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Current Portal talk:Current events archives: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8

Old Talk:Current events archives: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15 (last archive up to: 1 Jan 2007)

Other old Talk:Current events archived discussions: Vote on tense; Setting the context; Too much analysis; Ongoing events

Original Current events GFDL: See Portal:Current events/October 2003 (history)

Recent changes: 2006; 2007; 2008; 2009; 2010; 2011; 2012; 2013; 2014; 2015

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]

I agree, should we be including things like this? A house fire in Akron, Ohio (US), kills four people, including two young girls. One woman safely fled her attic bedroom. A seriously injured 12-year old girl is revived and rescued 75.143.130.171 (talk) 16:13, 4 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

No. That's much too local / common. Things should actually be unique to be included. Dustin (talk) 17:59, 4 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Pizzagate

Why is there no talk about the Pizzagate scandal? it is on national news. //tom. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tom afilaka (talk • contribs) 03:05, 3 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

See Fake news website and Pizzagate-gadfium 05:07, 3 December 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]

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The President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro suspends plans to eliminate the 100 bolivar note from circulation, in a country where much of the population lives on cash, without bank accounts. (Reuters)- this is the part that needs editing. The word bolivar is linked to Simon Bolivar, a person. It should be linked to the page detailing the Venezuelan bolivar, a currency. --Killuminator (talk) 00:45, 20 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done Thanks for pointing that out! Also, only the main current events page itself is fully protected, each day has its own sub-page, so I was able to edit Portal:Current events/2016 December 17 and make that change. If you look at the same line as each date, you'll see "edit history watch" at the right, and you can just click "edit" and edit that date's entry. Cheers! -- Irn (talk) 02:54, 20 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Recent deaths

The editing instructions for the day-to-day pages read:

Do not list the ordinary deaths of prominent persons here. That's what recent deaths is for. Exceptions to this rule are made for prominent persons who died in office (such as Pope John Paul II and Omar Bongo) or other instances where the death in itself has a major impact.

The portal currently has entries Debbie Reynolds (Weds), Carrie Fisher (Tues), and George S. Irving (Mon). None of those meet the "died in office" criterion or the "subsequent impact" criterion, and Irving can hardly be said to meet the "prominent" criterion in the papal (JP2) or presidential (Bongo) sense. Should they be deleted? 189.203.188.113 (talk) 23:37, 29 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]