Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Archive/Archive 3

January 2010

 * Proposal for achieving infobox-template coherence of properties in Wikipedia(s)
 * added 16 November 2009
 * Discussion on CfD speedy renaming criteria 6 (disambiguation fixes from an unqualified name).
 * added 26 November 2009 - now archived
 * Discussion on retaining the restriction against using the string "bot" in usernames.
 * added 6 December 2009 - now archived
 * Discussion on adding language about schools to the organization notability guidelines.
 * added 11 December 2009 - now archived
 * Discussion regarding the spam blacklist and reliability of sources
 * added 10 December 2009
 * Proposal for targeted flagging.
 * added 23 December 2009 - never really any discussion here
 * Proposal to rename Articles for Deletion to Articles for Discussion, include the discussion of mergers.
 * added 24 December 2009
 * Proposal to require new users to have autoconfirmed status to create an article
 * added 26 December 2009
 * Proposal for the removal of visa-free travel sections in all passport articles.
 * added 8 January 2010
 * Discussion with the volunteers of WP:ABUSE regarding the first proposal to come out of their 2009 revamping project.
 * added 08 January 2010
 * Proposal to remove the signature parameter from Template:Infobox officeholder.
 * added 9 Jan 2010, RFC started 22 Dec, no consensus
 * Proposal to require editors to list a rationale and/or improve the relevant article when deleting Proposed  Deletion tags.
 * added 11 January 2010 - general failure of proposal, now archived
 * Discussion regarding WikiProject Naming conventions for municipal regions.
 * added 16 January 2010

February 2010

 * Proposal to move petitions to user space.
 * Added 1 Feb 2010. Snow fail 4 Feb 2010.
 * Proposal to manage commons images which can't go to FFD for a number of reasons
 * Added 3 Feb 2010. Marked as failed by proposer and removed 5 Feb 2010.
 * Proposal to limit information included in Wikipedia about wildlife locations deemed to be sensitive
 * Added 3 Feb 2010. Marked as failed and removed 9 Feb 2010.
 * Petitions to turn on, and not to turn on, the Flagged revisions extension.
 * Added 18 December 2009. Removed 9 Feb 2010.
 * Proposal to give bureaucrats the technical ability to remove admin and bureaucrat rights. No consensus
 * Added 10 January 2010. Removed 13 Feb 2010. No consensus
 * Discussion on refining Community de-adminship (aka Admin Recall) to formalize a RfC.
 * Added 25 November 2009. Stalled. Re-added 10 Jan 2010. Stalled again. Removed 13 Feb 2010.
 * Petition against the perceived misuse of ignore all rules (IAR)
 * Added 21 January 2010. Removed 14 February 2010.
 * Proposal to tighten the notability criteria on biographies of living people.
 * Added 6 February 2010. Removed 14 February 2010. Wrong venue, and there is an existing proposal for this anyway.

March 2010

 * Discussion of various issues surrounding citation style standards for Wikipedia, including Discussion on the problems with citation templates.
 * Added 19 February 2010, removed 2 March 2010.
 * Discussion on implementing the move from Articles for Deletion to Articles for Discussion.
 * Added 22 February 2010, removed 2 March 2010.
 * Proposal to report abuse/soft block AOL's 172.x range due to ongoing disruptive vandalism.
 * Added 7 Feb 2010, removed 2 March 2010.
 * Proposal to add a new "public interest" clause to Oversight
 * Added 17 Feb 2010, removed 6 March 2010.
 * Discussion regarding the notability of victims' names in non-biographicle articles.
 * Added 28 Feb 2010 removed March 11 2010.
 * Unreferenced BLPs – Guideline and deletion process proposals
 * Added 24 Jan 2010, removed 23 March 2010.
 * Block for continued incivility (proposal)
 * Added 24 Jan 2010, removed 23 March 2010
 * BLP articles references contest (proposal)
 * Added 15 February 2010, removed 23 March 2010
 * How to balance BLP concerns with WikiProject article tagging
 * Added 26 February 2010, removed 23 March 2010

April 2010

 * Request for Comment on how we do Requests for Comment
 * Added 2 March 2010, removed 2 April 2010
 * Wikipedia:Quotations – Promotion to guideline
 * Added 13 March 2010, removed 2 April 2010
 * Media copyright questions – Is it legitimate to have non-public domain images, such as File:LinkFA-star.png, not link to their description page?
 * Added 8 April 2010, removed 10 April 2010
 * Infobox headings - 'Title' or 'Above' position (MoS)?
 * Added 4 April 2010, removed 11 April 2010
 * Unsourced BLP deletion process - finalisation
 * Added 2 April, removed 16 April
 * Preemptive protection of BLPs at risk (proposal)
 * Removed 17 April 2010
 * Human settlements – New naming convention for top-level categories
 * Added 15 March 2010, removed 21 April 2010
 * Admin/crat flags - removal by bureaucrats
 * Added 18 Mar 2010, removed 21 April 2010
 * Village pump (development) (creation)
 * Added 29 March 2010, removed 21 April 2010
 * AfD Procedure for poorly sourced articles
 * Added 18 April 2010, removed 21 April 2010
 * Gender bias on Main page.
 * Added 23 April 2010, removed 28 April 2010
 * Can removing unsourced contentious material from BLP articles be supported with blocks done by involved admins
 * Added 21 April 2010, removed April 29 2010
 * Proposed addition of reference books and materials to Wikipedia:Notability (books)
 * Added 17 April 2010, removed April 29 2010
 * Proposed rewrite of the lead section of Wikipedia:No original research
 * Added 21 April 2010, removed April 29 2010, restored April 29 2010 (reason for removal incorrect)
 * RfC on identifying MoS guidelines and renaming them "Wikipedia:Manual of Style (foo)"
 * Added 20 April 2010, removed 30 April 2010 and merged in a single entry with next two
 * Proposed merge of WP:NEO, WP:PEA, WP:WEASEL and WP:AVOID into Words to watch
 * Added 7 April 2010, removed 30 April 2010 and merged in a single entry with previous and next
 * Organising the Manual of Style by merging various individual guides into the main guide.
 * Added 1 April 2010, removed 30 April 2010 and merged in a single entry with previous two

May 2010

 * RFC on whether the userfication essay should become a policy or guideline
 * Added 17 May 2010, archived 3 June 2010
 * Discussion on the appearance of Wikipedia-Books and CfDs concerning several Wikipedia books-related categories
 * Added 28 April 2010, archived 22 May 2010
 * Proposal on whether to promote the class assessment processes by indicating article class at the top of articles.
 * Added 17 May 2010, archived 22 May 2010
 * Discussion on the appearance of Wikipedia-Books and CfDs concerning several Wikipedia books-related categories
 * Added 28 April 2010, archived 8 May 2010
 * Deletion discussion over deletion of
 * Added May 8, 2010, archived 11 May 2010
 * Proposed rewrite of the lead section of Wikipedia:No original research
 * Added 21 April 2010, archived 15 May 2010
 * Reorganisation of the Manual of Style and RFC on titles.
 * Added 30 April, merged 3 older items, archived 15 May 2010
 * Clarification requested for policy status of Wikipedia:Research which involves the operation of a bot to recruit editors to partake in off-Wiki research
 * Added 21 April 2010, archived 15 May 2010
 * Proposal to reconsider what it means for WikiProjects to be active or inactive
 * Added 23 April 2010, archived 17 May 2010
 * RfC on a proposal to ban all vulgarity in inter-editor communications.
 * Added 13 May 2010 archived 15 May 2010
 * Request for comment on protection of 'Today's Featured Article'
 * Added 23 April 2010, archived 19 May 2010
 * Requests for comment/Picture of the day photo credits
 * Added 25 April 2010, archived 24 May 2010
 * Proposal to change the Wikipedia tagline, adding "that anyone can edit" and possibly wikilinks.
 * Added 13 May 2010, archived 25 May 2010
 * Proposal to include the "Good article" icon on the article page of articles rated GA
 * Added 7 May 2010, archived 31 May 2010

June 2010

 * Request for Comment on changing the "View source" tab so that it says "Edit this page*".
 * Listed 12 May 2010, archived 4 June 2010
 * RFC on the recent interface change
 * Listed 15 May 2010, archived 4 June 2010
 * URLs in infoboxes: how to display.
 * Listed 29 May 2010, archived 7 June 2010
 * Request for Comment on accepting Subject-specific guidelines as a guideline.
 * Listed - no date, archived 7 June 2010
 * Ideas for stimulating collaboration on content between Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.
 * Listed 13 May 2010, archived 11 June 2010
 * Proposal to let BAG handle recruitment requests by researchers.
 * Listed (undated), archived 15 June 2010
 * Proposal to split apart Manual of Style (MUSTARD) and merge it into the other Music Guidlines. See Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (MUSTARD)
 * Listed 8 June 2010, archived 21 June 2010
 * Discussion of the way username-only blocks on promotional accounts are being handled
 * Listed 27 May 2010, archived 24 June 2010
 * Bilateral relations redux New guideline needed?
 * Listed 26 May 2010, archived 24 June 2010
 * Request for comment on the usefulness of the climate change probation
 * Listed 23 May 2010, archived 24 June 2010.


 * Proposal to rename the usergroup Autoreviewer to Autopatroller.
 * Listed 11 June 2010, archived 1 July 2010.
 * Request for comment on recent checkuser and oversight election, following Arbcom request for community input.
 * Listed undated, archived 1 July 2010.
 * Request for comment on developing a community procedure to assign the 'researcher' permission
 * Listed 9 June 2010, archived 1 July 2010.
 * RFC: What should our policy be on articles that contain lists related to television?
 * Listed 24 June 2010, archived 5 July 2010
 * RFC: Should the user page guideline be amended, prohibiting "vandal spaces"?
 * Listed 16 June 2010, archived 5 July 2010
 * RFC: Should Notability (fiction) be reinstated as a guideline? has opened for comments.
 * Listed 18 June 2010, archived 5 July 2010
 * RfC on whether Pedophilia should be labeled a policy?
 * Listed 29 June 2010, archived 5 July 2010
 * Discussion concerning the retitling of the page "Ownership of articles"
 * Listed 30 June 2010, archived 13 July 2010
 * Discussion to promote Notability (sports) to guideline.
 * Listed 9 June 2010, archived 17 July 2010
 * Review of the BLP RFC at BLPRFC3.
 * Listed 16 June 2010, archived 21 July 2010
 * RFC: Should Wikipedia:Notability (criminal acts) be merged with Wikipedia:Notability (events) and Wikipedia:Notability (people)?
 * Listed 30 June 2010, archived 29 July 2010
 * RFC on Consensus: To what extent and under what circumstances can contributors/Projects customize article appearance with individual styles that deviate from site-wide style guidelines?
 * Listed 30 June 2010, archived 29 July 2010

August 2010

 * Rfc: Wording of the SOCK policy regarding clean starts and prior blocks
 * Listed 5 July 2010, archived 4 August 2010
 * Should user books be always NOINDEX?
 * Listed 10 July 2010, archived 4 August 2010
 * RfC on Username policy: Should the username policy be reworded, to tolerate the innocent use of obscure company, group or product names?
 * Listed 20 July 2010, archived 8 August 2010
 * Possible ways to sift tricky BLPs before hitting problems or "out of process" deletions and avoid some predictable AFD/COI cases.
 * Listed (undated), archived 10 August 2010
 * RfC: Does WP:NOTMYSPACE apply to secret pages, or if not, should it.
 * Listed 27 July 2010, archived 10 August 2010
 * Discussion about the future of the Valued Pictures process -- do we still need it, and can it play a meaningful role next to the WP:FPC process?
 * Listed 02 August 2010, archived 16 August 2010
 * RFC: Presumption of RS for FOX News
 * Listed 03 August 2010, archived 16 August 2010
 * Updating Arbitration policy The latest draft is here with discussion of the draft here.
 * Listed, 01 August 2010, archived 19 August 2010
 * RfC: Should ahnentafels (ancestry tables) be uncollapsed by default?
 * Listed 08 August 2010, archived (by lister) 27 August 2010

September 2010

 * Straw poll: on interim usage of Pending changes.
 * Listed 20th September 2010, archived 27th Septenber following closure of the poll.


 * RfC: Discussion of wording for proposed poll relating to Pending Changes
 * Listed 19th September, archived 20th September when the Poll went live.


 * Discussion: Updates to the oversight policy in view of fully implemented administrative revision deletion.
 * Listed 9 September, archived 18 September


 * RfC: Should a bot convert intentional links to disambiguation pages in hatnotes to link to a redirect as suggested in WP:INTDABLINK?
 * Listed 03 August 2010, archived 03 September 2010


 * Straw poll: should the pending changes protection trial be continued or abandoned?
 * Listed 22 August 2010, archived 06 September 2010


 * RfC: Is there consensus to include support for microformats in templates?
 * Listed 10 August 2010, archived 10 September 2010


 * RfC: Does WP:NAMES apply to fictional characters?
 * Listed 14 August 2010, archived 13 September 2010


 * Discussion about which links & references to sites on the now-closed GeoCities web host to rescue, and how.
 * Listed 16 August 2010, archived 13 September 2010


 * Proposal to create a new WikiProject namespace.
 * Listed 17 August 2010, archived 15 September 2010 - Result was proposal failed.


 * Discussion: Updates to the oversight policy in view of fully implemented administrative revision deletion.
 * Listed 2010-09-10), removed 18 September 2010, archived 9 October


 * RfC: What should be the inclusion criteria for "List of X" articles?
 * Listed 19 August 2010, archived 24 September 2010

October 2010

 * Straw poll: How many times can an AfD be relisted? If not indefinitely, how to close an AfD with insufficient participation?
 * Listed 27 August 2010, archived 6 October 2010


 * Discussion: Should the help landing page be replaced with something much simpler? A draft redesign is in progress.
 * Listed 31 August 2010, archived 9 October 2010


 * Discussion: We have 23,197 articles to investigate for potential copyright violations. We're blanking approximately 10,000 of them with a 'bot. What to do with the remaining 13,000?
 * Listed 10 August 2010, archived 9 October 2010


 * Discussion: Should featured list criterion 3b, which deals with requirements for stand-alone lists, be modified or removed?
 * Listed 16 September 2010, archived 9 October 2010


 * Straw poll on the creation of a new noticeboard for revision deletion requests.
 * Listed 21 September 2010, archived 9 October 2010


 * RfC on userspace "vandalism sandboxes".
 * Listed 27 September 2010, archived 9 October 2010


 * Discussion: Should our policy on article ownership contain a section about featured articles?
 * Listed 27 September 2010, archived 9 October 2010


 * Discussion: Should icons be used to identify external links to formats such as Word (.doc), Excel (.xls), etc., the way it is done for PDF files?
 * Listed 4 October 2010, archived 12 October 2010
 * Discussion: Should WP:NFCC expressly require that all verbatim uses of non-free text be specifically denoted as quotations
 * Listed 8 October 2010, archived 27 October 2010
 * RfC: Are association football players an exemption to the general notability guideline?
 * Listed 8 October 2010, archived 27 October 2010

November 2010

 * RfC: Should users be prohibited from removing a block notice while the block is in effect?
 * Listed 28 September 2010, archived 3 November 2010
 * RfC: Should the word "football" be preceded with the disambiguation "code" (association, American, etc.) for all types of football on the first use of the word?
 * Listed 4 October 2010, archived 3 November 2010
 * Request for input on the reader ratings extension ("Article Feedback Tool") being tested on some articles.
 * Listed 4 October 2010, archived 3 November 2010
 * RfC: should the secret ballot method via SecurePoll continue to be used for the upcoming 2010 Arbitration Committee election in December?
 * Listed 24 October 2010, archived 4 November 2010
 * RfC: How long can an abandoned userspace draft stay before being deleted as a fake article?
 * Listed 10 Oct 2010, archived 15 November 2010
 * Discussion on how to deal with the extreme abuse coming from an IP range of about 67 million IP addresses.
 * Listed 12 Nov 2010, archived 15 Nov 2010
 * A proposal to create a user right allowing non-admins to edit fully protected pages
 * Listed 14 Nov 2010, archived 19 Nov 2010
 * Talk page proposal to refine the WP:V policy section describing best practices in using scholarly and media sources.
 * Listed (undated), archived 19 Nov 2010
 * RfC: Proposal to change the icons used for user talk deletion notices.
 * Listed (undated), archived 19 Nov 2010
 * RfC: Follow-up to various Sept+Oct RFCs on handling of 'meatpuppetry' in policy. Includes proposal to cover external canvassing with internal canvassing on one page and promote latter to policy.
 * Listed 15 October 2010, archived 19 Nov 2010
 * Wide-ranging Discussion on adminship and RFA.
 * Listed 10 November 2010, archived 22 November 2010

December 2010

 * Straw poll: should lifespans be expressed in years alone at the top of a bio article, where the days/months appear in the body of the article and are not significant per se.
 * Listed (undated), archived 2 December 2010
 * We're discussing the backlog of unsourced biographies of living persons and the progress made in clearing it.
 * Listed (undated), archived 3 December 2010
 * A proposal to make the link to the general disclaimer more prominent in the standard Vector skin by putting it into the sidebar.
 * Listed (undated), archived 3 December 2010
 * RfC: BLPs of children: What special provisions if any are appropriate for an article about a child?
 * Listed 19 November 2010, archived 14 December 2010
 * RFC: Identification requirement for arbitrators – If a candidate does not want to identify, can they still serve without having access to confidential information, or does the community consider having such access a necessary part of being an arbitrator?
 * Listed 1 December 2010, archived 14 December 2010
 * Proposed guideline/policy to summarize the key norms and expectations about the community itself for the benefit of newcomers.
 * Listed 10 November 2010, archived 15 December 2010
 * RfC about whether the admin policy should be amended to require discussion before undoing administrative actions.
 * Listed 3 December 2010, archived 15 December 2010
 * Poll open to adopt Commons:Sexual content as a Wikimedia Commons policy.
 * Listed 6 December 2010, archived 15 December 2010
 * RfC regarding whether the Incubator should be reframed as "soft deletion" mechanism.
 * Listed 29 November 2010, archived 16 December 2010
 * A third MfD discussion on Wikipedia:Valued pictures.
 * Listed 5 December 2010, archived 21 December 2010