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World's first sex robot

• World's first sex robot Roxxxy makes debut at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas. --Defender of torch (talk) 14:57, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Oppose. Take this to DYK instead. Modest Genius 15:20, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

China world's largest exporter

• China overtakes Germany to become the world's largest exporter. __meco (talk) 13:39, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Hong Kong Theft

• Six Chinese arrested in Honk Kong involved in jewellery theft in Tokyo, Japan — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saqib Qayyum (talk • contribs)

Is this one a prediction? --candle•wicke 21:01, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

The date is 3 jan I think, or otherwise it could have been for people in western side of our globe, because sun rises first in Japan.--yousaf465' 12:25, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Oppose. Arrests are not enough, a conviction is required. Even then, I doubt this is important enough. Modest Genius 15:22, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Darts World Championship

• The final of the 2010 BDO World Darts Championship (following Phil Taylor's win on 3 January in the 2010 PDC World Darts Championship). See also Wikipedia_talk:Recurring_items_on_ITN#Why no darts?. MickMacNee (talk) 14:38, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Support, I don't see why darts shouldn't be on ITN when we have almost every other sport - Dumelow (talk) 21:01, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Support for the same reason. --candle•wicke 21:02, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Who won? --candle•wicke 12:34, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Weak Support I think darts is a waste of time, but we post other minor sports, so it should go up. As discussed previously, BOTH titles should be combined into a single blurb. Modest Genius 13:06, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Comment Doesn't this have all the problems of the college football piece? A sport which is centred on a single country – and championship darts (as opposed to the pub variety) doesn't even have much of a following there. It's all very well to give ourselves a nice cosy warm feeling inside by being inclusive to minority sports and all that, but we're not supposed to be compiling this column for ourselves. The 2009 BDO championship got about 2000 hits a day while it was on: that's more than hurling but less than chess. That hardly suggests a large pool of darts fans who are being let down by Misplaced Pages coverage. Physchim62 (talk) 13:24, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

It's certainly not a big sport, and I fully understand your concerns. However, it's certainly international (I count 19 different nationalities in the PDC event, and 7 in the BDO), and the highest level of competition in the sport worldwide. Unlike college sports there are no major restrictions on entry, and competitors are professional. If we're going to continue listing events in hurling, snooker, aussie, canadian and gaelic rules football, badminton, sailing etc then this qualifies too. Modest Genius 15:06, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Uzbekistani parliamentary election

• The second round of the Uzbekistani parliamentary election, 2009–2010 in 41 of the 135 districts of the Legislative Chamber of Uzbekistan (94 districts were decided in the first round). Physchim62 (talk) 21:24, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
• Polls close in the run-off round of the Uzbekistani parliamentary election, 2009–2010 at 1500 UTC. When the results will be announced is anybody's guess (it took 48 hours for the first round count, although this round is smaller and simpler). Physchim62 (talk) 10:54, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Croatian presidential election

• The second round of the Croatian presidential election, 2009–2010 between Ivo Josipović and Milan Bandić. Physchim62 (talk) 21:31, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

• Support when we have the result. Grsz 17:25, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

• Presidential election is taking place today. According to predictions, the difference in votes will be high enough to be able to call the winner in the evening already. --Tone 10:09, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Support I think we can wait till the results are announced. Which admin will be online at that time ?--yousaf465' 12:27, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Support. Is there consensus to add elections of heads of state (as well as general elections) to WP:ITNR? Modest Genius 13:07, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

That's been our general practice, yes, even indirect elections to the head of state (we ran the German presidential election, 2009, for example). I would say that the notable event is the change of head of state for whatever reason, to include monarchies, although the election should take precedence over formal inaugurations unless there's a good reason to include the inauguration as well. Note that we don't usually run changes of heads of government (apart from elections) unless there's a particular international significance. Physchim62 (talk) 13:46, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Indeed. For elected heads of state the election is obviously what we should post, but what about unelected ones? Is it the succession, or the coronation/investiture? If the former, the death/abdication of the predecessor and the succession could be incorporated into a single item. Modest Genius 14:56, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

I have boldly added to WP:ITNR Modest Genius 16:08, 10 January 2010 (UTC)