Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates

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This candidates page is integrated with the daily pages of Portal:Current events. Under each daily section header below is the transcluded Portal:Current events items for that day (with a light green header). Each day's portal page is followed by a subsection for suggestions and discussion.

A blurb is a one sentence summary of the news story. An alternate suggestion for the blurb is called an altblurb, and any more suggestions get labelled alt1, alt2, etc. A blurb needs at least one target article, highlighted in bold; reviewers check the quality of that article and whether it is updated, and whether reliable sources demonstrate the significance of the event. Other articles can also be linked. The Ongoing line is for regularly updated articles which cover events that remain in the news over a longer period of time. RD stands for the "recent deaths" line, and can include any living thing whose death was recently announced. In some cases, recent deaths may need additional explanation as provided by a blurb; this is decided by consensus.

Ebrahim Raisi Ebrahim Raisi (pictured) is elected president of Iran. China's Shenzhou 12 launches with the first crew to dock at the Tiangong space station. Kenneth Kaunda, the first president of Zambia, dies at the age of 97. A new government is formed in Israel, with Naftali Bennett becoming prime minister, ending Benjamin Netanyahu's 12-year tenure. Ongoing: COVID-19 pandemic Recent deaths: Wang Chiu-Hwa Leroy Jones Champ Getatchew Haile Vekuii Rukoro Giampiero Boniperti view — page history — related changes — edit

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June 22

Portal:Current events/2021 June 22
Current events of June 22, 2021 (2021-06-22) (Tuesday)

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June 21

Portal:Current events/2021 June 21

Current events of June 21, 2021 (2021-06-21) (Monday) Health and environment COVID-19 pandemic COVID-19 pandemic in Asia COVID-19 pandemic in India COVID-19 pandemic in Kerala Kerala reports their first two cases of the Lineage B.1.617 Delta variant. (New Indian Express) COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia Indonesia surpasses two million cases of COVID-19 after reporting a record 14,536 new cases in the past 24 hours. (detikHealth) COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia Malaysia surpasses 700,000 cases of COVID-19. (The Star) COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand COVID-19 vaccination in New Zealand Medsafe grants a provisional approval for the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine for children between the ages of 12 and 15. (NZ Herald) COVID-19 pandemic in Cuba Cuba says that the ABDALA vaccine is proven to be 92% effective against COVID-19. (Reuters) COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia Colombia surpasses 100,000 deaths from COVID-19. (Reuters) International relations Foreign relations of Belarus The United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom imposes sanctions against Belarus for last month’s diverting of Ryanair Flight 4978, which led to the arrest of journalist Roman Protasevich. (Business Insider) Foreign relations of Nicaragua The Argentinian and Mexican foreign ministries announce in a joint statement that they are withdrawing their respective ambassadors from Nicaragua for consultations in response to President Daniel Ortega increasing crackdown on dissidents, including the arrest of five potential presidential candidates this month. (Al Jazeera) Law and crime Trial of Catalan independence leaders Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announces that the nine Catalan separatists leaders involved in the unsuccessful 2017 independence bid will be pardoned tomorrow, saying that this is needed to ease tensions with Catalonia. President of the Catalan Government Pere Aragonès welcomes the pardons but says that they will pursue more concessions, such as a new authorized independence referendum. The Spanish oppositional parties subsequently announce they they will try to reverse the pardons. (Reuters) Hong Kong national security law The pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily says it is considering closure by Friday after the arrest of its five top executive members and the freezing of its assets. The tabloid's founder Jimmy Lai has already been convicted of multiple charges and will be tried, along with 46 others, on subversion charges. (BBC) A judge in Peru rejects a plea from Jose Domingo Perez to send Popular Party leader and presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori back to prison for allegedly violating her bail conditions over charges of money laundering and corruption. Perez says that he will appeal the judge’s ruling. (DW) Politics and elections Politics of Australia The Australian National Party undergoes a leadership spill, replacing Michael McCormack with New England Representative Barnaby Joyce. Joyce previously lead the Nationals from 2016 to 2018 and was replaced by McCormack following sexual harassment allegations. As per the party's coalition agreement with the Australian Liberal Party, Joyce is set to replace McCormack as Deputy Prime Minister. Many Nationals have been critical of the Morrison Government's move towards carbon neutrality and hope that Joyce will counter this. (ABC News Australia) Politics of Sweden Prime Minister Stefan Löfven's government collapses after a vote of no-confidence is adopted by the Riksdag. Löfven has one week to either resign or call a snap election. (CNN) 2021 Ethiopian general election Ethiopian voters head to the polls to elect a new session to the House of Peoples' Representatives after months of delays. The election occurs in the midst of multiple problems affecting the country, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, deteriorating conditions in the Tigray Region brought on by the Tigray war, and the jailing of multiple oppositional figures. (CNN) Sports Transgender people in sports New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard becomes the first transgender athlete chosen to compete in the Olympic Games, as the New Zealand Olympic Committee announces she is selected to compete in the Tokyo Olympics as part of the women's weightlifting team. (BBC) Homosexuality in modern sports Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib becomes the first National Football League player to come out as “openly gay”. (NPR)

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RD: Mamady Keïta

Article: Mamady Keïta (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Guinéenews
Credits:

• Nominated by AllegedlyHuman (talk · give credit)

Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with their own Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.

Nominator's comments: Guinean drummer. Played the djembe. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 01:41, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

Swedish government collapse

Article: 2021 Swedish government crisis (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​The Swedish government loses a no-confidence vote and collapses, triggering a crisis. (Post)
Alternative blurb: ​Stefan Löfven (pictured) is ousted as prime minister of Sweden after a vote of no confidence.
News source(s): The Guardian, The Local Sweden
Credits:

• Nominated by Twistedaxe (talk · give credit)

Article updated

 -Twistedaxe (talk) 14:55, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

• Support - HoG being outed in any country is a big deal, and this is our first no confidence outing. Don't like the proposed blurb, added altblurb. Gaioa (T C L) 15:38, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support - This is a major historical event in Sweden as it's the first time a Prime Minister was ousted by the parliament. Manvswow (talk) 15:43, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
• Wait until the new PM is selected.  – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 15:57, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
• Wait per John M Wolfson. The ITNR item is the change, and the change hasn't happened yet. --LaserLegs (talk) 16:02, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
• The PM has not actually changed yet(he is now an acting/caretaker PM). The notability here seems to be that a Swedish PM has never been removed this way before. When the replacement takes office that will be posted as ITNR- I might suggest that this proceed as a regular nomination. 331dot (talk) 16:05, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

  You're correct in Stefan Löfven being the interim PM, however, there is no longer a clear majority that supports Stefan Löfven as PM. That's what makes this a government crisis. Löfven has a week to declare a snap election or resign as PM, he'd still be the interim PM in the mean time but a new government has to be "developed" by the Speaker of the Swedish Riksdag that has majority support. It's a historic event in the sense that a Swedish PM never being ousted before and at the same time being a major event in Swedish politics because there is no majority for any government alternative at the moment making a snap election the most likely outcome of the situation. In comparision to U.S politics, this would be just as big as the impeachment of a president being successful, well minus the fact that the president can't make talk with the senate and congress for support to continue being president. Manvswow (talk) 16:22, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

  Unless Vänsterpartiet (Left Party) agrees to make a new government with Stefan Löfven in exchange that he lets go of his proposed market rents, then the Riksdag majority will stay right-wing for the most part. Twistedaxe (talk) 16:33, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

  • Response @John M Wolfson, LaserLegs, and 331dot: I would argue that the change has happened, he's already lost the no confidence vote. The crisis/collapse is not a future event either. Abcmaxx (talk) 16:27, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
    • ITN/R is the change. I changed it to "no". If this unique event is "significant" enough to stand on it's own we can post. If not, we'll post his replacement later as ITN/R. --LaserLegs (talk) 17:15, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support was about to nominate this myself. It confirms that either way a head of state will change, either through an election or an agreement of a new government leader, therefore just as notable as any other election, coup d'état, coronation etc. Might be worth adding it's the country's first such event. Abcmaxx (talk) 16:18, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
• Wait I would prefer to wait until he finally resigns and a successor is appointed, or already nominate the hypothetical elections if he decides to dissolve the Swedish parliament. However, this is not the first vote of no-confidence of censure to be passed (or at least I can't see if there are any differences with the 2018 one). _-_Alsoriano97 (talk) 18:12, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
• Wait until the new prime minister is known. I don't think the no-confidence vote by itself should be posted.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 18:15, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
• Is this an idiomatic use of the word "crisis?" While unusual for Sweden, this is routine in parliamentary systems, correct? GreatCaesarsGhost 18:28, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

  If you call this idiomatic, then you should check out the 2014 Swedish government crisis. This is bigger than that. Manvswow (talk) 19:12, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

• Without a functioning government, Sweden is in constitutional crisis, correct? Perhaps that's what the articles should be moved to, but we also have the Venezuelan presidential crisis (since it happened during a constitutional crisis, very awkward of them on our naming conventions). Kingsif (talk) 21:47, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

See, that's what I was asking. Venezuela literally had two concurrent presidents giving conflicting orders; that's a crisis. A no-confidence vote is a routine act of a functioning government. It's big news, but the Swedes aren't stockpiling canned goods and boarding up windows. `GreatCaesarsGhost 01:10, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

• Wait. It would make sense to post now if the no-confidence vote was going to be start a long drawn-out period of coalition negotiations. But it appears they have exactly one week to either form a new coalition or call elections. Let's post once we know what the outcome is, it won't take long. Modest Genius ^talk 18:32, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
• Wait – Until a successor is at least named, if not actually confirmed. Per Simeonovski, Genius, Wolfson. – Sca (talk) 18:40, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

June 20

Portal:Current events/2021 June 20

Current events of June 20, 2021 (2021-06-20) (Sunday) Disasters and accidents 2021 Atlantic hurricane season Thirteen people are killed in Alabama, United States, during the Tropical Storm Claudette. Ten of the victims, nine of whom are children, die in a fiery 17-vehicle crash. (USA Today) A tornado strikes Naperville, Illinois, U.S., destroying 12 homes and injuring six people. (WBBM-TV) Health and environment COVID-19 pandemic COVID-19 pandemic in Asia COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China The number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in China surpasses one billion. (CNN) COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia Indonesia reports 13,737 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, which is the highest single-day total of cases since January 30. (Reuters) COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, COVID-19 vaccination in the Philippines The government signs an agreement to purchase 40 million doses of the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine. It is the largest COVID-19 vaccine deal in the Philippines. (CNA) COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan COVID-19 vaccination in Taiwan, Taiwan–United States relations The United States sends 2.5 million doses of Moderna’s vaccine to Taiwan. (Time) COVID-19 pandemic in Fiji Fiji reports a record for the second consecutive day of 166 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1,964. The Ministry of Health also reports the death of a 77-year-old man from COVID-19. (RNZ) COVID-19 pandemic in France France lifts its nighttime curfew due to an improvement in the COVID-19 situation in the country. The country previously dropped its outdoor mask requirement on June 17. (SortiraParis) International relations Cross-Strait relations, Hong Kong–Taiwan relations The Taiwanese Mainland Affairs Council says that it will "adjust" the operations of its Hong Kong offices beginning tomorrow, stating that since July 2018, the Hong Kong government has been hindering the offices' operations by pressuring the Taiwanese staff to sign a letter affirming China's claim to Taiwan under the One-China policy in order to receive their work visas. (Al Jazeera) Diplomats meet in Vienna to negotiate and restore the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, an agreement signed in 2015. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett warns against rejoining the deal and calls for allies to "wake up" to the threat of Iran. (U.S. News & World Report) (BBC) Law and crime Manhunt for Jürgen Conings Belgian officials report that Jürgen Conings, a 46-year-old soldier and far-right sympathizer who made threats against various politicians and virologists, was found dead in the Hoge Kempen National Park near the Dutch border. (BBC) Germany bans the flag of Hamas after it was used during protests over the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis. (Hamodia) Politics and elections Libyan peace process Prime Minister of the provisional Libyan government Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh announces the reopening of a major coastal road connecting the western city of Misrata and the eastern city of Sirte, declaring it a major step in restoring stability in the country. However, a media unit connected to the Libyan National Army disputes this, saying that the road remains closed. (Al Jazeera) The Libyan Presidential Council bans all unauthorized military movement in the country, after forces loyal to Libyan National Army leader Khalifa Haftar announce that they have seized control of the southern border with Algeria earlier in the day. The seizure was the first major military operation of its type since the ceasefire was signed last October. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters) 2021 Armenian parliamentary election Armenian voters head to the polls for a snap parliamentary election. Incumbent Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's Civil Contract wins the majority of the seats of the National Assembly, but loses 16 seats. (Reuters) 2021 French regional elections In a series of elections seen as a major bellwether for next year's presidential election, exit polls show left-wing parties and the right-wing Republicans as the main winners, obtaining 34% and 29% of the total votes respectively. The far-right National Rally and the ruling centrist La République En Marche! receive disappointing results, with the former receiving 19% of the total votes, and the latter receving only 10.9% and not even qualifying for the second round in some regions. (Politico.eu) Sports 2021 U.S. Open (golf) Jon Rahm wins the 121st U.S. Open, becoming the first Spanish champion. (Reuters)

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2021 French Grand Prix (withdrawn)

Withdrawn by nominator. Modest Genius ^talk 12:43, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Article: 2021 French Grand Prix (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​In motorsport, Max Verstappen wins the French Grand Prix. (Post)
News source(s): The Guardian, BBC, Der Spiegel, de Volkskrant, Le Monde, The Associated Press
Credits:

• Updated and nominated by HumanBodyPiloter5 (talk · give credit)
• Created by GAMOpedia (talk · give credit)
• Updated by Island92 (talk · give credit), AirshipJungleman29 (talk · give credit), SSSB (talk · give credit) and GAMOpedia (talk · give credit)

Article updated

Nominator's comments: Article has been expanded to a relatively complete state with a large number of reliable sources. While it doesn't award any more points than any other race in the championship, the French Grand Prix is the original Grand Prix motor race, having first been held 115 years ago. (talk) 12:28, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

I would like to withdraw this nomination. I realise that my reasoning for nominating may have been somewhat WP:POINTy about the often poor quality of sourcing in sport-related articles. Sorry for wasting anybody's time. I think I need a wikibreak. HumanBodyPiloter5 HumanBodyPiloter5 (talk) 12:04, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose as a terrifying sports ticker precedent that would open the floodgates to nominations for just about any single non-title-winning sports event. As noted in the nom, the French GP is no more or less worthy than any other GP and we have the F1 overall winner and constructor at ITNR. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 12:08, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
  • It may sound a bit strange, but as the nominator I don't particularly disagree with you. While formally my nomination presumably counts as supporting its inclusion, I primarily nominated it because I wanted other editors to have the opportunity to discuss it. I am ultimately neutral on the matter. The Indy 500 is also listed at ITNR, which is a similarly old event which forms a round of larger championship. HumanBodyPiloter5 (talk) 12:14, 21 June 2021 (UTC)HumanBodyPiloter5 (talk) 12:28, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

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Armenian election

Article: 2021 Armenian parliamentary election (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​In the Armenian parliamentary election, the ruling Civil Contract, led by Nikol Pashinyan (pictured) wins the majority of seats in the National Assembly. (Post)
News source(s): The Guardian, Reuters
Credits:

• Nominated by Alsoriano97 (talk · give credit)

Article updated
The nominated event is listed on WP:ITN/R, so each occurrence is presumed to be important enough to post. Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article and update meet WP:ITNCRIT, not the significance.

Nominator's comments: The article is not too bad, but there is room for improvement. I'm working on it. _-_Alsoriano97 (talk) 10:41, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

• Support Not every day you see a man resign, reform and replace himself. InedibleHulk (talk) 21:04, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

  InedibleHulk any comments on the quality? Most of the page is made up of the 3 tables. 70.23.250.135 (talk) 23:34, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

  It's an election. They produce data, data need tables. I agree with Alsoriano, not too bad (and getting better). InedibleHulk (talk) 23:38, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

  Meh, I guess. I have lots of faith in Alsoriano tho so I'll also support it too. 70.23.250.135 (talk) 23:57, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

• Support 70.23.250.135 (talk) 23:57, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

RD: Gianna Rolandi

Article: Gianna Rolandi (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): parterre.com
Credits:

• Updated and nominated by Gerda Arendt (talk · give credit)
• Updated by Grimes2 (talk · give credit)

Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with their own Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.

Nominator's comments: Known as a coloratura soprano in the opera world in her prime. News of her death is new, - there will be more. The article was written with love in 2006, so many sources were gone, but others additionally there, and some detail too much anyway. Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:56, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

• Support well sourced and enough content of her career and life. _-_Alsoriano97 (talk) 14:37, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

RD: Alex Hesegem

Article: Alex Hesegem (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Kompas
Credits:

• Updated and nominated by Jeromi Mikhael (talk · give credit)

Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with their own Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.

Nominator's comments: Former Vice Governor of Papua. We already had two of these in the past six months: Soedardjat Nataatmadja on 6 December last year and Klemen Tinal on 21 May. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 06:56, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

• Support looks fine to me. 70.23.250.135 (talk) 23:54, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

(Ready) 2021 U.S. Open

Article: 2021 U.S. Open (golf) (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​In golf, Jon Rahm wins the U.S. Open (Post)
News source(s): *New York Times
Credits:

• Nominated by Compy90 (talk · give credit)

The nominated event is listed on WP:ITN/R, so each occurrence is presumed to be important enough to post. Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article and update meet WP:ITNCRIT, not the significance.

 Compy90 (talk) 22:31, June 20, 2021 (UTC)

• Support - appears to be adequate prose summarising the event. --LukeSurl ^t c 08:11, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support there's round summaries, which is good (a couple of citations needed, but shouldn't hold this up), and so this has enough prose for main page. Joseph2302 (talk) 08:29, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

• Wait Of course the CNs should hold up posting. GreatCaesarsGhost 11:09, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:In the News says "Articles should be well referenced; one or two "citation needed" tags may not hold up an article". Joseph2302 (talk) 11:12, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Support Don't be so literal. If you read the rest of the sentence you cited, you'll find "but any contentious statements must have a source." In any case, there is no reason not to wait an hour or two in service to accomplishing the entire point of the project -- quality. GreatCaesarsGhost 14:34, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

• Comment I think the "Field" section is too large and ungainly, the 2020 article separated it into another article, which greatly improves readability. Chaosquo (talk) 11:22, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support. The prose summaries of the rounds are there and decently cited. The rest of the article is a bit data heavy but that shouldn't disqualify it from posting. Nice to see a sport article that's been updated before nomination. Modest Genius ^talk 12:46, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
• I've marked this as ready. -- Calidum 20:09, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

RD: Mike Bailey (weatherman)

Article: Mike Bailey (weatherman) (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): [1]
Credits:

• Nominated by Stephen (talk · give credit)

Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with their own Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.

Nominator's comments: Australian weatherman, needs work Stephen 04:05, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

• Comment have added a number of cn tags. Joseph2302 (talk) 07:53, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support I have updated the article with references to reliable sources. Happily888 (talk) 11:08, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

June 19

Portal:Current events/2021 June 19

Current events of June 19, 2021 (2021-06-19) (Saturday) Armed conflicts and attacks War in Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani names Bismillah Khan Mohammadi as his new defense minister and Abdul Sattar Mirzakwal as the new interior minister, replacing their respective predecessors amid a deteriorating security situation, with foreign forces withdrawing from the country and the Taliban gaining territory, capturing six more districts. (DW) Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen Saudi air defenses destroy six armed drones late in the evening, bringing the total of armed drones destroyed during the day to 17. A Houthi spokesman says that one drone was launched at Khamis Mushait while the Saudi air defenses say that two other drones toward Khamis Mushait were intercepted and that eight other drones were also launched toward the south of the kingdom. (Reuters) Health and environment COVID-19 pandemic COVID-19 pandemic in Asia COVID-19 pandemic in Cambodia Cambodia reports a record 20 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 414. (Bangkok Post) COVID-19 pandemic in Laos Laos extends its lockdown measures for another 15 days until July 4 as the number of community transmission cases of COVID-19 continue to increase. (The Laotian Times) COVID-19 pandemic in Mongolia Mongolia reports a record 14 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 439. (Xinhuanet) COVID-19 pandemic in the United States COVID-19 pandemic in Indiana Indiana reports its first case of the Delta variant of COVID-19. (WTHR-TV) COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil Brazil surpasses 500,000 deaths from COVID-19, becoming the second country to do so after the United States. (DW) COVID-19 pandemic in Fiji Fiji reports a record 150 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the national toll to 1,798. The Ministry of Health reports that most cases are from known clusters while others are under investigation. Also, Australia and New Zealand announce that they will deploy doctors to Fiji to help deal with the increase in the number of COVID-19 cases. (RNZ) (FBC News) International relations Australia–China relations Australia begins lodging a formal complaint against China with the World Trade Organization over anti-dumping duties on imported Australian wine. (The Guardian) Law and crime Six people are critically wounded as a man intentionally drove his pickup truck into a group of cyclists taking part in a charity bike ride in Show Low, Arizona. The driver is shot and arrested. The motive behind the attack is unknown so far. (BBC) Politics and elections 2021 Brazilian protests As Brazil reaches 500,000 deaths due to COVID-19, demonstrations are held in hundreds of Brazilian cities and by Brazilians abroad. Protestors are critical of President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of the pandemic and demand his impeachment. (The Guardian) 2021 Iranian presidential election Rival candidates concede victory to hardline Chief Justice Ebrahim Raisi, who was widely predicted to be the next president. An official from the Interior Ministry claims that Raisi won 17.8 million votes out of the 28 million votes cast. (Reuters) 2021 Myanmar protests Protesters against the military junta carry out a national day of "flower protest" to celebrate the 76th birthday of deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi and condemn her arrest. The flower symbol was allegedly chosen because Suu Kyi is often seen with a flower on her head. Protests supporting the military junta led by Min Aung Hlaing also occur across the country. (DW) 2021 Peruvian general election Supporters of Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori gather following the election. Castillo supporters call for his win to be upheld, while Fujimori supporters call for the results to be overturned. (Al Jazeera)

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(Posted) RD: Champ

Article: Champ and Major (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Statement by POTUS and FLOTUS, CNN, The Guardian
Credits:

• Nominated by Count Iblis (talk · give credit)

Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with their own Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.

 Count Iblis (talk) 16:45, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

• Comment Note that Champ does not have a stand alone article, he shares an article with Major, who is not dead.Jackattack1597 (talk) 16:46, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support Champ was A Very Good Boy and more for our purposes, has a good article to post. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:16, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support Article looks good, rest in peace Champ! --Vacant0 (talk) 19:12, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
• Posted --PFHLai (talk) 20:33, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
• PP comment – Not notable. I venture to say that most readers never heard of this animal until his demise. – Sca (talk) 22:09, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

You are free to propose the article for deletion if it does not meet the criteria, or propose changing the RD criteria to exclude animals or reestablish a super-notability criteria. 331dot (talk) 22:18, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

• Sca, I venture to say that most readers never heard of Kenneth Kaunda until his demise either. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:53, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

I had. If 'Champ' had been known for something other than being the pet of a famous person, as could be the case with an animal actor, it might have been OK, but IMO this panders to twee emotions. And BTW, how do two 'supports' (including yours) constitute consensus? – Sca (talk) 12:53, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Notability is not at issue for RDs so no consensus is required on that point. As I said, you are free to go to AFD. If you are arguing that the quality is poor, that's different. 331dot (talk) 13:07, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Nevertheless, the item was railroaded in. – Sca (talk) 13:16, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

"Railroaded" suggests a nefarious intent or bad faith that does not seem to be the case. There is no arbitrary minimum discussion period here, and unless you are arguing a quality issue, there was no procedural violation here. So I respectfully but strongly disagree with the use of the term "railroaded". 331dot (talk) 15:01, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

• Muboshgu Did you genuinely just compare one of the most important African politicians of the 20th century with a dog? FFS. Black Kite (talk) 23:19, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

  Black Kite, had you heard of Kaunda before he died? I hadn't, but did not take my lack of knowledge to mean he was "not notable". – Muboshgu (talk) 23:28, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

  I had. If you are anywhere near my age and were familiar with African politics (and even international politics involving Africa), Kaunda would have been a very notable figure. Black Kite (talk) 23:33, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

  I'm probably younger than you, and not interested in African politics. My point was that for our purposes here, they're both living organisms with articles, and therefore RD material. – Muboshgu (talk) 23:49, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

  Well, that's my point, really. I love my pets, but when Wikipedia consders that a random dog is equally as important as a world politician, perhaps we ought to consider WTAF we're actually doing here, do you not think? Black Kite (talk) 23:59, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

  It's not a random dog, it's a dog that receives significant coverage in independent reliable sources, because it is the dog of a world leader. No equivalency is being drawn here with other article subjects. If you feel the dog is not notable, you are free to propose the article's deletion. When RD was expanded to anything alive with an article, this was considered. 331dot (talk) 01:04, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

• What 331dot said. – Muboshgu (talk) 01:18, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Speaking of 'not random' dogs, Hitler had a German shepherd too, you know. →
Would 'Blondi' have qualified for RD? – Sca (talk) 14:53, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Any article about something alive qualifies for posting to RD, so yes, Blondi would have qualified. 331dot (talk) 15:03, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Was this a deliberate invocation of Godwin's law? – Muboshgu (talk) 15:25, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

I'm tempted to hat everything after "Posted" as an entirely unnecessary waste of time. Sca knows (or should know) that animals are eligible for RD.-- Pawnkingthree (talk) 15:36, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Gimmie a break, I'm retired. - Sca (talk) 18:49, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

331dot, you'll want to keep a sharp eye on the status of Muja, then. He's said to be 85. – Sca (talk) 18:49, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

• Reminder Any article about something alive does not qualify as a Recent Death. InedibleHulk (talk) 21:30, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

June 18

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RD: S. Ramesan Nair

Article: S. Ramesan Nair (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Times of India
Credits:

• Nominated by AllegedlyHuman (talk · give credit)
• Updated by Wikiloverdeepak (talk · give credit) and Pachu Kannan (talk · give credit)

Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with their own Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.

Nominator's comments: Indian poet of the Malayalam film industry. COVID-19. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 23:10, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

• Support good for what it is. No issues (if someone wanted to do something tho maybe the filmography section could use a short blurb with film highlights?) 70.23.250.135 (talk) 00:01, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

Ryan Crouser

Article: Ryan Crouser (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​Ryan Crouser sets a World Record in shot put at 23.37 m (76 ft 8 in). (Post)
News source(s): BBC, CNN, Reuters, NBC
Credits:

• Nominated by Tone (talk · give credit)

Nominator's comments: This is breaking of a world record that has stood for 31 years. We usually post breaking of long-standing records in athletics. Tone 09:00, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

• Pending ratification. Stephen 09:55, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Yes, but this will take some time. We posted marathod immediately, for example. Also, look at the sources below, CNN doesn't seem to mind the ratification part. --Tone 11:26, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Exactly. Ratification by the IAAF is a slow bureaucratic process that can take months. E.g. when Mondo Duplantis broke the 6.17m pole vault record on February 8, 2020, it took them until June 29, 2020 to ratify it. We should post stories like these when they actually make the news, not when the bureaucrats finish their paperwork. Nsk92 (talk) 11:43, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

• No sources have been offered demonstrating this is in the news. 331dot (talk) 10:29, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

[2], [3], [4], that should cover it. --Tone 11:26, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

• Support Breaking a 31-year world record is a notable achievement. I've added a couple of links to news sources to demonstrate that this is in the news.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 11:28, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support. Breaking one of the oldest records on the books in men's athletics, and breaking it by a significant margin. Nsk92 (talk) 11:57, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
• I would support posting now on quality and significance. I am concerned about all those figures being properly sourced. I would guess refs on the page cover everything, but the placement of citations is not ideal? GreatCaesarsGhost 14:41, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

(Posted) Iran election

Article: 2021 Iranian presidential election (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​Ebrahim Raisi (pictured) is elected president of Iran. (Post)
Alternative blurb: ​Ebrahim Raisi (pictured) becomes president of Iran.
Alternative blurb II: ​Ebrahim Raisi (pictured) becomes president-elect of Iran.
News source(s): NYT, Al Jazeera, AP, BBC, Guardian. Reuters
Credits:

• Nominated by Davey2116 (talk · give credit)

Article needs updating
The nominated event is listed on WP:ITN/R, so each occurrence is presumed to be important enough to post. Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article and update meet WP:ITNCRIT, not the significance.

Nominator's comments: Many strong would-be opponents were disqualified from running, and turnout was very low. Do we mention this in the blurb? Davey2116 (talk) 09:02, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

• In Iran, the Guardian Council gets to decide who runs for president, that's how they do it. I'm not sure that needs to be called out here. 331dot (talk) 09:42, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
• Comment – In the case of a patently pantomimic 'election,' perhaps it's best not to elaborate in a mere blurb on the nature of the process. Although, on second thought, instead of "is elected president" maybe we could say "becomes president," which would be succinct and totally accurate. – Sca (talk) 13:36, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

  But he was elected, even though if one thinks it was illegitimate. Jackattack1597 (talk) 16:26, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

• Are there any issues or differences between the candidates that we can note? GreatCaesarsGhost 13:13, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support The article looks good and the news is important.--Seyyed(t-c) 13:36, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Sa.vakilian As this event (a change in head of government) is on the recurring events list, importance is not at issue. 331dot (talk) 13:40, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

• Support – in principle. Favor Alt1 Alt2. – Sca (talk) 13:57, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support in principle This article has a refimprove tag. Once that's resolved I will give full support. --Aknell4 (talk · contribs) 14:18, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
  • Support All reference issues have been resolved. Prefer ALT0. --Aknell4 (talk · contribs) 14:16, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose alt1 blurb. "Becomes president" suggests he is currently president. Even if the candidates were all pretty much the same ideologically, it's still an election. 331dot (talk) 14:21, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Semantics. "Is elected" could be taken to imply the same thing. Article: "Raisi won with 17.8 million popular votes out of 28 million votes." – Sca (talk) 14:28, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Disagree that it is semantics. "Elected" means one has won an election, not that they have actually assumed the office. There is a difference between "Joe Biden was elected" and "Joe Biden becomes president". 331dot (talk) 14:37, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Note Alt2. – Sca (talk) 14:51, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Agreed with 331dot. Alt1 is outright wrong (one "becomes" president on the day of assuming the office and, in virtually all countries, that is when being sworn in). Alt2 is sheer avoidance to accept the legitimacy of the election.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 14:49, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose tagged. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 14:34, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

  Support per Levivich, improved from my first review. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 13:45, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

• Support He was elected president by winning the most votes. Oppose Alt1 as it does suggest he is currently president. Alt2 may be correct because it may be some time before he is inaugurated. Albertaont (talk) 15:59, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
• Comment in the unlikely event this is cleaned up for posting, the original blurb is fine. There was an election, these are the results. There isn't even a section in the article documenting disputes for it. The alt blurbs are unnecessary. --LaserLegs (talk) 16:53, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose due the referencing, as well as no prose on the difference between candidates that may impact the choice. GreatCaesarsGhost 18:14, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support original blurb only, oppose on quality even if Iran is not a real democracy, an election did nominally take place. Iff reliable sources indicate that there has been international backlash on the conduct then it should be reflected in the article and blurb. In any event there are still far too few citations for my liking.  – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 19:46, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose On quality. If article is fixed up, I prefer an alt that mentions that the election had the lowest turnout for Iran in history..Jackattack1597 (talk) 21:24, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
  • We don't generally post election turnout on here, if I'm not mistaken. The high 40s isn't particularly bad; the US tends to be in the 50s and 60s.  – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 21:27, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

@Aknell4, The Rambling Man, and GreatCaesarsGhost: At present almost all of the article's content has reliable sources.--Seyyed(t-c) 06:51, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

Looks good to me. --Aknell4 (talk · contribs) 14:16, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

I'm still an oppose. Both of my prior concerns remain. GreatCaesarsGhost 22:04, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

• Support the original blurb. It seems like the election result is valid despite the low turnout which means that Raisi is elected president of Iran. Using "becomes" implies that he's been installed by force but that's not the case. Of course, there are many domestic and foreign organisations, including Amnesty International, complaining about what happened before and during the election but it's irrelevant here.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 10:47, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

Au contraire, mon ami. "Becomes" carries no implication of force, it simply denotes a process of change.
Cf. Webster:

1: to come into existence.

2: to undergo change or development.

– Sca (talk) 12:23, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

I know very well what it means and it was intentionally proposed to contest the legitimacy of the election (disqualified candidates, low turnout and similar nonsense echoed by Biden's administration). There's no reason to replace the standard wording "is elected" with "becomes" when he was elected president by the populace and not in any other way.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 14:32, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

I agree to disagree with you, and stand by my view that "becomes" is NPOV in standard English usage. (AGF!) But it seems that given the state of the article, this point may be moot. – Sca (talk) 15:39, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

I simply follow your own reasoning above to deduce that "becomes" intends to replace "is elected" to highlight the case of "patently pantomimic 'election'". Other than that, there's nothing wrong with that word even though we don't use it in blurbs on presidential elections.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 18:08, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

Past practice doesn't always dictate present usage. Each issue must be judged on its merits by reasonable users. Au revoir. – Sca (talk) 22:03, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose on quality. The article is a real mess at the moment, with lots of uncited material and also a lack of analysis of the result. I'm sceptical this will make it, but if it does then I'd favour the original blurb. We just discussed all this in the Syrian case, and there was no consensus that we should deviate from our usual election blurb format, which leaves the criticial analysis on legitimacy and turnout etc to the article.  — Amakuru (talk) 10:57, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support alt2 - I think the quality is good enough as of this writing (no tags except for the section needs expansion for the election, but I think the section has enough to be useful, and most importantly is cited). Prefer alt2; alt1 is incorrect; alt0 implies a free and fair election; alt2 avoids that implication. Levivich 16:45, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
• Marked as ready - This looks ready to post... though I personally find the use of the word "elected" to be truthiness in this case... more like he was selected. FWIW Alt2 follows the same precedent we use for election blurbs. Inauguration is another matter. - Floydian ^τ _¢ 18:08, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
• Unmarked as ready Still too many uncited statements in the Candidate list and Opinion polls sections, I'm afraid.  – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 18:18, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

  Please indicate what is unready, perhaps I am missing it. I see nothing wrong with the article. Opinion polls are worthless, try looking outside Iran. - Floydian ^τ _¢ 23:00, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

  @Floydian: The "Candidates" section lists many candidates without citation; if such sources cannot be found then the entries must be removed per the BLP policy on unsourced contentious statements. Otherwise the article, while a bit of a shambles and low on prose, does not appear to have any Main Page-hindering defects (this isn't FAC, after all).  – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 00:34, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

  @John M Wolfson: I have done a couple of edits covering your concerns. Pleas check if it's OK. --Mhhossein ^talk 07:23, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

• Comment This is getting stale and frankly the remaining CNs could be resolved by just commenting out their associated assertions. Half of them are in the Candidates subsection Declined to run, and what does that even mean anyway? Wouldn't that include nearly every Iranian that has a wiki article? The Rejected subsection is a {{incomplete list}} and if references for more than half of the entries cannot be found, then I seriously question its inclusion. The Announced but not registered seems to suggest that they were not, actually, candidates and as such these should probably be removed from the Candidates section. The bits of encyclopedic information that would be lost from the election article would be better suited in respective BLPs, because they add only marginal information to the election article.130.233.213.61 (talk) 05:21, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
• Needs text updateThis nomination is only 2 days old - not stale. This article still needs a Results section. Joofjoof (talk) 06:21, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support - In general the article seems OK. - STSC (talk) 10:25, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
• Still not ready. Where is the prose on the election itself, and the results and aftermath?  — Amakuru (talk) 10:29, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
• Comment – Getting stale fast. – Sca (talk) 13:06, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
• Comment Everyone saying that this is getting stale or there's work that have to be done, but none is contributing. _-_Alsoriano97 (talk) 13:13, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
  • Honestly I have no idea what everyone is talking about. There's no prose?? Of course there's prose. There's no results section?? Yes there is! There's no aftermath?? The election was two days ago! What "aftermath"?! Not every sentence needs an inline citation in order for this to be posted to the main page. Anyone who really thinks it is contentious info about a BLP that an Iranian politician registered in an election (as opposed to bluesky) can go ahead and remove the uncited entries. A country changed its President: this is frickin' news and the article is fine. I've re-tagged it Ready. Levivich 13:34, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
    • An election is a choice - the whole country is deciding to proceed one direction or another. This is why elections are per se significant. The article has not one word differentiating the candidates from one another. There's mention of a debate having occurred, but no mention of issues. Most of the article is an explanation of the mechanics of the election. GreatCaesarsGhost 13:49, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
      • Just googled "what does Ebrahim Raisi's election mean" and found a half dozen solid sources on impact. GreatCaesarsGhost 13:52, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
      • GCG's point on "who are candidates" is a good point: even if just a section with a lot of "main"/"seealso", I'd expect a short summary blurb about each of the primary candidates in the table as to understand the significance of the results. At this stage, I don't know if having to get into the issues has to be covered, but we should know who was running and why --Masem (t) 13:55, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
        • I thought this was ITN not FAC. Also some of you don't seem to understand this was not a real election. An issues section? What differentiates the candidates? In an article about an Iranian election?! Lol! (That doesn't exist in any of the other Iran election articles, you may notice.) Levivich 14:13, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
          • It's not FAC, but it is something going on main page and is supposed to represented "our best work". The only "developed" section on the article right now is the process of how the election works, which is not unique to this specific election. (And no, we're neutral, we should not be writing this that "this was not a real election"). Beyond that section, its a sentence or two here and there, a bunch of lists, and a bunch of tables. No real prose. A short section to list the 7-odd candidates with a 4-5 sentence bio for each would not have broken the bank to get it to a postable standard. --Masem (t) 14:58, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
            • I don't know where you got the idea that ITN is supposed to represent our best work, but you didn't get it from WP:ITN, which says Articles are held to a minimum standard of quality.. MINIMUM, not best. Levivich 15:22, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
              • Second bullet of first section of ITN: "To showcase quality Wikipedia content on current events." And in what you're quoting, a "minimum standard of quality" would be the key read from that. In addition, the Main Page of Wikipedia is mean to reflect the best work that Wikipedia can produce - doesn't mean every highlighted link has to be FA, but that required a basic level of quality. That's why we have to nearly repeat every day on ITNC "ITN is not a news ticker" -we don't have to post stories in a timely manner if the article is not up to the quality standards. --Masem (t) 15:32, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support and Ready let's not hold this article to some standard which does not exist. What's there is fine, it's referenced, there is some prose about the results and turnout. The 2021 Somaliland parliamentary election was recently posted without details about candidates or debates and it's not really a country. It's time to post it. --LaserLegs (talk) 14:15, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
• Posted as I think it meets the bare minimum for Main Page posting (not much more than that, to be honest, but this isn't FAC). I'm sticking with the original blurb for now as election improprieties are not currently adequately explained in the article to justify anything else; besides, "becomes president-elect" is a clunky and quite frankly stupid way of saying "is elected president". If such electoral improprieties become better expressed/justified the blurb should be adjusted to say "is elected president of Iran in election criticized by international observers" or something to that effect.  – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 14:17, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
• Pull. What's the point in us having a discussion and registering our concerns if it's just going to be ignored? The article has zero coverage on the election itself, and the "prose" on the results is just a three sentence summary of the results. The ITN requirements explicitly say the page must "have been substantially updated". Ridiculous.  — Amakuru (talk) 16:26, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
  • Amakuru are you talking about the article on the election or the bio of the pres? Levivich 16:49, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

    @Levivich: I'm talking about the election article. It's the same phenomenon we see over and over at ITN with elections and sports tournaments - a reasonably detailed article of what happened prior to the event, but only tabular or very brief coverage of the during and after. What's in the news is the election and the result, not the Iranian electoral system or the Covid provisions, which seem to form the bulk of the prose at present. Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 17:04, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

    Question: when the Tories win the next UK GE, what would we expect to see in the "results" section before posting? I'm curious because it would be similar to this, an inevitable result with a bit of outrage and disappointment. What more, within a few days, would we be expecting to see? The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 17:08, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

    Well, we can look back at the last UK election to see what sort of thing we posted at that time: [5] Although the results section in the body did not have prose at that time, there was a decent cited update occupying three paragraphs of the lead - with tidbits such as Corbyn resigning and Swinson losing her seat. If the Iran article had something like that, it'd be fine. Anyway, it looks like everyone thinks I'm being ridiculous so I'll withdraw the "pull" and just register my puzzlement informally instead.  — Amakuru (talk) 17:20, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

    I don't think we'd ever expect to see that kind of thing from Iran, would we? I'm not suggesting you're being ridiculous at all, by the way, just curious to see if we're now experiencing a kind of requirement creep on election updates. One imagines (or used to) that the result was the pertinent thing, not the fall-out which could take days/weeks/months/years and hence sits outside the scope of ITN really. Just my opinion, of course. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 17:26, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

    I'm in the same board as Amakuru - I won't ask for a pull, but I really think there were easy fixes, not hard to do, that would have alleviated the issue, with existing material out there, such as simply a short paragraphical bio for each of the main candidates, which could have been done before election day. That would have been enough to highlight the main issues in the election and shouldn't have taken more than an hour of work since all 7-8 appear to be notable people. --Masem (t) 17:33, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

    That's definitely requirement creep. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 17:47, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

    (I don't think you're being ridiculous either.) Levivich 19:06, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

  • The results prose is adequate as a minimum and combined with the reactions section constitutes substantial updates for the intents and purposes of ITN. There is also coverage on the COVID provisions of the election conduct.  – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 16:51, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

    @John M Wolfson: - you said yourself earlier that the article is a "bit of a shambles". Just to be clear, ITN does not permit "shambles" pages to be listed. The purpose of ITN explicitly gives as a remit that we "showcase quality Wikipedia content on current events". If it's not quality, then it shouldn't be posted and there is no requirement to post everything that's nominated, even for ITN/R items.  — Amakuru (talk) 17:07, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

    • Wolfson called it a "shambles" two days ago, it's no longer a shambles. It's fine, minimalist but fine. Calm down. --LaserLegs (talk) 17:11, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

The article is no longer in shambles, but he shouldn't be supervoting, either. There quite clearly was not consensus to post. GreatCaesarsGhost 18:31, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

I think we can safely treat "oppose on quality" !votes act as "support" !votes once the article meets the minimum quality requirements. Mlb96 (talk) 22:29, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

No you can't. Why would you assume that a particular editor would think the updates are sufficient when others are actively saying they are not? You can certain disregard earlier quality opposes if more recent votes are universally positive. GreatCaesarsGhost 00:35, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

I think one can, in fact, treat "oppose on quality" !votes as supports given a level of minimal quality as the current election article possesses. Of course, such !votes must be fairly old and predate salient improvements of the article in question, but it would likely be requirement creep as said above to require anything substantially more in an article than due citations, absence of orange tags, and prose updates in order to post on the Main Page given the time-sensitive nature of ITN, and I say this as someone who thinks of ITN significance independently of the surrounding news cycle.  – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 01:08, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

• In case anyone cares about my useless opinion, I Oppose posting. 70.23.250.135 (talk) 00:08, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support It's ITN/R, it's cited, there's enough prose updates, it meets minimum quality standards. Pawnkingthree (talk) 01:14, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

(Posted) RD: Vekuii Rukoro

Article: Vekuii Rukoro (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): DW
Credits:

• Nominated by AllegedlyHuman (talk · give credit)
• Updated by Mr. D. E. Mophon (talk · give credit) and Chtrede (talk · give credit)

Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Paramount chief of the Herero people. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 02:24, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

• Support Attorney General of Namibia, chief of the Herero – seems very notable. Robby.is.on (talk) 08:25, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support article is good enough for RD. Joseph2302 (talk) 08:39, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
• Posted --PFHLai (talk) 08:47, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

(Posted) RD: Giampiero Boniperti

Article: Giampiero Boniperti (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Ansa
Credits:

• Nominated by AllegedlyHuman (talk · give credit)
• Updated by ‎Robby.is.on (talk · give credit), Charlie Foxtrot66 (talk · give credit), Vaselineeeeeeee (talk · give credit) and Dr Salvus (talk · give credit)

Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Italian footballer, ranked on the FIFA 100 by Pelé. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 01:55, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

• Support a good article, everything well sourced. Joseph2302 (talk) 08:37, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
• Posted --PFHLai (talk) 08:54, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

(Posted) RD: Milkha Singh

Article: Milkha Singh (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Times of India, news18
Credits:

• Nominated by ArnabSaha (talk · give credit)
• Updated by Sitush (talk · give credit), Cluborchid (talk · give credit) and Ktin (talk · give credit)

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  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  19:12, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

• Support. Made some edits / adds to sources. Article looks in nick and is ready to go to homepage / RD. RIP. Ktin (talk) 19:51, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
• Posted --PFHLai (talk) 22:02, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

June 17

Portal:Current events/2021 June 17

Current events of June 17, 2021 (2021-06-17) (Thursday) Armed conflicts and attacks 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis Further airstrikes by the IDF are conducted at sites north of Beit Lahia and in Gaza City belonging to armed militia groups, as well as a civil administration building in Jabalia and an agriculture field near Khan Yunis. Hamas media outlet Al-Aqsa TV says Hamas downed an Israeli drone. No casualties are reported. (Al Jazeera) Arts and culture COVID-19 pandemic in France, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on The Walt Disney Company Disneyland Paris, Europe's most visited amusement park, reopens for the second time with enhanced health and safety measures after being closed for eight months due to the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is the first time that all Disney-owned and licensed theme parks have been open since January 2020. (France Bleu) (USA Today) U.S. President Joe Biden signs a law that would make Juneteenth a federal holiday, thereby making it the first federal holiday since the 1983 establishment of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. (CBS News) Health and environment COVID-19 pandemic COVID-19 pandemic in Asia COVID-19 pandemic in Afghanistan COVID-19 lockdowns, Afghanistan–United States relations The U.S. Embassy in Kabul orders a lockdown on the building amid a rise of cases. (Army Times) Afghanistan reports a record 515 new cases and 101 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. (The Times of India) COVID-19 pandemic in India COVID-19 pandemic in Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh detects their first case of the Lineage B.1.617 Delta variant in Bhopal. (India Today) COVID-19 pandemic in Japan Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announces that the state of emergency will be lifted in nine prefectures on June 21. However, the government will maintain its quasi-emergency measures in seven prefectures, including Tokyo and Osaka. (The Japan Times) COVID-19 pandemic in Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan receives a shipment of 80,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine. (24.kg) Kyrgyzstan reports a record of 787 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. (Kabar) COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka reports its first community case of the highly transmissible Lineage B.1.617 Delta variant in five patients. (The Hindu) COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam Vietnam reports a record of 515 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 12,014. (CNA) COVID-19 pandemic in Europe COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal, Travel restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic Portuguese authorities announce that travel in and out of the Lisbon metropolitan area will be banned on weekends from Friday at 3:00 p.m. until Monday at 6:00 a.m. amid an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases. (ABC News) COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine Ukraine reports a new single-day record of 76,538 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine administered. (Reuters) COVID-19 pandemic in Oceania COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, COVID-19 vaccination in Australia The Australian federal government restricts the usage of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine to people over the age of 60 following a new recommendation from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation. (ABC Australia) COVID-19 pandemic in Fiji Fiji reports a record 121 cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, as new clusters are discovered, thereby bringing the national total to 1,443. (RNZ) (Xinhuanet) COVID-19 pandemic in the United States COVID-19 pandemic in Illinois, COVID-19 vaccination in the United States Illinois becomes the first state in the Midwest to vaccinate 70% of adults. (WQAD-TV) COVID-19 pandemic in Zambia Zambian authorities order the closure of schools for the next 21 days and also suspend election campaigns for the general election in August after reporting the highest number of deaths due to COVID-19 in one day. At the same time, the authorities restrict activities in religious sites to meetings only twice a week and for only one hour per day. (Europa Press) International relations Tigray War The African Union (AU) launches an official commission to investigate allegations of human rights abuses committed in Ethiopia's Tigray Region. The Ethiopian Foreign Ministry rejects the commission as "misguided" and without legal basis, saying that a joint probe by the AU and Ethiopia should be used instead. (Al Jazeera) Law and crime Hong Kong national security law Police in Hong Kong arrest five executives of the Apple Daily newspaper as the newspaper warns that press freedom in the city is "hanging by a thread". It is the latest raid on the Beijing-critical newspaper which has already seen its chief Jimmy Lai convicted under various charges, including unlawful assembly, and who currently faces a national security law case along with 46 other activists. (France24) Shooting of Eyad al-Hallaq An Israeli police officer is charged with "reckless homicide" for killing an autistic Palestinian adult in Jerusalem's Old City in May 2020. His death has been compared to the George Floyd protests that occurred around the same time. (France 24) One person is killed, four are shot and eight are otherwise injured in eight drive-by shootings in the West Valley area near Phoenix, Arizona, United States. A male suspect is taken into custody. (NBC News) St. Louis gun-toting controversy Pro-gun activists Mark and Patricia McCloskey plead guilty to misdemeanor charges relating to an incident last year where they brandished weapons at Black Lives Matter protesters during a George Floyd protest in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. They also agree to give up their guns and pay US$2,750 in total fines. (DW) A person is killed when a gunman opens fire on the offices of pro-Kurdish opposition party People's Democratic Party (HDP) in İzmir, İzmir Province, Turkey. The gunman also attempted to set fire to the office building. HDP MP from İzmir Serpil Kemalbay blames the current government for the attack, saying that officials were inciting violence against the party and its supporters. (Middle East Eye) Politics and elections California v. Texas, Efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act The United States Supreme Court, in a 7–2 decision, dismisses a challenge to the Affordable Care Act brought before the court by Republican-led states and the former Trump administration. The Court stated that the challengers did not specify an injury caused by the ACA to establish standing. (LII) (BBC News) Elections in the United Kingdom, 2021 Chesham and Amersham by-election The Liberal Democrats gains the Chesham and Amersham seat in a shock defeat to the ruling Conservative government. The Conservatives suffers a swing of 25.2% away from them in a by-election billed as a sign of further realignment in British politics. This is the first time that a non-Conservative MP represents the constituency. (The Guardian) The United States House of Representatives votes 268–161 to repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002, a resolution that granted U.S. presidents the authority to engage in war with Iraq. The bill will now head to the United States Senate. (NPR) The U.S. Supreme Court rejects a lawsuit brought by six African men against American food corporation Cargill and the American division of Nestlé for their use of child slavery in cocoa bean production in a 8–1 decision, saying that because the abuses took place outside the country, the Court did not have jurisdiction on the matter. (Reuters) Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo returns to Abidjan, Ivory Coast, for the first time in nearly 10 years, after the International Criminal Court upheld his acquittal for his role in the violence committed in the aftermath of the 2010 presidential elections earlier this year. The government of current president Alassane Ouattara supported his return as necessary for reconciliation, but did not comment if he will be imprisoned for misappropriating funds from a regional bank, for which he was sentenced to 20 years in prison in November 2019. (Al Jazeera) Canada MPs in the House of Commons votes to censure Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan over his handling of sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces. (Global News) Science and technology China launches the Shenzhou 12 spacecraft carrying three astronauts on the first flight to the Tianhe core module. (El País) French scientists announce in a Current Biology paper that coelacanths are capable of living up to 100 years, contrary to the long-held belief that they only live up to 20 years. (The Guardian)

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RD: Shaman Mithru

Article: Shaman Mithru (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): India Today
Credits:

• Nominated by AllegedlyHuman (talk · give credit)
• Created by Neutral Fan (talk · give credit)

Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Indian cinematographer, COVID-19. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 23:14, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

RD: Alex Harvill

Article: Alex Harvill (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): CBS, CNN
Credits:

• Nominated by AllegedlyHuman (talk · give credit)
• Created by Gildir (talk · give credit)
• Updated by SlackingViceroy (talk · give credit)

Article updated
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Nominator's comments: American daredevil, died practicing a motorcycle stunt. 28. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 18:36, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

(Posted) RD: Leroy Jones

Article: Leroy Jones (American football) (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Norfolk State University, The Greenwood Commonwealth
Credits:

• Updated and nominated by Bagumba (talk · give credit)

Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Some borderline reliable blogs and social media posts reported earlier, but with no death date. It's now reliably sourced per June 17 sources. —Bagumba (talk) 01:06, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

• Support No apparent issues with article. --Masem (t) 01:10, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
• Posted --PFHLai (talk) 02:27, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

(Posted as blurb) RD/Blurb: Kenneth Kaunda

Article: Kenneth Kaunda (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination
Blurb: First President of Zambia Kenneth Kaunda (pictured) dies at the age of 97. (Post)
News source(s): BBC
Credits:

• Nominated by Alsoriano97 (talk · give credit)
• Updated by Strattonsmith (talk · give credit) and Amakuru (talk · give credit)

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Nominator's comments: 1st and long-time president of Zambia. His article needs a lot of work, so I will be working on it. Maybe he should be nominated for blurb? _-_Alsoriano97 (talk) 17:18, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

• Weak oppose Quality isn't great, with a few Citation Neededs, but I would support a blurb on notability as he was the first president of Zambia, although his term did end 30 years ago. Jackattack1597 (talk) 18:12, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support blurb on principle, oppose on quality Kaunda was a key figure in Zambian independence, the founding president of Zambia, president of Zambia for 27 years, and was the third secretary-general of the non-aligned movement. He checks all of the boxes for a blurbable politician. However, the article quality is not there yet. NorthernFalcon (talk) 21:10, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support RD only, oppose blurb This people from Zambia doesn't look enough to be posted as blurb given his little significance. 114.125.31.240 (talk) 21:19, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

  Really "little significance", just because you haven't heard of someone does not make them non-notable. Probably one of the most influential and earliest African leaders, it is surprising to know that he was still alive. Gotitbro (talk) 23:58, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

• Comments The cn tags need to be fixed, would clearly support on significance when done. Gotitbro (talk) 23:58, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support blurb pending improved referencing. Kenneth Kaunda was essentially the father of the modern nation of Zambia, and a very significant figure in African politics for many decades. He merits a full blurb rather than just a passing mention in RD. Kurtis ^(talk) 02:03, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose on quality The article needs improvement in referencing. Once fixed, I would support a blurb. --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 06:11, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose The article isn't in good shape. Hanamanteo (talk) 07:15, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support blurb in principle, oppose on quality significant sourcing improvements needed. If done, this looks blurb-worthy to me. Joseph2302 (talk) 10:42, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support blurb once article improved. A major figure in southern African politics during the transitional era from colonialism to independence, and beyond, and established Zambia as a nation.--Bcp67 (talk) 11:31, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support blurb if article is improved - Agree with other commenters. The article doesn't look to be in terrible shape but has numerous unsourced statements. The death of a person who was the first head of state of a country, particular one who has reached their late 90s, would seem like a notable enough event to warrant a blurb to me. HumanBodyPiloter5 (talk) 12:10, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
• Comment I removed a few old CN tags, but the autocracy section needs some work, as it has two CN tags and I'm having trouble finding reliable sources to support those paragraphs.Jackattack1597 (talk) 20:14, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
• No Blurb Died well past the age death becomes normal, of no interesting cause, was far from the top of his field and I'd bet nobody here could have put a face to that name until now. InedibleHulk (talk) 20:48, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose blurb per InedibleHulk.  – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 20:58, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
• RD only – Per previous two posts – altho I do vaguely recall the name, perhaps from the old Weekly Reader. – Sca (talk) 21:44, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

  That's why I changed my initial bet, had a hunch there'd be a reader in the house. InedibleHulk (talk) 21:50, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

I remember reading about plans for construction of Brasília in the WR, too. I was more interested in things like that than playing marbles in the mud. . – Sca (talk) 21:59, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Kust because you don't know his name or his picture is not recognizable to you, doesn't mean it's not important. Read Gotitbro and Kurtis' comments. _-_Alsoriano97 (talk) 22:08, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

I appreciate how he officially founded a modern state, but that modern state never broke into the Top 50, by any global indices I vaguely recall. Good people, surely. But a poor state. InedibleHulk (talk) 22:22, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

• Nom. comment There are currently a maximum of three of us who are trying to improve his article, but I think it is not enough, especially to prevent it from ending up as a stale as it's a pretty large one. So I encourage people to contribute. _-_Alsoriano97 (talk) 22:08, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support blurb when article is finalized. Per Jackattack1597 the autocracy section needs attention as some of it reads to me like OR hence no sources JW 1961 ^Talk 22:42, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support blurb once the article is improved. One of the most prominent African politicians of the 20th century and first head of state who remained in office for 27 years clearly deserves a blurb.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 22:59, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support blurb. Guidelines say one or two "citation needed" tags may not hold up an article, and recent editing efforts have brought it up to that standard. Moscow Mule (talk) 23:07, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support blurb Founding father of a nation and a longstanding head of government. Definitely needs a blurb. My opinion on quality is the same as above. --Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 02:46, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
• Comment There is an orange verification tag at the top of the page: Articles that are subject to serious issues, as indicated by 'orange'- or 'red'-level tags at either the article level or within any section, may not be accepted for an emboldened link. (WP:ITN)—Bagumba (talk) 06:23, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
• Comment (and support blurb) - I've added citations for most of the material that wasn't cited, and also removed some bits that were unencyclopedic, POV or seemed dubious per WP:BLP requirements. I think this is good to go now, but happy to hear of any other issues.  — Amakuru (talk) 09:13, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

• Support blurb now that it's well sourced. Joseph2302 (talk) 09:20, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

• @Amakuru: you did a great job. Thanks! _-_Alsoriano97 (talk) 10:02, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Thank you Amakuru, you saved the article from becoming stale.Jackattack1597 (talk) 12:13, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

• Posted. There is consensus for a blurb here. 331dot (talk) 09:44, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose I checked two sections: Economy and Education and both of them are trash. A copy/paste straight from Britannica, inflammatory words like "ineptness" and "disasters results". A dead link in the economic policies section renders it essentially unreferenced and I looked at page 900 of "Encyclopedia of the Developing World" and it doesn't mention anything that is attributed to it in the article. I mean, the Naftali Bennett posting highlighted that missing refs in BLPs actually doesn't matter: am I just wasting my time? --LaserLegs (talk) 17:17, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
  • If it is a copyvio, I'm not seeing it (this is a serious concern if it was). Using duplicate detector, I'm not seeing anything that looks obvious that would not be expected duplicated phrasing. ([6]) --Masem (t) 17:41, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
    • It was re-worded original. I'm not bothering with the rest, it's Saturday. --LaserLegs (talk) 19:20, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

(Closed) U.S. federal recognition of Juneteenth

Closing before this develops into another fatuous discussion. Consensus is clearly against posting.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 12:24, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Article: Juneteenth (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​President Biden signs into law recognition of Juneteenth, June 19, as a federal holiday. (Post)
News source(s): Deadline
Credits:

• Nominated by Masem (talk · give credit)

Nominator's comments: The bill has passed Congress, and Biden plans to sign it on 6/17 at 3:30pm ET, so this is preparatory ahead of that signing ceremony. As for why this is important, it is not just the US get an 11th federal holiday, but Juneteenth has been promoted as recognition of the end of slavery in the U.S. and general recognition of of the trials + tribulations of blacks and other minorities in the U.S. It has become more predominate in the wake of last years George Floyd protests. Masem (t) 04:29, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Would be nice if they also added Easter Monday or General Lee surrenders day or independence war starts day or ~Apr 15 tax in the Feb 15-21 to May 25-31 gap. And Random 2-Month Summer Gap Filler Day Observed. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 05:49, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

• Support - Long-awaited creation of a federal Emancipation Day in the US. I find it pure symbolism, but humanity loves their symbols. I prefer cymbals - Floydian ^τ _¢ 05:58, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose A lot of exposition, for which there isn't room on the Main Page, is going to be needed to show how this is ITN-worthy. At the end of the day, this is still just the US adding another public holiday (which doesn't even work the same as in many other countries, but I digress). It's not like this is the US government acknowledging slavery happened – obviously they have already. So, I'm not seeing this being particularly transformative at even a national level, and I can't imagine us posting a similar story for any other country. -- tariqabjotu 07:22, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose internal politics. I might change my mind if there are a lot of follow-up stories, but as of right now, this is completely overshadowed by the Geneva summit. Banedon (talk) 07:27, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support The most recently established federal holiday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983, so it's not that often that a new federal holiday is added. The Juneteenth bill can be seen as part of the aftermath of the George Floyd protests. Davey2116 (talk) 08:21, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Maybe not in the US, but once you broaden to every country in the world it really isn't that rare, e.g. in 2020 Iraq made Christmas a public holiday [7]. Banedon (talk) 09:10, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose per Banedon. We don't usually post internal politics of this nature.  — Amakuru (talk) 08:25, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose trivial and of practically zero encyclopedic value. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 08:27, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose whilst it's good that they've done it, this isn't ITN-worthy, as it's only a US Government policy. Joseph2302 (talk) 08:28, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose Pure symbolic and nothing of importance to the rest of the world. --Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 09:30, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose. Disagree that it has "zero encyclopedic value"(if so, it should be nominated for deletion) but the US can decide to have whatever holidays it wishes, just as any country can. 331dot (talk) 09:43, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

  I said "practically". Thanks for the advice though, really appreciate it. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 10:38, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose It recognized the Armenian genocide this past Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, too, symbolic moments happen. InedibleHulk (talk) 10:31, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Congress had already recognized the genocide; the president doing so had not happened before. 331dot (talk) 10:34, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Aye, and this time, they've all acknowledged slavery ended (though the trials and tribulations endure) many times each before. InedibleHulk (talk) 10:53, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose A country getting it's 11th official holiday is not in itself notable for this ostensibly international encyclopedia. As for the attrocity propaganda about slavery in the US, what happened there was no doubt tragic, but that happened in a single country to a fairly small number of people compared to the population of the world. Morepower, their "trials and tributations" have been nothing compared to what most people across most countries of the world had suffered in the past few centuries so that's not notable either, in my opinion. Cheers. 212.74.201.238 (talk) 11:24, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose This holiday is unknown outside other English-speaking countries. 114.125.29.40 (talk) 12:00, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

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(Posted) Shenzhou 12

Article: Shenzhou 12 (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​China has launched three astronauts into orbit to begin occupation of the country's new space station. (Post)
Alternative blurb: ​Shenzhou 12 launches with three Taikonauts and carries the first crew to dock at the Tiangong space station.
News source(s): BBC, AP, Guardian, dpa
Credits:

• Nominated by Sherenk1 (talk · give credit)
• Created by Toby6250 (talk · give credit)
• Updated by STSC (talk · give credit)

Article updated
The nominated event is listed on WP:ITN/R, so each occurrence is presumed to be important enough to post. Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article and update meet WP:ITNCRIT, not the significance.

Nominator's comments: China's longest crewed space mission to date and the first in nearly five years. Sherenk1 (talk) 03:46, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

• Support altblurb Article has been improved from stub. Also successful 1st docking with space station. Albertaont (talk) 05:23, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
• Note - changed to ITNR. -- KTC (talk) 08:04, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose on quality article is just under 1,500 characters, way too short for ITN. Joseph2302 (talk) 08:30, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
• The altblurb should be posted, but the article currently has just two sentences about what actually happened. Needs a bit of expansion before being featured on the MP. There are plenty of sources that could be used to do so. Modest Genius ^talk 12:32, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Just a bit? Article is barely over 200 words – more or less a stub. – Sca (talk) 12:47, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

That's my stereotypical British understatement. Modest Genius ^talk 13:09, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

You're so modest. – Sca (talk) 13:19, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

But not a genius. Modest Genius ^talk 10:34, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

And I thought you were a genus by yourself. – Sca (talk) 18:55, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

• Support ― The article has been updated and is OK now. STSC (talk) 18:51, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
• Posted Stephen 01:00, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
• Post-posting-oppose it's still only 1700 characters- about 2 sentences have been added since all the opposes. This is not good enough article quality for ITN. Joseph2302 (talk) 10:40, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Translation: 330 words. – Sca (talk) 18:52, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

• Pull I didn't even bother opposing earlier because it would have been a pile-on with an article so far away from being ready. We get one support and it's posted? GreatCaesarsGhost 15:46, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
  • There are 2 supports, 3 counting the OP. But we already knew that. Albertaont (talk) 20:08, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
• Pulled The consensus here is that this is not ready. If it is expanded sufficiently the outcome may changes. Jehochman ^Talk 17:17, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
• Comment Guess I should go pull up all the sport articles, RDs, and space mission arrivals that only got posted with a single sentence update. - Floydian ^τ _¢ 19:00, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
  • If the news event was about a change to a long-standing thing or person or whatever (such as recent death, most commonly), we only need a single sentence. Of course this is a case-by-case basis - eg the blocking of the Suez Canal would not have gone up on a single sentence update. For something "new" on the other hand, we do expect a much larger expansion. --Masem (t) 19:04, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
    • But it is. The item of interest is the Tiangong space station and how it's finally fulfilling its function, not the spacecraft that ferried the crew up to it. ApLundell (talk) 20:02, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

For comparison, here is the state SpaceX Crew-1 was in, when it went on the main page. To my eyes it looks roughly equivalent. (In both cases, the meat of the information is not in the article for that individual vehicle. It's in the article for the program as a whole.) ApLundell (talk) 20:02, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Doing page size counts, that diff for the Crew-1 gets me 9000+ bytes of readable prose, while the current article for Shenzhou 12 is only 4100 bytes. It's definitely still on the short side. --Masem (t) 01:29, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Granted, the "article for the program as a whole" in this case is very bad, and wouldn't get anywhere near the Front Page as a bold link. Whereas the same for Crew-1 is a very good article. There's also no indication in the proposed bold link that is supposed to direct a naïve reader to this supposed article with "the meat of the information", either in this one or in the Crew-I article.130.233.213.61 (talk) 05:50, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

• Re-post — Overall the article meets the minimum standard of quality as per WP:ITNCRIT. - STSC (talk) 14:42, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
• Comment — I have now added three new sections of content to the article. STSC (talk) 03:19, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
• Re-post — per STSC, who has done good work expanding the article. Objections on length shold be discounted by admins considering a repost. Jusdafax (talk) 03:59, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
• Re-port Diff since the pull shows the changes. I think this could go back up.130.233.213.61 (talk) 05:50, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
• Re-posted Stephen 06:10, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

June 16

Portal:Current events/2021 June 16

Current events of June 16, 2021 (2021-06-16) (Wednesday) Armed conflicts and attacks 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis The Israel Defense Forces carry out airstrikes on Khan Yunis and Gaza City in the Gaza Strip in the early morning, in response to incendiary balloons being flown from Gaza, putting the ceasefire in jeopardy. This comes after the Dance of Flags march was held in East Jerusalem. (Middle East Eye) (Times of Israel) Mediators renew their push for another ceasefire between Israel and Hamas following the airstrikes. (The New York Times) Arts and culture Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the arts and cultural heritage The Taj Mahal reopens to tourists after a two-month closure due to the second wave of the pandemic in India. (Hindustan Times) The United States House of Representatives votes 415–14 to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. This comes after the United States Senate voted unanimously to pass the same bill yesterday. The legislation will now head to U.S. President Joe Biden for his signature. (NBC News) Health and environment COVID-19 pandemic COVID-19 pandemic in Europe COVID-19 pandemic in Andorra The Andorran government lifts the obligation to wear masks outdoors, at work meetings and with people who are immunized. (Diari d'Andorra) COVID-19 pandemic in North Macedonia North Macedonia lifts their nighttime curfew and allows outdoor organized events, weddings and concerts to be held at 50% capacity. The government also lifts working hour restrictions on the hospitality sector, betting shops, gas stations, and casinos. (Xinhuanet) COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom The United Kingdom reports 9,055 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, which is the highest single-day total since February 25. (Sky News) COVID-19 pandemic in Asia COVID-19 pandemic in Cambodia Cambodia surpasses 40,000 cases of COVID-19. (Khmer Times) COVID-19 pandemic in Maldives Maldives surpasses 200 deaths from COVID-19. (Raajje) COVID-19 pandemic in Mongolia Mongolia reports a record 2,395 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 83,128. (AKI Press) COVID-19 pandemic in the United States COVID-19 vaccination in the United States The United States government purchases 200 million doses of the vaccine produced by Moderna. (U.S. News & World Report) COVID-19 pandemic in Florida Royal Caribbean International announces that it is delaying the inaugural sailing of their brand-new Odyssey of the Seas cruise liner from Fort Lauderdale to July 31 after eight crew members tested positive for COVID-19. (Reuters) COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa South Africa restricts gatherings to 50 people for indoor social and religious events and 100 people for outdoor events, and also extends their curfew from 10:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. and restrict the sale of alcohol to Monday to Thursday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. amid an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. (Al Jazeera) Botswanan mining company Debswana presents a 1,098-carat diamond discovered on June 1 to President Mokgweetsi Masisi. The company claims that it is the third-largest diamond ever discovered. (The Guardian) International relations 2021 Russia–United States summit, Russia–United States relations U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a summit meeting in Geneva. (CBS News) German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer withdraws a platoon from a NATO mission in Lithuania. The withdrawal follows a report from Der Spiegel on Monday stating that the platoon's members engaged in misconduct, including bullying, filming a sexual assault against another soldier, and singing antisemitic songs to mark the birthday of dictator Adolf Hitler. (BBC) The Ethiopian Foreign Ministry rejects an Arab League resolution calling for the UN Security Council to intervene in the dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on behalf of Egypt and Sudan. (Al Jazeera) Law and crime Fatou Bensouda steps down as Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, a position she has held since 2012. She is succeeded by Karim Ahmad Khan. (The Jerusalem Post) At least sixty Berlin police officers are injured after squatters in a Friedrichshain building attacked them with stones while conducting a fire inspection. (BBC)

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(New) RD: Jabu Mabuza

Article: Jabu Mabuza (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): eNCA, Fin24
Credits:

• Nominated by AllegedlyHuman (talk · give credit)
• Updated by Zaian (talk · give credit) and Inter&anthro (talk · give credit)

Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with their own Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.

Nominator's comments: South African businessman, COVID-19. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 23:24, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

(New) RD: John Osmers

Article: John Osmers (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Dominion Post
Credits:

• Nominated by AllegedlyHuman (talk · give credit)
• Updated by Paora (talk · give credit) and Waynejayes (talk · give credit)

Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with their own Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.

Nominator's comments: Anglican bishop in Zambia. COVID-19. Needs a few more sources but looks close. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 23:19, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

(New) RD: Vance Trimble

Article: Vance Trimble (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The Washington Post; WCPO-TV (ABC); Northern Kentucky Tribune
Credits:

• Updated and nominated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)

Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with their own Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.

 Bloom6132 (talk) 20:41, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

RD: K. S. Nijhar

Article: K. S. Nijhar (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): (The Star)
Credits:

• Nominated by PFHLai (talk · give credit)
• Updated by Riccckyyy (talk · give credit) and Lim Zhi Hang (talk · give credit)

Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with their own Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.

Nominator's comments: Malaysian politician, MP for Subang PFHLai (talk) 06:24, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

• Support Sufficient length and citations. Joofjoof (talk) 02:12, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

(Needs Attention) RD: Richard Stolley

Article: Richard Stolley (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The Washington Post; People
Credits:

• Updated and nominated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)

Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with their own Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.

 Bloom6132 (talk) 21:34, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

• Support The first citation carries some weight and is probably not completely neutral. However, I don't think the facts it supports are likely to be disputed. Marking this Needs Attention due to age. GreatCaesarsGhost 01:00, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

RD: Frank Bonner

Article: Frank Bonner (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): NYT
Credits:

• Nominated by AllegedlyHuman (talk · give credit)
• Updated by 842U (talk · give credit) and 1980fast (talk · give credit)

Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with their own Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.

Nominator's comments: Actor best known for playing Herb Tarlek on WKRP in Cincinnati. Typical actor issues: unsourced filmography, some cns throughout, but nevertheless pretty close to RD shape. Some help would be appreciated. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 19:24, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

(Posted) RD: Janet Malcolm

Article: Janet Malcolm (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): NYT
Credits:

• Updated and nominated by Innisfree987 (talk · give credit)

Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with their own Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.

Nominator's comments: Long-time The New Yorker writer. Needs a few citations but shouldn’t take long. Innisfree987 (talk) 16:54, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

• Referenced and moderately expanded. Innisfree987 (talk) 00:59, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

  Innisfree987, Works section needs refs. SirEdimon ^Dimmi!!! 02:45, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

  SirEdimon, may I ask for clarification—what sort of reference? The bulk of my WP work is about writers and typically the books themselves are the reference. Is it that you want them laid out in {{cite book...}} format? Innisfree987 (talk) 02:55, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

  Innisfree987, Normally, including the ISBN is enough to "prove" that the book was really written by the person. SirEdimon ^Dimmi!!! 03:57, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

  SirEdimon, gotcha—thanks, they’re all there now. Innisfree987 (talk) 04:44, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

• Posted --PFHLai (talk) 06:19, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

June 15

Portal:Current events/2021 June 15

Current events of June 15, 2021 (2021-06-15) (Tuesday) Armed conflicts and attacks Somali Civil War June 2021 Mogadishu bombing A suicide bomber detonates his explosives at a military camp in Mogadishu where new recruits were queueing outside the camp, killing 15 people and injuring many others. This is the deadliest attack in Mogadishu since December 2019. (Al Jazeera English) 2021 Myanmar protests The anti-coup militia group Karenni National Defence Force announces that it has stopped its operations against the Burmese military following pleas by civilians residing in the areas they operate in, which have seen 100,000 civilians displaced. The group says that it will continue its opposition to the military junta through other means. Additionally, deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi appears in court for the second day, and was reported to be in "better condition". (Reuters) Colombian conflict 36 people are injured in a car bomb attack on a U.S. military base in Colombia. The Colombian government suspects possible self-attribution for the attack to the National Liberation Army. (Reuters) Business and economy Australia–United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement The British government announces that a free trade agreement has been reached between Australia and the United Kingdom. (BBC News) Censorship in India, Violence against Muslims in India The Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology strips Twitter of legal protection from prosecution after the social media site refuses to take down a tweet featuring a video of an elderly Muslim man in Ghaziabad being assaulted by a Hindu mob and being forced to chant "Jai Shri Ram". Uttar Pradesh police, who demanded the removal of the tweet, alleges the video was "misleading". (NDTV) Health and environment COVID-19 pandemic COVID-19 pandemic in Asia COVID-19 pandemic in Israel Israel lifts its indoor face mask requirement for those except unvaccinated people in healthcare facilities, airplane passengers, and people who must quarantine as the number of new cases continues to decline. (Ynetnews) (The Times of Israel) COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia, COVID-19 vaccination in Malaysia The Malaysian Drug Control Authority grants a conditional approval for emergency use of the CanSino Convidecia and Johnson & Johnson vaccines. The authorities also approve the use of the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine for people over the age of 12. (The Star) COVID-19 pandemic in Oman The Omani Health Ministry reports that the black fungus infection was detected in three patients. (Al Jazeera English) COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand Thailand surpasses 200,000 cases of COVID-19. (Bangkok Post) COVID-19 pandemic in Europe COVID-19 pandemic in France, COVID-19 vaccination in France France begins to vaccinate children between the ages of 12 and 18 years old using special child-sized needles in order to achieve herd immunity and reduce the spread of variants of COVID-19. The age eligibility of 12 years is one of the lowest of any European Union nation. (The Independent) COVID-19 pandemic in Slovenia Slovenia declares the end of its eight-month state of emergency, which means that cultural and sports events will be able to reopen at 75% capacity for people who can demonstrate that they have either been vaccinated, tested negative or have recovered from COVID-19. (U.S. News & World Report) COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey Turkey administers a single-day record of 1.4 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines. (Anadolu Agency) COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador Ecuador's health regulatory authority Arcsa approves the usage of the CanSino Convidecia vaccine. (Reuters) COVID-19 pandemic in the United States The United States surpasses 600,000 deaths from COVID-19, even as daily deaths are reported to be decreasing. (Voice of America) (Associated Press) International relations Cross-Strait relations The Taiwanese Defense Ministry reports that 28 Chinese air force planes, including four H-6 bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons, entered Taiwan's air defense identification zone and flew close to the southern tip of the main island and around the Pratas Islands. This is China's largest incursion since Taiwan began monitoring such activities last year. (Reuters) Armenia–Turkey relations, Azerbaijan–Turkey relations Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announces that Turkey will open a consulate in Shusha, a Nagorno-Karabakh city captured by Azerbaijan during last year's war, and that he will look to co-produce military drones with Azerbaijan. Both announcements followed his tour of the contested region with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev the same day. The Armenian Foreign Ministry condemns the visit as a provocation. (Al-Monitor) Law and crime 2020–2021 United States racial unrest, Winston Boogie Smith protests, Killing of Deona Knajdek Heavily-armed police officers in Minneapolis begin clearing an intersection of Lake Street and Hennepin Avenue in Uptown neighborhood which had been the site of protests since June 3, when Winston Boogie Smith was killed by law enforcement. Tensions escalated dramatically since the death of protester Deona Knajdek when she was killed when a speeding car rammed into her car, which she was using to protect protesters. (WCCO-TV) 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis Seventeen Palestinians are arrested and 33 more are injured after Israeli police fire tear gas and rubber bullets at Palestinians protesting at the Damascus Gate over the procession of a march called Dance of Flags through Jerusalem's Old City. (Al Jazeera English) LGBT rights in Hungary The Hungarian National Assembly passes a law banning content depicting or promoting same-sex relationships and gender reassignment to anyone under the age of 18. 157 MPs voted in favor, with all opposition parties except the far-right Jobbik boycotting the vote. (Euronews) A French court issues the French subsidiary of the Dutch multinational conglomerate IKEA a €1 million (US$1.2 million) fine for conducting illegal employee monitoring activities on its employees and applicants between 2009 and 2012. Its former chief executive officer is also given a two-year prison sentence. (RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg) Politics and elections 2021 Peruvian general election Pedro Castillo of the left-wing Free Peru party claims victory in the presidential election, with the final tally putting him 44,058 votes ahead of his rival Keiko Fujimori of the right-wing Popular Force party. (Reuters) Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison denies reports by the Australian Broadcasting Company's Four Corners program that his close friend Tim Stewart, who was referred to the national terror hotline by his own family for his extreme far-right political views, influenced his decision to mention "ritual abuse" in a speech regarding child sexual abuse earlier this year, in line with the QAnon conspiracy theory. (News) Canadian Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff Michael Rouleau resigns following criticisms of him playing golf with former General Jonathan Vance, who is accused of sexual misconduct. (BBC News) Sports UEFA Euro 2020 Portuguese football player Cristiano Ronaldo becomes the highest-scoring player in the history of the UEFA European Championship, when he scored his 10th and 11th goals in a match against Hungary. He also becomes the first player to score in five different tournaments. (ESPN)

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(Attention needed) RD: Jack B. Weinstein

Article: Jack B. Weinstein (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): NYT
Credits:

• Nominated by AllegedlyHuman (talk · give credit)
• Updated by All Hallow's Wraith (talk · give credit) and Valentinejoesmith (talk · give credit)

Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with their own Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.

Nominator's comments: Longtime American judge from New York. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 19:47, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

• Support. The quality is reasonable, although it could certainly use a clean-up... —Brigade Piron (talk) 20:38, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
• Comment: Needs footnotes/refs for his various positions earlier in his career and for his listed publications. --PFHLai (talk) 01:05, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

(Posted) RD: Thomas B. Day

Article: Thomas B. Day (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The San Diego Union-Tribune; San Diego State University
Credits:

• Updated and nominated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)

Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with their own Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.

 Bloom6132 (talk) 06:57, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

• Support - Well-sourced article.--SirEdimon ^Dimmi!!! 02:46, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
• Comment: The Career section appears to be incomplete. The first paragraph ends with him becoming the President of San Diego State in 1978. The second paragraph starts with his unpopular budget cuts in 1992 and he left for health reasons soon after. What happened in between? Any accomplishments during his 18 years as President? New student programs? Growth of funding for scholarly research? Campus expansions? Having campus facilities named after him? The current coverage on his career, with successes missing, seems a bit too negative. -PFHLai (talk) 05:13, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

• @PFHLai: done. —Bloom6132 (talk) 09:08, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

• Posted Thanks for the quick expansion. --PFHLai (talk) 12:02, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

(Closed) Ongoing: Israel–Palestine crisis

No consensus to post. Stephen 00:45, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Article: 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis (talk · history · tag)
Ongoing item nomination (Post)
News source(s): NYT, CNN, AP, BBC, Guardian
Credits:

• Nominated by Davey2116 (talk · give credit)

Article updated

Nominator's comments: The ceasefire has been broken (which is itself big news) and things can escalate even more from here. Davey2116 (talk) 03:15, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

• Comment Describing this definitively as a continuation of the same event seems like WP:OR. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 03:58, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

• I second this. It is equivalent to someone nominating Korean War for ongoing after a shootout occured in the borders.--Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 09:49, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose The only updates that I can find are 1 sentence in the lede and a new date entry in the infobox. Let's give is a few days and some more update before we put this back in.130.233.213.61 (talk) 05:03, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
• Wait I had a feeling someone was going to nominate this immediately. There is no reason to be hasty, let's wait to see if anything escalates further. A single attack from both sides doesn't mean much. Mlb96 (talk) 06:51, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
• Comment We can post the ceasefire violation as a blurb for the moment and then decide on ongoing when it rolls off. Brandmeister^talk 06:55, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
• 'Wait. I would think that they are probably testing new PM Bennett. Wait and see what happens. 331dot (talk) 07:18, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
• Comment – In context of recent past, a mere skirmish. – Sca (talk) 12:24, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
• Wait One incident does not make for a need for ongoing yet. --Masem (t) 13:01, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose I might support the ceasefire violation as a normal item, but I don't support return to ongoing yet.Jackattack1597 (talk) 15:11, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support in principle, wait for now Ceasefire should stay as normal item for now, if it's agreed upon; If it gets place on the normal news, if it gets bumped off, then that's when we should add the crisis to Ongoing. Fakescientist8000 (talk) 15:28, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
• Wait If there is a re-escalation, makes sense to reblurb first. Albertaont (talk) 03:35, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

(Posted) RD: William vanden Heuvel

Article: William vanden Heuvel (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The New York Times
Credits:

• Updated and nominated by Bloom6132 (talk · give credit)

Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with their own Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNRD.

 Bloom6132 (talk) 01:22, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

• Support looks a decent article, it could use a reference in the first sentence of the Career section JW 1961 ^Talk 21:36, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

• @Joseywales1961: added a ref. Thanks for spotting that – completely forgot about it. —Bloom6132 (talk) 23:16, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

• Posted Stephen 00:56, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

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