Wikipedia:Requests for comment

Ultimately, the content of Wikipedia is determined by making progress toward a community consensus. However, the size of Wikipedia prevents community members from actively following every development. As a result, disputes sometimes arise that could be resolved with additional input from a larger segment of the community.

To request comment on a dispute, link to the page where the discussion should take place. Please add a brief, neutral statement of the issue involved. Do not list arguments for or against any position, or try to assign blame for the dispute. Do not sign entries, just link to the appropriate page.

Place the link in the appropriate section below. Disputes over article content should link to the talk page for the article in question. (If you simply want peer review of an article, then list it at Wikipedia:Peer review instead.) If the dispute involves allegations that a user has engaged in serious violations of Wikipedia policies and guidelines, create a subpage for the dispute. Use the subpage to elaborate on the allegations.

Whatever the nature of the dispute, the first resort should always be to discuss the problem with the other user. Try to resolve the dispute on your own first. For disputes over user conduct, please do not request community comment unless at least two people have contacted the user on his or her talk page (or the talk pages involved in the dispute) and failed to resolve the problem. Do not forget to follow Wikiquette. Items listed on this page may be removed if you fail to try basic methods of dispute resolution.

Article content disputes

Please only list links to talk pages where one or more participants cannot reach consensus and are thus stalling progress on the article.

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Talk:Democratic Underground. Slow-moving attempt to resolve edit war prior to un-protecting page.

Talk:Anti-French sentiment in the United States. Repeated need to add loaded POV terminology to the first paragraph.

User_talk:Wguynes#msg_on_rank_pages. No, not self-promotion link to self, but the issue is a series of pages not just one. Question as to whether a MediaWiki table is relevant to the content or if the existing link to another page would suffice.

Talk:Local Church controversy and Talk:Local churches. Articles have schismed due to falure to compromise, talk pages are still a mess, POV/original research edits are getting put in left and right... this is a chronic and messy edit war, and there's no end in sight.

Talk:Wikipedia - Requesting comments on whether a "Criticism" section should be included in the article.

Talk:Schnorrer - Edit war between two users that refuse to compromise on the inclusion of Karl Schnörrer. Ongoing poll to determine article content.

Talk:Computer software - Edit war between two users who have differing understanding of the definition of software.

Talk:Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2004 - Edit war by a user who imposes a self-proclaimed policy to remove the victims' names and ages. See history.

Talk:Brussels#Neutrality, discrimination - Dispute over discrimination of linguistic communities in and around Brussels.

Talk:Augusto Pinochet - Dispute over how to write the introduction to the article.

Talk:Liancourt Rocks - Dispute on whether alternate name "East Sea of Korea" should be included in article.

Talk:Janez Drnovsek (for both Milan Kucan and Janez Drnovsek) - dispute whether information about the two Slovenian political leaders being sued for alleged war crimes by some Serbian political parties should be included.

Talk:Central Asia and MediaWiki talk:Central Asia - inclusion of Mongolia

Talk:Kosovo and Metohia - issue of whether the article should be under another name

Talk:East Asia and MediaWiki talk:East Asia - inclusion of Vietnam

Talk: Traditional Chinese medicine - Dispute over what is vandalism, and how much this article should accomodate persistent vandalism. Comment requested on reverting to a pre-vandalism version.

Talk:Papua_(disambiguation) and Talk:Papua (Indonesia) - reversion war. One user insists the common English name of "West Papua" is not seen.

Talk:Oil for food - A long edit war. One user insistant that there be a 4:1 ratio of corruption allegations to description of the program itself; two users insistant that as long as the allegations are uninvestigated, that this is completely unreasonable.

Talk:Che Guevara - "Cold" edit war that doesn't need to get hot.

Talk:Peter Lynds - Dispute about description of Lynds (eg. comparison to Einstein) and whether the allegation about Lynds producing the press release himself should be mentioned.

Talk:Islamic views of homosexuality - Speculation about gay marriage in Islam

Talk:Heteronormativity - Dispute over significance, use of the term, and addition of boxes relating to LGBT and critical theory.

Talk:Gay sex - has been redirect more than once, also a candidate for deletion, as is Different-sex sexual practices. See also: Sexual orientation, homosexuality, same-sex marriage, Causes of sexual orientation, Slogan:No one chooses to be gay, Slogan:Homosexuality is a choice, pretty much anything involved with homosexuality, gayness, and straightness. There is dispute over both article titles and content, however there is a newly created: Wikipedia:Naming_conventions#Identity. Some users prefer queer, some gay/lesbian/bisexual, some same-sex and different-sex.

Talk:New Imperialism - Participants not addressing issue of how to merge two competing versions.

Talk:Khmer Rouge - One user disputing the number dead and the qualitative descriptions of the Khmer Rouge.

Talk:Gdansk - What to call the city in English. Input from native English speakers would surely be most appreciated.

Talk:Expulsion of Germans after World War II - there is a long drawn out dispute on a lot of pages concerning common German-Polish history. In the moment of writing, the expulsions seem to be in focus. A presense of fellow wikipedians without own emotional ties is strongly urged for!

Talk:Jerusalem#Capital: the first phrase - Is Jerusalem the capital of Israel, and should this be stated in the first paragraph of the article?

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User conduct disputes

This section is for disputes where a user has allegedly violated Wikipedia policies and guidelines. Disputes over the writing of articles, including disputes over how best to follow the NPOV policy, belong in the Article content disputes section above. To list a user conduct dispute, please create a subpage using the following sample listing as a template (anything within Template:... are notes):

/Example user - Allegations: Template:''one or two'' short sentences giving the dry facts. Do ''not'' sign!

Before listing any user conduct dispute here, at least two people must try to resolve the same issue by talking with the person on his or her talk page or the talk pages involved in the dispute. The two users must document and certify their efforts when listing the dispute. If the listing is not certified within 48 hours of listing, it will be deleted.

Candidate pages - still need to meet the two person threshold
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Approved pages - have met the two person threshold
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/GrazingshipIV Allegations: Repeated slander, personal attacks, misuse of user name space

/TDC - Allegations: Personal attacks, violation of NPOV policy, refusal to provide sources

/Andrew Zito - Allegations: Repeatedly adding self references to articles, especially on Deism, engaging in personal attacks with strong profanity, creating vanity articles about himself

/Kenneth Alan Allegations: pattern of questionable edits followed by ad hominem attacks on multiple pages

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Admin conduct disputes

Discussions regarding the use of sysop rights by Wikipedia:Administrators should be listed on Wikipedia:Requests for review of admin actions. Please note that this applies only to disputes that specifically relate to the use of admin privileges. If the dispute is over an admin's actions as an editor, it should be listed under the User conduct disputes section above.

Convention disputes

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MediaWiki talk:Europe - Which dependencies should be in the box? Should dependencies be linked to dependent areas? Which countries should be included? Should there be a flag?

After much debate on the subject, Hyacinth suggested creating clear guidelines for writing and placing boxes in Talk:Heteronormativity, which is a good idea, in my opinion. Here, therefore, my attempt can be found: User:AlexR/Article series boxes. Maybe that could move the debate somewhat forward.

Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions and Lists of pieces - Lists of pieces has a format borrowed from Lists of solo piano pieces, which lists pages by composer, style or period, and nationality or culture. Now a list of pages itself and every alphabetical page clearly violates the "Do not use an article name that suggests a hierarchy of articles" convention, example: List of solo piano pieces by composer: G. Do we add lists such as this as an exception to that convention or make the "lists" one list instead of many?

Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style for Japan-related articles - dispute over the inclusion of multiple romanizations in the opening paragraph of articles on Japanese subjects.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/Footer dispute - dispute over enforcing/developing standard features of a specific WikiProject.

Wikipedia talk:How to revert a page to an earlier version#What is a day? - Should the 3-revert limit apply to a UTC day, 24-hour window, or some other time period?

Wikipedia talk:MediaWiki namespace - What format to use for custom messages.

Talk:2003 North America blackout and Talk:2003 U.S.-Canada blackout - Which name to use for this subject.

Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (places)#Disputed place names - advice needed - Three separate categories to address:

Former Yugoslavia, especially Kosovo.
Transliterations from Russian.
Places that have changed between Czech, German, and Polish influence. (See also Talk:Nicolaus Copernicus as to the astronomer's nationality)

Wikipedia talk:Page footers - Use of MediaWiki namespace to create page footers for various purposes.

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Other

/Homegrown images -- What quality should images be to be included in an article?