Portal talk:Current events/February 2005

This is the discussion/talk page for: Portal:Current events/February 2005.

See also: Wikipedia:How the Current events page works. For instructions on how to archive Current events at the start of a new month, see: Wikipedia:How to archive Current Events.

How to edit days

09-Jan-2008: The edit-buttons might not work at each day (the highly complex, peculiar article format has been garbled). However, each day in February 2005 really is a WP article of the form:

• Article name: February_1,_2005
• Proposed name: Portal:Current events/2005_February_1

Refer to each day, using those article names. I didn't create this design, just trying to help others work with it. -Wikid77 (talk) 17:15, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Format

09-Jan-2008: The format of article "February_2005" involves the inclusion of the 28 individual daily February-2005 articles (such as "February_13,_2005"), with all 28 articles stacked into a list. That technique is extremely simple, and should probably be used in other month-2005 articles, such as "August_2005". -Wikid77 (talk) 17:21, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Related topics

[ See: Talk:Current events. -Wikid77 ]

Topics from 2005

Article needed

I've cut down the shooting incident to a (hopefully uncontentious) news item. An article is needed for the following content (two versions):

• A ten-year-old Palestinian girl dies after being shot in the head as she played in her school playground in Rafah. Palestinian witnesses allege she was shot by Israeli fire from the nearby military position, but Israel said an initial investigation suggested they were not responsible, as its troops had not opened fire in that area and a Reuters correspondent stated that Israeli soldiers some 600 meters (yards) away could not have seen into the compound from their position behind high walls. An anonymous Israeli military official says Palestinians nearby had been shooting into the air to celebrate their return from the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, but Palestinian residents said no such celebrations had taken place. Hamas launches mortar shells in retaliation, damaging a house in an Israeli settlement. A spokesman for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, said U.N. officials weren't able to definitively identify the source of the gunfire, but did say "Everything is pointing to the fact that it was the Israelis. There were a number of shots, and the way they were scattered gives us an indication of the direction where they came from, and that corresponds with witness reports that the firing came from an [Israeli] APC or tank in the area". The Jerusalem Post maintains that the Palestinian Authority later arrested a Palestinian man who had "reportedly fired shots into the air", however no such charge has been brought in this case by the Palestinian Police.(Al Jazeera)(Reuters) (Jerusalem Post) (BBC) (CBS)(Haaretz)

• Arab-Israeli Conflict: A ten-year-old Palestinian girl dies after being shot in the head as she played in her school playground in Rafah. Palestinian witnesses allege she was shot by Israeli fire from the nearby military position, but Israel said an initial investigation suggested they were not responsible, as its troops had not opened fire in that area and a Reuters correspondent stated that Israeli soldiers some 600 meters (yards) away could not have seen into the compound from their position behind high walls. An anonymous Israeli military official says Palestinians nearby had been shooting into the air to celebrate their return from the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, but Palestinian residents said no such celebrations had taken place. Hamas launches mortar shells in retaliation, damaging a house in an Israeli settlement. A spokesman for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, said U.N. officials weren't able to definitively identify the source of the gunfire, but did say "Everything is pointing to the fact that it was the Israelis. There were a number of shots, and the way they were scattered gives us an indication of the direction where they came from, and that corresponds with witness reports that the firing came from an [Israeli] APC or tank in the area". The Jerusalem Post maintains that the Palestinian Authority later arrested a Palestinian man who had "reportedly fired shots into the air", however no such charge has been brought in this case by the Palestinian Police.(Al Jazeera)(Reuters) (Jerusalem Post) (BBC) (CBS)(Haaretz)

People seem to have been getting carried away with things. zoney ♣ talk 14:22, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Call me heartless if you like—you'd hardly be the first—but I don't see why this is here at all. If it happened in the US, it'd be immediately removed to United States current events due to being of no international importance whatsoever, and then immediately removed from there due to being of no national importance whatsoever. An article wouldn't be encyclopedic; I don't think Wikinews, where it would fit better, would want it either. The month-long edit war is just ridiculous. (For anyone wondering, btw, this is on January 2005, not Current events; the talk page redirects here.) —Korath (Talk) 00:12, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)

You're not heartless, and it wasn't of international importance. But you are faced with an editor who is hell-bent on putting certain kinds of items into current events, and trying to skew them to present one un-named country in as poor a light as possible. I'd prefer deleting this kind of nonsense, but I so far haven't gotten support when I attempt to do so. Jayjg ^(talk) 21:33, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Topics after 2007

Any topics below are after 2007. -Wikid77 (talk) 17:15, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

February 16 2005

Why can't I get that fixed? GoodDay (talk) 00:48, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Have my edits to Portal:Current events/2005 February 15 and Portal:Current events/2005 February 16 sorted it out? The next problem is that Feb 14th is missing from February 2005, but I can't add it because www.iranmania.com is on the spam blacklist. I'll get back to this later. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:04, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Done -- John of Reading (talk) 10:59, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. GoodDay (talk) 22:40, 27 March 2011 (UTC)