On 02/07/05, David 'DJ' Hedley spyders@btinternet.com wrote:
I think that the inthenews box in general is in a state of, well, problems. In the past week or two theres been a couple of copyvios on there - One blatant copyvio, Ahmedinezhad.jpg, was on there for three days and added back again after being taken off. Theres also possibly a bit of bias to US events there, too - Often news only relevant to the US is on there, which isn't 'big news' to the rest of the world at all.
On top of that, its occasionally slow to be updated.
Well, it's been a bit rubbish ever since it was protected - a necessary evil, of course. The US bias is noticeable, and reflects poorly on Wikipedia.
A pity there can't be some sort of template transclusion from Wikinews - that site's much more on the ball.
I suppose the only solution is more admins giving it TLC. So c'mon guys :-)
Dan