Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Wikipedia policies and guidelines

The following discussions are requested to have community-wide attention:

Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard

To increase transparency and robustness of the process for classification of sources, increase the review requirement for actions that prevent use of a source. Guy (help!) 17:17, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Template talk:2019–20 coronavirus outbreak data/China medical cases (confirmed)

Should we use the current graph or make visual changes to become a more standard epidemic curve per WP:MEDRS? As we can see in the best current data source (Figure 4). --Almaty (talk) 06:41, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Template talk:Supplement

Should {{Supplement}} be deprecated due to the confusion it causes regarding the level of community acceptance (gives a given essay more weight?). Essays in question thus should use {{Information page}} (the banner template for pages that are more just informational and non-opinionated ) or {{Essay|interprets=}} (the banner template for pages that are more opinionated then instructional or technical) or {{Wikipedia how-to}} (the banner template for pages that are more directly instructional and non-opinionated).

See above for long discussion.

Essays in question...

‎ Essays taged as "supplemental pages‎" (112 P)

Essential reading...

WP:GUIDES - WP:LOCALCONSENSUS - WP:PROPOSAL - WP:PGE
Template:Supplement#History - Template:Supplement#Current usage --Moxy 🍁 08:05, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)

In a recent arbitration case, it came up that our policies use inconsistent language to describe checkuser and oversight blocks, specifically whether a block marked as a checkuser or oversight block "should not" or "must not" be modified by administrators without access to those tools. Without getting too into the weeds on specific rationale (I will add a discussion section) I propose the following changes to the blocking policy and to the local checkuser policy: Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 18:40, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Redirects for discussion

What should be the venue for discussing rcat (WP:Redirect categorization) templates/categories?

This question is prompted by Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2020 January 20#Template:R from meme where this question was raised. I personally think it should be at RfD since the audience at RfD will likely be more experienced with redirect categories making them better at making decisions about them then the audiences at TfD or CfD. While this is quite different from RfDs regular content I still believe that they are the most suitable for handling these template with RfDers generally having experience using them. Both TfD and CfD have a reasonable claim since they are templates and they are used for categorizing pages. I will transclude this section at WT:RFD, WT:TFD and WT:CFD so all interested parties can participate. ‑‑Trialpears (talk) 22:12, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles/RFC on pharmaceutical drug prices

These examples of drug prices for generic pharmaceutical drugs have been taken from the leads of articles. Do you think that this content complies with Wikipedia's standards for verifiability, due weight, no original research, what Wikipedia is not, and how to write a lead section? 23:02, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)

Hi folks. Not to specifically call anyone out, but I have noticed that some editors are wholesale blanking userspace sandboxes of established, but inactive editors, citing guideline WP:STALEDRAFT, #2. This is a bad practice IMO. Not only is it a nuisance for inactive editors for when they return, but also it encourages unhelpful busy work amongst active editors.

So my question is as follows: Is it acceptable to blank userspace sandboxes of long-term/established, but inactive editors? -FASTILY 23:36, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lead section

Should an SPLC classification as a hate group be automatically leadworthy? is the neutrally-worded RFC statement. I've left my nomination explanation below, and I'll notify the relevant places about the discussion (Talk:SPLC, WP:CENT and WP:RSN are the ones that spring to mind). SITH (talk) 22:01, 22 January 2020 (UTC)