Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-04-13/Discussion report

The following is a brief overview of new discussions taking place on the English Wikipedia. For older, yet possibly active, discussions please see our previous edition.

Centralized discussions

 * Unreferenced BLPs A proposal to make unreferenced Biographies of living persons speedy-deletable after three months.
 * FlaggedRevs autopromotion A poll on the criteria needed for autopromotion for reviewers for Flagged Revisions.

Proposals

 * Arbitration policy A new Arbitration draft policy is currently under discussion.
 * Merger and Split tags A discussion about enabling the display of the "date" parameter in all Merger and Split tags.

Requests for comment

 * Article Rescue Squadron Should templates be within the scope of the Article Rescue Squadron? In particular, should the rescue tag be applied to templates currently at templates for deletion?
 * Mistagged public domain images Most images tagged PD-US or PD-old are incorrect, and will be deleted if they are moved to Commons. What should we do about this?
 * Free and Open Source software notability Should we change the notability guidelines for FOSS packages?