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What are all the categories for news items? Alex of Canada (talk) 18:46, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

From what I can see—Arts and culture, Armed conflicts and attacks, Business and economy, Disasters and accidents, International relations, Law and crime, Politics and elections, Science and technology, and Sports. – Nixinova ⟨T|C⟩ 04:37, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

And Health and environment. – Nixinova ⟨T|C⟩ 23:39, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. That should probably be put somewhere so people can know. EDIT: Nevermind, someone added it at the top. Alex of Canada (talk) 18:38, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Kizlyar church shooting

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43105171 there doesn't seem to be an article on this, or am I missing it?--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 09:50, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

See February 18 – Nixinova ⟨T|C⟩ 04:39, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

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Month archive template

I have added a template for creating month archive pages: {{Current events portal month archive}}. – Nixinova ⟨T|C⟩ 19:34, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

@Nixinova: I already made something like this a while back: Template:Current events monthly archive. It hasn't been rolled out yet, though. You can see a demo of it at Portal:Current events/September 2011/Sandbox. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 22:04, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 2 April 2018

Please change the info about Tiangong. It has re-entered over the South Pacific at aprox. 00:16 GMT JustAnotherWikiUser0816 (talk) 01:54, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Do you have a reliable source to cite for that? —C.Fred (talk) 02:10, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

MOS

There is no MOS for Current events, but I think moving headlines with subject pages (format "* ARTICLE: \n ** HEADLINE") to the start of the subheadings.

For example, instead of:

• September 11 attacks: Planes are hijacked by al-Qaeda members and flown into the World Trade Center in New York City, The Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania, killing 2,996 people (including 19 terrorists).
• Reactions to the September 11 attacks:
  • Canada's border with the United States is on high alert in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in the United States so the Canadian government initiates both "Operation Support" and "Operation Yellow Ribbon."

It would be written as:

• Reactions to the September 11 attacks:
  • Canada's border with the United States is on high alert in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in the United States so the Canadian government initiates both "Operation Support" and "Operation Yellow Ribbon."
• September 11 attacks: Planes are hijacked by al-Qaeda members and flown into the World Trade Center in New York City, The Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania, killing 2,996 people (including 19 terrorists).

(This was just an example; if the topic article was "reactions to [the previous]" then it would stay the same as 2001/9/11, but in any other circumstances the above should be the format.)

Thoughts?  Nixinova  T  C  08:04, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Edit request on 7 April 2018

I corrected the reference to what's going on in Gaza on April 7th from "protests" to "riots" because the "protesters" have been throwing stones and firebombs and burning tires. The edit was reverted back by someone with a slanted view of what's going on.