":::: I don't know what you mean by ban current events. If you mean delay the article until the media have moved on, that's something I wish we'd do anyway. There are a ton of problems that would vanish if we stopped trying to give almost-up-to-the-minute summaries of developing news stories. It's absurd to start an article about a airliner crash less than 30 minutes after the story breaks. If you mean that articles should never be written about stories like this one, well, everything in history was initially a current event. ‑‑   

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