Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations
The following is a brief overview of discussions taking place on the English Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.
Policy
New! Request for comment: How should "Wikipedia is not plot" be worded? Should it be a policy, guideline, or essay?
New! Discussion: Should the notability guideline for pornographic actors be rolled back?
- Request for comment: Self electing groups: Should "unofficial" electable groups of Wikipedians be allowed?
- Request for comment: Paid editing: How should paid editing be handled? Is it perfectly allowed? Or is it a blockable action? Something in the middle? (See related story)
Style
New! Request for comment: How should the Macedonia naming conflict be resolved?
- Request for comment: Full-date unlinking bot: Should a bot be allowed to unlink dates under this proposal? Specifically, unlinking only full dates with day, month, and year information, and not editing the same page twice to do so in case the edit is reverted? So far the community seems supportive of this proposal.
- Request for comment: Should the relatively new template, {{italic title}}, be used to italicize names? If so, what articles should it be used for?
Technical
New! Request for comment: Should Google be allowed to include Wikipedia user pages in their search results?
Open bot requests for approval
This is a list of current bot requests for approval, with brief descriptions of the proposed tasks. See this week's technology report for information on recently-approved bots.
- AnomieBOT 31: To move {{translated page}} from articles to talk pages.
New! BOTijo 2 (again): Confirmation of community's support requested on bot's creation of large numbers of redirects from other capitalizations.
New! Chris G Bot 7: To fix external links to the IUCN Red List.
- Coreva-Bot 2: To add maintenance tags to articles.
- CSDCheckBot: To notify users who tagged an article for speedy deletion if that article was not deleted or deleted under a different criteria from what they selected.
New! EarwigBot I 3: To tag articles that are members of WikiProject United States presidential elections with the project's banner.
New! EarwigBot III: To update statistics related to articles for creation.
- Erwin85Bot 8: To notify major article contributors when an article is nominated for deletion.
New! JCbot 2: To deliver newsletters for Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of knowledge
- NKbot 2: To delete pages in Category:Temporary Wikipedian userpages.
- NNBot II: To enforce rules regarding the removal of speedy deletion templates.
New! Numbo3-bot 3: To update Template:Linked on Google News.
- OgreBot: To update sports scores on a regular basis.
- SPCUClerkbot 3: To modify all existing checkuser/sockpuppet related templates to one single template: {{sockpuppet}} with correctly named parameters.
- UnitBot: To fix articles that describe unit conversion to "a ridiculous degree of precision"
Other
New! Discussion: For the Wikimedia Foundation's 2009 fundraising effort, should a button saying something like "Donate now" or "Support Wikipedia" be added to the sidebar?
Open requests for adminship
The following requests for adminship are currently open (numbers indicate support/oppose/neutral voting, and are updated every half hour):
New! Ceranthor 2: Final, (54/27/6), closed at 12:11, 1 July 2009 (UTC) by PeterSymonds
New! decltype: Final: 73/5/3, ended 12:19, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
New! LouriePieterse: Final: (16/29/3); closed by User:Kingturtle as unsuccessful at 20:04, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
New! Mlaffs: Final (73/3/1) Closed 21:14, 1 July 2009 (UTC) by Avi
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