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An Important Question

Sorry to ask here, but I'm wondering how do you solve difference between many English dialects(American, British, Indian, Australian, etc)? I mean how do you choose between color or colour? Do we have any rule in wikipedia? Arjanizary (talk) 19:16, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

@Arjanizary: You can read about this at Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English. Roughly: there is no consistency across the encyclopedia as a whole, but each article should use one English dialect. -- John of Reading (talk) 19:50, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

RfC: Add three blocks to the "help out" section

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There is true consensus for the changes as no one opposes. AlbinoFerret 18:59, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

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I propose adding "Create these articles" (which {{Recent changes article requests}} will be transcluded to it), "Represent a worldwide view" and "Add historical information" to the Community Portal's "help out" section, since in English Wikipedia there are still plenty of uncreated notable articles and articles requiring globalization or historical information, and these issues are no less important than articles requiring update. By the way, this section used to have the block "Create" (I forgot its exact name, but I know that it refers to the block listing some uncreated notable articles). Do you support this?--RekishiEJ (talk) 04:16, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Support

1. Support As nom. RekishiEJ (talk) 04:16, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
2. Support Worth a try as per previous discussion. Gizza ^(t)(c) 22:16, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

Oppose

Discussion

1. I had made this proposal three times before (see Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_104#About_community_portal, Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_114#About_the_community_portal and Wikipedia_talk:Community_portal/Archive_17#Add_three_blocks_to_the_"help_out"_section), but all failed, which is a pity.--RekishiEJ (talk) 04:16, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 21 November 2015

Add a transclusion of {{Project missing articles}} as well as {{Active Wiki Fixup Projects}} 103.6.159.75 (talk) 13:52, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit semi-protected}} template. Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 09:52, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Why not call a cat a cat?

I don't understand why editors who revert posts that are clearly vandalism do not say why they revert. All too often, editors will either say nothing, or says something like "revert unsourced change to content". The vandal has a good laugh and those of us who have that page on their watchlist waste their time.--Lubiesque (talk) 17:28, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

@Lubiesque: This won't really solve the problem, but in case you don't already know of it, Writ Keeper's inlineDiffDocs userscript lets one inspect diffs directly from the Watchlist/History/Contribs page. It's quicker than going to the page and back. benzband (talk) 14:16, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Piero da Rimini and Pietro da Rimini

Piero da Rimini is the same people that Pietro da Rimini--Adri08 (talk) 14:05, 5 January 2016 (UTC)