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COVID-19 daily increase[edit]

Is the daily increase in COVID-19 cases at the sub-national level (such as Victoria, Australia) included in Recent Events? I thought only the national level should be included. Tensa Februari (talk) 07:20, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

There are more items about Covid than all other topics combined, today. Is it really worth mentioning that "The total amount of cases of COVID-19 in Fiji since the start of the pandemic has surpassed 52,000"? PoangSitter (talk) 23:48, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

External links in the news[edit]

I've added an entry on Bosnia and Herzegovina. Is it my correct understanding that linking to someone's official report in the current events on the topic is not allowed here? The report is here. An example of how it would have been integrated is here: The IPCC publishes a report warning of failure to conform to emission reduction targets set in the Paris accords. Thanks in advance. Szmenderowiecki (talk) 15:10, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 10 November 2021[edit]

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"The Standing Committee on Vaccination recommends that people aged under 30 years old should only received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine due to higher risk of heart inflamation with Moderna vaccines among young people. (DW)"

change "received" to "receive" Gtag10 (talk) 22:23, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

Already done — xaosflux ^Talk 15:11, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

Misinformation on the page for 8 hours[edit]

An anonymous IP added the claim that "vials containing the smallpox virus" had been discovered in Pennsylvania. This claim stayed on the page for 8 hours! The actual story is that a lab worker at a Merck facility found 15 "questionable vials" labeled "smallpox" and "vaccinia" while cleaning out a freezer. As the smallpox vaccine is made from a virus called vaccinia, the most probable explanation is that the vials contained smallpox vaccine, not smallpox. Regardless, it is irresponsible for us to publish such conspiracy-inducing headlines without solid sources to back them up. If no one is checking the statements on this page for accuracy, especially surprising or outlandish ones, we should not be allowing anonymous IPs to edit it. Nosferattus (talk) 00:17, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

I think the same as you. But there are users who get annoyed when you delete US-centric news… _-_Alsoriano97 (talk) 22:09, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

Kyle Rittenhouse verdict[edit]

User:Elijahandskip has been repeatedly removing this from the November 19, 2021 current events page citing a discussion that occurred on the talk page for the wiki article 2021. That discussion clearly did not end in a consensus and has utterly no bearing on whether or not the Rittenhouse trial is posted here on the current events page.XavierGreen (talk) 20:40, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

Well I typing a discussion on November 19th talk page about whether Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial is “internationally notable” and saw that XavierGreen already started one. A similar discussion took place on Talk:2021, where editors had a consensus that it was not internationally notable, but I guess we have to have a duplicate discussion here. I am going to ping editors that participated in that discussion, ITN nomination of it, and WP Current events. (PINGS: @Alsoriano97:, @Jim Michael:, @Black Kite:, @Thescrubbythug:, @CaptainEek:, @Andise1:, @Jayron32:, @Masem:, @Joseph2302:, @BD2412:, @GreatCaesarsGhost:, @Brigade Piron:.) Elijahandskip (talk) 20:47, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

It doesn't have international notability, nor is it on ITN or 2021. However, it's easily important enough for CE, which doesn't require any of those things. Jim Michael (talk) 22:13, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

There is a very firm consensus on the 2021 page against the inclusion of the Rittenhouse trial, and in favour of it being added to 2021 in the United States. However, as Jim Michael already said, that has no bearing on whether or not it should be included on CE, which has different standards for inclusion than the yearly pages. Thescrubbythug (talk) 22:35, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

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Remove "I, Jeffman12345, am back." because it is not notable. Gtag10 (talk) 22:47, 19 November 2021 (UTC)