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(See also Portal talk:Current events/Archive 7) The nobots template was added to this page to prevent interwiki-bots from updating it, back when the syntax was different, and the page unprotected (and when we had interwikis and interwiki bots).

Now those things have changed, can we remove the template? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 03:17, 20 April 2014 (UTC).

Classification of cyber attacks

Hello to all current events posters and editors. I would like to raise a question to you all. In the 21st century cyber attacks are becoming more and more frequent on both countries and companies. Now on the Jan 1 current events page someone has put a cyber attack on Chick-fil-a under the "Armed conflicts and attacks" section. I was debating weather to move it to the "Business and economy" section but I couldn't bring myself to do it yet. So my question is, should we classify cyber attacks on companies under the "Armed conflicts and attacks" section or should we only put cyber attacks against countries in that section? Should we include cyber attacks on that section at all? I look forward to the response and opinions of everyone why would like to answer. For now I will leave that story under that section but in a way I don't think it should be there. --Newsjunky12 (talk) 02:18, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

X Factor? Big Brother?

Special:Contributions/109.153.1.43 is putting a lot of effort into adding X Factor and I'm A Celebrity news items into the daily sub-pages. The instructions say that stories "should be of international interest". Now, I know I'm biased, since I have no interest in these shows. Second opinion, anyone? -- John of Reading (talk) 21:30, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

These have all been removed by myself and another. Note to self: if I'd had the courage to act at once, the project's spell-checkers and disambiguators would not have wasted time fixing these news items. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:47, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

"GAS" possible:

One of the events on Jan 29 was:

• A ---> gas <--- tanker truck explodes near the loading dock of a maternity and children's hospital in Mexico City, collapsing much of the hospital with at least seven deaths and 54 people injured, 22 of which are children. (AP)

No search on the internet has which GAS specified and thus possible gases for a hospital are:

gasoline

natural gas = methane = sulfur additive smell

propane

liquid oxygen = no smell and no possible use in a kitchen

liquid nitrogen = no smell and no possible use in a kitchen

--70.190.111.213 (talk) 18:30, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

one story says "piping gas to kitchen" = probably natural gas - also some said they still "smelled gas" which would be more likely to be methane thus I think the gas in question is natural gas = methane.--70.190.111.213 (talk) 18:43, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

propane--70.190.111.213 (talk) 21:32, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 3 March 2015Help

Biography of: author Ryan Scoville for book club discussion. Thank you. phyllissublett@att.net 2602:306:335D:4C40:6DDA:3FBB:5728:1CE6 (talk) 17:53, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. --Redrose64 (talk) 23:39, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Current Event Length

Is there a reason the length of current event coverage continues to get longer and longer?

The reason why I found this current event portal so valuable was in being concise and providing a one line overview or sampling of what is happening globally. And then for those topics of interest there are the corresponding full length Wikipedia pages and links to news coverage. But can we please keep the paragraphs in the individual Wikipedia pages and out of the current events page. There is a lot of value in being concise! And that is being lost.

For example: US Treasury deputy inspector general for tax administration Timothy Camus testifies before the Senate Finance Committee that, since 2013, criminals pretending to be IRS tax agents contacted more than 366,000 people with harassing phone calls demanding payments and threatening prosecution and incarceration in the largest scam of its kind in the history of the agency. More than 3,000 people were duped out of a total of $15.5 million, with victims in almost every state. Federal investigators believe there is more than one group of perpetrators, including some overseas. Currently, two people in Florida have been arrested, accused of being part of a scam that involved people in call centers in India contacting U.S. taxpayers. Immigrants were the primary target early on. The callers can manipulate caller ID to make it look like they are calling from an IRS phone number. They might even know the last four digits of the taxpayer's Social Security number. (AP)

Could be trimmed down to: "Fake IRS agents target more than 366,000 in huge tax scam" just as AP summed it up in their title.

US state of California Judge Thomas M. Goethals recuses the Orange County district attorney's office from the case of a convicted mass killer, 45-year-old former tugboat operator Scott Dekraai, who has already pleaded guilty to killing his ex-wife and seven others during the October 12, 2011 shooting rampage at a Seal Beach hair salon and turns over further prosecution of the case to the California attorney general's office after finding that sheriff's deputies had lied on the witness stand or withheld information about the misuse of jailhouse informants utilized to gather evidence for prosecutors. The ruling deals a blow to prosecutors' efforts to impose the death penalty. Defense attorneys also wanted the possibility of the death penalty thrown out but the judge refused. (AP)

Could be summed up as: "Judge removes DA's office from California mass murder case of Scott Dekraai"