Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Archive/Archive 8

January 2015

 * New FAC and FAR Coordinators proposed Added 19 December 2014, archived 15 January 2015
 * Non-administrators closing discussions as delete (RfC) Added 13 December 2014, archived 28 January 2015

February 2015

 * Proposal to grant highly trusted users with the ability to view deleted content through a consensus-driven process. Added 4 January 2015, archived 2 February 2015


 * Should AfD nominations advocating for a redirect be permitted? (RfC) added 6 January 2015, archived 3 February 2015


 * A proposal to change rollback from a user right to an editing gadget. Added 1 February 2015, archived 12 February 2015


 * Proposal to remove unused autochecked usergroup added 15 February 2015, archived 7 March 2015

March 2015

 * Proposal to restrict access of Articles for Creation's Helper Script to only users approved by administrators. Added 1 February 2015, archived 8 March 2015
 * Proposal to enable HTTPS by default for all readers Added 19 February 2015, archived 30 March 2015

April 2015

 * RFC on the status of Wikipedia's "No Medical Advice" policy. Added 25 March 2015, archived 10 April 2015

May 2015

 * Discussion of Wikipedia policy having direct impact on Community Open Source Programming Articles. Added 6 May 2015, archived 8 May 2015
 * RfC on adding example to "case-by-case" exception to OUTING policy, for links to paid editing sites like Elance, for COI/SPA discussions Added 6 March 2015, archived 8 May 2015
 * RfC asking if practitioners of alternative medicine have a conflict of interest with regard to content on their field of practice. Added 10 May 2015, archived 23 May 2015
 * Several new proposals to reform the appeals process for banned or long-term blocked users. Added 29 January 2015, archived 23 May 2015


 * Proposal to add a disclaimer before connecting users to the IRC help channel and prefill their IRC nick to their username using site JavaScript. Added 27 April 2015, archived May 29 2015.

June 2015

 * A proposal to include some hatnotes in printed versions of articles added 24 May 2015, archived 7 June 2015
 * CfD to establish the term used for Christian places of worship in categories added 1 May 2015, archived 7 June 2015
 * Proposal to make the MoS page an official noticeboard added 14 May 2015, archived 7 June 2015
 * Poll on permissions required to add and remove tags Added 17 May 2015, archived 6 June 2015
 * A proposal to add an edit restriction function to Wikipedia. Added 27 May 2015, archived 28 June 2015

July 2015

 * An RfC for a four-day delay period for deleting abandoned AfC submissions under G13. added 21 June 2015, archived 5 July 2015
 * A proposal to forbid IPs from participating in the RfA process. added 7 June 2015, archived 10 July 2015
 * An RfC on "edit in Wikidata" links, for templates using Wikidata. added 4 June 2015, archived 13 July 2015
 * Non-admin closure of TFD discussions. added 9 June 2015, archived 25 July 2015

August 2015

 * Proposed Regulation Committee and alternatives to consensus Added 2 August 2015, archived 7 August 2015
 * Activity requirements for bureaucrats Added 6 July 2015, archived 17 August 2015
 * Activity requirements for administrators Added 5 July 2015, archived 19 August 2015


 * A community driven desysopping process Added 26 July 2015. archived 24 August 2015

September 2015

 * A binding administrator recall process Added 10 August 2015. archived 1 September 2015.
 * Should the Community portal suggest articles on missing highly cited female scientists? Added 14 August 2015, archived 22 September 2015.
 * 5 millionth article milestone: community press release, video, open letter, site banner, added 11 September 2015, archived 27 September 2015
 * Auto sign on talkpages, added 3 September 2015, archived 27 September 2015
 * Socking policy clarification, added 20 September 2015, archived 30 September 2015

October 2015

 * Arbitration Committee Elections December 2015 added 28 August 2015, archived 2 October 2015
 * Should we have a special logo when we hit five million articles? added 03 September 2015, archived 10 October 2015
 * Discuss the 2015 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission candidates through 23:59 (UTC), 23 October added 17 October 2015, archived 27 October 2015
 * Which logo should Wikipedia use to celebrate reaching 5 million articles? Vote added 18 October 2015, archived 31 October 2015

November 2015

 * Re-organizing women-related Wikiprojects, Taskforces, and Initiatives added 13 September 2015, archived 10 November 2015
 * Notify user talk pages re Arbitration elections? added 28 October 2015, Archived 10 November 2015
 * Nominations for the 2015 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee elections are open until 23:59, 17 November (UTC)., added 8 November 2015, archived 18 November 2015
 * (RfC) Should non-administrator arbitrators elected to the committee be granted administrator rights? added 15 November 2015, archived 23 November 2015
 * What name should be used for the capital of Ukraine? added 24 November 2015, archived 27 November 2015
 * Proposal for a bot to remove Persondata from 1.2 million articles. added 11 November 2015, archived 28 November 2015

December 2015

 * Proposal for RfA clerking. archived 5 December 2015
 * 2015 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee elections. Voting will close on 6 December. added 23 November 2015, archived 7 December 2015
 * Security review added 5 November 2015, archived 13 December 2015
 * Phase II RfC for the RFA2015 reform project. added 29 November 2015, archived 14 December 2015
 * Allow stewards and global sysops to help with countervandalism (including block and delete tools) added 15 December 2015, archived 18 December 2015.
 * Bidirectional linking of navboxes added 19 November 2015, archived 23 December 2015
 * Minimum activity requirements for administrators added 28 November 2015, archived 30 December 2015