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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).

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" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.98.124.240 (talk) 17:15, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Several contributors have recently been adding valid but very verbose entries. Don't hesitate to be bold and reword them. Isa (talk) 17:25, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. I have started trimming them but it appears we have some sort of new medical or health expert that likes to put in depth paragraphs. Its interesting findings, but the summaries are bit extensive.

Duke-Wisconsin Date

The game was played on April 6, not April 7. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.59.122.10 (talk) 15:00, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

• Please see beneath debate between myself and Thaddeus B on the 7 April talk page which I have copied here because the topic of timing is of general interest. Capitalistroadster (talk) 00:53, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
• I have removed Duke Blue Devils winning national championship from today several times. It happened on Monday Eastern Daylight Time in the United States. What day it was elsewhere in the world is irrelevant just as it is for every other story today and every day. Capitalistroadster (talk) 00:16, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

@Capitalistroadster: You are mistaken. Wikipedia uses one and only one clock - UTC time. This is the time stamp shown in your signature and the time the main page changes based on, for example, and is how we have always done things. If we used a different clock for each item on this list, that would be quite confusing when items didn't have a "local time" because they are of general interest - some users would expect to find the item on one day and others on another.

Here, the game started at about 1am UTC on April 7 and concluded at about 3:30am. Local time is not relevant. --ThaddeusB (talk) 00:27, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

@ThaddeusB and Capitalistroadster: I haven't been involved with Portal:Current events for a long time, but my understanding has always been that events are posted to the portal on the date they occurred local time, rather than the date they occurred in UTC. While items on ITN are generally ordered by UTC to be consistent, this generally isn't followed here or anywhere else on Wikipedia. When one visibly sees a date associated with the event, like here, it should be the date of the event, local time, not UTC. No one would ever say that TWA Flight 800 crashed on July 18, 1996; no, it happened on July 17, and it's rightfully included in Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 17. Same convention ought to, and, I believe, does, apply here. -- tariqabjotu 04:42, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

My understanding/experience has always been to use UTC time for current events. However, I could have been "doing it wrong" for years and no one noticed or cared until now. :) --ThaddeusB (talk) 04:47, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

• Our article on the game shows it has haven't been played on 6 April ie local time see 2015 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game as do all of the reliable sources. Showing it has having been played on the 7th would just confuse people. I always try to have it as the time the event occurred locally not UTC. It was not played in London but it in the US. This discussion should now be taken to the current events talk page and to policy boards more generally. Capitalistroadster (talk) 00:50, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

HRM Caesar Saint Augustine de Buonaparte Emperor of United States & candidate for president is not on your list of 2016 candidates

your list of presidential candidates is not complete check the FEDERAL ELECTION COMMITTEE FOR UPDATES AS TO WHO IN RUNNING IN ALL PARTIES. YOURS SINCERELY HIS MAJESTY.

Perhaps you should post at Talk:United States third party and independent presidential candidates, 2016. This page does not contain a list of candidates.-gadfium 01:56, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

Editing delay / under review?

I fixed a typo in regards to the capture of a Mexican Gulf Cartel local boss "El Gafe" in Reynosa. The previous "El Gate" was wrong. However, after I save the page and reload, the typo still remains. Are the edits under review? I've haven't seen this wikipedia behavior before. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.114.196.131 (talk) 14:52, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

You edited Portal:Current events/2015 April 17, one of the pages which get built into the main Portal:Current events page. Sometimes the behind-the-scenes software doesn't realise that the main page has to be rebuilt, or is slow to get round to it. You can force the update by "purging" the page. There is a little "purge" link just above the calendar at the right of Portal:Current events. I've used this link, and your change is now displayed properly. -- John of Reading (talk) 14:57, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for purging and the info about it. Jeois (talk) 15:01, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

Desperately seeking Royalty officials in Leeds

Counting Houses and Borough buildings are supposedly built for communicating with. I would like to know where I can find my official accountant Jo Wilkinson who has supported me since god knows when. Need to get in touch as soon as possible to meeting and appraisal. sorry for being a pain, I've been chasing you in no attempt of any discussions. Please call me on (Redacted) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.11.4.189 (talk) 10:00, 27 April 2015

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