Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-07-03/Discussion report



This is mostly a list of Non-article page requests for comment believed to be active on 3 July 2013 linked from subpages of RfC, and recent watchlist notices and SiteNotices. The latter two are in bold. Items that are new to this report are in italics even if they are not new discussions. If an item can be listed under more than one category it is usually listed once only in this report. Clarifications and corrections are appreciated; please leave them in this article's comment box at the bottom of the page.

Style and naming

 * Style of closing quotation marks
 * "Should BLPs contain a duplicate name in basic ASCII character set?"
 * Manual of Style/Road junction lists
 * Manual of Style/Trademarks
 * Dates in the Citation Style 1 family of citation templates
 * WP:CITE; Variation in citation methods
 * Capital letters for short prepositions

Policies and guidelines

 * Non-free content policy; quoting from non-free Bible translations
 * Edit warring 3RR; content and patterns of reverts
 * Notability of extrasolar planets
 * Non-free content criterion 1
 * Naming conventions for Australian roads
 * RfC on validity of RfC on main page items
 * Conflict of interest guideline amendment

WikiProjects and collaborations

 * Mark the Article Incubator as historical or inactive?
 * WikiProject Eurovision; Eurovision Song Contest

Technical issues and templates

 * "VisualEditor is now enabled for all logged-in users. Learn more, help out and give feedback."
 * Where should the templatedata block be placed?
 * Infobox Chinese; Chinese Hán and Vietnamese nôm scripts
 * Members of the European Parliament 1999–2004 template

Proposals

 * Remove mainpage link to Wikinews from the "In the News" section?
 * Mass removal of old indefinite rangeblocks
 * Bot flags

English Wikipedia notable requests for permissions
(This section will include active RfAs, RfBs, CU/OS appointment requests, and Arbcom elections)
 * Requests for adminship/Kelapstick 2

Meta

 * Make detailed information on X!'s edit counter visible by default?
 * Call for input about the WMF Privacy policy
 * Elections postmortem discussion
 * Trademark practices
 * Scope of the Ombudsman Commission
 * Logo selection procedure for Wikivoyage

Upcoming online meetings

 * "Snuggle's place as a tool for mentor-ship in Wikipedia", 10 July 16:00 UTC
 * "Universal Language Selector and other updates from Language Engineering", 10 July 17:00 UTC