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February 28

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February 28, 2023 (2023-02-28) (Tuesday)

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RD: Pelayo Novo

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Article: Pelayo Novo (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Goal.com
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Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Spanish second division footballer dead at 32, paralysed in fall in 2018 and retrained as a wheelchair tennis player. English coverage is mainly tabloid as the subject was not known outside his country, but Spanish broadsheets prove he is deceased. [1] 84.69.107.20 (talk) 17:16, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) 2023 Thessaly train collision

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Article: 2023 Thessaly train collision (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ At least 36 dead after a train crash in Thessaly, Greece. (Post)
Alternative blurb: ​ A train crash in Thessaly, Greece, kills at least 36 people.
News source(s): https://bnonews.com/index.php/2023/02/2-trains-collide-in-northern-greece-29-dead/
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Nominator's comments: Seems to be a deadly enough train crash to post on ITN. according to BNO, this is Greece's deadliest train crash since 1968. Onegreatjoke (talk) 02:28, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Death toll has risen from 29 to 32 so I've updated the blurb accordingly. Onegreatjoke (talk) 04:49, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support - expanded, I've seen articles linked on the main page that were shorter. Crusader1096 (message) 06:30, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This crash is significantly more notable than the one in Ohio, because this one killed over 40 people. The Ohio derailment caused major contamination & killed animals, but didn't kill any people. Jim Michael 2 (talk) 19:42, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Environmental disasters and long term risks to local residents near the Ohio derailment are as serious as simple death toll numbers. Not that this Greece derailment should not have been posted, but the reasons to post both derailment are for very different but serious reasons (there have been three smaller, and far less dangerous derailment in the YS in the last month, but none has any death toll now created an immediate environmental hazards, so properly those went posted.) Masem (t) 14:17, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The Ohio derailment initially received less media attention than this derailment, which was why it was a strange case for ITN. Blaylockjam10 (talk) 19:32, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Ricou Browning

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Article: Ricou Browning (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Bloody Disgusting, The Hollywood Reporter
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Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: American film director, screenwriter, underwater cinematographer, and stuntman. Best known for playing the Gill-man in the underwater scenes in Creature from the Black Lagoon, as well as for co-creating Flipper. He was considered the last surviving Universal Monster actor for some time. —Matthew  / (talk) 21:17, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Picture The picture is really outstanding and worth using, please, as I suppose that few will recognise the subject's name. Note that the current picture of the Brazilian landslide has been up for over a week now and so is very stale. That picture is also quite confusing now that the blurb is buried in the middle and we're leading with a different disaster. Readers may think that it's a picture of the train crash.
Note also that the filmography is fully cited for once.
Andrew🐉(talk) 09:47, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Andrew please... _-_Alsor (talk) 10:12, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Andrew, please stop doing this. You have been told, multiple times by multiple people that your behaviour is disruptive. If you don't voluntarily stop it you will find yourself topic banned - consider this a final warning. Thryduulf (talk) 13:41, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not the biggest fan of @Andrew Davidson photo RD fetish, but to threaten a topic ban just because a handful of all the participants in ITN/C (you, @The Kip, @Alsoriano97), is foolish as hell. I don't like the idea of photo RDs, but can we please stop overreacting over something that hasn't even been definitively defined in the ITN guidlines? Kip's attempt to characterize Andrew's post as condescending is basically the 2023 iteration of the time in 2017 when a photo RD was published and was taken down because a minority of two users complained with such brilliant arguments as This discussion is an embarrassment to Wikipedia, I think you've gone crazy, you guys appear to have been out of control, and I found three or four people who appeared to be going rogue. Chill. Crusader1096 (message) 17:54, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I don’t have time at the moment to dig up further examples, but this goes far deeper than just photo RDs; Andrew has consistently been a disruptive presence at ITN for quite a while now due to a significant history of generally complaining about the way ITN is run, yet never attempting to gather consensus for change. The Kip (talk) 18:00, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Crusader1096 a topic ban for just the last few posts about photo RDs would indeed be grossly disproportionate, but Andrew has been disrupting ITN and talk for literally years. Thryduulf (talk) 19:56, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Andrew with a disruptive and condescending edit? Imagine my shock. The Kip (talk) 17:34, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Irving Wardle

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Article: Irving Wardle (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The Guardian
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Article updated
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Nominator's comments: British theatre critic. Died on the 23rd, does not seem to have been reported anywhere until today. Sunshineisles2 (talk) 20:46, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Closed) Erythritol use linked to blood clotting, stroke, heart attack and death

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Consensus to post is unlikely to develop.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 14:30, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Article: Erythritol (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ Consumption of erythritol, a widely used zero-calorie sweetener, causes hyper activation of blood platelets, increasing the risk of heart attacks and strokes (Post)
News source(s): CNN
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Article updated
 Count Iblis (talk) 13:10, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose I am 99% sure that at least once a week, if not more frequent, there is news of a consumer-available product that reports on its bad effects. This is but just one of them. Tell us when dihydrogen monoxide is determined to be fatally toxic and that might be something. --Masem (t) 13:17, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    New Study finds sustained oxygen breathing for 90 years on average correlates to death PrecariousWorlds (talk) 13:46, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose this is not ITN-worthy, for that this is not news, also, some report comes out like this basically every week. Editor 5426387 (talk) 13:19, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Interesting, sure, but not significant or unique enough for ITN. Courcelles (talk) 13:43, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Good faith nom, but oppose per @Masem PrecariousWorlds (talk) 13:47, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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February 27

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February 27, 2023 (2023-02-27) (Monday)

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(Posted) RD: Maon Kurosaki

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Article: Maon Kurosaki (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): [2], [3]
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Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Japanese singer who mostly performed for anime series. Died on February 16 but death was only announced today (February 28). Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:39, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Albie Pearson

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Article: Albie Pearson (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): [4]
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Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Death announced on Feb 27 – Muboshgu (talk) 05:25, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Li Yining

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Article: Li Yining (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): China Daily
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Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Chinese economist. - Indefensible (talk) 18:25, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Closed) EU / UK trade deal for NI

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Consensus to post will not develop at this time. I suggest considering renominating the item if and when this agreement is ratified. Sandstein 19:19, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Articles: Windsor Framework (talk · history · tag) and Northern Ireland Protocol (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ A new framework is agreed for the Northern Ireland Protocol between the EU and UK. (Post)
News source(s): NYT; BBC; Euronews
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Article updated
Nominator's comments: Lots of meetings and announcements by Rishi Sunak, King Charles, Ursula von der Leyen and so on. The details and articles may need more work but it seems that it's a done deal. As the location and title of the relevant articles is not obvious, ITN can assist navigation. Andrew🐉(talk) 17:45, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support - In The News, with plenty of coverage. Major deal on the future of two great powers. Unique story as well, to diversify our range. Looks good. PrecariousWorlds (talk) 18:13, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose solely due to the fact that it ain't in stone yet. Crusader1096 (message) 01:15, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support on Merit, Oppose on quality an event like this would be important, because this is a deal that resolved many tension between the U.K and the E.U, but the quality of the article is poor, and this is not yet official yet, so also Wait. Editor 5426387 (talk) 13:21, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wait News coverage is showing that this is a significant enough story to expect it on ITN, but I agree that the ratification of the agreement is the best time to post. It will also give the article more time to develop. --Jayron32 13:49, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wait Significant for Brexit, the kinks of the agreement finally being worked out, but probably should be ratified before going on ITN, as said by many before. TheBlueSkyClub (talk) 16:17, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support in principle. This is essentially undoing the effects of Brexit on trade with Northern Ireland. There's plenty of media coverage, in multiple nations. The article is quite bare bones - it meets our minimum requirements but I would like to see more on the background and content of the agreement. It also doesn't mention the other issues that have been held up by this, such as membership of Horizon Europe. I'm happy with either posting now or waiting until it has been approved by parliament - it's seems highly unlikely to be rejected, given that both Tory and Labour parties will be whipping to support it (Stormont has suspended itself, so doesn't get a say). But perhaps that time could be spent on improving the article. Modest Genius talk 17:14, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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(Closed) Re-Add the Mahsa Amini protests to the ongoing section

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WP:NAC - consensus is clearly against posting this in the Ongoing section again. Modest Genius talk 18:09, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Article: Mahsa Amini protests (talk · history · tag)
Ongoing item nomination (Post)
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Nominator's comments: As I saw on the Wikipedia article, it seems to still be going on, so the article is contradicting the main page. I'm not sure if this is on purpose so I'm just pointing it out. Palmtreegames
  • Oppose. There hasn't been updates since the first days of February. Even though it is ongoing, there has not been signficant updates to the protests for the past few days, or weeks. Tails Wx 16:13, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. There has only been one prominent protest in the last 40 days. If a 'second wave' of protest happens, we can consider putting this back up, but right now it appears the movement has been mostly surpressed by Iran. PrecariousWorlds (talk) 16:16, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Giving a quick read through the article, it's still not good enough to go on. At the moment, the last update on new events relating to the protests came in late January, and the month of February is mentioned only once in the article, right at the beginning, with no updates on what has happened in February. It was originally taken off because of a lack of recent updates, and that's still something that affects the article right now, sadly. TheBlueSkyClub (talk) 16:15, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose No recent substantial updates to the article. The Kip (talk) 19:06, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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(Posted) RD: Betty Boothroyd

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Article: Betty Boothroyd (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): BBC Sky News
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Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: First female Speaker of the House of Commons.  The C of E God Save the King! (talk) 12:33, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support seems like a proper RD candidate, basically, per below. Editor 5426387 (talk) 13:51, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support Can't see any super obvious reason to say something against it. Seems like a some easy RD candidate, hopefully. TheCorriynial (talk) 13:03, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

 
Seven days and counting. It's a landslide!
  • Your insinuations that other people are misogynistic because they don't follow your orders are inappropriate, and your daily and continuous drumbeat of casting aspersions against all people who do not think identically to you is growing wearisome to the point of being disruptive to the proper running of this board. This kind of poisoning the well needs to stop. Not everyone who disagrees with you is doing so because they are bigots, as you seem to be implying here. --Jayron32 14:19, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support RD, oppose Blurb. Per Alsor. As for Andrew's comment on 'snubbing successful women', in case of Jacinda and Nicola, both were resigning. As far as I can remember, we didn't run a blurb when BoJo stepped down, but we did run one when Truss took office. A PM (or lower post in Sturgeon's case) resigning is news, but not ITN worthy, successor taking office is (for PM, not a lower post). --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 14:53, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support RD. Oppose picture and blurb. Article quality is good enough for RD but she wasn't transformative enough for a blurb. For reasons repeatedly explained to Andrew, photo RDs are not and should not be a thing (and gender is irrelevant to all of this). Awkward42 (talk) [the alternate account of Thryduulf (talk)] 15:14, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support RD Definitely up there, pioneering woman in the political field of the UK. (I'll never forget the time she kicked William Ulsterman out of the Commons for his getting haughty over cheddar cheese and pineapple on a stick being unavailable.)--SinoDevonian (talk) 15:19, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Not opposed to images for RD entirely, but I think the precedent has moved away from that (can someone please remind me the last time it happened). I would not have been opposed to a blurb either, but we haven't blurbed speakers and moving away from that opens a new floodgate that should be best avoided. Gotitbro (talk) 15:35, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    @Gotitbro A photo RD has happened a couple of times, but always boldly and usually (if not always) removed fairly quickly. Discussions on the talk page about photos with RD have never reached a favourable consensus. Thryduulf (talk) 19:39, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Posted RD. -- KTC (talk) 15:59, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Closed) New intelligence on COVID-19 cause

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Clear consensus not to post. --Tone 15:34, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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The Wuhan Institute of Virology near the site of the first outbreak
Article: COVID-19 lab leak theory (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ The United States Department of Energy uses new intelligence to conclude that the COVID-19 pandemic was likely caused by a laboratory leak. (Post)
News source(s): NYT; Al Jazeera; South China Morning Post; Guardian.
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Article updated
Nominator's comments: This topic has always been a peculiar mix of blame game, politics and science but it's interesting that the story is still making headlines and that different US agencies have their own separate official positions. The late Paul Berg warned of the importance of such science so it's disturbing that it's taking so long to settle it. -Andrew🐉(talk) 09:10, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Reluctant oppose. Several issues with this: 1) as per sources, the report was made with "low confidence 2) per Guardian, the "updated findings run counter to reports by four other US intelligence agencies that concluded the epidemic started as the result of natural transmission from an infected animal" and "there are a “variety of views” within US intelligence agencies on the issue". 3) it's unclear why Department of Energy handles this rather than, for example, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or other relevant body. Brandmeistertalk 09:52, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I don't see how this is news worthy. It won't result in any policy change and its not the official position of the US government. I know this story is technically "in the news" but that has never been the criteria here. Aure entuluva (talk) 10:50, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Ascertaining the exact cause of the COVID-19 pandemic is a matter of science, not intelligence, so let's wait until a paper with more details on the transmission gets published in a reputable peer-reviewed journal. At this point, the intelligence report merely points out to something that was possible from the beginning with no further details.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 11:21, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Others have made good points, but this is a major development in a gigantic story. If it turns out that COVID-19, a virus that has killed millions, destabilised the fabric of 21st century society, and caused one of the largest economic crises in recent memory, was produced in a lab, that is HUGE news. I know it hasn't been confirmed, but major components of the United States government accusing a foreign adversary of creating this virus is definitely notable, especially with high tensions over Taiwan and the balloons. PrecariousWorlds (talk) 11:36, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Allegations of a "lab leak" and "created in a lab/created by the PRC" are entirely different things, even if this report was 100% accurate and trustworthy, it is most definitely not saying that COVID was "produced in a lab". Courcelles (talk) 15:33, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Something with "low confidence" (quote from the article) and which "White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan responded to the report saying there was still "no definitive answer" to the pandemic origins' question." seems like the blurb makes this out to be more significant than the actual information seems to do. --Jayron32 11:55, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Opposite Jesus Christ, no way. Let's not feed conspiracy theories with documents that are very no definitive. _-_Alsor (talk) 12:08, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong oppose "low confidence"... this doesn't seem definitive at all. MarioJump83 (talk) 13:16, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strongest possible oppose I warned the lab leak talk page about this report, which only is saying that the DOE believes the COVID to be from the lab, but this does not represent the full US Gov't stance on it. As such, it should not be considered anywhere close to news. --Masem (t) 13:17, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose There is no way this is serious, This is Wikipedia, not Conspiracy-pedia, and they aren't even sure of it! they even admitted it theselves - Low Confidence! This is also not ITN-Worthy because it has not been confirmed. Editor 5426387 (talk) 13:49, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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(Posted) RD: Chester Borrows

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Article: Chester Borrows (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): New Zealand Herald
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Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: New Zealand politician. - Indefensible (talk) 07:36, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

February 26

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February 26, 2023 (2023-02-26) (Sunday)

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(Posted) RD: Günther von Lojewski

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Article: Günther von Lojewski (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): FAZ
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Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Influential German journalist, head of SFB that reported the fall of the Berlin Wall. Article was an unreferenced stub. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:38, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Gleb Pavlovsky

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Article: Gleb Pavlovsky (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Washington Post
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Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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.

 Thriley (talk) 06:41, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) Italy migrant boat disaster

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Article: 2023 Calabria migrant boat disaster (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ At least 59 migrants are killed in a shipwreck off the coast of Calabria in Italy. (Post)
News source(s): The Guardian
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  — Amakuru (talk) 13:34, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - Tragedy, but death toll does not automatically warrant notability. PrecariousWorlds (talk) 16:59, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support per above Editor 5426387 (talk) 01:14, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

February 25

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February 25, 2023 (2023-02-25) (Saturday)

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RD: Victor Babiuc

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Article: Victor Babiuc (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Digi24 (Romanian)
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Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Romanian politician. - Indefensible (talk) 18:40, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: François Engongah Owono

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Article: François Engongah Owono (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Gabon Mail Infos (French)
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Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Gabonese politician. - Indefensible (talk) 18:31, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) 73rd Berlin International Film Festival

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Article: 73rd Berlin International Film Festival (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ On the Adamant wins the Golden Bear at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival. (Post)
Alternative blurb: ​ On the Adamant wins the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.
News source(s): https://variety.com/2023/film/festivals/berlin-film-festival-awards-updating-live-kristen-stewart-1235535656/
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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.

 BorgQueen (talk) 04:52, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Gordon Pinsent

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Article: Gordon Pinsent (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/gorden-pinsent-1.6760868
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Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Canadian actor, writer, director and singer, Order of Canada. Needs more citations. Flibirigit (talk) 13:11, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Mihai Șora

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Article: Mihai Șora (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Știrile Pro TV (Romanian)
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Nominator's comments: Romanian philosopher. - Indefensible (talk) 05:42, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Ali Yafie

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Article: Ali Yafie (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): https://www.beritasatu.com/nasional/1029702/kh-ali-yafie-berpulang
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Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Indonesian Sunni Muslim scholar. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 21:13, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

February 24

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February 24, 2023 (2023-02-24) (Friday)

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(Posted) RD: Edith Roger

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Article: Edith Roger (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): danseinfo.no
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Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Norwegian dancer, choreographer and stage director. Turned 100 in 2022. Several honorary awards. Oceanh (talk) 15:39, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Víctor Gómez Bergés

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Article: Víctor Gómez Bergés (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Hoy (Spanish)
Credits:

Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Dominican politician. - Indefensible (talk) 18:44, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Not yet ready Quite short; this reads more like a resume listing offices he's held than an encyclopedia article. Just a few sentences explaining things he may have done in these offices (particularly in parliament and as minister of FA) would be sufficient to making this holistic. The article is also pretty underlinked. Curbon7 (talk) 00:36, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Walter Mirisch

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Nominator's comments: American film producer. Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 06:21, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Felipe González González

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News source(s): Proceso (Spanish)
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Nominator's comments: Mexican politician. - Indefensible (talk) 05:46, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: James Abourezk

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Nominator's comments: Former US Senator. Curbon7 (talk) 03:53, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Bernard Ingham

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News source(s): BBC
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Nominator's comments: Article ok, but lead needs a bit more, and a few citations are also needed. SchroCat (talk) 23:02, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Needs work Lots of work. I just read the article, comparing it with the BBC and Guardian obituaries. It seems too recentist, giving undue weight to matters like the petty dispute with the neighbour and the Hillsborough matter while giving no attention to more significant issues in his career like the Falklands War. Andrew🐉(talk) 23:40, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

February 23

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Law and crime

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(Posted) RD: Roger Bonk

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News source(s): The Fresno Bee
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Nominator's comments: Died on February 13, appears to have been first reported on February 23. BeanieFan11 (talk) 18:40, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(posted) RD: John Olver

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News source(s): Boston Herald, CBS, Telegram, Washington Times
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Nominator's comments: American politician, rated Good Article. - Indefensible (talk) 06:18, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Closed) 2023 Wamena riot

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Closed, consensus to post not likely to form. Juxlos (talk) 11:05, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Article: 2023 Wamena riot (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ A riot in Wamena, Indonesia, kills around 10 people. (Post)
Alternative blurb: ​ Twelve people are killed in a riot in Wamena, Indonesia.
News source(s): [6]
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Nominator's comments: Admittedly this happened in the most riot-prone region in the country, but large-scale with large numbers of deaths are a bit uncommon. Information a bit limited due to remoteness of the region and limited international access. "Around 10" due to fatality reports varying between 9, 10, or 11. Figured will give ITN a shot, with just 1 new hook in the last week or so. Juxlos (talk) 10:50, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose My personal feelings aside, I don't think riots in Wamena should be blurbed for the ITN as the riots aren't significant in the wider scale of things. If the riots starting to continue further it will be put as an ongoing, but as it stands, it's unlikely. MarioJump83 (talk) 11:34, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support The most bloodshed in the Papua conflict in years. 10 civilians were killed, including 7 or 8 by their own government. That meets the merit of significance, in my view. Blurb needs work, though. Curbon7 (talk) 13:34, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per Curbon7. Long-term significance is not required for posting items to ITN, if we can demonstrate there is adequate short-term significance. I feel this counts as such due to the unusually high numbers of deaths. --⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 14:52, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I mean, we do have NOTNEWS and NEVENT that says we should not be covering topics that get only bursts of coverage in the news and no clear enduring/long-term coverage. It is not immediately clear if this will have that long tail, or if its part of a larger news topic (I don't see an obvious one here immediately, but discussing this riot in that context rather than a standalone would still make it a possible ITN event.) This idea would readily expand to how we usually treat US gun shootings or routine natural disasters in various parts of the world, for example. However, this is probably a discussion for WT:ITN, not in this blurb. Masem (t) 16:13, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Masem, I'm just going based off of what our current consensus seems to favor. And my understanding is that natural or man-made disasters that have a sufficient death toll usually get through without a problem, but then you have edge cases like this one where people ask "where's the long-term significance?" Not to be morbid, but if you compared such an event to elections or declarations of war, it's doubtful that a landslide has any claim at long-term significance whether it kills 1, 10, 100, or 500 people, so it's a bit ticky-tack to apply that evidently nebulous standard to one story and to not apply it to another.
    As far as WP:NOTNEWS goes, I've said before that this applies to the creation of stand-alone articles. If an article doesn't pass that muster, it should be deleted, and the question of nominating the article for ITN would thus be made moot. But until it is deleted, I think it's not a WP:NOTNEWS violation to post those events if it can be determined to be significant in some manner. ⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 18:14, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per MarioJump. I'm not sure if this meets our standard of significance. That said, the article quality is up to par. The Kip (talk) 15:29, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - Definitely meets the hypothetical WP:MINIMUMDEATHS and even aside from that, it is significant as a great escalation in the conflict as shown by Curbon7. I think that the blurb should give some context though. The ⬡ Bestagon T/C 15:56, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I’m not sure if we can call it a significant escalation without any longer-term significance. If this escalated into days of riots, sure, but if it’s an isolated incident (as it seems to be now) that doesn’t fit the definition. The Kip (talk) 16:42, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • support per curbon7, alt over initial nom. nableezy - 16:02, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per Mario. We should wait. _-_Alsor (talk) 16:05, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per Mario Ludicrous (talk) 16:10, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wait. The article doesn't even seem to have a good handle on how many people were killed. Looks like a lot of uncertainty. DarkSide830 (talk) 17:48, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support per @Curbon7 Crusader1096 (message) 01:25, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Per @MarioJump83. Also, death toll does not automatically mean notability. PrecariousWorlds (talk) 11:44, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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(Posted) RD: Thomas H. Lee (businessman)

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Article: Thomas H. Lee (businessman) (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): [7]
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Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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.

 – Muboshgu (talk) 05:22, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support Article appears to be very well-cited and holistic. Curbon7 (talk) 05:34, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose The article says "Lee was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound" but the corresponding citation says "The police spokesman did not confirm the man had died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, noting the cause of death would be for a medical examiner to determine." It's not enough to have citations. You have to accurately follow them. Andrew🐉(talk) 07:48, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It's a shame we don't all work on an encyclopedia that anyone can edit, or else maybe we'd be able to fix this problem. ⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 13:16, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Good catch, I hadn't seen that. Curbon7 (talk) 13:27, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I've edited this, all the source is able to fully justify is that he was found dead, not the cause. Courcelles (talk) 16:37, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed it does not say this any more. It did not when I nominated it, and we can semi-protect the article if unconfirmed BLP details are repeatedly reinserted. Please reexamine your vote Andrew Davidson. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:15, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The news sources do not seem to have much detail about this death. As it is somewhat suspicious and controversial, we should wait upon further investigation. There's no rush as we are not a newspaper. Andrew🐉(talk) 18:42, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
... which is why the article shouldn't state a cause of death at this point. But that does not mean the article shouldn't be posted. I don't understand that logic. Nor do I understand why you didn't remove it yourself when you saw it, instead leaving it in the article to comment on it here. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:48, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Also, didn't you complain that we didn't move fast enough to post something? Why the change in tack now? It reads as though you are complaining for the sake of complaining. ⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 19:21, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thomas Lee's death ruled a suicide by gunshot. (Not that we needed them to for ITN/RD.) So now that there's no reason to oppose this, Andrew Davidson, I presume you can strike your "oppose", even if you don't want to answer the question about why you saw a potential BLP violation and did not remove it yourself. – Muboshgu (talk) 16:28, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Donald Dillbeck

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Nominator's comments: He was killed by the state of Florida today. RockstoneSend me a message! 00:58, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Read on. "Where there are no appropriate existing articles, the criminal or victim in question should be the subject of a Wikipedia article only if one of the following applies:..." Andrew🐉(talk) 12:40, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • The article doesn't explain it because it's not an unusual delay. In Japan and the United States (the two developed liberal democracies that retain the death penalty), there's usually a significant delay between the crime and punishment, since even people sentenced to die are given strong due process rights. -- RockstoneSend me a message! 22:22, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: John Motson

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Article: John Motson (talk · history · tag)
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News source(s): BBC
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Nominator's comments: Article isn't in too bad a state, but does need some work on getting the sourcing up to spec. SchroCat (talk) 10:05, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support - article looks good Crusader1096 (message) 15:34, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Posted -- KTC (talk) 21:56, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

February 22

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(Posted) RD: Doug Fisher (American football)

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Article: Doug Fisher (American football) (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): San Diego Union-Tribune
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Nominator's comments: Died on February 12, first reported in the San Diego Union-Tribune on February 22. BeanieFan11 (talk) 21:31, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Salundik Gohong

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Article: Salundik Gohong (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): https://prokalteng.jawapos.com/prometro/pro-kalteng/23/02/2023/kabar-duka-mantan-wali-kota-palangka-raya-salundik-gohong-meninggal/
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Nominator's comments: Indonesian politician, former mayor. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 14:17, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Ahmed Qurei

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News source(s): Haaretz
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Nominator's comments: Former Prime Minister of Palestine. - Indefensible (talk) 06:53, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Tasuku Tsukada

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Article: Tasuku Tsukada (talk · history · tag)
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News source(s): TBS (Japanese)
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Nominator's comments: Japanese politician. - Indefensible (talk) 06:15, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Kanak Rele

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News source(s): India Today
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Nominator's comments: Indian performer & academic. - Indefensible (talk) 06:08, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Mats Löfving

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Article: Mats Löfving (talk · history · tag)
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News source(s): Goteborgs-Posten (Swedish)
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Nominator's comments: Swedish law enforcement officer. - Indefensible (talk) 06:00, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Ellen Inga O. Hætta

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Article: Ellen Inga O. Hætta (talk · history · tag)
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News source(s): NRK (Norwegian)
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Nominator's comments: Norwegian educator & politician. - Indefensible (talk) 05:55, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Simone Segouin

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Article: Simone Segouin (talk · history · tag)
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News source(s): L'Echo Republicain
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Nominator's comments: Interesting article. Kafoxe (talk) 04:19, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Conditional support Article appears to be well-cited. The brief mention of her post-war career is sufficient for holisticity, as that is not the focus. The condition for my support is that her promotion to LT and awarding of the Croix de Guerre is included twice; I have no opinion on which should be removed, so that is up to someone else's discretion. Irrelevant for RD purposes, but that picture is freaking awesome! Curbon7 (talk) 08:37, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support per above, rest in peace. Editor 5426387 (talk) 14:32, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support but I don't think people are going to hack it putting up a photo RD when the current image on the ITN template is a landslide. --⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 20:08, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Considering that at the peak of the Turko-Syrian earthquake, we had folks trying to shuffle stories to keep the earthquake at the top of the ITN section or attempting to remove the section image and replace it with the earthquake image, and how we literally had a story pulled because people were complaining that by including it, it was "crass" and we were disrespecting the victims, you're probably right. Though admittedly the Brazilian carnival landslides are inferior in magnitude to the earthquake. Crusader1096 (message) 21:40, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support per above. Crusader1096 (message) 21:36, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with The Kip. What's the point of arguing for it here when there is no consensus elsewhere for this Photo RD proposal. Get consensus on the talk page first. Natg 19 (talk) 05:08, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
On the talk page, I already am. Here, I just voted for one, not argued. Sort of arguing with Kip, but only to clarify the point, not sway him. InedibleHulk (talk) 05:18, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Closed without prejudice) Cyclone Freddy

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CLOSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE
Given that almost everybody advocated waiting, and that almost none of them have come back to update their recommendation nearly a week later it seems most prudent to close this nomination without prejudice to a new nomination, whether for a blurb or (as most recently suggested) ongoing, so that it gets more eyes and the latest developments can be evaluated afresh. Thryduulf (talk) 09:13, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Cyclone Freddy making landfall in Madagascar
Article: Cyclone Freddy (talk · history · tag)
Ongoing item nomination (Post)
Alternative blurb: ​ Four deaths occur after Cyclone Freddy (satellite loop pictured) makes landfall in Madagascar
News source(s): (Reuters)
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Nominator's comments: Impacts will only become more clear and notable as time goes on. RandomInfinity17 (talk - contributions) 23:49, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Leaning towards Support - freddy made its 2nd landfall and is weakening overland. more info will come out as time goes by but since the storm is dissipating and we keep voting for "wait" then it might be too late to be featured in the news Rainbow Galaxy POC (talk) 14:50, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support ongoing Article is being updated and the storm is still active. It's pretty much been stationary and just dumping rain the past few days which has led to serious flooding across Mozambique and Zimbabwe... Death total is up to 16 and the storm isn't expected to dissipate for a decent while so I feel ongoing would be appropriate. NoahTalk 01:54, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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February 21

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International relations

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(Posted) RD: Nadja Tiller

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Article: Nadja Tiller (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): FAZ
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Nominator's comments: Iconic German actress in film, television and on stage, especially after 1958 when she came to international attention. Article was under-sourced. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:12, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: J. B. Kristiadi

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Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): [10]
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Nominator's comments: Indonesian civil servant, has held several high ranking positions in the government. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 13:09, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Eva Siracká

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Article: Eva Siracká (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Topky (Slovak)
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Nominator's comments: Slovak physician. - Indefensible (talk) 06:21, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) São Paulo floods and landslides

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Article: 2023 São Paulo floods and landslides (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ Floods and landslides (landslide in Ubatuba pictured) kill at least 44 people in São Paulo, Brazil (Post)
News source(s): Al Jazeera, BBC, The Wall Street Journal
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Nominator's comments: Disaster started a few days ago but renewed rains are causing continued landslides, thus the listing for today ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 20:40, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support per @DecafPotato, though it could do with some lengthening. Crusader1096 (message) 23:01, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support i believe the article is long enough and comprehensive to post. A map of the areas hit would be nice, but with the current picture, no rush on that. --Masem (t) 23:37, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support This is a significant disaster that should be a ITN blurb for some time. MarioJump83 (talk) 23:39, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: John C. Hitt

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Article: John Hitt (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): [11] [12]
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Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: The longest serving president of the University of Central Florida, who saw the university grow from a small school to the second largest in the country, passed away yesterday, and his death was announced today. RockstoneSend me a message! 19:22, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

What's wrong with his photo? --RockstoneSend me a message! 01:47, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
There's nothing wrong with it. I was trying to suggest a Photo RD, nice and suggestive-like. I learned my lesson, better to be frank. InedibleHulk (talk) 02:19, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  1. The lead talks of a scandal which caused the subject and his finance team to resign. The body of the article does not detail this at all. It seems to need explanation as it's quite a technical and debatable matter of misuse of funds. This is a major BLP issue as many of those involved will still be alive.
  2. The article does not say much about the subject's academic career in psychology. What was his thesis, speciality, and publications if any?
  3. The article does not provide any details of his death. Did the stress of the scandal play a part? There are no details.
  4. The sources listed in the nomination are not available to view - a common GDPR issue which Brexit doesn't seem to have changed. For example, the Orlando Sentinel says "Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in your country..." US editors presumably won't see the message but it's a practical difficulty for someone in Europe like myself.
  5. I noticed a typo - "Unde Hitt's direction". Not a big deal but indicates that proof-reading is needed.
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(Closed) AMAN-23 naval exercise

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Good faith nomination, but consensus to post will not develop. Pawnkingthree (talk) 01:42, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Article: AMAN (naval exercise) (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ Naval exercise with the theme Together for Peace held in Karachi including 50 nations with ships, aircraft, marines teams and observers, hosted by Pakistan Navy. (Post)
News source(s): Arab News
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Article updated
Nominator's comments: Pakistan Navy hosted 8th edition of military exercise AMAN-23 at Dockyard, Karachi with navy fleets of more than 50 nations. M.Ashraf333 (talk) 15:27, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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(Closed) New START suspended

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Good faith nomination, but there is a strong consensus by editors to oppose this nomination. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 02:48, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Vladimir Putin announcing the suspension during a speech to the Russian Federal Assembly.
Article: New START (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ Russia suspends New START, its last remaining nuclear arms treaty with the United States. (Post)
Nominator's comments: Putin just suspended the last nuclear arms treaty with the United States, amid ongoing tensions. Although the background may have to do the the Russo-Ukrainian War, it is too important and too different to be lumped in. Also, there could be a new arms race.— Preceding unsigned comment added by DinoSoupCanada (talk • contribs)
This is the last nuclear arms treaty between powers. This is significant. 🍁🏳️‍🌈 DinoSoupCanada 🏳️‍🌈 🍁 (talk) 12:41, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
You'll take it back when Russia builds up 100,000 nukes and kills everyone. 🍁🏳️‍🌈 DinoSoupCanada 🏳️‍🌈 🍁 (talk) 12:42, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Just because the last remaining Nuclear Arms treaty ended, doesn't mean that they are going to build more nukes, so Oppose. Editor 5426387 (talk) 13:43, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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February 20

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International relations

(Posted) RD: Husnie Hentihu

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Article: Husnie Hentihu (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Tribun Ambon
Credits:

Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Indonesian politician from the Moluccas, has held several high ranking political positions there. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 02:51, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Closed, stale) RD: Roger Schank

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Article: Roger Schank (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): NY Times
Credits:

Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Obit published in NY Times 20 February. Thriley (talk) 07:38, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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(Posted) Ongoing: 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake

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Article: 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake (talk · history · tag)
Ongoing item nomination (Post)
News source(s): Al Jazeera, CNN, Reuters
Credits:

Nominator's comments: Renominating again because there was just a new mag 6.4 earthquake and recovery efforts are ramping up. Article is actively receiving updates. - Indefensible (talk) 18:11, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support: Shouldn't really have been taken down in the first place: it has been an ongoing, escalating humanitarian crisis with a rising death toll this whole time. But obviously the fresh aftershock provides a renewed hook. More are likely. Iskandar323 (talk) 19:00, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wait until true impact of aftershock(s) is known. If it didn't do a whole lot more, this isn't much different of a nom than below. The Kip (talk) 19:27, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wait. The issue we face at the moment is the focus of the article. Strictly speaking, the article suggests there was one earthquake. In theory then the most recent earthquake should not direct to this article. If there is a split or the article is renamed to plural to connect this earthquake, using this target would be more appropriate. DarkSide830 (talk) 19:39, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Well I guess to heck with that move discussion. I'm still not sure this is an Ongoing-type item, so I'm switching to supportive of a new blurb for this most recent earthquake or perhaps even the uber-rare bump of the old blurb back into the box with a mention of the latest flare-up (be it an aftershock or not, the ambiguity of which, however, lending to the value of this approach). DarkSide830 (talk) 03:20, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wait Given how the article is in a renaming/move/split tug-of-war, once the dust on this settles, i think it better to evaluate, at any rate I would see it more appropiate to have a new blurb for the new quake rather than putting this in ongoing.✨  4 🧚‍♂am KING  20:20, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support ongoing - This is a strong aftershock, but apparently there have been 5000 microquakes/aftershocks in the past few weeks since the two main ones. This specific one appears to have a handful of deaths and new injuries involved. --Masem (t) 21:32, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Clearly isn't over yet considering the large aftershock that just occurred.
NoahTalk 21:46, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Leiji Matsumoto

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Article: Leiji Matsumoto (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): BBC, AP, Variety
Credits:

Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Manga artist behind numerous works including Battleship Yamoto. Died on the 13rd but death was not reported until today. Article needs a lot of work to get there. Masem (t) 15:40, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Closed) 2023 visit by Joe Biden to Ukraine

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Consensus to post is unlikely to develop.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 17:00, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Article: 2023 visit by Joe Biden to Ukraine (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ U.S. President Joe Biden makes an unannounced visit to Ukraine, meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to announce an additional military aid package supporting the country in the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Post)
News source(s): CNN
Credits:

Article updated
 Smackendorf (talk) 15:02, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Smackendorf Thank you for your nomination! It's very refreshing to see new participants at ITN. Our current consensus usually dictates that incremental updates in ongoing events usually will not be posted unless they are uniquely significant. Since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine is already posted as an ongoing item, it is unlikely that this will be posted as an individual blurb. We generally like to see major turning points or developments, and a diplomatic visit by itself would not usually count, until the "results" of them become known. I hope that you continue to contribute to WP:ITN/C.--⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 15:26, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per above Editor 5426387 (talk) 15:39, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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(Closed) 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake

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Article: 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake (talk · history · tag)
Ongoing item nomination (Post)
Credits:
Nominator's comments: Possibly unorthodox, but I feel like the disaster (particularly its casualties) is still in the news and ongoing. While it doesn't make sense to keep the blurb as it happened around two weeks ago now, I think it would fit to sit in the ongoing section. DecafPotato (talk) 02:16, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose although the casualties' counts are updating, it seems like the earthquake is over and isn't currently happening. Oppose nomination for the ongoing section. Tails Wx 02:24, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose It seems that rescue efforts are done and over, and all that's left is to try to find and identify those missing. There's relief efforts but those aren't getting lots of dense coverage. -Masem (t) 02:26, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Earthquake is already over, just because they keep finding more casualties don't mean it's ongoing. basically, per above. Editor 5426387 (talk) 03:22, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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February 19

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February 19, 2023 (2023-02-19) (Sunday)

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RD: Rolf Wirtén

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Article: Rolf Wirtén (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Corren (Swedish)
Credits:

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Nominator's comments: Swedish politician. - Indefensible (talk) 22:34, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Concern He seems deserving of a Photo RD, but is there a higher-quality image available for the Main Page? InedibleHulk (talk) 01:47, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak support. What's there is fully sourced, but it's very thin - is there anything more we can say about his life? Strong oppose a photo RD, even if we did photo RDs (which we don't, and shouldn't) a junior minister who apparently did nothing remarkable during his tenure and a very brief article is very much not someone who would merit one. Thryduulf (talk) 03:09, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    If we did Photo RDs, which we all agree haven't started yet, it wouldn't matter if he did anything remarkable. He would just need a free and fairly aesthetic picture. Arguing over aesthetics is subjective enough, but we have hard resolution, vertices and colour density to consider; there's no such objectivity in bickering about remarkability, which is the whole point of the proposal. InedibleHulk (talk) 04:20, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Not yet ready Article is not holistic, and leaves out a lot of important biographical info, like government positions. The Swedish Wikipedia article could be a vector for expansion. Curbon7 (talk) 05:13, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Red McCombs

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Article: Red McCombs (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): ABC, CBS, ESPN, Forbes, KSAT, SI, TPR
Credits:

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Nominator's comments: American businessman. - Indefensible (talk) 22:20, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support article seems fine; no obvious prose or sourcing issues, at least not to the extent that would hold this up. Duonaut (talk | contribs) 01:06, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Looks good enough. – Ammarpad (talk) 09:44, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak oppose. There is a citation needed tag in the Awards section, and I've marked where an update and a clarification are needed. Not marked is the controversy section, but at the very least the second paragraph needs splitting - being found guilty of tax avoidance by the supreme court should not be combined with his criticism of a football coach (is the latter even notable?). Thryduulf (talk) 03:20, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I addressed the part that needed clarification by adding a link earlier in the paragraph & split the other paragraph in 2. Others can decide whether or not the 2nd part of the split paragraph is notable enough to include in the article. Blaylockjam10 (talk) 20:41, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Dickie Davies

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Article: Dickie Davies (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Daily Mirror, Guardian, Telegraph,
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Nominator's comments: British sports presenter. - Indefensible (talk) 21:59, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Pierre Haïk

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Article: Pierre Haïk (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Le Monde (French)
Credits:

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Nominator's comments: French lawyer. - Indefensible (talk) 21:55, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) British Academy Film Awards

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Article: 76th British Academy Film Awards (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ At the British Academy Film Awards, All Quiet on the Western Front wins Best Film and six other awards. (Post)
News source(s): Guardian
Credits:

Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Look like the In Memoriam list has not been added yet Kingsif (talk) 22:07, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment In memoriam has been added by someone. TheCorriynial (talk) 12:40, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support Agree with Maplestrip that AQotWF is a bit weak but that's not a major issue. Have added an alt blurb & sourced the In Memoriam section XxLuckyCxX (talk) 15:34, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
At the time I had supported, I wasn't aware of the PR gobbledygook included in the article. So I have accordingly struck my !vote. --⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 13:48, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose This is packed with advertising copy which seems to been planted in large chunks by mysterious IP editors like this and so likely violates numerous policies including WP:NOTPROMOTION; WP:PEACOCK; WP:COI; WP:UPE, &c. Some sample plugs:
  1. "At BritBox International, we showcase and celebrate incredible talent, creativity, and storytelling from the UK..."
  2. "The mega-selling memoir was the latest chapter in a series of recent public interventions from the Duke of Sussex..."
  3. "those audiences will have the best seats in the house..."
Andrew🐉(talk) 22:29, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I was already working on cleaning that up when you posted this - should be much better now. Kingsif (talk) 22:37, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose, I don't always agree with Andrew, but in this case he's correct. The changes by Kingsif are a step in the right direction, but still some further tidy up needed and I have tagged the section in question. For example "the intention gave audiences an "access all areas" experience, complete with VTs from the red carpet and backstage, alongside talent interviews from past and present winners, nominees and presenters" and "Jane Millichip felt that the major changes would give BBC One viewers "the best seats in the house" and that "[g]oing live for the last awards of the night will raise anticipation, and our back-stage studio will give viewers exclusive insight into the event and the talent taking part". These paragraphs rwaf more like an advert than an encyclopedic coverage.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:43, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I was cutting that exact part out when you added the tag (can now be seen), and invite you to improve or remove anything that you see left over. Kingsif (talk) 22:47, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    General comment: some IP added a bunch of press release-y stuff and I'm cleaning it up. It seems, not to whine, but unfair, that the unfortunate additions have led this to be immediately met with !opposes while the issue is clearly in the process of being addressed. Kingsif (talk) 22:50, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • The diff I provided was made on 15 Feb. The nomination was made on 19 Feb. The comment I made just now was on 20 Feb. So, there was nothing immediate about this; it has been like this for 5 days. Andrew🐉(talk) 23:56, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Immediate to when I started improving it, which seems worse. And while what prompted "unfair" was Amakuru effectively saying they could see it was being fixed but decided not to wait on that before opposing, I do think your specificity was excessive for a style issue that can and was being quickly resolved. @Amakuru and WaltCip: I encourage users to reconsider your !votes with the improvements. Kingsif (talk) 00:09, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Changing to support it seems more or less OK now. Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 00:30, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support – I don't see any outstanding issues. DecafPotato (talk) 00:20, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Nazmul Huda

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Article: Nazmul Huda (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Daily Sun
Credits:

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Nominator's comments: Bangladeshi politician. - Indefensible (talk) 20:43, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Richard Belzer

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Article: Richard Belzer (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Forbes [14]
Credits:

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Nominator's comments: Star of Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order: SVU. Well-known TV actor for two decades. --Estar8806 (talk) 18:22, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I second this, although I doubt it will happen. I Support RD at minimum, nevertheless. DrewieStewie (talk) 02:43, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Comment I'd never heard of this guy whereas Dickie Davies was quite famous in the UK but less known elsewhere I suppose. So, RD's reliance upon name recognition is inadequate and so a short description of the subject should always be given. Anyway, the article is orange-tagged as the filmography is not cited, as usual. In the meantime, our readership is arriving in large numbers regardless – over half a million so far. Andrew🐉(talk) 08:31, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Andrew, you know, if you want to change policy, this is not the place to do it. As of This 2016 discussion, the current process is that every recently deceased person with a good enough article may be posted in the Recent Deaths line in the ITN box. Your objections here are entirely impotent. You could change this if you want to, just start a new RFC and get enough people to agree with you. If you want it changed, I would think that you would want to do it correctly. --Jayron32 13:06, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Dun-dun. Kirill C1 (talk) 18:21, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

February 18

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February 18, 2023 (2023-02-18) (Saturday)

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Politics and elections

Rugby League World Club Challenge

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Jack Welsby
Article: 2023 World Club Challenge (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ In rugby league, St Helens defeat the Penrith Panthers in the World Club Challenge (man of the match Jack Welsby pictured). (Post)
News source(s): BBC Sport
Credits:

Article updated

Nominator's comments: First British side to win the World Club Challenge in Australia since 1994 and only the second overall. Not ITNR but the section on RL seems completely back to front by being one of the few sports to include domestic club comps (that don't get posted) but not the pinnacle or most notable comps like the State of Origin series. by James Lewis Bedford (talk) 16:33, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: David G. O'Connell

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Article: David G. O'Connell (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): ABC News
Credits:

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(Posted) RD: Christian Atsu

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Article: Christian Atsu (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Sky Sports, BBC Sport
Credits:

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Nominator's comments: Been missing since the earthquake happened on 6 February. His body was only found earlier today. Vida0007 (talk) 08:55, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support, article looks in good enough shape. RIP [osunpokeh/talk/contributions] 13:00, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support media coverage is sufficient. Estar8806 (talk) 18:05, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support The article should already have extensive coverage. Rest in Peace. Oltrepier (talk) 18:08, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Ready Think this looks good to post. Not much attention being given to RD noms below so closing this one up with a post could divert attention down there. Kingsif (talk) 22:05, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ongoing: 2023 Israeli anti-judicial reform protests

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Article: 2023 Israeli anti-judicial reform protests (talk · history · tag)
Ongoing item nomination (Post)
News source(s): [15], [16]
Credits:

Article updated

Nominator's comments: The protests has been ongoing for the past 7 weeks and around 250,000 took part last Saturday night. It's described as "a rare show of unity,"[17] with the Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai making a rare TV interview on N12 on Saturday night raising concern over political assassinations[18]. Mhhossein talk 07:48, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per above Editor 5426387 (talk) 03:21, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Would this work better as a blurb then a ongoing event? Not sure if it meets the requirements for a blurb but it sure seems to fit more into that category then an ongoing event.
Rabawar (talk) 15:13, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Yoshihisa Okumura

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Article: Yoshihisa Okumura (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): NHK
Credits:

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Nominator's comments: Article is likely short, but as one of the many that improved the technology that lead to our modern cellar networks. Its an arguable that with out his work on signal distance, we'd likely not have the wide use of mobile phones and country wide cellar networks. His research led to the Okumura Model as well. TheCorriynial (talk) 14:01, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

February 17

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(ATTENTION NEEDED; possibly Ready) RD: Paul Berg

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Pioneer of genetic engineering
Article: Paul Berg (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Stanford Unviersity
Credits:

Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. A couple spots need sources, but the article is otherwise in pretty good shape. Curbon7 (talk) 23:33, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Rebecca Blank

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Article: Rebecca Blank (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Wisconsin State Journal (Archived for paywall), WMTV NBC15
Credits:

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Nominator's comments: Chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Madison for 9 years, served as Acting and Deputy Secretary of Commerce. EvergreenFir (talk) 06:54, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Is this bad I read this as Rebecca Black? I was like "no way did the singer of Friday die". TansoShoshen (talk) 11:59, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Stella Stevens

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Article: Stella Stevens (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): CNN
Credits:

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Nominator's comments: American actress. Tails Wx 16:20, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Ángela Gurría

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Article: Ángela Gurría (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): El Heraldo de Mexico (Spanish)
Credits:

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Nominator's comments: Mexican artist. - Indefensible (talk) 06:33, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Kyle Jacobs (songwriter)

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Article: Kyle Jacobs (songwriter) (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Country Now, Variety, Yahoo
Credits:

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Nominator's comments: Country songwriter death just announced. First ITN nomination, apologies for any occurring errors. Tails Wx 00:58, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Oppose At the moment, the only info that makes this article meet notability to exist (the list of songs he wrote), is all cited to a promotional source, which isn't satisfactory as the main source in a BLP (which includes RDs). Kingsif (talk) 22:11, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Moses Elisaf

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Article: Moses Elisaf (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Ekathimerini
Credits:

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Nominator's comments: First Jewish mayor in Greece, medical doctor. - Indefensible (talk) 20:12, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Closed) Mexico–United States border crisis

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Snow? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of ITN, localized entirely within your nomination? DatGuyTalkContribs 18:39, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Article: Mexico–United States border crisis (talk · history · tag)
Ongoing item nomination (Post)
News source(s): Axios
Credits:
Nominator's comments: This will likely receive updates since the information is rapidly changing. Interstellarity (talk) 17:30, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose There have been no edits in over two weeks, and it's not a "crisis" just because Kevin McCarthy says it's a crisis. In fact, the headline "Border crossings drop after new Biden policies" suggests there's indeed no "crisis". – Muboshgu (talk) 17:36, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose as of now - article contains excessively obsolete information and needs to be updated. Crusader1096 (message) 17:35, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - does not meet the criteria and currently has an update needed banner. - Indefensible (talk) 17:35, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - what is the update or ongoing issue? The lede of the article concludes "with more expected in 2022." The body of the article doesn't go beyond June 2022. The source provided in the nomination indicates that the problem is lessening, not worsening. A good faith nomination, but look for a story to nominate, not a nomination to find a story. - Floydian τ ¢ 17:41, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose There's been a crisis at the border for years. Literally every administration. This fails for the same reason that climate change fails.
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RD: Malik Mohammad Qayyum

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Article: Malik Mohammad Qayyum (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): ARY News
Credits:

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February 16

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Law and crime

Politics and elections

Sports

(Posted) RD: Zaenal Ma'arif

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Article: Zaenal Ma'arif (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): [19]
Credits:

Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Indonesian politician, former parliament deputy speaker. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 06:13, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Colin Dobson

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Article: Colin Dobson (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Bristol Rovers
Credits:

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Nominator's comments: English footballer and coach for Bristol. Only a couple of spots appear to be in need of sources, article looks pretty good otherwise. Curbon7 (talk) 23:46, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Giorgio Ruffolo

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Article: Giorgio Ruffolo (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): La Repubblica (Italian)
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Nominator's comments: Italian economist, politician. - Indefensible (talk) 20:19, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Tim McCarver

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Article: Tim McCarver (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): CNN
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Nominator's comments: Baseball player and commentator. A few {{cn}} tags in Broadcasting career and some more citations needed in Later career, but not in a terrible shape. TartarTorte 23:19, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support all {{cn}} issues fixed. TartarTorte, all unsourced content have been addressed and sourced, should be good to go. Tails Wx 14:49, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Potentially ready) RD: Tulsidas Balaram

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Article: Tulsidas Balaram (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Indian Express
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Nominator's comments: Indian football (soccer) player. Article needs some work. Ktin (talk) 16:35, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It does. Citations needed, also I see some unencyclopedic language where his "popularity knew no bounds". – Muboshgu (talk) 16:50, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I've updated substantially. Encyclopedic and verifiability concerns should be largely addressed. The subject definitely warrants a feature in ITN/RD. Schwinnspeed (talk) 03:43, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Not yet ready Every recent death is presumed to be important enough to post. There are still several unsourced statements, and excessive one or two sentence paragraphs. There is still some unencyclopeic language ("he had to face hurdles in every step", "Balaram's performance peaked in extra time"). Curbon7 (talk) 03:51, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I've gone in and done another scan and cleaned up for referencing and encyclopedic content - there wasn't much but @Curbon7's comments above should be addressed. I am not seeing any major outstanding areas for the purposes of posting but pinging previous commenters @Ktin @Muboshgu
    Re: the argument that there are many one-two sentence paragraphs, this is par for the course in most sports biographies that go in chronological order. I've attempted to consolidate and/or expand where it makes sense, but don't agree that this should get in the way of us posting. Schwinnspeed (talk) 15:05, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Many thanks Schwinnspeed for the work on this article. Agree that this looks for main page based on your edits. Thanks. Ktin (talk) 03:52, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: Article could use some copyediting; club career could use some clarification on years he played for teams (infobox stops abruptly at 1955). Among copyediting issues: quotes should not be italicized per WP:QUOTE, capitalization ("Asian games"), ungrammatical phrases ("his visa was denied by Indian Govt.") SpencerT•C 05:54, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

February 15

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February 15, 2023 (2023-02-15) (Wednesday)

Business and economy

Disasters and accidents

International relations

Law and crime

Politics and elections

RD: Catherine McArdle Kelleher

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Article: Catherine McArdle Kelleher (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Women in International Security
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Nominator's comments: American political scientist. A few CN tags present. Curbon7 (talk) 23:33, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Cn tags must be fixed and it has paragraphs that are too long. Perhaps an infobox would also be better... _-_Alsor (talk) 12:55, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: David Oreck

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Article: David Oreck (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): NOLA
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Nominator's comments: American entrepreneur. - Indefensible (talk) 20:31, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Not yet ready Article appears well-cited (besides one CN tag), but the prose is exceptionally poor. There are many one or two sentence paragraphs, and the whole thing (particularly the Oreck Corporation section) reads very fluffy. Curbon7 (talk) 00:08, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) Gualaca bus crash

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Article: Gualaca bus crash (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ A bus crash in Gualaca, Panama kills at least 39 people. (Post)
Alternative blurb: ​ Thirty-nine migrants are killed and thirty others are injured when a bus falls off a cliff near Gualaca in Panama.
Alternative blurb II: ​ A bus crash in Gualaca, Panama, kills 39 migrants who were headed to the United States.
News source(s): Reuters, BBC, WP
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Nominator's comments: 39 deaths - too much to not merit a blurb. I'll try to work on the article over the weekend. The ⬡ Bestagon T/C 15:59, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose..? The article is extremely short, also the words “at least” is confusing Vriend1917 (talk) 21:28, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The Spanish article includes a table of victims by nationality & our article should also do so. This appears to have involved &/or intended to involve illegally crossing many international borders, making this far more important than a regular bus crash. Jim Michael 2 (talk) 11:09, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Victims by nationality is fine. It is done when sources are available. But why is the bus being bound for US more relevant? Whether or not it crossed a border, I don't think that matters. Are we making the assumption that a bus crash with ~40 fatalities that happens in a city is less relevant than one that crossed an international border? -- Rsrikanth05 (talk) 05:26, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
There's a source for the table in the Spanish article. A transport crash with a high death toll is more notable if on an international route because more countries are involved. Had this crash been on a regular domestic bus route, I wouldn't have created this article & it's likely that no-one else would've. Had it been created by someone else, it's likely it would've been quickly deleted. It wouldn't have received much international media coverage as it wouldn't have been remarkable. Jim Michael 2 (talk) 13:25, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Raquel Welch

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Article: Raquel Welch (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Forbes
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Nominator's comments: Filmography largely unsourced. Mooonswimmer 12:38, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support The article has over 100 citations and is graded B-class, which is better than most. Compare Shirley Fulton, for example, which is currently at RD. That has just 21 citations and is graded C-class.
The article is also rated as vital, just like Burt Bacharach, which ITN is also dropping the ball on. ITN needs such famous names more than they need ITN because they get millions of readers regardless of what happens here.
Citing the filmography is pointless busywork because, to verify this, one just has to view the work in question and/or check its credits. See WP:NOTBURO and WP:BLUE.
Andrew🐉(talk) 08:48, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
ITN depends on quality first and its long been established that filmography sections must be sourced. That BLP-interested editors have dropped the ball while this article has been on a vital list for years is not ITN's problem. Masem (t) 13:10, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
You do see that Fulton's article is completely sourced and Welch's has lots of poorly written and unsourced prose? I personally don't care about unsourced filmographies. – Muboshgu (talk) 16:28, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
What I see is that this is the top-read article on Wikipedia for the second day. That's over 2 million readers so far and rising. So, there have been a lot of eyes on the topic but there were only two {{citation needed}} so I took care of them myself ([20], [21]). Several editors have been doing more general development – kudos to @Cielquiparle, Alexcalamaro, and WikiWikiWayne: especially. So, the article was vital B-class quality to start with and is only getting better. What are we waiting for? Andrew🐉(talk) 08:26, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Andrew Davidson – I had no idea she was that popular! As an aside, that lead image of her does not showcase her essence, and its of very poor quality. Black and white is great, but that photo is grainier than a half-tone. I actually like it more with Radner in it. Thanks for the props. I really needed a boost. Carry on. Cheers! {{u|WikiWikiWayne}} {Talk} 09:44, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
You're very welcome. That's a good point about the image as ITN should be showing one and it's what the readers will most notice. I've added the current lead image to the nomination but, if there's a better one, please suggest a link as I'm not sure which one has Radner too. And discuss... Andrew🐉(talk) 09:54, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
So 2 million readers found the article without the help of ITN. Thus, there's no rush nor need to call for IAR to post this if the quality is still poor. Masem (t) 15:56, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
That's 2.7 million now as, on day 3, the peak is past. ITN might as well not have bothered as her name has just been stuck halfway down the RD ticker where no-one will notice it. So, once again ITN is a day late and a dollar short. Once again, it fails to run a picture of a successful woman. Once again, it just repeats the previous day's picture instead. Quality ... Not! Andrew🐉(talk) 07:57, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Andrew Davidson I would really like it if you would stop your complaining which at this point is becoming tendentious and uncivil. ⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 15:19, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The first 8 paragraphs of yesterday's FA had no inline citations. Today's FA has many paragraphs and sentences without inline citations. That's because it is not our policy to require an inline citation for every sentence. Per WP:V, inline citations are only required for controversial statements and quotations. ITN should not try to be more Catholic than the Pope. Andrew🐉(talk) 08:26, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
If you would like ITN to abandon its quality standards to be more in line with other sections of the main page, feel free to nominate that. I personally would oppose and advocate for the others to improve their standards, but I am just one editor and consensus rules. GreatCaesarsGhost 12:45, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The relevant policy for Recent Deaths is actually WP:BLP, which does require inline citations for any material challenged or likely to be challenged...This applies whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable. Your FA examples are irrelevant as they are not BLPs. Pawnkingthree (talk) 14:02, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Estar8806 (talk) 02:42, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Posted The late 1970s and on in prose is still a little PROSELINE-ish but not nearly as bad as it was when I commented on it a couple days ago. And the insufficient sourcing has been addressed too. – Muboshgu (talk) 02:46, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Team Jorge electoral disinformation exposé

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Article: Team Jorge (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ Investigative journalists expose two decades of electoral manipulation and disinformation by Team Jorge, an Israeli outfit of contractors specialized in hacking, sabotage and social media disinformation campaigns. (Post)
News source(s): OCCRP Guardian DW Haaretz Jerusalem Post Le Monde Il Post CNN Portugal Der Spiegel El Pais
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Nominator's comments: An international investigation by investigative journalists from the OCCRP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project: a collaborative project of 30 outlets), led by Le Monde, Der Spiegel and El País, exposing a two-decade-long disinformation scandal now being covered in diverse media outlets across Europe and the rest of the world. Already linked to manipulation of the 2015 Nigerian election, and embroiled a French news outlet in scandal and forcing it to suspend an anchor. Iskandar323 (talk) 18:30, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Oppose, if nothing else, on Quality. Regardless of significance, the target article is not up to quality standards at current. The article fails to understand the significance of the group and contains way too much "alleged" rather than proven facts. DarkSide830 (talk) 18:35, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose wary of investigative reports that can only be corroborated by the report and pointing fingers of blame. I don't think the report is making things up but there is still a fair amount of speculation going on in it. If there is some serious actions that result, such as the arrest if the group. That would be a good reason to post. --Masem (t) 19:42, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per above Editor 5426387 (talk) 20:42, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support, the page is already improving massively considering this is news from today, and I really don't understand how one could be wary of investigative reports? That sounds downright dystopian to me. It is a developing story just like every other news piece that exists, if that were the standard we'd have to cut out 99% of them. Dynamo128 (talk) 22:51, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The difference between this event and others is the subject matter. No one can dispute that there's cyclone affecting New Zealand or that there was an election in Monaco recently - one can be confirmed by radar and the other by the fact that the election was scheduled. No one is saying that we should assume investigative reports are wrong, just that we can't immediately jump on a news story like this without letting it breathe a bit. Arrests and thereafter convictions are better ITN items - anyone, however, can make an allegation. DarkSide830 (talk) 00:20, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It was a joint investigation by 30 news outlets, many of which are WP:RSP. Pretty reliable/verifiable. Were the Panama Papers not news until people started being arrested? There were a few arrests by Uruguay two weeks later; two more by Germany four years later. Not exactly spectacular, so I'm not sure if arrests are a great benchmark for investigative reports. Iskandar323 (talk) 05:51, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support once improved. Electoral interference is major news, especially considering it’s being going on for a long period and it’s not one election. Being covered by many major outlets. About the finger pointing mentioned by Masem, so was the balloon being ‘suspected of surveillance’ but that was posted. This is news now — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.44.10.109 (talk) 22:10, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Closed) Resignation of Nicola Sturgeon

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Consensus not to post now. The general discussion is mostly what to do with leaders of sub-national entities, such as Scotland. I suppose the discussion can be brought back when the successor is known, but looks unlikely we will get a consensus to post then. --Tone 07:48, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Article: Nicola Sturgeon (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ Nicola Sturgeon announces her resignation as first minister of Scotland. (Post)
Alternative blurb: ​ Nicola Sturgeon announces that she will resign as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party once a new leader is elected.
News source(s): BBC New York Times CNN
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Nominator's comments: Should be relevant as resignation of the leader of Scotland. - azpineapple | T/C 13:33, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Neutral, leaning support - It's clearly not ITN/R, as Scotland is not an independent nation. But it's definitely in the news, and she's a very prominent and long-serving political figure. We haven't done well with the resignations of female leaders recently (New Zealand, Moldova), but that in itself is not a reason to post this, merely to be cautious before jumping to conclusions. GenevieveDEon (talk) 13:40, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Even if Scotland was an independent nation, it wouldn't have been ITN/R, since the change has not happened yet. Only when the change happens (i.e. a successor is chosen and/or takes office) is the item considered ITN/R.
    In the Scotland discussion though, it doesn't matter as Scotland isn't independent (yet?) but I will support posting when a successor is chosen, Posting Boris's resignation may have been a mistake, but IMHO it wasn't given the record number of resignations and that stuff, while posting Truss's was a mistake (even though I might've supported). We shouldn't be repeating those mistakes. ~~~~ The ⬡ Bestagon T/C 15:39, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • The article looks really solid with a lot of detail. However, there's not been a significant update regarding this resignation. I do expect at least one good standalone paragraph on this news for us to post it. ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 13:46, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    All I see so far is a one line addition to the lead, which is obviously insufficient.-- Pawnkingthree (talk) 13:52, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support, she was the longest serving first minister of Scotland. I also think that 2023 Scottish National Party leadership election should be nominated when a new leader is elected. Sahaib (talk) 13:58, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment This is another example of a leader announcing that they are to resign, without actually doing it. "She has instructed the Scottish National Party to begin the process of electing a new leader and will remain in office until her successor is chosen."[22]-- Pawnkingthree (talk) 14:15, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. While acknowledging the complex issues around the possible independence on Scotland, it remains for the time being a subnational entity of the United Kingdom with devolved powers, and I don't think we'd generally post stories relating to leadership successions in such entities to ITN. If this, then why not governor changes in US states, or indeed devolved governments around the world? I just don't think this has sufficient longterm impact globally to be included. Note too that we didn't as far as I know post Alex Salmond's resignation in 2014, or the parliament election results when they happened. Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 14:08, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. Added alt-blurb Carter00000 (talk) 14:27, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - very significant event --- Tbf69 P • T 14:30, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support While not on ITNR, many if not most of the stories we post are also not on ITNR. Reliable sources are covering this story enough that indicates to me that it is very much in the news, and the article is rock solid. Checks every box for me. --Jayron32 14:40, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Suggestion Blurb upon actual execution as opposed to announced intent. That way you can include the name of successor. CoatCheck (talk) 14:43, 15 February 2023 (UTC).[reply]
  • Oppose. While this is definitely making news in the UK, Strugeon is the leader of a subnational government. We wouldn't post the resignation of equivalent positions such as governor of Andhra Pradesh (who changed just this week!), governor of Jalisco or Premier of New South Wales, all of which have larger populations than Scotland. There are hundreds of such positions around the world - I don't see a reason give Sturgeon or Scotland preferential treatment. Modest Genius talk 14:54, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Isn't the UK's subnational government somewhat different in that there technically countries? Apparently, the difference is great enough to warrant people from the UK to be referred to by which subnational country there are from (e.g, the lede of her article calls here Scottish instead of British). Crusader1096 (message) 15:21, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    The nations of the UK don't fall under our ITN/R qualification, but do indeed tend to fall above most other sub-national states. It's an editorial choice; I think generally excluding them from this type of news story is a valid position, though if we have a great article to show for it and the news is relatively significant, it's easy to argue in favor as well. ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 15:28, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    As a Brit, I am well aware of the complexities of our 'country consisting of four countries' - there are historic and cultural differences between the four nations of the UK. However, when comparing different sovereign states it's mostly just semantics whether they refer to their largest sub-national entities as states, provinces, regions, cantons, communities, nations or countries. Modest Genius talk 16:23, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    It actually depends on whether or not the story is a widespread, well-represented news story or not. We should never judge anything by the arbitrary labels we give it, and should instead judge these things by the evidence we gather from reliable sources. In other words, just because you can call Nicola Sturgeon "leader of a subnational government", that isn't meaningfully important here. It's just an arbitrary label, among many such other arbitrary labels, and it has no real bearing on whether or not reliable sources have covered the story. I mean, maybe we wish that major news sources didn't cover the story, because we don't want major news sources to think that it is a big deal. That wish is unimportant here. The sources have covered it at a level that we should realize has made this a big, well-read story. --Jayron32 15:25, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support when replacement is announced and then that person should be the main focus of the blurb. --Bedivere (talk) 15:16, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wait for replacement announcement. Unless her resignation has an article of its own, putting this in ITN is nothing more than headline. We're not directing readers to additional content. Kingsif (talk) 15:23, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - Nope. Not if we're going to be consistent with how we treated the New Zealand PM.--⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 15:24, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    You know, "We screwed up once before, so know we must force ourselves to be wrong forever" is a terrible way to make any decision. --Jayron32 15:26, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    You for one supported a combined blurb for the NZ PM only when the successor had been identified. What made the difference there? The close proximity in time between the resignation and the selection? ⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 16:12, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Did I say I was opposed to a combined blurb here? That seems perfectly reasonable. I'd be fine with that; mentioning the successor seems like a good idea as well. --Jayron32 16:41, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    No, you didn't say you were opposed to one, but you also didn't say you were opposed to posting it now without a combined blurb, and that was the impression I got from your !vote above. It's true that you could make the argument that your silence on the matter meant you could go either way on it. ⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 18:08, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - this is a significant event AlloDoon (talk) 15:42, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wait per previous precedent on waiting for a successor to be chosen. Yes we are talking about a sub-national government here, but I think the UK should be treated as a special case. DarkSide830 (talk) 16:04, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Scotland is a nation. And with a population of about five million, a fairly normal sized nation too. CT55555(talk) 16:15, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Devolved government is a phenomenon specific to the U.K., and I think it'd be a good idea for us to figure out how we'd handle those types of affairs on a go-forward basis. We seem to run into this issue regularly, and the resulting discussion is cleaved almost in the manner of a party line. ⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 16:32, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I do agree. The idea that Scotland becomes more important if/once it goes through a political process and depending on the outcomes of that process, does seem inherently not very neutral and a prioritization of current politics over the real world importance of a nation that has relatively high global impact for it's size/population. CT55555(talk) 16:39, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I don't understand this, how is devolved government specific to the UK? The page you linked in fact has a fairly sizeable table of unitary states with devolution. YD407OTZ (talk) 18:35, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I think one difference is the others are regions, not countries. CT55555(talk) 18:37, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    To be honest, that sounds like a semantic/naming issue to me. Do these constituent countries have any particular powers that are unique among other devolved subdivisions/regions/provinces/...? The only major difference I know of is that each of them competes separately in many sports and international competitions, for some reason. YD407OTZ (talk) 19:01, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Scotland has a separate healthcare, police force, legal system, judicial system, culture, centuries old history (most of which was as an independent nation (until 1707) I think mostly with a separate monarchy), and arguably identity. It has a shared military and current monarchy, and lacks control over international relations. Scotland competes in most sports independently, but combined for the Olympics and some sports including athletics events.
    Importantly, I think, it's commonly perceived as a country. I don't think most people would challenge someone describing it as a country. They might add qualifiers (not an independent country) but compared to the others, which are mostly perceived as regions of countries, most people commonly understand Scotland to be a country, a nation, a national identity. CT55555(talk) 19:18, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    @YD407OTZ: For what it's worth, I did make an error. I meant that devolved parliament was specific to the U.K., not devolved government. I had the two terms confused. ⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 21:26, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    A lot of those things are things that US states also have. The legal system, culture, and police forces of Louisiana and Florida are different, for example. --RockstoneSend me a message! 21:56, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - Jayron32 is right; my childish tiff doesn't change the fact this is still a newsworthy story, regardless of our internal machinations.--⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 16:36, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - In general I am in favor of posting the resignation when it happens as the actual resignation is the story, not the successor. I think Scotland is notable enough of a subnational state to post. Jbvann05 16:42, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Sturgeon's resignation is far more significant than who it is that replaces her, so I'd support this without waiting for a successor. Curbon7 (talk) 16:45, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Significant event. There are not many democratically elected national leaders who have been in the role for 9+ years. I do not support the line being drawn exactly between sovereign states and former sovereign states that are current medium sized nations, as that feels like a political distinction, not a distinction based on notability and seems to lack neutrality, which I think is important. CT55555(talk) 16:50, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wait until successor is named. --Masem (t) 16:56, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Not sure a successor is needed in this case, since Scotland isn't a sovereign state (yet). As stated above, the resignation itself is the significant thing in this one, not the change in leadership. Curbon7 (talk) 17:01, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    And as the news reports say, the resignation won't happen until a successor is found, which is then the point we should post. If it were a case where the resignation was happening now well before successor was determined, the reporting now and again later works. Masem (t) 19:33, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per Modest Genius. We dont blurb when the governor of California changes either. And just as a matter of economics, that is a monumentally bigger position. nableezy - 17:01, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Exactly. The powers of the Scottish first minister are arguably fewer than those of a state governor, given that the UK government retains power in what it seems reserved areas, as well as having the right to revoke devolution altogether. Plus the area, GDP and population of Scotland are many times less than those CA and other states. Not to mention other regions worldwide. I'm quite surprised so many are supporting this, it looks like UK-centricism to me.  — Amakuru (talk) 17:52, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    There's a lot of UK-centricism on Wikipedia, honestly. We posted news about riots in Northern Ireland that were extremely minor, while equivalent news in the US is not posted. It's annoying. If the Governor of California resigned tomorrow, would we post that story? No. Then we shouldn't post this one, either. --RockstoneSend me a message! 21:52, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wait The article itself should include more content about the resignation beyond a single sentence in the lead. Although I didn't agree with it, why would we treat this any differently than the approach for Jacinda Arden (i.e., waiting for a succescor to be announced?) Schwinnspeed (talk) 17:05, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per Modest Genius. I acknowledge that this is a significant event and Nicole Sturgeon is perhaps more widely known compared to leaders of similar entities, but I also look on the side that this may create an unwanted precedent for posting similar stories in the future. The only way one such story should be posted is if the entity is partially recognised or in a state of war with the parent country (e.g. Somaliland) or if the office has historical and religious significance (e.g. Dalai Lama).--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 18:28, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per above. Unexpected change in an important office, with international RS coverage. Davey2116 (talk) 18:50, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose I freak out. What is there to explain about ITNR when it talks about "Changes in the office holder administering the executive of their respective state/government, in those countries qualifying under the above criteria, as listed in List of Current Heads of State and Government, except where such change has already been published as part of a general election”? Scotland is not a fully sovereign state and therefore what happens in the headship of its government is not ITNR and should not be ITNR. _-_Alsor (talk) 19:22, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I don't think anyone has claimed this is ITN/R. Nominations can still be posted even if they are not ITN/R, that's not by itself a reason to oppose. Pawnkingthree (talk) 19:26, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Ticks all the boxes, being in the news, significant and reasonable quality. The article is graded as B-class, which is better than most, and is vital too. Andrew🐉(talk) 19:25, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wait per DarkSide830 and Masem, then Support per Jayron32. This is one of this year’s most notable political news so far, as Sturgeon has been a leading person in Scottish politics for 15 years by now. It’s almost as notable as Ardern’s resignation, especially in Europe. But as usual, we should wait until the successor has been elected. CDE34RFV (talk) 19:31, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Sensitive to the devolved government factor, but arguably U.S. states have even greater autonomy. Also we should be wary of breaking conventions to post a routine event in the Anglosphere. GreatCaesarsGhost 20:28, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Scotland is obviously a nation. The issue here is that a Sovereign State is a lot clearer a dividing line than a nation or has a lot of power. If this can be posted is their really an argument that a equivalent story about Quebec, Catalonia or Wales can't be posted?--Llewee (talk) 20:34, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wait until her replacement is chosen. I know Scotland is not an independent country but as mentioned by DarkSide830 the UK is a special case. Not to mention that this is literally in the news right now as she is one of the UK's most prominent politicians (albeit sub-national). Vida0007 (talk) 20:39, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose To post about a change in a nation's government would be ITN-worthy, but ... this is Scotland, don't want to be offensive, but Scotland is merely a Sovereign state. Basically, per all of the above. Editor 5426387 (talk) 20:48, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Scotland is a nation. If Quebec is a nation, and there are 500+ First Nations in Canada, I don't know how Scotland isn't a nation. Let alone, it's been a nation for hundreds of years. Nfitz (talk) 20:50, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
No-one is disputing that. But it does not have its own entry on the list of sovereign states, which ITN has always used as its threshold for which elections and leaders to post. We don't post blurbs when the leader of Quebec resigns either. Modest Genius talk 20:54, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
You have this exactly backwards. Scotland is not a sovereign state, but it is a nation. GenevieveDEon (talk) 20:57, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I've noticed that you frequently have no clue what you are talking about. Your comments both here and below in Teddy Joseph Von Nukem are astonishing for just how incorrect they are. To be clear, I am not talking subjectively (i.e. your opinion, which you are entitled to hold), I am talking from an objective perspective, as in your are consistently factually incorrect. Curbon7 (talk) 01:04, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I've looked at further arguments you've made in the past 7 days. Almost all of them are just "per above", and when you do choose to make an argument, it is downright awful, like when you stated the Super Bowl "is just some football match" and thus isn't ITN-worthy. Not gatekeeping, but as this is a complex area of the encyclopedia, I would highly recommend observing and gaining general experience first before jumping right in. Curbon7 (talk) 01:10, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Wait until successor - analogous to what we did with New Zealand a few weeks/months ago QueensanditsCrazy (talk) 22:05, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - This may be important and all but Scotland isn't an independent country. as Rockstone stated e wouldn't post the resignation of the governor of a US state or any other leader of a subnational or autonomous region. Why is Scotland an exception? Onegreatjoke (talk) 22:07, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Scotland is not the equivalent of a US state, in my view, as its parliament has far greater powers than that of a US state. There is just one example of Westminster overriding Holyrood since the establishment of the Scottish Parliament by Scotland Act 1998. Sturegeon has been the longest serving first minister. Her stepping down is rather notable even if not covered by ITN/R. TartarTorte 22:35, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak support considering as has been stated above, devolved government is a unique phenomena in the UK and Scotland has considerably more autonomy than the average sub-national unit; nearly even that of the Cook Islands and Niue. That said, opening the floodgates for sub-national elections is highly risky. The Kip (talk) 22:36, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I would say it's a bad precedent, but here at ITNR, what will happen is that people will make a singular exception since it's taking place in the UK, which, as we all know, is the only country that matters here on Wikipedia. --RockstoneSend me a message! 22:59, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    California has more autonomy from the US than Scotland has from the UK. The governor is also commander in chief of the California National Guard (except when federalized), and the chief executive of an economy ~177x larger than Scotland. nableezy - 23:06, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Perhaps we should post when a California governor resigns. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 23:20, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    good luck with that nom, Im sure youll have the same enthusiastic support as this one got as there has never been any indication that stories about the US would ever be downplayed here. nableezy - 01:31, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wait until replacement is actually named. People announce resignations and then rescind them, so upon her actual stepping down this would make sense to post. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 23:19, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Sturgeon leads a subnational govt., so this isn’t important enough to post. Blaylockjam10 (talk) 23:22, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wait until successor is chosen, then support – large news, and constituent countries of the UK are much larger international stories than other subnational entities. Comparisons to things like the government of California don't make that much sense to me: California is larger (in population, area, economy, etc.) than many sovereign states, and certainly larger and possesing a greater influence than the SADR, yet we posted that. DecafPotato (talk) 23:49, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    SADR is on List of sovereign states, Scotland is not. Which is why the comparison is between two sub-national governments. The idea that constituent countries of the UK are much larger international stories than other subnational entities is both a blatant example of UK-centric systemic bias as well as being a figment of your imagination. nableezy - 01:27, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    The point was that California has more significant influence than states like the SADR, and yet the SADR gets posted and California does not (for good reason) – I was emphasizing that whether a state gets posted is not about the influence of the state itself, it's about how big of international stories the event is. In this case, the countries of the UK are significant international stories. And allegations of a UK bias seem silly to me – they can be made once I oppose a nomination for a change of leadership for a similar territory on importance. DecafPotato (talk) 05:29, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    The countries of the UK aren’t necessarily significant international stories. In most cases, what happens at a subnational level only has national implications. Blaylockjam10 (talk) 05:38, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    The point is that SADR is a recognized sovereign state by a number of other states, making that comparison irrelevant. The comparison between two sub-national leaders, eg the first minister of Scotland and governor of California, however is a valid comparison, and in every way you can make that comparison (land size, economy, population, independence from its national government, power of the office), the governor of California is an office of much greater import. And because we would never post the governor of California resigning or the office changing hands, it would logically follow that we likewise should not post the first minister of Scotland. Yall cant keep making these special rules to rule out anything American and expect the same rules to not apply to that special island filled with, apparently, Wikipedians. nableezy - 07:44, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    The SADR is recognized as a country by 45 UN member states, so comparing it to Scotland or California is apples to oranges. Blaylockjam10 (talk) 01:37, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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RD: Teddy Joseph Von Nukem

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Article: Teddy Joseph Von Nukem (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The Independent
Credits:

Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Died today, recent deaths CT55555(talk) 07:21, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - The article has a lot of problems, such that it is a stub, has citation problems, and tons more. also, this person died over 2 weeks ago, so that defeats the purpose of RD. Editor 5426387 (talk) 13:51, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It is acceptable to post recent death announcements if the death occurred some time previously but wasn't reported. That isn't a reason to oppose. Pawnkingthree (talk) 15:29, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The article is rated as start class. It has never been a stub. I cannot see any citation problems, but if you are specific I will immediatly fix any that you identify. CT55555(talk) 15:51, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
One problem (not citation-based) is that "took his own life" is a MOS:EUPHEMISM. – Muboshgu (talk) 16:48, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It is exactly guided by the advice at WP:DEATH subsection on suicide and I would encourage you to read up on why terms like "committed suicide" are technically incorrect and problematic.
see
  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Death/Suicide_task_force, and
  2. https://reportingonsuicide.org/recommendations/
Please CT55555(talk) 16:52, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Please see MOS:SUICIDE. I have no idea what advice at WP:DEATH you mean, I can't find it, but in any case such a local consensus of a task force can't overrule a MOS guideline or an RfC[23]. There is nothing "technically incorrect" about "committed suicide". Fram (talk) 17:21, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I used the words "technically" because commit tends to mean and certainly implies crime or sin. E.g. People commit murder, they don't commit death. People commit sins, they don't commit lunch. But I think the MOS supports how I wrote it:
The phrase committed suicide is not banned at the English Wikipedia, although many external style guides discourage it as being potentially stigmatising and offensive to some people. There are many other appropriate, common, and encyclopedic ways to describe a suicide, including, died as a result of suicide. died by suicide, died from suicide, killed himself, The cause of death was suicide.
So I think I'm inline with the MOS. Or have I missed something?
Would also encourage us moving this content dispute to the talk page. CT55555(talk) 17:28, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The advice at WP:DEATH I refer to is the first numbered point of the links that follow. CT55555(talk) 17:28, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I don't see a "numbered point" on WP:DEATH or the suicide task force. I am merely saying that "took his own life" is a euphemism. "Died by suicide" and the other options at MOS:SUICIDE are good. – Muboshgu (talk) 20:37, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Those words are no longer in the article. CT55555(talk) 21:48, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Understandable as the template says that, but it is a misreading of the RfC. The standard is that anyone who meets GNG is eligible for RD. I dispute that he meets GNG. Some will suggest that GNG can only be disputed by entering a AfD, but this has never been established by consensus. GreatCaesarsGhost 22:04, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
In the context of multiple reliable sources containing significant coverage about him in 2017 and 2023, including the Washington Post, I don't agree with your assertion. CT55555(talk) 22:26, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support per @Sahaib Crusader1096 (message) 21:38, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I'm going to stop following this conversation, the incorrect statement that this article was a stub, the questionable suggestion is doesn't meet WP:GNG and now the nomination to delete makes this part of wikipedia seem unfriendly and reminiscent of the only other time I tried to nominate something. I only made this suggestion because of encouragement to but it really seems that participants here are looking for excuses to reject. If my lack of participation means this won't pass, that's OK. CT55555(talk) 01:45, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@CT55555: there are many problems at ITN/C, no doubt, but please don't take from this that you shouldn't participate here. We desperately need new voices to shake things up. We may still disagree on many things: I stand by my belief that this version was a stub, but I accept that opinions may differ. The present version is definitely not a stub, so I think my comment may have spurred article improvement, which is a good thing. As for my earlier thought that this might not meet GNG, taking a look at the AfD, that one is likely going to be proven wrong by community consensus. Assuming that has a WP:SNOW close as keep, this can be posted to ITN once that happens. As long as we are able to disagree politely, this can still be a constructive part of Wikipedia. – Muboshgu (talk) 01:54, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This area might have a less desperate need for new voices if trying to engage here felt less like a hazing. CT55555(talk) 02:04, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I have no opinion either way on this nomination, but I definitely agree with this. The combination of rules-lawyering and the tolerance of disruptive behaviour from a small handful of established regulars makes this a very dicey area to work in. I focus on it myself in part to try to alleviate that, but there's only so much one person can do. GenevieveDEon (talk) 10:04, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
If you review this nomination, you'll find one set of people employing long-standing policy and procedure to advance the project, and others characterizing this as hazing, unfriendliness, and rules-lawyering. Maybe you're right; we are too tolerant of disruptive behavior. GreatCaesarsGhost 12:39, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I agree we tolerate too much bad behavior here, but I don't see any in this section. We are nitpicky perhaps but all of the comments here have been about the article and improving the encyclopedia. It hasn't been personal. – Muboshgu (talk) 16:30, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support RD – Article looks solid, and AfD looks like a strong keep. There's a lot of negative things to say about he subject, but it's frustrating to see this chat being so hostile to the entire nomination. Yes it was initially stub-sized and had a low number of citations, but look at how much the article has improved in less than a day. That's what ITN should be all about and we should be proud of CT55555's hard work. ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 08:22, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support RD The article has been significantly improved (even if it is kinda short to me), and I have seen no sourcing issues in it. While there is an AfD nomination, it looks like that the article would be kept, as mentioned by Maplestrip above. Vida0007 (talk) 10:32, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support RD The quality’s good enough & it looks like the article won’t be deleted. Blaylockjam10 (talk) 22:50, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support RD. Quality is good enough and the AFD (in which I !voted too keep) seems unlikely to result in deletion. -- Patar knight - chat/contributions 01:48, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

February 14

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February 14, 2023 (2023-02-14) (Tuesday)

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RD: Serge Christian Guébogo

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Article: Serge Christian Guébogo (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Sports News Africa
Credits:

Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Cameroonian handballer. Quite short, but decently holistic considering the article's size. Curbon7 (talk) 23:26, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Friedrich Cerha

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Article: Friedrich Cerha (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): ORF
Credits:

Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Iconic Austrian composer and conductor, who got famous by completing Alban Berg's Lulu, almost 97, - The 2006 article came with a ref tag, which I think we fixed. There could be more content from the obits. -- --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:18, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Jerry Jarrett

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Article: Jerry Jarrett (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Bleacher Report, Slam
Credits:

Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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 enough, not many citations missing, but quite a few of the sources seem to be of dubious reliability Mooonswimmer 12:38, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Shoichiro Toyoda

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Article: Shoichiro Toyoda (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Japan Times
Credits:

Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Japanese Businessman and honorary chairman of Toyota Motor. The ⬡ Bestagon T/C 12:44, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) Toxic spill in Ohio, U.S.

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Drone image of the accident scene
Article: 2023 Ohio train derailment (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ Large amounts of toxic chemicals are released from a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, leading to evacuations and health concerns in the town. (Post)
Alternative blurb: ​ A mass cleanup and evacuation occurs in East Palestine, Ohio, as health concerns erupt following the nearby derailment of a train that released large amounts of hazardous chemicals.
Alternative blurb II: ​ A train derails in East Palestine, Ohio, releasing hazardous chemicals that have caused evacuations, a massive cleanup, and health effects amongst nearby populations.
Alternative blurb III: ​ Residents in and near East Palestine, Ohio experience major health issues following the derailment of a train carrying hazardous chemicals nearby
Alternative blurb IV: ​ A controlled burn occurs in East Palestine, Ohio to combat the release of hazardous chemicals by a nearby train derailment, leading to further health and enviornmental concerns around the incident.
Alternative blurb V: ​ Health issues and evacuations occur in and around East Palestine, Ohio after the nearby derailment of a Norfolk Southern train carrying vinyl chloride and a subsequent controlled burn.
News source(s): NPR, ABC WaPo NYT CNN
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Nominator's comments: This event was nominated twice before, and wasn't posted because in the first instance, people argued that it "was not important," and in the second instance, alleged that it was "stale." Both of these arguments are IMHO not true. This is a major even in the news, and even if the accident occured more than a week ago, the mass evacuations, release of toxic chemicals, investigations, and reactions/controversy over this are far from over, not to mention the possible natural disaster this can cause. Crusader1096 (message) 15:55, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support as nominator Crusader1096 (message) 15:56, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose If a story broke over a week ago, it can't be nominated unless something else occurs later on that is blurbable. Unfortunately, this is what we define as stale. NoahTalk 16:12, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The controlled burn was on the 6th, and that would arguably be just as blurbable. I think this feels like an ongoing, but the events have already been slowing down. GreatCaesarsGhost 16:21, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
That was also over a week ago now, which would also be stale. The time to blurb this was missed. NoahTalk 16:38, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
No, stale is when something is older than the oldest currently posted event.[24]. There are 2-3 items in the box older than the burn off. GreatCaesarsGhost 20:18, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose as stale Story is not recent; derailment happened on February 3, the oldest current blurb in the template, the Chinese balloon that was shot down on February 4, is newer, so there's no place to post this. --Jayron32 16:14, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    The news coverage has been a slow burn (pun intended) and I think WP:IAR applies here. – Muboshgu (talk) 16:23, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - This is a textbook ongoing item.--⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 16:35, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Do you support a blurb or do you support ongoing? The ⬡ Bestagon T/C 12:37, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose as Stale and on Notability. Even if this item is judged not to be stale, the impacts here are questionable at best. The article does not properly explain how many people were displaced and only suggests the evacuation orders were in place for a few days. The section on potential health impacts almost exclusively contains speculative and alleged items without any proper support. DarkSide830 (talk) 16:48, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Notability? According to this op-ed, people as far as 30 miles away have experienced symptoms of nausea, headache, teeth pain, vomiting, diarrhea, sinus congestion, and shortness of breath. People well outside the evacuation zone have left their homes because the waterways are polluted with chemical smells and dead fish. Also there have been a growing number of reports about people experiencing a burning sensation in their eyes, animals falling ill and a strong odor lingering in the town. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:10, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    True or not, I don't see this substantiated in the target article, which again, I will note, seems to be mostly speculating. DarkSide830 (talk) 20:00, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - Important incident that hadn't caught traction because the media and US gov have been ignoring it, but the forced control burning of hydrogen chloride will have devastating environmental consequences. If the Chinese spy balloons are worthy of a blurb, then this certainly is as well. Rockin (talk) (contribs) 16:49, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose as stale. The derailment occurred on February 3, so the topic should be listed in the subsection for that date. However, that date is more than a week ago, so there is no subsection on this page for that event. As such, this should be declined as stale. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 16:53, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • I would Support a blurb that represents the current state if issue (the massive cleanup, the residents being allowed back), which are aspects as a result if the derailment. The derailment itself was not as deadly as the stuff that potentially leaked. --Masem (t) 16:59, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • IAR support. The impacts of this incident, including environmental, legal, and health impacts, seem considerable, more than enough to meet our threshold. There is a Catch-22 with the timing on stories like this one; there is opposition to posting them as soon as they occur because their impact isn't fully known and so they don't receive much coverage; and there is opposition to posting them when they do receive coverage, because it's been long enough that they are "stale". I think that's silly; the story is significant, the article is decent, it's currently in the news, so we should post it. FWIW, we do explicitly allow for this situation with RDs, so it's not much of an IAR. Vanamonde (Talk) 17:03, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • IAR Support - The news about this has been released mysteriously slowly, and while in general I think our requirement for recency is important, I believe this case is unusual. This is a very serious environmental disaster, with widespread effects. GenevieveDEon (talk) 17:09, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    There's nothing mysterious about the world press not running with news from a midwestern town of under 5,000 people. As a lawsuit mentioned in the article requests, the radius to determine if health effects even exist should be 30 miles. I could walk that, and I barely even walk anymore. InedibleHulk (talk) 01:59, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I'm a keen walker, and I would consider 30 miles in a day to be a challenge. GenevieveDEon (talk) 11:07, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per above Editor 5426387 (talk) 18:29, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
You indicated support above, then 3 hours later posted this oppose !vote. Which is it? - Floydian τ ¢ 17:50, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
There is no MINIMUMDEATHS and you know it. GenevieveDEon (talk) 11:07, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose The concrete events are stale. Nausea, headache, teeth pain, vomiting, diarrhea, sinus congestion and shortness of breath, while psychologically irritating, are part of daily life. Strange smells and lethargic animals are a bit less common, but nothing compared to three UFOs. InedibleHulk (talk) 21:14, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
If nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and shortness of breath are a part of your daily life, I recommend you see a doctor. Especially if you're planning to walk 30 miles in a day. GenevieveDEon (talk) 11:07, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Not everyone has them all every day, but on any given day in a town that size, you could find hundreds of cases. And I didn't say I was planning to walk that far, or could do it in a day. I have seen my doctor, too, he tells me the same thing he probably tells everyone, quit smoking, exercise more and eat right. Furthermore, MINIMUMDEATHS may not be a written rule, but it is in effect here regardless. Anyway, get well soon, East Palestine, whatever your problems are! InedibleHulk (talk) 01:18, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose I have no seen authoritative sources mirroring the blurbs that say that this is the most dangerous/important/major environmental disaster of this type in the us. There seems to have been no deaths, therefore, and based o nthe recent dominance of really minor american news on this board, i vote to oppose this. this americano-centrism/US-defaultism needs to stop 5.44.170.26 (talk) 22:23, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Why does it have to be the most dangerous environmental disaster in the U.S. to be notable?--⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 23:09, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • This is more of an ongoing event, and I would support it if this event was nominated that way. I tried to support this as a blurb some days ago before until I realized it is stale for ITN blurb. MarioJump83 (talk) 23:12, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - Should not be regarded as stale, event is still ongoing and deserves more attention. As of today, severity of the environmental impacts is way more significant than the severity of train derailment itself. Whilst a freight derailment isn't exactly world headlines, one incident where it causes biohazardous, wide-spread water, air and ground contamination certainly is. Fengshuo2004 (talk) 23:13, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support I don't think it is stale, and it's a lot more based in reality than the superstition and pseudoscience surrounding the UFOs so far. Additionally the article and sources are in much better shape and are of use to those who are learning about the subject for the first time. Ludicrous (talk) 23:45, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question Can any of the alblurbs say which toxic/hazardous chemicals are feared to potentially have which effects on this town? InedibleHulk (talk) 00:00, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - I don't think it's stale at all, and if you Google "ohio train derailment" you'd see most of the news articles from big companies (at least at the time I'm writing this) were made within the past day. The only thing I would suggest slightly changing is the blurb, maybe something like...
  • A freight train containing hazardous chemicals derails and explodes in East Palestine, Ohio, causing an evacuation of residents due to health concerns.
^^^^ or something along those lines phrogge 'sup? edits 02:50, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Event is not stale, still ongoing/developing with articles still being written hourly it seems. The environmental effects are significant with long term effects for the people in the area. Maxorca (talk) 03:43, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Assuming this is true, our article is wrong in saying: The evacuation was lifted on February 9 after the U.S. EPA reported that the air inside and outside the evacuation zone had returned to normal levels. Although toxins were detected at the derailment site, they were not detected outside the area. The Ohio EPA also reported that drinking water (sourced from different waterways) was safe. In a testing report from February 8, the Ohio EPA showed to WKBN that vinyl chloride, benzene, some chlorinated organic compounds, and other VOCs were not detected in the water...As of February 12, all 210 homes tested for vinyl chloride and hydrogen chloride have tested negative. So that will have to be fixed. Or something real about the supposed effects will need to be added. InedibleHulk (talk) 04:03, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose At this point it seems too stale. While it no doubt will be causing issues locally for a long time that doesn't make suitable as ongoing events (too local), and while more news might come out about the environmental impact, it's the event itself that is posted here, and the event is mow too old. If we put every ongoing ecological disaster with local intrest in the world into ongoing events where going to end up with a massive list.
To give an example of a similar ecological disaster that has had ongoing local interest I would point to 2021 North-East England shellfish die-off. While this event continues to cause ecological disaster and news continues to come out about who is responsible (with fingers being pointed at negligent business and government), by the time enough news was reported it was fundamentally to old for ITN and too local for ongoing events. Cakelot1 (talk) 07:54, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per staleness but also being a small scale environmental disaster, the long term effects may not be substantial enough, and in either case, wikipedia is not a crystal ball, so we should not be using "potential long term effects" as a metric to support its being posted. No humans have died (yet), and the region in question isn't some particularly sensitive site or something like that that would justify particular attention to a spill that affects a small town. QueensanditsCrazy (talk) 22:13, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Like, if it spilled directly into the Ohio river (threatening other states like WV KY etc.), or like the Cuyahoga river caught fire and threatened a big city like Cleveland... then yeah this event would be clearly notable enough to merit being posted. But as it is, the impact is low; and we cannot speculate on future impacts per CRYSTALBALL. QueensanditsCrazy (talk) 22:18, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
ETA: I didn't mean to give the appearance of double-!voting there; just to say that Blurb V is the one which works best in my opinion. GenevieveDEon (talk) 00:01, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
By 'crisis' you here mean 'war of conquest', presumably? Let's not be euphemistic. But you're right in another sense - while the East Palestine crash is a developing situation, it doesn't currently have the kind of profile and reach that 'Ongoing' is usually for. I would oppose a move to put it there. GenevieveDEon (talk) 19:18, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) Cyclone Gabrielle

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Article: Cyclone Gabrielle (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ Cyclone Gabrielle causes widespread damage and flooding across New Zealand. (Post)
Alternative blurb: ​ New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins declares a national state of emergency, for only the third time in New Zealand history, over the impact of Cyclone Gabrielle.
Alternative blurb II: ​ A state of emergency has been declared in New Zealand after Cyclone Gabrielle causes widespread damage and flooding across the country.
News source(s): [25] [26]
Credits:

Nominator's comments: One of the most damaging cyclones to hit New Zealand in living memory, with damage across most of the North Island and parts of the South. Also historic for the declaration of a national state of emergency, with the only other times being the 2019 terrorist attack and the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Have proposed February 14 as this was when the state of emergency was declared, but effects were being felt from late on February 12 local time. Turnagra (talk) 05:45, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

 
Don't look up!
  • Weak support original blurb. The article is in good shape, the state of emergency is unusual, and this is getting international media attention. However current reports show light damage (for a cyclone) and only one casualty, with the main effects being localised floods, power cuts and precautionary evacuations - hence only weak support. Modest Genius talk 14:25, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - An incredibly unusual event, which would be sufficient to overcome the low death toll in terms of significance weighting. As a fellow New Zealander, thank you, Turnagra, for nominating this. --⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 14:29, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support though I would stick to the first blurb. Superlatives (3rd time in NZ history) are rather subject to the importance if the event and can be left out. --Masem (t) 15:15, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support per above. Crusader1096 (message) 15:34, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support This cyclone has been devastating to thousands, this should definitely be posted, Vriend1917 (talk) 19:16, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

February 13

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February 13, 2023 (2023-02-13) (Monday)

Disasters and accidents

Health and environment

International relations

Law and crime

Politics and elections

(NEW. Attention Needed) RD: José María Gil-Robles

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Article: José María Gil-Robles (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): ABC.es
Credits:

Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Very quick updating of this Spanish politician. 8th President of the European Parliament. Let's see if there's time enough to post it, if appropriate. _-_Alsor (talk) 23:38, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Closed) 2023 Michigan State University shooting

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Consensus will not develop for posting and it's probably best to close it before anyone (including myself) says anything regrettable. – Muboshgu (talk) 16:04, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Article: 2023 Michigan State University shooting (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ Three people are killed and five injured in a mass shooting on the campus of Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. (Post)
News source(s): BBC
Credits:
 Smackendorf (talk) 14:59, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Beyond the injury that comes from having these stories continuously happen here in the States, there is the added insult of the rancorous discussion that results here on ITN/C from both sides whenever a mass shooting occurs. I wish that we could just blacklist these types of nominations forevermore since we seem incapable of handling it civilly here, but naturally, that is a fool's hope. Regardless, I for one will not tolerate any side-discussions that erupt into back-and-forth battles regarding the politics and prevalence of mass shootings in the U.S., and I will see to it that does not occur. --⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 15:03, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - This doesn't rise to some of the (admittedly verbal) thresholds that we would normally see for mass shootings in the U.S. in terms of notability, even with all added extenuating circumstances such as being a shooting at a university, or one where the suspect remains at large. --⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 15:05, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. Tragic for those affected, but mass shootings are sadly not unusual in the United States. If we posted in ITN every time three people were killed in a shooting that would be 15 blurbs already this year (per List of mass shootings in the United States in 2023) - and we're only 6 weeks in. Modest Genius talk 15:05, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Most mass shootings in the US do not happen at a university, but while tragic the relatively low level of casualties means it does not meet the signifcance bar for me.-- Pawnkingthree (talk) 15:09, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose based in reports, appears to be a domestic, non terrorism related crime. Tragic, but we don't post such common domestic crimes. --Masem (t)•
Oppose Run of the mill mass shooting. NoahTalk 15:10, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Sad that we've reached the point where this can be a sentence. Crusader1096 (message) 15:29, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose as creator of article - Doesn't meet the 10+ death threshold or have a notable motive. Crusader1096 (message) 15:31, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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RD: Lalita Lajmi

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Article: Lalita Lajmi (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The Times of India
Credits:

Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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 painter. Close, just needs a little source work. Curbon7 (talk) 04:11, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Closed) Jakub Jankto

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Close good faith nomination. Consensus will not develop to post. - Fuzheado | Talk 05:49, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Article: Jakub Jankto (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ Czech professional footballer Jakub Jankto (pictured) becomes the first active senior international athlete in men's football to come out as gay. (Post)
Alternative blurb: ​ Czech professional footballer Jakub Jankto (pictured) comes out as gay, becoming the first active senior international athlete in men's football to do so.
News source(s): [28] [29]
Credits:
Nominator's comments: I think this bit of news is relevant not only because, generally speaking, very few people in men's football have come out publicly, but also because Jankto is arguably the highest-profile player to have ever done so while still being active, having already played in two of the "Top Five" leagues (Serie A and La Liga) and being a full international for the Czech Republic since 2017. Oltrepier (talk) 20:40, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose important and also congrats man but I don't think that's for in the news 🍁🏳️‍🌈 DinoSoupCanada 🏳️‍🌈 🍁 (talk) 20:49, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Congrats to him, but I don’t believe that one semi-famous athlete coming out as a sexuality is as importantly as other things. Vriend1917 (talk) 21:01, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose good for him, still, per above. Editor 5426387 (talk) 21:09, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Alright, thank you all for the feedback! This was my first ever nomination, so I wasn't aware of those previous discussions on the topic: admittedly, I should have done my research better...
Plus, even though I mentioned a few other users in the lead template, I take full responsibility for the nomination, since I didn't ask any of them directly before doing this. I know it's probably not a big deal, but still, I wanted to clarify it. Oltrepier (talk) 21:37, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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(Posted) RD: Guido Basso

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Article: Guido Basso (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): https://jazz.fm/guido-basso-obituary-canadian-jazz-musician/
Credits:

Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Noted Canadian jazz musician. Some citations still needed. Flibirigit (talk) 19:28, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Removed) Ongoing removal: 2022–2023 Peruvian protests

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Article: 2022–2023 Peruvian protests (talk · history · tag)
Ongoing item removal (Post)

Nominator's comments: There have been no significant events noted in the article during the entire month of February, and only a single sentence about a single minor event on February 2, the last such date in the article. If no new updates cover events for over 11 days, then this probably isn't eligible for ongoing anymore. Jayron32 13:29, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Remove said well by everyone in the replys. Vriend1917 (talk) 16:09, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose Removal just because no major events are occuring, doesn't mean it's over. just like the Mahsa Amini protests, there are no current events, but they can come up at any time. Editor 5426387 (talk) 16:30, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Criteria isn't whether the events are still occurring but whether the article is being updated. I hate to say it, but it's not. The Kip (talk) 17:12, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Removed. I checked the article a couple of days ago for that reason but decided not to nominate it yet. If there is new development, a blurb nomination is welcome. --Tone 17:20, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Zia Mohyeddin

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Article: Zia Mohyeddin (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Zia Mohyeddin passes away at 91
Credits:

Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Zia Mohyeddin, British-Pakistani actor (Lawrence of Arabia, Khartoum, Ashanti) and television broadcaster died at the age of 91 Fahads1982 (talk) 06:19, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) Super Bowl

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This is posted and further discussion appears to be distracting. Any factual errors can be handled at WP:ERRORS for prompt correction. --Jayron32 18:43, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Patrick Mahomes
Article: Super Bowl LVII (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ In American football, the Kansas City Chiefs (most valuable player Patrick Mahomes pictured) defeat the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl. (Post)
News source(s): Fox Sports
Credits:

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.
 2600:1700:31BA:9410:25AB:5722:ACFE:E4D6 (talk) 03:11, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Tables are now properly sourced. Looks good to go. Support. -Ad Orientem (talk) 04:28, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support The article is good, ready to be posted. Still depressed over my loss though. Vriend1917 (talk) 03:30, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Fuck the Eagles. Crusader1096 (message) 03:37, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Appreciate the kind (and constructive) words! DarkSide830 (talk) 04:47, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support - ITNR, should probably be posted immediately. Articles mostly goood. Don't get people like @Ad Orientem who think that every article in ITN has to adhere 100% strictly to every minor-ass clause in the MOS before posting. Crusader1096 (message) 03:33, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
They should though, and the points raised are important. That said, the official box scores should be around for these to fill and source these Masem (t) 03:50, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think so actually. The picture was added with the posting, so this is similar to the post-posting pull !vote discussions that occur, just instead of pulled the event, it is for pulling the picture. Elijahandskip (talk) 04:47, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps, but I given it's a multiple-blurbs issue and this thread could get shut down quickly I'm simply not sure discussing here is the best idea. Just my 2 cents though. DarkSide830 (talk) 04:49, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Not technically an error per WP:ITNPICT: The picture should be for the uppermost blurb.—Bagumba (talk) 05:44, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
As you say, it had a week straight, time to stop binging on static misery. InedibleHulk (talk) 04:58, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Not to sound callous, but if anything, the fact that the earthquake photo's been there a week is argument enough to go to the Mahomes photo. The Kip (talk) 05:19, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The counter argument would be what is more notable/important? Mahomes or an extremely deadly earthquake with 35,000 deaths? The media is still having breaking news stories and updates about the earthquake. In retrospect, the earthquake is “the” natural disaster which had gained international attention since Hurricane Ian. In 2-3 days, Mahomes will just be a passing mention in a Super Bowl article, but there is a high chance the earthquake will still be a top story. Elijahandskip (talk) 07:38, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The counterargument to that is that’s not how we do things here. Items are posted in chronological order, the earthquake happened a week ago and the Super Bowl happened today. We don’t consider perceived notability/importance. The Kip (talk) 08:01, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Post-posting support. I support posting the article, and I think that the photo is more than appropriate given that Mahomes was the MVP of the Super Bowl. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 04:58, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • I support posting the blurb, but I think it should be second-slot below the earthquake, which should also probably have the picture slot. This is an opportunity to actually fight against Americentrism and systemic bias. Our ordinary processes would bump the story about the earthquake in Asia that killed tens of thousands and injured almost 100,000 (so far) in favor of the story about the Super Bowl, but we could WP:IAR that and do what's actually proper, respectful, and proportional from a global viewpoint. Levivich (talk) 05:20, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    That is not actual fighting, it's slacktivism. InedibleHulk (talk) 05:25, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    It's worse than that, it's affirmative slacktion. Levivich (talk) 05:28, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Zoinks! Good luck packaging that craze. If you do get your way, at least change the earthquake picture; it's beginning to fade into wallpaper levels of impact. InedibleHulk (talk) 05:31, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Yeah there is probably a newer/different earthquake picture than could be used. I hope I get my way. Great human suffering > sports and our main page shouldn't suggest the opposite, even if the sports news is more recent. Levivich (talk) 05:38, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    The Main Page isn't going to stop talking about how the earthquake keeps killing and wounding an evergrowing number of people, relax. It's just several pixels lower, in effective text. People will be bummed, no matter how happy others are with the Chiefs. InedibleHulk (talk) 05:42, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    WP:RGW...
    Super Bowl happened more recently by a week, therefore it's the most recent blurb. That's how it is. The Kip (talk) 06:53, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    ...fight against Americentrism and systemic bias: No, the order was determined per existing WP:ITNBLURB: Blurbs are posted in rough chronological order by the date when the event occurred.—Bagumba (talk) 05:39, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I'm looking at the effect, not the rule. Levivich (talk) 05:48, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    No, it was a cherry-picked effect. The rule could just as equally bump an American-related blurb. The rule doesn't discriminate based on a blurb's topic. —Bagumba (talk) 06:24, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    How can you possibly call this a "cherry picked effect"? There is only one Main Page. There is only one cherry to pick. Look at the main page right now. Super Bowl, and picture of MVP, ahead of worst natural disaster on Earth in many years. That's the effect: the effect of "sports is more important than human suffering". It's not cherry-picked, it's a result of the Super Bowl happening a week after the earthquake, and us following chrono order and refusing to consider any other order. That's an Americentric effect because the outcome is that it appears like we're putting US news ahead of more important world news (it appears that way because that's what we're doing, even if we don't intend to do it, it's still the plain effect of our process: Super Bowl above earthquake). Honestly, read WP:SYSTEMICBIAS, it's talking about this exact thing (it even talks about ITN). It has nothing to do with intent, and effects cannot be "cherry picked" because effects aren't picked at all. One cannot cherry pick an outcome for pete's sake: we're talking the main page right now. Levivich (talk) 15:52, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    And by the way, that rules says rough chronological order, it doesn't say exact chronological order, so the rule doesn't even require this blurb to be on the top. Levivich (talk) 05:50, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    The next sentence says They are generally not sorted by any degree of importance or significance. You're ignoring all sorts of rules with this suggestion. It isn't up to ITN to editorialize by deciding which stories are more important than others. Plus there's already enough arguing about about what to post at all, let alone in what order. --TorsodogTalk 06:20, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Emphasis on the word generally, which means "not always". Levivich (talk) 15:37, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for defining "generally" for me. Extremely helpful. The bottom line is this suggestion goes against multiple ITN guidelines no matter how pedantic you want to be. ITN isn't set up (nor should it be) to decide what story is more important than others. I'd love to see you speak to that instead of snarkily defining words everyone already knows. --TorsodogTalk 16:09, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    OK I'd be happy to speak to that without snark:
    ITN is set up to allow for non-chronological order. WP:ITN says "generally not sorted by any degree of importance", which allows the possibility of sometimes--if rarely--sorting by a degree of importance. This is one of those times when we should do that.
    Even if ITN absolutely forbade sorting by order of importance (which it doesn't), the fifth pillar and WP:IAR would allow us to ignore that rules if we felt it would benefit the encyclopedia to do so.
    Here, it would benefit the encyclopedia to do so, because not doing so gives the unintended impression that we feel the Super Bowl is more important than the earthquake.
    ITN doesn't usually decide the relative importance of stories, but that doesn't mean it can't, in certain appropriate circumstances, do exactly that. Indeed, the plain language of WP:ITN ("generally") contemplates that we would do exactly that at least sometimes. This is one of those times. Levivich (talk) 16:13, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    No, rough was referring to events in the same day: There is usually no effort made to be more specific than the date, and admins will generally not research the exact minute when an event occurred to make sure that multiple events that occurred on the same date are strictly in order. —Bagumba (talk) 06:21, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Emphasis on the word usually, which means "not always."
    Look guys, disagree with me if you want to, but don't tell me going out-of-chrono order is prohibited by a rule, because it plainly isn't. Levivich (talk) 15:38, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    The “loose chronological order” is regarding things happening in a short stretch, i.e. if an election happens on the same day as the Super Bowl admins don’t particularly care which one gets posted first and won’t go down to the to-the-minute details of whether the SB finished before the election was called or the other way around.
    There’s a chasm of difference when one event occurred a full week before the other, and your comments are absolutely reeking or WP:RGW. The Kip (talk) 15:45, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    The words generally not sorted by any degree of importance mean "sometimes sorted by some degree of importance". Levivich (talk) 15:47, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    All I can say is that that’s not just a stretch in logic, that’s a leap across the Grand Canyon. The Kip (talk) 15:58, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    You want the rules to only apply to American stories and non-American stories to get bumped up simply because they aren't American? ITN discussions are wild these days. --TorsodogTalk 05:54, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Chronological order is a thing. The Kip (talk) 06:10, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Proportionality, relative importance, and appearances, are all also "things". Levivich (talk) 15:40, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    But chronological order is a thing that’s enshrined in how ITNR works. The rest… aren’t. The Kip (talk) 15:43, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    First, look at the language, it says "rough", "generally", "usually". So chrono order is not "enshrined", it's not inflexible. "How ITNR works" is that it allows for non-chrono order sometimes -- rarely -- but sometimes.
    Second, WP:IAR is enshrined in how Wikipedia works. "No firm rules" is the fifth pillar of Wikipedia.
    At the risk of sounding repetitive: disagree with me if you want, but don't claim there is a rule against this, because there isn't, and because even if there were such a rule, we have no firm rules anyway. Levivich (talk) 15:46, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Please see the current talk page thread "food for thought" regarding story ordering (after the LeBron record had been posted). The consensus there is to avoid disrupting the order even for IAR reasons. Masem (t) 16:20, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I saw the discussion; I do not see the consensus you see, I see a lack of consensus. Levivich (talk) 16:35, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Lack of a clear consensus means revert to the status quo, which is to not re-order events because we feel like it. The Kip (talk) 17:33, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Regarding the picture, if we are regularly going to kick up a fuss about having an image of an athlete on the Main Page at the same time a disaster is in the news*, then we need to hash out a procedure for which we would make that determination. We can't do it on an IAR/ad hoc basis because not everyone here agrees that it's a worthy use of WP:IAR, which in my mind requires a near-unanimous consensus. If it's so important that we do this, we can come to an agreement on a small process to ad hoc the ITN template/image ordering based on what's in the news. By doing so, we can prevent future derailment of this type in ITN/C threads.--⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 13:18, 13 February 2023 (UTC) * - in the ITN sense, since the story is over a week old[reply]
    The discussion I started last week on WT:ITN, regarding more serious blurbs over less serious ones, seemed to suggest that we should not try to seek determination of what is more important than others once posting has been set by consensus. The only rule that then remains is to try to keep the picture for 24 hr before moving onto the next one, which I know the quake one had been up for multiple days, so the replacement follows the consensus here. No playing favorites, for all purposes. Masem (t) 13:24, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose image pull - for God's sake, yes we get it, an earthquake occured in Turkey and Syria. Tens of thousands died. A true tragedy of magnitude. But my brethren in Christ, the Turko-Syrian earthquake should not remain front and center of ITN. This section is for recent news, not the biggest news, we shouldn't just ground ITN just because of a major disaster. We've already had a story pulled because people got mad and thought that by including it, we we're somehow being disrespectful to the victims. The earthquake is a tragedy, but we're not finna ground every single change to ITN because of it. But nah, we gotta "respect the victims" and "combat Americanism", or some bullshit like that. Listen, if you're that concerned about the earthquake, get off your ass and donate to a charity, or something else besides pulling or rearranging content on ITN (like @Levivich proposed). Crusader1096 (message) 15:35, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I've done both and hope you do, too. Levivich (talk) 15:36, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Cool. For all the issues charities have, I'm sure that was more helpful than altering the English Wikipedia's ITN section to try and place the tragedy as front and center. Crusader1096 (message) 15:56, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak Oppose This news is not reallt ITN-worthy, sure, some team won a football match, but this is English Wikipedia, not American Wikipedia. Article looks good, though. Editor 5426387 (talk) 16:34, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The Super Bowl is a huge event in sports (and the biggest in all of American football) and is listed at ITNR as something that is always important enough to post if high enough quality. BeanieFan11 (talk) 16:40, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I hope this is satire. The Kip (talk) 18:33, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It doesn't matter what you think 5426387, since this is ITNR. --RockstoneSend me a message! 18:36, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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(Closed) Killing of Brianna Ghey

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Consensus to post will not develop. Additionally, the article is now at AfD which is a showstopper for ITN nominations. -Ad Orientem (talk) 02:54, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Article: Killing of Brianna Ghey (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ Transgender teen Brianna Ghey is killed in Warrington, England (Post)
News source(s): Sky News, ITV News, BBC News, The Independent, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times
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Nominator's comments: Recent killing of a transgender teen in the UK, that is currently being covered by all major UK news outlets. I think I've incorporated all of the currently known important facts. This is my first nomination though, so please forgive me if I've done something wrong. Sideswipe9th (talk) 00:25, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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February 12

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(Re-posted) RD: Killing of Brianna Ghey (renomination)

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Article: Killing of Brianna Ghey (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Sky News, ITV News, BBC News, The Independent, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times, Irish News, NBC News, Vogue, Teen Vogue, Vice News
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Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Re-nomination after the AfD was closed with a keep. Brianna was a transgender teen from Warrington, who was killed earlier this week. In the two/three days since the last nomination, the article has been extended significantly due to the widespread national and internation reactions to the killing. In addition to statements of grief from Brianna's family, local community, and some national politicians, there have been candlelight vigils held for Brianna across the UK and Ireland. The coverage of the killing by many UK press outlets has been heavily criticised, both nationally and internationally, for initially not covering that she was transgender, before later amending stories to remove the word "girl". Both The Times and Daily Mail edited their earlier stories to publish Brianna's deadname. Finally, despite earlier statements that there was no evidence of it being a hate crime, on February 14 police started investigating the killing as a potential hate crime.

It was my intent with the last nomination to nominate it as an RD, and I'm nominating this one as an RD as well. If its felt that the article is strong enough to be nominated as a blurb however I do have one in mind for this. But I think it's best to nominate it as an RD. If there's any concerns about the quality of the article or sourcing, I'm of course happy to take them onboard and make any changes as needed to the article. Sideswipe9th (talk) 02:46, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support RD I don't think this merits a blurb as its still not clear if its a hate crime, and even so, its a single, previously non-notable person. But as the event is considered notable by the AFD, then the victim qualifies for an RD from the previous discussion.
Masem (t) 02:54, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Erwan Kurtubi

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Article: Erwan Kurtubi (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): iNews
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Nominator's comments: Former regent of Pandeglang Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 18:00, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Billy Two Rivers

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Article: Billy Two Rivers (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): CBC, Montreal Gazette
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Nominator's comments: Canadian professional wrestler - Indefensible (talk) 21:30, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Greta Andersen

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Article: Greta Andersen (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Swimming World
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Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Danish swimmer, Olympic champion who also set several world records in marathon swimming. Oceanh (talk) 19:47, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Reply By going through available sources, I added a few things (instruction career until 1980 and beyond, and an ISHOF honor from 2015). As sportsperson, her major achievements obviously was in her younger days. Oceanh (talk) 11:02, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Ted Lerner

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Article: Ted Lerner (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): [30]
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 – Muboshgu (talk) 17:01, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: David Jude Jolicoeur

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Article: David Jude Jolicoeur (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): NYT
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Nominator's comments: Article needs quite a bit of expansion, and the "Aliases" section might have to go. Mooonswimmer 23:34, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support. I think he's definitely notable enough to deserve a mention, and honestly, I can't believe his page was this skeletal until now... In fact, I've just added some more useful details and sources all across the article, although there might still be work to get done, especially for the "Biography" section. Oltrepier (talk) 18:26, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support: This article could certainly use some expansion, but I just added two references that took care of the two cite tags and maintenance templates in the article and it's fully sourced as it stands now. Doc StrangeMailboxLogbook 20:36, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Posted. Appears to be in a fine state, despite being a little short. Anarchyte (talk) 13:00, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep drinking that Kool-Aid, folks I just read an encyclopedia entry which is heavily weighted towards his death, as if to suggest that we're saying he's notable for dying instead of notable for a music career, and which says ZERO about his life or career between 1991 and 2017. Considering the volume of traffic which comes through the main page, just who do you think you're fooling by saying this is worthy of a link simply because it happens to be formatted a certain way and happens to have citations neatly in place, no doubt the result of a moment-in-time Google search? Truly, the emperor wears no clothes. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 00:02, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I'd rather have an emperor with no clothes than a skeletal music bio; good job, Oltrepier and Strange! As for you, KAOS, fill it up if you can. Posting is not the end of our collective responsibility for history. InedibleHulk (talk) 00:11, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    @InedibleHulk Thank you! I've seen your message just now. : D
    To be fair, the pages for all of the three members of De La Soul genuinely deserve to be in a better state: I hope I'll have time to help improve them, especially as a fan of the group... Oltrepier (talk) 12:59, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I've heard the name before, so will listen to whatever Spotify deems their secondmost popular album tonight; if it moves me, I may be inspired to delve into the backstories behind the music, too. InedibleHulk (talk) 01:44, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) Election in Cyprus

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Nikos Christodoulides
Article: 2023 Cypriot presidential election (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ Nikos Christodoulides is elected President of Cyprus. (Post)
Alternative blurb: ​ Nikos Christodoulides is elected as President of Cyprus, defeating Andreas Mavroyiannis.
News source(s): Reuters
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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: ITN/R. BastianMAT (talk) 17:58, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support good shape, ready to be posted Vriend1917 (talk) 23:58, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Closed) Another UFO shot down

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No consensus to post. Stephen 22:54, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Articles: 2023 Yukon high-altitude object (talk · history · tag) and 2023 Alaska high-altitude object (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ Unidentified flying objects are shot down over Alaska, the Yukon and Lake Huron. (Post)
Alternative blurb: ​ NORAD downs three unidentified flying objects in Alaska, the Yukon and Lake Huron.
Alternative blurb II: ​ In the wake of a a Chinese balloon suspected of surveillance and espionage being shot down after overflying Canada and the United States, three unidentified flying objects are shot down over Alaska, the Yukon and Lake Huron.
News source(s): BBC; NYT; CNN; Reuters; Straits Times
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Article updated
Nominator's comments: The Yukon craft seems similar in size to the Alaskan one but nothing has been recovered from either yet as Arctic conditions are making the work difficult. We've not heard much more about the balloon in South America either, that I've seen, so I suppose that's still out there. Perhaps we should update the first shootdown blurb? Or consolidate into an Ongoing item? Andrew🐉(talk) 08:59, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose blurb per above but could possibly get behind moving to ongoing if a collective article for these events were created. Crusader1096 (message) 14:04, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Seriously, en.wiki is not a newspaper and there's zero indication these events are important on their own or if there's even a pattern. This is stuff for Wikinews, not here. --Masem (t) 14:12, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • ITN is currently leading with 2023 Monegasque general election. That's of so little importance that only 443 people read the article yesterday. That's not 443 thousand; it's just 443. The UFO shootdowns are more important because, as shooting incidents, they are a significant escalation in the hostility between the superpowers. Andrew🐉(talk) 15:04, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Elections of any nation are valid for ITN per ITNR, with this it's not even confirmed that the balloon is Chinese, so it's a bit rash to make that assumption. Even China claimed to have shot down a UFO. I say this isn't significant enough yet, unless/until more information comes out that warrants its significance. Rockin (Talk) 17:16, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    First, the election, despite its irregularities, is ITNR. That’s just how it is, regardless of size of the country.
    Second, WP:CRYSTAL applies here. The Kip (talk) 17:52, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    We do not care about viewership numbers. We are not like a newspaper that need to drive views to remain financially viable. ITN is more concerned with presenting a broad cross section of topics that happen to be in the news, which nearly every national-level general election is considered to be. Masem (t) 19:49, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    There's a certain irony in him claiming the Monegasque elections shouldn't be posted due to low viewership of the article, while also arguing the Super Bowl is of little significance. The Kip (talk) 06:15, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Yeah, who gives a heck about Monaco and their stupid elections! I mean, c'mon man, it's absurd to compete these two incidents. Monaco's selections aren't sexy front-page news, but they are well more important. DarkSide830 (talk) 02:05, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Please see MOS:PASSIVE which explains that "The most common uses of encyclopedic passive are to keep the focus on the subject instead of performing a news-style shift to dwelling on a non-notable party." Andrew🐉(talk) 21:29, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    • In this case, the unnamed party who shot down the "UFOs" is both notable and relevant. The current proposed blurb is an incredibly vague sentence which fails to identify the shooter(s), and provides a half-hearted description of the location of these events. Chrisclear (talk) 22:08, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Without an explanation of who or why the "UFOs" were shot, it's hard to see the significance of this item. Chrisclear (talk) 22:08, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Update There's been another shoot-down over Lake Huron today. This one was octagonal! Curiouser and curiouser... Andrew🐉(talk) 23:09, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I mean this in the politest possible terms, you don't need to post an update every few hours. The Kip (talk) 23:12, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support altering existing blurb to note that 3 other floating objects have been shot down in the following days. I see no need for a further blurb. Nfitz (talk) 00:09, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Request Denied This would make them seem too Chinese. Maybe they are and maybe they aren't. Best to keep mysteries like these vague until the smoking gun stuff is leaked, dripped or declassified. InedibleHulk (talk) 00:19, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I thought that it goes without saying, that the blurb would have to be written in a way to not imply that the new balloons are Chinese. Nfitz (talk) 01:22, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    It can't be, though. Even if we debolded, unlinked or euphemized the Chinese balloon part, it's been up there for over a week. People have associated it and most can't so suddenly forget. Just by putting them together, you're putting them together. Since the three less identified objects have less identity, they'll naturally be tainted by the relatively characterized fourth, instead of spreading their lack of distinction. InedibleHulk (talk) 03:36, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Inference is up to the reader. Though given that officials in Washington and the Prime Minister of Canada are saying that the second two are also balloons, and may be linked to the first, then I don't see the harm in providing simply the information. The origin of the 4th is less clear - as is the method of flight. Nfitz (talk) 18:15, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    WP:CRYSTAL, no confirmation anything but the balloon is Chinese. The Kip (talk) 00:43, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • What the fuck is the story here? Seriously? What's the significance of this? --⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 01:24, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Matters of national security, sir, I'm going to have to ask you to mind yer language. InedibleHulk (talk) 01:33, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    These incidents obviously indicate an escalation in the level of tension between China, Russia and the USA. What seems to be happening is that NORAD was stung by the accusations of weakness in handling the first balloon. They have cranked up the sensitivity of their radars and are shooting down anything that moves in an "abundance of caution" – i.e. they are now trigger-happy. This is a dangerous state for nuclear superpowers as there have been many cases in the past where war was avoided only by keeping cool – see the list of nuclear close calls.
Now ITN clearly has a low bar for significance as, after the Monaco election, it's now leading with the Superbowl – an ephemeral entertainment with zero long-term significance. It made no difference to the world which team won last night but ITN has rushed to announce the result regardless.
Andrew🐉(talk) 09:40, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Because the Super Bowl is a massive event as well as on ITNR, while the Monegasque elections are those of a sovereign state just like any other that we always post as per ITNR. Also, the idea that this is “clearly evident” of heightened tensions is a massive instance of WP:CRYSTAL when we still don’t even know what the UFOs were, let alone where they came from.
We get that you disagree with ITNR guidelines regarding elections and based on past behavior, especially sports - doesn’t make this any more notable. I’d love to hear how this, which is still thin on details besides “the US/Canada shot something down” has any more long-term significance than any of the events posted by consensus. The Kip (talk) 14:53, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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February 11

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(Ready) RD: Odd Eriksen

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Article: Odd Eriksen (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): NRK, Avisa Nordland
Credits:

Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Norwegian politician, Minister of Trade and Industry. Also recipient of the Polaris Award, for helping stop a hijacker from crashing a Kato Air-flight in 2004. Oceanh (talk) 03:54, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Deniz Baykal

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Article: Deniz Baykal (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Hurriyet Daily News
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Nominator's comments: Prominent Turkish politician. Prose appears holistic; source work is needed. Curbon7 (talk) 04:08, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Howard Bragman

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Article: Howard Bragman (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Variety, Deadline
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Article updated
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Nominator's comments: American "PR guru". Star-class, fully sourced article. --Kacamata! Dimmi!!! 22:06, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: O Kuk-ryol

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Article: O Kuk-ryol (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Sankei
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Article updated
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Nominator's comments: North Korean general. Foreign obituary first appeared on this date. Joofjoof (talk) 23:16, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Robert Hébras

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Article: Robert Hébras (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Le Monde
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Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Last living survivor of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre, article needs significant work. Came as a slight shock to be reading the article for unrelated reasons only to find that he died just hours ago. The Kip (talk) 21:55, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Closed) 2023 Ohio train derailment

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Closed as stale. --Tone 11:01, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Article: 2023 Ohio train derailment (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ A freight train containing several tons of vinyl chloride derailed outside of East Palestine, Ohio, and caught fire, resulting in toxic gases covering the area and evacuations throughout the region. (Post)
News source(s): AP News, NYT
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Nominator's comments: Train derailment causing an ongoing environmental, public health, and legal disaster with likely long-term effects. Synapticrelay (talk) 21:22, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This happened last week and the media did a terrible job covering it, but regardless now the blurb should be on the current parts of the story. Masem (t) 21:26, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Minus the arrests and lawsuits, unless we're breaking with that tradition of waiting for trials to finish. InedibleHulk (talk) 22:38, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
There was a hydrogen tanker that exploded near Columbus and melted the traffic lights on U.S. 23 a week or two ago. Don't really see how this is any more notable. NoahTalk 22:51, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Doctors are generally cool with us ingesting hydrogen, less so with those toxic gases. InedibleHulk (talk) 22:58, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - per @Black Kite, @Evan224, and @AirshipJungleman29's arguments in the Lebron James nomination that 30 thousand people dying in the earthquake in Turkey and Syria means that ITN can never be updated again.
On a serious note, support. Notable, undercovered story that can have serious implications (e.g, potential acid rain from all the excess acid in the air caused by this incident). The media has done a horrendous job of covering this story. Crusader1096 (message) 00:06, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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(Posted) RD: Hans Modrow

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Article: Hans Modrow (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Tagesschau, Der Spiegel
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Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Last Chairman of the Council of Ministers (GDR), paved way for first free elections, in general he played a big part in steering East Germany towards the reunification. Could be blurb-worthy as well for named reasons, but definitely needs some expansion to even be posted in RD anyway. CDE34RFV (talk) 11:02, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Support major historic figure, subject to some small issues being fixed, but overall good. Editor 5426387 (talk) 14:31, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Closed as duplicate; see below) Collapse of Moldova's government

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Duplicate; see below (here) --NAC by The ⬡ Bestagon T/C 12:19, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Article: Natalia Gavrilița (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ "Prime Minister of Moldova Natalia Gavrilița resigns following the collapse of her pro-Western government amid rising Russian pressure." (Post)
News source(s): Politico;BBC; Reuters
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Nominator's comments: Article could use some expansion and substantial updates, including more context regarding her resignation and the last few months of her premiership (and her premiership in general). Sources mention economic turmoil, war in Ukraine/Russian pressure, lack of support for proposed reforms... A vote will be held next week to vote in the new head of government, named by the President of Moldova. Mooonswimmer 10:44, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

support more notable than nz. Followed the protests and day after condemning the missile over head.45.112.200.3 (talk) 11:56, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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(Closed) UFO shot down

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Consensus not to post now. Feel free to reopen if they were aliens or similar. (Closing in a similar manner than the previous balloon - it became a big story only when it was shot down.) --Tone 17:24, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Article: 2023 Alaska high-altitude object incident (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ An unidentifed flying object is shot down off of Alaska (Post)
Alternative blurb: ​ An unidentifed object over Alaska is shot down by the United States
News source(s): BBC;NYT
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Article updated
Nominator's comments: Breaking news but this seems to be a different type of craft from the balloon. Andrew🐉(talk) 00:03, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Wait As said by @NorthernFalcon, we should not use UFO, we definitely have to wait to see what the DOJ, or what Joe Biden will respond with. Vriend1917 (talk) 00:50, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Wait per @NorthernFalcon and @Chrisclear There simply isn't enough information out to make a decision if this is newsworthy. Aure entuluva (talk) 02:15, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Wait - per above Crusader1096 (message) 02:25, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Wait per above Editor 5426387 (talk) 14:27, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Merge it with the balloons for context, if it comes to something.45.112.200.3 (talk) 11:53, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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February 10

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RD: Sergey Tereshchenko

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Article: Sergey Tereshchenko (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): KazInform
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Article updated
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Nominator's comments: Former prime minister of Kazakhstan. Article is close, some light source work is needed. Curbon7 (talk) 04:05, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: René-Samuel Sirat

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Article: René-Samuel Sirat (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The Times of Israel
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Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Chief rabbi of France. Needs some source work. Curbon7 (talk) 04:00, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Marguerite Jauzelon

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Article: Marguerite Jauzelon (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Clicanoo.re
Credits:

Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: French WWII nurse. Needs some source work. Curbon7 (talk) 04:00, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: AKA (rapper)

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Article: AKA (rapper) (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): NY Times
Credits:

Article updated
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Nominator's comments: One of the most prominent rappers from South Africa murdered. Referencing needs some work. Ad Orientem (talk) 16:06, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

New PM in Moldova

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Article: Dorin Recean (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ Dorin Recean is appointed Prime Minister of Moldova after Natalia Gavrilița resigns. (Post)
Alternative blurb: ​ Following the resignation of Natalia Gavrilița, Dorin Recean is nominated Prime Minister of Moldova.
Alternative blurb II: ​ Dorin Recean is appointed Prime Minister of Moldova following the resignation of Natalia Gavrilița.
News source(s): Reuters
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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: ITN/R as the head of government is Prime Minister in Moldova. BastianMAT (talk) 16:04, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not support yet appointed or nominated? Also, article needs a picture. QueensanditsCrazy (talk) 18:20, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Dorin's article says "nominated to become Prime Minister of Moldova", so I think that's probably the right choice here. TheCorriynial (talk) 18:23, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
A picture, though preferred, is not a requirement for ITN posting. Curbon7 (talk) 18:23, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support Altblurb 1 Article of Dorin seems fine to me. And since generally leadership changes are posted, I can't see any reason not to post this one. TheCorriynial (talk) 18:17, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Amjad Islam Amjad

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Article: Amjad Islam Amjad (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Nation, DAWN
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Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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.

 Ainty Painty (talk) 14:14, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

February 9

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February 9, 2023 (2023-02-09) (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Disasters and accidents

Health and environment

International relations

Law and crime

RD: Jean-Maurice Dehousse

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Article: Jean-Maurice Dehousse (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Le Soir
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Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Belgian MP and MEP. Needs prose work. Curbon7 (talk) 03:56, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Marcos Alonso

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Article: Marcos Alonso (footballer, born 1959) (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Reuters
Credits:

Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Spanish professional football player, coach, manager. Indefensible (talk) 08:00, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD/Blurb: Burt Bacharach

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Article: Burt Bacharach (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination
Blurb:  American songwriter Burt Bacharach dies at the age of 94. (Post)
News source(s): The Guardian
Credits:

Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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.

 Mooonswimmer 15:19, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Weak oppose The article is really quite good, and its almost there, but there's some minor referencing work that needs to be handled; the "film and television" section is mostly unreferenced, and one vital cn tag in the personal life section. If those get fixed, this would be good to go for the main page. No need to ping me to change my vote, if those items are fixed, consider this a full support. --Jayron32 15:47, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    @Jayron32: The issues have been fixed. The reason why I'm pinging you is to see if your support is directed towards RD only, a blurb, or either or? 38.106.246.200 (talk) 20:30, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    RD only. There's nothing else to say than that he died. RD conveys that fine. --Jayron32 21:19, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support RD, Weak Oppose current Blurb right now. (While the Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head) Likely though, it will need editing. But his music writing career, writing #1 hits for Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, The Carpenters, The four artists on That's What Friends Are For, Christopher Cross, B.J. Thomas, and not to mention writing most of Dionne Warwick's most popular songs, a big hit for Tom Jones (singer), and many more makes this an easy support for legacy. Blurb should probably include Grammy Wins, and or big hits he wrote. Maybe a Alt blurb, something like "American songwriter and Bacharach Sound creator, Burt Bacharach dies at the age of 94." TheCorriynial (talk) 19:11, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Legacy doesn't matter here, because every person (or even animal for that matter) with an article is important enough to post, as the template states. The ⬡ Bestagon T/C 16:06, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe blurb is meant by the author? Kirill C1 (talk) 17:46, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Will strike, but I'm pretty sure there was no blurb proposal when I made this comment. The ⬡ Bestagon T/C 06:00, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@TheCorriynial: So you support the idea of him having a blurb in general, but your opposition is towards the proposed blurb listed. 38.106.246.200 (talk) 20:28, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support blurb Has won three Oscars, numerous Grammys, his songs have been recorded by over 1,000 artists (per his article), the Musical style section demonstrates the impact he had on music (Bacharach Sound), and one of the most influential composers of pop music in the 20th century. Definitely influential in his field. --38.106.246.200 (talk) 18:29, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    sigh
    "Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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." The Kip (talk) 18:38, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    People are already voting on a blurb, so I've changed the template to make that clear. Pawnkingthree (talk) 18:45, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I believe this user is justifying why he merits a blurb not just an RD tag in general. --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 18:58, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support RD and blurb Article's sourcing issues are fixed and I could get behind supporting a blurb because of the impact he had on pop music in the previous century. --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 18:58, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Old Man Dies He had an impact on pop in the previous century, last week and now that he's dead. This event changes nothing beyond personal life. There's no story, just an obituary, and a Photo RD is a more fitting fan nod. InedibleHulk (talk) 20:38, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Blurb. Not quite as transformative as most individuals who we would blurb. DarkSide830 (talk) 22:15, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support RD. On the level of quality, the article seems ready to post. All living people with articles who die are eligible for RD from a notability perspective, so I think posting this at RD is more than acceptable. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 23:06, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support RD, Oppose Blurb Death has received decent coverage. Influence on 20th century music I would say is probably to support RD. Oppose blurb only because I can't find much he was notable for other than music. Betty White, for example was an advocate for several causes apart from her acting career, and of course she was a major name in the entertainment industry for seven decades.--Estar8806 (talk) 00:15, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Bacharach industrially exploded 771 months ago, so he's only about five years short (and still across eight decades). InedibleHulk (talk) 01:27, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak oppose blurb I feel he's "famous" and certainly has a lot of famous works associated with him, but fame is not the same as being a major or transformative figure (eg we're in Carrie Fisher territory here). That said, there's some elements in the article that hint towards that and if his impact was better spelled out, I'd likely be willing to support. --Masem (t) 01:19, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Not Ready for RD Referencing as usual. In particular the discography sections need work. Neutral on blurb. But the article is not ready for now. -Ad Orientem (talk) 01:37, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support RD, Oppose Blurb "Old man dies of old age." His article will tell what he's famous for. HiLo48 (talk) 02:23, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Picture The subject's name is already distinctive and well-recognised and the proposed blurb text adds no value. The key difference is using the picture which we should do as we have one. We should use RD pictures more often to keep the ITN section looking fresh every day. A picture is worth a thousand words. Andrew🐉(talk) 09:15, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I've added the "ready" tag, as it appears this has the support and quality to go to the main page. If an admin (not me, I am involved) could take care of that, that'd be awesome. Thanks in advance! --Jayron32 12:52, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Unsure if ready There are still a couple of CN tags in the prose, but this isn't that big a deal. More pressingly is that around half of the Honors and awards appears to be unsourced, including some major (RE: contentious) awards, and nearly the entire Discography is unsourced. Regardless, per Andrew above, this seems like an obvious candidate to use Photo RD for, which we haven't done in a while. Curbon7 (talk) 12:56, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Not ready per Curbon7, especially with the sparse sourcing for the Discography section. I would suggest looking to his discography article to remedy this issue. Aeromachinator (talk to me here) 15:39, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support RD, oppose blurb Article's in good shape for an RD; however, not quite as transformative/universally known as our traditional death blurb standards, nor did he die young/unusually. The Kip (talk) 15:43, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support RD and blurb. "a dominant force in American popular music for half a century",see variety

https://variety.com/2023/music/obituaries-people-news/burt-bacharach-dead-american-music-1235517943/.Kirill C1 (talk) 19:25, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Oppose per above
Editor 5426387 (talk) 15:02, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support blurb Is there a better-known, or more important, popular music songwriter in the English-speaking world (not including figures also well-known as performers)? Bacharachwas absolutely transformative. He created a unique style of popular music that became much imitated and he composed a lot of songs that are incredibly well-known in the English-speaking world, songs that have united performers in rock, soul, R&B, country, jazz, easy listening, punk, disco, funk, Latin, garage rock, any major pop genre you can think of. Nat King Cole recorded a Bacharach song in 1952, The Beatles did in 1963. Isaac Hayes and Carpenters were both cutting his songs in 1970. If we don't blurb Bacharach, are we just not interested in blurbing anyone best known as a songwriter for other performers? Humbledaisy (talk) 15:55, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose blurb, support RD Transformative figure in his field (20th century Western pop music) and won a lot of awards, but his legacies, and in particular genres of Chamber pop and Shibuya-kei, has been all but left out in 21st century as the zeitgeist and musical styles keep changing. MarioJump83 (talk) 00:42, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak oppose blurb I feel like I may have used him as an example when suggesting which composers might warrant a blurb when a weaker suggestion was made in years past. Bacharach was unquestionably, truly, transformative in the field of pop music, over several decades. Why do I oppose, then? Because he was just one of the figures I thought of, and if it is busy at the top (Lloyd Webber, Williams, Vaughan Williams, Guthnadottir...), it is perhaps a field where no figure is so outstanding. If we'd have to blurb them all, it is better to blurb none and let RD show them. As an aside, I am leaning more and more to just RD'ing everyone, as was the intention when that line was introduced... Yes, ITN's primary purpose is to direct readers to articles we have when current news items prompt them to seek further, more comprehensive, information, and the life of a recently-deceased celebrity is certainly there. But all that needs is a name, no matter who it is, the story is the same - unless the death itself is a story, like e.g. Kobe, then it should be judged as any other news item. Kingsif (talk) 13:00, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    "If we'd have to blurb them all, it is better to blurb none and let RD show them"it is better to blurb them all Kirill C1 (talk) 14:00, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment There is a rough consensus for RD-only, however, there are still referencing issues. Two or three cn-s in the main text I don't particularly mind, but the discography is completely unsourced and this is thus a no-go at the moment. --Tone 14:22, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment @Tone I should have added some more references yesterday.
    Oltrepier (talk) 13:19, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Discography still unsourced... Tone 13:29, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Closed) Thathri Disaster 2023

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Consensus to post is unlikely to develop.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 14:12, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Article: Thathri Disaster 2023 (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ ​Thathri disaster has effected over 23 buildings and 21 residential houses. (Post)
News source(s): The Wire (India), The Economic Times, Outlook (Indian magazine), News18 Hindi
Credits:
Nominator's comments: The disaster is ongoing and may remain in the news for long time. ❯❯❯ Chunky aka Al Kashmiri (✍️) 06:53, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Is this a request that this be placed as "ongoing", or that the event be covered as occurring on February 9? — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 07:05, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Red-tailed hawk This is an ongoing event as the geologists are yet to submit final report and effected families are still in rehabilitation centres, according to news. But I want a blurb. ❯❯❯ Chunky aka Al Kashmiri (✍️) 07:14, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Noted. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 07:15, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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February 8

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February 8, 2023 (2023-02-08) (Wednesday)

Business and economy

International relations

Law and crime

Politics and elections

Science and technology

(Posted) RD: Shirley Fulton

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Article: Shirley Fulton (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The News & Observer
Credits:

Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: First black female judge in North Carolina Superior Court; also it's US Black History Month Cielquiparle (talk) 13:04, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Ivan Silayev

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Article: Ivan Silayev (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): RFE/RL
Credits:

Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Prime Minister of the Soviet Union. - Indefensible (talk) 08:19, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support, though the final prime minister of the USSR may well be deserving of a blurb. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 08:23, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Dennis Lotis

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Article: Dennis Lotis (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): BBC
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Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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-British singer, actor. - Indefensible (talk) 08:11, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Igor Mangushev

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Article: Igor Mangushev (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): BBC
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Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Russian military commander. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 17:36, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Much improved. -Ad Orientem (talk) 03:52, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) Chile wildfires

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Wildfire formation captured by GOES-16
Article: 2023 Chile wildfires (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ A megadrought and heatwave cause forest fires and a state of emergency in Chile. (Post)
Alternative blurb: ​ Forest fires in Chile kill at least 26 people and injure more than 1,260 others.
News source(s): NASA; New Scientist; Reuters; Al Jazeera;Guardian
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Article updated

Nominator's comments: This seems similar to equivalent events in the northern hemisphere and is breaking records. Andrew🐉(talk) 09:42, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support upon removal of orange tags. Anarchyte (talk) 10:30, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • As there appear to be at least 26 deaths, that should be added to blurb and that would definitely make this a ITN item (barring article quality). --Masem (t) 13:37, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Article is a bit short, but well referenced, and probably is still long enough to justify sending readers to it. Reliable sources are covering the story in a way that shows that people are likely to have heard about it. Checks every box. --Jayron32 13:38, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support once expanded - At this point, there is not much about the wildfires themselves but about reactions and foreign aid. The ⬡ Bestagon T/C 14:32, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support – Article looks to be of sufficient quality. "Megadrought" is currently not used in the article, so either the blurb needs to change or the article needs to be expanded. ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 14:54, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support as Ongoing, Weak Oppose Blurb. The fires have already been ongoing for some time to the point where a regular blurb may be inappropriate for this item. Ideally we should have blurbed this already and then moved to Ongoing, but at this point I would argue just a direct move to Ongoing would be more appropriate. DarkSide830 (talk) 17:23, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Given that news sources are now heavily picking this up, and that the Turkey/Syria blurb will be ongoing if it falls off, I think just a normal blurb here us fine. Masem (t) 17:27, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I guess it's fine. My concern really is where exactly this item falls on the list. Obviously this was nomed today, but the fires didn't just start. In theory this item could be more stale than the last blurb depending on where you think it should fall. I guess it's not an issue but I still think Ongoing is a better place for this item. DarkSide830 (talk) 17:34, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Comment. Added an alt-blurb that I believe better focuses on the impacts of the event (still opposed to a blurb, but I would favor this one in the event this gets a blurb eventually). DarkSide830 (talk) 17:31, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support, per above. Crusader1096 (message) 04:00, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • I got the megadrought aspect from the NASA report and they got it from the World Meteorological Organization. Other respectable sources use this term and it appears in the article too. Anyway, whatever you call it, the point is that the drought is a big one – "the longest in at least 1,000 years" – and is relevant and significant too. Andrew🐉(talk) 11:08, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Branka Veselinović

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Article: Branka Veselinović (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Danas, b92
Credits:

Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Serbian actress, died at age 104 --Vacant0 (talk) 09:31, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Ahmet Eyüp Türkaslan

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Article: Ahmet Eyüp Türkaslan (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The Guardian
Credits:

Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Turkish goalkeeper for Yeni Malatyaspor; victim of the recent earthquake. Article in good enough shape. Abcmaxx (talk) 08:22, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Miroslav Blažević

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Article: Miroslav Blažević ‎ (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Index.hr, Mehr News (English), The Guardian
Credits:

Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Croatian football manager --DragonFederal (talk) 07:25, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Needs lots of referencing work, otherwise the article is detailed. --Tone 09:47, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support: Just a few moments earlier I overlooked this section and nominated Ćiro myself. That said, this is one of the most notable figures in modern Croatian sports; The Guardian article sums it up and the article speaks for itself. The article needs more references but is adequate as-is for RD section IMO. -Vipz (talk) 22:09, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    The standards established by WP:ITNQUALITY require the article to be very well-referenced, which means entirely or almost entirely referenced with reliable sources; in this instance, significant chunks of the article are completely uncited. We do not assess for importance or notability for RD either; as the bottom of the yellow box states: "Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post". Curbon7 (talk) 02:39, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Not yet ready Closer than it was earlier in the week, but still significant sourcing issues. Curbon7 (talk) 04:09, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Pulled) LeBron James sets scoring record

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Even before posting, consensus to post was weak at best but with the additional discussion it's clear that this does not have sufficient consensus to post and given the amount of discussion already, there is also no reason to assume that this will change. Regards SoWhy 15:16, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Articles: LeBron James (talk · history · tag) and List of National Basketball Association career scoring leaders (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ LeBron James (pictured) scores his 38,388th career point, surpassing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to become the all-time leading scorer in the National Basketball Association. (Post)
Alternative blurb: ​ LeBron James (pictured) surpasses Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to become the all-time leading scorer in the National Basketball Association.
News source(s): NYT, NPR, BBC, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Xinhua, Al Jazeera
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Nominator's comments: "The record had seemed to be set in stone, untouched for decades even by greats like Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant." says NYT. – Muboshgu (talk) 05:18, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Very Slight Support as far as I can tell there hasn't been a precedent on these types of nominations. Cristiano breaking the goalscoring record wasn't posted but this is slightly different because we knew the true record. Anyways I think this is notable enough but I know that American sports are not as notable compared to the likes of real football and cricket so I am willing to change my mind on this. Jbvann05 05:35, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    We posted Magnus Carlsen earning the highest chess rating ever, so there’s some precedence. The Kip (talk) 18:08, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support probably the biggest record in basketball, likely won't be broken for decades. Also, LeBron James is a GA, and it has been updated. NorthernFalcon (talk) 05:39, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. Probably snowball's chance in Heck this gets posted, but as NorthernFalcon notes, this is the biggest record in basketball. Also the NBA is the most prominent league of one of the most biggest sports in the world. DarkSide830 (talk) 05:45, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - interesting hook and good opportunity to put a GA on the main page. Anarchyte (talk) 05:55, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support - notable basketball record, likely won't be broken for a while as @NorthernFalcon noted. Well written GA too. Also, you know that the folks who will be rushing to write oppose would happily slap Messi or Ronaldo's face on the main page with a lengthy blurb because "FoOtBaLl Is A dIfFeReNt BeAsT." Crusader1096 (message) 06:30, 8 February 2023
There IS a fundamental difference. Soccer is international. The NBA isn't. Significantly, this is the case for several sports Americans believe are more important than most international sports. This isn't necessarily an oppose vote from me. Just an observation of the problem facing us here. HiLo48 (talk) 09:03, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
While basketball isn't as popular as soccer, it has intl. popularity. In addition to the US, it's also popular in Europe & China. Blaylockjam10 (talk) 09:28, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Why do people keep saying this? Whether it is internationally popular is irrelevant. "Please do not Oppose an item solely because the event is only relating to a single country, or failing to relate to one. This applies to a high percentage of the content we post and is generally unproductive." --RockstoneSend me a message! 10:06, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Why do people keep saying things that DON'T relate to what they're complaining about?????? I didn't oppose the nomination. I was simply describing the difficulty of evaluating this achievement in comparison to ITN level achievements outside the USA. A huge pile-on of Americans saying "This is great" is never going to convince non-Americans. Would Americans accept a record goal scoring achievement in Australian Football as ITN worthy? I'm really asking if there is any way of objectively evaluating an achievement like this? Or do we simply accept what a lot of excited Americans say? HiLo48 (talk) 10:15, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Personally I'm not sure what else can be said about this nom. This is, unequivocally the most important record in the most imporyant league in one of the most globally prominent sports. You can disagree that it's notable, but what else CAN be said here? DarkSide830 (talk) 17:15, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I DID NOT DISAGREE THAT IT IS NOTABLE!!!!!!!!!! HiLo48 (talk) 21:14, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
My comment was regarding the lack of a compelling argument that may appeal to the non-American editor. That is what I said before and my point is if that doesn't do it than you simply must not want this posted (I mean to be using "you" in a general rather than pointed sense). DarkSide830 (talk) 02:32, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
To my knowledge, Australian football doesn't have such a record – however, I would, of course, support a soccer equivalent. DecafPotato (talk) 18:41, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
IN AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL THEY KICK GOALS, SO OF COURSE IT HAS SUCH A RECORD!!!!!! HiLo48 (talk) 21:14, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I WOULDN'T MIND THAT RECORD!!!!!! Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 22:03, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
We've had NBA stars and superstars from Argentina, Cameroon, Canada, China, Congo (Kinshasa not Brazzaville), Croatia, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Nigeria, Serbia, Slovenia and Spain who generally had no connection to USA till they were strong enough to play in the NBA or almost. So many of the NBA stars are from overseas right now that we could we might not even be in the '24 Olympic final. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 22:01, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Very Strong Support Accelerate! 5.44.170.26 (talk) 11:47, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support, Kareem's record stood ever since 1984, that is an almost 40 year old record being broken by Lebron. With basketball and the NBA gaining more and more popularity, we should nominate this article since this is something that millions of people care about. Kennyboy1999 (talk) 17:07, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. Probably the most important individual record in all of basketball, and this is absolutely in the news. Placing this in a blurb is utterly reasonable, and the article quality is high enough to warrant posting. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 18:38, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Support At first, I would've opposed this, seeing as how I don't believe sports records should be posted, but that was, to be fair, looking through the lens of someone who doesn't often watch sports with the exception of motorsports, considering basketball's popularity and how this has had solid media coverage, I move to weak support. Many insurmountable records I feel have been broken, and none were blurbed, but this is different, because of it's coverage in media. TheBlueSkyClub (talk) 18:55, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Just because it's a sports record doesn't mean it's trivia. This is a record that has stood for nearly 40 years, and it is receiving widespread coverage. The article is good quality and has been sufficiently updated. Pawnkingthree (talk) 19:06, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak support This is the kind of thing a traditional encyclopedia would mention. (In fact, Britannica Online already does. I'm looking at the library version, so I don't have a link.) Relative to major disasters, it's a trivial thing. But relative to other sports news, it's pretty significant - arguably more significant than the typical NBA Finals result. Zagalejo (talk) 19:23, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question Do you really want to put a sporting record, where it is clearly debatable whether it qualifies for ITN or not, above an event that has killed 12,000 people ... at least? Black Kite (talk) 21:12, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Not to sound callous, but that’s not a concern for ITNR. The Super Bowl will be on there in mere days anyways, with the earthquake blurb likely still in it. The Kip (talk) 21:21, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Chronologically above, yes. Just like we put a damn floating robot over hundreds of dead and injured Muslims. Something relatively less tragic will have to "top" this soon enough, may as well be LeBron. InedibleHulk (talk) 05:10, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Strong oppose Sports trivia? Really? Is that what we're posting on Wikipedia's ITN now? I also like how someone above me asked if we want to put a sporting record (that is clearly debatable whether it qualifies for ITN or not) right above an event that killed at least 12,000 people. Evan224 (talk) 23:21, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
If you'd care to read some of the many comments above you, this is clearly quite a lot more than mere sports trivia. This is receiving wide coverage from even non-American RSes such as Le Monde, BBC, El Pais, la Repubblica, etc. The Kip (talk) 23:23, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support possibly not the most significant news at the moment (although admittedly I don't follow the sport and I live in a country where it doesn't have the same level of coverage as in the US), but it seems like an interesting achievement and more than mere trivia. It also gives an opportunity to get a high-quality article onto the Main Page and lets us include something positive to break up the constant procession of doom and gloom that seems to be all that is ever posted to ITN these days. 176.26.3.180 (talk) 00:50, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Correct, so the quality of comments is supposed to be assessed. It's obvious that a significant proportion of Support comments are not much more than "I love basketball and Le Bron is great." Most of the Oppose comments give reasons. Quite a range of them. I'm not convinced that they have been evaluated properly. HiLo48 (talk) 08:00, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Congratulations to LeBron James for breaking the all-time NBA record in nearly 40 years, but many records can be broken all the time, even if it is a long one, like in 2020 Cleveland Browns' win over the Steelers in the road playoff game, which is Browns' first since 1969 against the Dallas Cowboys, or Russell Westbrook breaking Oscar Robertson's triple-double record in May 10, 2021 (which was never nominated to the ITN by the way). I would wholeheartedly support this on DYK though. MarioJump83 (talk) 08:40, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Post-posting oppose. We don't post sporting trivia of this sort, particularly when it's the sort of record you can attain simply through playing more matches than anyone else. By this precedent we will be posting all sorts of similar records in NFL, NHL, football, cricket etc going forward, and we've never done that. I also question the consensus seen above, there seemed too much opposition for this to be a consensus to post. Nominate it at DYK instead.  — Amakuru (talk) 09:00, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    There seems to be a misunderstanding on what DYK is about. This is a well-established longstanding GA with a lot of detail, it is pretty much impossible for the subject to be expanded upon to the degree that a DYK feature would make sense. I'm sure this wouldn't be the most interesting fact for a DYK blurb about James either. The whole problem here is that the update to the article is fairly minor despite the news being fairly major; that's the exact opposite to what DYK is all about. ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 09:04, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The phrase "particularly when it's the sort of record you can attain simply through playing more matches than anyone else" is very funny to me- like it's 1) so easy to play that many games and 2) the only requirement for scoring the most points. FWIW, the NBA all-time leader in games played is Robert Parish; he played in 200 more games than LeBron yet scored 15,000 fewer points. -- Kicking222 (talk) 10:05, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I see a lot of opposes that are comparing this record to other trivial records, as if this is going to open up ITN to all sorts of sports records. The basketball career points record is the record in the NBA; there really aren't other records in the NBA worth posting. It would be like someone breaking Gretzky's goals record in the NHL, or someone breaking Sachin Tendulkar's centuries record, or if someone broke the all time touchdowns record in the NFL, or if someone broke the all-time goals record in soccer; these are the primary career statistic in each sport. You wouldn't see tributes and headlines on every global news site if someone broke the NBA assist record. NorthernFalcon (talk) 09:07, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Again, there's a big difference not being considered there. Yes, an NBA record is like an NFL or NHL record. All three are domestic leagues. I don't know which level of soccer you're referring to but it wouldn't be the American domestic league, would it? It would be in major international competition. And Tendulkar's record was in international Test Cricket, something that's been going for nearly 150 years. It's another level. And I repeat, we almost certainly wouldn't post a new goal scoring record in the Australian Football League, the world's leading competition in that sport. There has been so many pointless, fan frenzy support comments here, I now definitely an Oppose. HiLo48 (talk) 09:38, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Your reading of the !votes is, at best, curious. So many of the supports have said "This record stood for four decades, the article is a GA, and it's getting a huge amount of news coverage", while so many of the opposes have said "This is just trivia" (which it isn't) and "Records get broken all the time" (but records of this magnitude don't).
The NBA, NFL, and NHL are the highest levels of international competition in their respective sports, full-stop. If you listed the 500 best male basketball players ever, it would probably be Oscar Schmidt, a few Harlem Globetrotters, and 496 guys who played in the NBA at some point. LeBron scoring more points than anyone else in NBA history is unquestionably significant, and the media coverage backs that up. I'm indifferent about LeBron- my favorite players are Sabrina Ionescu and Elena Delle Donne- but I can see his breaking the record for the momentous (and newsworthy) achievement that it is. -- Kicking222 (talk) 09:57, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
See List of VFL/AFL players with international backgrounds. (You probably don't even know what those initials stand for.) HiLo48 (talk)
  • Post-posting oppose While basketball is one of the most popular sports globally, this is one record in one league. If we didn't post CR7 breaking the global scoring record in football, the most popular sport by far, why are we posting a less-broad record in a less-popular sport? That's the neutral view. But I'll also ass a personal oppose thought, in that I think with team sports, team/franchise achievements should be considered for posting more than individual ones. Kingsif (talk) 11:48, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I think prioritizing team achievements over individual achievements in team sports is an excellent point, and might need to be considered more in the future. ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 12:30, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Pull. With the post-posting opposes, there's now definitely no consensus to post this. Not to mention that having this bit of trivia sitting above the earthquake story - which is still the #1 story globally - is a little embarrassing IMO. Black Kite (talk) 12:05, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Agreed, especially that this item went with an image, replacing that of the earthquake's damage. The ⬡ Bestagon T/C 12:27, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Another option is to move forward rather than back. By posting other pending items such as the fires in Chile or the elections in Monaco, the basketball stat will be pushed down and so be less prominent. Andrew🐉(talk) 12:28, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Reaffirming my oppose and asking an admin to pull this item. There definitely was no consensus in the first place, nevermind now with the post-posting opposes. The ⬡ Bestagon T/C 12:26, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per GreatCaesarsGhost. I always find the individual stats within team sports to be a bit trivial at the best of times. - SchroCat (talk) 12:51, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Post-posting support - we put blurbs for Darts and Snooker tournaments - sports with minor followings, at best - but some here don't want to post that a many-decades-long record in basketball has been broken? QueensanditsCrazy (talk) 12:56, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
We'll post the NBA playoff winner too. that's the comparison to be made. Masem (t) 13:11, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
You can certainly express your opinion at the inappropriateness of the image in the template, although there's no rule that requires admins to not use an image for a blurb if an earthquake story is posted immediately below it, but to me the use of the adjective "overpaid" just screams "I hate". ⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 13:36, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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(Posted) RD: Nugraha Besoes

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Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): CNN obituary
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Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Secretary general of Indonesia's football (not soccer) association for more than two decades. Burial date. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 19:46, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Yakup Taş

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Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Duvar
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Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a 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: Turkish MP who died in the earthquake. The article is a stub, so this nomination is intended to draw attention to the article. Curbon7 (talk) 02:56, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Tunku Abdul Aziz

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Support. The article is well-referenced and is long enough to be on the main page. There's room for expansion, but that is not a blocker at the moment. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 20:44, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Daniel Defert

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RD: Richard Kell (poet)

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  • Not yet ready Not holistic enough for our purposes; some expansion of his career is needed (c. 1980-2020). Prose is also missing several citations, and bibliography is entirely uncited. Curbon7 (talk) 14:11, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Harry Whittington

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(Posted) RD: Janet Anderson

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February 6

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RD: Răzvan Theodorescu

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  • Oppose The problem is that a lot of the sources are difficult to verify, as they are in Romanian and permanent dead links. Also I don't think a CV is acceptable as a source. There are also some further citations needed. Pawnkingthree (talk) 00:02, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Lubomír Štrougal

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(Posted) RD: Niamh Bhreathnach

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Support. Body is well-referenced and the article is holistic enough to post to the main page. Looks good to post. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 17:15, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake

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Wait until confirmation of initial death toll. A 7.8 can be deadly, but also could be effectively nothing, though that seems unlikely at this point. Masem (t) 02:57, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    • CNN is reporting at least 17 dead, so that's sufficient for me. But should wait a few more hours to collect more information and get a good article on this. --Masem (t) 03:55, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support AP reports at least 5 deaths in Turkey. Ionmars10 (talk) 03:03, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Wait. Sure, major damage has been reported, but no deaths have been confirmed. If the death toll becomes decently high or something else like that happens, then I would put it ITN. Idontknowlol7 03:03, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Wait until death toll becomes clear NW1223<Howl at me•My hunts> 03:05, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support posting now, which is when people are actually looking to us to help them find this content. On significance, The New York Times is reporting that "significant casualties are likely". Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 04:24, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Remember that our goal is to feature quality articles that happen to be in the news, not to be a news ticker. Not that this won't get posted (the death count numbers are rapidly going up) but we want to make sure the article is in reasonable shape before posting. Masem (t) 04:34, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support - nearly 200 dead last time I checked and its been a few hours. Tragic. Crusader1096 (message) 05:34, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support This is terrible news, the amount of death is catastrophic, definitely worthy for ITN. Vriend1917 (talk) 11:35, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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February 5

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(Posted) RD: Inge Sargent

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(Posted) Election in Monaco

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  • Support Comparing it to the article for the Beninese parlimentary election in January, it stacks up solidly. It definitely could use some work, but this seems pretty good. TheBlueSkyClub (talk) 16:14, 7 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support A little short, but appears to be sufficient for an election article for our purposes. Curbon7 (talk) 13:33, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak support The analysis section probably brings this over the line to main-page readiness, but only just so. Would like to see some more expansion. Also, suggest using the attributive noun in the piped link rather than the adjectival form so it reads the the Monaco general elections, as Monegasque, while correct, is likely unfamiliar to many readers. --Jayron32 13:41, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak oppose. I find it hard to support this, even if it does qualify as ITNR and just about meets our minimum quality requirements. Since the last election, all three of the main political parties merged, giving themselves 23 of the 24 seats; in this election they received 90% of the vote and all 24 seats. That does not appear to be a competitive democratic process, more an establishment stitch-up. 80,000 votes were cast, in a country with a population of 40,000, while the article still describes that as a 57% turnout - no explanation for those highly discrepant numbers is given. It's always tricky when we consider sham elections, but given how small the country is, and how mediocre the article, I'm inclined against posting. Modest Genius talk 14:43, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    The "discrepancy" is caused because (as Elections in Monaco notes) "Template:Tq"; the actual turn-out number of 7,594 is given in the article, although I suppose this should be made more clear. It also clearly wasn't a sham election, though I concur with "Template:Tq". Curbon7 (talk) 14:56, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    OK. That should be explained in the nominated article. Still, the franchise must be extremely limited if that's 57% - are less than a third of residents qualified to vote? Modest Genius talk 13:12, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Residency in many (perhaps most) places does not always qualify one to vote. For example Australia requires one to be a citizen in order to vote. Merely living in Australia is not enough. Also, Australia has an age minimum, people under 18 cannot vote. Thus, the official number of people living in Australia is going to be significantly higher than the number of eligible voters, as the number of voters by law does not include anyone aged 0-18, nor does it include resident aliens, both of whom are counted among the population, but not among the voters. Monaco likely has similar requirements for citizenship and age, as do many (if not most) countries. --Jayron32 16:01, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support and Added altblurb. Apologies for my duplicate nomination earlier, didn't see this. Abcmaxx (talk) 15:30, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Oppose per Modest Genius. Not sure if this can truly be called a proper election. The Kip (talk) 21:07, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Altblurb The president's bio is a stub. This is an inherently sketchy country, but that's alright. A fifth of its people have allegedly spoken. InedibleHulk (talk) 01:05, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support - per above. Crusader1096 (message) 15:27, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Hsing Yun

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(Posted) RD: May Sayegh

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Grammys

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Support if prose is fixed per nom comments. Crusader1096 (message) 05:37, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Per @Knightoftheswords281 PrecariousWorlds (talk) 08:44, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • I agree with Masem, this sure is quite the list. It needs a lot of work for the prose to be serviceable for the front-page as an encyclopedic article. I don't believe it makes sense to question the ITN/R status based on this, but that might not be a discussion for this page. ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 08:54, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per policy WP:NOTPROMOTION. This is a typical trade show in which there are zillions of categories so that everyone can get name-checked and a prize. And it's a sign of the moribund state of the gramophone biz that ABBA is high in the lists. And there's lots of genre fragmentation so it's a POV to highlight rap rather than country, jazz or gospel. And even then, the genres here are just traditional American rather than global – there doesn't seem to be any Cantopop, K-pop, Desi, Afrobeats etc. that much of the world's population prefers. Andrew🐉(talk) 09:52, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    This might be another (more) relevant argument for removing the Grammies from ITN/R. Currently it still is, and it would be likely to be posted if the article is fixed up appropriately. I will start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:In the news to measure consensus on the Grammies' ITN/R situation. ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 10:14, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    For what it's worth, Wikipedia considers that a disco/funk/pop record, not rap. InedibleHulk (talk) 12:02, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Wikipedia seems to be covering its bets about the Lizzo track. Having just watched the official video, I have no particular opinion about its musical style but am quite sure that it's very American. I'm content with ABBA and Nena but, as ever, de gustibus non est disputandum... Andrew🐉(talk) 13:03, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Music is universal, my friend. The lyrics are definitely in American English. But the tune is disco as Hell and very little rhymes (alright with lights, celebrate with OK). InedibleHulk (talk) 13:22, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    NOTPROMOTION would apply to nearly all sporting events save for the Olympics since the goal is the money and fame from the victory. We should be aware that ceremonies are intended to draw audiences and thus are going to be promotional in nature, but the underlying competition is not (to an observable degree) driven by pure commercial interests. (Also, ABBA reunited recently and thus there's no reason to dismiss their win, it is not like they are winning on 30+ yr old songs). Masem (t) 13:18, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    We can dismiss their win because they didn't win anything, though. InedibleHulk (talk) 13:55, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - Noting this for the record, although it's ITN/R, per Andrew (for once) and due to the fact we're unable to get the Grammy articles into serviceable shape year after year, which to me demonstrates that not enough people care about it.--⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 13:37, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - I'll be bold and oppose this one on notability, just like WaltCip right above. It's ITN/R, but should it be, really? Not enough people care about it to get the article in good shape for the main page anyway... The ⬡ Bestagon T/C 14:03, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose I busted my ass fixing those ampersands, but so long as there's a consensus developing, I also don't care enough to write something good. InedibleHulk (talk) 14:05, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per WaltCip on notability and suggest removal from ITN/R if it is having consistent issues getting up to par quality-wise. NoahTalk 14:07, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support in principle, major music Award Kirill C1 (talk) 19:08, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted blurb) RD/Blurb:Pervez Musharraf

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Comment - I think we need to figure this out. Are deaths of former heads of state ITN/R? PrecariousWorlds (talk) 12:32, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
We had this same discussion when Constantine II died, and I don't think we reached a consensus PrecariousWorlds (talk) 17:49, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Add exile in Dubai to the blurb? Only a suggestion.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 08:24, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Death blurbs don't usually include location, I think. Juxlos (talk) 09:54, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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(Posted) RD: Roberto Ongpin

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RD: Ismail Tipi

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(Posted) RD: Jürgen Flimm

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RD: Vani Jairam

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(Posted) RD: Sherif Ismail

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Support - looks good. Well cited. Crusader1096 (talk) 22:15, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Closed) São Paulo scuttled

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Support - ITN worth, plus we posted the sinking of the HTMS Sukhothai a month and a half ago. Crusader1096 (talk) 19:30, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
We posted Sukhothai due to the death toll, no one died here, just a routine decomissioning of a ship. PrecariousWorlds (talk) 19:44, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This wasn't routine. It was towed around at sea for months, desperately trying to find a scrapyard that would take it. The scuttling was then a last resort to avoid it sinking in an even worse place. The prolonged agony was in the news and now we have the climax. Andrew🐉(talk) 10:11, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Ship decomissioned, not really a big deal. PrecariousWorlds (talk) 19:45, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I really want you to explain why this is significant, because I'm just not seeing it.--⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 21:11, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Capital ships sinking, whether planned or unplanned, isn’t something that happens often. The Kip (talk) 21:14, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per above. Insignificant. _-_Alsor (talk) 22:53, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Intentional sinking of a decommissioned ship with very little impact. If the ports actually accepted it and it got scrapped like intended this most likely wouldn't have been nominated for ITN. Lewis Hulbert (talk) 06:33, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Supportthat they try to get rid of a toxic issue by dumping it into the nature where it doesn't bother humans is ITN worthyParadise Chronicle (talk) 08:12, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose it was already in the works to be scuttled when it was pulled out from port and forced these steps. This tends to happen to all large ships. --Masem (t) 14:04, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support The noteworthy part is the fact that numerous governments refused to let it dock under pressure from environmental groups, and as a result the Brazilian navy is scuttling the ship despite the presence of substantial toxic materials aboard. The involvement and interface of multiple governments and internationally recognized environmental groups in itself makes this signigicant. The media coverage around this has been extensive and highlights Brazil's failed attempt to recycle the ship sustainably. The noteworthiness argument here isn't about being a planned vs unplanned decommissioning, its about the months long process that Template:Yo mentioned, and the ultimate outcome, which could set a precedent for other ships and the handling of toxic vessels in the South Asian sea. Schwinnspeed (talk) 15:55, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    It should be pointed out that the reason action was taken is that the last inspection of the hull found holes that were beyond the state of repairs that the ship was going to go down soon, so that forced the end of the process here, (they didn't want it sinking in any port) it was not like they legally exhausted all options, etc. So it would not really be fair to call this a groundsetting outcome. --Masem (t) 16:02, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Multiple sources state that there is no explanation why the navy did not take the ship back, and its condition deteriorated further as the ship circled as a result. There is media coverage [1] [2] around the argument from environmental groups that Brazil violated international convention. The notability here is in the process itself not the ultimate outcome Schwinnspeed (talk) 16:29, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose How is an aircraft carrier ITN-worthy? Evan224 (talk) 16:31, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
There are numerous situations in which "an aircraft carrier" can be ITN-worthy. Curbon7 (talk) 20:24, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong oppose and speedy close This story is so insignificant I can't believe this is still on the ITN proposals. Like I said in my above comment, Wikipedia's ITN section is created solely on the basis of posting major world events, not news about ships (most of us haven't even heard of) being scuttled.
Also, there are no deaths or injuries. This affected nobody. Are we really going to post a story about this insignificant ship being scuttled right above a disaster that killed at least 12,000 people in Turkey and Syria? Evan224 (talk) 01:07, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
What art of do not Template:Tq do y'all not understand? Crusader1096 (message) 15:31, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support. There is a rich and significant backstory here, and the event is so unusual that it merits inclusion on the main page. The article is high quality enough, and the scuttling of an aircraft carrier is a truly rare event. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 06:56, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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(Closed as duplicate; see below) 2023 China balloon incident

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Weak support These types of train derailments are rare, but other important things should probably be placed instead. Vriend1917 (talk) 21:00, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Paco Rabanne

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  • Almost Well-cited and holistic enough for our purposes. There is only one outstanding CN tag in the Eccentricities section; once that is rectified, consider this a support. Curbon7 (talk) 10:07, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I have removed that paragraph. I don't think it adds anything interesting or relevant. _-_Alsor (talk) 15:42, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) The balloons go up

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Weak support - Mainly supporting this due to the extensive news coverage it has been getting, but at the same time I do think a lot of this has been sensationalised, and I have a feeling this will have no significant impact, and everyone will forget about it in a week's time. PrecariousWorlds (talk) 19:04, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Altblurb II seems to be the most well-written. PrecariousWorlds (talk) 19:08, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support: This is a major diplomatic incident in geopolitics as China and the United States are one of the most powerful countries in the world and any incursion by one onto the other's territory is ITN. If we add Chinese incursions into Kashmir to ITN, we should add this as well. I also support a mix of Altblurbs II and III. Djprasadian (talk) 23:13, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support It’s been shot down, there’s 2, the Chinese government is denying it which usually means that they did do it and are hiding it. Vriend1917 (talk) 23:38, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support What are we waiting for? This is dominating the headlines everywhere, it's better that we post this global ongoing event instead of waiting around for nothing. Evan224 (talk) 01:51, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment you guys need to figure this out soon. 🍁🏳️‍🌈 DinoSoupCanada 🏳️‍🌈 🍁 (talk) 13:21, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
 
A captured Fu-Go balloon in California
  • Unsure about the article yet, I think it will need a bit more work before it's ready. The image doesn't seem appropriate at all: an image of a balloon of the same design might be acceptable, but a WWII Japanese balloon does not work for us here. ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 09:39, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • The image (right) is mainly a placeholder as I expect we'll get a free image as and when it gets near a Wikipedian. But also, as an encyclopedia, we have lots of material about historical precedents and it's good to air it on such occasions. Andrew🐉(talk) 09:44, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • The duplicate nomination suggested a picture of the Pentagon briefing, so we might try that. The article has a picture of the actual balloon but that's fair-use and fuzzy and so not adequate for ITN, yet. Andrew🐉(talk) 14:04, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • I love that argument and I agree that it would be great. I am worried about lots of implications in comparing this incident with Emperial Japan sending a balloon to the US in the middle of a war. We shouldn't suggest the two incidents are equivalent, I believe. ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 09:56, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • A cold war is not comparable to a war with a lot of active fighting. This doesn't at all diminish the notability of an incident like this, but comparing espionage with direct attacks can create undue fear. This balloon is not going to drop bombs. The U2 incident might be a better comparison, but that would feel like an even odder image to include. Unless we had a tradition of linking news items back to past events, which would've been nice maybe... ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 10:33, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    It appears that the US is working on its own balloons too. Apparently these are to counter hypersonic weapons -- who knew? The plot thickens... Andrew🐉(talk) 10:44, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    My personal opinion is that everyone should come together with these balloons and throw a party PrecariousWorlds (talk) 20:39, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • And it's interesting to read that "Back then, Eisenhower tried to minimize it at first, ordering the NASA press office, stunningly, to say the U-2 had been conducting “weather research,” and that Powers might just have strayed a trifle off course and wandered over top-secret Soviet military facilities..." History repeats! Andrew🐉(talk) 17:45, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This is only barely comparable to the U-2 incident and it’s silly to argue that comparison. A spy plane pilot getting shot down and held as a POW is worlds apart from a spy balloon being spotted.
If anything, this is just a slightly escalated version of an average spy satellite. The Kip (talk) 19:10, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Of course this is a newspaper. The offical signaling from the Pentagon makes it clear this is sn important story. I do think we need a closer awareness of journalistic practice on Wikipedia. No Swan So Fine (talk) 12:08, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It's not WP:NOTNP. Btw, the Department of Defense statement reads: "Ryder said the balloon is well above commercial air traffic and doesn't pose a threat to civil aviation. He also said this isn't the first time such a balloon has been seen over the United States", and "Currently, we assess that this balloon has limited additive value from an intelligence collective collection perspective," the official said. "But we are taking steps, nevertheless, to protect against foreign intelligence collection of sensitive information."
Another case of American overdramatization for everything. _-_Alsor (talk) 12:37, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I also don't understand the purpose of including a photo of a Fu-Go balloon bomb when the purpose of the "suspicious balloon" has not even been confirmed. Let's not alarm. _-_Alsor (talk) 12:40, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support - official signaling from the Pentagon is probably indicative of this story's noteworthiness. Crusader1096 (talk) 12:10, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Additionally, it has been confirmed that the Biden administration is moving to down the balloon. Crusader1096 (talk) 19:31, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Update: plane was shot down by US aircraft. @Rockstone35 @Alsoriano97 @Modest Genius @Thebiguglyalien @Vriend1917 @Jayron32 @Editor 5426387 @GenevieveDEon @WaltCip @Rsrikanth05 @Masem @The Kip y'all may want to reconsider. Crusader1096 (talk) 19:51, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
so…? _-_Alsor (talk) 19:54, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The the highly publicized downing of a balloon, regardless if it was Chinese or not, under a coordinated military operation is unprecedented and I firmly believe that arguing that that this isn't newsworthy is rather foolish. Crusader1096 (talk) 22:24, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
If a war breaks out, perhaps then. -- Rsrikanth05 (talk) 20:03, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Is that the threshold for posting to ITN now? [osunpokeh/talk/contributions] 13:45, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I never said that but this isn't a U-2 being shot down is it? -- Rsrikanth05 (talk) 18:12, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Disappointed I wasn't @'ed
Regardless, there's still a balloon over South America, and the diplomatic crisis isn't over. But yeah this does start to hurt the notability, we better reach a consensus quick before the story becomes stale. PrecariousWorlds (talk) 20:44, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Still Oppose - even if it got shot down, the news is not ITN-worthy unless something MAJOR results, like a war, per above. Editor 5426387 (talk) 23:50, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

*Oppose The story is "An balloon of unknown origin is being tracked". The article text says the same thing, but with a lot more words. There's not enough about this story to support a blurb if we don't have anything worthwhile to say. --Jayron32 14:06, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support: Alt-blurb III is the most well-written, obviously a big news event. I'm not sure the relevance of some of the arguments against, this is a big news story according to a wide variety of Western news outlets.Yeoutie (talk) 03:29, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oh cool, an unmanned spy balloon got spotted then shot down, causing a comparatively small diplomatic spat of a similar level to Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan, which wasn’t posted. Totally ITNR-worthy. The Kip (talk)
Such an American bias that it's currently (still) the top story on BBC News, CBC News, and Le Monde. -- Kicking222 (talk) 01:04, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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(Posted) RD: Paul A. David

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The article needs a lot of work. Looking forward to checking it out again after your work, Ktin. _-_Alsor (talk) 17:54, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Template:Re Edits done. Greatly appreciate your look. Ktin (talk) 03:56, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Glória Maria

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Template:ITN candidate Not Ready - Needs more inline citations. The ⬡ Bestagon T/C 06:23, 7 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: John Zizioulas

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RD: Jean-Pierre Jabouille

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RD: K. Viswanath

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Support. Looks thoroughly cited. Comprehensive details on his career. One messy line at the end of the "Television" section, hopefully someone will fix that soonish. Tbh, he probably needs a separate filmography page but that's not relevant to RD. e.b. (talk) 20:05, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Looks important enough for me. QuicoleJR (talk) 01:06, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Importance does not matter at all for RD. Curbon7 (talk) 01:47, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Article looks good. Thanks, Anir1uph | talk | contrib 03:17, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Lanny Poffo

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(Posted) RD: Richard Woolcott

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Support Good condition, ready to be posted. Vriend1917 (talk) 21:04, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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(Ready) RD: Carin Goldberg

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(Closed) Tom Brady retires (again)

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• Oppose - he already retired once ... he could come out of retirement again. Editor 5426387 (talk) 15:28, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Sports retirements are ITN-worthy IMO, but a) Brady has "retired" before, and b) the source given doesn't really prove significance. DecafPotato (talk) 17:00, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Per all above PrecariousWorlds (talk) 17:00, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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(Posted) Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)

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  • Weak oppose. I don't see what has changed since the last nomination a week ago, which ended as no consensus. This comet is not ITNR, it isn't visible to anyone who doesn't have a pair of binoculars (unless they live in an area with no light pollution at all) and knows exactly where to look, and being green isn't unusual. The article is OK but nothing more than that. There has been a bit of media coverage but largely restricted to the science sections. Modest Genius talk 11:32, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Magnitude 5 is pretty bright. It should be visible in the outskirts of major cities, under moonless skies. Perhaps we should include some instructions for viewing in the blurb? PrecariousWorlds (talk) 13:35, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Neutral – I suggested a wait last time, but that was also because the quality of the article didn't seem up to par yet, and this hasn't changed since. The lack of bare-eye visibility (0.3 AU is quite far away) makes this a somewhat hard sell. It's probably fine to post but none of this makes me particularly excited. I still approve of the main blurb as the optimal choice. ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 12:38, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comets are not near-Earth asteroids, 0.28 AU isn't far if the comet releases enough gas and dust. A comet reached magnitude 3-4 in the 18th century and never even reached 3 AU from Earth or 4 AU from Sun. Halley's Comet would be 4.9 magnitudes brighter than this if both were 1 AU from Sun and observer was thought experimentally on the Sun (the standard apples-to-apples brightness comparison of solar system science because full asteroid is much brighter than thin crescent asteroid and comets obviously get dim very fast as they get further from the Sun (if they get very very close they sometimes even explode and "release all the brightness at once")). And Halley happens every c. 76 years. Hale-Bopp would be even brighter. The 1700s comet would be 13.4 magnitudes brighter. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 19:21, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • It is easily visible under moonless skies, with little light pollution. It's at magnitude 5 right now, which, while not incredibly bright, is still just about visible from my location in the outer suburbs of a city of 14 million people.
    Also, I'm pushing for us to diversify the stories we post from just being changes in heads of state or X tragedy kills Y people PrecariousWorlds (talk) 13:33, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support, though I think the blurb should both say the official comet name and that it is a green comet. I don't think it requires that everyone on earth be able to see it with the naked eye (eg, clearly urban centers have too much background light to do so) but as long as it is some appreciable fraction that have the potential to see it, its a good idea to post. Article appears to be in good shape. --Masem (t) 13:42, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - what is the significance of this comet? It has little cultural presence like Halley, etc. QueensanditsCrazy (talk) 14:43, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
As @PrecariousWorlds pointed out, we do have to diversify our blurbs a little bit. We haven't had a science-related story at ITN for quite some time now, and this one is receiving pretty good coverage, and the coverage is worldwide for those who love global significance, with sources in the West (CNN BBC) and the Arab World (Alarabiya) reporting on it. The Independent are also covering it live on their website. The ⬡ Bestagon T/C 15:10, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Alright, I guess that's cool. But I do think the blurb needs to do more to establish that this is notable and not just a "diversity candidate" (to appropriate phrasing from the (un)professional world). QueensanditsCrazy (talk) 15:50, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It's not just about being a diversity candidate, it's about providing interesting stories that viewers of Wikipedia want to read, apart from Depressing Tragedy no. 352. I think astronomical events like these should be ITN:R, as they are In The News. I think we should also post major infrastructure projects as well. PrecariousWorlds (talk) 17:52, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Bestagon PrecariousWorlds (talk) 17:53, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Support, Posting immediately - per above Editor 5426387 (talk) 15:31, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support: Reasonably significant as far as astronomical news goes and the article is well-cited. Probably should have been posted a few days ago. And while this shouldn't be a factor when considering any individual story, it would be nice to have more science topics at ITN. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 15:33, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Posted -Ad Orientem (talk) 15:45, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Template:Ping I think alt2 is better here; it mentions both the official name and the fact that it's green. The ⬡ Bestagon T/C 15:48, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    The link is to the article with the full title. I doubt that the majority of our readers will be that worked up over the actual name. It's the green comet thing that is going to get their attention. That said, if there is a consensus to change the blurb, or another admin thinks that alt II is better, go for it. -Ad Orientem (talk) 15:54, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'm pleased to see that a consensus was reached and that this has been posted. It provides desperately-needed balance to the current gamut of ITN stories which amount to four disasters and an election. I hope that this reflects a sea change towards lessening our overall significance restrictions.--⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 16:43, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Post-posting Oppose, numerous astronomical bodies, including comets, pass by the Earth every single day. The visibility of this single one is not specifically notable. I would understand if this was say, a Comet Hale–Bopp type event, where the comet is like that of a great comet. At the moment, I don't see the value in pushing this nomination to diversify the coverage of news stories regarding disasters either. Other folks have brought up the magnitude and distance from the Earth that I concur with.Ornithoptera (talk) 17:33, 1 February 2023 (UTC))[reply]
    This is the only comet visible to the naked eye right now, probably for months to come. PrecariousWorlds (talk) 17:54, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Not to make it a number-game, but only two editors have made the argument of diversifying. That is not why 7 others !voted in support. Curbon7 (talk) 18:30, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Just to be clear, I never intended diversifying to be my main argument. The main argument was that reliable sources were in fact treating it as a big deal. Diversifying was intended to be a "pushing factor" for those on the fence to lean support. The ⬡ Bestagon T/C 04:44, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
0.28 AU isn't far if the comet is bright. A comet reached magnitude 3-4 in the 18th century and never even reached 3 AU from Earth or 4 AU from Sun. Halley's Comet would be 4.9 magnitudes brighter than this if both were 1 AU from Sun and observer was thought experimentally on the Sun (the standard apples-to-apples brightness comparison of solar system science because full asteroid is much brighter than thin crescent asteroid and comets obviously get dim very fast as they get further from the Sun (if they get very very close they sometimes even explode and "release all the brightness at once")). And Halley happens every c. 76 years. Hale-Bopp would be even brighter. The 1700s comet would be 13.4 magnitudes brighter. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 19:21, 1 February 2023 (UTC
Switched to Alt II per multiple requests. -Ad Orientem (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I voiced support for alt2, but prefer User:Ravenpuff's newer version: "C/2022 E3 (ZTF) (pictured), a comet with a green coma, makes its closest approach to the Earth".
It's nice, and the linked term "coma" will certainly stimulate curiosity in our readers, which is what ITN does at its best. I'd be grateful if editors who already posted here would voice support or opposition to Ravenpuff's version. DFlhb (talk) 19:10, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Concur. Curbon7 (talk) 19:16, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I support this version, for the record. It sounds much more scientific and interesting. Though it is not entirely clear to me why this event has found its way to the Main Page. There are approximately 10 long-period comets crossing the Earth's orbit every year. --TadejM my talk 19:21, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
They're usually dimmer. It's also been an unusually long time since the last great comet besides 2006 or 7 (I forgot) which was only naked eye at dusk to most North Hemisphere native English speakers for a few days and not at all after dusk (at least in my extreme light pollution). And I guess some might've also called the magnitude ~2.5 2007 or 2008 comet great, it was naked eye in extreme light pollution but not very impressive there especially if you're not into "faint fuzzy "star" with no naked eye tail". Hale-Bopp of 1997 was the last truly impressive non-twilight one. With that said 22 E3 or better comets seem to happen every few years at worst. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 20:41, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I Beg you to remove "green comet" from the top. It's a nonsensical moniker applied to it by media that knows nothing about astronomy- as commonly used as it is, it is meaningless at best and misleading at worst. Every comet that has ever graced the sky has been green- saying it's a green comet is like referring to space as "the black space" or the sky as "the blue sky". Sincerely, an actual astronomer. exoplanetaryscience (talk) 22:39, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Is the gas ever greenish cyan/cyanish green? Would that still count as green? Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 22:49, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This ^. We should change the blurb immediately. PrecariousWorlds (talk) 23:01, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Here is what the comet astronomer Matthew Knight says about the comet's color: "The color of C/2022 E3 (ZTF) isn’t unique: Most comets that have higher gas contents tend to yield C2, so they “are generally going to look green to our eye,” Knight says. That said, only a subset of comets happen to make it as close to Earth as C/2022 E3 (ZTF) will get, so it’ll provide an uncommonly good view of a comet’s emerald hue."[35] --TadejM my talk 00:13, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Meteorologists refer to blue skies all the time. They are much prettier than white or grey skies. ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 10:07, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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