Talk:World Youth Day 2008

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[edit] Logo Image

I was contacted today by the Communications Manager from the official World Youth Day office and they asked me to remove the logo because its presence on Wikipedia contravenes their rules. --THorsman88 2:16, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Can we ask permission? I know its a permission based logo usage rule so maybe if we ask them stating our reasons and referencing the World Youth Day main page, they might reconsider.

Seems to have been fixed by the end of 2006.

[edit] Riots in Sydney

Took out section about alleged riots across Sydney in '06 following arrest of protester. There were no such riots and no media reports, the only source to mention such a thing is wikipedia itself.

[edit] weblinks

cleanup of weblinks needed, they are way too many and way too boring;-) --77.179.94.122 16:29, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Seems to have been done on 24 October 2007

[edit] Removed?

Why is this article removed? There's no article on the link it is linking to.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Calibwam (talk • contribs) 19:19, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

It was copied and pasted from a copyrighted website. If you want to try recreating a new article follow the redlink and start from scratch 121.216.21.206 00:49, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
The page linked to in the copyright notice is no longer available --bacco007 08:05, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Actually most of the content claimed as copyright was added at [1]. The other source is still visible in the Google cache at [2].

A little careful squinting makes it likely that the other site copied a later version of the Wikipedia article, so I'm reverting the addition of the copyvio tag. --Alvestrand 10:50, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] World Youth Day vs. World Youth Day 2008?

Does anyone think that a lot of this information could and should be reproduced on or transferred to the World Youth Day wiki page? This is effectively the "parent" article, yet contains no section on criticism. IMHO there should be a single article on "World Youth Day" and "World Youth Day 2008" should be a sub-section of this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.9.151.30 (talk) 04:39, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Given the scope of WYD (500000 pilgrims expected) it seems reasonable to have a page on each event, given that other recurring events (such as the Olympics, with less attendees, although clearly more media coverage) have substantial pages for each time the event occurs.--Mhari.D (talk) 00:20, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

I completely disagree. Past WYE events do not have seperate pages, even though they are demonstrably larger than the "anticipated" attendance figures for Sydney 2008 (I dispute the 500K figure anyway, given the current number of pilgrim registrations). Either each WYE event should have a page or this information should be consolidated into a single WYE page. Anything else is inconsistent. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.41.133.81 (talk) 23:28, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

There are articles for the previous 2 WYDs, in Koln and Toronto. I imagine that the reason they don't exist for those before is largely due to lack of information online, but I'm sure you could start articles for previous events if you were concerned about inconsistencies. 62.24.195.189 (talk) 11:58, 29 May 2008 (UTC)