Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Archive/Archive 7

This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.

Archive 1

←

Archive 5

January 2014

An RfC on preemptively protecting Today's featured article. (Added December 1. Archived January 12.)
An RfC to establish criteria for use of Pending Changes level 2. (Added 8 January 2014, archived 7 Feb.)
A proposal to run Afroyim v Rusk as Today's Featured Article on The Day We Fight Back (11 February). Added and removed on 23 January 2014.
An RfC on Wikipedia and "The Day We Fight Back" online protest on 11th February. Added and removed on 27 January 2014.

February 2014

An alternative idea to make orphan tags invisible in the mainspace, rather than move them to the talk page. Added 2 January 2014, archived 9 February 2014.
An RfC on making the guideline on signatures a formal policy. Added 2 January 2014, archived 4 February 2014.
A request for the film Fuck to be featured on the main page as Today's featured article. Added 2 February 2014, archived 10 February 2014.
A CfD on whether to delete Category:Articles created via the Article Wizard, which has 33,000 pages. Added 5 January 2014, archived 12 February 2014.
An RfC on requiring QPQ for Did You Know nominations of pages created by other editors. Added 5 January 2014, archived 16 February 2014.
An RfC for AfC reviewer permission implementation. Added 21 January 2014, archived 16 February 2014.
An RfC on creating a speedy deletion criterion for pages in violation of WP:NOTWEBHOST. Added 13 January 2014, archived 16 February 2014.
An RfC to approve a bot adding stress marks to Russian words. Added 8 January 2014, archived 16 February 2014.
An RfC on how MOS:YEAR should be applied to sports year ranges: 2010/2011 vs. 2010/11 or 2010–11 vs. 2010–2011 depending on length of season. Added 29 December 2013, archived 16 February 2014.
Should Wikipedia provide a more prominent disclaimer in general, or on health and medical content? Archived 16 February 2014.
An RfC on the use(s) of the summary-style template main and its allies. Added 26 December 2013, archived 16 February 2014.
An RfC on which abbreviations and parameters should be included in {{Marriage}}. Added 23 January 2014, archived 23 February 2014.

March 2014

A Requested Move of Template:Palestinian National Authority and the Palestinian people to Template:State of Palestine topics. Added 20 February 2014‎, archived 12 March 2014.
A proposal to restrict A class usage Added 16 February 2014, archived 19 March 2014.

April 2014

An RfC about indefinitely blocked IP addresses Added 16 February 2014, archived 1 April 2014.
An RfC to promote the links section of Wikipedia:Signatures to policy Added 16 February 2014, archived April 1 2014.
An RfC on resolving article title policy conflicts between MOS TITLE COMMONNAME etc. Added 7 February 2014, archived 8 April 2014.
An RfC to mark Wikipedia:Editor review as historical. Added 1 March 2014; archived 13 April 2014.
A discussion on the capitalization of bird names. Added 9 April 2014; Archived 14 April 2014
An RfC regarding changing the username policy to allow role accounts. Added 24 March 2014. Archive 24 April 2014.

May 2014

An RfC on the capitalization of bird names. Opened 9 April 2014, listed 18 April. Discussion closed for closing by User:DGG, 30 April 2014. Archive 1 May 2014
An RfC about whether or not the opt-in requirement should be removed from the enwiki edit counter. Added 3 April 2014; archived 4 May 2014.
A discussion on ways to improve the "Today's featured article requests" system. Added 20 February 2014; archived 5 May 2014.
A proposal to reimplement the Main Page with an alternative framework. Added 3 April 2014; archived 6 May 2014.
WikiProject Sailor Moon to be marked as historical, be turned into a task-force, or be kept (RfC). Added 28 April 2014; archived 23 May 2014.
Increase participation in editor review in lieu of closure (proposal). Added 3 May 2014; archived 29 May 2014.

June 2014

Promoting 'Notability (geographic features)' to guideline status. Added 8 May 2014; archived 23 June 2014
Mobile site strapline. Added 5 May 2014; archived 23 June 2014
When is the presentation of statistics, such as with Weather box and Climate chart, excessive? Added 9 May 2014; archived 23 June 2014
Whether the text for the widely-used template {{policy}} should be changed from "should" to "must" Added 21 May 2014; archived 23 June 2014
Whether to remove the attention flag from WikiProject banners Added 1 June 2014; archived 23 June 2014

July 2014

Should deprecated/invalid/unsupported HTML tags be discouraged? Added 12 June 2014, archived 17 July 2014
Should Media Viewer be enabled or disabled by default?, added 23 June 2014, archived 13 July 2014
Suggested standard for maximum size of a talk page archive Added June 24 2014, archived July 21 2014
"Appearance and color" and line-height (RfC) Added June 23 2014, Archived July 21 2014
Should we increase the default size of thumbnail images? (WMF proposal) Added July 11 2014, Archived July 24 2014

August 2014

Can non-admins impose community bans if a clear consensus exists? (RfC) Added 14 July 2014, archived 10 August 2014
Should we be linking readers (via disambiguation notes, etc.) to the Wikipedia/Help/Manual namespaces from the mainspace? (RfC) Added 13 August 2014, Archived 14 August 2014 (withdrawn)
Should we issue warnings to users for their username who have never edited? (RfC) Added 16 July 2014; Removed 14 August 2014

September 2014

Modify sock puppetry policy to acknowledge that WMF staff may have separate volunteer and work-related accounts (RfC) added 26 August 2014, archived 1 September 2014
Deprecation of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Request board (RfC) added 20 July 2014, archived 1 September 2014
Feedback on the Article Wizard (RfC) added 27 July 2014, archived 22 September 2014
Should OTRS agents have a userright to identify themselves? (RfC), added 1 September 2014, archived 27 September 2014

October 2014

Policy regarding colourisation of images (discussion), added 15 September 2014, archived 2 October 2014
Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer (Meta survey) Added 27 August 2014, archived 15 October 2014
Restrict use of "WMF" prefix or suffix in usernames to WMF staff (RfC) Added 26 August 2014, Archived 15 October 2014
(Proposal 1/2) Should the AVOIDYOU portion of NPA be clarifiedAdded 9/20/2014, archived 15 October 2014
(Proposal 2/2) Should the AVOIDYOU portion of NPA be removed. added 9/20/2014, archived 15 October 2014
Should Notability be renamed "Inclusion"? (RfC) added 30 August 2014, archived 19 October 2014

November 2014

A proposal to create a "Special talk:" namespace. (RfC) added 8 November 2014, archived 10 November 2014
A proposal to close the Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct venue (RfC), added 5 November 2014, archived 16 November 2014.
A request for the book Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties to be featured on the main page as Today's featured article. Added 29 October 2014, archived 17 November 2014.
Nominations for the 2014 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee elections are open until 23:59, 18 November (UTC). Added November 2014, archived 20 November 2014.

December 2014

Proposal to close the Requests for comment/User conduct venue. Added 5 November 2014, archived 7 December 2014.
Should we reaffirm and implement the previous RfC consensus that Media Viewer be disabled by default? If so, should we ask WMF to do it? Added 4 November 2014, archived 10 November 2014.
Reviewer permission: remove from inactive reviewers? Added 16 November 2014, archived 19 December 2014
Devolving desysopping to a Bureaucrat managed community system (RfC) Added 19 November 2014, archived 19 December 2014
Rights of the account creator user group (RfC) Added 15 December 2014, archived 31 December 2014