Wikinews:Water cooler/miscellaneous/archives/2011/December

RecentChangesCamp 2012
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Russian elections article on main page of Wikipedia
The blurb on the main page on the Russian elections seems to be grossly out of date - what it does not say rather than what it does. There are mass protests on the elections being reported by the New York Times, NPR, BBC, etc. Gorbachev has called for new elections.

Perhaps most surprisingly, that the "Party of Power" got less that 50% of the vote, down from 65% (that could have been included earlier)

In short, the blurb is misleading for what it leaves out. 71.175.108.77 (talk) 19:27, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * What on Earth does that have to do with us? Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 19:46, 7 December 2011 (UTC)


 * See top-left, not a puzzle-globe! Wikipedia is thataway. --Brian McNeil / talk 12:38, 9 December 2011 (UTC)