Template talk:Current events

This page was nominated at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion on 31 August 2017. The result of the discussion was replacement with a new template, without deletion.

Adding border radius?

Is there a reason not to just add something like subtle border-radius: 0.25em to the div boxes and border-radius: 0.25em 0.25em 0 0; to the header boxs? just feel like that would go a long way in making current events just look nicer, but would be very simple and subtle. 173.246.232.42 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 15:41, 24 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Upcoming anniversaries?

Should upcoming anniversaries be listed as upcoming events? If there's a big celebration (or other rememberance), then perhaps so. I'm not sure what's in store for (as an example) the 90th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, and I have no doubt it was a mess worthy of remembering, but is the 90th anniversary an upcoming event? I'm inclined to leave anniversaries to the "on this day" section of the main page as there will otherwise be way too many to list them on current events. -- ke4roh 18:47, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

IMO, anniversaries should not be here, unless there are major commemorating activities, i.e. current event, ... not a reminder. -- PFHLai 15:42, 2005 Apr 13 (UTC)

Concur. The anniversary of the D-Day landings in 2004 would qualify, but not events for which a major celebration/commemoration (presumably with its own article, which would be linked to) isn't planned. –Hajor 15:58, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Another timely revert by User:Korath. The best place to flag the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide is Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 24. –Hajor 15:14, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I had to take it off SA/April24. It should not be featured on the MainPage with an ongoing {{dispute}}. (See the war of words in Talk:Armenian Genocide.) Nevertheless, we still have 10 days to clean up the Wikipage ... -- PFHLai 17:59, 2005 Apr 14 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for setting me straight. –Hajor

Well, I don't mean that... SA/April24 is indeed the right place. Maybe after the current {{dispute}}. -- PFHLai 18:37, 2005 Apr 14 (UTC)

a link to "Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page/Candidates" ?

Continuing from Template_talk:In_the_news#Linking from Current events:

There are 2 links to Wikinews on this Template:Current events. How about changing one between the calendar and the main pink box into a link to Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page/Candidates ? -- PFHLai 01:30, 2005 Apr 18 (UTC)

Width

I've noticed that this template is getting extremely wide. This is due in part to the inclusion of the location of the "Upcoming holidays". The current width offender is "May 29: Feast of Corpus Christi (Catholicism in the U.S.)". I propose that we get rid of the location part. This should be covered in the article. Evil Monkey∴Hello 07:01, May 4, 2005 (UTC)

Width is an ongoing problem. Just keep an eye on it, and if something is too wide, find a way to make it narrower. Be bold! -- ke4roh 15:14, 15 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

HTML layout

Why do we use • ... <br> here? It's not very formal, isn't it? -- Toytoy 05:38, May 19, 2005 (UTC)

Special elections

October 4: CA 48th Congressional District Primary (U.S.)

There are 435 U.S. Representatives in the House. I don't think one special election belongs on this page. If you disagree, please come up with a short way to express it so it doesn't make the Current events side bar too wide. -- ke4roh 15:14, 15 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

"On a similar note, it seems to me that...

November 8: California special election
November 8: New Jersey State elections
November 8: Virginia State elections
is simply not possible, since we can't cover every election in every county/state/province/municipality in the world (Especially when it's not even a US election year) - thus we limit ourselves to elections concerning Federal governments, or displaced people. Sherurcij 20:21, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of Nguyen

I argued some time ago that we should not be listing ANY deaths on this page. Recent Deaths is the place for them to go, and any debates about notability or otherwise of individuals should happen there and only there. This page should provide a link to Recent Deaths, but not list any of them. Otherwise we end up with 2 separate lists of people who have died recently, and neither of them necessarily contains entries that occur in the other list. This is a dumb outcome, and we're smarter than that. JackofOz 01:27, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Then we shouldn't have elections, trials or holidays either. The deaths of well known politicians and such is news and thus should be listed on the current events template.--Kross | Talk 03:19, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

WIkilinks in ongoing courtcases

I've removed the wikilinks to the first reference to each country, in the template of ongoing trials - they needlessly clog up the page, and were not evenly applied. I feel it is much cleaner now, and nobody reading the list of trials wants to go "ooh, the United States...what country is that?" Sherurcij ^{(talk) (Terrorist Wikiproject)} 01:01, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Harry Potter Day, February 15

I've Googled and searched Wikipedia but haven't been able to find any significant event which would lead to February 15th being "Harry Potter Day". I love the HP series as much as any fan, but why is this listed in the Wikipedia as an observed holiday? --BakerQ 16:22, 8 February 2006 (UTC) (Not sure if this is the correct place to discuss specific events added to the template.)[reply]

Thoughts on adding the content of Template:Current events articles to this template?

Please respond in Talk:Current events#Template:Current events articles should be more visible... to consolidate responses. TransUtopian 16:52, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Revert

I reverted this template to fix an edit that blanked Current events -- Gurch 20:04, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please have the holiday list updated. Thanks. -- 199.71.174.100 20:09, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tell me what you'd like added. Ashibaka tock 00:42, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please keep the 'Upcoming holidays and observances' section updated. Old ones should be removed. New ones can be found at the 'Holidays and observances' section on each day's wikipage. Thanks. -- 199.71.174.100 07:22, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, why was this template protected in the first place ? -- 199.71.174.100 07:26, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure, actually. Ashibaka tock 22:37, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pls add Victory Day on June 23 in Estonia. --64.229.176.142 17:06, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Ashibaka, for unprotecting. --199.71.174.100 17:43, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This template is causing problems at WP:ITN/C

The individual day pages (e.g. Portal:Current events/2017 October 5) are transcluded at WP:ITN/C. The change to use this template rather than template:Current events header means that the headers here ("Current events of October 5, 2017 (2017-10-05) (Thursday)") and subheaders (e.g. "Law and crime") are appearing in the TOC at that page (WP:ITN/C) whereas they did not with the old format. I've had a quick look at the code but it's well beyond my ability to understand. See also Wikipedia talk:In the news#Portal:Current events. Thryduulf (talk) 12:06, 5 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It's beyond me as well. I've reverted to yesterday's version which should hopefully fix this for now. --LukeSurl^{t c} 16:12, 5 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This didn't work. I've undone my revision. Matt Fitzpatrick, can you help here? --LukeSurl^{t c} 16:19, 5 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the error report, and sorry about the mess. I've patched the headers so they shouldn't interact with TOC anymore. Matt Fitzpatrick (talk) 19:13, 5 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Format change

Instead of "Month Num, Year (Day)" I think the heading would look better as "Day, Month Num, Year" or "Day Num Month Year". So instead of "April 8, 2018 (Sunday)" it would be "Sunday, April 8 2018" or "Sunday 8 April 2018". Nixinova T C 06:47, 8 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Current events noticeboard

WP:CEN is now open!

To all interested parties: Now that it has a proper shortcut, the current events noticeboard has now officially opened for discussion!

WP:CEN came about as an idea I explored through a request for comment that closed last March. Recen research has re-opened the debate on Wikipedia's role in a changing faster-paced internet. Questions of WP:NOTNEWS and WP:Recentism are still floating around. That being said, there are still plenty of articles to write and hopefully this noticeboard can positively contribute to that critical process.

Thank you for your participation in the RFC, and I hope to see you at WP:CEN soon! –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 17:08, 26 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Regression: "edit history watch" buttons are too far down with Vector 2022

I noticed this a while (some weeks) ago but was too lazy to report it until now.

Steps to reproduce:

Use Vector 2022.
Go to Portal:Current events or wherever you can see the template in action, including the actual template page.
Notice the issue: https://i.imgur.com/9NFp805.png

However, it looks as expected if you use the mobile version of Wikipedia (en.m).

Expected behavior:

Use Vector Legacy (2010)
Repeat step 2 from above.
It looks just like before the breakage: https://i.imgur.com/vvgnoSX.png

Tested in a vanilla profile in newest Firefox on Linux.

I looked into the history of this template but even the change that was made a month ago does not fix the issue. To me it looks like the skin "broke" this template somehow. I have not seen any other problems related to the skin, so this is quite a weird issue. NetSysFire (talk) 03:30, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. This is caused by !important in new Vector. stjn 17:01, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for fixing! I can confirm it looks right now. NetSysFire (talk) 17:06, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Noorail 196.190.61.10 (talk) 19:30, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Error detection

My recent changes patrol tells me that edits like Special:Diff/1263055845 are not unusual - I don't know whether this is one person making occasional vandal edits, or several people making test edits. I've added an error check to the header template, which seems to work. If anyone can tidy my code to do it more efficiently, please do. -- John of Reading (talk) 14:33, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]