Wikipedia:WikiProject Democracy

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Welcome to WikiProject Democracy! This project aims at improving Wikipedia by helping the democratic structures within the Wikipedia movement by:

making them more visible
making the participation in votings, elections and centralized discussions easier by providing and spreading links
building a forum for and community of contributors who like the idea of democratic Wiki collaboration/cooperation.

You are very welcome to participate!

Centralized discussion

Proposals: policy	other	Discussions	Ideas
A request for adminship is open for discussion. RfC: Recent policy changes about verifiability as a reason for inclusion RfC: Adopting a gender neutral default for policy, guidelines and help pages RfC: Linking to details regarding the offline Medical Wikipedia app RFC on the proposed policy update on cosmetic edits done by bots Wikimedia Movement 15 year strategy discussion Merging "Infobox single" and "Infobox song" Combining AfC reviewers and new page reviewers For a listing of ongoing discussions, see the dashboard.
archive talk edit history watch purge

Elections, votings and centralised discussions[edit]

Deletion discussions
Deletion today Undeletion Deletion review Deletion log Request a copy of a deleted article
Articles
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Templates
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Files
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Categories
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Redirects
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Miscellany
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Speedy deletion
candidates
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all books BLPs
Policy Process Guide Administrator guidelines
v t e

Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a democracy – an often misunderstood and misused guideline developed from the initial thoughts by David Gerard and Jimmy Wales that Wikipedia was not primarily an experiment in Internet democracy.

v t e Noticeboards

Wikipedia's centralized discussion, request, and help venues. For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see the dashboard.

General	Administrators main incidents Bot owners Bureaucrats Closure Education main incidents Main Page errors Open proxies OTRS Oversight User permissions

Articles and content	Biographies of living persons Copyrights questions on media problems Dispute resolution External links Fringe theories Neutral point of view Original research Reliable sources Resource requests Spam blacklist whitelist Scalable vector graphics Titleblacklist Translation

Page handling	History merges Mergers Moves Protection Importing pages XfD Articles Redirects Categories Templates Files Miscellany Undeletion

User conduct	Long-term abuse Conflict of interest Contributor copyright Edit warring and 3RR Sanctions Personal sanctions General sanctions New pages patrollers Paid editing Sockpuppets Usernames Vandalism

Other	Arbitration Committee noticeboard requests enforcement Edit filters requested Mediation Questions Editor assistance Help desk Teahouse Reference desk New articles Requests for comment Special services Village pump ideas policy proposals technical miscellaneous WikiProject proposals

Category:Wikipedia noticeboards

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ElGatoSaez | Meow me 21:20, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 11:21, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
Lionel Scheepmans ^{✉ Contact} _{(French native speaker)} 23:29, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
Adamw (talk) 08:53, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
Joymenezes (talk) 8:36, 28 March 2016 (IST)

This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians.