Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-03-05/Discussion report

Four paragraph lead, indefinitely blocked IPs, editor reviews broken?: Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

Discussion report

Four paragraph lead, indefinitely blocked IPs, editor reviews broken?

By Tucoxn

The Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Day for March 1, 2014 shows Ponta de São Lourenço on Madeira island, the largest island in the Portuguese Madeira archipelago.

This is mostly a list of non-article page requests for comment believed to be active on 5 March 2014 linked from subpages of Wikipedia:RfC, recent watchlist notices and SiteNotices (last two in bold). 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

• Date format
• "Conspiracy Theory": a contentious label?
• Resolving article title policy conflicts between MOS:TM, MOS:CT, WP:TITLETM, WP:RS, and WP:COMMONNAME
• A condition for "deliberate" branding of trademarks
• Guideline for consecutive initials
• Capitalization of Chinese dynasty names
• Placement of "Template:citation needed"
• Four paragraph lead

Policies and guidelines

• Indefinitely blocked IP addresses
• Implementing AfC reviewer permissions
• Use of the Draft namespace
• Promoting the links section of Wikipedia:Signatures to policy

WikiProjects and collaborations

• Mark Wikipedia:Editor review as historical?
• Improving the "Today's featured article requests" system

Technical issues and templates

• Renaming and moving of "Template:Palestinian National Authority and the Palestinian people"
• Templates rendered on redirect pages
• Should numerical value uncertainties be forced to be monospace?
• British constituent countries in "Template:Europe topic"
• Wording of "Template:Unreliable sources"
• Should airport codes be in bold by default?
• Should mathematical equations be centered?
• Improvement of "Template:Rational"

Proposals

• Restricting "A class" assessment use
• Creating a "New Drafts Feed" system
• Improving Today's featured article/requests

English Wikipedia notable requests for permissions

(This section includes active RfAs, RfBs, CU/OS appointment requests, and Arbcom elections.)

• None at time of this writing

Other

• Round 2 of the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year voting
• Continue to require adding "Template:pufc" to image captions as part of the WP:PUF process.
• Preventing vandalism with the article feedback tool

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• Comment Yay, I am the first one to comment, let's celebrate. *celebrating* *pop* --Yutah Andrei Marzan Ogawa¹²³|UPage|_☺★ (talk) 10:29, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
• Comment I think you forgot the "Previous Discussion report" link at the bottom right above this comment section. I contributed to some of these discussions through this article, so thank you for gathering them all up like this :D --Nicereddy (talk) 22:32, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

1. dear barek I want you to recatgorize rubber band guns article because rubber band guns are not nessarly harassment devices take for example a concenual safe , sportsmanlike conducted game which is not harassment, it's only harassment when in bad faith. Postmahomeson (talk) 12:27, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

• Conspiracy Theory was withdrawn on the 4th. Does it count as active by the 5th then? Zell Faze (talk) 14:51, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

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