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2006/8/28, valdelli@bluemail.ch <valdelli@bluemail.ch>:
> Which policy do you use in your Wikipedia about recent events?
>
> Do you establish a fixed time (i.e 30 days) to accept new articles
> for them? Or do you analyze every single case?
>
> I ask for this rule because some articles are written in
> journalistic style and could be not acceptable for Wikipedia and I'm
> investigating in which way other Wikipedias solve this problem.
>
> Regards
>
> Ilario

In Polish there is no such rule at all. People usally write articles
imediatly after media broadcasts of the events. Some put the info even
"ahead" of time. For example they change the name of prime minister of
Poland, when it is obvious that he/she will be voted in Parliament
before voting, so we have to revert them :-) We have even a special
template saying that the article is about current event. Usally,
several days after the event this template is removed and the article
is cleaned up from "journalistic style".

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2006/8/28, valdelli@bluemail.ch <valdelli@bluemail.ch>:
> Which policy do you use in your Wikipedia about recent events?
>
> Do you establish a fixed time (i.e 30 days) to accept new articles
> for them? Or do you analyze every single case?
>
> I ask for this rule because some articles are written in
> journalistic style and could be not acceptable for Wikipedia and I'm
> investigating in which way other Wikipedias solve this problem.

There's no specific rules about them, as far as I know. When an
article is too journalistic in style, it gets edited to a more
acceptable one in time, or it gets nominated for deletion. However,
that has nothing to do with being about a recent event. If someone
does the same with an event from 1930s, it will be treated the same
way.


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