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At least nine people are killed and 29 others are injured when a bus collides with a car and plunges off of a bridge into a stream inPuerto Iguazú,Misiones,Argentina.(News.Az)
Cameroonian oppositionpresidential candidateIssa Tchiroma says that police have detained more than 30 politicians and activists linked to his campaign or who endorsed his candidacy against incumbentPaul Biya during last week's election.(Reuters)
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (seethis RFC andfurther discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meetsWP:ITNRD.
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (seethis RFC andfurther discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meetsWP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: American Football center for the New York Jets. Died the 25th, news announced on the 26th. Article is long and relatively high-quality. Goosedukeee (talk)16:04, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not ready: Awful news, especially after his call for help a few weeks ago. Page has several unsourced statements. Those need to be fixed before posted to RD. ----TheRobot Parade20:24, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Two people are killed during twoIsraeliairstrikes against a car and a motorcycle inHarouf and Qlayleh,Lebanon, bringing the death toll from the attacks since the past 48 hours to nine.(Al Jazeera)
Hurricane warnings are issued inJamaica, as forecasts indicateHurricane Melissa will likely reach Category 4 on theSaffir-Simpson scale, while rainfall estimates exceed 30 in (76 cm) across the country and inHaiti.(CNN)
Over 145,000 people are evacuated byGuantánamo Province officials ahead of Hurricane Melissa's potential impacts in easternCuba.(NBC)
Article updated Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (seethis RFC andfurther discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meetsWP:ITNRD.
Article updated Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (seethis RFC andfurther discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meetsWP:ITNRD.
Nominator's comments: Jordanian-British actor/writer. Died on 18 October, news released on 25th. Article is short but not too bad, filmography is as usual unsourced. Black Kite (talk)08:55, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, but those territories make Australia a transcontinental country and part of Southeast Asia, so the original blurb is factually incorrect, unless Australia joins in the meantime.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk)09:48, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support and would prefer AltBlurb 2 as it's shorter. Original blurb mentions a geography factoid that is irrelevant to what's ultimately a political organisation, which will make decisions based on politics - the European Union also uses an idiosyncratic definition of what is Europe. Thus, Papua New Guinea and Bangladesh are currently Observer States at ASEAN, and may join at some stage in the future.Khuft (talk)09:52, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support alt2 or 4 for brevity. While it was tempting to push this up and repair the Benefits section later, I think it more proper to have the Benefits section fixed of the LLM content first and let another admin push it up to ITN.– robertsky (talk)12:23, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support alt3, brief but also explains what ASEAN tersely since I feel most English readers aren't aware of that coalition. Article is well sourced and ready to go.Masem (t)12:28, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support alt 4 – Timor-Leste joins ASEAN, blurb excludes geographic trivia. Oppose mention of the 47th summit for the sake of brevity, andstrong oppose alt 3; there should be no need for us to spell out ASEAN when "ASEAN" is its common name. I would removed any hyperlink to theMember states of ASEAN article too as it isn't high quality.Nice4What (talk ·contribs) –(Thanks♥)14:10, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
support meeting all those ppl atTimor Hotel the first night with ambitious projects, after my review meeting them again a few days later = Good luck commercializing your projects. Maybe now they can be more than an aus naval colony.Psephguru (talk)15:54, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's comments: Vote counting started just over 2 hours ago and all indications are for a landslide. Of course the article would neeed to be updated first. Also the election was yesterday, but counting/result is out today. --2A00:F3C:4C6C:0:1074:CE1C:6AE9:153E (talk)10:22, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Wait/Comment Like said above, wait until there's an actual result. Two hours after counting started is far too early for a nom. No need to be first. If it's a ITN/R thing like this. Where support is conditional on the article being ready to post. All nominating it early does is create a situation where everyone either has to say "Wait" or "Oppose" because of course it won't be ready yet.Basetornado (talk)13:02, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
update the results are coming through now and the landslide is quite apparent. So far a prose update on the concession and controversy. Some more will come soon. We're working on it.Psephguru (talk)14:25, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
We have posted the last two elections (in 2011 and 2018) and one of those was a re-election, so there's plenty of precedent. We didn't post 2004, although there was no election as there was only one candidate, so Mary McAleese was automatically re-elected.Black Kite (talk)14:42, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support News outlets have declared it and other candidates have conceded defeat. There is little point in waiting. Article in good shape. The president of Ireland doesn't have too many powers but this was the most high-profile election in years and all three candidates had political backing, therefore support on notability as well.Abcmaxx (talk)16:20, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Twenty-five people are killed and several others are injured in a fire on a bus inKurnool,India.(AP)
Fourteen people are killed, two others are rescued, and two are reported missing when a rubber boat sinks off the coast ofBodrum,Muğla,Turkey.(DPA International)
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Nominator's comments: Dowager Queen of Thailand. Possibly longest serving queen consort in history. A global celebrity during her day. Referencing needs some work. Ad Orientem (talk)23:34, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not ready, but will support RD and blurb once ready: Queen Sirikit's death is grabbing international attention, and especially with her long serving role as consort to King Bhumibol, this may be blurb worthy. However, article needs immense citation work.Tofusaurus (talk)05:07, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support blurb simply because 1) this is in the news globally and 2) Prince Philip’s death set a precedent (I don’t get why and how Prince Philip was more notable than Queen Sirikit given that they both were consorts for almost 70 years). --Kiril Simeonovski (talk)10:33, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The number of RD blurbs so far this year is 19. Bymy count, 11 were from English-speaking countries to 8 non-English. A more relevant bias is that there were 17 men to just 2 women.Andrew🐉(talk)11:08, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Before speaking about blurb the article has to meet quality, and doesn't yet. I worked on layout and chronology a bit, but we need better sources. --Gerda Arendt (talk)10:57, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Is your only metric of notability the length of their spouse's reign? I'm struggling to see why you don't "get" why Prince Philip was more notable than Queen Sirkit.Dr Fell (talk)17:39, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Nearly half the article is uncited, and if we're even going to consider a blurb, much much more needs to be written about her period of ruling what type of legacy or impact she had. Simply being a national leader is not sufficient for a blurb.Masem (t)11:44, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Probably then even begs the question of why a blurb for this. If it is only because her popularity within Thailand, that isn't sufficient as a major figure.Masem (t)12:31, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose There seems to be a significant lack of coverage of her life after her early success as a young queen. It seems that there may have been some scandal over her attachment to a favourite aide and she became estranged from the King. She later became involved in Thai politics whichcontinues to be fraught as we see that most PMs are unable to last a full term. Coverage of these controversial matters seems patchy because the Thai regime censors them perLèse-majesté in Thailand. So, it's difficult to be sure of the details and make the article accurate.Andrew🐉(talk)12:15, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
She was Queen Regent for a short time while King Bhumibol was in a monastery - arguably that's more power than Prince Philip ever had.Khuft (talk)10:02, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support blurb as per the Prince Philip precedent - and yes, I would argue that Queen Sirikit had a similar status and aura to Prince Philip in Thailand, and was also known internationally (at least I had come across her name before).Khuft (talk)19:20, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Fully disagree, the King (consort) of the Queen of the UK is much more high profile than the Queen consort of Thailand. Most outside of Thailand do not know who Sirikit is.Natg 19 (talk)03:28, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure ignorance should be a factor. I don't think most people outside the USA know who that racist podcaster we recently blurbed.Nfitz (talk)05:19, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - ITN does not work by case law precedents. I think we made a mistake in posting Prince Philip; a mistake we should not repeat here. I also agree with Andrew's point.GenevieveDEon (talk)20:47, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with you that neither Prince Philip nor Queen Sirikit deserves a blurb, but there has to be moral justice in some way. Furthermore, it seems like those mistakes are usually made for people from the English-speaking world, especially the US and the UK, and this is exactly a strong case that the English Wikipedia is biased towards that part of the world.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk)22:08, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
"Moral justice" would not be served by awarding a second undeserved blurb. What you're advocating is contrary to the goals of ITN, and the needs and interests of the readers. If anything, English Wikipedia is biasedagainst the English-speaking world.Dr Fell (talk)18:30, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral on Blurb as a Thai myself, I feel like the RD is the best place to post this. Even though she is still respected by the public, I think the public has generally moved on after her death (compared to the fallout of the death of King Bhumibol) partly due to the waning popularity of the monarchy in general, so I can accept that there will be no blurb for her death.NotKringe (talk)13:22, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose until reviewed and introduction rewritten as clearly non neutral. Wondering whether the creator used AI for things like "known for her creative expression and openness about mental health" and "her humor, authenticity, and commentary on youth culture resonated with many".2804:388:410B:F502:1:0:1511:A60 (talk)03:40, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Billboard magazine revises the rules for itsHot 100record chart and implements a maximum time spent on the list if a song drops below a certain rank, intended to shorten the age to be considered "contemporary".(NPR)
Nearly 700 foreigners have fledMyanmar and crossed intoThailand following theTatmadaw's raid on theKK Parkscam center on Monday. Thailand detains 677 people, including 618 men and 59 women, after they cross the border intoTak Province, Thailand.(Reuters)
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Nominator's comments: Best known forLassie andLost in Space. Died at 100. Ought to get an RD, provided that it is determined that article quality is sufficient. Ryan Reeder (talk)00:12, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Support: I genuinely made a joke yesterday about how this page had about two sentences. Crazy development in such a short time, good job! Article is properly sourced. Height and weight are uncited but I don't think that's much an issue. --The Robot Parade (talk)03:54, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator has withdrawn this nomination, and has expressed their desires to rediscuss this story if it leads to convictions. With at least ten opposes, some asking to "wait" for further developments first, and a single "Support", it's apparent that consensus to post is unlikely to develop at the time.(non-admin closure)Nice4What (talk ·contribs) –(Thanks♥)16:47, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose at first I thought "illegal gambling" was about match fixing and betting on the match results, but it turned out to be nothing more than a rigged poker and prop betting that just so happens to involves NBA big names, so I don't think it's worth posting.NotKringe (talk)19:44, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per above. Relevant to the NBA, but not massive given limited involvement (one coach + one player, and the coach wasn't involved on the betting aspect). Not "unprecedented," see2007 NBA betting scandal (which was far worse impact-wise).TheKip(contribs)19:48, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The blurb is also just outright wrong - it's 34 people arrestedin total, only three of them are associated with the NBA and only two are actively so.TheKip(contribs)19:49, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion primarily focused on an editor's behavior, rather than the ITN nomination
@ArionStar In the past week you've nominated this comparatively non-notable story and two elections in which you massively jumped the gun by posting the noms before the results were even in yet. You may want to re-assess your actions on this page a bit going forward.TheKip(contribs)20:39, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@The Kip: I don't know how much a "American" history is good to go on ITN, I don’t live in North America, the story just is noticed here… Latin American stories are more consistent in my region. Maybe just don't focus in the United States… Just a Brazilian "invading" US news…ArionStar (talk)20:53, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
My criticism is on both subjects, but moreso on the election blurbs, which aren’t a national news thing but a matter of having to be “first” for some reason. While I think Nfitz is going a bit overboard below, you do need to get better about your habits here.TheKip(contribs)22:22, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominating such trivia is offensive and time wasting, showing no respect to those here. An offender is someone who does something wrong - if you don't see that you are doing something wrong, then there areWP:COMPETENCE issues. My gosh, you don't even mention which country you are talking about!?!Nfitz (talk)21:05, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It's a couple of players in a regional league of a relatively minor sport being done for dog-bites-man crimes. You are wasting time, and you must stop - rather than defending your bad choices. How about taking a break from here for a couple of months or something, or at least stop offending. I'm not sure what that other article has to do with this; at least it mentions what "country" you are talking about - unlike this one.Nfitz (talk)21:22, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Both topic are American topics and are being massively noticed in Brazil. I'm assuming good faith in my actions and trying to explain in a comparative form…ArionStar (talk)21:29, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Basketball is contested up to 4 leagues deep in most countries... that's not a minor sport. I suppose there's no full-time third-level cricket league in Mexico, and we won't characterize cricket as a "minor sport".Howard the Duck (talk)22:17, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'd certainly classify cricket as a relatively minor sport, @Howard the Duck. I think the important here is relatively. Even in England it seems relatively minor these days, with only2% the number of participants as Soccer (similar to Basketball). And it's certainly a regional league - it covers only a single country, other than one team in a city about 20 km from the USA border. It doesn't even cover the entire North American region!Nfitz (talk)22:30, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I consider thePremier League a regional league, as it only covers a part of the United Kingdom. The NBA has a team from Canada, and previously another team from that country; that certainly surpasses a "regional league".Southeastern Conference andBig XII Conference are indeed regional leagues, the NBA quite plainly, is absolutely not. I know British people think that Burnley vs. Aberdeen is an international-level tie, but let's get real.Howard the Duck (talk)23:00, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Good faith ends when you defend such offenses. And I have no idea how that one thing being relevant has any bearing on this nomination, @ArionStar. Massively noticed? I went toList of newspapers in Brazil and randomly pickedGazeta do Povo, and see much news from today - and no mention of the NBA (though an unhealthy obsession with the USA). Your Brazillian source is literally a Portugese version of an American TV news channel?Nfitz (talk)22:01, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
In what way is a newspaper (national at that, and clearly talks a lot about the USA) not mass media? Also, we identify it as centre-right - not right-wing (though I don't see how that changes much - and mafia law and order issues are hardly partisan). Randomly looking at [O Globo], there's over 50 articles on that page, and even one about a Brazilian coach in the NBA; but I don't see any mention of gambling or the mafia.Nfitz (talk)22:20, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You, @ArionStar, are telling me thatGazeta do Povo typically doesn't post non-political news stories? Looking atit right now though, I see articles about invasive species, money laundering, Greta Thunberg, religion, manufacturing, highway tolls, books, movies, the rock-group Rush, driving schools, Michelin hotel ratings, life expectancy, online dating ... along with a link to sports coverage. I await your nomination for Geddy Lee (who lives not far from me).Nfitz (talk)22:49, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't say articles don't exist (in the Sports section apparently). I just don't see them on the Internet front page - a front page with 50 articles. Send me a copy of it on the front page of your newspaper from your doorstep tomorrow morning. Also, @ArionStar, you dodged the question - In what way is a newspaper not mass media?Nfitz (talk)22:41, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
At least in Brazil, "mass media" means huge quantity of people reached. Just google the following question: is Gazeta do Povo a mass media in Brazil?ArionStar (talk)23:04, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
NFitz, you are taking this way beyond reasonable criticism. This feels like a highly personal attack on ArionStar. I don't believe that this sort of conduct is a suitable way to encourage better editing. Indeed, it appears calculated only todiscourage. Please take a few moments away from the computer before this gets more heated.GenevieveDEon (talk)22:06, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Arion, you can't expect the rest of the editors to always be the only ones to assess the suitability of nominations. You first need to do your own research to see if it's necessary to propose certain nominations. This can't be a jungle. No one doubts your good intentions, which they do exist, and it's always appreciated when editors are enthusiastic about their work. But I think you've already seen how ITN works and I'm sure you have enough experience to properly assess whether what you're proposing is suitable or not._-_Alsor (talk)23:15, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Even if the ultimate outcome of this is a significant change in the legality of sports betting in the US, it wouldn't have ITN-level impact.Dr Fell (talk)22:01, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support, I'm apparently alone here, but from what I read the extent is significant, also given that NBA is considered the premier professional basketball league in the world: at least 3 coaches and players (including one Hall of Famer), 4 NBA teams and 7 NBA games are involved.Brandmeistertalk22:57, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I've already voted but will add, this is an arrest, and unless we are talking world leaders, we don't post arrests at all. Tempted to snow close this.Masem (t)23:13, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It would be a BLP issue to be posting this (This is not saying that, in the context of an article, the discussion of the arrests and who specifically was arrested and accused, wouldn't be appropriate, as several named are public figures. but in the one short sentence context of the blurb it would be extremely problematic, which is why we avoid blurbs for the arrest or indictment, unless we are talking a sitting world figure.)Masem (t)03:08, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Wait/Oppose Completely disagree with the arguments that this is some absurd nomination about local issues. The NBA is arguably up there with the most followed sporting leagues in the world. If it was pretty much any other basketball league then yes I could understand, but it's the NBA. Oppose because it's only arrests currently and appears not to be match fixing. If it comes out later that is match fixing then I would likely support.Basetornado (talk)03:03, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
We do not feature arrests outside of very unusual circumstances. We might feature convictions, when this is article will surely be much more developed and the actual crime(s) are clear. ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat)07:00, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I notice that theNYT has not just one but a bundle of stories about this scandal which it is posting under a group heading ofN.B.A. Gambling Investigation like the Russia-Ukraine War. So, I can understand why this has been nominated and it doesn't seem frivolous. But the details seem tawdry and the matter issub judice so I agree that it's not ready for ITN.Andrew🐉(talk)07:01, 24 October 2025 (UTC)(edit conflict)[reply]
Oppose BLCRIME and all that. Posting arrests even for country heads was a bad precedent and shouldn't be repeated in that or other areas.Gotitbro (talk)11:24, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. This would just amount to "a celebrity is arrested". Now if it was a multi-million dollar scandal, maybe we would have posted it, but to me this would just make ITN display a blurb amounting to nothing more than letting readers know about a celebrity being arrested.Kaito-san (talk/contribs)12:12, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
As perthe BBC, the rigged poker games cost $7 million. As forprop bets, there's no published amount, but the combined amount is "tens of millions of dollars". I know people here think "North America" is just a "region", but "tens of millions" looks like "a multi-million dollar scandal."Howard the Duck (talk)12:46, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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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 (seethis RFC andfurther discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meetsWP:ITNRD.
Article updated Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (seethis RFC andfurther discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meetsWP:ITNRD.
Weak oppose: Article would be good but there are a few Discogs and Bandcamp citations which are both unreliable. (More so Discogs than Bandcamp, I could see an argument there.) Once those citations are changed then the article is RD ready. --The Robot Parade (talk)19:20, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
According to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society forty-five people, including former prisoners and a child, are arrested during a series ofIsraeli raids inNablus,Ramallah,Qalqilya andTulkarem, in the occupiedWest Bank. They further say that homes are vandalized and the arrested are assaulted.(Al Jazeera)
Five people are killed during two separateUnited Statesairstrikes against two boats in thePacific Ocean, the first such attacks in the area. The attacks since September 2025, previously limited only to theCaribbean Sea, have killed a total of 37 people.(Al Jazeera)
TheLouvre Museum inParis,France, reopens with increased activity several days after jewelry from theGalerie d'Apollon was stolen in a heist. The Galerie d'Apollon, however, remains closed.(DW)
An opposition politician of theSamagi Jana Balawegaya party is shot and killed by an unidentified gunman inWeligama,Sri Lanka, amid an increase of shootings in the country, which have left 51 people killed and 56 injured since the beginning of the year.(AP)
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Nominator's comments: One of the greatest chess players of all time, the man who defeatedGarry Kasparov, potentially faces disciplinary action from the International Chess Federation over his year-long harrassment campaign (involving unsubstantiated cheating allegations) against the late Daniel Naroditsky, who recently passed. Many notable figures, including Danya's friends, have connected the harassment campaign to Danya's untimely death, although no official cause of death has been revealed yet.
Danya's death was posted on RD, but has scrolled off, and this is quite a significant development since then, and is certainly in the news. 9ninety (talk)06:11, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I really don't think we should be going there unless there's a cause of death released, or sustained wide-scale coverage.Nfitz (talk)06:22, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It doesn't need to be connected to his death, the investigation into a former world champion for a well-documented harassment campaign should be good enough for an ITN item. I was just mentioning that manyare making that connection.9ninety (talk) 06:31, 23 October 2025 (UTC) Adding: I've also seen relatively wide-scale coverage from across the world. It was the most viewed article on Wikipedia yesterday as well.9ninety (talk)06:44, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Short (270 words) on the article itself. It's effectively a governing body investigating someone. Not really appropriate for the front page.Basetornado (talk)06:31, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. There is no article. This is just more Kramnik drama. He has been a controversial figure for ages and nothing has actually happened yet. Naroditsky's death was already posted, best to leave well enough alone.Toadspike[Talk]07:31, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Toadspike. In addition, we should not be putting unsubstantiated accusations on the Main Page, as that is a clear BLP violation. Lastly, this is just "chess news" with limited significance.Natg 19 (talk)08:44, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Unless he gets some sort of punishment from FIDE (e.g. titles revoked, banned) for his unsubstantiated allegations towards Naroditsky, it's premature to consider, especially considering theWP:BLP implications.--Patar knight -chat/contributions09:26, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I understand; I was debating on whether to nominate this, and my rationale was that it's all over the news. I don't agree with the comments regarding this being insignificant, but I guess it's not appropriate to post it right now. Can someone close this as withdrawn? I'm not sure how to.9ninety (talk)12:22, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment I find it a bit concerning that the article includes so many quotes, including two extremely long blockquotes that are all attributed to one source (Dictionary of women artists). I don't think i's enough to oppose by itself, but definitely worth noting as a potential quality concern.GalacticVelocity08 (talk)00:17, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's comments: The most important Human Rights award, is in Wikipedia:ITN/R, so is published whenever quality of articles is enough, and Sakharov Prize is featured list. BilboBeggins (talk)21:45, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment the prize article should not be featured as it's just a list. Mzia's article is lacking sources throughout, the other one is fine.Masem (t)21:49, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support The target article should be the laureate of the prize. The laureates' article looks good except one [CN] tag in Poczobot's article.𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗷𝗮𝘆𝗮𝟲𝟳 (talk).01:54, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment/Altblurb Added altblurb 2. Personally had never heard of the Sakharov Prize before, when I looked it up on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation site, the last time it was reported here was in 2021. Thought it may be suitable to include the entire name to give greater understanding of what the prize is.Basetornado (talk)06:42, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Neutral – An extensive update to the article the past two days, but the article is still very surface-level. I would love to know more details on this.White House State Ballroom is much more informative than the East Wing article on why this demolition happened and what it entails. ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat)11:23, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The East Wing is not considered in the "historic" record, compared to the main WH building. And even with that, NTRUMP absolutely applies, everyone is using this to compare to Nero fiddling while Rome burns-type analogy, but that's not any reason to post to ITN.Masem (t)11:55, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - While this is clearly part of an historically significant pattern, I don't feel that this particular instance on its own rises to the level of ITN. (This is symptomatic of an issue - not necessarily a problem - where a very historically significant and newsworthy thing never appears in ITN because it happens in lots of incremental stages.GenevieveDEon (talk)13:54, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose and snow close The nominator knows very well that NTRUMP caution applies and hasn't shown any significance beyond that (WP:TROUT?). Building up to a snow close.Gotitbro (talk)14:00, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose with prejudice I can't even begin to express my astoundment that we'd be discussing the relatively low-budget redevelopment of a small 1940s office building. Should we also nominate the high-profile $5+ billionrebuild of theCanadian Parliament Buildings that has closed theCentre Block for 10 years? (No ... no we shouldn't). With a nomination from a zero-edit IP? Time to put in some editing requirement to stop these beyond absurd nominations. NTRUMP? How about NCENTREoftheUNIVERSE.Nfitz (talk)14:56, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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At least 14 people are killed and dozens of others are injured when an overcrowded train full of merchants crashes into a stationary train nearDire Dawa inOromia Region,Ethiopia.(Africanews)
Rioting takes place inDublin,Ireland, with several thousandanti-immigration protesters attempting to storm a hotel housingasylum seekers in the city after the alleged rape of a 10-year-old Irish girl by an asylum seeker. Apolice vehicle is set on fire during the unrest.(BBC News)
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Nominator's comments: Long shot, but contextually in light of the Church arrests/sentencing and the political movements in light of the general next year, it might have something. of course is consensus is against, I can understand that. 2A00:F3C:4C6C:0:5C2:ED96:DECC:8639 (talk)13:28, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - We generally post convictions rather than arrests or sentences (although that's not a hard-and-fast rule), and this is a non-national political figure. Could you expand a little on the context so that non-specialist editors can have a better idea of why this might be on a suitable level for ITN, please? Thanks.GenevieveDEon (talk)13:56, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
What was meant was the crackdown on the opposition by the Pashinyan government following that alleged "coup". This is certainly part of that pattern. And unless major protests start against Pashinyan, I will hold that these aren't siginificant at all.Gotitbro (talk)20:10, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Insignificant event. 1. Only a Mayor 2. of a small city 3. who has only been arrested and not convicted. No impact beyond only select regions of Armenia. --SpectralIon16:38, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Support on Notability, Oppose on Quality: Several pharagraphs go completely unreferenced, and just three for an article of this size is clearly not enough.NeoGaze (talk)12:43, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose article looks so bad: lack of sources, little content about his term in office, and an unnecessarily lengthy section about his family (almost longer than the one about his political career)._-_Alsor (talk)19:22, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment to stress, today is the closest approach to Earth, and the original blurb was confusing, I've added a simpler alt blurb.Masem (t)14:56, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - stale as the comet was discovered in January and it passing close to Earth isn't remotely notable enough.EF515:08, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support altblurb only. Notable and uncommon event. Would feel better if there was a way to clarify that today is as clsoe to earth as it will get.–DMartin22:04, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – It's an uncommon event, but the significance of a magnitude 4 is not that high. If this were a really high-quality article, I would've supported, but the recent updates are not significant and the content here is just four paragraphs in a single section. Not our most impressive work. ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat)09:59, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Support no brainer, not only a change of world leader in one of the most significant countries, but also the first female Prime Minister.TheFellaVB (talk)05:10, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support altlburb I article looks good, altblurbII is too long.Comment I believe that the ‘Premiership’ section should contain prose rather than a redirect to her cabinet's article._-_Alsor (talk)11:10, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Quick Support the last time she got nominated it was only rejected because the Diet hadn't voted yet, now that it has, there is no reason not to post this.Scuba14:21, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Support on merit, just worth noting that she is not officially PM until a few more hours from this comment, as she still needs assent from the Emperor.
She was elected in the Diet, but similar to the UK she needs imperial assent to formally enter office and form a cabinet. A formality, but the Japanese Constitution is clear on that. At any rate it should only be another 3-4 hours.Basil the Bat Lord (talk)05:16, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support altblurb II Goes without saying this is important enough to post. The Emperor will have most likely given his rubber stamp by the time this gets posted, and either way sources are already describing her as PM. As for the blurb, I prefer altblurb II since the Diet election is more important (and more recent) than the LDP election, as well as mentioning her predecessor.PolarManne (talk)07:13, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Wait ITN is no rush, let her be confirmed first. The article last time I checked, in detail, with the nom about a week was mostly fine.Gotitbro (talk)07:21, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not ready - Article is in decent shape but has several (longer) paragraphs that is supported entirely by either a single citation or has very sparse citing. Given her role as prime minister of a major country, I feel the quality needs to improved before this can be posted. Once fixed, Isupport alt2193.183.210.238 (talk)12:35, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support Articles are in fantastic shape, just missing a photo of Mr. Lu or the venue. Seems like a good event to feature - can anyone chime in with how prestigious this one is in its field?Omnifalcon (talk)14:07, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support only if the Awards section is moved down lower in the article, it is very much out of place as the first section of the body, though some of that can be summarized in the lede. Would also recommend that we seek to make this an ITNR but it will take a couple more years of consecutive postings to get there, as this seems to be the top competition in piano.Masem (t)14:16, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support I'd probably add that there's a few piano competitions that could be considered to be "the best": theChopin, theTchaikovsky, maybe theVan Cliburn as well. However, the Chopin takes place every five years, and the Tchaikovsky and the Van Cliburn every four years, so you're still looking at an article less than once a year.NorthernFalcon (talk)16:31, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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I have removed the TBA columns for now. While the detailed scoring was released for the last few competitions, it is unclear if they will do so for this edition. If they do, the removed columns can be re-added.intforce (talk)21:42, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Wan died on 13 October. There's still a little bit of unsourced content left, but I wanted to post this now while we're within the 7-day limit. I will source the rest in the next half-hour or so.Toadspike[Talk]23:58, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Support spent 15 minutes looking to source any unsourced claims, but its a low source environment, and by the time I gave up DMartin had sourced or removed them all.1brianm7 (talk)22:09, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think it's one of those situations where sources probably exist, but they either haven't made it to the internet or are nearly impossible to find.–DMartin22:21, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose I found a quotation which didn't have a adjacent citation, focussing on this because quotations are the one specific thing whichWP:V expects to be cited. I checked the citation at the end of the paragraph and found that its website had expired and hadn't been archived. So, the claim above seems too superficial.Andrew🐉(talk)20:00, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@TDKR Chicago 101 Footnote 9, which purports to be "Morris H. Chapman (November 11, 2005). "A democracy Jimmy Carter cannot support". Baptist Press. Retrieved August 20, 2010.", links to a photo of two soft drinks. Heh?Toadspike[Talk]07:24, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Indeed. The ramifications are now starting to appear. There's talk of a blame game and the politicians are seizing on the issue. Interesting commentary includes:
Oppose First world problems, barring if this was a foreign cyber attack that I've seen postulate without proof. Unlike the Crowdstrike, which had significant impact of airlines, here ppl could play the Roblox or Fortnite for a few hours.Masem (t)19:26, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The extent of the "update" is one row in a really long table, not indicating how this row is any more significant than any other row. – Muboshgu (talk)19:36, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's comments: The Gaza peace plan blurb has scrolled off now but there are ongoing developments on the ground and diplomatically which are in the news. Per previous discussion below, we should now consider updating Ongoing to add this. The ongoing entry would then read "Gaza war (timeline · genocide · peace plan)". Andrew🐉(talk)10:37, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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You did start a discussion aout this at the Talk page here and as I said then, a separate nom for removal will hav to be opened for that (for the removal of the entry as a whole not just subpoints of it).Gotitbro (talk)12:44, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Israeli actions are literally entitled "Gaza genocide", surpassing, and not just mere allegations.
Oppose What we are putting in ongoing should be articles that get frequent updated, including the sublinks. The timelines make sense here. The peace plan does not as the plan itself is a static thing, the actions to try to follow it still part of the conflict and timeline. We also simply can't be adding sublinks here because we run out of room quickly, and it is a valid point that including anything but a timeline created neutrality imbalance.Masem (t)11:59, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Details about peace plan(s) are also mentioned in the main and the timeline articles. What happens after notable peace agreements, such as the one which received a blurb recently, should be covered sufficiently by those articles so that we don't need another addition to the entry. Ideally there'd be a definitive conclusion so we can remove all of this from ITN.NICHOLAS NEEDLEHAM (talk)16:16, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support Seems as though the peace plan is the most relevant new development since the war has ended. If anything, we might want to add the peace plan and consider phasing out the Gaza war page since it may no longer be "ongoing," contingent upon if the peace lasts.Gjb0zWxOb (talk)13:23, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Has it? Certainly the daily killings in Gaza don't evince that and neither does our article. If anything they lay hollow the existence of this ceasefire.Gotitbro (talk)14:08, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Because the biased and unreliable sources in the most overly documented conflict in world history say it is a genocide. SeeWP:V. Until sources pile up saying genocides like Sudan and Ukraine and Nigeria are genocides, we are limited. But dont hold your breath. That said, I dosupport some mention of the peace plan or ceasefire or peace process. We cant know if it will hold, but it is a big ongoing event.Metallurgist (talk)19:17, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support As I disagree with the premise that this is covered on its face by theGaza war timeline andGaza genocide timelines; to the contrary, hyperlinking only to those seems misleading given the differences in the situation now relative to six months ago. There is not a clear consensus in the RS about whether the war or the genocide is "over" and it follows that there likely won't be for some time. To surmise the situation into either a "ceasefire" or continued "war" therefore is a NPOV issue. Adding the peace plan hyperlink is a simple solution to that problem: the article itself is relatively thorough and includes contemporaneous updates as well as day by day and week by week tracking of the negotiations and then subsequent violations of the peace plan. Adding the peace plan article alongside the timeline and genocide articles thus seems like a balanced solution.FlipandFlopped㋡02:27, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose A ceasefire ispart of a war; there is no need to delineate one or the other. There is zero debate about whether the war is currently still occurring nor whether it is currently under a ceasefire. Israeli still occupies Gaza, and there are still exchanges of gunfire. There is little suggestion among those who declared the genocide that it has ended. Also, static articles cannot be listed at ongoing, per se.GreatCaesarsGhost10:27, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose on notability and article quality. Note this event is notWP:ITNR, so have removed that tag. And youth tournaments like this very rarely meetWP:ITNSIGNIF, and this one doesn't, as it's not even near the top of dedicated sports news sites like BBC Sport. Also neither of the bolded articles have any decent prose, so nowhere near meetingWP:ITNQUALITY either.Joseph2302 (talk)07:18, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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I withdraw my nomination I'll renominate the future conviction blurb.ArionStar (talk)15:05, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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