Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-08-15/News and notes

Deletion reform
After last week's deletion fiasco, Deletion reform has fleshed out many different proposals on suggested replacements, alterations or re-works of Votes for deletion. Comments, and even personal proposals, are encouraged.

A subsequent request for arbitration is currently in the discussion phase.

Briefly

 * Requests for Comment has been split into several different subpages based on topic.
 * The Tamil Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
 * The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.
 * The Dutch Wikipedia has reached 85,000 articles.
 * The Serbian Wikipedia has reached 13,000 articles.
 * The Polish Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles.
 * The Vietnamese Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.