Portal talk:Current events/2008 May 30

May 30

May 30, 2008 (2008-05-30) (Friday)

• In the United States, Sameer Mishra wins the 81st Scripps National Spelling Bee, the winning word was "guerdon", a noun meaning a reward. (USA Today)
• A gunman shoots dead a magistrate and a Perry County, Kentucky, employee before killing himself in a convenience store near Hazard, Kentucky, United States. (AP via Yahoo! News)
• Agathon Rwasa returns to Burundi from exile in Tanzania after an agreement between his Party for the Liberation of the Hutu People and the government. (BBC News)
• A crane collapses in the Upper East Side of New York City resulting in the death of at least two people (AP via Google News), while another crane collapses in Shanghai's Pudong district, killing three. (Xinhua)
• Former Croatian Army general Mirko Norac is sentenced by a Croatian court to seven years in prison for his role in the 1993 Operation Medak Pocket; Rahim Ademi is acquitted. (BBC News)
• Grupo TACA Flight 390, an Airbus A320 flying from San Salvador, El Salvador, crashes in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, after failing to land due to a wet runway. 18 casualties are reported, including the chairman of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration who suffered a heart attack after the crash. (CNN) (Noticias24)
• The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services reaches agreement with some of the families of the YFZ Ranch to start returning the children on Monday. (Canadian Press via Google News)
• Cyclone Nargis
  • Aid agencies say logistical difficulties hamper Burma aid deliveries; to date, the United Nations reports about 180 planes carrying relief supplies have been unloaded in Rangoon. (VOA)
  • The pro-military junta newspaper New Light of Myanmar criticises foreign aid for victims of Cyclone Nargis stating that they could survive from eating frogs and fish in the Irrawaddy River delta.(AFP)
  • Burma begins evicting cyclone refugees from relief camps. (Reuters)
• Fishermen in Spain, Portugal and Italy strike to protest against high fuel prices; Spain's economy minister says his government cannot cut fuel taxes, but is looking into ways to help fishermen. (VOA)
• Sadr supporters protest against a planned U.S.–Iraq security agreement to replace the current United Nations mandate for U.S. troops in Iraq, which expires at end of 2008. (VOA)
• Zimbabwe's Morgan Tsvangirai claims ruling party status as the leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, delivers a "state of the nation" address to elected lawmakers from his party, and promises a "new era of opportunity" for Zimbabwe. (VOA)
• Silverjet, an all-business class airline, suspends all flights after entering administration due to rising fuel costs. (BBC News)

ITN Candidates

Note: The 2008 Sichuan earthquake discussion has been moved to May 29.--Pharos (talk) 23:36, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Note: The May 2008 Colombia earthquake discussion has been moved to May 26.--Pharos (talk) 23:43, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

• TACA Flight 390 appears to be adequately filled out and referenced to merit inclusion. - BanyanTree 01:39, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Posted, after allowing time for people to chime in. - BanyanTree 22:09, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

• Nominate Mirko Norac.--Pharos (talk) 22:43, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

I added a citation to the updated content and posted this. Please make sure that candidates have referenced updates. Thanks, BanyanTree 00:26, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

• Nominate Scripps National Spelling Bee --Lemmey talk 23:44, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

So with this new system, are people too lazy to write out an entry? -CWY2190(talk • contributions) 02:41, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

No. It's supposed to be written in that day's Current events box (the box immediately above if you're reading this on WP:ITN/C). This nom isn't formed properly.--Pharos (talk) 03:05, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

• Nominate Scripps National Spelling Bee , again --Lemmey talk 05:36, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

So this but not anything else...Mathcounts, National Geographic Bee... ? I'll still support. Spencer^T♦C 15:26, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

The trial system seems vulnerable to having nominees removed from the current events page by editors that don't like stories. Never was an issue with the old system, sigh --Lemmey talk 16:51, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Well that's easily solved--just have nominators rewrite them here. By the way, I oppose mentioning the spelling bee, which is of little interest even in the United States. The Mirko Norac story is much more significant. Mangostar (talk) 16:54, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

The Mirko Norac one is not that bad. Alternatively I could see the Texas polygamist child custody one, it's not that significant but an ongoing story and we could link the relevant articles nicely. Hobartimus (talk) 18:27, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

I consider this to be more of a "sporting" story - along the lines of the seemingly endless types of football that get posted to ITN, so am not against it. But I would hold off on this to see if the article, which actually seems to be 81st Scripps National Spelling Bee, becomes better formed. It currently has a lot of single sentence paragraphs and very few citations. - BanyanTree 00:26, 1 June 2008 (UTC)