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  • Blurbs are one-sentence summaries of the news story.
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  • Make sure the item you want to nominate has an article that meets our minimum requirements and contains reliable coverage of a current event you want to create a blurb about. We will not post about events described in an article that fails our quality standards.
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  • Create a level 4 header with the article name (==== Your article here ====). Add (RD) or (Ongoing) if appropriate.
Then paste the {{ITN candidate}} template with its parameters and fill them in. The news source should be reliable, support your nomination and be in the article. Write your blurb in simple present tense. Below the template, briefly explain why we should post that event. After that, save your edit. Your nomination is ready!
  • You may add {{ITN note}} to the target article's talk page to let editors know about your nomination.

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June 30

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June 30, 2025 (2025-06-30) (Monday)

Disasters and accidents

Law and crime

RD: Thio Su Mien

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Article: Thio Su Mien (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): CNA
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: First female law dean of National University of Singapore. – robertsky (talk) 10:27, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

June 29

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June 29, 2025 (2025-06-29) (Sunday)

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EuroBasket Women 2025

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Article: EuroBasket Women 2025 (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ In basketball, the EuroBasket Women 2025 concludes with Belgium beating Spain 67–65 in the Final. Emma Meesseman is awarded MVP. (Post)
News source(s): https://www.fiba.basketball/en/events/fiba-womens-eurobasket-2025/news/ebw2025-final-esp-bel-game-report
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 Zafer (talk) 20:19, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: For those looking for the corresponding male competition, it starts end of August this year. – robertsky (talk) 01:47, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(Removed) Ongoing removal: Iran–Israel war

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Article: Iran–Israel war (talk · history · tag)
Ongoing item removal (Post)

Nominator's comments: The war is clearly over now. FunIsOptional (talk) (please use ping!) 11:45, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

June 28

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June 28, 2025 (2025-06-28) (Saturday)

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Law and crime

2025 Budapest Pride

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Article: 2025 Hungarian Pride ban (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ Thousands have gathered for Budapest Pride, despite its ban by the Hungarian government. (Post)
News source(s): BBC News, AP
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Nominator's comments: The greatest LGBT+ march in the history of Hungary, widely covered by international media. --Norden1990 (talk) 09:45, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

oppose nothing significant.Sportsnut24 (talk) 14:05, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per EF5, but No King's literally didnt get a blurb due to it only being notable in ONE country (the United States of America for that matter) And same with this, it is only notable in Hungary. And the supports are forgetting that, 2606:9400:98A0:92A0:8CDD:2D1C:CAC2:3DE7 (talk) 17:51, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Per WP:ITNCDONT - Please do not... [o]ppose an item just because the event is only relating to a single country, or failing to relate to one. We post a lot of such content, so these comments are generally unproductive. I don't like the wording on this but it applies here. Departure– (talk) 17:59, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Did you see the per EF5 part? I'll step back now, lol. — EF5 18:01, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support Attendance was nearly 100k, per AP (per the article, above the 35K last year). It appears that this is being reported as anti-government in general, and the article describes it as Hungary's largest anti-government action in some time. Proportionally, that's about 1 in 96 people in the whole country, and I can't recall the last time the US has had a protest that big, especially concentrated in a single city. I don't see any arrests in the article like No Kings in LA. Per WP:WAX, just because one thing wasn't posted doesn't mean another similar thing shouldn't and this is, to me, looking to be significantly more important to Hungary than No Kings was to the US. Article is also up to main page quality. Departure– (talk) 17:56, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Departure–, over 500 were arrested during the L.A. protests and No King's, which combined (or not combined) were the third largest in United States history. — EF5 17:58, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I phrased that weirdly. I knew folks were arrested there, and that's why I specified LA; the article on Budapest says explicitly no arrests. Departure– (talk) 18:00, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'd personally say nobody being arrested makes an event less significant in this context, but that's just me. — EF5 18:02, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, No Kings was bigger and we didn't post that. Not all protests are ITN worthy. History6042😊 (Contact me) 18:00, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. I think it would be worthwhile to have an article for the 2025 event that could make this nom a little better, personally. Obviously not a requirement, but I think it would be nice. In regards to notability, I really think the comments here about the number of people at the event are not helpful. Not only is this only partially a protest we're talking about, numbers don't directly define the impact and viability of civil resistance. The difference between No Kings and something like this is the specific intent - the direct goal of anyone attending this event for the purposes of protesting is doing it because they disagree with Hungary's pride ban. It sends a very direct message; not just "we're unhappy", but "we're unhappy about this in particular". Does this mean there is so much more likely to be an impact, perhaps not, but I'd wager the likely impact is a ticket higher. Just my 2c perhaps. DarkSide830 (talk) 18:33, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support why are people comparing with No King's protests? Those protests were loosely organised and tiny for a country of over 300 milion where BLM protests lasted months. They also had no widespread or political support and the Republicans didnt even acknowledge their existence. Also not everything has to be about or compared with the US, there's already an oversaturation of US news, including global headlines such as "Trump used the f word on live TV" for example. Besides even if one believes it should have been posted, we are not here to WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS; are we going to oppose every protest now unless there's mass casulties involved? For the Hungarian protest, the scale in comparison and the fact it was explicity forbidden beforehand and has popular opposition support, has widespread political implications for Orban's decreasing authoritarian grip on power. Abcmaxx (talk) 20:01, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Can we please stop comparing everything to the United States of bloody America? The two protests (whilst involving a similar percentage of each countries' population) are completely different things. Did Trump ban the No Kings protest and threaten to send organisers to jail? Black Kite (talk) 20:18, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment No comment on whether this is suitable, yet, but it seems odd that the event, which has a page about the (seemingly) annual occurrence overarching event (if it is annual, it was missing several years from 2009 to now), but the details of this event are on the page about the law. I would also argue that the content above the event may be overly detailed for what should be an encyclopedic summary (including the name of every notable person that participated, even if noted by a RS, isn't a good summary of the event, and bulks up the article.) Masem (t) 20:39, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Standard protest march, nothing really special. The C of E God Save the King! (talk) 20:43, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Not seeing any evidence that this is a transformative event. Well attended parades, protests etc don't usually meet the high bar of a blurb. Thriley (talk) 20:46, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per EF5 - clear precedent for not posting this kind of thing, and no lasting impact.  — Amakuru (talk) 20:47, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per Amakuru - very proud of these Hungarians for embarrassing Orban's regime, but there's pretty clear precedent to not post protests/marches at ITNR unless they hold some sort of special notability or absolutely monumental scale. Agree with the comps about how people were against posting the No Kings protests. The Kip (contribs) 03:26, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support The protest is a proportionally large anti-government action (about 1 in 96 people participating, according to Departure-), is being covered by the media, is made significant by the ban, and the article is of sufficient quality for ITN. --MtPenguinMonster (talk) 05:03, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per Departure and MtPenguin. Worldwide coverage and a disproportionately large protest including recordbreaking numbers for Hungary. "There were more people who attended a protest in a country of 300,000,000" is both a WP:OTHERSTUFF argument and also ignores the basic principle of relative population size: there are more people in the United States than there are in Hungary, so definitionally a smaller protest in Hungary could include a higher proportion of the country's population - in that way having a higher impact on Hungarian society even despite being less attended numerically than No Kings. ITN is not a WP:CRYSTALBALL, but this is a widely covered event with significant social impact. FlipandFlopped ㋡ 06:43, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(Ready) RD: Dave Parker

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Article: Dave Parker (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): SportsNet, MLB, NY 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: Baseball hall of fame player and World Series champion in 1979. Article is C-level and seems to be adequately referenced Abebenjoe (discuss) 23:43, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RD: D. Wayne Lukas

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Article: D. Wayne Lukas (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): AP News, Courier Journal
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 Hall of Fame horse trainer. Article was already in pretty good shape, I gave it a little cleanup. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 19:11, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

June 27

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June 27, 2025 (2025-06-27) (Friday)

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Business and economy

  • The S&P 500 index closes at a record high of 6173.07 points, breaking the record set in February. (NPR)

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Congo–Rwanda peace agreement

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Article: Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict (2022–present) (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda sign a peace agreement ending the conflict between them. (Post)
Alternative blurb: ​ The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda sign a peace agreement.
News source(s): BBC News
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Nominator's comments: Important conflict being ended. ArionStar (talk) 20:59, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support The signing of a peace agreement is notable, and the article is of sufficient quality for ITN. --MtPenguinMonster (talk) 05:22, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose As explained above, there's a repeated history of the DRC and Rwanda agreeing such deals which fail because they don't get major parties like M23 on board. CNN reports "However, the rebel coalition Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC), of which M23 is a key member, told CNN it did not participate in the US-brokered peace process between the Rwandan and Congolese governments, but was instead committed to a separate negotiation process mediated by Qatar in its capital Doha." The main novelty this time seems to be the involvement of the US so Trump can claim some mineral rights and lobby for the Nobel peace prize again. I reckon we need to see what happens on the ground. Andrew🐉(talk) 06:47, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - article is ready. And this is a historic agreement.BabbaQ (talk) 08:25, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Historic? It doesn't have a separate article. It's just a section in an article which goes back to 2022. The article records previous agreements between the DRC and Rwanda in July 2022, November 2022 and November 2023. The article describes this latest deal as "preliminary". That may because there are still peace talks taking place in Doha with AFC/M23, as this agreement recognizes. This still seems quite ongoing and so the verdict of history is pending.
Moreover the article is clearly not ready as it has had an orange banner tag since April.
Andrew🐉(talk) 09:31, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Wait Per above. There is no definitive proof that this will ultimately end the current conflict. NotKringe (talk) 10:50, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Wait/Oppose, very unlikely to end the conflict, we should only really blurb a deal that involves M23. Rwandan troops aren't even leaving DRC. We don't have the full details but it looks like a farce Kowal2701 (talk) 19:10, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Shefali Jariwala

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Article: Shefali Jariwala (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): CNBC TV18
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: Indian actress. 240F:7A:6253:1:8D0C:7F13:7C81:5D9D (talk) 10:10, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Did you perhaps miss the references already provided in the Early life and education section? The date of birth is supported there. Veritasphere (talk) 10:07, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I should have said: There is a reference for the date of birth in the infobox, but … Schwede66 19:18, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Ocasional Talento

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Article: Ocasional Talento (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): Urgente
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: Bolivian rapper. Fixer88 (talk) 14:29, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Takahiro Shiraishi

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Article: Takahiro Shiraishi (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): [2]
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.

 BabbaQ (talk) 06:57, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

June 26

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June 26, 2025 (2025-06-26) (Thursday)

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Politics and elections

(New) RD: Carolyn McCarthy

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Article: Carolyn McCarthy (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): NYT
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: New York Congresswoman, gun control advocate. GhostStalker (Got a present for ya! / Mission Log) 20:15, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(Ready) RD: Lalo Schifrin

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Article: Lalo Schifrin (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: Argentine-American composer. Ollieisanerd (talk • contribs) 21:57, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • That's what happens when you have a project full of people incessantly babbling away on project and talk pages because they don't give a shit about content. Sure not interested in hearing reactionary bulldada about it now. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 02:17, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Not sure why this barb is directed at me. I was specifically trying to improve the content in this instance. Vladimir.copic (talk) 06:11, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    RadioKAOS seems to be burnt out and so prone to such rants. Vladimir shouldn't take it personally and I thank him for taking the trouble to study the content and comment.
    My impression is that the text at the Walk of Fame was taken from us – the way it appears in italics seems to indicate that it was pasted. In any case, it wasn't well sourced and so needs work. I found a good interview which shed some light on his early life and have amended that section to correct a name in line with the source. Such drift will make the issue unimportant.
    The subject is quite interesting as a major popular composer and it's a shame that the topic has been neglected. The point of the rant is that we should be doing more to improve the content rather then just complaining. Perhaps Gerda Arendt or some other musical editor might take an interest in this impossible mission....
    Andrew🐉(talk) 12:52, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I will look (tomorrow), but am not familiar with him nor the musical genres he was best in. I agree that the wording was probably copied to the other site. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:03, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I looked: it's not hopeless, but I can't do it alone. Many facts are not referenced, and the language - as indicated below - is not always neutral. Help wanted. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:52, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I am through copy-editing. Anybody to use Washington Post? I go by Variety that I can see. To do:
    * His first two Grammies appear only in the table, not in the prose.
    * Marquis de Sade, same
    * Header Jazz composer includes move to Hollywood (1963) and becoming American (1969), - should be reordered, I guess --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:33, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    * Do we really need all these labels in the infobox?
    * How about some awards there?
    * The lead has many film scores that don't appear in the body (but only in the lists and tables). It misses influences such as Paris Conservatoire and Gillespie.
    * I'm not sure that we need the long but rather plain quote from the Lifetime Award there.
    * A section about his classical work is missing.
    * I went over the refs. Some were lost, others not independent. While some of these were only duplicate, other facts are now without ref, on top of those missing at the start. - I'll return to my projects for now. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:13, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Bill Moyers

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Article: Bill Moyers (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): The Washington 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.

 elijahpepe@wikipedia (he/him) 20:07, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not yet ready There are multiple CN tags. --MtPenguinMonster (talk) 01:58, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support no CN tags that I can see at the moment. Article looks good to go. Scuba 15:44, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Takutai Tarsh Kemp

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Article: Takutai Tarsh Kemp (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): 1 News
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: The reference says that Te Pāti Māori MP Takutai Tarsh Kemp has died, 1News understands, but it has a Tweet from the leader of the opposition who is passing on his condolences. Schwede66 21:31, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The source above has been updated with confirmation of the death from the deceased member's party. Additional reporting indicates that the Speaker of the House has been officially notified. —idiosyncritic 22:56, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

June 25

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June 25, 2025 (2025-06-25) (Wednesday)

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Sports

(Posted) RD: John Casani

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Article: John R. Casani (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): NASA
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: Space explorer; project manager of the Voyager, Galileo and Cassini projects. Article is in fine shape, fully referenced. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:02, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Richard Gerald Jordan

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Article: Richard Gerald Jordan (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): CTV 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: Longest-serving man on death row in Mississippi Bloxzge 025 ツCanada 8:10 PM, 25 June 2025 (EDT)

Kenyan protests

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Article: 2025 Kenyan protests (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ In Kenya, nationwide anti-government protests against president William Ruto leave at least sixteen people dead and over 400 others injured. (Post)
News source(s): CTV News The New York Times
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 elijahpepe@wikipedia (he/him) 19:01, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Like the idea but oppose this should get on ITN... eventually... but right now it is in bad shape. Scuba 00:06, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support on notability as the amount of casualties is huge but oppose on quality as the article is a stub and needs to be improved. Bloxzge 025 (talk) 00:40, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Armenian coup attempt

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Article: 2025 Armenian coup attempt allegations (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan who led the 2024 Armenian protests was arrested for plotting a coup against the government of Nikol Pashinyan (Post)
News source(s): Reuters Associated Press al Jazeera
Credits:

Article updated

Nominator's comments: Foiled coup is still notable, we reported on the 2024 protests, feel like if that qualifies this qualifies too Scuba 20:30, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment Undecided on notability at this time (situation still unfolding/evolving), but I do not think the current blurb is NPOV. Both our article and most of the reliable sources refer to it as an “alleged” coup attempt. Other reliable sources don’t even refer to it as a coup and instead call what has happened an authoritarian “crackdown” on the opposition: 1. The blurb probably should not call it a coup in active voice. FlipandFlopped ㋡ 21:52, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
nikol explicitly said that was the reason.Sportsnut24 (talk) 15:30, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose There's a political conflict between the church and government which is resulting in a variety of wild allegations:
  1. Armenia's PM offers to expose himself...
  2. Church-state feud in Armenia takes a detour to crazy town
  3. Armenia's PM accuses head of Church of fathering child...
The competing claims don't seem very reliable and they don't seem more significant than the internal politics of other countries. Andrew🐉(talk) 06:32, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I mentioned in the talk page to potntially momv it to opposition crackdown.Sportsnut24 (talk) 16:04, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
strong support the regime has never been worse and doing more than in the previous protests.Sportsnut24 (talk) 15:30, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

June 24

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June 24, 2025 (2025-06-24) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Business and economy

Disasters and accidents

  • The death toll from a boat accident from a storm on Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada mountains of the United States increases to eight as the final missing person is recovered. (NPR)
  • Twenty people are injured, including 12 children, after lightning strikes near Lake Murray in the U.S. state of South Carolina. (MSN)

International relations

Law and crime

Politics and elections

2025 Irapuato shooting

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Article: 2025 Irapuato shooting (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ A mass shooting at a festival celebrating the Nativity of John the Baptist in Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico, kills twelve people. (Post)
News source(s): The Washington Post
Credits:

Nominator's comments: High death toll incident in Mexico. ArionStar (talk) 13:34, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support - Usually I'm one to oppose shootings but mass shootings outside of America usually aren't very common, especially when the death toll is over ten. EF5 13:50, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support article looks in good shape, and it is a notable mass casualty event worthy of ITN. Scuba 15:43, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(Posted) RD: Clark Olofsson

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Article: Clark Olofsson (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): BBC News
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.

 BabbaQ (talk) 10:30, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Bobby Sherman

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Article: Bobby Sherman (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): LA Times AP News Washingtonpost TOI The Hollywood Reporter
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 pop singer and actor. 240F:7A:6253:1:49B4:EF4D:80DD:3651 (talk) 04:41, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Soft oppose discography is missing any citations, a couple paragraphs in the main body too. Scuba 15:42, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(Closed) Remove ongoing: Iran–Israel war

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Consensus is oppose/wait. Overwhelming consensus is that it is too early to remove. (Non-admin close) Abcmaxx (talk) 19:45, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Article: Iran–Israel war (talk · history · tag)
Ongoing item removal (Post)
Nominator's comments: The article has been changed to the past tense, so I felt that it would be an appropriate time now to nominate for removal. Mr. Lechkar (talk) 18:47, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Wait, currently the conflict is de-escalating, however it's still not over, I'd also say to give it around a week V. L. Mastikosa (talk) 22:48, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose It's too early to say the war is ending—Israel and Iran are still carrying out airstrikes. HurricaneEdgar 22:53, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose: Ongoing in this case doesn't necessarily mean that guns are firing and bombs are dropping (though whether that is still ongoing is dubious), but that the topic is receiving credible amounts of press coverage and the article is still being updated, which it arguably is. Aydoh8[what have I done now?] 04:28, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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June 23

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June 23, 2025 (2025-06-23) (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Law and crime

Science and technology

(Posted) RD: Gérard Lefranc

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Article: Gérard Lefranc (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): LavoixdunordLa Voix du Nord (archived)
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.

 BeanieFan11 (talk) 01:04, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RD: Mick Ralphs

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Article: Mick Ralphs (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)
News source(s): BBC The Guardian The New York Times 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: Founding member of the Mott the Hoople and Bad Company. His death announced on 23 June. 240F:7A:6253:1:98C9:2766:23C2:57ED (talk) 22:05, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support, it's in depth, and seems of decent quality, aside from a number of unreferenced claims, which should be cleaned up V. L. Mastikosa (talk) 23:30, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not yet ready The discography is unreferenced. --MtPenguinMonster (talk) 07:10, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Very familiar territory here. Most of the albums have their own articles, but this seems to count for nothing. Is Discography large enough to be moved to a separate article? Not sure what the rules are on that. Martinevans123 (talk) 09:34, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This was last discussed at Wikipedia talk:In the news/Archive 118 § ITNRD - Dealing with unsourced "works" sections. The bio is not WP:TOOBIG to justify splitting. There wasn't consensus at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 203 § Pre-RFC workshop: Expected sourcing requirements for list of works that such list of works is exempt from sourcing. The page shouldn't be compromised merely to fast track an ITN post. ITN is as much a drive to improve articles.—Bagumba (talk) 12:39, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for clarifying. Martinevans123 (talk) 08:09, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The "Guitars" section also needs more sources. Otherwise I would Support as well sourced. Martinevans123 (talk) 07:19, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The discography is adequately referenced now. --MtPenguinMonster (talk) 13:28, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support, oppose reasons fully addressed. Note: only 11 hours left to post before it falls off. Martinevans123 (talk) 12:11, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support article looks in good shape, we should squeak it out before it falls off. Scuba 15:41, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(Closed) 2025 Iranian strikes on US military bases

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Consensus to post won't develop. EF5 21:19, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Article: 2025 Iranian strikes on US military bases (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ Iran launches missile strikes on U.S. bases in Iraq and Qatar in retaliation for American attacks on its nuclear sites. (Post)
News source(s): CNN, Reuters, The Telegraph
Credits:
 jolielover♥talk 18:59, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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(Posted) Vera C. Rubin Observatory releases first light images

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Article: Vera C. Rubin Observatory (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ The Vera C. Rubin Observatory (pictured) releases the first light images from its new 8.4 m or 28 ft telescope. (Post)
News source(s): BBC; CNN; NPR; Space
Credits:

Article updated

Nominator's comments: The BBC describes this as a "revolutionary telescope" while CNN says it's "the largest camera ever built". It has been years in the making and today is its official first light. Andrew🐉(talk) 06:32, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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