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Contents
- 1 HRM Caesar Saint Augustine de Buonaparte Emperor of United States & candidate for president is not on your list of 2016 candidates
- 2 Editing delay / under review?
- 3 Desperately seeking Royalty officials in Leeds
- 4 Current Event Length
- 5 Bug
- 6 Intergen crap
- 7 Filtered Search/View
- 8 Editing
- 9 Mehfil-E-Cineyatra ek bahurangi shaam
- 10 Protected edit request on 4 June 2015
- 11 Bratislava protest
- 12 Minor sports events
- 13 2015 Taiwan water park explosion
- 14 University of Kenya attack, March of 2015
- 15 July 2, 2015
- 16 July 15, 2015
- 17 Referencing
- 18 Dan and Phil
- 19 Incorrect wikilink
- 20 RfC: Should day pages use bold headers?
- 21 can we stop using paynews sites (wsj, nyt, etc..) for events references?
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)
Desperately seeking Royalty officials in Leeds
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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
- I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 4 million articles and thought we were affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and this is the talk page for discussing improvements to the page Portal:Current events. Thus, we have no special knowledge about the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, we have a reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck. --Redrose64 (talk) 10:12, 27 April 2015 (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. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.98.124.240 (talk) 17:09, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
Bug
I tried the "errors" talk page, but it's broken. There's a bug/troll hack that replaced the letter l with a w. Please fix. Thanks. 2602:306:30BA:28A0:61CB:5A1C:2123:63BC (talk) 04:07, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
- I'm not seeing this. Can you give an example of a page and sentence that has this problem? Are you seeing it throughout Wikipedia or just on one page? -- John of Reading (talk) 06:14, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Intergen crap
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Someone has put a huge entry above the main current events about some energy company. I tried to remove it but I can seem to edit that part of the page and I tried to revert the edit using the page history but it wasn't there. I think an admin needs to step in here. Elspooky (talk) 05:48, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
- @Elspooky: Someone had damaged today's sub-page, Portal:Current events/2015 May 25, which is not protected. It's been fixed. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:12, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
Filtered Search/View
It is exciting to see the growing level of quality content in the current event section. But as this continues to grow I think it would be very valuable to have the option to have a filtered search or filtered view of the content.
For example for me the "Business and economy" and "International relations" sections are critical for what I do, and I want to make sure I have at least seen those headlines on a daily basis. But some of the other sections such as Sports and Science are things that I find interesting, but really only need to scan through on a weekly basis. The content is already subdivided by section, how difficult would it be to develop in a sort feature?
TaZa (talk) 16:23, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
- I like the idea of have some sort of sort feature, but I am not sure how difficult such an implementation would be, so I can't really say whether or not this idea is practical. Dustin (talk) 16:30, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
Editing
How do I get to edit this page?--Sirmagoo (talk) 12:56, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
- @Sirmagoo: Although most of the page is protected from editing, each day's news has its own "edit" link to the right of the date. -- John of Reading (talk) 14:44, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
Mehfil-E-Cineyatra ek bahurangi shaam
Mehil-e-cineyatra ek bahurangi shaam held on 24th May of 2015 at S.K.M. Hall, Patna. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.47.219.95 (talk) 08:16, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
Protected edit request on 4 June 2015
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Hi there. I'm using this page in my user space for a summary page I created. Which has the side-effect of including my user page in the 2015 category.
I'd like to do this without my user page being included in those categories, this can be done by wrapping the [[Category:*]] tags in <noinclude> tags. See Wikipedia:Transclusion#Markup. Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 08:28, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
- Your user space page is not suitable for transclusion into this page.-gadfium 09:42, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
- I think you're misunderstanding what I'm asking for. I'm not asking for my user page to be transcluded into this page. I'm asking for an otherwise harmless edit to be done to this page so that my user-space transclusion of it doesn't impact the category system. That's all.
- Adding the <noinclude> tags I'm asking for has no negative impact on this page, since nothing else transcludes it, and allows me to maintain my summary page in my user-space without having it be in categories like Category:2015.
- I think this is a reasonable edit to make, so I'm re-opening the request. For what it's worth I'm using my user-space page as a sort of browser homepage for what's going on in the world, but I want something more specific than the main page and with more information the current events portal all by itself. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 09:36, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
- As you probably realise portals are not really designed for transclusion, but I've made the change as it will do no harm. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:48, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot! --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 10:27, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
- As you probably realise portals are not really designed for transclusion, but I've made the change as it will do no harm. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:48, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
Bratislava protest
It is true, that in Bratislava, thousands of people rallied against EU plan on immigrants, but only a few of them were detained - certainly, thousands of people weren´t detained as it is written here!! --Laddy (talk) 21:34, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks, I've reworded it. You are welcome to make such changes yourself in future; there's an edit link for each day's events.-gadfium 01:46, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
Minor sports events
This page has relatively minor sports events included (not on the scale of the Olympics) This seems inappropriate to me, and will stop me from using this page to gain information about current events. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.3.175.209 (talk) 07:18, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
2015 Taiwan water park explosion
I am not suggesting this needs to go on the Main page, and I am not as familiar with the placement of current events at Wikipedia, but I created 2015 Taiwan water park explosion if others wish to contribute and/or incorporate the link into the current events portal. Thank you. ---Another Believer (Talk) 19:00, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
- @Another Believer: To suggest an item for the "In the news" box on the Main page, please go to WP:ITN/C and follow the instructions at "How to nominate an item". -- John of Reading (talk) 21:47, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
University of Kenya attack, March of 2015
What was the exact date of the attack which killed 147 students. I am thinking of doing a memorial service in Nairobi next year on that date. The attack occurred the week following my departure from Nairobi this year. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:BC2F:8A30:ADAB:95A:A92A:D6A4 (talk) 15:36, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
- I think you are referring to the Garissa University College attack, which was on 2 April 2015. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:45, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
July 2, 2015
Last two items in Health and Medicine are lengthy and confusing. Rewording, research, etc. needed. RaqiwasSushi (talk) 22:26, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
July 15, 2015
Two statements of the SAME fact regarding the overnight development in Greece. I arbitrarily deleted one of them.--Christofurio (talk) 10:49, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Referencing
- I have started using the same referencing system as for the rest of the site. Let me know what you think. Capitalistroadster (talk) 03:46, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
Dan and Phil
I invite other editors to watchlist Portal:Current events/2009 October 19, as it is being targeted by fans of Dan and Phil. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:34, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
Incorrect wikilink
The first bulleted item in 11 August 'Disasters and accidents' features a link to a disambiguation page for "Buk" when it should really point to BUK. Careful With That Axe, Eugene Hello... 08:05, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Careful With That Axe, Eugene:
Fixed - but note that each day's news box is not protected and has its own "edit" link, so you could have made the edit yourself. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:35, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
RfC: Should day pages use bold headers?
can we stop using paynews sites (wsj, nyt, etc..) for events references?
this is a free encyclopedia people — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.170.35.23 (talk) 03:57, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
- I sympathize, (NYT used to be a free signup), but see WP:PAYWALL. It's not going to happen. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 19:18, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
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- Also WP:RSC for the specific defense. 50.89.166.63 (talk) 13:56, 30 August 2015 (UTC)