it if the ruling happened in the United States as the country had more international influence than the UK. 36.76.234.82 (talk) 09:56, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose. Not even the most important case heard by the Supreme Court since January. I don't remember any excitement on ITN about Financial Conduct Authority v Arch Insurance (UK) Ltd & others whose implications are much wider... —Brigade Piron (talk) 10:38, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose the important event for this happened last year (when she was stripped of citizenship), this isn't even on the front page of UK news websites anymore. Joseph2302 (talk) 22:02, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) Zamfara kidnapping
[edit]Blurb: At least 317 girls are kidnapped by armed bandits raiding a secondary school hostel in Zamfara, Nigeria. (Post)
News source(s): (CNN), (Washington Post), (AP News)
Credits:
- Created and nominated by Elijahandskip (talk · give credit)
Nominator's comments: Fairly big kidnapping. Only problem is article size. Elijahandskip (talk) 18:45, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support 317 is a large enough number. 2405:201:4013:80D0:DDFF:E3D6:DCD7:1D3F (talk) 19:43, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose disaster stub. --LaserLegs (talk) 19:47, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment Article is no longer a stub. 2405:201:4013:80D0:DDFF:E3D6:DCD7:1D3F (talk) 20:39, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Background and reactions are filler. Take them out and it's pretty stubby. --LaserLegs (talk) 20:57, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- You're welcome to expand it. Jim Michael (talk) 23:29, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- I'm WP:NOTREQUIRED to expand it nor am I the one championing it for the main page. --LaserLegs (talk) 00:38, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- There isn't much to write about a kidnapping when no one claims responsibility. What do you want us to write in? Do your research before commenting 2405:201:4013:80D0:DDFF:E3D6:DCD7:1D3F (talk) 00:06, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- I did my research, I read the target article and found it lacking details. If there aren't any to be had, perhaps it doesn't belong on the main page. --LaserLegs (talk) 00:38, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- What do you think should be included in the article which currently isn't? Jim Michael (talk) 11:03, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- A police officer was killed? When? Why? How? "Some" children were taken into the woods? How many? When? Why? Attacked a military camp? The same group of attackers or a separate group? How big was the camp? Was it overrun and destroyed or just delayed? Where was the military and police during all of this? And on and on and on and I know those details aren't available but that doesn't mean this mediocre article, which will never ever be expanded after it expires off the main page, should go up with so little information. --LaserLegs (talk) 11:36, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- A hijacked aircraft crashes; it takes weeks for details about the perpetrators or the victims to come out. Are you suggesting that it should not make it to ITN? Simply the lack of available information or the fate of the article post-ITN doesn't make the news less credible.
Articles should be a minimally comprehensive overview of the subject
― which it does. 2405:201:4013:80D0:4908:75E8:B326:830D (talk) 13:21, 27 February 2021 (UTC)- Yes, I'm suggesting most of the air crashes we post should not make it to ITN. To be minimally comprehensive the question should answer the Five Ws. That's my view, I'm obviously in the minority. --LaserLegs (talk) 16:09, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has never fulfilled those criteria, because we don't know why it crashed or who caused it to. Jim Michael (talk) 19:02, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- The article isn't 70% "background" and "reactions" either now is it? Seriously man find someone else to bother with your false equivalences. The disaster stub is on the main page, you got your way, move on. --LaserLegs (talk) 20:33, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- But it doesn't come close to fulfilling the 5Ws, which you say should be met before an article is minimally comprehensive & posted to ITN. The kidnapping article isn't a stub & kidnappings are rarely described as disasters. You oppose many articles for being 'disaster stubs', when it'd be more productive to improve them instead of opposing them. Jim Michael (talk) 21:14, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Except that I'm WP:NOTREQUIRED to do so, and frankly I do not give a damn about the subject. The target isn't a WP:STUB because of the filler. Strip that away and nothing is there. I read the articles, and try to keep the dross off the main page, and I do not seek nor require your validation. --LaserLegs (talk) 22:17, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- But it doesn't come close to fulfilling the 5Ws, which you say should be met before an article is minimally comprehensive & posted to ITN. The kidnapping article isn't a stub & kidnappings are rarely described as disasters. You oppose many articles for being 'disaster stubs', when it'd be more productive to improve them instead of opposing them. Jim Michael (talk) 21:14, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- The article isn't 70% "background" and "reactions" either now is it? Seriously man find someone else to bother with your false equivalences. The disaster stub is on the main page, you got your way, move on. --LaserLegs (talk) 20:33, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has never fulfilled those criteria, because we don't know why it crashed or who caused it to. Jim Michael (talk) 19:02, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Yes, I'm suggesting most of the air crashes we post should not make it to ITN. To be minimally comprehensive the question should answer the Five Ws. That's my view, I'm obviously in the minority. --LaserLegs (talk) 16:09, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- A hijacked aircraft crashes; it takes weeks for details about the perpetrators or the victims to come out. Are you suggesting that it should not make it to ITN? Simply the lack of available information or the fate of the article post-ITN doesn't make the news less credible.
- A police officer was killed? When? Why? How? "Some" children were taken into the woods? How many? When? Why? Attacked a military camp? The same group of attackers or a separate group? How big was the camp? Was it overrun and destroyed or just delayed? Where was the military and police during all of this? And on and on and on and I know those details aren't available but that doesn't mean this mediocre article, which will never ever be expanded after it expires off the main page, should go up with so little information. --LaserLegs (talk) 11:36, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- What do you think should be included in the article which currently isn't? Jim Michael (talk) 11:03, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- You're welcome to expand it. Jim Michael (talk) 23:29, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment - I've just had a go at expanding the article, and this seems like all that's possible for now (though it could probably do with a ce). Will have another look tomorrow to see if anything comes up to add. Pahunkat (talk) 22:17, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support because kidnappings on this scale are very notable & rare, even in Nigeria. Had this happened in the Western world, it'd be one of the biggest news stories in the world. Jim Michael (talk) 23:27, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment – These Nigerian mass schoolgirl kidnappings are becoming frightfully frequent. Why hype such shameful extortionism? Perhaps we should consider Ongoing instead. – Sca (talk) 23:33, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Major incident and article is of decent length now - certainly not a stub. P-K3 (talk) 00:23, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose, has Reactions section. Abductive (reasoning) 02:31, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Abductive:, that means nothing. We posted the Storming of the US Capitol and that has an extremely large reaction section. Reactions mean nothing for ITN nominations. Elijahandskip (talk) 03:53, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- As you are no doubt aware, Reactions sections are widely despised by editors. This particularly sickening one is a quotefarm of useless politicians stroking their own career disgracing the article. Abductive (reasoning) 03:56, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- I get what you mean, but I just wanted to point out that you can't have a viable "oppose" !vote based on having a reaction section. Maybe reword your !vote to get your point across. Elijahandskip (talk) 04:00, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Well, it gets to the alleged expansion of the article. Abductive (reasoning) 04:09, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- I'm no fan of reaction sections either, which is why I renamed it Aftermath and trimmed the excessive quotes. The section should focus on the ongoing search and rescue operations. If people wish to read the quotes they can click the articles cited. Harizotoh9 (talk) 05:43, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Well, it gets to the alleged expansion of the article. Abductive (reasoning) 04:09, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- I get what you mean, but I just wanted to point out that you can't have a viable "oppose" !vote based on having a reaction section. Maybe reword your !vote to get your point across. Elijahandskip (talk) 04:00, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- As you are no doubt aware, Reactions sections are widely despised by editors. This particularly sickening one is a quotefarm of useless politicians stroking their own career disgracing the article. Abductive (reasoning) 03:56, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Who cares that there's a reaction section?? Certainly not me. -- Rockstone[Send me a message!] 04:50, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Abductive:, that means nothing. We posted the Storming of the US Capitol and that has an extremely large reaction section. Reactions mean nothing for ITN nominations. Elijahandskip (talk) 03:53, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support -- notable -- Rockstone[Send me a message!] 04:50, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support -big event in Nigeria, and we should include major events in Africa more. Harizotoh9 (talk) 05:09, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support A perfect example of what ITN is about – showcasing our editors' quick-turn articles on events around the world. This article is just as long and certainly just as important as most of what gets posted here, and while it's in its early form, I have no doubt it will expand as the situation progresses. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 05:46, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support - the article has been expanded and improved from a stub since the first oppose to a point where I feel this meets the required length for ITN - it's likely to be further expanded as more information comes to light. The concerns for the 'reactions' section seems to have been addressed, with the section culled down to summarise key points. 317 students is a large number, even in Nigeria - for comparison, 42 people were abducted in a similar raid less than two weeks before, which makes the event notable in my opinion. Thanks, Pahunkat (talk) 09:18, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- The 42 have been released; the 317 still missing. [2] [3]. – Sca (talk) 13:41, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Ready the article meets our usual disaster article standards, there is strong consensus that it's notable. I don't like it, but it seems ready to post. --LaserLegs (talk) 16:10, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted Article meets standards and support is clear. --Masem (t) 16:14, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Masem: Since this is on Main Page, could you look into the revdel the article needs? There's a ugly red box on the article, that doesn't make it look any good. 2405:201:4013:80D0:5875:6973:2F:27B1 (talk) 13:05, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Done, thanks. Black Kite (talk) 13:14, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Black Kite, thanks for that - I wasn't sure if adding a RD1 tag to an ITN article was the best way to go about things, or whether it would have been better to have emailed an admin. Pahunkat (talk) 13:21, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Done, thanks. Black Kite (talk) 13:14, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- The release of all the victims should be added to the blurb. Jim Michael (talk) 11:25, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
- @Masem: & @Black Kite:, the victims have been released & the number was confirmed at 279 not 317. Not sure how we should go about updating the blurb with that, but the number should at least be changed. Elijahandskip (talk) 11:53, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
- Elijahandskip, I second this – "about 300" seems unnecessarily vague. ritenerektalk :) 01:29, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
(Closed) Ongoing: GameStop short squeeze
[edit]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.
Nominator's comments: This is definitely still happening right now. The article might not include the current second squeeze but there are several million people involved (9.3 million on r/WallStreetBets alone, broad news coverage, 16 billion dollars lost by Hedgefonds and maybe a pivotal point in financial history. Tresznjewski (talk) 14:50, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose The event is over. Clearly there's still ongoing investigations into the cause and ramifications but we usually don't keep things in ongoing on that slow process of what happens after the event, though are open to a blurb if there's something like a major conviction or the like at the end. --Masem (t) 14:54, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- I would say the article is wrong about the squeeze having already happened. The german wikipedia for example only calls the article "incline in gamestop stock price". The shorts haven't covered yet and even more have been bought in the recent days. You can take a look at the NYSE chart. This means the event hasn't finished yet (with millions of people and billions of dollars involved).Tresznjewski (talk) 16:04, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Yes, there is currently some increase in Gamestop's price and its tied to the reddit forums, no question, but its not with the same furor as the first spike in prices, and instead far more tempered. Analysts are watching but its not being equated to the original event from early Feb. that we actually posted. --Masem (t) 16:29, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Can you please give me your sources? Tresznjewski (talk) 17:01, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- I'm just doing a google news search of Gamestop, and while there is coverage of the current increase today, its not like with the attention and concern that the first wave got, and analysts don't expect a similar spike. --Masem (t) 17:04, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Can you please give me your sources? Tresznjewski (talk) 17:01, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Yes, there is currently some increase in Gamestop's price and its tied to the reddit forums, no question, but its not with the same furor as the first spike in prices, and instead far more tempered. Analysts are watching but its not being equated to the original event from early Feb. that we actually posted. --Masem (t) 16:29, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Wait before the thought police come an "snow close" this, I'm running a content history on the article. Will share, so interested parties can more easily review how continually it's being updated. --LaserLegs (talk) 15:04, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- I find your "thought police" comment offensive. No one is policing anyone's thoughts. Certainly not me. If you wish to work to limit snow closings, please do so instead of disrupting this page with this sort of comment. Thank you. 331dot (talk) 16:37, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment still running. Up to Jan 29. There are easily content edits in the last few days so it's probably updated, nolo on "significance" --LaserLegs (talk) 17:18, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment as I also do not want to oppose this right out of the gate, because I think there might be something to this, but if the second squeeze is not included in the article, then it's of no use to editors on the Main Page. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 15:37, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose. I was pretty lukewarm on initially including this article on ITN, but it became a fairly big story, so I can concede it wasn't a bad call. I don't really see much justifying further inclusion on the ticker, though. While there was a brief smattering of coverage on GameStop stock a few days ago, it didn't really rise above the ranks of trivia, and, judging from the article's current fairly tranquil edit history, this does not appear to be a consistently fluctuating event. Nohomersryan (talk) 16:20, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose there's not a large amount of ongoing coverage that would allow for this article to be updated constantly. Joseph2302 (talk) 16:35, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- That's just not true Tresznjewski (talk) 16:46, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose on ongoing, Neutral on blurb. The article has only a single significant update after February 2, which is a paragraph about February 24-25. Given that we have only one significant update in over 3 weeks, that in no way is sufficient for an ongoing link. If and when the article has significant, regular updates we can re-discuss ongoing. If a case can be made for a new blurb, please do so. I remain open to be convinced on that. --Jayron32 17:20, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose. It wasn't that newsworthy to begin with, and it certainly isn't big enough for an ongoing. — Amakuru (talk) 17:28, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose certainly not suitable for ongoing, barely scratching news now. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 18:05, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Re-opened several of the opposes focused on staleness. A sudden surge on 2/24, white house reaction on the 2/21, hearings on 2/18, protests between 1/29 and 2/8, SEC response on 2/8. content diffs are here. Article is probably about as stale as the Myanmar protests with one-line updates about things tangentially related to the actual event. Nolo on significance, but with a more detailed cataloging of the content edits, it seems reasonable to re-open a hasty closure and give some opposes a chance to re-consider. --LaserLegs (talk) 19:30, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Barely making it into most US newspapers. 2405:201:4013:80D0:DDFF:E3D6:DCD7:1D3F (talk) 19:41, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- This article currently has 231 independent citations, the vast majority of which are US newspapers. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 19:44, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- If we are looking at the ongoing, we're talking what is being reported on it currently, and that's what is not making it into the news. The current increase is of some discussion but nowhere near the volume that it was at as at the start of February. --Masem (t) 19:48, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- This article currently has 231 independent citations, the vast majority of which are US newspapers. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 19:44, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose not really in headlines anymore. Banedon (talk) 21:06, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose – Per Banedon. A fading phenomenon and story. Suggest Reclose (by someone else). – Sca (talk) 23:12, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose this trivial story that never should have been posted. It's a minor story about a minor company - it's not Shell. The vast majority of people have no idea what a short squeeze is & have no inclination to find out. Many much bigger business stories weren't posted. The excessive media coverage is due to the claim that 'ordinary people beat big businesses'. Try mentioning the GameStop short squeeze to people unconnected to the company & who aren't finance traders in a year's time. The vast majority won't know or care what you're talking about. Jim Michael (talk) 23:15, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Limited lasting impact. SpencerT•C 02:44, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose There is a second spike in the price but no idea what the impact of this means. There is no second short squeeze so far and it is nowhere near as big or impactful as the first time around. The original Gamestop short squeeze was featured in the news on Wikipedia because it was a much bigger story. It doesn't deserve a second time. Harizotoh9 (talk) 02:46, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
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(Posted) RD: Ronald Pickup
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): BBC News; The Independent; The Guardian
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Bloom6132 (talk) 02:37, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
Weak opposeOutside of 2 clauses about his salary for his first acting role and one role which was "considered by some to be one of his best performances", the acting section is essentially a CV in prose format of his various acting roles, without depth of coverage. SpencerT•C 02:45, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Spencer: done. —Bloom6132 (talk) 03:08, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Weak support. SpencerT•C 03:12, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Well sourced, looks fine.-- P-K3 (talk) 18:58, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Meets Requirements, looks fine. CommanderWaterford (talk) 21:07, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 02:43, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
RD: Michael Somare
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Guardian, National Post, Port Moresby Courier
Credits:
- Nominated by Mattinbgn (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Gianluigi02 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: First Prime Minister of independent Papua New Guinea, commonly referred to as "Father of the Nation" Mattinbgn (talk) 22:55, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment Needs some work - orange tag from 2019 needs attention especially the layout of the article.
Quite a few bare urls in there also.JW 1961 Talk 23:07, 25 February 2021 (UTC)- That's just the citation style; each url is part of a footnote. I agree about the section layout though. Joofjoof (talk) 01:28, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- The article needs a lot of work. I'm starting the cleanup but doubt I will finish it tonight. power~enwiki (π, ν) 03:23, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- This old revision is much better style-wise; if it weren't for the reference improvements I'd have already reverted back to it. power~enwiki (π, ν) 03:25, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
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Oppose'Needs a lot of work, for now does not meet WP:ITRND. CommanderWaterford (talk) 21:10, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment After some improvements the last days it should be good enough. Spencer, thanks for noticing. CommanderWaterford (talk) 07:39, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Support Yes, the article needs work, but Somare was the Papua New Guinea's founding and longest-serving prime minister. He's been involved in just about every major policy decision in PNG for decades, even before independence. He's essentially synonymous with the country. Unrelated, but positing his bio on the front page may encourage other Wikipedians to improve his article. Scanlan (talk) 23:05, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Please see the disclaimer under the nomination: all recent deaths with WP articles are notable enough to post. If the article quality is not yet high enough for RD, you should not vote to support. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 23:21, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Respectfully, nothing in my above comments contradicts that disclaimer or makes a claim that "all recent deaths with WP articles are notable enough to post". Simply noted that Somare's role in PNG's history, for better or worse, is immense and perhaps worth including on the front page. Nothing more than that, other than agreeing with the original nominator's suggestion and rationale. There might be cases like this where the importance of an individual's contributions to the history of a country (or other fields) potentially outweighs the existing quality of their Wikipedia articles, but that's up to the ITN norms and the discussions on this page. I appreciate your point, but I still stand by my vote. Scanlan (talk) 01:10, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Articles that do not meet minimum quality requirements are not posted at ITN, thus "there might be cases like this where the importance of an individual's contributions to the history of a country (or other fields) potentially outweighs the existing quality of their Wikipedia articles" is inaccurate. This is outlined in the third criterion listed at WP:ITNRD. WP:ITN further notes "Articles that are subject to serious issues, as indicated by 'orange'- or 'red'-level tags at either the article level or within any section, may not be accepted for an emboldened link." as is the case with this article. SpencerT•C 01:55, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- I believe you may have misinterpreted me. The ITN consensus is indeed that "all recent deaths with WP articles are notable enough to post". There is no "rationale" for putting a person on RD other than "they died, and the article is in good shape". AllegedlyHuman (talk) 06:47, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Respectfully, nothing in my above comments contradicts that disclaimer or makes a claim that "all recent deaths with WP articles are notable enough to post". Simply noted that Somare's role in PNG's history, for better or worse, is immense and perhaps worth including on the front page. Nothing more than that, other than agreeing with the original nominator's suggestion and rationale. There might be cases like this where the importance of an individual's contributions to the history of a country (or other fields) potentially outweighs the existing quality of their Wikipedia articles, but that's up to the ITN norms and the discussions on this page. I appreciate your point, but I still stand by my vote. Scanlan (talk) 01:10, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Please see the disclaimer under the nomination: all recent deaths with WP articles are notable enough to post. If the article quality is not yet high enough for RD, you should not vote to support. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 23:21, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose not good enough. We don't post BLPs with unreferenced claims, end of discussion. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 09:45, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment This is why systemic bias continues to plague this encyclopedia. Articles on third-world topics continue to be pushed to the background for not meeting arbitrary standards for acceptability set mainly by first-world, largely English-speaking editors. This is not meant as a personal criticism, just a reflection of the system we as editors have established. -- Mattinbgn (talk) 21:20, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Have tagged the article for neutrality and citations. Lettlerhello • contribs 16:35, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
Ongoing: 2021 Armenian coup d'état attempt
[edit]Blurb: No blurb specified (Post)
News source(s): The Guardian Al Jazeera
Credits:
- Nominated by ArionEstar (talk · give credit)
Nominator's comments: Serious and worrying coup d'état attempt underway in Armenia. ArionEstar (talk) 22:27, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose: Seems like a controversial statement more than an attempted coup and unless significant new developments occur, the article will probably be merged into a small section in 2020−2021 Armenian protests. The BBC article states he's survived multiple attempts to be dismissed, and small statements from the military don't seem to signify anything practical. Dat GuyTalkContribs 22:43, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose – Per previous. Seems more squabbling than couping; not much in the news. – Sca (talk) 22:50, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose for now Seems too soon to say whether or not this should be posted. The article is a stub. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:56, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose for now - more like a dispute right now following the Guardian. Too soon I would say. CommanderWaterford (talk) 22:58, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Wait until we know more information, likely in a few hours. NorthernFalcon (talk) 23:57, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Considering how rapidly we got the "insurrection" attempt for the U.S. up onto the main page, I am a little surprised at the resistance to this one, "statement" or not.--WaltCip-(talk) 00:47, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oh, there is a high quality article about armed rebels attacking the National Assembly Building of Armenia in an attempt to prevent the certification of an election? There isn't? Oh, so it's not the same thing at all then. Understood. --LaserLegs (talk) 01:14, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- I'm not sure who you are speaking to, but it isn't to me, so you might want to fix your indentation.--WaltCip-(talk) 13:36, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oh, there is a high quality article about armed rebels attacking the National Assembly Building of Armenia in an attempt to prevent the certification of an election? There isn't? Oh, so it's not the same thing at all then. Understood. --LaserLegs (talk) 01:14, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment: I'm not understanding why a lot of items are nominated to Ongoing directly. I think that there could be a good number of items that don't meet the threshold to stay in the ongoing section (which has a habit of keeping them too long until they are stale), and posting them as a blurb (and re-assessing when it ages off if it should be maintained as an ongoing item). This seems like a possible candidate for a blurb to start as events unfold. SpencerT•C 02:12, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose ongoing - this should be a blurb. Also the article isn't good enough yet. Once we have the events of the daytime of the 26th in Armenia, there should be an acceptable blurb proposal. power~enwiki (π, ν) 02:52, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose ongoing and possible blurb It's an attempt, but we don't know if it is successful. Tucker Gladden 👑 03:12, 26 February 2021 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tucker Gladden (talk • contribs)
We are a small country, off the radar, will never garner attention for good or bad. He's not going to last. It won't be a traditional "coup" with tanks on the street, strict martial law and curfews, but he's done. 2A02:2A57:79D3:0:31B0:764C:9A3E:C190 (talk) 07:50, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- When "he's done", and an "interim" leader is installed in his place, that'll be WP:ITNR and get posted --LaserLegs (talk) 11:15, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- It's not about being big/small or good/bad. Understandably ITN suffers from systematic bias, but a successful "coup" or a change in leadership will make it here. 2405:201:4013:80D0:DDFF:E3D6:DCD7:1D3F (talk) 19:27, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Wikipedia is not a soapbox or a place to right great wrongs. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 19:37, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose for now. I think things are too uncertain right now for us to even have a properly worded article title; never mind a blurb, and as such I think that if we post this, it will be when we have a more firm understanding of what is actually going on. As it stands now, there are a lot of conflicting claims and stories coming out and I'd rather wait and get it correct than rush something to the main page that turns out to be wrong. --Jayron32 13:43, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Ditto. Thursday heard a talking head say "coup" was inaccurate, and that further political machinations were likely. – Sca (talk) 14:33, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: John Geddert
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): NBC, AP, Guardian
Credits:
- Nominated by Elliot321 (talk · give credit)
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: Recent death attracting a decent amount of coverage, article is in decent shape. Elliot321 (talk | contribs) 21:29, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support per nominator, short article in decent shape and pretty well referenced. JW 1961 Talk 23:10, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment in some countries a death is only a suicide after a coroner's inquest [4] and you have to use words like "apparent" or "appears to" until it's proven. I guess that in the US this isn't the case and the article satisfies WP:BLP for the recently deceased, but I'm just bringing it up for someone who knows the US law better. Otherwise Support. Unknown Temptation (talk) 23:48, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Given that reliable sources have widely reported this as a suicide, I think it's reasonable for the article to present it as such. Elliot321 (talk | contribs) 00:06, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support SecretName101 (talk) 03:36, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support per nom, article in decent shape. CommanderWaterford (talk) 11:00, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support RD – Article seems adequate and is still reasonably timely. Agree with Elliot321 re suicide. – Sca (talk) 18:27, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 02:42, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
RD: Vishnunarayanan Namboothiri
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The Hindu
Credits:
- Nominated by Tucker Gladden (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: Indian poet. Looks sourced to me, but some things could be off. Tucker Gladden 👑 21:20, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Bibliography section lacks references/ISBN numbers. Per the article, he wrote poetry and other works, but it's not clear exactly what he wrote about. SpencerT•C 02:43, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Weak oppose mostly referenced now but I still see items in the biblio with no kind of verifiable sources. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 09:46, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
(Closed) New York COVID-19 nursing home scandal
[edit]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.
Blurb: Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo (pictured) and his administration are implicated in a scandal related to COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes. (Post)
News source(s): BBC, NBC News, NYT
Credits:
- Nominated by AllegedlyHuman (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Yousef Raz (talk · give credit) and CaliIndie (talk · give credit)
- Oppose Even ignoring the entirely local scope of the scandal, this is two-week-old news. If this had been nominated when it was still fresh then maybe I could consider it, but it's old news by now. Mlb96 (talk) 16:31, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose – no repercussions arising from this scandal. If this ultimately results in Cuomo's resignation, I'll change to support (but I doubt it will). —Bloom6132 (talk) 16:34, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Doesn't seem significant. Certainly not "Front-page news on many newspapers around the world." (and I've checked). If a development or resignations happen I'll reconsider. Uses x (talk) 16:59, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose fake scandal, and COVID-19 is in ongoing. --LaserLegs (talk) 16:59, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- "Fake scandal"? AllegedlyHuman (talk) 17:03, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose again since someone deleted my oppose !vote. Agreed this scandal is overblown and now passe.--WaltCip-(talk) 17:04, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Apologies for that, I wasn't warned about any edit conflict but it still seems to have deleted your comment when I posted my oppose. Uses x (talk) 17:10, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose in addition to all the above, do we actually post "implications" to the main page? And cooking the books for false numbers? Everyone has done that... The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 17:08, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- The U.S. loves its scandals. I wonder what name they'll attribute for this one. "Assisted Living-Gate"?--WaltCip-(talk) 17:09, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose. I would oppose posting Cuomo's resignation or impeachment. 331dot (talk) 17:08, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Simply being implicated (ignoring this being a state level and not national) is not sufficient for ITN posting. If there was convictions or resignations we may have a starting point but then we'd start questioning if it has sufficient worldwide importance. --Masem (t) 17:13, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
February 24
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(Posted) RD: Raymond Cauchetier
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Le Figaro (in French); The New York Times
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Only announced and reported today (February 24). —Bloom6132 (talk) 18:06, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support satisfactory for RD JW 1961 Talk 18:32, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 02:07, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Wolfgang Boettcher
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Der Tagesspiegel
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Gerda Arendt (talk · give credit)
Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Cellist of the Berlin Philharmonic, teacher of generations. Article was there, expanded and referenced. Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:32, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Well referenced, looks good. P-K3 (talk) 00:27, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 02:49, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
RD: Peter Ostroushko
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Star Tribune
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Bobamnertiopsis (talk · give credit)
Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Prolific American mandolin/fiddle player and composer. —Collint c 18:16, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Weak oppose Article is mostly a resume in prose format without much depth of coverage. SpencerT•C 02:38, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support The article is adequately sourced and I don't see any gaps in coverage. P-K3 (talk) 00:28, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
RD: Bulantrisna Djelantik
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Tribun-Bali
Credits:
- Nominated by TJMSmith (talk · give credit)
- Created by Naval Scene (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Naval Scene (talk · give credit)
Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Dutch-born Indonesian traditional Balinese dancer, ENT specialist, and a lecturer at the faculty of medicine at Padjadjaran University. TJMSmith (talk) 03:53, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support short but fairly well referenced and sufficent for RD JW 1961 Talk 23:25, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Would like to see a little more information about Djelantik, as what's there right now leans a little too brief IMO. There's other info available from the id.wikipedia article as well as this fascinating Jakarta post article. Performing for President Bill Clinton and President Sukarno is definitely worth a mention in her article and it's incomplete without it. SpencerT•C 02:37, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Enda McDonagh
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The Irish Times
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
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Bloom6132 (talk) 01:54, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support decently referenced article JW 1961 Talk 23:17, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD Appropriate depth of coverage and referencing. SpencerT•C 02:26, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Fanne Foxe
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): NYT, WashPo
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Patar knight (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Gobonobo (talk · give credit)
Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Died on February 10, but not reported until today. One of the most larger historical US sex scandals. -- Patar knight - chat/contributions 20:37, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support satis. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 20:48, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose wait more information about her scandals. 180.243.208.77 (talk) 23:46, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support everything looks sourced and the article is at least C-class. TJMSmith (talk) 00:51, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted Stephen 01:33, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Gary Halpin
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): RTÉ, BBC
Credits:
- Nominated by Joseywales1961 (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Former Irish Rugby Union international, age 55, short but well sourced article JW 1961 Talk 20:08, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support. Good enough.CommanderWaterford (talk) 20:46, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- Weak oppose what's there is okay but too brief for someone who played international rugby union and for teams like Quins and London Irish. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 20:51, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- @The Rambling Man: I've added a bit more info from newly-released obits. Hope that suffices. —Bloom6132 (talk) 22:39, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support - I agree with TRM that further expanding the career section would be beneficial. I think this just meets RD requirements after Bloom's additions. TJMSmith (talk) 03:56, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
OpposeIntro states that he "played as a prop for Wanderers F.C., Leinster, London Irish, Harlequins", and outside the infobox, there is no prose about this in his playing career. Doesn't look like there are references to source this part of his playing career, as the infobox doesn't have citations. Insufficient depth of coverage of playing career; rm ready. SpencerT•C 02:17, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Spencer: added an entire paragraph on his club career. It's ready now. —Bloom6132 (talk) 14:38, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 01:26, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
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[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): CBC News; Kelowna Daily Courier
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
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Bloom6132 (talk) 16:26, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Infobox says he worked as an actor, but the article has no additional information about this. Additionally, there are some dubious statements that need referencing and a re-write (e.g. "The tacit implication is that Whyte's version of history is the true story that has become distorted over time to become the legend and stories of magic that we know today"). Would like to see a little more about his writing, especially about his non-Camulod Chronicles works, but could be convinced to weak support if everything else is cleaned up. Article could use some restructuring as well; the short fiction and later life should go before the bibliography IMO. SpencerT•C 02:22, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Tormod Knutsen
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): eub.no, Olympedia
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Oceanh (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Joseph2302 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Nordic combined skier, Olympic champion from 1964. Oceanh (talk) 02:57, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
Oppose the article is too short. There must be more that can be found about a double Olympic medalist. At the moment it is a stub. I'll have a look through obits later to try and get more content. Joseph2302 (talk) 16:18, 25 February 2021 (UTC)- Support now looks good enough for RD. Joseph2302 (talk) 17:23, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment slightly disappointed that this has been 33 hours with only one voter. Whereas many people have voted on much newer RD candidates. Joseph2302 (talk) 10:56, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Weak support What's there is suitable, although brief. Wished there was more about his life after 1964, but what Knutsen is known for is there in the article. SpencerT•C 01:35, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD SpencerT•C 02:37, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
RD: Sergiu Natra
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Recent deaths nomination (Post)
Credits:
- Nominated by The Image Editor (talk · give credit)
Article needs updating
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
- Oppose we shouldn't be posting to Recent Deaths if someone has not been reported dead in reliable sources. If their death hasn't been announced yet, we should wait until if it is announced, and nominate it then. And oppose on current article quality too. Joseph2302 (talk) 16:15, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose. 1. There's no confirmation of his death from reliable sources. As you've mentioned: 2. the article is very short, 3. many claims in the article are unreferenced, 4. his list of works should either give a citation for all of them in one go, or every work should have an exact citation, not a pile of 33 citations beside each other. Uses x (talk) 16:46, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Heinz Hermann Thiele
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Bloomberg
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Ktin (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Edwardx (talk · give credit)
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Nominator's comments: German businessman. Article has shaped into a nice C-class biography. Rater.js says B-class, but, I think it is a decent C-class bio. Good to go to homepage / RD. Ktin (talk) 04:14, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support. I gave it some copy-editing (He married his wife ...), with edit summaries. Some refs should be transformed from cite web to cite news, and the papers linked, which I did for SZ and Die Welt. I came to nominate ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:23, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support. Good enough. Grimes2 (talk) 11:40, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted—Bagumba (talk) 15:42, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Ahmed Zaki Yamani
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): NYT
Credits:
- Nominated by Ktin (talk · give credit)
Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Former Saudi Oil minister. Article requires significant work before it meets hygiene expectations for homepage / RD. I will plan on working on this one later tonight. If someone wants to give this a go before that, please feel free to do so. Edits done, largely focused on citations. Article has shaped up to a B-class biography. Ktin (talk) 19:31, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support,
one of the most significant figures in the 1960s and 1970s not only in his native country but also in the world.The article has been updated and improved.Egeymi (talk) 21:05, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Please see the disclaimer below the nomination. All recent deaths of people with Wikipedia articles are presumed important enough to post. Instead, comments should be regarding the article quality. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 21:35, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for your warning, I revise my statement per your remarks. --Egeymi (talk) 05:47, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- Please see the disclaimer below the nomination. All recent deaths of people with Wikipedia articles are presumed important enough to post. Instead, comments should be regarding the article quality. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 21:35, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose, first half poorly cited. CommanderWaterford (talk) 22:08, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- CommanderWaterford, Thanks. Updated. Please have a look at your convenience. Ktin (talk) 01:33, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support. Updated with a marked improvement in sourcing from Ktin. gobonobo + c 12:05, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted—Bagumba (talk) 15:42, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
February 22
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(Posted) RD: James Bishop (artist)
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Le Monde (in French); ARTnews
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Only announced and reported today (February 22). —Bloom6132 (talk) 15:31, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support. Updated and well-referenced. Uses x (talk) 16:55, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support satis. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 20:54, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted. TJMSmith (talk) 21:38, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
RD: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): NYT, WaPo
Credits:
- Nominated by AllegedlyHuman (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Mick gold (talk · give credit)
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: American poet and San Francisco legend. Died at 101. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 19:36, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support - article well referenced and updated, meets WP:ITNRD CommanderWaterford (talk) 22:05, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Work needed on referencing, particularly the "In popular culture" section. P-K3 (talk) 02:10, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose needs references. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 20:55, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
(Closed) Breakup of Daft Punk
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Blurb: French electronic music duo Daft Punk announces their breakup via a video on YouTube. (Post)
News source(s): Pitchfork, NY Times
Credits:
- Nominated by Vacant0 (talk · give credit)
- Oppose I can't think of any band in the world where a break-up announcement would be significant enough for ITN.-- P-K3 (talk) 17:44, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- If this were 50 years ago, maybe/probably the Beatles. Other than that, no way. --Bongwarrior (talk) 20:45, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- We did post R.E.M., but that was a long time ago. Teemu08 (talk) 22:08, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- If this were 50 years ago, maybe/probably the Beatles. Other than that, no way. --Bongwarrior (talk) 20:45, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose as this is not ITN worthy. Elijahandskip (talk) 17:45, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose. We might just post at ITN if this band reformed? Martinevans123 (talk) 17:49, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- The second Coming Together? – Sca (talk) 17:59, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- No. In fact, the Second Coming. Martinevans123 (talk) 18:09, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- You seem to be comingling unlike aspects of this situation. – Sca (talk) 18:25, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- No. In fact, the Second Coming. Martinevans123 (talk) 18:09, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- The second Coming Together? – Sca (talk) 17:59, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose I doubt that we would ever consider a blurb for the potential future break-up of bands like The Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, AC/DC, Iron Maiden or U2. As for Daft Punk, not in the slightest.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 18:04, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment we posted REM, but that was 10 years ago --LaserLegs (talk) 18:06, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Yes, folks thought it was the end of the world. Martinevans123 (talk) 18:12, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Don't they know we're already on the second ending ? – Sca (talk) 18:40, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Yes, folks thought it was the end of the world. Martinevans123 (talk) 18:12, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose It's news, but as per Pawkingthree, there's almost no band that we'd cover like this (unless of course it was Wyld Styllions :) --Masem (t) 18:28, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose the only band's reunion we'd cover on ITN would be Lemon Jelly. But this can run and run: who would LaserLegs like to re-form? The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 20:26, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose not ITN new level worthy. Joseph2302 (talk) 20:46, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Parochial This post was made by orbitalbuzzsaw gang (talk) 20:49, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
We have a consensus of oppose. Can an admin close this nomination? Elijahandskip (talk) 22:11, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
C'mon folks, let's "Make ITN Great Again"! Martinevans123 (talk) 22:14, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Where can I get a MIGA hat? – Sca (talk) 14:02, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- I can't believe this has been closed to the detriment of our readers. It's (a) in the news and (b) there's a good quality article and that is all that matters (TM). The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 22:17, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- You're right, it suits the WP:ITN#Purpose admirably. Thanks for pointing that out TRM and I totally agree! --LaserLegs (talk) 00:10, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Ah but you didn't support and didn't complain when this was so obviously prematurely and damagingly closed... And where's the support from those who continually say "it's in the news, it's a good quality article and those are the only criteria worth considering"?? The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 08:05, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- I didn't read the article before it was closed, and I don't !vote without reading the target. As for "support from those who continually say" -- who can say? Maybe if it'd not been closed in just 5 hours, they'd have had a chance to comment. The good thing is that the integrity of Wikipedia is preserved by not featuring on the main page a quality article about arts and entertainment that's also in the news. It would be a real shame if we bumped the Serbian shaman off in under 10 days right? --LaserLegs (talk) 12:43, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- C'mon dude. He's got a great beard. Martinevans123 (talk) 12:54, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- One imagines he also has legs and no doubt he knows how to use them. I'm shocked and distressed that the "in the news/good enough article" only now applies sometimes, I thought those were the only two criteria around these parts.... The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 13:00, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- C'mon dude. He's got a great beard. Martinevans123 (talk) 12:54, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- I didn't read the article before it was closed, and I don't !vote without reading the target. As for "support from those who continually say" -- who can say? Maybe if it'd not been closed in just 5 hours, they'd have had a chance to comment. The good thing is that the integrity of Wikipedia is preserved by not featuring on the main page a quality article about arts and entertainment that's also in the news. It would be a real shame if we bumped the Serbian shaman off in under 10 days right? --LaserLegs (talk) 12:43, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Ah but you didn't support and didn't complain when this was so obviously prematurely and damagingly closed... And where's the support from those who continually say "it's in the news, it's a good quality article and those are the only criteria worth considering"?? The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 08:05, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- You're right, it suits the WP:ITN#Purpose admirably. Thanks for pointing that out TRM and I totally agree! --LaserLegs (talk) 00:10, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Strong agree with @The Rambling Man. My jaw dropped reading this, and it felt like a confirmation of the things I hear about ITN from the outside looking in. Vaticidalprophet (talk) 07:27, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- What if they reunite one more time? --Tone 09:26, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Wait, that means they are now Daft and Punk. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 11:36, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Post-closure support per The Rambling Man. Well-written article that's reported everywhere. So what if they once day reunite? We don't know that. Nice4What (talk · contribs) – (Thanks ♥) 15:46, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
(RD posted) Assassination of Luca Attanasio
[edit]Blurb: A U.N. convoy containing Italian Ambassador to DR Congo,Luca Attanasio, was attacked by gunmen resulting in the Assassination of Luca Attanasio. (Post)
Alternative blurb: Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo Luca Attanasio is assassinated and two others are killed while in a World Food Programme convoy.
Alternative blurb II: Italian ambassador Luca Attanasio is assassinated and two others are killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Alternative blurb III: Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo Luca Attanasio and two others are killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo while in a World Food Programme convoy.
News source(s): (NY Times), (BBC), (The Guardian), Reuters
Credits:
- Created and nominated by Elijahandskip (talk · give credit)
- Updated by AstacopsisGouldi (talk · give credit), Gianluigi02 (talk · give credit), CoryGlee (talk · give credit) and AllegedlyHuman (talk · give credit)
Nominator's comments: 100% notable for ITN, however, article quality isn't that good. Would suggest "Wait" !Votes until article qualities are improved. Elijahandskip (talk) 16:11, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Doesn't look like a particularly high-profile individual. The article on him didn't exist before right now, and it's largely dominated by info about how he died. Nohomersryan (talk) 16:21, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose current blurb, as I oppose putting Assassination of Luca Attanasio on the front page. It does not comply with Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia, as it does give attribution. The article is also way too short for the front page, is just a copy of the death section of Luca Attanasio, and uses the term "assassination" which is still under discussion at Talk: Assassination of Luca Attanasio. Joseph2302 (talk) 16:50, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Joseph2302:, I fixed the attribution problem. Elijahandskip (talk) 17:44, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- I still disagree with a separate article for his death (and disagree with assassination being used when there's an ongoing discussion about it). So I oppose any blurb that links to Assassination of Luca Attanasio. I have added an ALT3 blurb that only links to the main article, but neutral on whether ALT3 should run. Joseph2302 (talk) 19:40, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Joseph2302:, I fixed the attribution problem. Elijahandskip (talk) 17:44, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support RD, neutral on blurb Article quality of Luca Attanasio is sufficient for RD, no comment on blurb. NorthernFalcon (talk) 17:00, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support RD Luca Attanasio is a good enough article for RD. Joseph2302 (talk) 17:02, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support RD Agree that the quality of Luca Attanasio is high enough to support. I'm not going to formally oppose the blurb yet because the article is so new, but do know that would be my vote at this time. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 17:03, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- I've added two more blurbs. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 17:16, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support RD – A very unusual event to say the least, but Signor Attanasio was not a highly enough ranking official for an ITN blurb. – Sca (talk) 18:08, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support RD not notable enough for ITN but notable enough for RD. Vacant0 (talk) 18:16, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support RD, Luca Attanasio article is in good enough shape. Also weak support blurb for Assassination of Luca Attanasio on notability, assuming the article is sufficiently improved and expanded. Luca Attanasio is not sufficiently notable for an ITN blurb, but Assassination of Luca Attanasio is a different matter. The circumstances of the death are highly unusual as is the fact than an ambassador has been specifically targeted and killed. Nsk92 (talk) 20:20, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Conditionally support altblurb 2: not sure that RD would highlight or do justice to the significance of this situation. Wait until the article quality is improved. Osunpokeh (talk) 21:02, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment This is somewhat similar to the assassination of Andrei Karlov, the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, in 2016. We posted that one to ITN. In that case, the article Andrei Karlov did not exist until the assassination, either. TompaDompa (talk) 23:39, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support RD Bio appears to referenced well. Oppose blurb on notabiiity, as Democratic Republic of the Congo–Italy relations is not of much importance and incidents of this kind aren't unheard of in the area. Hrodvarsson (talk) 23:41, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose current blurb, term "assassination" is under discussion, also article somewhat too short. CommanderWaterford (talk) 23:44, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD, leaving discussion for blurb open. SpencerT•C 03:47, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Blurb 2 - Nominator I wanted to specify my support for Blurb 2 as the nominator. Elijahandskip (talk) 13:15, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment just to note that there is not one single source that calls the killing an assassination. --T*U (talk) 20:01, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support altblurb 2 Anyone concerned about the assassination phrasing is encouraged to participate in the ongoing discussion on those pages. These articles, however, are in good shape. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 16:12, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
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(Posted) RD: Doug Wilkerson
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Los Angeles Chargers, The San Diego Union-Tribune
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Bagumba (talk · give credit)
Article updated
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Nominator's comments: NFL offensive lineman and three-time All-Pro and Pro Bowl selection. —Bagumba (talk) 10:34, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support – well-sourced; looks like it meets the criteria. —Bloom6132 (talk) 14:20, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support good to go. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 20:57, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted. TJMSmith (talk) 21:41, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
(Closed) 2021 Israel oil spill
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Blurb: Israeli authorities close off access to its Mediterranean beaches following an offshore oil spill that has devastated more than 100 miles of the country's coastline (Post)
Alternative blurb: The Israel Nature and Parks Authority calls the oil spill on its shores "one of the most serious ecological disasters" in the country’s history.
Alternative blurb II: Nine ships are currently under investigation of Israeli and European authorities after an oil spill blackened 160 km of shores in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.
News source(s): Washington Post, BBC, The Guardian
Credits:
- Created and nominated by Chianti (talk · give credit)
- Oppose It does not sound like a significantly large oil spill in terms of volumes of oil loss, only that via flow the small amount that was spilt/leaked was distributed along a long stretch of beach. And it is comparatively small relative to oil spills on the international scale (eg Exxon Valdez). --Masem (t) 14:12, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment – Coverage kinda sketchy. – Sca (talk) 19:14, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment I understand it's getting to be night in Israel about now, but I added a translate Hebrew tag to the top of this article about five hours ago, and as of right now that's still the last update this page has gotten. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 19:19, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose no way to attribute it to a cause. If it's from an old spill, the info belongs there. There isn't enough info the the article to feature it on the main page anyway. --LaserLegs (talk) 01:41, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Martha Stewart (actress)
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The Hollywood Reporter; PopCulture.com
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: Only announced and reported today (February 21). —Bloom6132 (talk) 07:34, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support - article well referenced and updated. Note to self: Read the disambiguator before jumping to conclusions about the subject. - Floydian τ ¢ 14:58, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Well sourced, and should see a spike in clicks after going on the Main Page from "OMG! Martha Stewart died?" AllegedlyHuman (talk) 15:12, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Weak oppose Career section is essentially a list of film roles in prose format. Limited depth of coverage. SpencerT•C 15:34, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment. I might suggest this be posted either with her full name or the disambiguation, to avoid confusion with the "other" Stewart. 331dot (talk) 15:37, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Can we do that? I didn't even know that was an option (well, I suppose everything's an option, but I digress). AllegedlyHuman (talk) 15:40, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- I'm not keen on using Martha Stewart (actress) on front page, as it takes up more space. So might cause us to kick more people off the RDs, just because we don't want to "mislead". We've never done this before so far as I am aware, for people with the same name. Joseph2302 (talk) 17:13, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- If we post "Martha Stewart" without any sort of qualifier/differentiation on RD people will think that Martha Stewart died. I feel like we have done this before but I cannot recall exactly when. 331dot (talk) 17:53, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Including her middle name would be enough to remove the ambiguity, and is slightly "cheaper" at 5 characters. - Floydian τ ¢ 18:11, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- No, it wouldn't. I didn't know what Martha Stewart's middle name was until I just looked and saw what it was. The confusion will be inevitable. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:44, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Exactly. You see "Martha Ruth Stewart" and you aren't likely to jump to the conclusion that the recently deceased is the television personality. In any case, WP:SURPRISE should really be considered here. - Floydian τ ¢ 19:49, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- No, it wouldn't. I didn't know what Martha Stewart's middle name was until I just looked and saw what it was. The confusion will be inevitable. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:44, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Including her middle name would be enough to remove the ambiguity, and is slightly "cheaper" at 5 characters. - Floydian τ ¢ 18:11, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- If we post "Martha Stewart" without any sort of qualifier/differentiation on RD people will think that Martha Stewart died. I feel like we have done this before but I cannot recall exactly when. 331dot (talk) 17:53, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- I'm not keen on using Martha Stewart (actress) on front page, as it takes up more space. So might cause us to kick more people off the RDs, just because we don't want to "mislead". We've never done this before so far as I am aware, for people with the same name. Joseph2302 (talk) 17:13, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Can we do that? I didn't even know that was an option (well, I suppose everything's an option, but I digress). AllegedlyHuman (talk) 15:40, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support good enough for RD. Joseph2302 (talk) 17:13, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Well sourced, good enough.-- P-K3 (talk) 18:02, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted – Muboshgu (talk) 19:45, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- (please) CHANGE display to say "Martha Ruth Stewart" (or "Martha Stewart (actress)"). WP:SURPRISE is a huge problem here. @Muboshgu: Per the discussion above, it seems like adding her middle name "Ruth" might be the wisest move. Otherwise, it seems misleading on Wikipedia's part. Paintspot Infez (talk) 21:39, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Paintspot, that page is about writing better articles, not about main page postings. Honest question: does anybody know Martha Stewart's middle name? Either the one who died or the one who hangs with Snoop Dogg? Would adding a middle name really reduce possible confusion? – Muboshgu (talk) 21:55, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Changing to "Martha Shelley" both to avoid confusion and as that was the name she was living under as of 2012. I don't know to what extent there's precedent for this, and maybe in prior cases we have left the name as is, but I feel that is quite suboptimal given the stature of the "other" Martha Stewart and this discussion. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 22:09, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- John M Wolfson Personally, I've never heard of the "other" Martha Stewart and I'm guessing 95% of people outside the US haven't either. I would change it back to the WP:COMMONNAME, to be honest. Black Kite (talk) 23:13, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Maybe they have and maybe they haven't, but Martha Stewart averages thousands more daily pageviews than all of the current RDs combined. --Bongwarrior (talk) 23:39, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Black Kite You might have a fair point and I am not qualified to note UK name recognition, but as Bongwarrior states she is certainly the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC and indeed such a household name in the US that substantial confusion/misunderstanding is likely. On further thought, "Martha Stewart (actress)" seems ideal, but I don't know whether we've historically included disambiguators to RD. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 23:55, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- I'm in the UK and have heard of the other Martha Stewart. That said, I think this sets a bad precedent as everytime we have someone die whose article isn't the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, people might now try and change the name displayed, using this RD as justification for it. Joseph2302 (talk) 09:23, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- "Martha Shelly" is a good compromise, else it needs to be "Martha Stewart (actress)" to avoid obvious WP:SURPRISE --LaserLegs (talk) 23:24, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment For the future, we might want to lay down some rules for what to do when a person dies but another person is the clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC under the same name. It could happen more than you think it may. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 00:23, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Agreed; I think including the disambiguation is sufficient. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 00:45, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Use COMMONNAME (or parenthetical, if we must). The actress averaged 100 views/day, a good amount for someone who was no longer active in their career. It's a disservice to most who likely don't know her legal name and otherwise don't already know that she died (and now, probably still wouldn't now). There is merit to a parenthetical, but it's also a slippery slope of which non-primary topics warrant this treatment.—Bagumba (talk) 04:51, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Bagumba, why not go ahead and use Martha Stewart Shelley if the other name can create some confusion? Cheers. Ktin (talk) 04:58, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Dicey if the decision for the page title was to use a parenthetical over WP:NATURALDIS, which says
Do not, however, use obscure or made-up names.
(obscure in this case).—Bagumba (talk) 05:07, 23 February 2021 (UTC)- Bagumba, fair enough. This one is clearly outside of my knowhow. Cheers. Ktin (talk) 05:10, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Dicey if the decision for the page title was to use a parenthetical over WP:NATURALDIS, which says
- Bagumba, why not go ahead and use Martha Stewart Shelley if the other name can create some confusion? Cheers. Ktin (talk) 04:58, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Changed to Martha Stewart (actress) for the time being per above, although personally I would favour the original form with just Martha Stewart. It doesn't seem right to use a name that isn't the one she's known by, just because there's someone more famous with the same name. I also don't think she should appear with a disambiguator on the main page, because that's not how we do things and again, it's not very polite to her to treat her differently because of her namesake; but we can continue arguing the toss on that point... — Amakuru (talk) 10:40, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- There is now a discussion about this topic on the ITN talkpage. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 17:02, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
February 20
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(Posted) RD: Joe Burke (accordionist)
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The Irish Times; Irish Examiner; Raidió Teilifís Éireann
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Bloom6132 (talk) 11:50, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Depth is good enough, although would prefer to see a tad more (but either way suitable for RD as-is). SpencerT•C 22:47, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted. Black Kite (talk) 22:52, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Douglas Turner Ward
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The New York Times
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Bloom6132 (talk) 02:59, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support No issues that I can see. SpencerT•C 22:44, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted. Black Kite (talk) 22:52, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Stan Williams (baseball)
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Associated Press; MLB.com
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Bloom6132 (talk) 09:38, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
Conditionalsupport Paragraph on World Series appearances needs a reference or two but otherwise this looks good to go. SpencerT•C 15:36, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Spencer: done. —Bloom6132 (talk) 21:25, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. Ping me if any issues (as I'm the sole supporter, but otherwise has been ready for >24 hours). SpencerT•C 22:43, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
RD: Gerald Cardinale
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Associated Press; NorthJersey.com
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Bloom6132 (talk) 13:20, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Limited depth of coverage of what was accomplished in his political career. Although I see a lot of similar NJ politician articles have committee assignments listed in bullet points, IMO it would be more helpful to have them in prose integrated with a larger section about his political career. SpencerT•C 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Little amount of information about his political career. Vacant0 (talk) 13:47, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
(Closed) United Airlines Flight 328
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Blurb: United Airlines Flight 328 has emergency-landed in Denver after one of the engines combusted and fell out. (Post)
Alternative blurb: United Airlines Flight 328 makes an emergency landing in Denver after one of the engines combusted and fell out.
Credits:
- Nominated by ActuallyNeverHappened02 (talk · give credit)
- Created by Kencf0618 (talk · give credit)
- Updated by AnAUsedSubcompact (talk · give credit)
- Support on notability catastrophic mid-flight engine failures are exceedingly rare and fortunately a skilled flight crew was able to land the aircraft safely. The article is still too stubby for main page. --LaserLegs (talk) 01:52, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose seems more suitable to DYK. power~enwiki (π, ν) 01:55, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose -- it is a rare occurrence, but in the absence of death or serious injury, I do not think it is appropriate for ITN. -- Rockstone[Send me a message!] 04:06, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose as the article is currently five sentences long. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 04:49, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose due to poor article quality. Even if the article is improved, the lack of casualties means the breakup is not that notable for ITN. INeedSupport 😷 06:25, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose whilst it's a bit unusual, not seeing it as important enough for DYK. And article is way too short. Joseph2302 (talk) 08:37, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Article quality is poor and no real significance. Gex4pls (talk) 14:57, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose – Lacks general significance. No injuries. – Sca (talk) 17:57, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose we don't even post every plane crash, nor have articles for every engine failure that requires emergency landing. Zero significance. It's a slow news period and it doesn't happen as much in the US as the rest of the world, but not a snowball's chance in hell. Kingsif (talk) 18:19, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Question If an article is proposed for deletion, doesn't that change it's status here? Martinevans123 (talk) 22:01, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Yes, it's ineligible if it's at AfD. Sometimes a speedy keep can save it (seems rather pointless in this case). --LaserLegs (talk) 22:08, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Looking like a snow keep though. Don't see much point in keeping the AfD open now. Mjroots (talk) 11:00, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oddly enough, a somewhat similar incident, involving a 747, occurred Saturday in the Netherlands. – Sca (talk) 14:02, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Yes, it's ineligible if it's at AfD. Sometimes a speedy keep can save it (seems rather pointless in this case). --LaserLegs (talk) 22:08, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
(Closed) Ongoing: 2021 Texas power crisis
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Blurb: No blurb specified (Post)
News source(s): (Wall Street Journal), (NBC News), (CNBC), (Australian Financial Review)
Credits:
- Nominated by Elijahandskip (talk · give credit)
- Created by Burritok (talk · give credit)
- Updated by AllegedlyHuman (talk · give credit) and EDG 543 (talk · give credit)
- Oppose this is literally a blurb right now, and we already voted not to put this ongoing yesterday. power~enwiki (π, ν) 20:13, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Yesterday's vote was before Joe Biden declared a disaster emergency. Please keep that in mind. Elijahandskip (talk) 20:14, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose as the person who nominated this originally. The broad consensus during the original nomination was to wait until after the storm shuffled off ITN before nominating again. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 20:15, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Recant nomination as the person who nominated this time, I recant it. Elijahandskip (talk) 20:21, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) 2021 Australian Open
[edit]Blurb: In tennis, Naomi Osaka (pictured) wins the Women's Singles and Novak Djokovic wins the Men's Singles at the Australian Open. (Post)
Alternative blurb: In tennis, Naomi Osaka and Novak Djokovic win the Women's Singles and the Men's Singles, respectively, at the Australian Open.
News source(s): Yahoo, Guardian The New York Times
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by PCN02WPS (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Fyunck(click) (talk · give credit), HawkAussie (talk · give credit), ApprenticeFan (talk · give credit) and 110.137.166.20 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
The nominated event is listed on WP:ITN/R, so each occurrence is presumed to be important enough to post. Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article and update meet WP:ITNCRIT, not the significance.
Nominator's comments: Article is being worked on, see talk for discussion about page improvements and changes (prose will be present in each event section). Men's final is scheduled for 21 February at 7:30 p.m. local AEDT (3:30 a.m. EST) and winner will be added to blurb when it concludes. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 10:03, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
Opposetarget article appears to have no prose about the final, just a scoreline The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 10:32, 20 February 2021 (UTC)- Wait until the men's singles final is decided and post a combined blurb. The article can be expanded with prose in the meantime.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 11:29, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- There would be no need to wait if there was any prose to speak of in the women's articles. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 12:05, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Kiril Simeonovski, thanks for your patience. I'll be updating with prose today and it should be ready in that regard by the time the men's final is held. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 17:10, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Wait the ITNR for this says that men's and women's results are posted together. So wait until men's tournament is over, tomorrow. Also currently opposing on article quality, as I agree with points made by TRM. Joseph2302 (talk) 17:56, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- I don't think that means they have to be posted together simultaneously. The note is to ensure that both men's and women's champions are posted (if quality is sufficient). If the women's article was sufficient, there'd be literally no benefit in not posting it already. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 11:34, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment When i support it to be posted because it is ITNR, I agrees with another user to wait for men's final. A nominator or other users can amend the original blurb once final men's results released. 110.137.166.20 (talk) 00:20, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Wait - Wait until the men's result is posted. But for now we need to expand the prose for the other finals. HawkAussie (talk) 01:35, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose reiterated, now both results are in, neither are given any kind of prose summary in any linked article I can see. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 11:41, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- @The Rambling Man: What 'bout the third paragraph in the lead? RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 19:17, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Well there are just two problems with that: 1) there shouldn't be anything in the lead that isn't in the main part of the article and 2) if that's the extent of the summary of what happened in the final, like one sentence per each of men's and women's, it's far from adequate. Hard fail. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 19:36, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- @The Rambling Man: What 'bout the third paragraph in the lead? RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 19:17, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- The Rambling Man, TRM -- quick check. The bolded article has a section for all events e.g. men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles, mixed doubles etc. I can give the men's singles and women's singles a pass. Do we need to fill all the other events? Let me know. Cheers. Ktin (talk) 22:25, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- You can't really give a pass for just a heading and a single-sentence update. We're looking for prose summaries of the finals here, not just a load of stats. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 22:27, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- The Rambling Man, have given the men's singles event a prose update here 2021_Australian_Open. Definitely more than a heading and single sentence update :) Ktin (talk) 22:53, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks Ktin - I am currently doing the same for the Women's singles. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 22:56, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- PCN02WPS, nice! Did some minor adds -- Women's singles looks good to go as well. Ktin (talk) 23:13, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks Ktin - I am currently doing the same for the Women's singles. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 22:56, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- The Rambling Man, have given the men's singles event a prose update here 2021_Australian_Open. Definitely more than a heading and single sentence update :) Ktin (talk) 22:53, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- You can't really give a pass for just a heading and a single-sentence update. We're looking for prose summaries of the finals here, not just a load of stats. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 22:27, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- The Rambling Man, TRM -- quick check. The bolded article has a section for all events e.g. men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles, mixed doubles etc. I can give the men's singles and women's singles a pass. Do we need to fill all the other events? Let me know. Cheers. Ktin (talk) 22:25, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Concerns listed above seem to have been resolved. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 19:17, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment prose now added in all events. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 22:47, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Masem: -- please can I bother you again to work your magic when convenient, for a composite picture of both winners. Thanks in advance. Ktin (talk) 23:35, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Composite image is ready here: File:NaomiOsaka-NovakDjokovic-2021AusOpenComposite.jpg --Masem (t) 21:40, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Stephen, could we replace the image of Djokovic on the main page with this composite? PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 23:15, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Masem, Thanks Masem. Ktin (talk) 02:23, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Composite image is ready here: File:NaomiOsaka-NovakDjokovic-2021AusOpenComposite.jpg --Masem (t) 21:40, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted Stephen 23:47, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Pull Articles have prose problem still. Tucker Gladden 👑 00:02, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- TuckerGladden, what parts of the article still need work, in your opinion? PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 00:24, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- PCN02WPS I just looked over the article again, it looks better now. Support. Tucker Gladden 👑 02:17, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- TuckerGladden, what parts of the article still need work, in your opinion? PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 00:24, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Good job with the finals write-ups. P-K3 (talk) 00:27, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
(Closed) First human H5N8 cases
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Blurb: In Russia, the first cases of human infection with the H5N8 bird flu were detected (Post)
News source(s): TASS, Interfax
Credits:
- Nominated by MarcusTraianus (talk · give credit)
- Oppose Aside from any notability concerns (which I certainly have), the target article isn't in the best condition, with 2 cn tags and a clarification needed tag. Gex4pls (talk) 15:17, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Then the article must be supplemented or rewritten. The event itself does not become less important from the quality of the article. Or we can link to an article about the virus itself. MarcusTraianus (talk) 15:23, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Well it's not just that. Unless something else becomes of this, this would just become another short story similar to the Eluru Outbreak from a few months back. I realize that this is a first for H5N8, but unless this becomes another pandemic I don't see any importance to this. (not to mention that, according to the moscow times, the virus can't even transmit between humans yet. 1)Gex4pls (talk) 16:23, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Then the article must be supplemented or rewritten. The event itself does not become less important from the quality of the article. Or we can link to an article about the virus itself. MarcusTraianus (talk) 15:23, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose as this is probably a premature nomination - right now I can't find any news that this has resulted in any fatalities and the Russian cases have been described as "mild" according to the article. I don't believe that a bird-borne disease that has still not caused any human fatalities is notable enough. Besides, ITN on Wikipedia is meant to report on what has happened, and not what may happen, so alerting the global community about a potential pandemic is not what ITN is meant for, though the nomination is obviously done in WP:GOOD FAITH. It's WHO's job to warn people. Not our job. 45.251.33.97 (talk) 15:52, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose at this time. There are many different influenza subtypes, and frequently these infect humans. Let's wait and see if this becomes a bigger story. SpencerT•C 17:39, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose on importance Russia has said it's the case but this doesn't looked to have been picked up by news agencies in many other countries. And it's currently 2 sentences of that article. Also there are multiple citation needed and clarification tags that would need to be fixed, so opposing on quality too. Joseph2302 (talk) 17:53, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
February 19
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(Posted) RD: Dianna Ortiz
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): NYT, WaPo
Credits:
- Nominated by AllegedlyHuman (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Possibly (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: American nun tortured in Guatemala, whose case led to massive legal repercussions for Guatemala and revelations of CIA funding after intervention by Bill Clinton. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 20:20, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. There was an unreferenced section so I added 2 refs. Normally I let noms sit a little longer, but because this is about to age off, I went ahead and posted. Ping me if issues. SpencerT•C 02:08, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Barbara Ann Rowan
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): NYT
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Innisfree987 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: First Black woman to be a prosecutor with SDNY. Died in October but her husband who had COVID at the same time did not announce until now; news coverage dates to Feb 19. Innisfree987 (talk) 21:34, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Referenced, meets minimum depth of coverage standards. SpencerT•C 23:35, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted by TJMSmith as their first post after making Admin. Congrats on your Adminship TJMSmith. Looking forward to your work here. Good luck. Ktin (talk) 05:12, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Arturo Di Modica
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): BBC
Credits:
- Nominated by Ktin (talk · give credit)
Article needs updating
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: Artist with works including Wall street bull. Basic edits done and article seems to meet hygiene requirements for homepage / RD. Ktin (talk) 21:38, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Referenced, quite good depth of coverage for an artist article. SpencerT•C 05:53, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Has everything I would expect for a biography of his life. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 18:44, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment I’m concerned many if not most of the images included are copyvio. I’d like to check in at the Commons on that before this is posted. I’ll inquire at their copyright help desk now. Ping AllegedlyHuman who I think may have useful knowledge here. Innisfree987 (talk) 21:44, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- I agree. They were all uploaded by the same user Artislife1406 on Commons with no evidence of licensing. I've removed them all from the page; they should be taken down on Commons as well and this user should be blocked (or provide a very good explanation). AllegedlyHuman (talk) 22:04, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks so much for checking it over; that resolves my concern here and I initiated the Commons conversation. Inexperience may be the explanation but I do hope they will take some time to learn the copyright policies before making any more uploads. Innisfree987 (talk) 22:18, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- I agree. They were all uploaded by the same user Artislife1406 on Commons with no evidence of licensing. I've removed them all from the page; they should be taken down on Commons as well and this user should be blocked (or provide a very good explanation). AllegedlyHuman (talk) 22:04, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 23:33, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Clotilde Niragira
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Iwacu Burundi (in French)
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Dumelow (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: Burundian politician. Actually an article I created in November 2017 as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest - Dumelow (talk) 19:34, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Referenced, appropriate depth of coverage with descriptions of what she did in her political roles. Probably a model article for what I would consider appropriate depth of coverage for a RD nom for a politician. SpencerT•C 20:28, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Weak Support Everything seems fine, just a bit of a red link overload on this one. There are 7 in total, maybe that's fine but it just really doesn't look right, especially for an article of that size (which is adequate, btw). Gex4pls (talk) 20:42, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Interested editors really need to step up and create missing articles on Burundian politics. Not this article's fault, however, and in fact it's good to have something rising above the mold. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 20:55, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support good to go. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 11:36, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 14:28, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Always good to have some coverage of Burundian politics. CommanderWaterford (talk) 23:38, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Jerold Ottley
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The Salt Lake Tribune; KTVX (ABC)
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Bloom6132 (talk) 14:14, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support satis. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 17:14, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support A bit short but fully sourced. Gex4pls (talk) 17:52, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 14:28, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
(Closed) Ongoing: 2021 Texas power crisis
[edit]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.
Ongoing item nomination (Post)
News source(s): NYT
Credits:
- Nominated by AllegedlyHuman (talk · give credit)
- Created by Burritok (talk · give credit)
- Updated by EDG 543 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
- Support I most definitely see a significance in millions of people without power, millions of people without reliable access to clean water, and extreme food shortages, and the event is, indeed, ongoing. There is also the matter of the allegations of wind turbines and such by some pretty prominent officials. Thanks, EDG 543 (message me) 23:21, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Notice. This was nominated at 22:51 (UTC), nighttime in Europe. Howard the Duck (talk) 23:24, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Does this matter? -- Rockstone[Send me a message!] 23:40, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Well, I'm an American. I'm not trying to push an agenda; I'm just unlikely to be nominating this at 3 in the morning local time. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 23:42, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose - Putting aside the regional opposition stuff, since I realize that is going to drive some editors up the wall: A lot of the article uses the past tense, namely in describing the power outage at its peak. I don't know if we can call this ongoing, since it seems to be getting resolved pretty rapidly.--WaltCip-(talk) 23:26, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- The "generator-loss crisis" portion of the power outage is over.[7] There are many without power, but it's due to things like trees knocking out power lines, not due to the problems with generation. Most of those are expected to be fixed within a couple of days. There are other ongoing issues that are side-effects of the sustained loss of power, such as with boil-water orders due to power loss at water-treatment plants, truck-delivery issues due to gas/fuel stations losing power, etc. Some of these are expected to last into next week. Not to mention the many who had pipes burst due to loss of heating in their homes. Some of these will take weeks to repair due to demand on plumbers. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 23:45, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- The usual kind of fallout from an environmental disaster. We generally have not posted that sort of thing on ongoing. Ongoing is more for actively evolving conflicts where notable events are likely to happen over an extended period of time.--WaltCip-(talk) 23:57, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose We didn't post the European snow system late last year that caused similar outages, it would be systematic bias to post this. Further, the blurb for the storm is still sitting in the box, there's zero need for an ongoing at this point. --Masem (t) 23:46, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Was it nominated? If not, you've really nothing to complain about. --LaserLegs (talk) 00:10, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Yes it was, I nominated it. --Masem (t) 00:29, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- So because the European snow system wasn't posted, neither should this one? Or maybe last years thing was a mistake? --LaserLegs (talk) 01:53, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Yes it was, I nominated it. --Masem (t) 00:29, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Was it nominated? If not, you've really nothing to complain about. --LaserLegs (talk) 00:10, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose add this to the current blurb if you want but no OG till the blurb rolls off. --LaserLegs (talk) 00:10, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose "Ongoing" is silly. No need for that at all. HiLo48 (talk) 00:23, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Please elaborate. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 02:03, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Really? It's A storm. It's A power crisis. It's already diminishing, and will be fixed soon. Not ongoing. HiLo48 (talk) 03:07, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Please elaborate. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 02:03, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Nominator comment I've seen a couple replies touching on this point, so I'll ask you: if it's seriously an issue enough to change someone's mind over, I have no issue specifying in the nomination that this should not enter ongoing until the other article on the storm rolls off ITN. I thought about saying it in the initial post, so if there's support for that I'll add it in. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 02:06, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- You can self-close for now and re-nominate once the blurb rolls off. --LaserLegs (talk) 02:10, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose as other disasters aren't given this treatment. We don't put hurricanes onto ongoing when they have a serious impact over large areas so this shouldn't be either. One blurb for the storm is enough to tell people it was really bad. NoahTalk 03:01, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- except for the time we did? Seriously I wish people would do their research before making such bold statements. --LaserLegs (talk) 03:15, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose frankly I'm astounded we have an article on the storm and the power cuts. ITN isn't "In the American News" much as some people want it to be. Joseph2302 (talk) 04:01, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
RD: Philippe Chatel
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Le Monde (in French)
Credits:
- Nominated by Jmanlucas (talk · give credit)
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: Famous French singer-songwriter and author of the musical Émilie Jolie. Significant musical and written contributions to French culture, and a widely covered death across France. Jmanlucas (talk) 22:19, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose very short and largely unsourced. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 22:32, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose refs required. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 09:25, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Cn's still in article a day later, discography and bibliography unsourced JW 1961 Talk 15:31, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
Ongoing Removal: 2021 Myanmar protests
[edit]Nominator's comments: This removal is addressing the current state of the article. Opposes which do not address the article content are therefore invalid and should be ignored. The last protest added was on 2/14 when "hundreds had gathered at a power plant in Myitkyina that had become occupied by the military". This is older than the oldest blurb in the box. An update on 2/17 describing "many cars mysteriously broke down in busy streets of Yangon in a staged demonstration" is an act of passive resistence but not a protest. If there are ongoing protests in Myanmar, the article is not being updates with "new, pertinent information" as the Wikipedia:In_the_news#Ongoing_section stipulates. Again, this nom is about removing the article due to it's staleness, not whether or not the item is being covered by WP:RS. LaserLegs (talk) 20:19, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment forgot to add this: content changes to the target article to date --LaserLegs (talk) 20:20, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Similar situation to the indian farmers protest nom a couple weeks ago, lots of updates but nothing substantial, new, and important. I do see the protests escalating in the future, but if that is not reflected in the article then there is no point in it even being in ongoing to begin with. Gex4pls (talk) 20:50, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support removal by the looks of it, nothing substantial has happened for almost a week, so not needed on ongoing ITN. Joseph2302 (talk) 04:04, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment – Still going on. [8] [9] – Sca (talk) 13:14, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment article not updated --LaserLegs (talk) 13:17, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose There have been updates to the article regarding recent police and military response to the protests (obviously indicating that these protests are still ongoing). AllegedlyHuman (talk) 22:43, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- It's quite obvious that they're still going on, the question is if that's being reflected in the article. I think that the most recent update about 2 civilian casualties today does reflect this, but I will wait for more similar updates to change my !vote. Gex4pls (talk) 23:16, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- The police disrupted a group who were interfering with government business. Not a protest. Update the article about protests not police activity or mean tweets. --LaserLegs (talk) 00:58, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
"Riot police in Myanmar shot dead two anti-coup protesters and injured several others on Saturday"
. Associated Press. Yes, this is still a protest. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 17:45, 21 February 2021 (UTC)- Irrelevant. If the content isn't in the target article, the target article is stale. --LaserLegs (talk) 22:13, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- From the Wikipedia article, citing that very source:
"On 20 February, two protesters were killed and at least two dozen more were injured in Mandalay by the police and military in a violent crackdown."
AllegedlyHuman (talk) 22:24, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- From the Wikipedia article, citing that very source:
- Irrelevant. If the content isn't in the target article, the target article is stale. --LaserLegs (talk) 22:13, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment – Two demonstrators killed by govt. forces. [10] [11] [12] [13] – Sca (talk) 13:58, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose WP:SOFIXIT applies, this is still front-page news in most sources, ex. Guardian BBC CNN so instead of proclaiming "opposes which do not address the article content are therefore invalid"; nominator would do better to take a few minutes to fix it since by all measures this is still ongoing. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 17:42, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Partly done I've added a few sentences in the "International reactions" section, suggest others do the same elsewhere and then this can be speedily closed. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 18:14, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Invalid oppose, does not address article staleness issues and I'm WP:NOTREQUIRED to fix it, I did my part cataloging the content edits and demonstrating the staleness. --LaserLegs (talk) 22:12, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- I literally added information about something that happened today. You are however correct, it's easier simply pointing out a problem than fixing it (observation which is true even outside of Wikipedia). RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 22:58, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Actually cataloging the content changes and prying poor quality articles out of the ITN box takes considerable effort thank you for sarcastically denigrating my contributions. --LaserLegs (talk) 23:03, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- You might also want to reconsider your links. NOTREQUIRED literally states: "Focus on improving the encyclopedia itself, rather than demanding more from other Wikipedians." i.e. exactly what I said... As for "prying poor quality articles out of ITN" I don't think this is anywhere near poor quality; compare with some of the more egregious POV-pushing attempts on COVID-related articles. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 23:04, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Exactly, you demanded that someone else "fix it", I made no such demand of you. I'm simply highlighting the staleness of the article. --LaserLegs (talk) 23:24, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- I literally did fix (part of it). But let's not wikilawyer about who is asking whom to fix what. I'm just saying it is a more productive spending of time to argue about whether this should be removed from ITN than it is attempting to fix it... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 23:27, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Exactly, you demanded that someone else "fix it", I made no such demand of you. I'm simply highlighting the staleness of the article. --LaserLegs (talk) 23:24, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- You might also want to reconsider your links. NOTREQUIRED literally states: "Focus on improving the encyclopedia itself, rather than demanding more from other Wikipedians." i.e. exactly what I said... As for "prying poor quality articles out of ITN" I don't think this is anywhere near poor quality; compare with some of the more egregious POV-pushing attempts on COVID-related articles. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 23:04, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Actually cataloging the content changes and prying poor quality articles out of the ITN box takes considerable effort thank you for sarcastically denigrating my contributions. --LaserLegs (talk) 23:03, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- I literally added information about something that happened today. You are however correct, it's easier simply pointing out a problem than fixing it (observation which is true even outside of Wikipedia). RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 22:58, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support removal Wikipedia:In the news#Ongoing section is clear: "In order to be posted to ongoing, the article needs to be regularly updated with new, pertinent information. Articles whose most recent update is older than the oldest blurb currently on ITN are usually not being updated frequently enough for ongoing status." So I agree with LaserLegs, unless the information actually gets added to the article (rather than just linked here), then this article doesn't meet the criteria for staying on the ongoing section. The onus is on the people who want it to stay on the Ongoing to maintain it, so that it complies with the Ongoing criteria, not the other way round. Joseph2302 (talk) 22:28, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- There is literally information in the article right now about protests that happened yesterday. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 22:31, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- A one line update about the authorities shooting two people with zero details about the crowd size. --LaserLegs (talk) 23:16, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- ...yes? Do all updates need to include the crowd size? AllegedlyHuman (talk) 23:19, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Also, for the record, more than two were shot. Two were killed, 40 were injured. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 23:21, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- It's an article about protests, so yes, details about crowd size, location, escalation, etc are pertinent information and a one line update provides little value. --LaserLegs (talk) 23:25, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Also, for the record, more than two were shot. Two were killed, 40 were injured. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 23:21, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) ITN ongoing doesn't require the article to be FA-level. If there are minor issues it's probably easier to fix them as per WP:BOLD. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 23:22, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- ...yes? Do all updates need to include the crowd size? AllegedlyHuman (talk) 23:19, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- A one line update about the authorities shooting two people with zero details about the crowd size. --LaserLegs (talk) 23:16, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- There is literally information in the article right now about protests that happened yesterday. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 22:31, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Removal - Just not significantly updated. STSC (talk) 11:41, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Note Content has been added since this nomination about events that happened since the 17th, and even as far as what happened today. !votes saying "just not significantly updated" are therefore non-representative of the current article. The most recent update to the article is about an event which happened today (and before that there are plenty about things that happened yesterday or the day before), so clearly "Articles whose most recent update is older than the oldest blurb currently on ITN are usually not being updated frequently enough for ongoing status" is well out the window... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 14:06, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Condemnations aren't protests. Kindly review the content changes to the article and point out the ones where "new pertinent information" about protests was added, as per the guidelines WP:ITN#Ongoing_section. --LaserLegs (talk) 14:48, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Right here. Or you want specific examples? This for one? This for another? I fail to see how the condemnations which are directly linked to the protest are not "new pertinent information". Even if we're going for a wikilawyering letter of the law reading and completely ignoring the spirit, ITN ongoing requires that the article, not some arbitrary sub-part of it, be updated ("maintain a link to a continuously updated Wikipedia article about a story which is itself also frequently in the news"). The protests (and international reactions) are "a story which is itself also frequently in the news", and the article has been updated with such information very recently. I rest my case. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 15:09, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- "Huge crowds gathered"? How huge? Gathered where? This is an article about protests, a one line addition that doesn't communicate any real information isn't helpful. If you could just point me to the "spirit" section at WP:ITN it'd be a tremendous help, I'm just trying to apply the guidelines as currently written. --LaserLegs (talk) 15:17, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Right here. Or you want specific examples? This for one? This for another? I fail to see how the condemnations which are directly linked to the protest are not "new pertinent information". Even if we're going for a wikilawyering letter of the law reading and completely ignoring the spirit, ITN ongoing requires that the article, not some arbitrary sub-part of it, be updated ("maintain a link to a continuously updated Wikipedia article about a story which is itself also frequently in the news"). The protests (and international reactions) are "a story which is itself also frequently in the news", and the article has been updated with such information very recently. I rest my case. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 15:09, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Condemnations aren't protests. Kindly review the content changes to the article and point out the ones where "new pertinent information" about protests was added, as per the guidelines WP:ITN#Ongoing_section. --LaserLegs (talk) 14:48, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose removal As of now, there is new information dated from 20 February, 21 February, and 22 February. This is being sufficiently updated. Perhaps it wasn't when it was nominated, but the situation has since changed, the article is being actively updated, and as such I see no reason to remove it at this time. --Jayron32 15:14, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose removal per Jayron32.-- P-K3 (talk) 15:16, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment fair enough (to both) I'll keep monitoring it. One of the problems with OG items (like the Venezuelan story) is that as it gets stale, someone will pop in a few edits when it gets nominated for removal but over a long timeline there is a pattern of staleness which can't be ignored. That's not happened here yet, but it's something to keep an eye on. --LaserLegs (talk) 15:18, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose; Substantial additions in the last 48 hours [14], still very much in the news. Vanamonde (Talk) 17:23, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Đorđe Balašević
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): B92
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Vacant0 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: Well-known Serbian recording artist, musician, singer-songwriter **Updated: added more citations, article is completely sourced now** Vacant0 (talk) 16:17, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
Oppose Several claims missing citations. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 19:13, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- @AllegedlyHuman: I've added more refs and text and the uncited text was mostly removed. Vacant0 (talk) 19:40, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- I'm still seeing what looks to be an average of about one citation per paragraph. Let me be clearer: There should be almost no sentences without citations, as every sentence should be adding new information. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 20:40, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Alright, got it, I will add more citations to the paragraphs that I can find. Thanks Vacant0 (talk) 20:48, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- I've added the sources, article is completed now. Vacant0 (talk) 22:37, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Article is better now. Good work. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 23:00, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you, I appreciate it. :) Vacant0 (talk) 23:03, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Article is better now. Good work. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 23:00, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- I'm still seeing what looks to be an average of about one citation per paragraph. Let me be clearer: There should be almost no sentences without citations, as every sentence should be adding new information. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 20:40, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Many of the body paragraphs are almost entirely unsourced, will certainly require a lot more work. Gex4pls (talk) 20:00, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Article properly sourced and it's a notable person. Elserbio00 (talk) 23:10, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Article is now great quality, and it's certainly a notable person. byteflush Talk 00:06, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted. Great work since the last time I checked. --Tone 09:12, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
RD: Mya Thwe Thwe Khaing
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Reuters
Credits:
- Nominated by Sherenk1 (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Hintha (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: Burmese woman who became the first known casualty of the 2021 Myanmar protests Sherenk1 (talk) 11:46, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose BLP1E with article created after her death (declared brain dead on 12th, article created on 16th). Absolutely no personal details in the article. This information should be folded into 2021 Myanmar protests, this article to AfD, and this event could at best be used to nominate as a blurb for the protest article (it is already in Ongoing).130.233.213.199 (talk) 11:56, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose per above. Entire article is a violation of WP:BLP1E, we certainly shouldn't have it on the Main Page. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 14:39, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose an RD wikilinked to Mya Thwe Thwe Khaing. Support a blurb wikilinked to 2021 Myanmar protests. I have tagged Mya Thwe Thwe Khaing with a merger discussion. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 15:44, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose - The content is actually about the killing of Mya Thwe Thwe Khaing. STSC (talk) 16:11, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) Porfirije becomes the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church
[edit]Blurb: Porfirije is enthroned as the 46th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church. (Post)
News source(s): Reuters,
Credits:
- Nominated by DragonFederal (talk · give credit)
- Created by Djidash (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Vypr (talk · give credit), Sadko (talk · give credit) and IndexAccount (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Nominator's comments: We posted about previous Patriarch Irinej. DragonFederal (talk) 10:20, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment Courtesy link. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 10:57, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support well known and influential religious leader. 3/4 of the pope, good enough. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 10:57, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose We didn't blurb the last patriarch dying, when we would for the Pope or the Ayatollah of Iran. There's a reason. The Serbian Orthodox Church has 8 to 12 million followers according to our article. I'm quite sure the 3/4 of a Pope comment is referring to the size of global orthodoxy, which with the large Russian numbers is more than this. The Orthodox communion is looser than the Catholic one, with no one global leader, just a Primus inter pares in the spiritual home once called Constantinople. With all due respect, the Serbian Orthodox Church is smaller than the LDS Church, and about 1-2% the size of the global Catholic Church. Unknown Temptation (talk) 11:17, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Semi-good article, important for Eastern Orthodoxy and SPC. Vacant0 (talk) 11:18, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support A good and very thoroughly referenced BLP as bold link. I'm unwilling to disregard this on the grounds that it affects merely 10ish million people. That is still many, and the separateness (autocephaly) of Orthodox churches means that this person is the religious leader of a historically and culturally distinct group of people. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.233.213.199 (talk) 11:48, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Adding, the link to the Serbian Orthodox Church cannot go up in it's current state. Even if it's not a bold link, it is still far below what should be featured on the Main Page. Suggest remove second link.130.233.213.199 (talk) 11:50, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Disagree with using “historically and culturally distinct group of people” as a qualifier as you open up a very broad qualification. I agree with you that perhaps the second link can be looked at. The 10 million alone is a major reason to include the new Patriarchal leader in the news blurb. Just my take. OyMosby (talk) 16:01, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Adding, the link to the Serbian Orthodox Church cannot go up in it's current state. Even if it's not a bold link, it is still far below what should be featured on the Main Page. Suggest remove second link.130.233.213.199 (talk) 11:50, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose The Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch article is mediocre and the Serbian Orthodox Church article has swaths of unreferenced prose. Even if you convinced me that the leader of a private club with ~10 million members was notable, the articles aren't up to scratch. --LaserLegs (talk) 11:51, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support target article is just fine and this is far more significant and long-lasting than a bit of snow. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 12:19, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support It is notable enough, even more so because he holds somewhat differrent viewpoints compared to other high-ranking member of the SOC and the article is semi-good and there is space to make it better. Sadkσ (talk is cheap) 12:28, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Good article and a relevant event. Elserbio00 (talk) 14:28, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Though someone should verify if the blurb as is passes MOS:JOBTITLES or if List of heads of the Serbian Orthodox Church should be linked before it goes to the Main Page. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 14:42, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support FAR less significant figures and topics have articles on Wikipedia News Blurb. Surely we can spare a few megabytes more.... Yes Orthodox Christianity is not one unified organization like Catholicism and the Pope, so 3/4 of the Pope is incorrect. He represents the Serbian Orthodox Church not all Orthodox Christians. However 10 million people is a gigantic number of influenced people. Also wasn’t the previous Patriarch noted in the news box before? Regardless my first argument alone should be enough. I agree with AllegedlyHuman that the blurb should be double checked. OyMosby (talk) 15:48, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posting. I modified some sentences so that not every sentence begins with "Porfirije is" or "Porfirije did", and there is still plenty of room for prose improvements, but the content is solid. --Tone 16:09, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment We should keep this blurb up, but use an image of the Mars rover instead of this man. We have pictures of people probably 80% of the time on the ITN space, a picture of an interplanetary voyager is more novel and interesting. 1779Days (talk) 09:58, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- I agree. Also I think they wanted List of heads of the Serbian Orthodox Church pipe linked as the article with Serbian Orthodox Church being the link name, instead of general Serbian Orthodox Church to specify the subject matter. OyMosby (talk) 14:59, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Sounds good, I'll pipe that one as well. I am neutral on the image, I was not the one who changed it. --Tone 17:06, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- By piping I think what was meant was Serbian Orthodox Church links to List of heads of the Serbian Orthodox Church. You had linked 46th Patriarch. Also could the inage be changed back? @Tone: Thanks OyMosby (talk) 17:11, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Sounds good, I'll pipe that one as well. I am neutral on the image, I was not the one who changed it. --Tone 17:06, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- I agree. Also I think they wanted List of heads of the Serbian Orthodox Church pipe linked as the article with Serbian Orthodox Church being the link name, instead of general Serbian Orthodox Church to specify the subject matter. OyMosby (talk) 14:59, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose use of image - I'm in support of restoring the Mars image due to its far reaching and long-term significance... as much as I can't stop looking at Rasputin here. - Floydian τ ¢ 14:55, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
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Cloning of the Black-footed ferret
[edit]Blurb: Scientists annnounced the first succesful cloning of the endangered black-footed ferret. (Post)
Alternative blurb: Scientists introduced the black-footed ferret Elizabeth Ann as first succesful cloned endangered North American animal.
News source(s): Denver Post; The New York Times
Credits:
- Nominated by Melly42 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
--Melly42 (talk) 11:52, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose – Lacks general significance. – Sca (talk) 14:00, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment. Very little would be posted if "general significance" was required. That said, is this a first for an endangered animal? 331dot (talk) 14:06, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Lacks consequentiality. Little or no impact on humankind. – Sca (talk) 18:06, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Sca Same difference. I would say very little of what is posted has an impact on humankind as a whole. "Consequentiality" is relative. 331dot (talk) 18:25, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Of passing interest only to a very narrow, specialized audience. ITN is for the Big Picture. – Sca (talk) 18:37, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Please point out where that is written down somewhere. Very little would be eligible for posting with that criteria, so I'd be interested to see it. 331dot (talk) 23:25, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Of passing interest only to a very narrow, specialized audience. ITN is for the Big Picture. – Sca (talk) 18:37, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Sca Same difference. I would say very little of what is posted has an impact on humankind as a whole. "Consequentiality" is relative. 331dot (talk) 18:25, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Lacks consequentiality. Little or no impact on humankind. – Sca (talk) 18:06, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- First cloning for a North American endangered species, per NYTimes. --Masem (t) 14:19, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Well, it's the second (after a Przewalski's horse in 2020) and first North American animal. Seems that the cloning of endangered species has not much significance for the main page in general as not even the Przewalski's horse Kurt has its own article. --Melly42 (talk) 14:25, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- But the human being Nikolay Przhevalsky does. – Sca (talk) 18:50, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Well, it's the second (after a Przewalski's horse in 2020) and first North American animal. Seems that the cloning of endangered species has not much significance for the main page in general as not even the Przewalski's horse Kurt has its own article. --Melly42 (talk) 14:25, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose A truly significant scientific event would have its own article (i.e. Dolly (sheep)). This event currently has one paragraph in prose in the article and no mention in the lead. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 14:12, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- It has an own article: Elizabeth Ann (Ferret) --Melly42 (talk) 14:35, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Why was that article not included with the original nomination? AllegedlyHuman (talk) 14:47, 21 February 2021
- Because I was not aware that there was already an article on Elizabeth Ann. --Melly42 (talk) 15:01, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Why was that article not included with the original nomination? AllegedlyHuman (talk) 14:47, 21 February 2021
- It has an own article: Elizabeth Ann (Ferret) --Melly42 (talk) 14:35, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Would make an interesting DYK. The Elizabeth Ann article is quite the stub, but the black footed ferret article is ok. However, the simple fact of being the first north american endangered species to be cloned feels very overly specific, and not altogether notable (unless this somehow saves Black footed ferrets from extinction, in which case I'd probably support a blurb for "first endangered species repopulated using cloning" if that were to happen). Gex4pls (talk) 17:23, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Prince Markie Dee
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The New York Times; Rolling Stone
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Bloom6132 (talk) 10:14, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support RIP part of a legendary band of my mis-spent youth. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 12:51, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Article is all sourced, updated and whatnot. Gex4pls (talk) 15:14, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 16:03, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: U-Roy
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): BBC News; The Guardian; Variety
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Bloom6132 (talk) 02:14, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Adequately sourced. Tucker Gladden 👑 02:23, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support good to go. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 08:44, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 15:28, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) February 13–17 winter storm (Winter Storm Uri)
[edit]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.
Blurb: A winter storm in North America leaves 33 people dead and several million others without water or power, especially in Texas. (Post)
News source(s): NYT
Credits:
- Nominated by Elijahandskip (talk · give credit)
- Created by LightandDark2000 (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Destroyeraa (talk · give credit), MarioProtIV (talk · give credit), Hurricane Noah (talk · give credit), ChessEric (talk · give credit) and Wikicanada1127 (talk · give credit)
- Support as it wasn't the typical Winter Storm. Also I know nominators are auto support since they nominated, but this was a re-nomination, so I feel like my vote isn't a formality, but a real !vote. Elijahandskip (talk) 01:09, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- The coverage just within the United States seems a bit unbalanced... Nova Crystallis (Talk) 01:22, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Strongly support clearly a historic winter storm for the US and Mexico, and the worst one since the Blizzard of 2016. The US saw over 5 million blackouts and Mexico saw over 4.7 million. 23 people were killed also. Many all-time records in the US and Canada were broken for record low temperatures and record high snowfall. It produced 5 tornadoes, killing 3 people. Overall, one of the worst winter storms in decades, likely to become the US's first billion-dollar disaster of 2021. Definitely deserves a place in ITN. HurricaneCovid (contribs) 01:28, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Strongly support This is quickly becoming an unusually large compound disaster - for example: millions under boil-water orders and no power to boil water[1]. Victor Grigas (talk) 01:31, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support This has proved to be a much more significant story than first appeared, with the collapse of the power grid in Texas, and the article quality is much improved. P-K3 (talk) 01:38, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Strong Support – This storm broke records all over the place, ranging from the scope of Winter Weather Alerts (170 million Americans affected, which is very unusual) to the blackouts. The storm left close to 10 million people without power, and roughly 4 million people in Texas still remain without power or clean drinking water. A blackout of this magnitude has not happened in the U.S. since the 2011 Southwest blackout, and this is one of the worst blackouts in the modern history of the country. The article is in much better shape now, and the sections pertaining to the hardest-hit areas and the blackouts are much-better developed now. And any arguments that this should be failed on grounds of this storm happening in the U.S. or North America are pure nonsense – a historic event is historic. Pure and simple. And what this storm did in North America is a very far cry from even above-average winter storms. Any event of this magnitude deserves an ITN mention. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 01:49, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Really serious event that has left a large amount of damage in its wake for storms of this type. NoahTalk 01:51, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support far from a routine weather event, this is unusual weather in a region unaccustomed to it and is having severe consequences. Oppose including the name "Uri" in the blurb for the usual reasons --LaserLegs (talk) 01:55, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- @LaserLegs: We are discussing it right now, but the FCC and Homeland Security Bureau are using Uri as the name. [15] NoahTalk 01:57, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Well, they are using The Weather Channel's name for the storm, it has not been given a name by the US government like hurricanes are. TWC's criteria for naming a winter storm is very different than that of the government's naming of a hurricane. 331dot (talk) 08:47, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Left me without power for a day or so. Tucker Gladden 👑 02:24, 19 February 2021 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tucker Gladden (talk • contribs)
- Support however, the blurb figure of 23 deaths is not found in the article, nor was it ever in the article as far as I can see. NorthernFalcon (talk) 02:40, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support, though specific name should be left out per LaserLegs. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 02:59, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Strong Support. The power outages have been sounding apocalyptic. People in Texas are bringing farm animals into living rooms. Also, the biggest cold wave in decades. 142.120.100.241 (talk) 05:32, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Strong Oppose The storm may have caused problems but the compounding factors were the state of the electric grid in Texas, which is, sadly, the state's own fault (just as the issues in California's power outages are). This should not be a story we should be posting for that purpose. --Masem (t) 05:33, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- I will add that while there are deaths directly attributed to the weather (when this was first posted), most of the additional news and deaths associated with this are all related to human-made decisions - maybe not those made in the last few days but resulting from years ago but still human made decisions that could have been altered to avoid the issus. Further, the issue has been strongly politicized (the "attacks" on renewable energy, the questioning about where Sen. Cruz was going, etc.) making the story more political than a typical weather-related disaster that we would post. And as it is American-related politics, something we have to be acutely aware of of excessive attention in the media, we should avoid posting stories that get that added emphasis. --Masem (t) 05:46, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Masem, being someone's "own fault" is not a criteria for not posting a blurb. -- Fuzheado | Talk 14:06, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Human faults are not the issue (eg dam breaks from bad engineering would be posted), it is the politictizing and misinformation that immediately started to try to downplay the issue rather than immediately seek relief and remedy that make this a non-story, atop the fact that its winter in the US, it snows, it gets cold,and people still die from that every year. --Masem (t) 14:21, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted underneath the Mars news. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 06:14, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Post-posting oppose it's cold, and people suffer. It happens every winter. Just because it's Texas, it doesn't make it more important. Heavy bias here, and good to see discussions being conducted in quicktime while the rest of the world sleeps. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 08:42, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Post-posting support Historic storm, widespread and severe effects, lots of RS coverage. Davey2116 (talk) 10:55, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Post-posting strong oppose this same article was rejected from ITN a few days ago, as not ITN-worthy. A few support votes shouldn't overwrite a much longer discussion.
This seems like an admin supervote to me.Joseph2302 (talk) 11:21, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates#(Closed) 2020–21 North American winter for the same article had a clear consensus not to post (1 support linked to a non existent policy, compared to 6 opposes based on policy). Ridiculous that we allow someone to create a new nom, and then for an admin, The ed17 to override the previous consensus, 5 hours after it was posted, at a time when only people in North America would be awake. This should be pulled, and a proper WP:CONSENSUS gained for it. Because this stinks of US-bias to me, as a few North American people were able to override a consensus made by a worldwide group of people a few days ago. Joseph2302 (talk) 11:30, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Also opposing on quality- the sections on Canada and the Great Lakes are almost non-existent. Considering it's meant to be about a North American storm, it is almost entirely about the US.... Joseph2302 (talk) 11:34, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- It most certainly did not have clear consensus not to post, it was speedy closed in 43 minutes. As for the Canada section being orange tagged for expansion, the storm was largely a non-event around the lakes. We're posting this because of it's impact in a region not usually impacted by storms, as evidenced by their lack of preparedness. Why are the opposes struggling with this? --LaserLegs (talk) 11:46, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Joseph2302, as LaserLegs said, the previous nomination was closed so quickly there was no consensus established. Also, more information has come to light and the impacts are more widespread than that first nom. This should not be portrayed as a supervote.-- Fuzheado | Talk 14:09, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- I realise consensus can change, I just don't think posting 5 hours after nominated when post of the world is asleep is a fair representation of people's views. I also think that the article has glaring omissions, as it only really covers US. Joseph2302 (talk) 15:23, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Post-posting support widely covered in the news for multiple days. The posted blurb wording looks good. ZettaComposer (talk) 11:28, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
Post-posting supportPost-posting scepticism The Proud Boys find they have no snow shovels. Oh bother. The Texas Interconnection failure would have been a story in its own right. Martinevans123 (talk) 11:34, 19 February 2021 (UTC) But just read User:Joseph2302 comments above, so changed !vote.
- "States have to vote blue for me to think the people in them deserve to live." AllegedlyHuman (talk) 14:26, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment @Elijahandskip, Masem, 331dot, Randy Kryn, Pawnkingthree, LaserLegs, The Rambling Man, ImprovedWikiImprovment, and Banedon: Pinging all the users that were involved in the last discussion, as it's likely some of them maybe have opinions. Joseph2302 (talk) 11:47, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Well I'll just re-iterate that there was no strong consensus not to post last time because it was speedy closed in 45 minutes, re-opened (by me) and speedy closed an hour later and when that did not happen, a consensus actually developed. Perhaps we should speedy close this one as "strong consensus to post"? Or because you didn't get your way should we discuss it to death and try desperately to pull it back down? Let me know your thoughts. --LaserLegs (talk) 11:55, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Joseph2302:, One thing I have learned over the last year on Wikipedia is that consensus can change. (if you want some examples, ask me about it on my talk page. Here isn't the place for that). I am slightly concerned that you called this "an admin supervote". That can get you into major trouble. (In short, I did that back in November/December and had 2 attempts to get me banned from Wikipedia. Please tread carefully with that accusation. Elijahandskip (talk) 12:24, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Maybe the admin was unaware of the previous discussion, but speedy posting something seems odd to me. And if this article wasn't about the US, nobody would consider posting an article with 2 almost empty sections in it. But it's the US, so WP:BIAS of ITN allows it. Joseph2302 (talk) 13:29, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Well I'll just re-iterate that there was no strong consensus not to post last time because it was speedy closed in 45 minutes, re-opened (by me) and speedy closed an hour later and when that did not happen, a consensus actually developed. Perhaps we should speedy close this one as "strong consensus to post"? Or because you didn't get your way should we discuss it to death and try desperately to pull it back down? Let me know your thoughts. --LaserLegs (talk) 11:55, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment Sometimes what makes weather exceptional is not the actual objective weather in itself but the environment it strikes. To refuse to recognise serious impacts based on political boundaries is itself a form of bias. A disaster -- I think I am safe in calling this a disaster, in that we will be fortunate indeed if the deaths do not reach three figures -- is no less a disaster when the major factors which tip the balance are human caused. In fact, more than half of all disasters posted at ITN have had significant human components which made them exponentially worse, even for something as basic as hurricane flooding. Never mind that the temperatures will ameliorate after Saturday, this one will be unfolding for weeks yet to come. (Water issues on that level are not solved overnight, and for some the health consequences will linger a lifetime.) Ironically, even the shift to smartphones is complicating the issue: landlines with cords used to draw all the electricity they needed from the phone line, making them much more resilient for communications under these conditions. Incidentally, I currently live in a part of the world where this level of winter weather is habitually shrugged off -- people here were laughing until they realised that the Texas power and water infrastructures were collapsing, including hospitals -- but I also recognise that winter weather is not taken carelessly, even here; and consequently houses and infrastructure and heck, habitual winter clothing here are built for it. Then again, I don't know if we would do particularly well if a category 2+ hurricane were to strike us, even without lingering. - Tenebris 66.11.165.101 (talk) 11:59, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment Regarding the previous discussion, it should have no bearing on this one. It was speedily closed (as I predicted it would be) because it was before the full facts were known, and we got the typical comments along the lines of "yes it's cold outside, put on a jumper." Now that the article has been expanded, and there are millions of people without access to drinking water, it's appropriate to post. P-K3 (talk) 13:13, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Isn't snow made of water? Aren't there millions of people without access to drinking water around the world every day? Deary me. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 13:38, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- I think you're being unnecessarily glib towards people with burst water pipes, flooded homes, food shortages and no heat in freezing conditions, but I'm clearly not going to change your mind on this one.-- P-K3 (talk) 14:00, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Those people have FEMA and the U.S. National Guard to rely upon, they being in a developed country. Others are not as fortunate.--WaltCip-(talk) 14:03, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- I think you're being unnecessarily glib towards people with burst water pipes, flooded homes, food shortages and no heat in freezing conditions, but I'm clearly not going to change your mind on this one.-- P-K3 (talk) 14:00, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Isn't snow made of water? Aren't there millions of people without access to drinking water around the world every day? Deary me. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 13:38, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- This comment is incredibly facetious. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 14:29, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Post-posting support Article is high quality and news sources are covering the story. There's no other criteria that are worth considering. --Jayron32 13:22, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Funny, I looked at the World news page on BBC and saw Latifa, Mars, Myanmar, Iran, vaccines, fallen Alps hikers, Somalia, Pakistan, and then Ted Cruz. Hardly headlining. New sources are also covering a dog which won a medal and Harry & Meghan not returning to the Royal Family. Other criteria certainly need consideration otherwise we'd just be a Trump/Kardashian ticker, of course. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 13:37, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- The Rambling Man, While your observations are amusing, they're not really adding to the discourse. Instead: on the BBC News front page right next to a Ted Cruz headline is a video story with the caption: "He's 92 so we wrapped him tight like mummy. Like so many desperate Texans, Henry is struggling to stay warm without power." So yes, this issue is serious, globally covered, and not just about melting snow to make drinking water. -- Fuzheado | Talk 14:23, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- You made my point perfectly. It's something like the 12th story and well down on Meghan and Harry. Per Jayron, we should be posting Meghan and Harry, right? And honestly, if you can't contextualise this bit of snow with Covid still killing, what, 2,500 Americans per day, there's little hope. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 15:05, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- The Rambling Man, While your observations are amusing, they're not really adding to the discourse. Instead: on the BBC News front page right next to a Ted Cruz headline is a video story with the caption: "He's 92 so we wrapped him tight like mummy. Like so many desperate Texans, Henry is struggling to stay warm without power." So yes, this issue is serious, globally covered, and not just about melting snow to make drinking water. -- Fuzheado | Talk 14:23, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Funny, I looked at the World news page on BBC and saw Latifa, Mars, Myanmar, Iran, vaccines, fallen Alps hikers, Somalia, Pakistan, and then Ted Cruz. Hardly headlining. New sources are also covering a dog which won a medal and Harry & Meghan not returning to the Royal Family. Other criteria certainly need consideration otherwise we'd just be a Trump/Kardashian ticker, of course. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 13:37, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Post-posting support but as before, would prefer a broader article also covering the storms in other countries. Banedon (talk) 13:43, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) Sigh. At this point, it's a bygone, but it seems once again that ITN/C can't free itself of the seemingly irresistible impulse of systemic bias. Fact: Winter storms of this magnitude happen with considerable regularity and frequency, and we had similar events which occurred in the U.S. in 2015 and 2016 which we did not post. Fact: As TRM pointed out, this event is getting limited coverage on websites and news sources outside the U.S., which would make sense because a similar event in England also did not get posted. Fact: We have some very enthusiastic editors in the weather space here. That's great. But we need to avail ourselves to avoid hyperbole and viewing events in the political space as more important than they actually are. "Apocalyptic"? Seriously?? And who really gives a shit whether or not Ted Cruz took a vacation? That has no bearing on the newsworthiness of the event as a whole, nor does Greg Abbott's insipid attacks against renewable energy. I'm not one to call for a story to be pulled, but anyone who thinks that ITN is far-removed from the days of U.S. systemic bias is truly, truly mistaken.--WaltCip-(talk) 13:49, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- As the article itself mentions, this storm isn't just affecting the U.S. but Canada and Mexico as well. Additionally, you must agree as we all do that at some level of severity, an extremely localized event (i.e. a meteor vaporizes Texas) is worthy of posting regardless of the lack of "international impact," even though you may personally disagree over whether this event crosses that threshold of severity. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 13:53, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Your comparison is ludicrous. A meteor has not vaporized Texas. Of course if an event of that magnitude happened, it would be posted, because that would entail the deaths of over 28 million people.--WaltCip-(talk) 14:07, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- I'm aware it's ludicrous. For argument's sake, I chose the most extreme example I could think of that obviously you would support, just so you would admit that at some level, you would accept a region-centric story making it to ITN. Obviously this story is not tantamount to that, nor did I imply it was, but at least we agree on something: at some scale, "international significance" does not need to exist for a story to still be noteworthy around the world. For me and several others, this story is past that point. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 14:11, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Your comparison is ludicrous. A meteor has not vaporized Texas. Of course if an event of that magnitude happened, it would be posted, because that would entail the deaths of over 28 million people.--WaltCip-(talk) 14:07, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- As the article itself mentions, this storm isn't just affecting the U.S. but Canada and Mexico as well. Additionally, you must agree as we all do that at some level of severity, an extremely localized event (i.e. a meteor vaporizes Texas) is worthy of posting regardless of the lack of "international impact," even though you may personally disagree over whether this event crosses that threshold of severity. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 13:53, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- I was going to comment on this last night but figured would wait to see if it happened, and it did: From nomination to posting was 4 hours, all within the US nighttime period, about a US-centric story. As soon as Europe woke up, we got the opposes that would have been expected if more time was appropriately given to discussion before posting given the time factors. Admins have to be acutely aware that breaking stories specific to a region (for Europe, early in European time, or for US, late night US time) probably should be given a few more hours of discussion until the other sie of the world has time to consider if the topic is too regionally focus to post. --Masem (t) 13:59, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Indeed, utterly predictable, as is the slew of supports now the US is awake once again. Bias with your soup sir? The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 15:04, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Post-posting oppose – Old news, being superseded by gradual recovery from storm. Renomination seems to reflect personal situations rather than wider significance. Suggest this rather flabby blurb be pulled. – Sca (talk) 14:01, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- PS: This user recommends that all-caps words not be used, as they actually detract from points being asserted by calling attention to typographical gimmickry. – Sca (talk) 14:17, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- BUT FIVE MILLION PEOPLE ARE WITHOUT POWER, SCA.--WaltCip-(talk) 14:21, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- That estimate is outdated. Today's Dallas paper says "substantial amount of power to be restored by Friday evening." – Sca (talk) 14:35, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- BUT FIVE MILLION PEOPLE ARE WITHOUT POWER, SCA.--WaltCip-(talk) 14:21, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- PS: This user recommends that all-caps words not be used, as they actually detract from points being asserted by calling attention to typographical gimmickry. – Sca (talk) 14:17, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Post-posting support - It was a loose-consensus at the time of posting, but now that the day has started in Europe/US, that consensus has held, and then some. Folks need to remember that whether something is "news" is always relative to how it deviates from the norm and whether it's in the public interest. So "people die every winter" is not a useful argument. Also, the WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS arguments here are largely irrelevant - "how about when it happened in year X to region Y" or "there are millions without water living in Z." That's never been, nor should it be, the criteria here for judging whether it's on the front page. The fact is these types of catastrophic energy and infrastructure failures (power, water, transportation, food) are not common to Texas and contrary to statements above, are not "every winter." And the fact is, the conditions continue to be a threat for several more days ("Nearly half of Texans remain under boil-water advisories as water scarcity and freezing temperatures continue" [16] [17]) so this will continue to be in the news, perhaps even more so. -- Fuzheado | Talk 14:42, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Post-posting support. Far from "old news" the story is still very much in progress.[18] We regularly post major hurricanes to ITN, and this winter storm is much more unusual, particularly in terms of the area that has suffered major damage, from Oregon to Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and even North Carolina. There's already been international impact too, with Texas cutting off natural gas supplies to Mexico, threatening Mexico's electricity production.[19]. Nsk92 (talk) 14:43, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support and honestly, some of the opposers here need to get some perspective. TRM cracks jokes at the expense of American dead, but he can't stop pumping when those killed are his countryman (11 comments for 11 dead!). Walt reminds us that similar events have not been posted, and provides links to events with a fraction of the causalities. Yes, there are places on Earth with limited access to water, and places where it gets very cold and there is limited or no power to produce heat. But suddenly thrusting these conditions upon a massive population without the experience or preparation to deal with them has proven catastrophic and (JFC, I can't believe I have to say this) newsworthy. GreatCaesarsGhost 14:47, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Not mocking the dead, simply putting this into a global perspective. Oh and are you attempting to compare some snow with a terror attack, I'm not sure... Give over. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 15:09, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support. What's the point of ITN if items like this don't get posted. -- Calidum 14:52, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Automatically blurbing exhilarating kayaking races watch by the world over with no discussions? Howard the Duck (talk) 15:21, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
RD: Ali Sadpara
[edit]Recent deaths nomination
Blurb: Ali Sadpara, John Snorri Sigurjónsson and one other mountaineer are declared dead after a failed search and rescue mission on K2, Pakistan. (Post)
News source(s): Dawn
Credits:
- Nominated by Depressed Desi (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: The unusual event leading to the deaths, the extensive search & rescue mission and the national tradegy it caused has all received wide coverage making it worth a blurb. Depressed Desi (talk) 16:16, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- RD only K2's lead says
Of the five highest mountains in the world, K2 is the deadliest; approximately one person dies on the mountain for every four who reach the summit
, which makes me think it's not so unusual for someone to die trying to climb it. Quality is not so great. It needs some reorganization into more sections. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:46, 18 February 2021 (UTC) - Comment I'm sure there is a source somewhere for the list of mountains he's climbed, which appears to be the only thing in the article that really still needs a cite. Would support RD once that is cited. Oppose blurb regardless per Muboshgu's rationale. Mlb96 (talk) 19:46, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Messy article full of bare links and weird structuring, many missing citations as well. Gex4pls (talk) 21:18, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Strong oppose blurb, support RD only He is don't really important. 110.137.166.20 (talk) 23:03, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support blurb Quite a hyped event since the start of expedition and after they went missing, it became even more worldwide. USaamo (t@lk) 03:07, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support blurb Improvement, not deletion is needed.--Sylvester Millner (talk) 05:26, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose nowhere near a blurb, and the article is in terrible condition, tone issues, far too many inline external links, unreferenced claims etc. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 08:46, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Strong support blurb Caused a bit of fuss amongst mountaineers and a trending topic in himalayan countries. But Oppose due to article conditions :( Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 11:15, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose blurb -
If it were Mandela climbing the mountain, that'd be a different story.In all seriousness, per Muboshgu, it seems that deaths upon K2 are sadly frequent, and this would be an assumed risk for a mountaineer - a bit like cave diving, in that sense.--WaltCip-(talk) 14:20, 19 February 2021 (UTC) - RD only – Sad, but a blurb would be overplaying an event that does not affect a significant number of people. – Sca (talk) 14:40, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support RD Not a case of WP:BLP1E, and the article reflects that and is otherwise in OK shape. Would also support RD for John Snorri Sigurjónsson if that article were in better condition. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 19:19, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Too much recentism in the lead. Details should be moved to the body, leaving a summary in the lead.—Bagumba (talk) 15:21, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) NASA Mars 2020 (Perseverance)
[edit]Blurb: NASA's Mars 2020 mission craft, containing the Perserverance rover (pictured) and the Ingenuity helicopter, successfully lands on Mars. (Post)
News source(s): CNN
Credits:
- Nominated by Masem (talk · give credit)
Article needs updating
One or both nominated events are listed on WP:ITN/R, so each occurrence is presumed to be important enough to post. Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article and update meet WP:ITNCRIT, not the significance.
Nominator's comments: Preparation nomination - landfall is within the next 4-5 hrs as I type this up. This is affirming that barring the landing event that the articles (mission + two probe craft)t) looks to be in good shape (to me) and that once landfall is confirmed by sources it should be ready to go. The other two Mars missions from last week have scrolled off; I would have combined this with those if they were still on. Masem (t) 14:45, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Important event, probably 3/4 of the moon landing. Waiting for the live stream as I type this up. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 16:17, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Strong support by precedent (previous Mars probes were posted about a week earlier), and off intrinsic significance. Comment: image of Perseverance rover in clean room may be replaced by images of Perseverance during Mars descent, or landed on the surface (if they ever get images of those). Osunpokeh (talk) 16:50, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- On the image, there's only one NASA craft going, so we're not going to have an external image of it in descent (any such image would be an artist's rendition). Yes, there will likely be a "selfie" once Percy is on the ground and tested operational, but that's not going to be today, probably. --Masem (t) 17:27, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Possibly the Atlas V rocket have external cameras anywhere? Dat GuyTalkContribs 20:23, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- On the image, there's only one NASA craft going, so we're not going to have an external image of it in descent (any such image would be an artist's rendition). Yes, there will likely be a "selfie" once Percy is on the ground and tested operational, but that's not going to be today, probably. --Masem (t) 17:27, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Notable, and articles appear to be in good shape. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 17:02, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment The Mars 2020 article is fine, but the Perseverance article has one uncited paragraph and a few uncited sentences, while the Ingenuity article has a tag and probably needs someone to do a quick pass over the article and update it. The last two articles are pretty close, though, so I don't think it should take long to fix these issues. NorthernFalcon (talk) 17:18, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support – after landing — Just one cn tag near the end of the Perseverance article, and the sentence it's attached to doesn't seem particularly necessary. – Sca (talk) 20:13, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Touchdown is successful. Will get to updating. --Masem (t) 20:57, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support landed and tweeting! Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 20:59, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Strong support Touchdown has been confirmed! Strongly support, this needs to be on the front page. (Twistedaxe) 21:01, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Strong support Wow, just saw it land. Applause in control room. Martinevans123 (talk) 21:04, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Percy already sent back some images (seen in the mission control room live feed) but not yet posted, so we may have those soon. --Masem (t) 21:07, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- First photo is here File:First photo from Perseverance Rover.jpg and will add that to the protection queue. --Masem (t) 21:13, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Masem, could you change the photo from a vague nasa.gov to https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/25596/perseverance-rovers-first-image-from-mars/? The file is protected, so I can't do anything. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 22:52, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- I don't have admin rights at Commons but I left that link as a recommendation for the source link on its talk page there. --Masem (t) 23:33, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Apologies, I thought you were a Commons admin... Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 00:46, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- I don't have admin rights at Commons but I left that link as a recommendation for the source link on its talk page there. --Masem (t) 23:33, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Masem, could you change the photo from a vague nasa.gov to https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/25596/perseverance-rovers-first-image-from-mars/? The file is protected, so I can't do anything. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 22:52, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- First photo is here File:First photo from Perseverance Rover.jpg and will add that to the protection queue. --Masem (t) 21:13, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posting. The updates are as they are ... well ... landed. The rest of the article is good. --Tone 21:08, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Tone typo posted too....! The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 21:18, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Where? :o --Tone 21:25, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Keep trying.... ;) The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 22:23, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Where? :o --Tone 21:25, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Post-posting support per above. Davey2116 (talk) 10:55, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
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RD: Seif Sharif Hamad
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): BBC News
Credits:
- Nominated by Amakuru (talk · give credit)
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: Incumbent vice-president of Zanzibar, and the first to hold that role. Needs a bit of work, which I'll hopefully carry out today, but not in terrible shape. — Amakuru (talk) 13:40, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose about half of it is unreferenced at this time. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 22:24, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted to RD; Blurb discussion closed) RD: Rush Limbaugh
[edit]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.
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Recent deaths nomination
Blurb: American conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh (pictured) dies at the age of 70. (Post)
News source(s): KPEL FoxNews
Credits:
- Nominated by CoatCheck (talk · give credit)
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
- Support: Definitely a major figure in American political discourse and media. It looks like we posted at the same time. For what it's worth, I think my source is a bit more reliable. UncomfortablySmug (talk) 17:18, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support: Came here to post as well. Article is in good shape. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 17:21, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Update: I've added a blurb to the nom, which I support as well. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 17:26, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Strong support. This guy was a pioneer in his field. I could easily get behind a blurb. The Image Editor (talk) 17:24, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support RD Article is in sufficient shape, highly detailed, well written, definitely main page ready. There's no story to the death itself, however, that needs elaboration, so a simple RD link is sufficient. --Jayron32 17:28, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support RD - article is ready for posting. BabbaQ (talk) 17:30, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. Discussion open for whether or not should be blurb. SpencerT•C 17:34, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose blurb I'm going to be one of those "if Chuck Yeager/Little Richard didn't get a blurb, neither should this guy" guys. A mainstay of American politics, but I don't think blurb-worthy. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 17:39, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- What, Little Richard did not get a blurb??? --- I'm not sure about a blurb for Rush Limbaugh. I see that he has a massive influence on American politics and knew his name, on the other hand I'm German and the English wikipedia should also take the the worldwide impact into consideration ― he is, somewhat like Hank Aaron, not really a household name in the rest of the world. --Clibenfoart (talk) 17:50, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- He (and Chuck Yeager) did not, kind of our opposite of Carrie Fischer (who did get one). – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 17:53, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Sounds somewhat bizarre. Little Richard was transformative and famous around the world. --Clibenfoart (talk) 17:57, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- He (and Chuck Yeager) did not, kind of our opposite of Carrie Fischer (who did get one). – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 17:53, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- What, Little Richard did not get a blurb??? --- I'm not sure about a blurb for Rush Limbaugh. I see that he has a massive influence on American politics and knew his name, on the other hand I'm German and the English wikipedia should also take the the worldwide impact into consideration ― he is, somewhat like Hank Aaron, not really a household name in the rest of the world. --Clibenfoart (talk) 17:50, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. Just because we've made the wrong decision before doesn't mean we have to here. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 18:39, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support blurb Even though I've grown to disagree with his Trump support, the fact he was a transformative figure in talk radio is unquestionable. rawmustard (talk) 17:41, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose blurb close, but not quite at blurb worthy level in my opinion. Rhino131 (talk) 17:44, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support blurb People are going to oppose this on ideological grounds, but he was absolutely transformative in his field, and it’s hard to argue that he wasn’t one of the most influential voices in American politics over the last three decades or so Spman (talk) 17:47, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose blurb This is a really close one, and I'm sure there will be plenty of invalid reasoning brought up since he was so controversial. However I think that, despite a lasting impression in American politics, it's too narrow for a blurb; not to mention his illness was already widely publicized and this was more of an inevitability. Spengouli (talk) 17:51, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose blurb From reading his article, apparently he only has a domestic influence. Not sufficient enough for an OBLURB (Obituary blurb), I expect OBLURB to have a bit of international influence. Sorry. --Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 17:52, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose blurb Important yes, but not rising to the level of a blurb IMO, although where that level is these days is anyone's guess. Black Kite (talk) 17:53, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
Super-weak oppose blurbfor Limbaugh. Huge influence in American politics, but I don't think the pull is large enough such that he would be considered sufficiently transformative in that enormous field. Note that we did not, for example, blurb Don Imus. (We didn't post him either, but that was more due to quality issues).--WaltCip-(talk) 17:56, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Super-weak oppose = neutral? Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 18:14, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Probably. I don't know. I can be convinced either way. --WaltCip-(talk) 18:17, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) Support blurb for the field of "political talk radio", clearly a leader in his field. A major player in American politics for 30 years. power~enwiki (π, ν) 17:59, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Strong support blurb All of these opposes, why? He was absolutely transformative in his field, he was one of the most, if not, THE most influential voice of the 20th-21st century Republican Party, and he had the #1 radio show in America. Everyone who opposed, please keep all of these things in mind before opposing. Tucker Gladden 👑 18:01, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment - I agree with those above regarding his political influence. However, his influence in the field of modern radio broadcasting (or whatever one wants to call it) is second to few if any. We tend to neglect this field: Art Bell did not even muster a blurb. — Godsy (TALKCONT) 18:02, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Do we call that a field though? If Howard Stern dies, on what basis does he get a blurb? Not disagreeing with you necessarily, just trying to feel out whether or not that's a field of expertise in context to ITN RD blurbs.--WaltCip-(talk) 18:03, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- @WaltCip: I would say so. Broadcasters are ranked by listeners here and there is an award system. Social influence is also a factor. I would not consider Stern to be at the level of Limbaugh or Bell influence or listener wise; he merely achieved more popular celebrity. — Godsy (TALKCONT) 18:13, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- I think you're selling Stern a bit short. At his peak, his show had ~20 million weekly listeners, which is comparable to Limbaugh and exceeds Bell. Nohomersryan (talk) 19:30, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- King (as far as I know; my knowledge of radio is better than that of the various endeavors King took part in) or even Sanders (an unusually independent political figure for some time but with only points in the limelight) {mentioned below} were not at the top of their fields by numbers and a sustained notable influence for almost 3 decades. For worse or better, he drove a new path in his field. — Godsy (TALKCONT) 18:18, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- @WaltCip: I would say so. Broadcasters are ranked by listeners here and there is an award system. Social influence is also a factor. I would not consider Stern to be at the level of Limbaugh or Bell influence or listener wise; he merely achieved more popular celebrity. — Godsy (TALKCONT) 18:13, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Do we call that a field though? If Howard Stern dies, on what basis does he get a blurb? Not disagreeing with you necessarily, just trying to feel out whether or not that's a field of expertise in context to ITN RD blurbs.--WaltCip-(talk) 18:03, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose blurb Let's be honest and realistic, if Larry King didn't get a blurb less than a month ago, this should be a long shot under any normal circumstances. I don't see how he transformed any relevant field from what's written in the article.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 18:06, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose blurb Older man dies after well-publicized terminal cancer diagnosis. He was influential, but was past his "prime" and was mostly domestic. I think we should be careful that blurbs don't become a retread of the old RD criteria. "Top of field? To blurbs with him!" Nohomersryan (talk) 18:08, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Strongly disagree that he was past his prime. He continued broadcasting right up until the day he died and drew record-breaking audiences. You and I both oppose a blurb, but at least don't use falsehoods to make your point.--WaltCip-(talk) 18:14, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- I didn't say he was no longer successful; it's just a fact that conservative radio has ceded most of its ground to the Internet, which makes characters like Limbaugh less omnipresent than they used to be. Nohomersryan (talk) 18:43, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Strongly disagree that he was past his prime. He continued broadcasting right up until the day he died and drew record-breaking audiences. You and I both oppose a blurb, but at least don't use falsehoods to make your point.--WaltCip-(talk) 18:14, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- By that logic, would Jimmy Carter, someone who's done nothing but build houses for charity since the 1970s, not deserve a blurb? No one's at their prime when they die save a tragedy. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 18:20, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- My argument is that someone who might not have the resume for a blurb can be boosted to one if they're at the peak of the career or the death is a shock, neither of which I'd say apply to Limbaugh (while Carter is already blurbworthy because he was a globally known leader of a superpower). Though of course you're welcome to disagree. Nohomersryan (talk) 18:43, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose blurb Not important enough to warrant a blurb, RD is enough. Many people are influential figures in their respective political parties, that doesn't make them transformative figures on a global scale. I would oppose blurbing Bernie Sanders as well, for instance. Mlb96 (talk) 18:11, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment I disagree with the underlying assumption I'm seeing a lot here that someone has to be internationally notable to warrant a blurb, so long as their influence within a specific nation is well-attested. (My thought on this are similar in principle to WP:BLP1E.) AllegedlyHuman (talk) 18:13, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- I'll also point out that most of these arguments are explicitly frowned upon at WP:ITNCRIT. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 18:25, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose blurb. He was not a statesman or a politician but a cultural figure. In such a case for an ITN blurb I think we'd need to see some substantial evidence of international impact. It's unclear if we have that here. Reading the section Rush Limbaugh#Influence and legacy, it only discusses his domestic influence. Nsk92 (talk) 18:17, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Blurb Not a fan at all, but he was probably the most influential figure in modern US politics never to hold an elective office. It is impossible to overstate his role in propelling the GOP from a center right party to the far right party it has become as well as the overall development of the take no prisoners climate in US politics since the 90's. -Ad Orientem (talk) 18:24, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Well said, and I concur (though I lean more on the mechanism, broadcasting, in my sentiment above than politics). — Godsy (TALKCONT) 18:28, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support RD, leaning support blurb. Definitely a high-level pioneer and a shaper of his field. BD2412 T 18:34, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support blurb. He was at the top of his talk radio field. Though he was ill, 70 is not that old and he was still working.331dot (talk) 19:06, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Flipping to support blurb. Reflecting on it some more, he was a stand-out in his field and at least had some significant pull in American politics in general, certainly in American conservative politics.--WaltCip-(talk) 19:08, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose blurb, per the obvious reasons given above. Alsoriano97 (talk) 19:13, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
"Please do not... add simple "support!" or "oppose!" votes without including your reasons. Similarly, curt replies such as "who?", "meh", or "duh!" are usually not helpful. Instead, explain the reasons why you think the item meets or does not meet the ITN inclusion criteria so a consensus can be reached."
AllegedlyHuman (talk) 20:46, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose blurb If this was maybe 10 years ago, pre-Trump, then a blurb may have been reasonable (may not have been a key transformative figure but was a key personality and still at height of career), but there's no question that his siding with Trump and right-wing of the last few years tarnished his reputation that it is difficult to say he's considered a leader now and his past reputation has been lost, particularly compared to the recent death of Larry King. RD is sufficient. --Masem (t) 19:16, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Neutral on blurb No one was more instrumental in shaping modern day American conservatism than Rush Limbaugh. But is it enough to be the most influential political personality within one nation, even if it's the most powerful nation on Earth, or do we insist on international significance for death blurbs, which Limbaugh did not have? NorthernFalcon (talk) 19:27, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- NorthernFalcon Very few things would be posted if international significance was required. 331dot (talk) 19:47, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) Please see the "Please do not..." section near the top of this page. In particular #2 which states "...oppose an item because the event is only relating to a single country, or failing to relate to one. This applies to a high percentage of the content we post and is unproductive." Most of the opposes seem to run afoul of this. -Ad Orientem (talk) 19:50, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Fair enough. I'm still neutral on the blurb, however, as we generally don't post as blurbs deaths of political figures who were never held the highest political office in their country. Limbaugh would be the precedent if we were going to take this step, but I'll wait to see what the consensus says. NorthernFalcon (talk) 20:00, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) Please see the "Please do not..." section near the top of this page. In particular #2 which states "...oppose an item because the event is only relating to a single country, or failing to relate to one. This applies to a high percentage of the content we post and is unproductive." Most of the opposes seem to run afoul of this. -Ad Orientem (talk) 19:50, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose blurb Important in American conservatism but that is not enough to warrant a blurb.-- P-K3 (talk) 19:54, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose blurb Not notable enough for one, died from old age related cancer. "He was controversial" and "appeared in Family Guy" are not suitable rationales.--2A00:23C4:3E08:4000:18AE:DA10:BFF6:644B (talk) 20:41, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- No one has argued on the basis of either of those arguments. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 20:45, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose blurb influential in a microcosm. RD is perfect for such an individual. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 20:58, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support blurb for better or worse, he created the genre, or at least showed the profitability of talk radio. Stern may be the King of All Media, but Rush was the King of Talk Radio. Sir Joseph (talk) 21:13, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose blurb - RD is more than sufficient, not important enough for a blurb. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 21:23, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment post-close By my count, there are 11 blurb support votes and 15 blurb oppose votes. There is not at all a clear consensus to oppose and this discussion should not yet be closed. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 22:13, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- That's 42–58, for those of you who like percentages. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 22:18, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- You don't need consensus to oppose, you need consensus to support. As User:Tone says, at this point that is very unlikely, and it's at risk of becoming a time sink. --Floquenbeam (talk) 22:20, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- That's 42–58, for those of you who like percentages. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 22:18, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- With the amount of replies here, and with how close the vote is, this could absolutely swing in the way of consensus for a blurb over the next few hours. I'm not saying that it will definitively, but I think ending the discussion here is premature. I certainly disagree with Tone's comment that
"a consensus for a blurb is unlikely to develop"
; I think it's too early to call that. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 22:24, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- With the amount of replies here, and with how close the vote is, this could absolutely swing in the way of consensus for a blurb over the next few hours. I'm not saying that it will definitively, but I think ending the discussion here is premature. I certainly disagree with Tone's comment that
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(Posted) RD: Peter G. Davis
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The New York Times; Associated Press
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- Updated and nominated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: Only announced and reported today (February 16). —Bloom6132 (talk) 03:57, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Short but meets minimum requirements. SpencerT•C 17:51, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. No other !votes/comments, but looks ready to me. Ping me if any issues. Best, SpencerT•C 14:26, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Carman (singer)
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Christianity Today
Credits:
- Nominated by Killiondude (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Killiondude (talk) 20:40, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
Nominator's comments: CCM Artist mostly popular in the 80s/90s. Article could still use some cleanup, but seems mostly good to me. I think this is the first ITN nom I've made. Killiondude (talk) 20:40, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Looks good. Decent article and covers his life in full. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 20:46, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment: There some unsourced statements that will need references, and the discography needs references. SpencerT•C 17:47, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- I believe most of these have been taken care of now. Killiondude (talk) 20:04, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Per Wikipedia:NOTRSMUSIC, discogs.com - which is currently used to cite the whole discography - is not considered a reliable source since it has user-generated content. Wikipedia:WikiProject Christian music/Sources has some suggested alternatives. SpencerT•C 14:24, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- I wasn't the originator of that source, but have replaced it with a site listed in the latter page you referenced. Killiondude (talk) 04:58, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Per Wikipedia:NOTRSMUSIC, discogs.com - which is currently used to cite the whole discography - is not considered a reliable source since it has user-generated content. Wikipedia:WikiProject Christian music/Sources has some suggested alternatives. SpencerT•C 14:24, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- I believe most of these have been taken care of now. Killiondude (talk) 20:04, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. Looks like everything else checks out. SpencerT•C 05:56, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Jarnail Singh (doctor)
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The Straits Times
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Ktin (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: Singaporean doctor. Aviation medicine pioneer. Studied spread of communicable diseases (SARS) through air travel. Death announced on this date. Article meets hygiene expectations for homepage / RD. However, I was planning to give this one more pass tonight. Expansion done. Looks good. Rater.js says B-class. Good to go to homepage / RD. Ktin (talk) 16:50, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support satis. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 08:48, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 15:26, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Lew Krausse Jr.
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The Kansas City Star
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Bloom6132 (talk) 07:49, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support satis. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 10:30, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Lead verb updated to "was." – Sca (talk) 14:12, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Robert R. Glauber
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): WSJ
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Ktin (talk · give credit)
Article needs updating
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: American academic. Capital markets reforms. Death announced on this date. Article is not ready for homepage / RD. I will build on it later tonight. Edits done. Article meets hygiene expectations for homepage / RD. Ktin (talk) 23:55, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support satis. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 10:29, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 16:23, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Ángel Mangual
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The Mercury News
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Bloom6132 (talk) 11:01, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Article got improved satisly. Not an orphan. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 11:57, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support good to go. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 12:09, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 17:33, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
RD: Victor Ambrus
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): official statement
Credits:
- Nominated by Thryduulf (talk · give credit)
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: Hungarian-born British artist and illustrator. Died on the 10th but only announced about an hour ago. Currently three citation needed tags, but the article is being worked on and it's too soon for obituaries to have been published. Thryduulf (talk) 22:00, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose I think there's much more in there that needs citation beyond the three tags initially noted. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 08:55, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
RD: Gustavo Noboa
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Infobae
Credits:
- Nominated by Alsoriano97 (talk · give credit)
Article needs updating
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: President of Ecuador after the coup d'état of 2000. Article needs work. Alsoriano97 (talk) 21:19, 16 February 2021 (UTC)(UTC)
Opposestill tagged. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 08:53, 17 February 2021 (UTC)- Support @The Rambling Man: Fixed and sourced the article.--TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 09:13, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Weak oppose He was president for 3 years, and there is just 1 sentence about what he achieve while in office ("Noboa's presidency was marked by attempts to revive the Ecuadorian economy, which was in a recession at the time, including the freeing of US$400 million worth of assets frozen by the previous government"). Insufficient depth of coverage. SpencerT•C 17:32, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose per Spencer. Article is way too light on details regarding his main claim to notability. I would expect an article about a President of a country to have more than 3-4 sentences summarizing the entire three years of his presidency. Woefully inadequate for the main page. --Jayron32 17:42, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
RD: Joan Margarit
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): La Vanguardia
Credits:
- Nominated by Alsoriano97 (talk · give credit)
Article needs updating
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: Great Spanish Catalan poet. Cervantes Prize in 2019. Article needs work. Alsoriano97 (talk) 21:19, 16 February 2021 (UTC)(UTC)
- Oppose twelve hours after nom still tagged and rightly so. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 08:52, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Still tagged, missing lots of citations. Gex4pls (talk) 15:19, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
(Closed) 2020–21 North American winter
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Blurb: A winter storm in America kills 20 people and leaves millions without power. (Post)
News source(s): (NY Times), (CNN)
Credits:
- Nominated by Elijahandskip (talk · give credit)
- Oppose Winter storms in the US in Feb are common. --Masem (t) 21:04, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose. Damaging winter storms are not unusual. 331dot (talk) 21:08, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose just looking at Template:United States winter storms, there's been 6 notable snow storms in 6 weeks this year, and snow in N America in winter is not ITN worthy. Also, strong oppose on current article quality- three sections listed as needing expansion, 2 of which have zero text content. Joseph2302 (talk) 21:10, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose, not man-bites-dog worthy. Randy Kryn (talk) 21:14, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Please, no weak puns about SNOW when this is inevitably closed.-- P-K3 (talk) 21:28, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Re-opened 40 minutes is a bit fast. This storm is sufficiently unusual to merit consideration. --LaserLegs (talk) 11:48, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Weak Support The US is huge, you can't just write off any many of weather as "common". This storm made it's way into Texas which is under it's first winter storm warning ever as well as Northern Mexico. The North East would write this off as "meh" but this is rare for the south. As for the WP:MINIMUMDEATHS, the United States is a powerful first world nation it makes sense that even an unusual weather event would have a low death toll when compared to the deaths from routine monsoons in developing countries (which we post with near clock-like precision). Anyway, weak support because the article itself is still "meh" but a paragraph about the impact to Mexico would put it over the top for me. --LaserLegs (talk) 11:48, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Can we please stop linking to a nonexistent policy? This can confuse people unfamiliar with things here. 331dot (talk) 11:55, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose a bit chilly here too. Down to minus 11 (Celsius) a week or so back. Brrr. Put a jumper/jersey on. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 12:10, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose nothing particularly significant from a world perspective. --IWI (talk) 12:38, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Post-close comment: This might need another look, given that the extreme weather events are also affecting places like Moscow [20] and Greece [21]. It would need a different, broader target article however, and I'm not aware of an appropriate target. Banedon (talk) 03:11, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Banedon, concur. If a global article is written, it may be newsworthy. Local Texas news are much less so.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:05, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Yusriansyah Syarkawi
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Netral News
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Jeromi Mikhael (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Jmanlucas (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: Regent of Paser (1999–2004; 2016-2021). Died a day before his term expired. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 18:17, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
Weak opposeAs with many politician articles at RD, article is mostly a resume in prose format without much depth of coverage about what the subject accomplished in those roles. SpencerT•C 18:41, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Spencer: Apologies. I expanded and nominated three RDs on the same day, so please wait for a moment. --Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 00:18, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Spencer: Done. Your suggestion should've been more appropriate in say, a peer review or a GA nomination, but each to their own I guess. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 07:37, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- No, that's not the case. RDs should provide a good view of what individuals achieved, no-one is expecting a GA here, but more than just a CV. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 08:50, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- 👍 Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 11:00, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support My apologies if I came off a bit harsh in my initial assessment, but the nom was marked as "article updated". I was just noting that this tends to be a trend with many articles nominated at ITN/C (not specific to you): Kadir Topbaş nom, Maaher At-Thuwailibi nom, Bukhari Daud nom, Billy Conigliaro nom, Peter T. Fay nom, among many others. I am not requiring GA status, but how I interpret "articles should be a minimally comprehensive overview of the subject, not omitting any major items" (per Wikipedia:In_the_news#Article_quality) is that it should have more depth than a CV in prose format. SpencerT•C 17:10, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Spencer: No problem. I've made the ITNC RD as my living quarter in Wikipedia, so I'm open to any criticism. I should've been the one to apologize for my GA nom remarks. I've abandoned a ton of draft articles in my sandbox in favor RDs, so you could see that I spend a considerable time for RDs. And to be honest, non-politician RD noms are halfhearted noms from me, I rarely do any expansions except citing the sentences... --Regards, Jeromi Mikhael
- No, that's not the case. RDs should provide a good view of what individuals achieved, no-one is expecting a GA here, but more than just a CV. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 08:50, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Spencer: Done. Your suggestion should've been more appropriate in say, a peer review or a GA nomination, but each to their own I guess. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 07:37, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose once again no source is included in the nomination, and once again the article is effectively an orphan not linked by anything other than the list of deaths article. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 08:50, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- @The Rambling Man: Done – linked to his regency of origin. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 11:00, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 16:21, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Arne Sorenson (hotel executive)
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): MarketWatch
Credits:
- Nominated by Feminist (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Ktin (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: Announced by the company today, but he died yesterday. feminist (talk) 14:06, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment The bit about Trump seems very WP:UNDUE. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 18:30, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support, but the Trump letter paragraph needs a serious summarising (if not excising completely). Black Kite (talk) 21:23, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Bit about Trump, after taking the above comments into account, removed. Too bad I forgot in the edit summary that this was RD, but any case the point stands that it sounded more like an extended quote "setting out an agenda for a potential political candidate" than encyclopedic content. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 23:36, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- I agree. Unrelatedly, the article is still pretty short and does not currently cover any of Sorenson's previous jobs or what happened while he worked at Marriott, so I don't feel this is ready for RD right now. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 23:52, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Bit about Trump, after taking the above comments into account, removed. Too bad I forgot in the edit summary that this was RD, but any case the point stands that it sounded more like an extended quote "setting out an agenda for a potential political candidate" than encyclopedic content. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 23:36, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment.
If it is alright with folks, I will work on this article later tonight. Needs some work.Edits and expansion done. Article meets hygiene expectations for homepage / RD. I will check in ~3 hours for any additional changes if folks want. But, article is good to go to homepage in the current state. Ktin (talk) 01:26, 17 February 2021 (UTC) RIP. A life gone too soon at 62. Prayers for the family and friends. Ktin (talk) 20:53, 17 February 2021 (UTC) - Posted Stephen 03:45, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
RD: Jan Sokol
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Radio Prague International
Credits:
- Nominated by Jklamo (talk · give credit)
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Jklamo (talk) 16:33, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Weak support a bit "CV in prose" but not terrible. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 10:32, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Weak oppose After reading the article, it's not exactly clear what the subject's contributions to the field of philosophy are. SpencerT•C 16:12, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
February 15
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(Posted) RD: Raymond Lévesque
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Montreal Gazette; CBC Radio Canada (in French)
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Bloom6132 (talk) 06:33, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support satis. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 10:36, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support on the short side, but good enough for RD. Joseph2302 (talk) 16:51, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted Stephen 00:31, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Andréa Guiot
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): France Musique
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Gerda Arendt (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: "The national Mireille", titles the source, soprano who appeared alongside the Carmen of Maria Callas, and performed Mireille Manon Micaela Mimi all over France, and in Europe and the Americas. Article was a sad stub. I can't read the French and Spanish obits, help welcome. Will work on recordings, - those were there but without refs. Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:44, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support satis. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 08:48, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 17:28, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Jalaluddin Rakhmat
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Netral News
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Jeromi Mikhael (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Jmanlucas (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: Academician, former MP (2014–2019) Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 17:16, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment essentially an orphan, just listed under two "deaths" articles. If this person is notable, there should be other Wikipedia articles in the mainspace from which it can be linked. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 08:46, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- @The Rambling Man: Done – linked to his alma mater and former organization. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 11:07, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support satis. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 12:13, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 17:26, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Gideon Meir
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The Times of Israel
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Bloom6132 (talk) 15:25, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
Weak opposeaside from the "On 24 November 2019, Meir wrote on Twitter..." para, it's a list of positions he held, nothing much more. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 08:44, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- @The Rambling Man: I've added a few more sentences about what he did. Hope that suffices. —Bloom6132 (talk) 00:03, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 16:19, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala becomes the Director-General of the World Trade Organization
[edit]Blurb: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (pictured) becomes the first female Director-General of the World Trade Organization. (Post)
News source(s): Punch, Africanews, Bloomberg, Straits Times
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Joofjoof (talk · give credit)
- Created by Smmurphy (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Nominator's comments: We have posted the two former DGs Roberto Azevedo and Pascal Lamy. Joofjoof (talk) 22:42, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Joofjoof: Is she the first female to hold the office? I think that deserves to be mentioned too. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 00:48, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support - Good article, she is the first woman and African to hold the role, and there is a precedent for posting appointments to this position. BlackholeWA (talk) 01:50, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support looks good to me. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 04:07, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support, article looks like it's in good condition and I concur with Joofjoof BlackholeWA on precedent.Osunpokeh (talk) 06:25, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted Stephen 08:29, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
RD: Vincent Jackson
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): WFLA
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by PCN02WPS (talk · give credit)
- Updated by 2601:444:4102:7110:D576:BC75:2579:D471 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: Relatively recently-retired professional American football player. Died age 38. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 21:39, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Several seasons completely unsourced. I understand this was just announced, though, so hopefully this can get cleaned up and I can change to support. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 21:53, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose I agree with AllegedlyHuman. There are several unsourced sections that need to be addressed before posting here. TJMSmith (talk) 22:48, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment AllegedlyHuman and TJMSmith, I have added citations to places where they were lacking. If there any other places that need referencing, I'd appreciate if you could tag them for me. Thanks! PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 02:46, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- I've added tags to claims I noticed were unsourced. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 10:43, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Johnny Pacheco
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/arts/music/johnny-pacheco-dead.html
Credits:
- Nominated by Wilhelm Tell DCCXLVI (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Marichab (talk · give credit), Bloom6132 (talk · give credit) and Jeromi Mikhael (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: Highly influential in the world of salsa - indeed, he was the one responsible for popularising the term 'salsa'. Wilhelm Tell DCCXLVI converse | fings wot i hav dun 12:35, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment:
Close but needs some referencing. Additionally, Johnny_Pacheco#Legacy is too closely paraphrased to ref 13 and definitely is bordering on being a copyvio, so that needs a re-write.SpencerT•C 20:56, 16 February 2021 (UTC) - Oppose on top of possible copyvio, above, there are several citations needed. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 08:41, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support @The Rambling Man: citations added. Let me know if you want anything else. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 11:39, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- I have rewritten paraphrased material, so the Earwig report looks better now. Joofjoof (talk) 22:57, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support - Looks ready. Jusdafax (talk) 03:13, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 16:17, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
February 14
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(Posted) RD: James L. Nagle
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Chicago Tribune; Crain's Chicago Business; The Architect's Newspaper
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: Only announced and reported today (February 14). —Bloom6132 (talk) 04:52, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support satis. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 08:37, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 17:21, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Syarifudin Tippe
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Obituary from Jakarta State University
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Jeromi Mikhael (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Thriley (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: Rector of the Indonesian Defence University from 2011 until 2012. I got my ten thousandth edit an edit before nominating this for RD. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 12:56, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment essentially an orphan. And we do need sources in the nominations from reliable sources verifying his death. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 08:34, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- @The Rambling Man: Done – linked to his almamater. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 11:12, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Referenced; adequate depth of coverage. SpencerT•C 17:20, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 16:15, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Zachary Wohlman
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Deadline Hollywood
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Bloom6132 (talk) 00:45, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment Welterweight boxer. Went by "Kid Yamaka" due to his Jewish faith. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 10:24, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Kind of short but it checks all of the boxes. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 22:08, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted Stephen 00:59, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: William Macpherson (judge)
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The Guardian
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Ktin (talk · give credit)
- Updated by MIDI (talk · give credit) and 19carchivist (talk · give credit)
Article needs updating
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: Scottish judge. Article needs some work before it is ready for homepage. The article can also be expanded based on available content from recent obituaries in The Guardian, The Scotsman amongst others. If someone wants to give this a go before me, please do so, else, I will pick this up later tonight. Edits and content expansion done. Article meets hygiene expectations for homepage / RD. Rater.js says B-class biography. If we have someone from Britain (or specifically Scotland) and can provide any feedback for improvements, that would be great. This is good to go to homepage / RD in its current state as-is. Ktin (talk) 17:39, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support looks good. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 22:07, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Seems to touch on everything I would expect. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 22:10, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 22:13, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
(Closed) 2021 Catalan regional election
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Blurb: The Socialists' Party of Catalonia, led by Salvador Illa (pictured), wins the regional election. (Post)
News source(s): Euronews, AP
Credits:
- Nominated by AllegedlyHuman (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Impru20 (talk · give credit)
"Disputed states and dependent territories should be discussed at WP:ITN/C and judged on their own merits."Not from the area myself, so if anything here is mistaken feel free to be bold and fix it yourself. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 06:55, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment. Catalonia is not a state in dispute (strictly), nor a dependent territory. The elections are very significant due to the institutional crisis with Madrid and with historical results (I am a Catalan socialist, so it has been a good night), but due to their status as regionals I do not know if it have the possibility of being in ITN. the context is not the same as in 2017. It will be an interesting debate. Alsoriano97 (talk) 08:33, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Alsoriano97: Can you confirm that the information as written above is all correct? Thanks. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 11:12, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- @AllegedlyHuman: the info in the blurb? Yes, all is correct. Alsoriano97 (talk) 11:18, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Good, thanks. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 11:19, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- @AllegedlyHuman: the info in the blurb? Yes, all is correct. Alsoriano97 (talk) 11:18, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Alsoriano97: Can you confirm that the information as written above is all correct? Thanks. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 11:12, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support An interesting election. I'm not too familiar with Catalan politics, but the sources seem to agree that the nationalist parties (ERC, JxCat, CUP) gained seats and thus it will be very difficult for PSC to form a government. The outcome of the government formation will have important ramifications for the future of the independence movement. Davey2116 (talk) 11:08, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment there's about four sentences of unsourced text on Salvador Illa. 2021 Catalan regional election looks fine for sourcing. Joseph2302 (talk) 11:28, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Important election, would decide the fate of Catalonia for the next four years. And with the victory of pro-Catalan independence parties the region's future will sure be interesting again. And they even have Vox's arch nemesis! Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 11:39, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Four years? Very optimistic! Alsoriano97 (talk) 11:51, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose, sub-national election. Catalonia is neither a disputed state nor a dependent territory. We don't post the elections of e.g. Uttar Pradesh, California, Flanders or Scotland, which have similar levels of autonomy. Iff this leads to an independence referendum we can post then; sub-national elections are not suitable for ITN. Modest Genius talk 12:14, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose - why should a regional election be posted? Jim Michael (talk) 12:16, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose regional election and no real surprise that pro-independence parties won a majority of the seats. We'll post the referendum if it happens. --LaserLegs (talk) 12:24, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose per above. CoryGlee (talk) 12:40, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose - Local elections are not significant events. STSC (talk) 13:31, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment. I'm not clear on if this is good for the pro-independence side or bad; they seem to have won the most seats collectively but the other side seems to have a better shot at forming a government? 331dot (talk) 13:36, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose – Regional. – Sca (talk) 13:53, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Treat this like an election to the Texas state house. If they secede again, then it's world news (and I mean this in the case of Catalonia and Texas). Additionally, we don't yet know if the new regional government will be made of separatist parties at all, which is all very confusing given that the blurb says a pro-union party "won" and pictures its leader Unknown Temptation (talk) 14:09, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose per everyone else. If Catalonia secedes, that's main page worthy. If it isn't, it's no more appropriate than would be blurbing the results of local elections in Scotland, Padania, Quebec, Flanders, or any other region where separatist parties regularly win elections at the regional level. ‑ Iridescent 14:48, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Pat Russell
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Los Angeles Times
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Only announced and reported today (February 14). —Bloom6132 (talk) 02:47, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Weak support I'm not mad keen on the structuring of the article, with bullet points instead of prose, but what's there appears to be ok and referenced. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 11:36, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted Stephen 01:11, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
(Closed) New world record in speed skating
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Blurb: Nils van der Poel set a new world record in speed skating on 10 000 m. (Post)
Alternative blurb: Nils van der Poel sets a new speed skating world record in the men's 10,000 meters.
News source(s): Eurosport
Credits:
- Nominated by Mango från yttre rymden (talk · give credit)
- Comment I have suggested an altblurb. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 02:39, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment stub BLP, would require significant work to get it on the Main Page. Would List of world records in speed skating be better or is this one of those topics that requires the person to be posted as bold?130.233.213.199 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 06:21, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose I wouldn't expect to see this in the top 1000 news stories of the year, I think it's much better suited to DYK, especially if the BLP stub was expanded to the minimum required quality. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 11:37, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose posting sports records being broken. Jim Michael (talk) 12:26, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose. There might be a few records being broken that merit posting, such as the 100 meters run, but I don't think the level of interest in this world record merits posting. 331dot (talk) 12:30, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose we don't post most world records, as they're not generally the biggest news. And both articles are tiny stubs, so would be an oppose on quality too. I agree DYK would be good venue, if the articles get over 1,500 characters. Joseph2302 (talk) 12:34, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment we post all manner of soccer records, I think we did some for athletics. Let's not rush to close this, and instead see how the article improves. --LaserLegs (talk) 19:20, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- So this record stood for a year and was broken by less than one second in more than 12 minutes, so an increment of, what, 0.01%? This wouldn't make the top 10,000 news stories of the year. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 19:37, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- I can't recall right now even one soccer record being posted. 331dot (talk) 20:09, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- So this record stood for a year and was broken by less than one second in more than 12 minutes, so an increment of, what, 0.01%? This wouldn't make the top 10,000 news stories of the year. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 19:37, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Meh. Not cricket. Howard the Duck (talk) 19:58, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- You mean "not canoeing", right? The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 20:11, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- I don't think we've posted records of the greatest sport on Earth. Howard the Duck (talk) 21:55, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Any time you want to get your squidger nom out, I'll be sure to give it a wink. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 21:59, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- I don't think we've posted records of the greatest sport on Earth. Howard the Duck (talk) 21:55, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- You mean "not canoeing", right? The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 20:11, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
RD: W. J. M. Lokubandara
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The Morning (Lanka)
Credits:
- Nominated by PCN02WPS (talk · give credit)
- Created by Chamal N (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Gihan Jayaweera (talk · give credit)
Article updated
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Nominator's comments: On the shorter side but referencing looks to be adequate. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 22:04, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment: Could use some more depth in the political career section about what he did in those roles. SpencerT•C 22:11, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Weak support could use more depth but for me passes the minimum threshold for RD. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 11:39, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment – Covid. – Sca (talk) 13:56, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Doug Mountjoy
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Eurosport
Credits:
- Nominated by Black Kite (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Lee Vilenski (talk · give credit)
Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Former UK Champion and World finalist in snooker. Article is very undersourced but this will be easier to fix when the obits come out Black Kite (talk) 20:47, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment CNs remain, but the tag from 2012 seems resolved. Ref. 6 is not suitable, but is presumably a placeholder for now.130.233.213.199 (talk) 06:17, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose with regret. Too many unreferenced claims here. Perhaps Lee Vilenski might be interested to help? The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 11:40, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- It was on my list - not sure I have the time to dedicate to it. I'll give it a go if I find an hour or two to fix it up. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 11:56, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Hows that The Rambling Man? If this does make the mainpage, I will claim cup points Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 12:17, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Decent, just needs one last [citation needed] to be fixed I think. No need to make the Wikicup disclaimer, we assume good faith here, it's only FAC that doesn't. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 12:22, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- You edit conflicted me adding it! It's in now, I'll potentially fix this up at a later date for GAN. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 12:24, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Only thing: where are all the career finals referenced? The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 16:37, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Much like the results table, I suppose to the articles themselves. I didn't quite have chance to cite this, but I'll get on it as soon as I can. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 19:29, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- I have cited the career's finals The Rambling Man. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 12:37, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support. Seems well referenced now. Many fellow snooker players have paid tirbutes. Martinevans123 (talk) 16:25, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Need some umbrella references for the ranking, performance and finals sections. Stephen 02:10, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Sadly Stephen umbrella references don't exist for this (unless you fancy the blacklisted cuetracker.net!) I've cited the career finals, but generally we cross-cite these sections to the articles themselves. It's an ongoing issue, but not one I have a solution to. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 12:37, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Marking ready unless I've missed some horrible sourcing gap? (great work by the way). Black Kite (talk) 22:49, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted Stephen 23:05, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
RD: Enrique Rodríguez Galindo
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): El Mundo
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Alsoriano97 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Spanish ex-Civil Guard convicted for being part of the "dirty war" against ETA terrorism. Dies from covid. He died yesterday, but I created his article today and I think is quite neutral. Copy-edit is needed. Alsoriano97 (talk) 17:11, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose for now. I have gone through only half the article, and there are a number of sourcing issues. At the very least, the text in the article contains more facts than in the sources, thus requiring more sources. – robertsky (talk) 19:21, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose too much unreferenced. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 20:46, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment @Robertsky and The Rambling Man: I deleted the unsourced info. Can't find any reliable sources. Is now ready? Regards. Alsoriano97 (talk) 20:16, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Alsoriano97: Unfortunately no. Additional cn and fv tags placed with my reasons. I am not going through further for now, but I am assuming that the rest of the page has similar issues. Additionally, it seems that part of the text seems to be machine translated from the Spanish wiki? I run Google Translate on the Spanish wiki and it shows similarity to some of the text in the English article. – robertsky (talk) 21:52, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose I agree with Robertsky that lots of this looks like a rough/machine translations. There are many sentences that are confusing, and mixup of tenses between past and present tense, which is the sort of thing you'd expect from a machine translation. Joseph2302 (talk) 16:44, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD/Blurb: Carlos Menem
[edit]Recent deaths nomination
Blurb: Former President of Argentina Carlos Menem (pictured) dies at the age of 90. (Post)
News source(s): BBC, Página 12, CNN, WaPo, Bloomberg, WSJ, AJ, AP, NYT, Reuters
Credits:
- Nominated by CoryGlee (talk · give credit)
Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Former President of Argentina. Great ally of the US. CoryGlee (talk) 15:01, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support GA – not much discussion needed. Let's get this through ASAP. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 15:04, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- As a ten-year head of state and member of the Argentine Senate until his death, he might deserve a blurb as well. Would support one, personally. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 15:11, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Update: I've added a blurb and a photo. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 17:58, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- As a ten-year head of state and member of the Argentine Senate until his death, he might deserve a blurb as well. Would support one, personally. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 15:11, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
Opposenot seeing a prose update covering his death. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 15:05, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Added. Thanks for the catch. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 15:10, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- The Rambling Man Thanks for that, in the rush, everybody seemed to forget that, the little known about his fresh recent death has been added. CoryGlee (talk) 15:12, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Just the last foreign honour to reference. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 15:47, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- The Rambling Man, Hi friend, could you check now please? It's been sourced in Spanish. The article explains why the Order is considered racist after the George Floyd killing and cites (I put in quote) the Latin American leaders awarded the Order, among them Menem. CoryGlee (talk) 16:03, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Cool, just need to pick which El Comercio it is in that source. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 16:05, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- The Rambling Man Oh, I'm sorry, I just added it's El Comercio from Perú. CoryGlee (talk) 16:07, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support blurb good to go to RD while discussion continues on blurb. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 20:45, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- The Rambling Man Oh, I'm sorry, I just added it's El Comercio from Perú. CoryGlee (talk) 16:07, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Cool, just need to pick which El Comercio it is in that source. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 16:05, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- The Rambling Man, Hi friend, could you check now please? It's been sourced in Spanish. The article explains why the Order is considered racist after the George Floyd killing and cites (I put in quote) the Latin American leaders awarded the Order, among them Menem. CoryGlee (talk) 16:03, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Just the last foreign honour to reference. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 15:47, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- The Rambling Man Thanks for that, in the rush, everybody seemed to forget that, the little known about his fresh recent death has been added. CoryGlee (talk) 15:12, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Added. Thanks for the catch. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 15:10, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Pretty decent article and the concerns noted above have been addressed JW 1961 Talk 15:27, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support GA, and death info has now been added. Joseph2302 (talk) 16:15, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support It is clear given his rule as President of Argentina, it should be a sufficient to be posted as blurb. He has credited to the involvement to control inflation. 36.76.235.92 (talk) 19:59, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support blurb This is a clear-cut case. He was the most notable and influentual Argentine president after Juan Perón, remembered for his efforts in conceiving economic policies aimed at tackling the harsh stagflation from the 1980s. His BONEX plan, peso-to-dollar peg and railway privatisation have found place as real-world examples in many recent textbooks on public finance and macroeconomics.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 20:33, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support blurb per Kiril Simeonovski. --NoonIcarus (talk) 20:49, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD whilst discussion continues. Black Kite (talk) 20:53, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment Hi all, I don't know if as add to all the info by Kiril Simeonovski it is important, but Menem made Argentina major non-NATO ally in 1998 for Argentina's participation in the Gulf War. Cheers. CoryGlee (talk) 21:25, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support blurb per several above. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 21:38, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- RD only – no blurb — No longer widely known internationally. (Frail, sick old person dies at 90.) – Sca (talk) 22:28, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- I hate to tell you that you're misapplying that cliché. He held a public office at the time of his death.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 22:33, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Tenure as president ended more than 20 years ago. – Sca (talk) 23:25, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Menem was serving his third term as a Senator from La Rioja, winning his latest election in 2017. Joofjoof (talk) 23:52, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Tenure as president ended more than 20 years ago. – Sca (talk) 23:25, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Blurb futile as it is to do so per NOTMANDELA --LaserLegs (talk) 23:55, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- That's not a policy. That's an essay you created. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 06:28, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- +1. And it would be more proper if you use
based on my ... criteria
rather thanper ...
Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 11:45, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- +1. And it would be more proper if you use
- That's not a policy. That's an essay you created. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 06:28, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Blurb Former longtime G20 president. Conducted various internal reforms and entered textbooks. Plus Menem is a level-5 vital article, so importance checks out. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 00:00, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Moved to blurb as he fell of RD Stephen 00:27, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Like Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 00:38, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Stephen:, is it possible to put an image for the blurb? Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 00:39, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Post-posting support blurb per above. Davey2116 (talk) 11:11, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Post-posting blurb support I'll reiterate my stance that by nature of their importance, the death of a former elected head of state (not gov't) of the G20 countries should be blurbed, all other criteria assumed being met (quality, etc.) --Masem (t) 14:54, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Masem: Probably we should have an ITN/R for that? G20 deaths? Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 15:56, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Seconding this idea. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 22:14, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- I'd pay to see an ITN/C discussion on Trump's death and will bet on someone screaming "Trump ticker!" Howard the Duck (talk) 22:30, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- I suppose that would be the last Trump story someone nominated... right? ...right? AllegedlyHuman (talk) 22:34, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- And probably someone making a WP:NOTTRUMP essay. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 11:47, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- I'd pay to see an ITN/C discussion on Trump's death and will bet on someone screaming "Trump ticker!" Howard the Duck (talk) 22:30, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Seconding this idea. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 22:14, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
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(Posted)RD: Kadir Topbaş
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): NTV, Hurriyet
Credits:
- Nominated by Ahmetlii (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Ue06gr (talk · give credit), Myxomatosis57 (talk · give credit), PCN02WPS (talk · give credit) and Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)
Article needs updating
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Nominator's comments: Old municipal mayor of Istanbul. Served 13 years at that position. Ahmetlii (talk) 09:46, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose several unreferenced claims. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 15:10, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- @The Rambling Man: now fixed. —Bloom6132 (talk) 02:03, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment I have added sources to unreferenced parts of the article. The Rambling Man, I'd appreciate if you could re-evaluate. I am also adding the article's updaters to the nomination. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 21:56, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
Weak opposeAs with many politician articles nominated at RD, Kadir_Topbaş#Political_career is mostly a list of positions without a description of what he accomplished in those positions; a resume in prose format at present. SpencerT•C 04:26, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Spencer: I've added 4 sentences about what happened during his mayoral term. Hope it's satisfactory. —Bloom6132 (talk) 05:06, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- While his resignation had interesting drama, the article still lacks much information about what he accomplished in his 13-year mayoral career (all that is in there at present is "Topbaş vetoed five proposed municipal zoning plan changes"). SpencerT•C 20:46, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Spencer: done. —Bloom6132 (talk) 02:01, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Weak support Still not a lot there but meets minimum standards. I presume the limitation is availability of English-language information. SpencerT•C 18:39, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 16:13, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: James Ridgeway
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): NYTimes
Credits:
- Updated and nominated by Ktin (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Viajero (talk · give credit) and Jcny2021 (talk · give credit)
Article needs updating
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Nominator's comments: American journalist. Article requires work. Will get to it later tonight. If someone wants to get to it earlier, please feel free to. Edits done. Article has shaped into a good C-class biography. Meets hygiene expectations for homepage / RD. Ktin (talk) 01:46, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Marking ready. SpencerT•C 04:25, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support good to go. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 11:48, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted—Bagumba (talk) 15:39, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
(Closed) 2021 Fukushima earthquake
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Blurb: A magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes offshore near the eastern coast of Japan, injuring at least 151 people. (Post)
News source(s): The Japan Times, BBC, NYT, [22]
Credits:
- Nominated by AllegedlyHuman (talk · give credit)
- Created by Dora the Axe-plorer (talk · give credit)
- Updated by James410JP (talk · give credit)
Article updated
- Oppose in the absence of any serious damage. -- Rockstone[Send me a message!] 05:45, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose This is Japan. The country is literally made against earthquakes. I've seen the footage from the earthquake, and it looks like another Saturday morning with broken glasses. No important effect caused by the earthquake. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 08:22, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose absent large amounts of casualties and damage, which even with a 7.1 earthquake is rare in Japan. 331dot (talk) 08:26, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose – Per previous. A seismic event, for once of scant significance to humankind. – Sca (talk) 13:58, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose - no major impact. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 15:12, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Yuri Vlasov
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): TASS
Credits:
- Nominated by 5.44.170.9 (talk · give credit)
Article needs updating
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Nominator's comments: Early bodybuilder. Soviet Olympic Gold champion. --5.44.170.9 (talk) 21:36, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support. The article seems reasonable and fairly well sourced but could use a copy-edit if possible. —Brigade Piron (talk) 22:44, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support satis. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 15:16, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
Opposeper WP:DENY- the nominating IP has been blocked for WP:BLOCKEVASION. Joseph2302 (talk) 16:13, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- I can see why that's worth informing other editors about, but so long as the article legitimately meets WP:ITNCRIT, I don't see the harm in considering the nomination in good faith. Also note that this IP user, nor any of their previous accounts, has made no edits to the article. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 16:48, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- The harm of putting an article updated by a sockpuppet/block evader on the front page is that it encourages block evaders to come back and edit. So we should deny them the recognition. Joseph2302 (talk) 17:08, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- As I mentioned, this user did not update or even edit the page whatsoever. (Generally, though, I would still disagree with your point per the reasons I articulated above.) AllegedlyHuman (talk) 17:10, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- My mistake, yes WP:DENY doesn't apply if they haven't edited it (I mistakenly thought they were updater rather than nominator). Joseph2302 (talk) 17:15, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- As I mentioned, this user did not update or even edit the page whatsoever. (Generally, though, I would still disagree with your point per the reasons I articulated above.) AllegedlyHuman (talk) 17:10, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- The harm of putting an article updated by a sockpuppet/block evader on the front page is that it encourages block evaders to come back and edit. So we should deny them the recognition. Joseph2302 (talk) 17:08, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- I can see why that's worth informing other editors about, but so long as the article legitimately meets WP:ITNCRIT, I don't see the harm in considering the nomination in good faith. Also note that this IP user, nor any of their previous accounts, has made no edits to the article. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 16:48, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose on quality with a few unsourced paragraphs, but WP:DENY doesn't apply here. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 17:04, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Can you tag these unsourced paragraphs please? The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 19:48, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose on quality too much unsourced content. Joseph2302 (talk) 17:16, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support and comment The article is a well structured topically rounded BLP. I have spot checked several sources and everything is fine. I'm unsure what else could be added, because none of the above oppose !votes have tagged anything. If none can raise a definite issue with the article, I think this should go up.130.233.213.199 (talk) 05:55, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment There's a few paragraphs whose last sentence(s) are unsourced, but the paragraphs themselves seem to have sources earlier. I'll hold off on posting to allow a little more time for further discussion.—Bagumba (talk) 15:34, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 17:14, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) Trump acquitted
[edit]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.
Blurb: The United States Senate votes to acquit former President Donald Trump on one article of impeachment. (Post)
Alternative blurb: The United States Senate votes to acquit former President Donald Trump for the second time.
Alternative blurb II: By a vote of 57-43 the United States Senate fails to reach the two-thirds needed to convict former President Donald Trump.
News source(s): Star-Tribune NBC The Hill BBC
Credits:
- Nominated by PCN02WPS (talk · give credit)
- Updated by Phillip Samuel (talk · give credit) and 36.76.235.92 (talk · give credit)
- Oppose per issues of neutrality and lack of citations at the end of some paragraphs... support once that is fixed. NoahTalk 21:00, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support on principle but wait until the article is updated. Nice4What (talk · contribs) – (Thanks ♥) 21:03, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Note: I added the altblurb about this so the blurb now refers to Donald Trump as "former President" instead of "President" as the latter now in office is held by Joe Biden. Nice4What, you can feel free to update the blurb. 36.76.235.92 (talk) 21:09, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support in principle if that was the only article of impeachment. I assume the impeachment is now over. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 21:25, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- John M Wolfson, it is indeed. The second time around, only one article was adopted by the house, as opposed to the two they adopted the first time. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 04:50, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose The acquittal changes nothing and he can run for president in the next election. I'd have supported this had he been convicted.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 21:29, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose - what impact does this have on the world or even on the United States? Let the dead horse lie. I don't feel as if anything but the capital riots themselves will have any sort of long-term impact. - Floydian τ ¢ 21:29, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose status quo maintained and we all knew this was the guaranteed outcome. Ding ding, next! The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 21:44, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
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- Oppose not important event yet as the acquittal is expected. 116.206.35.20 (talk) 21:58, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose the trial was compelling, some of the 7 R's who voted to convict are interesting, but ultimately this is just a prologue in the sad tragedy that was the Trump administration. I'll support when the DOJ is done with him and he's sentenced to ADX Florence. It's probably time to close this one. --LaserLegs (talk) 22:15, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose. First, we typically only post the election of a new president for other countries (as far as presidential matters are concerned), so it would be inappropriate to post this since we wouldn't do it for any other country. We must constantly be vigilant to avoid US bias. Secondly, the result was expected and has no broader political impact, nationally or internationally. Perhaps a conviction would have merited an item here. --Tataral (talk) 22:18, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- FWIW, we've posted the impeachments of several other presidents: Dilma Rouseff of Brazil, Park Geun-hye of South Korea, the presidents of Peru who were impeached, and the two Trump impeachments. (Can anybody check if we posted both the impeachment and the sentencing?) All of those, except for Trump's, led to their removal of office. We've also posted impeachments that caused removals of non-presidents: Renato Corona of the Philippines. Howard the Duck (talk) 22:36, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Don't bother. "American bias" is the flat earth of ITN. --LaserLegs (talk) 22:55, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- FWIW, we've posted the impeachments of several other presidents: Dilma Rouseff of Brazil, Park Geun-hye of South Korea, the presidents of Peru who were impeached, and the two Trump impeachments. (Can anybody check if we posted both the impeachment and the sentencing?) All of those, except for Trump's, led to their removal of office. We've also posted impeachments that caused removals of non-presidents: Renato Corona of the Philippines. Howard the Duck (talk) 22:36, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Have we posted to ITN any acquittals (whether of impeachment or not)? Jim Michael (talk) 22:44, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support For the unusual nature of a now former President being impeached and tried, makes it news worthy. --AXEdits (talk) 23:02, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support While I would be the first in line to warn ITN off being the Trump newsticker (or AMPol newsticker) and that while this result itself was mostly expected, we're still talking about a world leader having gone through a trial about crimes done by their person at a national level and had a judgement handed down. Take out "Trump" and "US" and we would be posting this if it was anyone else. --Masem (t) 23:03, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support The completion of a trial of the leader of a country is ITN-worthy. Article has a few empty sections that should be filled out, but quality is fine overall. (But as usual, people always forget to mention "2021" at the start of sections.) Should be the last Trump blurb on ITN at least (unless he's arrested or something). Nixinova T C 23:19, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose. Status quo maintained plus he is already out office. So removal was moot. KyuuA4 (Talk:キュウ) 23:27, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- If he was convicted, he would have lost ex-president priveledges and would have been prevented from running from president again. The case was not without a moot result just because Trump was no longer president. (that was the exercise of the vote on the first day of the trial.) --Masem (t) 06:47, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support. This is a political event with substantial ramifications for the next election and beyond. BD2412 T 23:41, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support this is obviously historic/significant. 98.116.113.193 (talk) 00:01, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support per above. By the logic of some of the above !opposes, any acquittal would not merit posting, which makes no sense. Davey2116 (talk) 00:16, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support on notability, considering the wall-to-wall coverage of the case. Top story in many outlets at the moment, including outside the US. Hrodvarsson (talk) 00:21, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support As an updater for the blurb, i believe that any results of the impeachment trial regardless conviction or acquittal is don't necessary, as long as it remains have historic and significant impact for the United States politics and around the world as he is the first former president to be tried in Senate. 36.76.235.92 (talk) 00:24, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Think this is too U.S.-centric, not globally notable enough. Basil the Bat Lord (talk) 01:49, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oh, cool, could you just show me the part in the WP:ITN criteria that requires a story be "globally notable"? --LaserLegs (talk) 02:10, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose No one cares about this except Americans. CompactSpacez (talk) 02:05, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- So what? --LaserLegs (talk) 02:10, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- International news coverage would seem to suggest otherwise. BD2412 T 02:19, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Largely per Masem. This clearly has global significance and is being covered all over the globe as such. PackMecEng (talk) 02:11, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support precisely because it is "in the news"—prominently—of countries this purportedly has no impact on e.g. The Independent, which is leading with "Senators clear Trump of inciting insurrection after historic second impeachment trial". But sure, ignore the WP:WEIGHT of sources with the typical wave of systemic not-U.S. bias. We post re-elections of heads of states where the outcome was expected and "nothing changed". Yeah, this is conveniently "different". Except I think there was some fleeting hope that democracy was going to prevail; that task is now left to history, which ITN can help frame.—Bagumba (talk) 02:26, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support C'mon, we've just posted the election of a country less populous than Bethesda, Maryland. The impeachment trial of a US president will be the subject of intense analysis for years to come. Zagalejo^^^ 02:46, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Weak Support No one wants ITN to become a Trump-ticker, but this is just the fourth impeachment trial of a US president in American history, none of which resulted in convictions, and we now have a conclusion to post about. This is headline news around the world. I think it meets the bar of notability. And a quick skim through the article suggests that it is high enough quality to post on ITN as well. NorthernFalcon (talk) 02:59, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose Foregone conclusion of an exercise in political theatre. There will be follow-on criminal investigations and civil litigation that will carry on for years. We should avoid fixating on this until something conclusive happens. Jehochman Talk 03:05, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support There have been only four U.S. presidential impeachments in history (the trial of one of which we posted, and surely had Wikipedia been around during the Andrew Johnson or Bill Clinton presidencies we would have posted those as well), and as Howard the Duck notes, Wikipedia has posted impeachments of other political figures around the world as well. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 03:14, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support. Certainly a more historic moment, with more international impact, than another Super Bowl taking place, which was included ITN by default. BlackholeWA (talk) 03:35, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support If an event will be mentioned in history textbooks, that's probably a good indicator it deserves a spot on ITN. This will be in every U.S. history textbook. Bzweebl (talk • contribs) 03:42, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose No effect on a wider scale. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 04:07, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Trump can now run for president in 2024. Lord knows what kind of damage he and his emboldened cult will cause. Zagalejo^^^ 04:36, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support, widely covered in international news. -- Tavix (talk) 04:39, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support, we had widely discussed that we would blurb his acquittal or conviction early on. Given the historic nature of the event, it should absolutely be blurbed. -- Rockstone[Send me a message!] 05:41, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose - Now what? He's just a commoner. It isn't significant enough for ITN. STSC (talk) 06:14, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Wasn't Bush Sr. also a commoner when he died and we blurbed his passing? 45.251.33.57 (talk) 10:33, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- As was Hank Aaron, who we blurbed not even a month ago. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 14:20, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Wasn't Bush Sr. also a commoner when he died and we blurbed his passing? 45.251.33.57 (talk) 10:33, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Since the initial impeachment was posted, this should logically follow. Those opposing should have raised the issue then Gotitbro (talk) 07:09, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support per Gotitbro, Tavix, Masem and Bagumba. 45.251.33.57 (talk) 10:33, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support, historically significant. Nsk92 (talk) 12:35, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose. I would have supported if he had been convicted, but 'potentially interesting thing doesn't happen' isn't enough for an ITN blurb IMO. Both sides got their opportunity to grandstand in the media, nothing actually happened. Modest Genius talk 14:00, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Yet regardless this, conviction or acquittal doesn't necessary an thing, as long as the historic trial receive significant international coverage. 36.76.235.92 (talk) 14:11, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment – Posts running 19-11 in favor. I'm undecided: historic to a degree and widely covered, but wholly predictable and expected given the numbers; of mere passing interest outside the U.S. – Sca (talk) 14:08, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Neutral. I honestly don't know. On one hand, it's undoubtedly major national news in the United States. On the other hand, ITN has prided itself on not being the "Trump ticker" and not giving in to U.S. bias. There are valid reasons both for posting and for not posting, as well as downsides to doing either. Definitely a catch-22.--WaltCip-(talk) 16:12, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- If we want to post this we should point out the majority voted to convict, but the vote failed because it did not reach the required two-thirds majority. Jehochman Talk 16:19, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- They can read that in the article - hopefully high in the article. – Sca (talk) 22:35, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- That may be considered POV. When the law clearly calls for requiring a 2/3 majority to convict, pointing out the presence of a simple majority would seem to be a distraction from the ultimate outcome. --WaltCip-(talk) 16:26, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Ok, then let’s just state the vote as in altblurb2. That way the reader can see how close conviction was or wasn’t. A phrase like “votes to acquit” is misleading to a reader who doesn’t understand the mechanics. We could say “is acquired when the Senate fails to reach a 2/3 majority”. I think the supermajority is a critical point to include for our readers. Jehochman Talk 16:32, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support - A US president that is basically given an OK for starting domestic terrorism is notable and historic.BabbaQ (talk) 16:24, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted This has been a lively debate, and both supporters and opposers have good points, and while I did previously !vote on this, I still believe that this has consensus to post given that the supporters outnumber the opposers approximately 2:1 excluding my !vote, which is a good ratio to have after quite a while of vigorous discussion. Jehochman has a fair point in the mechanics of the vote; we do not post specific numbers on ITN, and I don't think the majority voting to convict is relevant enough for the blurb given the ultimate outcome, so I simply put "is acquitted" to avoid confusion/POV. Any discussion on the blurb itself goes to WP:ERRORS. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 17:33, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Post-posting opinion, I think ITN is becoming too, way too US-centric. Just an opinion, don't jump on me please. CoryGlee (talk) 17:41, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Time flies too fast. Just some weeks ago, people at WT:ITN were complaining there were too many typhoon blurbs. The Philippines was blasted by five in one month, and were pushing for WP:ITNR levels of 100 WP:ITNMINIMUMDEATHS for typhoons. Howard the Duck (talk) 18:02, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Well, this is the English Wikipedia, and America is by far the largest English-speaking nation by population. The fact that world events are covered as much as they are, in fact, I would say is a testament to our fight against systemic bias. I agree that there's still some way to go, however. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 17:49, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Nothing in the guidelines says anything about "global importance" or "systemic bias", we have a specific guideline against opposing items because they only relate to one country, and if you want to fight your perceived issue of bias, get articles about other countries up to scratch instead of trying to suppress stories from the one country which you believe is over represented. --LaserLegs (talk) 18:22, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- I really don't like that the successful posting of a nom on ITN verges on whether or not there is a majority of supports to opposes. Putting a "!" in front of "vote" doesn't hide that inconvenient truth.--WaltCip-(talk) 18:02, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Counting is part of the process, WaltCip, as is weighing the arguments. There were no procedural opposes, nothing really compelling in the supports or opposes so yeah, a count gets to be a factor. I opposed it too, but I don't see posting it as a sign of some underlying defect with ITN (that is exposed by the awful articles which fester in ongoing for months on end) --LaserLegs (talk) 18:25, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
Comment First (to get that out of the way) it is definitely in the worldwide news. Apart from that, assessing newsworthiness here requires thinking about why this event is seen by so many worldwide outlets as front page material: notwithstanding that the verdict was predictable, notwithstanding the amount of press related subjects have already been given. I leave to your discretion just how relevant the U.S. is these days as a leader and symbol of worldwide democracy. Instead, I will simply point out that impeachment is not just another "ticker tape / dead horse" item. After all, it is supposed to be the ultimate sanction at U.S. leadership levels. It has only been used successfully four times in U.S. presidential history: so not exactly everyday stuff here, even if the past three decades seem to suggest otherwise. When it was conceived, there was no such thing as political parties; but partisan politics has been a significant factor each time it has been invoked. This is actually the least partisan impeachment vote in the U.S. ever. Thus, personally, I do support the "fails to meet the 2/3" suggestion as relevant; but I think the acquittal relevant to post with or without it. - Tenebris 66.11.165.101 (talk) 18:26, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Leader of culture, sure, but leader of democracy, absolutely not. Agree with the rest though. Nixinova T C 19:05, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Last chance to sell newspapers with Trump on the front for a few years. Hopefully last time this orange peril makes Wikipedia's main page for a few years. We fought hard to keep this becoming a Trump ticker, but in the end, even he won. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 19:50, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Depends on what kind of newspapers we're talking about. (And BTW, what's a 'newspaper' anyway?) – Sca (talk) 22:37, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- I'd be careful who I'd say "he won" around... /s AllegedlyHuman (talk) 20:17, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- How is this not "extended content"? InedibleHulk (talk) 20:45, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oh come now, we'll all welcome "Former US president Donald Trump is sentenced to 75 years at USP Marion for crimes committed while in office". --LaserLegs (talk) 23:14, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Last chance to sell newspapers with Trump on the front for a few years. Hopefully last time this orange peril makes Wikipedia's main page for a few years. We fought hard to keep this becoming a Trump ticker, but in the end, even he won. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 19:50, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Leader of culture, sure, but leader of democracy, absolutely not. Agree with the rest though. Nixinova T C 19:05, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Alberto Oliart
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): El Mundo
Credits:
- Nominated by Alsoriano97 (talk · give credit)
Article needs updating
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: Leaded the Ministry of Defence of Spain after the coup d'état of 1981. Dies from COVID-19. I'm working on his article. Alsoriano97 (talk) 14:13, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Weak support looks alright. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 15:50, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- The Rambling Man I have been improving his article this afternoon and evening. Take a look to see if we can get "strong" support ;). Alsoriano97 (talk) 22:38, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support. The article could use a copy-edit, but seems adequate. —Brigade Piron (talk) 22:41, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Attention required The article seems to be ready for hours. Alsoriano97 (talk) 09:48, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. SpencerT•C 21:42, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) Ongoing: 2021 Myanmar protests
[edit]Ongoing item nomination (Post)
Credits:
- Nominated by Johndavies837 (talk · give credit)
Nominator's comments: For when the military coup blurb rolls off the list. Johndavies837 (talk) 08:28, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Very strong article documenting in depth what's happening on the ground with sources. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 08:40, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose/Wait I'm still running the content diff. A one line update on the 12th lacks specifics and has grammar issues. Another thin edit from the 11th claims police were firing "live" bullets which is not supported by the ref. Usual WP:RGW protest article, sadly. Since these protests will never actually end, we should wait for some "blurb worthy" event in the 2021 Myanmar Coup to post. --LaserLegs (talk) 12:51, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- content diff to present. POV comments like "pro-military instigators". Not suitable for main page, IMO. --LaserLegs (talk) 13:13, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- LOL "probably live ammunition" this article is rubbish. No "new, pertinent information" added since this nom was opened. --LaserLegs (talk) 12:34, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment – Some current coverage. [23] [24] [25] – Sca (talk) 15:39, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support - Article looks good to go. And this is definitely within Ongoing.BabbaQ (talk) 15:49, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose - It's very unlikely the protests will last very long. STSC (talk) 15:51, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support blurb only; oppose ongoing at this time. Let's post the item as a blurb, since the protests themselves have not been covered on ITN. At that point when the article is about to age off, we can see whether or not the article is meeting Ongoing criteria. These protests articles frequently appear on Ongoing way too long when perhaps a blurb would be more fitting (and indeed, in a time before ongoing, an item like this would have been easily considered for a blurb). SpencerT•C 17:06, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support, per BabbQ. —Brigade Piron (talk) 22:39, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support blurb or ongoing, per above. Davey2116 (talk) 00:16, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support ongoing. This is directly borne out of 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, which had an earlier blurb. I see this as a continuation of that blurb even though it was not stated in that blurb. – robertsky (talk) 05:25, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment – Coverage. – Sca (talk) 14:12, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks. Could you link to the edit in the target article where that new, pertinent information was added? --LaserLegs (talk) 14:20, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- P.S. it's a trick question. Whether or not the event is ongoing is irrelevant, is the article still receiving high quality updates? Is it? The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 14:23, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks. Could you link to the edit in the target article where that new, pertinent information was added? --LaserLegs (talk) 14:20, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support when the blurb rolls off the list. --NoonIcarus (talk) 20:39, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to ongoing Stephen 00:14, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) RD: Sinyo Harry Sarundajang
[edit]Recent deaths nomination (Post)
Credits:
- Nominated by Jeromi Mikhael (talk · give credit)
- Updated by 118.208.101.83 (talk · give credit), 103.233.153.51 (talk · give credit), 173.54.205.192 (talk · give credit) and Sunshineisles2 (talk · give credit)
Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: Second former governor from Indonesia who died this week. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 02:52, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment: A lot of unsourced positions in the infobox. Limited information about what he accomplished in his political roles. SpencerT•C 04:10, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose The article is not ready yet, just contains personal life and career section which are not complete. Hanamanteo (talk) 05:03, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Pinging @SiberianCat and CakalangSantan:, two North Sulawesi article authors, to see if they could improve the Governor section. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 06:28, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment: Hi Hanamanteo and Spencer, I think you might check it again. For those who wanted to see an English source, see [26]. As for Editrite!, quoting from the aforementioned source:
However, there is no further explanation regarding the cause of the death of the man who is often called Sinyo.
Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 13:25, 13 February 2021 (UTC) - Support looks ok to me. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 15:52, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posted to RD. Nice improvement and expansion. Article tripled in size since my original comment. SpencerT•C 17:00, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
(Posted) New Italian government
[edit]Blurb: After weeks of political crisis, Mario Draghi is sworn in as Prime Minister of Italy and forms a new government. (Post)
Alternative blurb: Mario Draghi (pictured) becomes Prime Minister of Italy, leading a national unity government after the resignation of Giuseppe Conte.
Alternative blurb II: Former ECB President Mario Draghi (pictured) becomes Prime Minister of Italy, leading a national unity government after the resignation of Giuseppe Conte.
News source(s): Guardian, The New York Times, BBC, Reuters
Credits:
- Nominated by Ritchie92 (talk · give credit)
The nominated event is listed on WP:ITN/R, so each occurrence is presumed to be important enough to post. Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article and update meet WP:ITNCRIT, not the significance.
Nominator's comments: The swearing-in ceremony happens at 11:00 AM UTC, so we should wait at least until then to post it. Ritchie92 (talk) 08:47, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
Weak oppose If possible, I'd like to see some political background to this beyond the charts and the lead in this article, like what I see at Conte I Cabinet or Conte II Cabinet. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 08:53, 13 February 2021 (UTC)Support as this has now been added. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 02:50, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Sure. Pinging @Nick.mon: and @Broncoviz: who are the main contributors to the Draghi cabinet article. --Ritchie92 (talk) 09:01, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Was this really a "political crisis"? Italy has had 67 governments since WWII, and as I understand it the resignation of the last government was strategic, to get this result. Not saying I oppose this, just questioning the characterization. 331dot (talk) 09:05, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- As it always happens with a government change in a major country, I think we should include it. I’m Italian, maybe I’m a bit biased, but I support Ritchie92’s proposal. -- Nick.mon (talk) 09:08, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
OpposeItaly? Political crisis? Routine. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 15:54, 13 February 2021 (UTC)- Support – New head of govt. Crisis over. – Sca (talk) 15:55, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support -
Per ITNR. STSC (talk) 15:59, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- STSC "Support per ITNR" is not required, as that's the whole point of the ITNR list. 331dot (talk) 20:37, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Point taken. Overall the article seems OK in terms of quality and update. STSC (talk) 05:38, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- STSC "Support per ITNR" is not required, as that's the whole point of the ITNR list. 331dot (talk) 20:37, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support it's a change of Prime Minister, which is ITNR, even if Italy does this all the time. Joseph2302 (talk) 17:07, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support – While I agree that unfortunately Italy does change their head of government too much, the news itself is worth a mention since this is a national unity cabinet. My two cents. Broncoviz (talk) 17:24, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment The header is referring to the government, the bolded item in the example sentence is Draghi. Can we have some kind of statement on which article we should be looking at here? Support either option: Both are well sourced. Italy changes its government regularly, but it is still a G7 country and changes to its head of government are important. The national unity government/grand coalition aspect makes this less usual as well Unknown Temptation (talk) 18:01, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Unknown Temptation and Tone: I'm actually not sure what is better in these cases: if we need to make the government bold then the sentence should be slightly restructured. An option would be:
- Mario Draghi (pictured) becomes Prime Minister of Italy, leading a national unity government after the resignation of Giuseppe Conte.
- What about this? --Ritchie92 (talk) 18:52, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- I like this one. Ready to post when I see some more feedback. --Tone 18:56, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Unknown Temptation and Tone: I'm actually not sure what is better in these cases: if we need to make the government bold then the sentence should be slightly restructured. An option would be:
- Comment What about Following the resignation of Giuseppe Conte, Mario Draghi is sworn in as Prime Minister of Italy and forms a new government. ? As mentioned above, the resignation was a strategic one. --Tone 18:24, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support - Per ITNR, any succession of head of state. --Pithon314 (talk) 19:55, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Pithon314 PM is head of government, not state, though ITNR still applies. ITNR items do not need support on the merits, as that is the whole point of the list. 331dot (talk) 20:37, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Comment – Suggest we post ITNR Draghi soon, without foot-dragging, as another nom. seems likely anon. – Sca (talk) 20:05, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
Support per ITNR. 36.76.235.92 (talk) 20:41, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- change to Oppose I don't believe it can be posted as blurb due to fact that it likely to be collided with another blurb on the same about conclusion of impeachment trial. 36.76.235.92 (talk) 20:49, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Mh, I don't understand. There is no such thing as "collision" of blurbs. There are many blurbs at the same time in the ITN section. --Ritchie92 (talk) 20:52, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Holy crap, a spacecraft just narrowly missed Liechtenstein! InedibleHulk (talk) 21:45, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Mh, I don't understand. There is no such thing as "collision" of blurbs. There are many blurbs at the same time in the ITN section. --Ritchie92 (talk) 20:52, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- change to Oppose I don't believe it can be posted as blurb due to fact that it likely to be collided with another blurb on the same about conclusion of impeachment trial. 36.76.235.92 (talk) 20:49, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Weak oppose While national unity government is almost interested for me and seems be newsworthy, i don't believe Draghi will be come out as legitimate Prime Minister at the time being. The new prime minister will be legitimate if they held an election. As IMO, Draghi is caretaker prime minister, not "legitimate" PM. 116.206.35.20 (talk) 21:56, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Draghi is the legitimate PM of Italy as per the Italian Constitution. I don't understand your objections. Also, this is ITN/R, so it is automatically relevant for publication in ITN. --Ritchie92 (talk) 00:07, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support per above. 98.116.113.193 (talk) 23:58, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support This is ITNR, and the articles are good. Davey2116 (talk) 00:16, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support Passes WP:ITNR. Tucker Gladden 👑 01:11, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Support This is ITNR, so any votes that don't have to do with quality are not relevant. Both Mario Draghi's article and the Draghi Cabinet article have no orange tags. Draghi's article had two uncited sentences, as far as I could see, and the Draghi Cabinet article had one uncited sentence fragment which could probably be fixed just by rewording the sentence; so as far as I can see either article would suffice as the bolded article in terms of quality. I think Mario Draghi would be the better bolded article, however, as this should really be about him as the new head of government. NorthernFalcon (talk) 03:06, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- Posting. --Tone 08:55, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
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