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Politics and elections 2021–present Bulgarian political crisis The Parliament of Bulgaria approves a coalition government consisting of the GERB-SDS , BSP – United Left , and There is Such a People parties, with GERB's Rosen Zhelyazkov becoming Prime Minister .
In strangely non-political news, the future "shadow president" has been firing shots across the bow of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and their investigation into his 2022 $44 billion purchase of Twitter (now X). You will see him on the list for next week in the SEC's response. (Spoiler: they fired back.) 22: The Substance: 729,171
Blurbs are posted to the main page, highlighting one or more quality Wikipedia articles, as follows: There is a sufficiently updated non-stub article of sufficient quality, with credible sources cited. The item has been nominated at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates, with an emboldened link to the updated article(s). A freely licensed image to ...
In December 2008, access to the Wikipedia article Virgin Killer was blocked for four days by most Internet service providers in the United Kingdom after the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) decided the album cover was a potentially illegal indecent image and added the article's URL to a "blacklist" it supplies to British internet service providers.
Rank Article Class Views Image About Peak 1 Jeffrey Dahmer: 54,931,777 In the short time this annual list has been made, including a test run before the first, the top article tends to be unquestionable: Deaths in [year] because it's a part of life with a link on the main page, 2016 was the year Donald Trump got elected, 2019 was the year of Avengers: Endgame and 2020 was the year of COVID-19.
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The guidelines for verifiability, notability and reliable sources, followed to the letter, would mean that any news event which was independently reported by multiple news reporting services on any given day could have a Wikipedia article, even if it were the most trivial coverage or sensationalistic story. Notability has no time value, so any ...