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Wikipedia talk:Persons known for one higher profile event

Almost weekly, there are AFDs about a person known for only one event but that event receives much coverage. The RS and BLP1E rules conflict. Clearer direction as to what should be included is discussed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Suomi Finland 2009 (talk • contribs) 23:46, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK Nomination Criteria

Recently, due to a considerably large amount of DYK submissions and differing views on a particular criteria for exclusion, a discussion has begun regarding ways to alleviate these issues, located in the Discussion page of DYK. Currently, the time DYK's appear on the main page has been reduced from 6 hours to 4 hours, and I believe at one point there were 9 DYK's in the main page box (please remove if this was not true). Solutions have ranged from the method of counting the characters for a new article (which is currently 1500), filtering out "boring" hooks, imposing stricter limitations on the use of fiction-related articles, as well as some other ideas. It seems nothing has been definitively decided at this point, and as a larger group (some Wikiproject members these changes would affect may have been asked to give input) discusses these issues, I believe we needed to move the conversation out of the talk page and into a larger area, as well as receive input from users who are not working the DYK switches. - Theornamentalist (talk) 05:26, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Environment and sexual orientation - Family influences

There is a dispute whether to observe the rules of Wikipedia recommendations such as WP:MEDRS requiring to respect secondary sources, summarize scientific consensus, use up-to-date evidence. These recommendations are undisputed by owerhelming majority of Wikipedians and I see now reason why need to wait for editorial consensus on Talk page on self-evident issue just because there are intentional POV of one or two editors. --Destinero (talk) 09:49, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Editors at FoxNews article removing criticism

Earlier this month an editor removed significant portions of the article's criticisms & controversies section, leaving no summary as he should have done. Another editor objected to the removal but got shouted down. (Talk:Fox_News_Channel#You_know...) There was no consensus at talkpage to remove the long-standing material. I restored the criticisms but then got reverted twice. -PrBeacon (talk) 01:09, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Increase visibility of "Disclaimer" link in default skin

As a result of a discussion on spoiler warnings following a NYTimes article on spoilers, I proposed increasing the visibility of the "Disclaimer" link in default skin, possibly by adding it in the interaction box (below "About Wikipedia"). I proposed this on Wikipedia_talk:Spoiler#Increase_visibility_of_general_Disclaimer_warning and it hasn't met with resistance (yet), although nobody was sure what we should do about it next. Gabiteodoru (talk) 16:36, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Need help clarifying widespread and confusing term in articles

In many physics articles on Wikipedia the phrase "finite probability" is used, which I have been told means "nonzero probability".

The problem is that this term seems to be widely accepted among physicists and should be left alone, but I would think that laypeople would not understand it. I have to admit that even as a mathematician this choice of terminology is rather baffling.

My question is: what is the best way to handle this? Should we make a stub called "finite probability" explaining that it means "nonzero probability" and direct toward it? Thanks, Rschwieb (talk) 19:13, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Cadwaladr

Cadwaladr biography is on Wikipedia. i simply wanted to suggest that Cadwaladr is mentioned as an ancestor of Edmund Tudor, husband of Margaret Beaufort, Queen Mother of Henry V11. The book is THE RED QUEEN by Phillipa Gregory.