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Philippines/Duterte

For months, there has been daily updates about Duterte on the portal. They are always myopic and often outright biased. They started before his election when there was a daily barrage of posts on the portal about how awful he is, and then after he won the election there's been daily posts about how awful his policies are (especially with respect to his drug policies). Is there some reason that this one person gets so much coverage here, especially when that coverage is so clearly NPOV and UNDUE?128.214.53.104 (talk) 07:39, 30 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm seconding this. There seems like there is a daily Philippines news item, sometimes two. It does seem to have started with Duterte's election, although they're not always about him. But even when they're not: do we need a daily update on the Davao City bombing that happened two weeks ago? I'm not sure that it's always biased against Duterte, because there seem to be a lot of headlines on relatively minor terrorist events in the southern Philippines as well, but this is definitely undue.Konchevnik81 (talk) 15:04, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There is a lot of biased POV propaganda against Duterte in the news. This is the usual western propaganda stuff. Same with Trump and Putin. DerElektriker (talk) 11:41, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Too much systemic bias

It seems we are now routinely including local-interest news in Portal:Current events, but only local interest news that is of interest to North Americans and Europeans. For example:

An unidentified suspect chases people with a machete outside the Malborough CTrain station in Calgary, Alberta and injures 2 inside the nearby Marlborough Mall, including a police officer. The suspect was shot by the injured officer and remains under critical condition.
Voters head to the polls in Berlin, Germany, to elect members to the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin. Latest polling indicates the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) are expected to make strong gains.

If you've ever lived in a 3rd world country, you know that "crazy man attacks people with machete" is a weekly news staple.[1] Just because it happens in Canada doesn't suddenly make it relevant to the rest of the world. And regarding local/regional elections, there are literally thousands of these happening across the world every year. If we include Berlin's local election, why shouldn't we include all the rest of them? I've tried removing some of these stories on occasion, but I'm usually reverted. Can we please make more of an effort to only include news that is actually internationally relevant? Believe it or not, there are actually people that read this page that don't live in North America and Europe. And believe it or not, they don't really care about the price of tea in London. Kaldari (talk) 06:03, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I agree completely. As an example (taking today's news), how is more important the Gaelic and Australian football results than the three Nobel Prizes already awarded ? Pepe Ochoa (talk) 13:21, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The MSM is full of this. A lot of people think this stuff is important and post it to wikipedia.DerElektriker (talk) 11:45, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Why is there no talk about the Pizzagate scandal? it is on national news. //tom.

What's notable for Wikipedians?

It's actually pretty amazing to see Wikipedia front page celebrating a protest action from 1936 when 200 Englishmen went on a march, and absolutely no mention in the newsreel of over 100,000 participants protesting against Polish abortion bill in 2016, despite worldwide support and coverage by basically every major news portal in length (Independent, Washington Post, The Telegraph, Huffington Post, Vice, New York Times, LA Times, The Economist, BBC News, Bloomberg). Also, nothing is mentioned by Wikinews. I guess it makes clear what are the priorities of Wikipedians. --Oop (talk) 07:46, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

To be fair the Jarrow March is a featured article, but otherwise, I'd agree - it's odd that there is zero mention of the Polish protests anywhere on the news page. Konchevnik81 (talk) 16:58, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

"every major news portal" you mean biased pro western MSM?DerElektriker (talk) 11:48, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Dyn attack

Should this be included on the main page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrs. Jan Cola (talk • contribs) 20:57, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Mrs. Jan Cola: That's being discussed at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates#Cyberattacks. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:43, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Zimbabwean Bond Notes - released 28 November.

Zimbabwean Bond Notes for 2 and 5 Dollars has been released into circulation by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, along with a 1 Dollar Bond Coin. - (119.224.80.18 (talk) 02:54, 29 November 2016 (UTC))[reply]

Thanks for the suggestion! However, this isn't the right place for that. You need to make your suggestion over at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates. Cheers, -- Irn (talk) 04:09, 29 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You are most welcome to add a line about this to Portal:Current events/2016 November 28. Please include your source.-gadfium 05:11, 29 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]