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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:Neoconservatism (United States) - I am trying to avoid edit war with an anon user on 2 issues: I'm not the author of the content being overridden, but would like to resolve by discussion and sourcing, not edit wars. (1) Whether it is appropriate to keep "pro-war" in the lead paragraph. (2) Disagreement about how this anon user describes April Glaspie's interaction with Saddam Hussein (presumably referring to the July 25, 1990 interview, but in my opinion misleadingly so). -- Jmabel
  • Talk:Viking - On etymology: Whether we should follow the dictionary or someone's personal theories.
  • 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.
  • Talk:WWJD - how to present variations and parodies of the phrase.
  • Talk:Al Gore - extensive paraphrasing and borrowing from Gore campaign materials.
  • Talk:Daniel Wright - dispute consists of one dynamic anonymous IP using guerilla warfare to get this page deleted even though consensus on VfD is to keep, and everyone else with far better things to do than to keep reverting the general vandalism and abuse posted by this user.
  • Talk:Patch_(computing) - the current version seems unclear and unfocused, presumablely due to it is written by a non-native speakers (that is, Taku). The question is if it is worth rewriting.
  • Talk:Zviad Gamsakhurdia - A version conflict between ChrisO, Maveric149, RickK, Tannin and Wik on one side and Levzur on the other. Article has already been protected and unprotected but conflict has resumed nonetheless. Please look at the different versions and the previous discussion on the talk page and comment.

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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):

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 removed.

Candidate pages - still need to meet the two person threshold
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  • /Wik Request to re-open case: continued revert wars, rude behaviour despite earlier arbitration.
  • /172 Allegations of incivility, edit wars (the status of this listing is disputed).

Approved pages - have met the two person threshold
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  • /Igor Accusations: presenting biased opinion as fact, engaging in constant reverting thereafter...

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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.

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Convention disputes

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  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)

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