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December 4

December 4, 2019 (2019-12-04) (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks

Arts and culture

Disasters and accidents
  • A boat carrying refugees capsized near Nouadhibou, off the coast of Mauritania, in one of the deadliest maritime disasters this year, leaving 58 people dead and many more who tried to swim to shore in need of treatment. The boat had departed The Gambia on 27 November 2019. It was heading towards the Canary Islands when it approached the Mauritanian coast to get fuel and food. The boat had been carrying between 150–180 people when it capsized, most of them aged between 20 and 30. (The Guardian)
  • A gas explosion in Szczyrk, Poland causes a three-story building to collapse and kills 8 people (tvn24.pl)

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(Posted) RD: Bob Willis

Article: P. Chidambaram (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ Former Finance Minister of India gets bail after 106 days in prison. (Post)
News source(s): IndiaToday, BBC
Credits:

 175.157.245.124 (talk) 17:22, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Bob Willis

Article: Bob Willis (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The Daily Telegraph; Sky 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.

 SchroCat (talk) 16:14, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Ritchie. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 16:31, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

(closed) Alphabet Inc. CEO changed

WP:SNOW closing. No chance of getting support at this point. --Jayron32 12:16, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Articles: Alphabet Inc. (talk · history · tag) and Sundar Pichai (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ Google CEO Sundar Pichai becomes the CEO of parent company Alphabet Inc. after founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin stepped down. (Post)
News source(s): [1] [2]
Article updated
 2409:4062:2E93:B445:5C8C:925:3991:8A43 (talk) 07:25, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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December 3

December 3, 2019 (2019-12-03) (Tuesday)
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Health and environment
  • 2019 Samoa measles outbreak
    • The government makes it illegal to make non-essential domestic travel on the roads while vaccination units cross the country with 40,000 still to be vaccinated. Also, the opposition calls for an inquiry into the low vaccination rates which began after a mistake by two nurses last year which resulted in the deaths of two children. (RNZ)

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December 2

December 2, 2019 (2019-12-02) (Monday)
Business and economy

Disasters and accidents
  • Thirteen Pakistani nationals, including eight children and four women, have died and three others are injured in a fire at a farm in rural Jordan. (BBC News)

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(Posted) RD: D.C. Fontana

Article: D. C. Fontana (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Variety
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 Star Trek (TOS + TNG) writer. Article is in good shape outside of a long lede which I will likely tacckle here in a second. Masem (t) 19:52, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

COP25

Article: 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference (talk · history · tag)
Ongoing item nomination (Post)
News source(s): BBC Guardian The New York Times
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 Femke Nijsse (talk) 21:09, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  • Oppose - Not certain but I don't believe we typically list conferences as ongoing, even UN ones. In any case, I'm not sure the article will be updated a ton during the conference. Perhaps when it is over there may be some news to blurb, but I don't see much updating being done in the meantime ✈ mike_gigs talkcontribs 21:26, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose ongoing, Wait for blurb. Ongoing is for articles which have incremental updates which individually would not merit inclusion in ITN, but do collectively. It isn't generally for things that are merely in progress. I could see posting a blurb for the commencement of this conference, but it would probably be better to post the conclusion if some notable agreement is reached. 331dot (talk) 21:29, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose ongoing - If there is a major decision that falls out of the conference in two-weeks time, then we can go with a blurb, but we usually do not post these international conferences (UN, G7/8, G20, etc.) unless we have something newsworthy about them. --Masem (t) 21:54, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wait – The conference lasts two weeks and will produce a plethora of verbiage and data, some of which might be be newsworthy and blurblable. Whether it might be more suitable for Ongoing we shall see. However, such a momentous topic probably will deserve a "climate conference ends with..." blurb at its conclusion. – Sca (talk) 22:27, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose maybe we'll have a blurb at the end of the conference, but conferences generally don't belong in the ongoing section. Lepricavark (talk) 06:48, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support when conference concludes. The news is already out that the optimistic scenarios we're going to end up with 2.9 C warming, while the evidence for entering into a Hothouse Earth state due to an initial warming of more than 1.5 C as mentioned here has become a lot stronger. If the conference concludes without any pledges for stronger action, then that will be very significant news just as any pledges to implement very strong actions. Count Iblis (talk) 12:27, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Yet at the same time, I would not be the least bit astonished, considering The Orange One's boorish eagerness to crash out of the Paris Agreement and tout the wonders of beautiful clean coal. That may diminish its significance somewhat.--WaltCip (talk) 15:42, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Everyone is tired of the topic, but that doesn't mean it's not newsworthy. – Sca (talk) 14:12, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) Power of Siberia opened

Article: Power of Siberia (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ The Power of Siberia pipeline, delivering Russian natural gas to China, begins operations (Post)
Alternative blurb: ​ The 3000-kilometre pipeline Power of Siberia begins operations, delivering up to 38 billion cubic metres per year of natural gas from Russia to China.
News source(s): [3] [4]
Credits:

Article updated

Nominator's comments: Not sure if it's begun operations, but it's supposed to start on 2 December, i.e. today (by Wikipedia time). Banedon (talk) 03:33, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support 3,000 km of pipe, $400 billion over 30 years for 1.8 trillion cubic metres, sourcing looks fine. Maybe a blurb with an impressive number? Delivering gas to China isn't much, in itself. InedibleHulk (talk) 09:02, December 2, 2019 (UTC)
  • Altblurb added — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:06, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak support alt1. This does seem to be a major piece of infrastructure, with geopolitical implications, and the article meets ITN quality criteria (barring one {{cn}} tag). However the article left me wanting more information (such as the actual cost, not just the planned one) and is strangely uninteresting. Surely there's more to say about the context and implications of such a project? Modest Genius talk 12:58, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    [5] has some interesting context and a map that makes the one in our article seem misleading... Modest Genius talk 13:10, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Oppose - While the article looks fine, I'm going to argue that this event really isn't significant enough to be featured on ITN. It simply seems like just another big pipeline - and while that may not be the case, the article doesn't suggest there is anything special about this pipeline compared to others (is it a biggest? a most expensive? a first? etc). However, as this is my subjective opinion, I am open to changing my vote based on others arguments for significance ~mike_gigs talkcontribs 13:09, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It's the widest (flow-wise), beating Yamal-Europe by five billion annual cubic metres. In theory, anyway. We'll see next year. InedibleHulk (talk) 08:54, December 3, 2019 (UTC)

(Posted) Hong Kong protests

It's been posted. Closing to stop continued irrelevant side discussions. Quality concerns can be taken up on the article talk page. --Jayron32 20:26, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Article: 2019 Hong Kong protests (talk · history · tag)
Ongoing item nomination (Post)
News source(s): Reuters Associated Press, Agence France Presse,
Credits:
Nominator's comments: It's no longer a blurb, but the protests are clearly continuing, so renominating. Banedon (talk) 01:51, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
That article mostly signifies nothing, too. Hundreds carried balloons, called on people who weren't there, then dispersed in an orderly fashion at dusk, like pedestrians. A few rowdies in the news chucking stuff, but a few mildly bad apples don't bump up the bunch. InedibleHulk (talk) 14:50, December 2, 2019 (UTC)
  • Support Article is a good overview article, and being sufficiently updated for the level of detail, per WP:SUMMARY, one would expect. Sub-articles broken off for space are appropriate and also in good quality. --Jayron32 13:42, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support – Per Jayron. Still the biggest story in the world's 'biggest' (pop.) country. – Sca (talk) 14:40, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - The article has already failed the criteria: "The article needs to be regularly updated with new, pertinent information" per WP:ITN, and it has been removed from 'ongoing'. I don't think we may reinstate the ongoing status for the same article which has been judged as not regularly updated. STSC (talk) 16:22, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Note that the article was removed from ongoing without any comment on its updates. It was removed because we posted a blurb about the district council elections. Davey2116 (talk) 18:19, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
IP has this one right. Searching Google for a definition of "siege", I get "an operation in which a police or other force surround a building and cut off supplies, with the aim of forcing an armed person to surrender", which is a picture perfect description of what happened. Banedon (talk) 00:35, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe you should get the CUHK article renamed again, since consensus was against you there. --LaserLegs (talk) 01:06, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
By the way, even China Daily called it a siege. But what another article is called really makes no difference to this nomination. So maybe move that discussion to the article talk of said article?2003:D6:2729:FFD1:6921:9F6:90F7:B605 (talk) 01:08, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@LaserLegs: - siege was the exact description given in Reuters / Associated Press / Agence France Presse / BBC / Bloomberg / Al Jazeera / Nikkei Asian Review. I'd like to see you provide sources that are even more neutral that what I can come up with. Plus, you have mixed up the universities. The Chinese University of Hong Kong conflict is not the same as the Siege of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Clearly, you are not as well read on this issue as I would have hoped. starship.paint (talk) 04:58, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
So, the Polytech article still uses siege in the name and is not renamed like LaserLegs claims? Oh well... What is the issue regarding the term 'siege' NPOV wise anyway? Seems to be a term used to describe the event by both sides (link to a China Daily article in a previous comment), plus all the sources Starship paint linked to and my basic search from before... What is your issue here exactly LaserLegs? Why is it not NPOV in your opinion? 2003:D6:2729:FFD1:F091:9422:AF9A:319A (talk) 07:04, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
So CNN calls it an occupation since we're cherry picking WP:RS which suits our POV and rightly points out that the students were free to leave any time they just faced arrest -- so not a siege at all. Cool right? --LaserLegs (talk) 10:17, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Cherrypicking sources? You cannot be serious with that. In this nomination alone there are 11 sources calling it a siege, from both sides of the issue no less. You present one source and say the rest of us are cherrypicking to suit a particular POV?!? And since when is a siege defined through physical harm? It does not matter if they 'just faced arrest' (citation needed on that by the way). Banedon gave you the definition for what a siege is. So, again... What is your actual issue here. And this time please without cherrypicking a single source and making a pompous argument out of it. For example, why is 'siege' not ok in your opinion? What is the value judgement of the term, how is it POV? Please explain that. You may not like this "zombie article", as you called it before, but come on... this is ridiculous. 2003:D6:2729:FFD1:F091:9422:AF9A:319A (talk) 10:57, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@LaserLegs: - what a ridiculous charge of cherry picking given the breadth and the quality of the sources I've provided, followed by original research (not a siege at all) totally contrary to reliable sources. Who's the one cherry picking, when CNN has also called it a siege? starship.paint (talk) 10:58, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
CNN also calls criticism an attack, Washington a battlefield and information ammunition. News skirts the line to make the mundane feel interesting, encyclopedias needn't ought to. It is technically a very small siege, though (any besieged force is free to surrender). InedibleHulk (talk) 11:16, December 3, 2019 (UTC)
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December 1

December 1, 2019 (2019-12-01) (Sunday)
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RD: Lil Bub

Article: Lil Bub (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Schooltips, The Verge, CNN
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: Cat famous on the internet Mjroots (talk) 19:46, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Kees08: Yes, so I switch to support. ミラP 15:12, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) Iraqi protests

 
Articles: 2019 Iraqi protests (talk · history · tag) and Adil Abdul-Mahdi (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ In Iraq, amidst ongoing protests, Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi resigns. (Post)
News source(s): NYT, WaPo, BBC, Al Jazeera
Credits:

Nominator's comments: Abdul-Mahdi resigned on November 29, and the resignation was approved on December 1. The protests article is decent, while Abdul-Mahdi's could use some expansion. Davey2116 (talk) 03:43, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

November 30

November 30, 2019 (2019-11-30) (Saturday)
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(Posted) RD: Mariss Jansons

Article: Mariss Jansons (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Washington Post, NY Times, Deutsche Welle, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Times
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: Latvian notable "maestro" and conductor. --SirEdimon (talk) 17:21, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

November 29

November 29, 2019 (2019-11-29) (Friday)
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(Closed) London Bridge attack

Consensus is clearly not going to develop in favor of posting. – Muboshgu (talk) 23:39, 29 November 2019 (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: 2019 London Bridge attack (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ Two people are killed in a stabbing attack in London, England, with the attacker shot dead by police. (Post)
News source(s): BBC
Credits:

Article updated
Nominator's comments: Terror attack in London without warning (i.e. intelligence) and resulted in shootings (for reiteration: the police in the UK do not regularly carry tasers, let alone guns, let alone use them) Kingsif (talk) 19:31, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose relatively small potatoes in the big scheme of "terror" attacks. Sure, it made a few waves, but the Met Police were on the scene in minutes, unarmed members of the British public ran towards the danger to help, and that was that. Tomorrow, London will be the same, stoic and resilient as it has been for decades. RIP the two innocent citizens. The Rambling Man (Staying alive since 2005!) 19:41, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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(Closed) Burning Sun scandal

Article: Burning Sun scandal (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ A South Korean court sentences K-pop artists Jung Joon-young and Choi Jong-hoon to six and five years in prison for their involvement in the Burning Sun scandal. (Post)
Alternative blurb: ​ A South Korean court sentences K-pop artists Jung Joon-young and Choi Jong-hoon to six and five years in prison for distributing sexcam videos without participants' permission, in a scandal exposing cultures of the nation's entertainment industry.
Alternative blurb II: ​ In South Korea's Burning Sun scandal, K-pop artists Jung Joon-young and Choi Jong-hoon are sentenced to six and five years jail for rape and/or unconsented filming and sharing of sexcam videos.
News source(s): Yonhap, BBC
Credits:

Article updated

Nominator's comments: Top news. Article well referenced. Sherenk1 (talk) 12:02, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  • Expanded blurb to give some context based on what reading the lead of the scandal article suggests. If it's inaccurate, then that's because the lead does not concisely get to the point... Kingsif (talk) 22:36, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, that is significant. You don't see celebrities or white-collar individuals in general get sent to prison nowadays. Even Felicity Huffman, who got convicted of fraud, managed to worm her way out of prison time. WaltCip (talk) 19:42, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Huffman spent a short time in prison. Stephen 21:11, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ten days. WaltCip (talk) 22:01, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Taewangkorea: - I presume you’re from Korea - then you should be aware of #MeToo’s equivalent in Korea, hidden camera sex crimes (including Hara), and the significance of Kpop, all of which this story is tied in to. starship.paint (talk) 23:56, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Yasuhiro Nakasone

Article: Yasuhiro Nakasone (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Kyoto News & etc.
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: Oldest (formerly) living ex-Prime Minister of Japan at 101, and one of the last high ranking pols who was a veteran of the world war. Referencing needs some work but not in dreadful shape. Ad Orientem (talk) 04:32, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

November 28

November 28, 2019 (2019-11-28) (Thursday)
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(Posted) 2019 Uruguayan general election

 
Article: 2019 Uruguayan general election (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ Luis Lacalle Pou (pictured) is elected as President of Uruguay (Post)
Alternative blurb: ​ After failing to receive a majority of votes in the first round, Luis Lacalle Pou (pictured) of the National Party is elected as President of Uruguay in a runoff election.
Alternative blurb II: ​ Luis Lacalle Pou (pictured) of the National Party is elected President of Uruguay.
Alternative blurb III: ​ Luis Lacalle Pou (pictured) of the National Party is elected President of Uruguay in a runoff election.
News source(s): Bloomberg, BBC
Credits:

Article needs updating
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.

 MSN12102001 (talk) 23:16, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

November 27

November 27, 2019 (2019-11-27) (Wednesday)
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Science and technology
  • Following a public outcry, Twitter apologises and backtracks one day after saying that it would begin deleting inactive accounts outside the United States on December 11, after users were upset that the measure would cause the removal of accounts belonging to users who had died. It now says that it will first implement a process for "memorialising" dead users. It would have been the first large scale cull of inactive accounts on the social media platform. (BBC News)

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(Posted) RD: Ciputra

Article: Ciputra (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Nikkei Asian Review, Jakarta Post
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 billionaire and philanthropist. Zanhe (talk) 10:18, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Kingsif: I take your comment to imply that the article has reached a professional-level quality, so thanks for your complement. And thank you Coffeeandcrumbs for conducting a copyvio check. Cheers, -Zanhe (talk) 21:49, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I was reading on mobile and felt that the career section read more professional than the rest, then noticed it was entirely cited to one source - unable to do a check myself, I suggested it, as a comment rather than an oppose because of pure questioning. Take this as support.Kingsif (talk) 00:40, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the explanation, sounds like a reasonable concern. Cheers, -Zanhe (talk) 01:21, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

RD: William Ruckelshaus

Article: William Ruckelshaus (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): NYT, CNN
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: American attorney, U.S. deputy attorney general who quit in the Saturday Night Massacre, dies at age 87. Article has significant sourcing gaps. Davey2116 (talk) 21:00, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Jonathan Miller

Article: Jonathan Miller (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Guardian BBC
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: Important writer and theatre director. Article needs quite a bit of work. Black Kite (talk) 15:42, 27 November 2019 (UTC))[reply]

(Posted) RD: Clive James

Article: Clive James (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.

 The Rambling Man (Staying alive since 2005!) 16:27, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  • I dunno, he's a very well known figure in the UK and the death was only announced today, so could be considered under Nov 27. Once the obituaries come out there will be plenty of sources available.-- P-K3 (talk) 16:58, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) 2019 Albania earthquake

Article: 2019 Albania earthquake (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ At least 24 people have been killed and 650 injured in an earthquake in Albania. (Post)
News source(s): BBC
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Article updated

Nominator's comments: Article is well referenced and enough for ITN Sherenk1 (talk) 07:13, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Godfrey Gao

Article: Godfrey Gao (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): New York Times, CNN, Time
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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: Taiwanese-Canadian model and actor. Article is well-sourced. Morgan695 (talk) 05:15, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Yeshi Dhonden

Article: Yeshi Dhonden (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): https://www.tibetsun.com/news/2019/11/26/renowned-tibetan-doctor-yeshi-dhonden-passes-away
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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 Tibetan doctor. All the paragraphs end with a cite but please attach them to some sentences if possible. ミラP 01:28, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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