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Added. Timer says 24 hours since last update and this older candidate appears reasonable. It doesn't include as much prose about the update as I'd like, but there's really not much to say beyond "still imprisoned" so I'll give it a pass. Placed under the Sichuan item of the same date as being less
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in the case of a new article. Given that the reason for the extension was the same as why she's under house arrest in the first place, which is detailed, I felt that demanding that the reason be reiterated just for ITN would be a bit much. I probably wouldn't have put this as the top item given the
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I'm against the Aung San Suu Kyi item going up. A single sentence in the article describes her house arrest extension...generally speaking, if a single line is all that can really be said about a subject (in the subject's article), I'd prefer it wouldn't go up. If expansion was included, (for
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Rights groups say afghan women committing suicide at alarming rate; Women rights groups say that last year, almost 500 women chose death or disfigurement to life of despair by setting themselves on fire to escape forced marriages, slavery or sexual and other types of
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I like the Aung San Suu Kyi and the china items. Possibly also the DNA. The Aung San Kyi article could do with some attention though at the moment it doesn't really do the job of clearly explaining the most recent developments.
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in the item to show that it is the updated article. Until there is a cyclone update, this appears to be a reasonable candidate, though not as big as the Sichuan update that went up. -
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Personally, I'm not too big on any of these...the DNA sequencing one I considered, but in the article, there was a single, unsourced line mentioning it.
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level of updated text, but am OK with inserting it into the middle of the template, if you follow my fuzzy reasoning on weighing the various factors. -
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Presumably, we will have a vote. But, since we apparently no longer have the right to vote here, I assume it will end up like the Soviet Union, where
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But despite the large red box (why is it not flashing?) telling us the template needs to be updated, no admin has come by and done it? Oh right,
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will decide what goes up while he kills a couple million of the rest of us. This trial is the beginning of the itn's five-year plan, trust me. --
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in accordance with new trial period procedures (that do not spell out what to do after the trial period or how the trial will be evaluated...) --
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is unsourced, not a big fan of unsourced pages on the main page. Not really the biggest thing in Burma going on anyways. --
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As I note above, it's marginal. Normally I look for at least a paragraph of updated text for an existing article, or a
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example: reason junta gave for her arrest extension), then I might consider supporting.
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significant. (I expect an uproar about "timers resulting in ITN trivia" now.) -
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There has been an update now, and the timing on the box has been adjusted.--
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The earthquake article has not yet been updated with that information.--
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I'd put the dynamiting of the dam in Sichuan up, and bold
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Sure. Sounds good to me now that I look at the article.
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I have now added a reference for the brief update in
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