Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations

The following is a brief overview of the current discussions on the English Wikipedia.

Article Feedback Guidelines

Currently there is no formally adopted guideline that exists for editors that work with the Article Feedback program. A draft of the guideline is currently in the works.

Authority control identifiers

A proposal to extend the use of authority control identifiers to a large number of articles.

Global ban discussion

As mentioned in the previous Discussion report, the community is still trying to work on the details of the global ban policy regarding problematic editors.

Purpose of the Community portal

A recent discussion about the purpose of the Community Portal was started by Maryana, a Wikimedia Foundation employee. Is this page for new users to be educated about the community or is it for experienced users to find updates about the community?

New suppressredirect userright

The suppressredirect permission has the ability to not make a redirect when moving an article. Discussion has opened up to see if this should be a new userright for editors.

X on Twitter articles

Recent articles such as Lady Gaga on Twitter and Justin Bieber on Twitter are drawing controversy about whether they are appropriate for Wikipedia. This also leads to the discussion of future X on Y articles for other internet properties.

Updating level-one user warnings

With a view to retaining new editors, a study is looking at how warnings are affecting users—in particular, whether the warning bites the newcomer or reminds the user of the rules.

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• Great list of discussions! Another one that could be included is the RfC on level one user warnings. The research behind it was the subject of a presentation at Wikimania. -- Lord Roem (talk) 01:30, 17 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Add the discussion about the AFT5 guidelines currently being proposed, or I'll be bold. --J (t) 14:14, 17 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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