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Proposal to move petitions to user space.
Added 1 Feb 2010. Snow fail 4 Feb 2010. Proposal to manage commons images which can't go to FFD for a number of reasons
Added 3 Feb 2010. Marked as failed by proposer and removed 5 Feb 2010. Proposal to limit information included in Wikipedia about wildlife locations deemed to be sensitive
Added 3 Feb 2010. Marked as failed and removed 9 Feb 2010. Petitions to turn on , and not to turn on , the Flagged revisions extension.
Added 18 December 2009. Removed 9 Feb 2010.
Proposal to give bureaucrats the technical ability to remove admin and bureaucrat rights. No consensus
Added 10 January 2010. Removed 13 Feb 2010. No consensus Discussion on refining Community de-adminship (aka Admin Recall) to formalize a RfC.
Added 25 November 2009. Stalled. Re-added 10 Jan 2010. Stalled again. Removed 13 Feb 2010. Petition against the perceived misuse of ignore all rules (IAR)
Added 21 January 2010. Removed 14 February 2010. Proposal to tighten the notability criteria on biographies of living people.
Added 6 February 2010. Removed 14 February 2010. Wrong venue, and there is an existing proposal for this anyway. Request for Comment on how we do Requests for Comment
Added 2 March 2010, removed 2 April 2010 Wikipedia:Quotations – Promotion to guideline
Added 13 March 2010, removed 2 April 2010 Wikipedia:Media copyright questions#Non-PD images which don't link to their image description page – Is it legitimate to have non-public domain images, such as File:LinkFA-star.png , not link to their description page?
Added 8 April 2010, removed 10 April 2010 Infobox headings - 'Title' or 'Above' position (MoS)?
Added 4 April 2010, removed 11 April 2010 Unsourced BLP deletion process - finalisation
Added 2 April, removed 16 April Preemptive protection of BLPs at risk (proposal)
Human settlements – New naming convention for top-level categories
Added 15 March 2010, removed 21 April 2010 Admin/crat flags - removal by bureaucrats
Added 18 Mar 2010, removed 21 April 2010 Village pump (development) (creation)
Added 29 March 2010, removed 21 April 2010 AfD Procedure for poorly sourced articles
Added 18 April 2010, removed 21 April 2010 Gender bias on Main page.
Added 23 April 2010, removed 28 April 2010 Can removing unsourced contentious material from BLP articles be supported with blocks done by involved admins
Added 21 April 2010, removed April 29 2010
Proposed addition of reference books and materials to Wikipedia:Notability (books)
Added 17 April 2010, removed April 29 2010
Proposed rewrite of the lead section of Wikipedia:No original research
Added 21 April 2010, removed April 29 2010, restored April 29 2010 (reason for removal incorrect)
RfC on identifying MoS guidelines and renaming them "Wikipedia:Manual of Style (foo)"
Added 20 April 2010, removed 30 April 2010 and merged in a single entry with next two
Proposed merge of WP:NEO, WP:PEA, WP:WEASEL and WP:AVOID into Wikipedia:Words to watch
Added 7 April 2010, removed 30 April 2010 and merged in a single entry with previous and next
Organising the Manual of Style by merging various individual guides into the main guide.
Added 1 April 2010, removed 30 April 2010 and merged in a single entry with previous two RFC on whether the userfication essay should become a policy or guideline
Added 17 May 2010, archived 3 June 2010 Discussion on the appearance of {{Wikipedia-Books }} and CfDs concerning several Wikipedia books -related categories
Added 28 April 2010, archived 22 May 2010 Proposal on whether to promote the class assessment processes by indicating article class at the top of articles.
Added 17 May 2010, archived 22 May 2010 Discussion on the appearance of {{Wikipedia-Books }} and CfDs concerning several Wikipedia books -related categories
Added 28 April 2010, archived 8 May 2010 Deletion discussion over deletion of {{expand }}
Added May 8, 2010, archived 11 May 2010 Proposed rewrite of the lead section of Wikipedia:No original research
Added 21 April 2010, archived 15 May 2010
Reorganisation of the Manual of Style and RFC on titles .
Added 30 April, merged 3 older items, archived 15 May 2010
Clarification requested for policy status of Wikipedia:Research which involves the operation of a bot to recruit editors to partake in off-Wiki research
Added 21 April 2010, archived 15 May 2010
Proposal to reconsider what it means for WikiProjects to be active or inactive
Added 23 April 2010, archived 17 May 2010 RfC on a proposal to ban all vulgarity in inter-editor communications.
Added 13 May 2010 archived 15 May 2010 Request for comment on protection of 'Today's Featured Article'
Added 23 April 2010, archived 19 May 2010 Requests for comment/Picture of the day photo credits
Added 25 April 2010, archived 24 May 2010 Proposal to change the Wikipedia tagline, adding "that anyone can edit" and possibly wikilinks.
Added 13 May 2010, archived 25 May 2010 Proposal to include the "Good article" icon on the article page of articles rated GA
Added 7 May 2010, archived 31 May 2010 Request for Comment on changing the "View source" tab so that it says "Edit this page*".
Listed 12 May 2010, archived 4 June 2010 RFC on the recent interface change
Listed 15 May 2010, archived 4 June 2010 URLs in infoboxes : how to display.
Listed 29 May 2010, archived 7 June 2010 Request for Comment on accepting Subject-specific guidelines as a guideline.
Listed - no date, archived 7 June 2010 Ideas for stimulating collaboration on content between Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.
Listed 13 May 2010, archived 11 June 2010 Proposal to let BAG handle recruitment requests by researchers.
Listed (undated), archived 15 June 2010 Proposal to split apart Wikipedia:Manual of Style (MUSTARD) and merge it into the other Music Guidlines. See Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (MUSTARD)#Page Split
Listed 8 June 2010, archived 21 June 2010
Discussion of the way username-only blocks on promotional accounts are being handled
Listed 27 May 2010, archived 24 June 2010 Bilateral relations redux New guideline needed?
Listed 26 May 2010, archived 24 June 2010 Request for comment on the usefulness of the climate change probation
Listed 23 May 2010, archived 24 June 2010. Proposal to rename the usergroup Autoreviewer to Autopatroller.
Listed 11 June 2010, archived 1 July 2010. Request for comment on recent checkuser and oversight election, following Arbcom request Listed undated, archived 1 July 2010. Request for comment on developing a community procedure to assign the 'researcher' permission
Listed 9 June 2010, archived 1 July 2010. RFC: What should our policy be on articles that contain lists related to television?
Listed 24 June 2010, archived 5 July 2010 RFC: Should the user page guideline be amended, prohibiting "vandal spaces"?
Listed 16 June 2010, archived 5 July 2010 RFC: Should Notability (fiction) be reinstated as a guideline? has opened for comments.
Listed 18 June 2010, archived 5 July 2010 RfC on whether Wikipedia:Pedophilia should be labeled a policy?
Listed 29 June 2010, archived 5 July 2010 Discussion concerning the retitling of the page "Ownership of articles"
Listed 30 June 2010, archived 13 July 2010 Discussion to promote Wikipedia:Notability (sports) to guideline.
Listed 9 June 2010, archived 17 July 2010 Review of the BLP RFC at BLPRFC3 .
Listed 16 June 2010, archived 21 July 2010
RFC: Should Wikipedia:Notability (criminal acts) be merged with Wikipedia:Notability (events) and Wikipedia:Notability (people)?
Listed 30 June 2010, archived 29 July 2010 RFC on Consensus: To what extent and under what circumstances can contributors/Projects customize article appearance with individual styles that deviate from site-wide style guidelines?
Listed 30 June 2010, archived 29 July 2010 Rfc: Wording of the SOCK policy regarding clean starts and prior blocks
Listed 5 July 2010, archived 4 August 2010 Should user books be always NOINDEX?
Listed 10 July 2010, archived 4 August 2010 RfC on Username policy : Should the username policy be reworded, to tolerate the innocent use of obscure company, group or product names?
Listed 20 July 2010, archived 8 August 2010 Possible ways to sift tricky BLPs before hitting problems or "out of process" deletions and avoid some predictable AFD /COI cases.
Listed (undated), archived 10 August 2010 RfC: Does WP:NOTMYSPACE apply to secret pages, or if not, should it.
Listed 27 July 2010, archived 10 August 2010 Discussion about the future of the Valued Pictures process -- do we still need it, and can it play a meaningful role next to the WP:FPC process?
Listed 02 August 2010, archived 16 August 2010 RFC: Presumption of RS for FOX News
Listed 03 August 2010, archived 16 August 2010 Updating Arbitration policy The latest draft is here here Listed, 01 August 2010, archived 19 August 2010 RfC: Should ahnentafels (ancestry tables) be uncollapsed by default?
Listed 08 August 2010, archived (by lister) 27 August 2010 Straw poll : on interim usage of Pending changes .
Listed 20th September 2010, archived 27th Septenber following closure of the poll. RfC : Discussion of wording for proposed poll relating to Pending Changes
Listed 19th September, archived 20th September when the Poll went live. Straw poll: should the pending changes protection trial be continued or abandoned?
Listed 22 August 2010, archived 06 September 2010 RfC: Is there consensus to include support for microformats in templates?
Listed 10 August 2010, archived 10 September 2010 RfC: Does WP:NAMES apply to fictional characters?
Listed 14 August 2010, archived 13 September 2010 Discussion about which links & references to sites on the now-closed GeoCities web host to rescue, and how.
Listed 16 August 2010, archived 13 September 2010 Proposal to create a new WikiProject namespace.
Listed 17 August 2010, archived 15 September 2010 - Result was proposal failed. RfC: What should be the inclusion criteria for "List of X" articles?
Listed 19 August 2010, archived 24 September 2010 Straw poll: How many times can an AfD be relisted? If not indefinitely, how to close an AfD with insufficient participation?
Listed 27 August 2010, archived 6 October 2010 Discussion: We have 23,197 articles to investigate for potential copyright violations. We're blanking approximately 10,000 of them with a 'bot. What to do with the remaining 13,000?
Listed 10 August 2010, archived 9 October 2010 Discussion: Should featured list criterion 3b, which deals with requirements for stand-alone lists, be modified or removed?
Listed 16 September 2010, archived 9 October 2010 Straw poll on the creation of a new noticeboard for revision deletion requests.
Listed 21 September 2010, archived 9 October 2010 RfC on userspace "vandalism sandboxes".
Listed 27 September 2010, archived 9 October 2010 Discussion: Should our policy on article ownership contain a section about featured articles?
Listed 27 September 2010, archived 9 October 2010 Discussion: Should icons be used to identify external links to formats such as Word (.doc), Excel (.xls), etc., the way it is done for PDF files?
Listed 4 October 2010, archived 12 October 2010 Discussion: Should WP:NFCC expressly require that all verbatim uses of non-free text be specifically denoted as quotations
Listed 8 October 2010, archived 27 October 2010 RfC: Are association football players an exemption to the general notability guideline ?
Listed 8 October 2010, archived 27 October 2010 RfC: Should users be prohibited from removing a block notice while the block is in effect?
Listed 28 September 2010, archived 3 November 2010 RfC: Should the word "football" be preceded with the disambiguation "code" (association, American, etc.) for all types of football on the first use of the word?
Listed 4 October 2010, archived 3 November 2010 Request for input on the reader ratings extension ("Article Feedback Tool") being tested on some articles.
Listed 4 October 2010, archived 3 November 2010 RfC: should the secret ballot method via SecurePoll continue to be used for the upcoming 2010 Arbitration Committee election in December ?
Listed 24 October 2010, archived 4 November 2010 RfC: How long can an abandoned userspace draft stay before being deleted as a fake article ?
Listed 10 Oct 2010, archived 15 November 2010 Discussion on how to deal with the extreme abuse coming from an IP range of about 67 million IP addresses.
Listed 12 Nov 2010, archived 15 Nov 2010 A proposal to create a user right allowing non-admins to edit fully protected pages
Listed 14 Nov 2010, archived 19 Nov 2010 Talk page proposal to refine the WP:V policy section describing best practices in using scholarly and media sources.
Listed (undated), archived 19 Nov 2010 RfC: Proposal to change the icons used for user talk deletion notices.
Listed (undated), archived 19 Nov 2010 RfC: Follow-up to various Sept+Oct RFCs on handling of 'meatpuppetry' in policy. Includes proposal to cover external canvassing with internal canvassing on one page and promote latter to policy.
Listed 15 October 2010, archived 19 Nov 2010 Wide-ranging Discussion on adminship and RFA.
Listed 10 November 2010, archived 22 November 2010 Straw poll : should lifespans be expressed in years alone at the top of a bio article, where the days/months appear in the body of the article and are not significant per se .
Listed (undated), archived 2 December 2010 We're discussing the backlog of unsourced biographies of living persons and the progress made in clearing it.
Listed (undated), archived 3 December 2010
A proposal to make the link to the general disclaimer more prominent in the standard Vector skin by putting it into the sidebar.
Listed (undated), archived 3 December 2010 RfC: BLPs of children: What special provisions if any are appropriate for an article about a child?
Listed 19 November 2010, archived 14 December 2010 RFC: Identification requirement for arbitrators – If a candidate does not want to identify, can they still serve without having access to confidential information, or does the community consider having such access a necessary part of being an arbitrator?
Listed 1 December 2010, archived 14 December 2010 Proposed guideline/policy to summarize the key norms and expectations about the community itself for the benefit of newcomers.
Listed 10 November 2010, archived 15 December 2010 RfC about whether the admin policy should be amended to require discussion before undoing administrative actions.
Listed 3 December 2010, archived 15 December 2010 Poll open to adopt Commons:Sexual content as a Wikimedia Commons policy.
Listed 6 December 2010, archived 15 December 2010 RfC regarding whether the Incubator should be reframed as "soft deletion" mechanism.
Listed 29 November 2010, archived 16 December 2010 A third MfD discussion on Wikipedia:Valued pictures.
Listed 5 December 2010, archived 21 December 2010
