Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Wikipedia policies and guidelines
The following discussions are requested to have community-wide attention:
| The claim that Laksa originated only from Malaysia can be traced back to the September 21, 2009 claim by then Malaysian Minister of Tourism Ng Yen Yen's attempt to brand those foods as of Malaysian origin. The most recent update to the issue was the public statement on September 23, 2009 that the minister claimed that she wanted to do a study to verify that claim, but up to the point that she stepped down from her post in 2013, that study still has not been made, or at least the results were not published[1]. Recently an editor has been pushing Ng's claim by removing other countries [2] and reverting information/context about the case [3], even claiming that no relevant source had been provided to show that there Malaysia is not the sole claimant of origin for the dish. [4]. Hope to get more eyes on this. Zhanzhao (talk) 06:34, 12 January 2016 (UTC) |
Wikipedia talk:Identifying reliable sources (medicine)
| Previously, we had an RfC which asked,
Should we change MEDRS, which currently reads:
and the result of that RfC was, Yes. The full result can be read here. In that close, the closer, Elvey made these points:
Implementing the plain language resulting from that RfC has, however, created more edit warring. There have been concerns that unreliable sources will make their way onto Wikipedia, but those concerns were already heard in the original RfC. Still, adding language to ensure that unreliable sources do not find their way onto Wikipedia may be necessary. Or it may not. This RfC seeks to resolve that by asking, based on the closer's 5 points, what version does it best? Of the versions that address all five points, these are proposed:
Both of these options meet all five points, but I also ask the community for additional options that meet the five criteria outlined above and found in the original close. Please vote #1, #2 or an altogether different option below. LesVegas (talk) 18:49, 11 January 2016 (UTC) |
| This article used to have a heading "Support for climate change denialism" which was removed or changed in this extensive edit. Should a heading called "Support for climate change denialism" be restored in the article?
Note that there has been discussion of this issue with involved editors above on this talk page. Note also that we're not looking so much for votes here, as for in-depth comments on the content issues, and possible proposals of how the content should read. The RfC is posed as a question, but we welcome comments and new ideas as per the above section. |
| If a file is up for FFD re-deleting and re-flagging?--Elvey(t•c) 01:51, 10 January 2016 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
| Please share your thoughts on two RfCs regarding updates to the edit filter guideline and enabling the extension's blocking ability. Sam Walton (talk) 18:13, 9 January 2016 (UTC) |
Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Images
| I've gone ahead and expanded this discussion to WP:RfC input, since the discussion below, this, this and the related discussion at Talk:Woman indicate that wider input is needed. My commentary below is the older commentary. The RfC concerns whether or not to expand the guideline that was formed via this discussion to cover all topics about large human populations. Some editors also wonder whether the guideline should only focus on lead images. I will alert the WP:Image use policy talk page and WP:Village pump (policy) to this discussion. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 23:45, 8 January 2016 (UTC) |
| 2601:140:4100:A517:7008:2327:A031:1279 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) responded to my request to add sources to his additions by citing Boi's website. Is this an acceptable source in this instance? --Newbiepedian (Hailing Frequencies) 23:01, 6 January 2016 (UTC) |
| Making the Privacy Policy link more prominent on our main page.Nocturnalnow (talk) 03:30, 6 January 2016 (UTC) |
| Can descriptions of certain countries' laws or policies, carried by generalist publications such as newspapers, which do not describe such practices as ethnocracy (or even mention ethnocracy), be included in the specific sections related to those countries, or does this violate WP:SYNTH? When Other Legends Are Forgotten (talk) 06:35, 1 January 2016 (UTC) |
| ITN is occasionally dominated by news of a single type, which is a consequence of several newsworthy items of that type happening at the same time. Should ITN have in-built controls against this happening?
Example: if five countries have elections at the same time and all the articles are updated, ITN may wind up featuring all five elections at the same time. Since there is only so much space, this means ITN becomes politics-dominated. Under the status quo, we live with this until such time as more news items are nominated and posted. Option 1: Yes. A single news type dominating ITN is a problem. |
| Was any policy violated by the IP-User and if so did it justify a block? Checkuser proofs no edits have been made from a registred account the by IP-user, as no registered accounts actually excist. The checkuser log shows failed registration attempts, but those did not pass the profanity test and have not been registerd. This can be confirmed by visiting the userpages User:PoopKopf, User:Scheiße Kopf and User:Poep Temp. Since regular users can not view the checkuser log, examinaning what is filtered out and what is not, can not be considered WP:POINT. The accounts do not excist. The IP-user has never made any edits while logged in to an account, neither did he ever log in. I'm asking this question because the selective reading of moderators involved make it very hard to understand this. Note that that I am no longer blocked. 143.176.216.29 (talk) 23:29, 20 December 2015 (UTC) |
Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee
At Wikipedia:Arbitration/Policy#Appeal of decisions, it is stated that:
This RfC seeks the community's opinion on the following question:
Jimbo Wales's additional ceremonial role in appointing the members of the Committee is not within the scope of this question. — Scott • talk 13:42, 19 December 2015 (UTC) |
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