Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-08-21/Discussion report



This is mostly a list of Non-article page requests for comment believed to be active on 21 August 2013 linked from subpages of RfC, 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

 * "The" or "the" for the beginning of names of musical bands?
 * Commas in geographic names
 * Manual of Style/Biographies: "Should templates in Category:Royal and noble family templates use the article titles or the honorifics?"

Policies and guidelines

 * Should Skyscrapercity.com forums be accepted as reliable sources under at least some circumstances?
 * Removing the Account creator right from several editors; clarification of standards for removal
 * Two proposed expansions of the Civility policy
 * VisualEditor default state
 * Include links to audio files of national anthems in country infoboxes?
 * Clarifying the scope of the No legal threats policy
 * Article titles; expert and layperson terms
 * Closing discussions; what does "consensus of the community" mean?
 * Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (U.S. state and territory highways); common names, highway titles, and article titles
 * Discussion at article talk for "Luigi di Bella": "Is the policy "for persons which are not authors, musicians, & artists, only notable works that are heavily referenced by peers should be listed" a requirement?"
 * Partially disambiguated page names
 * Protection policy and persistent sockpuppets

WikiProjects and collaborations

 * Guidelines for notability of tallest building lists
 * Rescind the restrictions on Gibraltar-related DYKs?
 * Four Award issues
 * Should newly promoted GAs be allowed to be DYKs?
 * WikiProject Eurovision; Eurovision Song Contest

Technical issues and templates

 * Proposed reduction of wikilinks in some WikiProject Psychology templates

Proposals

 * All proposal RfCs are listed in other sections of this report

English Wikipedia notable requests for permissions
(This section will include active RfAs, RfBs, CU/OS appointment requests, and Arbcom elections)
 * Arbitration committee plans to announce CheckUser and Oversighter appointments on 24 August
 * Requests for adminship/Grandiose

Meta

 * Secure login will become the default for most users
 * Wikivoyage logo finalist review (Final vote starts 22 August)
 * Start WeRelate as a new Wikimedia project?
 * Start WikiNames as a new Wikimedia project?
 * Adopt Wikidentify as a new Wikimedia project?
 * Trademark practices
 * Scope of the Ombudsman Commission

Upcoming online meetings

 * "Discuss multimedia workflows, product goals and first new features. See Multimedia project hub.", 22 August 19:00 UTC
 * Wikidata update and Q&A, 26 August 16:00 UTC

Wikimedia blog posts

 * Students learn about history as a living, changing thing
 * Ilya Utekhin profile: “Wikipedia, The New Stage of Our Civilization”
 * Wikimedia Commons photographer profile: Airwolf
 * Illustrating Wikipedia from the air in Israel
 * Wikimedia’s OTRS email response system gets an upgrade