ویکی‌پدیا:در خبرها: تفاوت میان نسخه‌ها

▲Most In The News postings come in the form of blurbs. A blurb is a short explanation of the importance of the story in the news, with a specific article we are highlighting to direct readers to to learn more information. The highlighted article should always be of sufficient quality to be posted on the main page this usually means:

▲*That the article is adequately referenced (a few cn tags is usually not a barrier to posting, though the article should not lack references in any major section, and [[ویکی‌پدیا:زندگی‌نامه زندگان]] information is given special scrutiny.)

▲*The article does not have any other major issues. Usually, orange and red level tags are generally considered major enough to block posting to ITN, though editors are cautioned against [[ویکی‌پدیا:برای بیان دیدگاه خود اخلال‌گری نکنید]], especially where the article is of sufficient quality. Other tags (such as yellow level tags, or notices about merge discussions, etc.) are not themselves sufficient to block an item which otherwise has consensus; articles which are moved or merged may have their links in ITN updated through [[WP:ERRORS]].

▲Blurbs are posted in rough chronological order by the date ''when the event occurred''. There is usually no effort made to be more specific than the date, and admins will generally not research the exact minute when an event occurred to make sure that multiple events that occurred on the same date are strictly in order. Please do not request that events be re-ordered ''unless'' the date itself is wrong. The number of blurbs varies from time to time, depending on the length of each individual blurb and the relative lengths of other sections on the main page. The goal is to avoid excessive [[White space (visual arts)|white space]], especially between the right and left columns, and older blurbs may be periodically removed or added to achieve this.

▲The ITN section usually has a captioned picture in the upper right corner. Pictures generally have to meet the following criteria

▲*The picture must be fully free to use, with a proper license and provenance. In almost ''all'' cases, that means the picture is available on [[انبار ویکی‌مدیا]]. Pictures locally uploaded to Wikipedia for use in articles under the guise of [[ویکی‌پدیا:محتوای غیر آزاد]] criteria are NOT eligible for publishing on the main page.

▲*The picture must be of a person or event mentioned in a blurb. The person or event is notated with a parenthetical comment ''(pictured)''. Generally, purely decorative elements (like flags or logos) aren't posted (many are ineligible because of non-free content policies anyways); maps (which are often too small to read in thumbnail format) are also not posted.

▲*In most cases, the picture is posted for the ''topmost'' blurb which has an eligible picture to go with it. (this may be a lower blurb if no pictures are available for higher blurbs). The use of a caption and the parenthetical ''(pictured)'' is used to direct readers to the context for the picture.

▲*In rare cases, NONE of the articles may have eligible pictures. If that is the case, there may be no picture posted. This may not be something that can be corrected, unless a proper picture can be found. If you DO have a proper picture, it can be reported to [[WP:ERRORS]] for prompt posting. General complaints of a lack of a picture are usually not able to be fixed unless the complainant has a specific picture to post.

▲The purpose of the ongoing section is to maintain a link to a ''continuously updated Wikipedia article'' about a story which is itself also frequently in the news. The following criteria are usually used to post something to ongoing:

▲*Older stories which are scheduled to roll off the bottom of the list may be added to ongoing at admins discretion, provided that the linked article is receiving continuous updates with new information on a regular basis.

▲*Any story may be proposed for an "ongoing" link through the normal use of [[WP:ITN/C|the nomination page]]. Generally, these are stories which may lack a blurb-worthy event, but which nonetheless are still getting regular updates to the relevant article.

▲*In general, articles are NOT posted to ongoing merely because they are related to events that are still happening. In order to be posted to ongoing, the article needs to be regularly updated with new, pertinent information. Articles whose most recent update is ''older'' than the oldest blurb currently on ITN are usually not being updated frequently enough for ongoing status.