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

• Talk:George W. Bush - (relisted; another request for comment regarding this article is below) Some contributors want to include unflattering, but true, facts about Bush-- in particular, his controversial March 24, 2004 WMD comedy routine and his 1988 "Pussy" comment. Others consider the inclusion of said facts to violate the NPOV.

• MediaWiki talk:Europe - Which countries should be included? Should there be a flag?

• 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: Holocaust denial - Dispute over whether or not the article is NPOV. Commentary is requested to avert an edit war.

• Talk:Papua_(disambiguation) - 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.

The problem is being cared for at the talk page, there is a mediator. (Am I supposed to sign here? Why does no one else?) Get-back-world-respect 19:38, 3 May 2004 (UTC)

• 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:Papua (Indonesia) - Edit war

• 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:Andreas Schlüter - Revert war over whether to say Schluter was born in Danzig, or Danzig (Gdansk).

• Talk:St. Louis Blues - Should the new St. Louis Blues (hockey) be moved back to original St. Louis Blues for consistency and fairness with all National Hockey League teams?

• Talk:Genital mutilation - debate over whether the word "mutilation" can be used neutrally and whether the page should be at Genital mutilation or Genital modification. Talk is at Talk:Genital modification due to a problem during a page move.

• Talk:David Rohl - Discussion of some disputed Egyptological theories.

• 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:Subject-object problem - User:24.45.99.191 (Paul Vogel) is edit warring over the inclusion of some content in the first paragraph. Attempts at a compromise have been made and rejected by him. Discussion is proving extremely difficult.

• Talk:Augusto Pinochet - is a perceived "admission" by Powell of U.S. responsibility for the coup relevant to mention?

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

• Talk:Khmer Rouge - Whether people seeking to paint the Communist Party of Kampuchea (which they call the Khmer Rouge) in a bad light are doing so by facts, or just throwing mud.

• Talk:Cycle - Whether to call the article cycle or cycles. Also, whether a large section of links is appropriate.

• 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:George W. Bush, also at Talk:John Kerry. Anti-Bush editors are relentlessly making small edits (many anonymously) to keep the article negative POV, especially as compared to Kerry article. Please review articles and comments in Talk for the issues.

Repeated inclusion of "Bushisms" or "fingernail scrapes" are cared for by many users from both sides of the political spectrum, I see no need to worry. Get-back-world-respect 19:38, 3 May 2004 (UTC)

• Talk:Scientific skepticism - presentation of critical views on scientific skepticism.

• Talk:Al Gore - extensive paraphrasing and borrowing from Gore campaign materials.

• Talk:Tibet#Tibet v. TAR - how should this be split or be split at all?

• Talk:Jerusalem#Capital: the first phrase - Is Jerusalem the capital of Israel, and should this be stated in the first paragraph of the article? Ongoing dispute between Wik, uriber, and others.

• Talk:Patch_(computing) - the current version seems unclear and unfocused, currently being rewritten.

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

• /RK - Allegations: excessive reverting, engaging in personal attacks, vandalism

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

• /FoxNews - inappropriate username - here per wikipedia:blocking policy#usernames

• /Nico - Allegations of incivility, edit wars.

• /141 Repeat vandalism.

• /Everyone using a username which is against policy - Updated April 6 - please vote

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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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• 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:

1. Former Yugoslavia, especially Kosovo.
2. Transliterations from Russian.
3. 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

• Creation of PDF-Files from a list of WP articles.
  You can test the script at http://wiki.auf-trag.de/
  Source code via CVS: http://sf.net/projects/wikipdf
  Comments to the German page: [1] or to my talk page

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

• /Kitchen sink -- general commentary on the current chaos.

• Wikipedia: Duplicate articles - is the box for related pages needed?

• Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Mathematics - should we have side boxes for math-related articles?

• Wikipedia_talk:Mediation - Please comment on proposed additions to the Wikipedia:Mediation project page.