Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Current events/Archive 1

Archive 1

Subportals of current events MfD

A discussing about several of the Current events subportals has been opened at Miscellany for deletion. You are invited to participate in discussing the fate of these subportals --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 17:39, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

ITN reform

The "In The News" section on the main page is broken. Whereas all of the other sections, like Featured Articles, get updated every day, ITN gets two or three new news items a week. The same picture of Fernando Lugo has been on ITN since April 20, almost two weeks. In addition, deaths like Arthur C. Clarke don't make it to the main page, nor items of "local" interest like the London mayoral election. I think we need to make ITN more open and dynamic. If you would like to help, please see Wikipedia:In the news 2.0. Thanks. Lovelac7 00:01, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

We have a problem, how will we fix it?

The quality of Portal:Current events is dropping in my personal opinion. I think its time we started doing something about it, and you are invited to discuss it here. --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 18:09, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

voting system

i'm looking to addapted a voting system to all articles so as to know what articles have top votes at given times so as to also show wiki awards at every seconde, minute, hour or so for modifications, creations, etc...

can sombody clearly show a voting system on all the first pages of wiki main pages so as to start the proccess ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.143.4.107 (talk) 15:02, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Request for comment on Biographies of living people

Hello Wikiproject! Currently there is a discussion which will decide whether wikipedia will delete 49,000 articles about a living person without references, here:

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

Since biographies of living people covers so many topics, nearly all wikiproject topics will be effected.

The two opposing positions which have the most support is:

1. supports the deletion of unreferenced articles about a living person, User:Jehochman
2. opposes the deletion of unreferenced articles about a living person, except in limited circumstances, User:Collect

Comments are welcome. Keep in mind that by default, editor's comments are hidden. Simply press edit next to the section to add your comment.

Please keep in mind that at this point, it seems that editors support deleting unreferenced BLP articles if they are not sourced, so your project may want to source these articles as soon as possible. See the next, message, which may help.

Tools to help your project with unreferenced Biographies of living people

List of cleanup articles for your project

If you don't already have this and are interested in creating a list of articles which need cleanup for your wikiproject see: Cleanup listings A list of examples is here

Moving unreferenced blp articles to a special "incubation pages"

If you are interested in moving unreferenced blp articles to a special "incubation page", contact me, User talk:Ikip

Watchlisting all unreferenced articles

If you are interested in watchlisting all of the unreferenced articles once you install Cleanup_listings, contact me, User talk:Ikip

Ikip 02:24, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Hello

hello, does anyone still read this? Or is this truly inactive? 76.65.129.5 (talk) 22:22, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

looks like so, completely inactive --Extra999 (talk) 12:52, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Template:Update current event

{{Update current event}} has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.131.248 (talk) 10:32, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Obsolete activities on the main page

The following three sections were included on the main page as current plans or activities, but I find them rather obsolete, so I moved them to here. Still, anyone who wishes to bring any of these subjects into attention again is welcome to do so. Mikael Häggström (talk) 17:50, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Current events Article and Archives

At the end of each month, the current current events page is moved to a monthly archive page (e.g. March 2006). Over the years, the format of these monthly pages have been changed an altered a significant number of times. As a result, there is currently no standard on how these monthly pages should look. However, some standardization suggestions include:

• Ordering dates of the months in forward alphabetical order (suggested by GT)
• Eliminate the daily article-templates as seen in almost all months between 2003 and 2005 (i.e. all days between January 1, 2005 and January 31, 2005 are "templated" into January 2005)

On the main current events page, some plans include:

• Merging unnecessary sub-articles (e.g. Current events in Africa) back into the main current events article (suggested by Pcb21)
• Ensuring appropriate events receive context according to Wikipedia:How the Current events page works

In both the archives and the current current events page, objectives include:

• Ensuring news items of international interest are included

To discuss the objectives above, take a look at the talk page.

Articles About Current Events

Another objective crucial to the WikiProject is expanding articles about current events. Some potential project collaborations include:

• 2008 Russian submarine accident
• 2008 Pétion-Ville school collapse
• Your article here

Depending on how quickly a decent number of editors join the project, we can get working on improving one of the above articles very soon.

Years

One possibly objective is to collaborate with WikiProject Years to work on a standardization of the current events on that page. Each year article (e.g. 2006) should include only significant events of international importance. Perhaps a more clear-cut standard can be developed in collaboration with WikiProject Years.

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

{{Wikinews portal}}

Template:Wikinews portal (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.171.206 (talk) 05:35, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Wikinews SISTER templates

{{Wikinews category}} and {{Wikinews portal}} have been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 03:19, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!

Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

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Wiki Loves Pride!

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!

• What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
• When? June 2015
• How can you help?

  1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here

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Thanks, and happy editing!

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The European Union turning totalitarian?

I apologise about not knowing where else to go with this information, but I just learned that the French and German governments are planning to turn the European Union into a totalitarian superstate, and wonder if anybody might be willing to start an article about this topic?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3662827/Has-Britain-avoided-European-superstate-France-Germany-draw-plans-morph-EU-countries-one-control-members-armies-economies.html David A (talk) 09:23, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject

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Portal:Current events listed at Requested moves

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Suggestions

It looks like you are interested in the monthly current events page and organizing things, but I also suggest working on stub news articles. In particular, Africa-related news items often are neglected. These would be good for the collaborations, for example the 2006 Horn of Africa food crisis article. I did a little bit of work there, when it was featured on "In the news", but it still needs major work. Several people working together to find more sources and details, and improving the article could go a long way. --Aude (talk | contribs) 02:11, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

I added a section about improving current events articles onto the main WikiProject page. joturner 02:22, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Any help to counter WP:BIAS with current events articles would be excellent. --Aude (talk | contribs) 03:31, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Current events portal

There is discussion about moving the Current events page to the portal namespace, Portal:Current events. Design changes to the current events page would be minimal, though open for discussion. To weigh in (along with rationale for the move), see Wikipedia:Portal/Proposals#Portal:Current events. --Aude (talk contribs) 01:52, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Since the proposal was accepted, I am hoping to have the switch take effect as of July 1 00:00 (UTC). Further discussions at Talk:Current events#Switch to Portal:Current events. Thanks—Kayaker 21:51, 30 June 2006 (UTC).

The Initial portal migration steps are complete. Let me know if I missed or mangled anything. Thanks—Kayaker (talk · contribs) 01:35, 1 July 2006 (UTC).

Project Directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council is currently in the process of developing a master directory of the existing WikiProjects to replace and update the existing Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. These WikiProjects are of vital importance in helping wikipedia achieve its goal of becoming truly encyclopedic. Please review the following pages:

• User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory,
• User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory 2,
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• User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory,
• User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory/United States, (note: This page will be retitled to more accurately reflect its contents)
• User:Badbilltucker/History and society directory, and
• User:Badbilltucker/Science directory

and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope to have the existing directory replaced by the updated and corrected version of the directory above by November 1. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 22:14, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry if you tried to update it before, and the corrections were gone. I have now moved the new draft in the old directory pages, so the links should work better. My apologies for any confusion this may have caused you. B2T2 14:01, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 17:41, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Sub-Article Merges

All of the regional articles in the {{Current events articles}} template need to be merged. They are all very short articles that aren't updated often. Perhaps they can be merged into one page entitled Regional current events or National current events. Then, like with the current Current events in Malaysia and Singapore article, we could possibly use flags to help denote the countries in which current events occur:

• Some event occuring.

Just a suggestion. However, as it is now there are far too many unnecessary articles. joturner 02:23, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

I disagree about merging everything. I'd however agree to a regional's current events page, i.e. for southeast asia, Msia+sg+thai+etc within Southeast Asia; for europe, africa, east asia, south east etc. In this way, it provides focus on a region. __earth ^(Talk) 02:38, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

I also disagree. Current events in Australia and New Zealand is updated about three times a week on average; I see 12 stories at April 2006 in Australia and New Zealand and 16 at March 2006 in Australia and New Zealand. There hasn't been a story in May yet, but this is the first day of the month. I have no objection to the inactive current events pages (where inactive means perhaps that there has been no update for a month) being removed from the {{Current events articles}} template so they remain as an archive should a new and keen maintainer comes along to restart them. Merger of some pages may help as well. If we extended the Australia and New Zealand page to cover all of Oceania, then the dozen or so stories covered by Portal:Oceania each month would be added to that page. However I did suggest that some months ago (at Talk:Current events in Australia and New Zealand, and no one responded.-gadfium 03:26, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps by continent would work better? Maybe "the Americas", "Europe", "Africa", "Asia", and "Oceania"? joturner 04:00, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Continent is good but for continent like Asia, I think it's better to subdivide into subregion. Again, I would support Malaysia+Singapore and Thailand's current events pages into Southeast Asia current events. I would oppose effort to integrate Malaysia+Singapore into one big Asia page. __earth ^(Talk) 05:09, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

What would be considered an adequate level of activity? Would this be measured in posts per month, or perhaps also in number of regular contributors?-gadfium 05:32, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

I am also opposed to any merger of active events pages. The current events in Australia and New Zealand forms the basis for the "Years in Australia/New Zealand" series.--cj | talk 09:43, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

I am also opposed to this merger suggestion. This merger proposal needs to be thought through at a more granular level. For example, merging Chinese current events with Current events in Hong Kong and Macao might help both groups, but other groups, such as Current events in Australia and New Zealand seem to be achieving critical mass. Jonathan O'Donnell 19:49, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

This wouldn't work. There are many, many example of current events that are highly significant to residents of a particular country but that residents of neighboring countries have never heard of. Local politics, local celebrities, etc. are often known only locally. If regional pages were created, they should be in addition to rather than instead of country pages. -- Curps 04:51, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Could someone who knows how please place the merge tag on British and Irish current events, Indian current events and possibly the List of current events articles by region. At the moment, it appears that the editors of Indian current events may not even be aware that you are suggesting merging their page with Pakistan current events. Jonathan O'Donnell 19:49, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

• Oppose These pages need more focus, not less. ReeseM 01:13, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

• Agreed. If people want to write to this level of detail about the news, it should go in WikiNews, not on a myriad of Wikipedia pages. Viva la mergismo!--M@rēino 22:12, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

• Strong Oppose I just noticed the flag slapped to Indian current events. Do you call this April 2006 in India and this March_2006_in_India not updated often? As a encyclopedia, we should store a timeline of news events with wiki-links to the actual articles. Wikinews has a different purpose to report news as it happens. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 22:59, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

I have just noticed that Current events in Hong Kong and Macao was made a redirection to Current events in East Asia as a result of a merge. Seeing that the discussion here has yielded no consensus, I have reverted that particular edit at Current events in Hong Kong and Macao, and this is to let you know as courtesy. In lieu of consensus here and at the respective pages, I would suggest keeping the pages as they are now until we can form a consensus the next time. --Pkchan 16:37, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

As you wish. The discussion was quite stagnant before. joturner 16:41, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Well actually, I commented on Pkchan's talk page. joturner 16:44, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

In reply to joturner: I do not have any particular problem with the merger; I just think that due process should be observed, and if a merger has been proposed but no consensus can be formed, we should respect that and the status quo and wait till a better timing to re-propose the merger.

I do recognise that Current events in Hong Kong and Macao has been a poorly maintained page; I'll try to raise this issue to the attention of the fellow editors at Wikipedia:HK wikipedians' notice board and hopefully will re-ignite their interest here. If this comes to no result I'll propose a merger/deletion as appropriate. --Pkchan 16:53, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

That sounds fine; I posted information about the proposed merger on Community Portal to no avail. Any attempt to get more discussion regarding the merger(s) would be appreciated. joturner 17:10, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

I have changed my view. I now believe the regional pages should be merged into Portal:Current events. I used the example of Current events in Australia and New Zealand as an example of a successful regional page before. This has expanded to become Portal:Current events/Oceania, but the quality of coverage of Australian events has dropped. Very few editors apart from myself contribute stories to it. Most of the other regional news pages are in worse shape.-gadfium 05:47, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

So if the quality of, and level of contribution to, the regional pages has decreased, what is causing it? What was happening before then some of these pages were successful, that isn't happening now? DonkeyKong64 (Mathematician in training) 17:43, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Proposed Project Objectives

Quality control

• The project should encourage the selection of cultured events for the current events page and discourage lists of crimes. This would give a more realistic view of the world and page appropriate for general audiences. (suggested by --Chuck Marean 19:32, 21 May 2009 (UTC))

Ordering dates

• Ordering dates of the months in forward chronological order (suggested by GT)

I think this idea should be considered, although it would take quite a bit of (hu)manpower to update all the past monthly articles to fit this standard. joturner 01:40, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

This would be pretty easy actually, given that all of Jan2003-Dec2005 are templated, it's just a question of reordering the template transclusions - easy for a human or a bot. I agree with GT that we should go for the natural order rather than backwards. Pcb21 Pete 10:33, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Done for 2003-to date. Pcb21 Pete 08:52, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Wow; I didn't realize it would be that quick. joturner 10:30, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

2002 is done so the whole thing is complete. Thanks again Pete! GT 05:35, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

I spoke too soon. Deaths in March 2006, et al all have the same problem, as well as the list of deaths on each monthly page. Argh. GT 06:10, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Yuck! You are right further down the page, however we want to re-org things, we want to avoid double listing problems, particularly when the double listings are on separate pages. Pcb21 Pete 07:19, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Merging sub-articles

• Merging unnecessary sub-articles (e.g. Current events in Africa) back into the main current events article (suggested by Pcb21)

Receiving context

• Ensuring appropriate events receive context according to Wikipedia:How the Current events page works

International interest

• Ensuring news items of international interest are included

Eliminate templates

• Eliminate the daily article-templates as seen in almost all months between 2003 and 2005 (i.e. all days between January 1, 2005 and January 31, 2005 are "templated" into January 2005)

This one has really bothered me. Every day for quite a few years, until the practice was stopped a few months ago, is archived using articles for individual dates. Those individual dates are then included in the monthly articles. joturner 01:40, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi Jo. Thanks for your note on my talk page. Out of interest why does this bother you? I have quite a few ideas for turning current events into a really useful page - but it would actually involve making more of this day pages - but useful ones rather than dumb inclusions. To help me put together a proposal, could you tell me what is the bothering bit, thanks. Pcb21 Pete 10:31, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Actually, it's really the pointlessness that bothers me (although I may have exaggerated this a bit). I still can't figured out why someone decided to archive the months that way in the first place. If you have an idea to make those templates, and the archive pages in general, more useful, I'd be glad to here what you have in mind. joturner 20:40, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

My take is that it is a half-finished job. A serious problem at the moment is that we link to dates in the format Month Day and Year. These links are pretty useless in my view because a) they have to cover such a massive amount of data that they never give any context to the date where you have just come from b) Whatlinkshere is useless (each page has thousands and in some case hundreds of thousands of incoming links).

A way of solving the issue is, for dates for which we have lots of information i.e. 2003-onwards, to link to single dates such as Month Day, Year. Hence creating those pages. So they are not pointless. But they are not that great. I think we could really improve Wikipedia by

a) merging all the current events pages (i.e. current events, current events in the UK, current events in Africa) etc into one.

b) this makes the amount of data for each date larger, but more structured.

c) so instead of doing this awkward template transclusion into Month Year, Month Year becomes an overview of the month, picking out most important events, and linking to all the day subpages.

d) Each single date page Month Day, Year has links to Month Year, Month Day and Year so all other material is just a click away

e) Another happy result is that Wikipedia automatically builds a Year Book as found in all other major encyclopedias, so we stop being deficient there

f) We can start being cleverer about using Wikinews.

Ideally I will have done a good selling job on how we can improve massively on the current system as it solves the date-linking AND current events AND template confusion issues in one go. What do you think? Pcb21 Pete 07:21, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Interesting ideas about turning the monthly pages into records of the most notable events. The only problem is that it's an additional burden to have to maintain separate pages like that, especially when it comes to making sure certain events appear on not just one but both lists. Without committed maintainers the whole thing would be a disaster. Also, who decides what is important enough to list on the monthly page? That is a potential headache. But if you did want to just select a small number of key events during a month there's no reason they couldn't just go at the top of the page in some sort of "Most important events" section.

I won't give up on your idea but my preference would be to keep things the way they're done now, create redirects corresponding with every date (March 19, 2006) to the day's entry on the month page (March 2006#19 March 2006), and then just refer to dates as such: "On March 19, 2006, the president announced...". Often the year is an important enough context to deserve its own link separate from the day and in many cases that year link is to something specialized like 2006 in music and that's something we'd lose by just linking to the date in full. GT 05:56, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Avoid duplication

If you look at (for example) February 16 and February 2006, you see a lot of overlap, which is what happened on February 16, 2006. This information is created, sourced, corrected and updated (or not) separately, inevitably with the result that some major events are only listed by month+day or by month+year. And then there are the years like 2006. For example, February 16 lists no events at all for 2006, 2006 lists one event for February 16 (Kobe Airport opens), and February 2006 has ten events for February 16, but not the opening of Kobe. If that was the most significant event on that date, then February 2006 is really off. But if it is less important than the other ten listed on February 2006, then 2006 has a strange choice. And I'm pretty sure that some of the February 16, 2006 events are more notable than many of those listed by February 16 for other years.

So a possible objective might be to avoid such duplicating overlap. That would probably mean embracing templates wholesale, such as was done for January 1, 2003 to December 31, 2005. Using "<noinclude>...</noinclude>" with a suitable text the risk might be avoided that these are taken for independent articles, like happened to June 1, 2003. Actually, they could live in Template: space. Or perhaps some space newly created for this purpose. Just an idea. Lambiam^Talk 20:58, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

I was never really fond of that inclusion for 2003-2005. However, I do see the inconsistency between the year, month, and date articles. I think the February 16 article is correct in not having anything for 2006, but February 2006 is correct in being comprehensive. 2006 listing an event for February 16, however, is not good. I believe the date articles should contain the most important events of all-time that occured on that date, the year articles should contain the most important events of the year (and the most important events from the individual months), and the month articles should be comprehensive containing those events on the year and date pages and then some. joturner 04:15, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Ending monthly archival

I just noticed something today that made me come around on the templates. Since today is May 1, the beginning of a month, Current events only contains events for that day. If we used templates it would be trivial to just leave the last few days of April up on that page, or even just all-out turn the Current events article into a page always consisting of the templates of the last (fixed number) days. Every night a person or a bot could stick the new day at the top and remove the oldest day. Furthermore the current monthly page would fill up as the individual day templates received entries during their presence on the Current events page and there would be no need to do any sort of change-over at the end of the month other than maybe switching the "List of deaths" template on Current events to that of the new month, and things of that sort. — GT 08:00, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

I really like that idea; it doesn't really make sense that the current events page on April 30 is much longer than that on May 1 simply because it is late in the month. I add a notice on the current events talk page. joturner 03:54, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

I like the idea of not just archiving away all of the events at the start of a new month as the new month leaves us with nothing that happened yesterday. Robovski 00:47, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Add your new project objective here

Additional Automation?

Would anyone be interested in improving the automation of the Current Events Portal? I've been working up a new version of the sidebar calendar that will require far less manual effort to apply. It seems like the ongoing archiving functions of the Current Events portal would be a benefit for the community. — RossO (talk) 18:40, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

getting this wiki project to be active again.

I hope to make this project active again. feel free to be in touch. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 17:53, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

WP:CEN is now open!

To all interested parties: Now that it has a proper shortcut, the current events noticeboard has now officially opened for discussion!

WP:CEN came about as an idea I explored through a request for comment that closed last March. Recent research has re-opened the debate on Wikipedia's role in a changing faster-paced internet. Questions of WP:NOTNEWS and WP:Recentism are still floating around. That being said, there are still plenty of articles to write and hopefully this noticeboard can positively contribute to that critical process.

Thank you for your participation in the RFC, and I hope to see you at WP:CEN soon! –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 19:06, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

Re-activating this WikiProject

We are re-activating this WikiProject. it doesn't make sense for a WikiProject to be inactive, for an area of Wikipedia that literally receivs a huge amount of new articles, edits, etc. every day. we will keep you posted on this effort. --Sm8900 (talk) 15:13, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

some ideas to make this WikiProject active again

I would like to look at some ideas for getting this WikiProject to semi-active status. that means providing some updated resources, and providing some items and information that might be helpful to others editing this area. I wouldn't presume to label this as "fully active" unless we get some real foot traffic here. however, I have some material below that I'd like to add to this page. Also, I've put in a request for "article alerts" to be generated for this WikiProject, so that will create an automated feature that might be useful to editors interested in this area.

Here is the proposed text below. this is fairly simple for now, just a few links to make this page useful as a reference page to make it easier to find information on editing articles in this topical area. I may have some more items to add, once I find further useful essays or pages to add. I will be glad to post any potential revisions here on this talk page for discussion beforehand. thanks.

===Important pages and resources===

Below are some important resources for editing the areas of "In the news" and current events

• Central pages for current events topics:
  • Portal: Current events
  • Template:In the news
• Instructions or essays on editing current events:
  • Wikipedia:How the Current events page works
  • Wikipedia:In the news
  • Wikipedia:In the news/Administrator instructions

• Categories:
  • Category:Current events portal

thanks. --Sm8900 (talk) 04:24, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

comments

okay, thanks for that notice. however my understanding is that a WikiProject is simply a group of editors who edit in a topical area of common interest. based on that, wouldn't it be true that a WikiProject is not mutually exclusive with the other pages mentioned above? In other words, if we make this page somewhat useful by adding items, information, or resources, then wouldn't that give this some real validity as a WikiProject? open to comments on this. thanks. --Sm8900 (talk) 01:38, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

The group is at the page listed above....let's not kill a second project page pls.--Moxy 🍁 01:43, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

hm ok, Moxy, that seems fair enough. I will take a look at that page. thanks for your helpful reply, and for letting me know about that. --Sm8900 (talk) 13:03, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

New Suggestions for articles the project should cover.

Suggestions for articles the WikiProject Current Events should work on can be listed below. (We don't cover any article relating with COVID-19 as there is a COVID-19 project for that.) Elijahandskip (talk) 13:51, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

@Elijahandskip: So you dont want to cover the COVID-19 Stuff within this project despite it being a current event because there is a project devoted to it. However, you insist on including Severe Tropical Cyclone Harold as a part of the project despite there being several projects devoted to various aspects of the subject. It sounds like you really need to figure out what you want to include and not include in this project.Jason Rees (talk) 16:41, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

@Jason Rees: Thank you for that suggestion. The project now included COVID-19 related articles and does work with every article in the Portal:Current events.

Reviving the Project

Hello everyone. So the project before today was classified as inactive. I have worked for months mainly just on the current events portal, and I joined the group. If I am the only active member in the group, I would be ok reviving the WikiProject and become an advicer/leader of the WikiProject. If you have any questions, please feel free to message me here or on my talk page. Elijahandskip (talk) 13:43, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

(since 25 October 2008)--Moxy 🍁 16:38, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

The Current Events project is different from the INT project. The INT doesn't cover all the articles placed in the Current events portal. I believe they should work closely, but still be separated. Elijahandskip (talk) 17:02, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:How the Current events page works.--Moxy 🍁 21:06, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

The project should be revived at least as a place to train people what is good for the current events page. I know it took me about a month before I learned what was suitable for the page and what wasn't. Elijahandskip (talk) 21:27, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Good luck....you have a post above that's not from 2008 of someone who might help.--Moxy 🍁 21:33, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

I agree with the idea stated above. I appreciate all the comments in this section. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 01:50, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Requested move at Macuto Bay raid

There is a contentious move request at Talk:Macuto_Bay_raid#Requested_move_8_May_2020. As members of this WikiProject may be following the events, more input is requested to hear more reasoning etc. Kingsif (talk) 22:31, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

Connecticut crime spree

Hi, I was just about to make an article about this - I'd assumed there would be something already, but can't find it (or even any mention at the current events portal). Is there any article I've missed? Kingsif (talk) 22:56, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

note re wikiproject status

I am glad to see this WikiProject becoming active again. could you please let me know if I can help? I left a message for Elijahandskip at their talk page; feel free to discuss there if you wish. --Sm8900 (talk) 03:50, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Sm8900 sorry for getting back so late. I took a break from editing Wikipedia and recently ‘re-revived’ the WikiProject. I see you are the lead coordinator on the History WikiProject. One thing the Portal:Current events has often is new/stub articles over the ‘current event’ of the day. One main goal of the project is deciding events to put in the Portal:Current events, but the other main goal is expanding those stub/new articles during the 7 days that are listed in the Portal. The main way to help out is those 2 goals: expanding articles and using logic/wiki policies in the Portal. Hope this helps. Elijahandskip (talk) 15:05, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

Elijahandskip glad to hear this!! I picture a lot that we can do together on this. first things first; can you please go to the entry 2020s in political history, and let me know what you think? I picture this as a way to broaden, solidify, and provide a common focal point for our coverage of current events, contemporary history, and various areas and topics that relate to it. please let me know what you think of that entry's format., structure, scope and content. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 15:10, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

The article looks really good for a structure/scope. I did notice a handful (Maybe 10-15) red links throughout the article. I also saw a few sections without any information. Content wise, the article is solid (Of course all articles can be improved), but in general, it is solid. For some of the content (Very small amount), I would maybe argue some is not ‘Politic history’, but that is my opinion. I think it the different WikiProjects are related too each other in a lot of aspects. Glad to have you aboard on this WikiProject and the projects related with History. Elijahandskip (talk) 15:31, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

that's terrific. glad you like it. and glad to have you aboard. and by the way, you are now officially a WikiPrairie Dog. glad to have you aboard. welcome to the WikiBurrow. jump-yip! lol! . --Sm8900 (talk) 15:46, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

TfD of a template for Portal:Current events // Functionality to filter at Portal:Current events items by type // Adapting Portal:Current events to mobile

I have recently created 3 proposals to substantially increase the usefulness and of Wikipedia's Current events (mainly related to the Current events portal).

Not many users have commented there and maybe you are interested. I don't know how active this WikiProject is but I'd suggest implementing these first to make any other work by the project more useful and integrated in a coherent, frequented, useful overview/s.

If you know of other, possibly more active, related places to ask for more comments please let me know.

I hope you can see usefulness in modernizing Portal:Current events and related content/software.

TfD of a template for an embeddable, collapsed panel of the Current events that shows on mobile

I created Template:Current events portal for an embeddable, collapsed panel of the Current events that could be added to articles like 2020, which would make each page more useful and give the Portal:Current events a higher visibility. The existing portal templates are not visible on mobile at all with only a few rarely-used exceptions which can't be aligned to the right of a page as would be best for the article 2020.

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Templates still can't be uncollapsed on mobile – this would require MediaWiki software changes to modernize the software to fully support mobile browsers. Under the Template documentation I have added the template as it was/is supposed to look like, which works properly on desktop.

I think the template is still useful as:

• the template could be used as is before the MediaWiki software gets improved to better support mobile
• maybe it's possible to show the template as is for the mobile view but display the template currently in the template documentation for the desktop view so that embedding the collapsed panel at least works on desktop
• it could be iteratively improved by e.g. adding an icon or via other things
• the existing templates (like {{portal|Current events}}) can't be aligned to the right

As a sidenote the template was intended to only embed the fairly short "Ongoing events" part of the Portal:Current events and not the entire panel but this doesn't seem to be possible as of right now without a change to the portal (but maybe it'll be possible later). This would be for a later discussion / a separate phabricator issue.

The template is currently being discussed for deletion here. Please comment there, not here.

Filtering Portal:Current events items by type

I think it would be great if it was possible to filter the displayed events in Portal:Current events by type.

For example I'd like to filter the page so that it only displays events of "Health and environment" and "Science and technology".

Filters are already implemented for the Watchlist. The same, already coded software, could be used here after a few small changes.

What do you think of this? Further details in the discussion linked below.

I'd add that this could be used for RSS-feeds or newsletters and the like later on (RSS would show items that have persisted on the page for 3 days and would update with items that have not been displayed to the user, not the most recent items sorted by date).

One thing that seems to work is transcluding selected current events like so: {{Transclude selected current events|[Aa]stronom|days=365|dates=dmy}} as done on Portal:Astronomy but this can't be done on the page itself.

Portal talk:Current events#Filtering events by type. Please comment there, not here.

Adapting Portal:Current events to mobile

A screenshot of Portal:Current events/2020 October 6

Especially if we make links to Portal:Current events more visible on mobile – e.g. via the template suggested above that's visible on mobile – that page should be mobile-ready (like basically all websites that are even just remotely as large as Wikipedia). To this end I checked how the nested list of Portal:Current events looks on a mobile phone. On the right you can find a screenshot of it.

As you can hopefully see, the text is crammed to the right of the page – something you'll never find on comparable websites which are often even designed with a "mobile-first"-approach to make absolutely sure the mobile view is perfectly supported.

I have suggested "adapting nested lists to mobile". It's probably only suited for a phabricator issue but I wished to gather some alternative solutions and improvised solutions (1 so far). At first I thought the nested list could be replaced via the use of arrows (→) but this doesn't work well with multiple subitems of a bullet-point.

Help talk:List#Adapting nested lists to mobile. Please comment there, not here.

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--Prototyperspective (talk) 10:41, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Any suggestions on organization?

The WikiProject is going to have a list of every article that it is related too, and that includes the hundreds of COVID-19 articles. Currently, a list is being created of every article the WikiProject is active in, however, a giant long list of articles isn’t the best way for organization. If anyone has any insights to organizing it, please add them here!

Thanks, (Current Event WikiProject Coordinator) Elijahandskip (talk) 15:07, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Template:Ongoing protests

In my opinion, I have found this template to be useful if that template were to be used for navigational purposes. Consider giving comments on Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2020 November 8#Template:Ongoing protests. SMB99thx my edits 04:55, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Sadly, the Afd decided to delete. Elijahandskip (talk) 04:39, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Relevant Discussion

Just adding a relevant discussion here for others to reference/comment. Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)#Way to track times/dates when an article is listed on Portal:Current Events. Elijahandskip (talk) 18:03, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Rfc notice for 2020–21 women's strike protests in Poland

Invitation to participate and comment at Talk:2020–21 women's strike protests in Poland#Undue weight from weak source. Abcmaxx (talk) 00:50, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

British Overseas Territories

Is this supposed to suggest that the USA is a British colony? Prins van Oranje 08:44, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

That was a mistake made in the format. I fixed it now. Thanks for catching that! Elijahandskip (talk) 09:41, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Kommersant has an RFC

Kommersant has an RFC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. — Mikehawk10 (talk) 06:33, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:2021 Boulder shooting#Requested move 23 March 2021

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2021 Boulder shooting#Requested move 23 March 2021 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Heart ^(talk) 03:35, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

COVID-19 in the United Kingdom timeline

A discussion is taking place at Talk:COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom#RfC_for_refactoring_of_"Timeline"_section about whether the timeline which is seen by some as being too long for the page should be moved to another article, cutdown or kept as it is. It needs a wider range of opinions to reach a consensus so feel free to add your view if you're interested. Llewee (talk) 21:39, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Feedback requested at Talk:2021 Cuban protests

Your feedback would be appreciated at Talk:2021 Cuban protests/Archive 4#RfC on Authoritarianism as a cause of protests. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 16:41, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

RfC re: Ronan Farrow reporting at NBC News

There is an RfC at Talk:NBC News#Request for Comment NBC News Farrow Reporting that members of this project may be interested in. Please note I am a paid consultant to NBC News. BC1278 (talk) 15:38, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

Renaming of Astroworld Festival crowd crush

Hello! We're having a discussion on whether to rename Astroworld Festival crowd crush to Astroworld Festival disaster. You can participate here if you're interested. Best, Pilaz (talk) 18:01, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

2021 Ukrainian coup d'état plot

Hello, any help with the 2021 Ukrainian coup d'état plot would be appreciated. Thank you, Thriley (talk) 22:16, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Wikiproject supersession?

The front page states: "Technical Note: Due to the fact the the WikiProject only works with articles for a short period of time, the WikiProject "supersedes" (Not really, but mainly in discussions) over WikiProjects during the time where the Current Event WikiProject is active in the article." In what sense might it '"supersede" over' others? Why's this a "technical" note? Perhaps something to do with talk-page banner placement? (I'm guessing fairly wildly here.) 109.255.211.6 (talk) 20:55, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

In my interpretation, I take it to mean that the WikiProject guidelines and local consensus of the current events project should be the dominant guidelines adhered to during the time an article is deemed a current event. So, if the subject of an article is a film or is politics-related, any local MOS or editing guidance from those projects - if they conflict with current events guidance - will be "superseded" by the current events guidance if necessary. More generally, it also suggests there may be less leniency towards editors violating the Wikipedia pillars, as current events articles are generally more prominent and often aim for main page standards (whether linked from MP or not). I do not remember the specific wording of this being discussed during project creation, however, and others may interpret it differently. Kingsif (talk) 22:12, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

Kingsif said basically what it is. The other part with it is that “current event protection”, which is sometimes placed as an in-line at the top of current event articles asking editors not to PROD/Afd the article for a few hours to let news sources create their articles. It is used more as a direct reminder that WP:RAPID does exist. But, in general, is more a technical thing rather than a real “superseding of another WikiProject”. Unlike every other WikiProject, this one does not rate nor class articles, as it only works with articles for around a week before being removed. Elijahandskip (talk) 00:53, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

The gist of "less leniency" makes reasonable sense. If a bunch of editors show up anywhere and decide to edit an article to be more in line with policy and guidelines, people can hardly object to that. Well doubtless they will anyway, but "this is topical, we have to cut the cruft and get it shipshape" ought to be a telling argument. It's a bit odder to suggest that one set of guidelines would replace another -- could be read as having something of a whiff of a change of WP:OWNership. Could this wording maybe be looked at and worked on a little? For one thing, "supersede over" as an alleged phrasal verb construction makes me want to drop my blue pencil, and apply my highest-gauge of red. But more pertinently, anything one has to scare-quote isn't going to be the most expressive word choice. And it just lacks any useful specificity. Elijahandskip's observation about CEP and RAPID are useful clarifications as to why this might indeed be a "technical" thing, thanks. Perhaps those should be mentioned explicitly in the cause of making this clearer? (Or later in the project page if that'd be too long-winded for the opening section.) 109.255.211.6 (talk) 02:49, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

Request for comment at Talk:2021 United States Capitol attack

A request for comment that may interest members of this project is occurring at Talk:2021 United States Capitol attack § RfC: Should the following categories be kept?

The question being posed is: should the article stay in the following categories? Category:Terrorist incidents in the United States in 2021, Category:Rebellions in the United States, Category:Coups d'état and coup attempts in the United States. ––FormalDude ^talk 03:45, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Vandalism found...

Check current events — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gabbobler (talk • contribs) 17:37, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

2022 Ukrainian refugee crisis

I just created the draft for the 2022 Ukrainian refugee crisis. Any help would be appreciated. Thriley (talk) 17:40, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:2019–2021 Persian Gulf crisis#Requested move 31 March 2022

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2019–2021 Persian Gulf crisis#Requested move 31 March 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 18:47, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Some new resources for covering current history

Hi. I am a coordinator at WikiProject History, and also the coordinator for the Contemporary Task Force, which is part of that WikiProject. I have begun to set up some new resources for covering current history. I have set up a new category tree for Category:Decade overviews. Additonally, I have modified some sections of two entries for contemporary history, to add some general sections that will be structured chronologically. you can view these articles at 2020s in political history, and 2020s in United States political history. I hope to build upon these, as time goes on. I would be intested in anyone's comments, ideas, feedback, etc. thanks! --Sm8900 (talk) 20:52, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

China's real estate crisis

Anyone's thoughts/ideas on what to do about China's unfolding crisis?

China experienced a[nother] huge housing bubble as prices soared causing people to invest tons of money into real estate while real estate companies took on huge amounts of debt to fund these buildings. This got so big that people owned 3 or 4 homes (and/or apartment complexes!) but only lived in one, put mortgages on properties before they were built and actually put their life savings into this industry. And all this time they didn't care to look into the companies financials because hey, they were "to big to fail!" (probably didn't say that).

Well in September 2021, China put restrictions on how much debt companies could have and well, I think you could see what happened next. In December, Evergande, China's biggest real estate company, defaulted on their debt. This was followed in the ensuing months by dozens of other real estate companies as people began to realize how shady these companies really were. As a result building has slowed to a halt as people began to spend less on real estate. In protest of all of this, Chinese people have begun stop paying their mortgages. Because many of these are on undeveloped properties, there's nothing to back up the mortgage when it defaults which is putting strain on the banks which sense 7/10 largest companies in China are banks. These protesters have often done so in public and there have been videos of them violent and also tanks in the streets. But on the economic side, this is a serious problem similar to that of 2007-2008, just far worse. There are rumors that the Chinese government is considering bailing them out, but it's unclear how much pain this will alleviate.

Also, real estate makes up 25%(!!!) of China's GDP and sales are expected to fall 30%. Jamisonsupame (talk) 01:10, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:UN Human Rights Office assessment of human rights concerns in Xinjiang#Requested move 3 September 2022

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:UN Human Rights Office assessment of human rights concerns in Xinjiang#Requested move 3 September 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. —hueman1 (talk • contributions) 08:36, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine has an RFC

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine has an RFC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. –LordPickleII (talk) 14:47, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Typhoon Noru#Requested move 30 September 2022

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Typhoon Noru#Requested move 30 September 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. —hueman1 (talk • contributions) 07:41, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

Notice of a new WikiProject

WikiProject Russian invasion of Ukraine has been created. Our goals align with this WikiProject, so I'd like to offer some kind of partnership. elijahpepe@wikipedia (he/him) 16:38, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Nomination of Minor United States events in 2022 for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Minor United States events in 2022 is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Minor United States events in 2022 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

– Joe (talk) 09:22, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

Shooting of Erik Cantu

The Shooting of Erik Cantu article has been tagged for notability. Can others take a look? I believe the event meets notability as it has gotten regular media coverage since it occurred. Thriley (talk) 05:06, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Eastern Ukraine offensive#Requested move 13 October 2022

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Eastern Ukraine offensive#Requested move 13 October 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. – robertsky (talk) 15:00, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Better links between our news pages

• ITN is a section on the main page which has a link to Portal:Current events. This link was named "More current events" but is now piped behind the title "Ongoing". Please see the discussion about this and linkage to other similar pages such as 2022. It's at Wikipedia_talk:In_the_news#Better_links_to_our_other_news_pages.

Andrew🐉(talk) 14:24, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Blockade of the Republic of Artsakh (2022–present)#Requested move 7 September 2023

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Blockade of the Republic of Artsakh (2022–present)#Requested move 7 September 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. UtherSRG (talk) 16:01, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Robb Elementary School shooting task force

Template:Robb Elementary School shooting task force has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. -- 65.92.244.127 (talk) 21:41, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:London Bridge task force

Template:London Bridge task force has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. -- 65.92.244.127 (talk) 21:44, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Court Case Task Force

Template:Court Case Task Force has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. -- 65.92.244.127 (talk) 22:14, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Renaming "Court Case Task Force"

An editor has requested that Wikipedia:WikiProject Current events/Court Case Task Force be moved to another page, which may be of interest to this WikiProject. You are invited to participate in the move discussion. -- 65.92.244.127 (talk) 22:19, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Merger of Death of Anjali Singh

A merger of two articles is being discussed and wider input would be helpful at Talk:Death of Anjali Singh CT55555(talk) 18:44, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Requesting article expansion help in Pakistan economic crisis article

Already article 2022–2023 Pakistan economic crisis is not in good updated condition, moreover recently WP has been censored in Pakistan. The article seem to need article expansion help to keep adequately updated.

Bookku (talk) 07:23, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Requesting time-sensitive review on Draft:2023 Las Anod conflict

Moved to Wikipedia:Current events noticeboard. MathAfrique (talk) 22:37, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments

Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:57, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Credibility bot

As this is a highly active WikiProject, I would like to introduce you to Credibility bot. This is a bot that makes it easier to track source usage across articles through automated reports and alerts. We piloted this approach at Wikipedia:Vaccine safety and we want to offer it to any subject area or domain. We need your support to demonstrate demand for this toolkit. If you have a desire for this functionality, or would like to leave other feedback, please endorse the tool or comment at WP:CREDBOT. Thanks! Harej (talk) 18:05, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

2023 Tenerife wildfire

2023 Tenerife wildfire. Hello, can someone create this article in English? I am creating it in Spanish, but I don't know how to speak English: Incendio forestal en Tenerife de 2023. 87.223.107.156 (talk) 13:13, 19 August 2023 (UTC)