Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-11-09/Discussion report

The science of editing
Between them, Editing scientific articles and ESCA have managed to create a fair amount of drama across Wikipedia in the last couple of days. A lengthy thread at the incidents noticeboard discussed whether User:Count Iblis was intentionally spamming Template:ESCA onto the talk pages of a number of physics articles. The page itself quickly received the attention of a number of editors, and a consensus was reached that Wikipedia:Editing scientific articles was not a guideline and was in conflict with No original research. A consensus to delete Template:Esca also seems emergent at templates for discussion.

New proposals

 * User:Sebwite has added a proposal template to the essay Public transport
 * User:Harej is proposing Deletion advocacy, which would see deletion debates reduced to two advocates arguing a case in front of a judge
 * Contributor copyright investigations is a proposed process for investigating contributors who may have repeatedly placed copyrighted materials on Wikipedia without verification of permission and to facilitate cleanup of any such infringement
 * Is Wikipedia:Notability (academic journals) considered a guideline?

Deletion round-up

 * Don't be misled by the name; Articles for deletion/Chronology of Star Wars (2nd nomination) is actually the fourth nomination for the article, which nominator User:Dalejenkins believes is mainly synthesis, and partly a violation of copyright.
 * Articles for deletion/Denialism (2nd nomination) is generating a good deal of debate. The article has been nominated as a neologism.
 * This week's "Too Long Didn't Read" award goes outside deletion debates; User:Cybercobra picks this discussion over a single space in an article's title: Talk:To Aru Majutsu no Index

Polls

 * A proposal to get rid of proposed deletion is resembling a poll at the village pump.

Administrative notices

 * and have been placed on a 0RR restriction for 1 month.

Briefly

 * Should we have spoiler warnings? Although spoiler warnings have been deprecated on Wikipedia, it has been suggested in a lengthy discussion at the village pump that they should be re-implemented.

Requests for comment
Sixteen Requests for comment have been made in the week of 2 November to 8 November:


 * Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/userfication 8 November
 * Wikipedia talk:Deletion advocacy 8 November
 * Talk:Touhou Project 8 November
 * Talk:Chronic fatigue syndrome 8 November
 * Talk:Kitchen exhaust cleaning 7 November
 * Talk:Second Sino-Japanese War 7 November
 * Talk:La Jolla, San Diego, California 6 November
 * Talk:Animal welfare 5 November
 * Talk:Brazil 4 November
 * Talk:Nuclear winter 4 November
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Athletics 4 November
 * Talk:HIV dissent 3 November
 * Talk:Labour Party immigration scandal 3 November
 * Talk:Race and inequality in the United States 3 November
 * Talk:Khachkar 2 November
 * Wikipedia talk:Notability (academic journals) 2 November