Wikipedia:Requests for comment/History and geography

• Talk:Morrill Tariff - Revert warring. The dispute is over an addition by an editor who supports a theory about the authorship of of an unsigned article in Charles Dickens' magazine. The proponent seeks to highlight his favored theory about the article's authorship in the main text of the article while excluding alternate theories. Alternative says the theory is too obscure and distracting for the main text, favors a footnote that presents differing theories about the authorship.~~

• Talk:New Orleans, Louisiana - Does New Orleans, Louisiana "document a current event" (should it be marked {{flux}})? Is it right to to maintain the page as to what the city was like before everything happened (as stated on the talk page)?
• Talk:Tutankhamun - dispute about the amound of prominence to give a recent (fairly minor) political controversy about a facial reconstruction of Tutankhamun, in the light of the acres of space given to the issue at Afrocentrism. 16:28, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:Bonnie and Clyde Edit war, killing of Bonnie Parker. 01:34, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
• Talk: History of the Internet Dispute over the networks and comunities that lead to the Internet and provided it's cultural background 00:50, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
• Talk: Jewish-Roman wars simple dispute over attempt to clean up this disambiguation page is fully described on talk page 07:05, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
• Talk: Tirat Carmel - I have edited an article on the Israeli town of Tirat Carmel. I added notice to the fact that the modern town was developed on the site of a Palestinian Arab village whose population fled during Israel's War of Independence. I also removed reference to the nearby industrial park of MATAM since it is not within the municipal boundaries of Tirat Carmel but of neighouring Haifa. These changes and a few others apparently violated the sensitivities of the original editor. He reverted the article back to it's original form. Furthermore, he has not answered my call, both on the article talk page and on his personal talk page, that we discuss the issue. I would like to add that in general, the wording he uses in the article paints quite a fantastical picture of Tirat Carmel. Anyone who is not personally acquainted with the town might be impressed that it is a vibrant and important city when in fact it is a dilapidated former development town whose population is on a low socio-economic level. 03:20, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:Pope Pius XII Edit war over the inclusion of one writer's POV of the subject in the introduction as the third sentence of the article. 02:13, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:Criticism of Atatürk Page as it is is unencylopedic. Debate over general content and whether Ataturk should be accused of sanctioning a genocide. 21:33, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
• Template talk:East Asia - the necessity to spell out specifically the legal name of two territories - "special administrative region", or simply "special territories" or "dependent territories" will do. 19:01, August 31, 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:Land of Israel I am afraid one user seems to regard the page as his personal property and won't even acknowledge there is an NPOV dispute - firstly removing content he objected to (I'd argue an NPOV discussion of the use of the term in contemporary Israel - but that's moot) and then repeatedly deleting attempts to flag the article as subject an NPOV dispute
• Talk:Roma people after a lot of discussions on talk, we seem to have reached the following deadlock: [1] -- all changes in that diff are subject to a deadlock between two parties, except for the "group known as Xoraxané" change in that diff which is not under dispute. 9:42, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:William of Orange should the "William of Orange (disambiguation)" be moved to this location, or should it be linked to "William III of England", or be linked to "William of Orange (disambiguation)". A few more participants would help to legitimise the Wikipedia:Requested moves debate on this page. But hurry, only one day left before the end of the process. 08:56, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
• Is Coleshill, Warwickshire part of the West Midlands conurbation? 20:59, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
• Template_talk:North America - What countries make up North America and in the articles of what countries should the template be used. 04:27, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
• Thailand - need attention on the independence from other empire is sense-less. Should somebody quote any source of the Kmehr and Siam are not relevant in any kind of that.
• Template_talk:Mumbai infobox - Debate/dispute going on about what information to include in the Mumbai infobox. Should it list statistics regarding only the municipality (city) of Mumbai proper? or should it also list statistics about the whole metropolitan area of Mumbai? 00:56, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:Timeline standards (section)- What format should the Current events page take after it is archived (as April 2005 for example), particularly regarding sources and evolving and ongoing events. 18:46, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
• Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Montreal/Discussions/Form of former city-current borough names - Should articles about Montreal boroughs that used to be cities be in the form Lachine (as are other boroughs) or the form Lachine, Quebec (as are cities). - Farquard 03:35, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:University of Florida - Should we use the year the University was really established or the "Official" year the University was established.
• Talk:The Bible and history - version A or version 1 15:26, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
• Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Korean)/Disputed names is another attempt to reach a consensus on naming conventions for the body of water variously known as the Sea of Japan, East Sea, or East Sea of Korea. Please note that the current discussion is restricted to naming conventions in Korea-related articles. The name to be used in international or Japanese contexts is not, at present, under discussion (current usage favors "Sea of Japan"). 06:55, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:Missing sun motif and Talk:Missing Sun myth - debate regarding the upper case letters in the title and whether "myth" or "motif" is more appropriate. 2 July 2005 22:55 (UTC)
• Talk:Battle of the Isle of May, should title be the most common name for the incident, or use the correct name for the island? 23:04, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
• Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese)/NPOV/Taiwan vs. ROC & Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese)/NPOV - A vote on the application of Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Chinese)#Political NPOV
• Lincoln/Vote - A vote as to whether Lincoln should redirect to Lincoln (disambiguation).
• Talk:Chinese tickle torture While the article itself is not under attack, there is a user who is posting some pretty serious accusations on the talk page that those who contribute to this article are promoting racism against Chinese people. The user in qeustion topped it off by stating that those who wrote the article must be into BDSM which is a borderline personal attack. Neutral opinions are needed. -Husnock 21:35, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
• Sissy_baby An editor insists on taking editing of article into his own hands. This is an ongoing dispute about the article. Key points are a list of items used and results from a poll the editor insisted on us quoting. The source of the poll is the only one who has made such a poll and the new editor insists that the source is bias even though they've reported their exact results. The new editor has forgotten to list exact arguments to massive deletions in the article before taking actions and when he/she does, leaves little time for any kind of reply. I would like to have a comment as to how the article looks at the time of my posting this and a few comments about the poll being overly bias or not. Thank you. --OrbitOne 08:53, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:Vancouver Skybridge - a dispute over a photo of the bridge, which contains two topless women in it, should be used, cropped or deleted all together. 12:34, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:Montserrat#Rename naming convention to disambiguate mountain and island. --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 19:53, July 25, 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:Prefectures of Greece: more consistent naming/transliteration for Greek prefectures, survey for better names for 8 prefectures. 08:29, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:-cide. Ongoing edit war on whether to include "homocide" as a neologism.
• Talk:Germany#Straw_poll - Long section on German history, vs. a shorter one. Attempt to help settle a long-running revert war, wider input would be appreciated.
• Template talk:Europe#Poll: Which items should be listed? - several polls regarding whether Kazakhstan, Georgia, Armenia, and Akrotiri and Dhekelia should be listed on Template:Europe. Keep scrolling way down to see all items to be voted for. No end date (polls will be closed when consensus is reached).
• Palm Aire, Florida/Talk:Palm Aire, Florida - Census designation misnomer, not actual Palm Aire, should the article be deleted, rewritten, moved? See talk page. 29 June 2005 01:36 (UTC)
• Korean naming convention what order should Sea of Japan and East Sea be used in the articles? We're trying to reach a consensus.
• Talk:Dominion of Melchizedek (Also Malpelo Island, Clipperton Island, Bokak Atoll, Rotuma, Antarctica, Microstate, Dominion, Micronation) - POV over the validity of Dominion of Melchizedek's sovereignty, and claims over numerous small islands in the Pacific plus Antarctica.
• Talk:Fountain Square - There is a dispute over whether to split this article and merge the splits into the respective locality articles. 12:23, August 5, 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:Canaan - Is a commandment to never allow any individual of a certain nation to remain alive incitement to genocide [2] or not [3]? 20:47, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:Edwin_Smith_papyrus POV complaint. A user is altering my entry on the edwin smith papyrus having much ineffective medical practices in it. I offer the below resources in support of the POV tag which he takes down. I did balance my view by my favorable comments on the ancient Egyptian medicine. He took down the full commentary though which is that it had much ineffective practices. I don't appreciate the user trying to change history due to his attempt to support his position in another wikipedia area.
  • Proceedings of the 10th Annual History of Medicine Days, Faculty of the University of Calgary edited by Dr. WA Whitelaw - PDF file
  • The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus
  • MEDICINE - SMITH PAPYRUS - EBERS PAPYRUS
• Talk:Albanians there is dispute over a number of recent additions, and the page has been locked for almost 2 weeks. Outside input is needed in order to help reach a consensus that will hopefully be amenable to both Albanian & Greek sensitivities.00:39, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:Chicago,_Illinois#Chicago_Main_Page_Picture_Vote There is a lack of consensus on which main photo to use for the Chicago, Illinois article. -- 16:44, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
• Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/August 6 how should the anniversary of the Hiroshima bomb be phrased. This isn't really a dispute, but there is only a day and a half to get the wording right, and it could use wider input. -- Solipsist 07:48, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
• Operation Downfall - I don't know what I should do. User:Raul654 and I (Taku) have been keeping reverting each other. The discussion seems dead by now. Not so sure what we can do at this point. -- Taku 00:37, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:9/11 conspiracy theories - The issue is if all conspiracy theories are equal and should be included or if some conspiracy theories are wrongfully sidelined by being included under the same article. --Quasipalm 20:51, 6 September 2005 (UTC)