Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Archive/Archive 2

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May - July 2009

• Proposal: Should we move the edit button for sections?
• RFC: What should be done with non-notable bilateral relations articles that have been merged?
• Discussion: Shall a bot add dated subcategories of category:articles lacking sources to unreferenced articles?
• RFC: Shall a bot "fix" heading levels?
• RFC: How to categorize articles that have categories named after them?
• RFC: Is there a consensus on how notability applies to fictional topics?
• RFC: Should {{Unreferenced}} employ "unverifiable" or "unverified" in its WP:BURDEN invoking language?
• Poll: Should WP:NOT#PLOT be reworded, moved, removed, or kept the same?
• RFC: What is the community's view of paid editing?
• RFC: What are the opinions on using {{Italictitle}} to italicise certain articles' titles?
• Discussion: Should notability criteria for pornographic actors be rolled back?
• RFC. Outside opinions are needed on self electing groups.
• RFC: Proposed articles that would not be delinked by the date unlinking bot.

August 2009

• Poll: to what extent, if any, should template:unreferenced be placed on unsourced articles?
• Discussion: Rename Administrators noticeboard/incidents (ANI)?
• Discussion: Who has the burden of proof, the creator or the AfD nominator of an article?
• RFC: Proposal to make WP:Talk page layout a guideline.
• RFC: Should the "Let the Facts Speak for Themselves" section of WP:NPOV be removed?
• Preliminary (userspace) discussion on Wikipedia governance issues.

September 2009

• Discussion: Several questions regarding the structure and process of the "In the news" portion of the main page are ongoing.
• Discussion: Do FfD discussions for non-free images that result in no consensus default to keep or delete?
• Creating a new page: "Requests for administrator assistance" - to replace WP:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
• Discussion: Are current television schedules for television networks/stations appropriate content on Wikipedia?
• Discussion: Should the use of "Future" templates be deprecated?
• Discussion: Should there be a Speedy deletion criterion for made-up articles?
• Proposal: Creation of an Appeal Committee
• Discussion: Should a committee be formed to discuss and influence the development of Wikipedia?
• Discussion: What about Wikipedia needs reforming, and how?
• Feedback requested: Wikipedia Committees, a draft proposal for long-term, scalable governance of English Wikipedia.
• RfC about the "Advisory Council on Project Development" instituted by the Arbitration Committee.
• Discussion: Should {{Future}} and its child templates be deprecated/deleted?
• Discussion: Should Wikipedia advertise to recruit editors in article space?

October 2009

• Discussion: Should we give guidance on the lengths of lead sections?
• Proposal: Add a link to Wikinews articles in template {{Recent death}}.
• Discussion: To what extent shall non-free text be permissible in userspace?
• Discussion: Should administrators be permitted to impose discretionary sanctions (page/topic bans, revert restrictions, interaction bans, etc.) without prior community consensus or arbitration remedy?
• Proposal to increase the default size of thumbnail images from 180px.
• Proposal (software change): Turning autoconfirmed into an explicit usergroup granted automatically
• Proposal to require new accounts which are not yet autoconfirmed to go through the Article Wizard 2.0 to create new articles
• Proposal to create a bot to process the backlog of unreferenced BLPs and notify creators the article is unreferenced.
• A draft revamp of WP:Requests for comment/User conduct for which input is needed
• Proposal (Manual of Style): to disapprove all-numeric dates (like 2009-09-30) in footnotes
• Discussion : Should a section be added on the main page for "Article to improve"?
• Discussion if there are problems with how we interact with new users and what can we do?
• Proposal to enable site messages with option to disable and no message bar by default.

November 2009

• Discussion on how to treat reviews in context of External links policy.
• Discussion on how to deal with the persistent problem of nationalist edit-warring.
• Discussion on the composition, term lengths, and method of selection of the Arbitration Committee, including a proposal to modify SecurePoll for said election.
• Discussion on defaulting no consensus to delete for biographies of living persons

December 2009

• Proposal to disable the immediate indexing of unpatrolled articles by search engines.
• Discussion on promoting Wikipedia:Notability (academic journals) to guideline status