Template talk:January 2005 events
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[edit] Moss v. Bush
Please demonstrate that Moss v. Bush is currently in a trial phase? The article Moss v. Bush only uses the term trial once and in reference to a judge dismissing a request for an "expedited trial". All the other "trails" in the section are criminal cases, and the list was inserted originally several months ago to list prominent criminal trials (no civil cases have appeared on this list until now). If we want to start listing civil suits then the list will grow unwieldy. The article does not indicate that Moss v. Bush is currently at trial, so it certainly should not be listed until there is trial. If the case is currently at trial, please update Moss v. Bush to reflect this status. Jewbacca 20:03, Dec 24, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Local news stories
Now we have separate current events pages for Britain and Ireland, Canada and the US, news stories local to these countries that do not have worldwide interest (such as discussions on US voting procedures) should go on these pages, not this one. jguk 15:21, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
[edit] 2004 U.S. presidential election controversy
In my non-American opinion this no longer fits at all the definition of an "ongoing current-news event". That is, some controversies may linger forever, just as for the JFK assassination or indeed the 2000 US presidential election... but this is no longer a newsmaking current event that is receiving ongoing media coverage even in the US, let alone the world.
An "ongoing current event" must be "in the news", and this is no longer "in the news". Furthermore, an "ongoing current event" must be one in which there are regular significant new developments to be reported on, and we can hardly expect any reports of significant new non-footnote developments here... the election result, regardless of what we may think of it, is settled.
Enough time has passed that the burden of proof is now on those who would wish to keep this link here. Please, no conspiracy theories about media silence and no insistence that the election result might still somehow be overturned, and please take a global non-US-centric point of view. Most of the world liked the election result even less than some of you did, but this has now moved into the realm of historians and pundits and year-in-review commentators rather than of journalists. -- Curps 23:39, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I have looked at Talk:Current events#Should 2004 U.S. presidential election controversy be included in ongoing events.3F, now that your revert has pointed me there, but that discussion is a) three weeks old b) inconclusive, and c) entirely consumed with US-centric political partisanship. I believe that if the global community of English-language Wikipedia users voted on this, it would not be considered an "ongoing event". Shall we call a vote? -- Curps 04:31, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Upcoming anniversaries?
- moved to Template talk:Current events
