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November 19

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November 18

November 18, 2018 (2018-11-18) (Sunday)
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  • Boko Haram fighters loyal to ISIS attacked a military base in the Nigerian town of Metele, killing at least 118 soldiers while at least 153 others were missing after the attack, the militants also seized tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, weapons, and ammunition (Reuters)
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RD: Héctor Beltrán Leyva

Article: Héctor Beltrán Leyva (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
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: Mexican drug lord. Article in reasonably good shape - Dumelow (talk) 10:01, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series

Article: 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ In auto racing, Joey Logano wins the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship. (Post)
Alternative blurb: ​ In auto racing, Joey Logano wins the NASCAR Cup Series championship.
News source(s): Motor Racing Network, USA Today
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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.

 Dough4872 00:55, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • I know its formally called that title, but given that the sponsorship of the event has changed, but otherwise is the "NASCAR Cup Series", I'd rather see us drop the forced commercial if we can. --Masem (t) 01:18, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Article is in fine shape, prose summaries of races are sufficient, everything is well referenced. Prefer Altblurb for the same reasons noted above. The year is obvious (cuz we're in that year) and the sponsorship is ephemeral and inconsequential. This is the NASCAR Cup championship, and any additional text is unneeded here. --Jayron32 03:38, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Jennie Stoller

Article: Jennie Stoller (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/nov/18/jennie-stoller-obituary
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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: Fully sourced. MurielMary (talk) 09:03, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

November 17

November 17, 2018 (2018-11-17) (Saturday)
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RD: Alyque Padamsee

Article: Alyque Padamsee (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Times of India
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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: Indian Ad film maker. Referncing issues. Sherenk1 (talk) 14:07, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Richard Baker

Article: Richard Baker (broadcaster) (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: Prominent broadcaster Andrew D. (talk) 13:06, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) San Juan submarine wreckage

Articles: ARA San Juan (S-42) (talk · history · tag) and Disappearance of ARA San Juan (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ The wreckage of Argentinian submarine San Juan, which disappeared in 2017, is found in the Atlantic Ocean. (Post)
News source(s): BBC, Spiegel (in German)
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Nominator's comments: Update is raw, should be expanded. Brandmeistertalk 08:26, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)

Article: Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ David Hockney's Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sells for more than $90 million, becoming the most expensive auction work by a living artist. (Post)
News source(s): BBC
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Article updated

Nominator's comments: Nominating Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), David Hockney's 1972 painting which just sold for $90.3 million dollars, setting the record for a sale of a work by a living artist. (my first visit to this page) Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 03:39, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, fair use does not extend to the main page. The Rambling Man (talk) 14:28, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Is there a logical reason for that? (Presumably that also means it could never appear at TFA). Would an image of Hockney be suitable instead (except that we don't have one, of course). Martinevans123 (talk) 15:13, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Per the Foundation's requirement to keep fair-use to a minimum, fair-use is only allowed in article space (WP:NFCC#9). This has been the case for many years. It's unfortunate we don't have a free image of Hockney, but he has been a very private person for a long time, so I suppose it's not surprising. Black Kite (talk) 15:22, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Martinevans123 and I can buy/beg/steal a box of crayons and put together an adequate rendition. Randy Kryn (talk) 15:26, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Only more for the TFA idea, a picture of the Case Study House #21 that inspired this painting would be a fair free-license replacement. I wouldn't use such for ITN (too many additional words to explain the connection) but in a TFA blurb, there's room to discuss the house as inspiration. --Masem (t) 15:46, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
To Martin, yes it would not be eligible to appear at TFA, which is quite often the case as to why TFA sometimes runs without an image. While it's a requirement of FAC to have at least one image, it can be a fair use image which cannot subsequently be used on the main page. The Rambling Man (talk) 15:51, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps it is best that there isn't an image of the painting or anything related to it in the "In the news" section, because once someone reads that the odds are probably quite high that they are going to click through just to have a look at the painting. It is presented well at the page, which is being improved and added to at a rapid rate. Randy Kryn (talk) 20:54, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

November 16

November 16, 2018 (2018-11-16) (Friday)
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RD: Zhores Medvedev

Article: Zhores Medvedev (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Vedomosti
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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: Prominent Soviet scientist, dissident. Openlydialectic (talk) 21:24, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

RD: William Goldman

Article: William Goldman (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): BBC, NYTimes
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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: Oscar-winning screenwriter, article needs some work, but not beyond saving... The Rambling Man (talk) 15:43, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Khmer Rouge leaders guilty of genocide

Articles: Khieu Samphan (talk · history · tag) and Nuon Chea (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ A tribunal finds Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan guilty of genocide. (Post)
News source(s): BBC, The New York Times
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Both articles updated

Nominator's comments: Significant news as the tribunal has been on-going for 20 years and these are the only people alive who faced a charge for the Cambodian genocide. Genocide convictions are historical. Pudeo (talk) 12:19, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment trying to check refs in BLP articles is tough when the refs are print books and no page number is in the citation. --LaserLegs (talk) 12:37, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • The Nuon Chea article has about 1/3 of it's content from a single source, a compilation of excerpts from "Soviet Archives" by a guy named Dmitry Mosyakov. The link at yale.edu is dead, but if you Google the exact title you'll find PDFs from alternate sources. The content in question isn't mundane either, I think it should be stricken if the article is posted. --LaserLegs (talk) 02:06, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • Khieu Samphan is better, nothing really outrageous in it. There is a lot sourced to "A Biographical Encyclopedia of Contemporary Genocide: Portraits of Evil and Good." but without page numbers (I don't have access to a university library to check them anyway). Still it's probably ok. --LaserLegs (talk) 02:15, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • The tribunal article itself has a pile of detail about the administrative organization of the tribunal which I don't think matters that much. I had to orange tag the list of judges, and added a few CNs here and there. The details about the individual defendants seem ok. I didn't read the controversies section yet, it's late here. If you post this, the tribunal should be the only bold link and needs cleaning up first. --LaserLegs (talk) 02:29, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
      • I added multipled citations to the tribunal article and removed some unsourced information.[1] As for the biographies, they seem ok to me, although not close to GA status or anything like that. I have no preference whether the tribunal or the biographies are bolded. --Pudeo (talk) 09:16, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support in principle. An important (though long-delayed) conviction of a major genocide. Could we get a link to Cambodian genocide into the blurb somewhere? I've not had time to assess the updates or article quality. Modest Genius talk 12:51, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support on the merits; I think that war crimes convictions are generally notable. 331dot (talk) 21:02, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support in principle - genocide convictions are notable starship.paint ~ KO 03:27, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose on notability. This seems really only a technicality. As I understand it, they are both already serving life for crimes against humanity. This genocide conviction merely covers the small fraction of their victims who were not ethnically Cambodian (such as Vietnamese, etc). Even if it were nevertheless deemed notable it might then be quite difficult to get a blurb that does not mislead our readers by overstating the importance of the event, thus damaging Wikipedia by giving some of our readers the impression that we use misleading clickbait. Tlhslobus (talk) 04:49, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I'll just disagree with the clickbait-thing as it was the #1 news article on BBC's frontpage when I posted it. It's true that they have already been serving a life sentence since 2014 for crimes against humanity, but the genocide convction is notable as well and also the main question of this UN-supported tribunal. Previously it also has been opinionated that it wasn't a genocide. Actually, the BBC article that's linked has a chapter on "Why is the genocide verdict significant?" --Pudeo (talk) 16:06, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Whether or not some of our readers get the impression that it is clickbait will have nothing to do with what the BBC news website looked like 2 days earlier, since they will not be aware of that. And just because the BBC claims that its own story is significant doesn't necessarily mean that it is, let alone that it is ITN-worthy (which the BBC story presumably does NOT claim, even for posting at the time, let alone for posting two days later), nor that our readers will see it as such (nor that we need see it as such). Indeed the very fact that the BBC have to explain why it is supposedly significant suggests that they realize that many of their readers will understandably not see it as significant (and they can explain that in their news items more easily than we can do so in our articles, as they don't have to be NPOV, RS-based NOR, and encyclopedic - it would be totally unencyclopedic, POV, and OR for us to try to tell our readers why this story is ITN-worthy, if only because there will not be a single RS discussing whether it is ITN-worthy). Meanwhile quite likely we have another reason for not posting, namely that it's gone stale. Tlhslobus (talk) 21:34, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ongoing: Sri Lankan constitutional crisis

Article: 2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis (talk · history · tag)
Ongoing item nomination (Post)
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Nominator's comments: Per WP:ERRORS and the multiple updates that the current blurb has received, it seems clear that this will be an indefinitely ongoing event. WaltCip (talk) 11:45, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment this is already the top story at ITN. This will, once it finally gets to the bottom, be reassessed at the time and added to Ongoing automatically should the admin doing the update decide to do so. Do we need this nomination as well as all that? The Rambling Man (talk) 11:53, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    My concern is that, if any future updates to this story occur, the blurb will be bumped to the top again as well as updated. We have never allowed that sort of treatment for any other ongoing event. In any case, the ITN photo has been the same person (on and off) for a while now (with Stan Lee to briefly interrupt), and I'm a little leery about having another Lugo on the main page. WaltCip (talk) 13:28, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    So part of your concern is that you're tired of seeing the picture?? There're scripts that can hide it for you. –Ammarpad (talk) 13:55, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    I think we have bumped items whose blurbs have changed notably during running. But we don't have to. And as this moves down the page, it'll gravitate into Ongoing. Why wouldn't we apply this same logic to the forest fires? That hit the news again today, "California wildfires: Number of missing leaps to 631" which significantly changes the landscape on that story. So should we re-work the hook, bump it up, or put it in Ongoing until the fires are handled? It looks no different to the Sri Lanka situation. And you could argue the same about the Ebola story..... The Rambling Man (talk) 14:02, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support removing the blurb and dropping this into ongoing now. --LaserLegs (talk) 12:02, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    Why on earth would we do that? It's easy to change the blurb should anything major happen. It doesn't mean the blurb needs bumping back to the top. Just let it run its course. As far as I know, we've never demoted an article to Ongoing from blurb like that. If you do this, then you should do the same with the fires in Americuh too. The Rambling Man (talk) 12:05, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wait until the blurb rotates off; if the situation is still fluid at that point, and the article receiving frequent updates, then it can move to ongoing. If there's a genuine need to replace the blurb with a different one (rather than tweaking the originally-posted one) then start a new nomination here. Modest Genius talk 12:54, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. Leave the blurb to naturally reach the bottom and be obscured, then if the issue is still in the news, nominate for Ongoing, that's how we do it normally and no convincing reason to do otherwise. –Ammarpad (talk) 13:39, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    Renomination for ongoing is not necessary for all cases; Khashoggi was shifted down without a renom for example. (per WP:ITN: Older stories which are scheduled to roll off the bottom of the list may be added to ongoing at admins' discretion, provided that the linked article is receiving continuous updates with new information on a regular basis.) SpencerT•C 15:16, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    I can agree renomination is not necessary but my main point still stands. We don't pull blurb just to convert it to Ongoing, we let it to reach the bottom, unless it's found not worthy of posting in the first place. Also Khashoggi's case was first posted to Ongoing then changed to Blurb after significant turn of events and a new nomination. So there's quite difference here. –Ammarpad (talk) 16:31, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wait per Modest Genius. Banedon (talk) 01:23, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support (once the blurb rotates off) Looking at the situation on the ground there it looks like there is no solid resolution in sight as of yet. There are still Supreme Court decisions on the events to be handed out in over a months time. Looks like there is still a month or two of this still to play out.--Blackknight12 (talk) 02:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) Proposed redefinition of SI base units

Article: Proposed redefinition of SI base units (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ The International Committee for Weights and Measures confirms new definitions for the kilogram, ampere, kelvin and mole. (Post)
Alternative blurb: ​ The International Committee for Weights and Measures redefines the units kilogram, ampere, kelvin and mole.
News source(s): ABC, NPR, BBC
Credits:

Nominator's comments: A fundamental change to how units are defined in physics; so quite big science news which is at least partly understandable at the popular level, so I think it is appropriate for ITN. Article looks to be in very good shape, though will need an update if the changes are confirmed. Of course we should not post until it is confirmed (16-Nov-2018), but it seems very likely to, so we might as well be ready. Adpete (talk) 00:10, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • Wait It hasn't happened yet, it's only expected to happen later today. Wait until it has happened for sure. TheMrP (talk) 00:33, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support pending vote outcome Article is in good shape outside the result of the vote (and presumably if voted for, it will be moved to "Redefinition of SI base units"). Interesting fundamental science news we don't get to post much about. --Masem (t) 00:36, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per Masem. Banedon (talk) 00:44, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support pending vote outcome and R.I.P. to Le Grand K. – Muboshgu (talk) 01:17, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question I grew up in a metric country, I still find this Good Article to be somewhat inaccessible. Reading it, the definition of a second and a meter are essentially unchanged but the definition of a Kilogram "the current definition defines the kilogram as being the mass of the international prototype kilogram, which is an artefact and not a constant of nature, whereas the new definition relates it to the equivalent mass of the energy of a photon given its frequency, via the Planck constant. " What the hell does that mean? The Planck constant? an "international prototype kilogram"? WTF? If this is adopted, is a kilogram of potatoes going to be larger or smaller than it is now or so negligible that it doesn't matter to anyone who isn't trying to measure the mass of a single molecule? --LaserLegs (talk) 01:50, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The kilogram is currently defined as the mass of a standard block of metal. See [2] fourth paragraph. Planck's constant is a fundamental constant of nature, and it's related to the energy of a photon by the relation E = hf (E = energy, f = frequency, h is the Planck's constant). If this is adopted, you're not going to notice any differences. The changes are too small to be measurable without highly sophisticated apparatus. Banedon (talk) 02:37, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The BBC article has a good summary: right now, the only way to confirm the kg is to go to Paris to check against that weight (the Le Grand K). By switching the system to the Planck constant - which can be measured by anyone with a specific type of electromagnetic balance - then all other factors can be used to derive the kg. --Masem (t) 02:57, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks to you both for your explanation. --LaserLegs (talk) 12:20, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

November 15

November 15, 2018 (2018-11-15) (Thursday)
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New supra-kingdom of eukaryotes: Hemimastigophora

Article: Spironemidae (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: No blurb specified (Post)
News source(s): CBC, Nature (peer-reviewed article)
Credits:

Article needs updating

Nominator's comments: New biological kingdom appears to have been discovered based on research at Dalhousie University; “as different from other kingdoms as animals are from fungi.” 24.114.224.35 (talk) 18:16, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

(Closed) Brexit resignations

WP:NAC: consensus is clearly against posting these resignations (only two of which were cabinet-level posts). Many of the comments suggest waiting until either May is deposed or the full parliamentary vote is held. Modest Genius talk 13:48, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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

Article: Brexit negotiations (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ On November 15, 2018, eight British government officials resign in response to the proposed Brexit deal. (Post)
News source(s): Evening Standard
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Nominator's comments: Do we need another Brexit update? But, eight government resignations in a day. Kingsif (talk) 01:48, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

RD: Roy Clark

Article: Roy Clark (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): [3]
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: Country music hall of fame member. StrikerforceTalk 17:36, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

November 14

November 14, 2018 (2018-11-14) (Wednesday)
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Swedish general election

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Articles: 2018 Swedish government formation (talk · history · tag) and Swedish general election, 2018 (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ After two months of negotiations, Swedish Prime Minister candidate Ulf Kristersson loses confidence vote. (Post)
Alternative blurb: ​ After two months of negotiations, Swedish Prime Minister candidate Ulf Kristersson loses a vote of confidence, forcing an election.
News source(s): https://www.thelocal.se/20181114/swedish-parliament-rejects-centre-right-pm-candidate-ulf-kristersson
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Nominator's comments: This vote is significant, as it marks the first time in modern Swedish history that a PM candidate failed a confidence vote, as well as continuing a deeply divided and historically lengthy government formation process. Specter Koen (talk) 10:24, 14 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not irrelevant to the Swedes, at any rate. Sca (talk) 02:25, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Mario Suárez (singer)

Article: Mario Suárez (singer) (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): El Diario
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: Venezuelan folk singer Jamez42 (talk) 08:42, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

November 13

November 13, 2018 (2018-11-13) (Tuesday)
Business and economy

Disasters and accidents

Law and crime

Politics and elections

Science and technology

RD: Lucho Gatica

Article: Lucho Gatica (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): BillboardAl Dia NewsPrensa Latina
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: Chilean bolero singer. My previous nomination got stale because of lack of references, but I still think it is worth nominating again. Jamez42 (talk) 00:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Caroline Rose Hunt

Article: Caroline Rose Hunt (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Dallas News
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: Article is updated and overall well sourced --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 05:24, 14 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

November 12

November 12, 2018 (2018-11-12) (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks

Arts and culture

Disasters and accidents

International relations

Law and crime

Politics and elections

Science and technology

(Posted) RD: Herbert London

Article: Herbert London (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The New York 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: Article is updated and overall well sourced --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 01:39, 14 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support: One the assumption that the two bare urls in the references will be fixed before posting - Dumelow (talk) 08:37, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

(Closed) Kyrsten Sinema elected to the US Senate

Consensus tells me to withdraw. Kingsif (talk) 01:54, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Articles: Kyrsten Sinema (talk · history · tag) and United States Senate election in Arizona, 2018 (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ Democrat congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema wins the US Senate seat for Arizona, becoming the first female Senator for the State, the first Arizona Democrat since 1995, and the first openly bisexual Senator. (Post)
News source(s): New York Times
Credits:
Nominator's comments: Historic victory and seat change, and one of the last results holding out it was so contentious. Kingsif (talk) 01:34, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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(Posted) RD: David Pearson

Article: David Pearson (racing driver) (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Star Tribune
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: GA. Nohomersryan (talk) 00:59, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

(Closed) Bali Nine member Renae Lawrence to be released

Consensus will not develop to post a relatively minor sentence commutation. Stephen 02:09, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Articles: Bali Nine (talk · history · tag) and Renae Lawrence (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ Bali Nine member Renae Lawrence scheduled to be released on 21 November, after 12 years in prison (Post)
News source(s): [4], [5]
Credits:
Nominator's comments: Notorious drug mule. Caught in Bali in 2005 with 2.6 kg of heroin taped to her body. Two other members of the Bali Nine were executed by firing squad in 2015, and one died in prison. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:29, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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(Posted): Death of Stan Lee

Closed, it's posted, we all know it won't be pulled, Take errors to errors, no reason to leave this open as a battleground. --LaserLegs (talk) 20:02, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Article: Stan Lee (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ American comic-book creator Stan Lee dies at the age of 95. (Post)
News source(s): TMZ, THR, Variety
Credits:

Article updated
Nominator's comments: Looks fully referenced; likely to be a flood of updates over the next hour. We may need to wait for independent confirmation. power~enwiki (π, ν) 18:50, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Abequinn14 If it is determined this should be a blurb, that's where it will go, not in both places. 331dot (talk) 19:17, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I'm just saying if the blurb fails to get support (which doesn't seem to be the case right now) I support a RD. Abequinn14 (talk) 19:20, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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RD: Ananth Kumar

Article: Ananth Kumar (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 Union Minister Ananth Kumar died.- Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 02:43, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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