Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Project-wide topics
The following discussions related to project-wide topics are requested to have community-wide attention: ()
Wikipedia style and naming[edit]
| At least as far as I've noticed, when including a place of birth in an article's infobox, it's the general practice on Wikipedia to use historical place names. Sometimes the modern-day country is included, as with Mikhail Gorbachev or Mila Kunis. With Kaja Kallas being featured on the main page, it came to my attention that many articles for people born in what's now Estonia (and possibly other states) do not adhere to this practice. It appears that, due to Estonia having been on the receiving end of Russian imperialism for the last few hundred years and the idea of state continuity of the Baltic states, opinions on whether to list Estonia or Estonian SSR as someone's place of birth often reflect the politics of the editors involved.
Personally, I think the de facto recognition of the Soviet administration by most paired with other factors like the monopoly on the legal use of force make linking to the SSR articles the sensible thing to do. Additionally, I believe the articles on the Baltic SSRs do a sufficiently good job of addressing questions about their legitimacy. In any case, I think it would be helpful to solicit comments and see if we can maybe get some kind of consensus here. Rockhead126 (talk) 23:00, 7 March 2023 (UTC) |
Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biography
| To bring WP:POSTNOM in better agreement with MOS:BIOFIRSTSENTENCE, I propose that this policy be altered to specifically omit post-nominal letters from lead sentences.
Per our guideline on biographical opening paragraphs, "the opening paragraph of a biographical article should neutrally describe the person, provide context, establish notability and explain why the person is notable, and reflect the balance of reliable sources." Post-nominal letters, many of which are unknown to laypeople, do not do any of those things. If anything, they actually delay a reader from getting to the part of the opening sentence that describes a person's notability. Instead, WP:POSTNOM would advise that post-nominals be placed in the body of the article. If needed, the exact wording of this revised section will be determined after this RfC concludes. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 04:22, 4 March 2023 (UTC) |
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scotland
| There are 149 articles on Wikipedia using the phrase "was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter" with the surrounding context explaining that it was the letter in the Guardian opposing Scottish Independence from August 2014. Should this be included in articles as is? TartarTorte 13:50, 15 February 2023 (UTC) |
Wikipedia policies and guidelines[edit]
Template talk:Infobox military conflict
| That use of "supported by" in Template:Infobox military conflict and related templates be deprecated. Cinderella157 (talk) 11:28, 14 March 2023 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard
| Should the community encourage or require GENSEX cases to be brought at AE, or make no change? 18:26, 4 March 2023 (UTC) |
Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (conflicts and protests)
| Should this policy proposal become a formal naming convention? --- Tbf69 P • T 17:25, 4 March 2023 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
Currently, WP:UDP says:
However, there is some debate due to the vagueness of what
However, as Uanfala has mentioned on the talk, this provision was boldly added by a now-banned user, and the archives are fairly divided to find any hard consensus. Notably, G5 is not currently listed, but several admins have echoed that they refuse to restore material by banned or blocked editors per WP:BMB as a means to enforce bans and dissuade the user from returning. However, other editors advocate that WP:BANREVERT states there is no hard rule to delete potentially useful content, although you are allowed to. This means there is no settled precedent for either supporting and opposing such requests, and it is entirely up to the reviewing administrator to refuse such a request purely based on their outlook of how material added by banned users should be treated. Thus, I think a centralized discussion regarding this would be the best idea going forward. So as a repeat from the top, can good faith editors appeal to move deleted material from a CSD to a draft or their userspace to work on? (This assumes that there are no other issues with the pages and, in the case of G5, the requesting editor is not affiliated with the banned page creator unless they satisfy WP:PROXYING). And if so, do administrators use their personal best judgment or concede (in most cases) to allow for community-consensus discussion such as WP:AFD and WP:DRV? Why? I Ask (talk) 22:21, 2 March 2023 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
| Should WP:RMCI be formally elevated to the official status of a WP:GUIDELINE? 23:15, 22 February 2023 (UTC) |
Talk:Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
Should we categorize the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism under:
TheTranarchist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 20:25, 22 February 2023 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:WikiProject Weather/New Weather Infobox
| It has been brought to our attention that our infoboxes do not follow the standard practices of Wikipedia and thus a replacement has been devised that addresses the concerns raised. The current infoboxes lack padding and have multiple colored bars at the top, which is inconsistent with how other infoboxes are displayed. Another issue is that our infoboxes involve a complex coding array that makes it difficult to edit and add new features. Some features within these infoboxes are outdated and should be replaced by newer ones. Additionally, we had to remove links to scales within the colored bars on the tropical cyclone infobox because they violated WP:ACCESS due to lack of contrast with the background; the lack of a link to the scales is a disservice to our readers. The proposed infobox, Template:Infobox weather event, includes the addition of padding, has the colored bars (Category of a storm/event) with their respective data (consistency with other infoboxes), contains new features and some existing ones have been updated, and is much easier to edit since it's modular (each scale has its own subtemplate) rather than several different scales and events lumped into one template with if statements. Please see that template for its usage and display. Please see Template:Infobox storm, Template:Infobox tropical cyclone, and Template:Infobox flood for their displays and usages. NoahTalk 20:42, 15 February 2023 (UTC) |
WikiProjects and collaborations[edit]
Template talk:WikiProject Jewish history
| Should the to-do list remain in the template? TartarTorte 14:21, 8 March 2023 (UTC) |
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Television
| Hello, everyone, I am proposing that we expand the scope of WikiProject Television to create several task forces for streaming services like that of Netflix, Amazon, Apple Plus, HBO, and Hulu. These are the ones off the top of my head that I think that is useful since there are hundreds or nearly thousands of articles related to these services about the programming alone. Netflix should be a given considering we have several Netflix navboxes for the exact purpose of linking shows among other articles which have gotten extreme large just to link them all together. And the fact of scope for Netflix is probably the largest of the services put together.
We should be in contact with the Film project since these companies also produce films, not just TV shows. But we have more articles for television shows than films. And the task forces should have the parameters with the project banners and have the ability to list the importance of the articles from top to low for these services. As of right now, there are only five task forces for networks, BBC, Cartoon Network, ITC Productions, and Nickelodeon. Although, both ITC and Nick are tagged as inactive. Disney doesn't need one since there is already a Disney WikiProject that covers the streaming-related articles for them. Regarding naming, it should be simple such as the following:
Look to seeing everyone's thoughts and ideas on this. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 23:41, 5 March 2023 (UTC) |
Wikipedia technical issues and templates[edit]
Template talk:Infobox Indian state or territory
| This template Template:Infobox Indian state or territory was created to replace the Template:Infobox settlement in all the articles of Category:States and union territories of India.
An editor Tojoroy20 doesn't want the existence of the parameters "image_skyline", "imagesize", "image_alt" and "image_caption" in this template. Tojoroy assumes that those parameters aren't useful enough. On the other hand, Haoreima wants the existence of these parameters. According to Haoreima, before the creation of this particular template, all the articles on Category:States and union territories of India, used the Template:Infobox settlement, and all those articles utilize those particular parameters (whose existence is currently in conflict between these 2 editors), thereby considering it is logically reasonable to put them in the new template (this template) also, which is going to serve all those very articles. Wikipedians are welcome to comment whether to remove them or not. --Haoreima (talk) 12:33, 15 March 2023 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:WikiProject Weather/New Weather Infobox
| It has been brought to our attention that our infoboxes do not follow the standard practices of Wikipedia and thus a replacement has been devised that addresses the concerns raised. The current infoboxes lack padding and have multiple colored bars at the top, which is inconsistent with how other infoboxes are displayed. Another issue is that our infoboxes involve a complex coding array that makes it difficult to edit and add new features. Some features within these infoboxes are outdated and should be replaced by newer ones. Additionally, we had to remove links to scales within the colored bars on the tropical cyclone infobox because they violated WP:ACCESS due to lack of contrast with the background; the lack of a link to the scales is a disservice to our readers. The proposed infobox, Template:Infobox weather event, includes the addition of padding, has the colored bars (Category of a storm/event) with their respective data (consistency with other infoboxes), contains new features and some existing ones have been updated, and is much easier to edit since it's modular (each scale has its own subtemplate) rather than several different scales and events lumped into one template with if statements. Please see that template for its usage and display. Please see Template:Infobox storm, Template:Infobox tropical cyclone, and Template:Infobox flood for their displays and usages. NoahTalk 20:42, 15 February 2023 (UTC) |
Wikipedia proposals[edit]
Template talk:Infobox military conflict
| That use of "supported by" in Template:Infobox military conflict and related templates be deprecated. Cinderella157 (talk) 11:28, 14 March 2023 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)
| Should the following biographical microstubs, which were mass-created by Lugnuts and cover non-medalling Olympians who competed between 1896 and 1912, be moved out of article space? 08:15, 2 March 2023 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard
Which of the following best describes the reliability of Indian news website The Wire (direct url)?
— Red-tailed hawk (nest) 02:02, 18 February 2023 (UTC) |