Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Archive/Archive 7

January 2014

 * An RfC on preemptively protecting Today's featured article. (Added December 1. Archived January 12.)
 * An RfC to establish criteria for use of Pending Changes level 2. (Added 8 January 2014, archived 7 Feb.)
 * A proposal to run Afroyim v Rusk as Today's Featured Article on The Day We Fight Back (11 February). Added and removed on 23 January 2014.
 * An RfC on Wikipedia and "The Day We Fight Back" online protest on 11th February. Added and removed on 27 January 2014.

February 2014

 * An alternative idea to make orphan tags invisible in the mainspace, rather than move them to the talk page. Added 2 January 2014, archived 9 February 2014.
 * An RfC on making the guideline on signatures a formal policy. Added 2 January 2014, archived 4 February 2014.
 * A request for the film Fuck to be featured on the main page as Today's featured article. Added 2 February 2014, archived 10 February 2014.
 * A CfD on whether to delete Category:Articles created via the Article Wizard, which has 33,000 pages. Added 5 January 2014, archived 12 February 2014.
 * An RfC on requiring QPQ for Did You Know nominations of pages created by other editors. Added 5 January 2014, archived 16 February 2014.
 * An RfC for AfC reviewer permission implementation. Added 21 January 2014, archived 16 February 2014.
 * An RfC on creating a speedy deletion criterion for pages in violation of WP:NOTWEBHOST. Added 13 January 2014, archived 16 February 2014.
 * An RfC to approve a bot adding stress marks to Russian words. Added 8 January 2014, archived 16 February 2014.
 * An RfC on how MOS:YEAR should be applied to sports year ranges: 2010/2011 vs. 2010/11 or 2010–11 vs. 2010–2011 depending on length of season. Added 29 December 2013, archived 16 February 2014.
 * Should Wikipedia provide a more prominent disclaimer in general, or on health and medical content? Archived 16 February 2014.
 * An RfC on the use(s) of the summary-style template main and its allies. Added 26 December 2013, archived 16 February 2014.
 * An RfC on which abbreviations and parameters should be included in Marriage. Added 23 January 2014, archived 23 February 2014.

March 2014

 * A Requested Move of Template:Palestinian National Authority and the Palestinian people to Template:State of Palestine topics. Added 20 February 2014‎, archived 12 March 2014.
 * A proposal to restrict A class usage Added 16 February 2014, archived 19 March 2014.

April 2014

 * An RfC about indefinitely blocked IP addresses Added 16 February 2014, archived 1 April 2014.
 * An RfC to promote the links section of Signatures to policy Added 16 February 2014, archived April 1 2014.
 * An RfC on resolving article title policy conflicts between MOS TITLE COMMONNAME etc. Added 7 February 2014, archived 8 April 2014.
 * An RfC to mark Editor review as historical. Added 1 March 2014; archived 13 April 2014.
 * A discussion on the capitalization of bird names. Added 9 April 2014; Archived 14 April 2014
 * An RfC regarding changing the username policy to allow role accounts. Added 24 March 2014. Archive 24 April 2014.

May 2014

 * An RfC on the capitalization of bird names. Opened 9 April 2014, listed 18 April. Discussion closed for closing by User:DGG, 30 April 2014.  Archive 1 May 2014
 * An RfC about whether or not the opt-in requirement should be removed from the enwiki edit counter. Added 3 April 2014; archived 4 May 2014.
 * A discussion on ways to improve the "Today's featured article requests" system. Added 20 February 2014; archived 5 May 2014.
 * A proposal to reimplement the Main Page with an alternative framework. Added 3 April 2014; archived 6 May 2014.
 * WikiProject Sailor Moon to be marked as historical, be turned into a task-force, or be kept (RfC). Added 28 April 2014; archived 23 May 2014.
 * Increase participation in editor review in lieu of closure (proposal). Added 3 May 2014; archived 29 May 2014.

June 2014

 * Promoting 'Notability (geographic features)' to guideline status. Added 8 May 2014; archived 23 June 2014
 * Mobile site strapline. Added 5 May 2014; archived 23 June 2014
 * When is the presentation of statistics, such as with Weather box and Climate chart, excessive? Added 9 May 2014; archived 23 June 2014
 * Whether the text for the widely-used template should be changed from "should" to "must" Added 21 May 2014; archived 23 June 2014
 * Whether to remove the attention flag from WikiProject banners Added 1 June 2014; archived 23 June 2014

July 2014

 * Should deprecated/invalid/unsupported HTML tags be discouraged? Added 12 June 2014, archived 17 July 2014
 * Should Media Viewer be enabled or disabled by default?, added 23 June 2014, archived 13 July 2014
 * Suggested standard for maximum size of a talk page archive Added June 24 2014, archived July 21 2014
 * "Appearance and color" and line-height (RfC) Added June 23 2014, Archived July 21 2014
 * Should we increase the default size of thumbnail images? (WMF proposal) Added July 11 2014, Archived July 24 2014

August 2014

 * Can non-admins impose community bans if a clear consensus exists? (RfC) Added 14 July 2014, archived 10 August 2014
 * Should we be linking readers (via disambiguation notes, etc.) to the Wikipedia/Help/Manual namespaces from the mainspace? (RfC) Added 13 August 2014, Archived 14 August 2014 (withdrawn)
 * Should we issue warnings to users for their username who have never edited? (RfC) Added 16 July 2014; Removed 14 August 2014

September 2014

 * Modify sock puppetry policy to acknowledge that WMF staff may have separate volunteer and work-related accounts (RfC) added 26 August 2014, archived 1 September 2014
 * Deprecation of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Request board (RfC) added 20 July 2014, archived 1 September 2014
 * Feedback on the Article Wizard (RfC) added 27 July 2014, archived 22 September 2014
 * Should OTRS agents have a userright to identify themselves? (RfC), added 1 September 2014, archived 27 September 2014

October 2014

 * Policy regarding colourisation of images (discussion), added 15 September 2014, archived 2 October 2014
 * Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer (Meta survey) Added 27 August 2014, archived 15 October 2014
 * Restrict use of "WMF" prefix or suffix in usernames to WMF staff (RfC) Added 26 August 2014, Archived 15 October 2014
 * (Proposal 1/2) Should the AVOIDYOU portion of NPA be clarifiedAdded 9/20/2014, archived 15 October 2014
 * (Proposal 2/2) Should the AVOIDYOU portion of NPA be removed. added 9/20/2014, archived 15 October 2014
 * Should Notability be renamed "Inclusion"? (RfC) added 30 August 2014, archived 19 October 2014

November 2014

 * A proposal to create a "Special talk:" namespace. (RfC) added 8 November 2014, archived 10 November 2014
 * A proposal to close the Requests for comment/User conduct venue (RfC), added 5 November 2014, archived 16 November 2014.
 * A request for the book Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties to be featured on the main page as Today's featured article. Added 29 October 2014, archived 17 November 2014.
 * Nominations for the 2014 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee elections are open until 23:59, 18 November (UTC). Added November 2014, archived 20 November 2014.

December 2014

 * Proposal to close the Requests for comment/User conduct venue. Added 5 November 2014, archived 7 December 2014.
 * Should we reaffirm and implement the previous RfC consensus that Media Viewer be disabled by default? If so, should we ask WMF to do it? Added 4 November 2014, archived 10 November 2014.
 * Reviewer permission: remove from inactive reviewers? Added 16 November 2014, archived 19 December 2014
 * Devolving desysopping to a Bureaucrat managed community system (RfC) Added 19 November 2014, archived 19 December 2014
 * Rights of the account creator user group (RfC) Added 15 December 2014, archived 31 December 2014