Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Project-wide topics

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Wikipedia style and naming

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Talk:Saddam Hussein

Which image should be used for the infobox of the article? 𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨 Abo Yemen (𓃵) 15:36, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters

RFCBEFORE: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters#It is time we talked about Google Ngram

Discussion at RSN: Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#Google N-grams and 'consistent' answers

Should Google Ngram be deprecated in rename/move discussions?

• Yes
• No

@Cinderella157, Dicklyon, Sammy D III, Myceteae, Gawaon, Andy Dingley, Intothatdarkness, SchreiberBike, Hawkeye7, Blueboar, Rally Wonk, Stepwise Continuous Dysfunction, FactOrOpinion, NatGertler, Yesterday, all my dreams..., Randy Kryn, Chicdat, AjaxSmack, SMcCandlish, and Kowal2701: Pinging participants in the MOS:CAPS discussion, the RSN discussion, and those who might be interested in this RfC. I also left an rfc notice at Village Pump (policy), WikiProject English Language, WP:NCCAPS. If I forgot someone, I am terribly sorry. TurboSuperA+_(connect) 13:58, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

Talk:Birbhum district

This RfC seeks to establish clear inclusion criteria for the "Notable People" list, following a dispute over recent large-scale additions of individuals with primarily local careers. Murkut23 (talk) 18:24, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters

Should the spirit and intent of usually capitalized in sources at MOS:MILTERMS be taken as consistent with the general advice on capitalisation given in the lead of MOS:CAPS or is the spirit and intent to create a substantially different and lower threshold for capitalising the types of events named.

Cinderella157 (talk) 03:41, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia policies and guidelines

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Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters

RFCBEFORE: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters#It is time we talked about Google Ngram

Discussion at RSN: Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#Google N-grams and 'consistent' answers

Should Google Ngram be deprecated in rename/move discussions?

• Yes
• No

@Cinderella157, Dicklyon, Sammy D III, Myceteae, Gawaon, Andy Dingley, Intothatdarkness, SchreiberBike, Hawkeye7, Blueboar, Rally Wonk, Stepwise Continuous Dysfunction, FactOrOpinion, NatGertler, Yesterday, all my dreams..., Randy Kryn, Chicdat, AjaxSmack, SMcCandlish, and Kowal2701: Pinging participants in the MOS:CAPS discussion, the RSN discussion, and those who might be interested in this RfC. I also left an rfc notice at Village Pump (policy), WikiProject English Language, WP:NCCAPS. If I forgot someone, I am terribly sorry. TurboSuperA+_(connect) 13:58, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Featured article criteria

Should understandability be added to the featured article criteria? And if so, which wording should be used?

1. It should be added to the well-written criterion as
   1. well-written: its prose is engaging, understandable to a broad audience, and of a professional standard;
   2. well-written: its prose is engaging, understandable to its audience, and of a professional standard;
2. It should be a separate criterion: 1g. Understandable to its audience.
3. Status quo: no explicit mention

—Femke 🐦 (talk) 11:45, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

Talk:Birbhum district

This RfC seeks to establish clear inclusion criteria for the "Notable People" list, following a dispute over recent large-scale additions of individuals with primarily local careers. Murkut23 (talk) 18:24, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters

Should the spirit and intent of usually capitalized in sources at MOS:MILTERMS be taken as consistent with the general advice on capitalisation given in the lead of MOS:CAPS or is the spirit and intent to create a substantially different and lower threshold for capitalising the types of events named.

Cinderella157 (talk) 03:41, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Military history

In relation to current discussions on Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2025 May 21, should WP:CAMPAIGN be changed to allow such campaign boxes such as Template:Campaignbox Portuguese colonial campaigns as opposed to being restricted to "battles in a particular campaign, front, theater or war"? Setergh (talk) 20:32, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Military history

Should the result parameter allow bullet points as opposed to simply "X victory" or "Inconclusive"? Setergh (talk) 20:30, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

WikiProjects and collaborations

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Wikipedia technical issues and templates

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Template talk:Lee Jae-myung series

I'm starting this RfC after a dispute came to the suggestion to start an RfC on whether to convert Lee Jae-myung's and other former South Korean presidents' series sidebars to navboxes for the bottom of articles. This is primarily dealing with interpretation of MOS:SANDWICH, which says that one should avoid sandwiching text horizontally between two images, or between an image and an infobox, navigation template, etc. For the dispute of concern, see Template talk:Lee Jae-myung series#Convert to navbox for bottom, which also got a third opinion. As of this RfC being started, the presidential seal and signature have been removed from the template, and an attempt to restore them was reverted.

1. Keep: Keep the series sidebars unchanged.
2. Remove images: Remove the presidential seal and signature found on the bottom of series sidebars.
3. Convert to navbox: Convert to a navbox for the bottom of related articles.

Kaito-san (talk/contribs) 20:41, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

Talk:Main Page

On behalf of Minilammas in the above discussion I'd like to propose an RFC on removing the main page's restriction on interlanguage links. This would permit readers to use the language dropdown menu's search box to find Wikipedias in any language. Note that this proposal does not affect the links advertised in the Wikipedia languages section of the main page, which will continue to be handled by {{Wikipedia languages}}.

Editors are encouraged to visit for an example of this implementation. Dan Leonard (talk • contribs) 18:27, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia proposals

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Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Temporary account IP-viewer

The WMF is removing public access to IP addresses and replacing them with temporary accounts. (This will not affect visibility of IP addresses or edits from before implementation.) Temporary accounts are tied to browser cookies, which are set to expire three months from the first edit. This means that they will be different across web browsers and devices. The WMF has determined that temporary accounts are necessary to protect user privacy and comply with legal requirements, while maintaining the ability to edit Wikimedia sites anonymously.

The WMF has also created a new user right for access to temporary account IP addresses, which has come to be known as temporary account IP-viewer (TAIV). The minimum criteria for editors (other than functionaries, 'crats, and admins) seeking the user right are:

1. minimum account age of 6 months and 300 edits;
2. specifically applying for access;
3. opting in for access via Special:Preferences; and
4. "[a]gree[ing] to use the IP addresses in accordance with these guidelines, solely for the investigation or prevention of vandalism, abuse, or other violations of Wikimedia Foundation or community policies, and understand[ing] the risks and responsibilities associated with this privilege".

Activation and use of the right will be logged.

Users who are site-blocked will lose the user right. Stewards may revoke the right upon request at meta:Steward requests/Permissions#Removal of access "if the user is determined to have misused the temporary account IP addresses or local community consensus dictates removal."

What should the criteria for granting this right be? 17:01, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

Talk:Pope Leo XIV

Should the introduction use a comma or a semi-colon between the birth name and the birth date? 13:45, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Featured article criteria

Should understandability be added to the featured article criteria? And if so, which wording should be used?

1. It should be added to the well-written criterion as
   1. well-written: its prose is engaging, understandable to a broad audience, and of a professional standard;
   2. well-written: its prose is engaging, understandable to its audience, and of a professional standard;
2. It should be a separate criterion: 1g. Understandable to its audience.
3. Status quo: no explicit mention

—Femke 🐦 (talk) 11:45, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF)

Should the English Wikipedia community adopt a position on AI development by the WMF and affiliates?

This is a statement-and-agreement-style RfC. 05:05, 29 May 2025 (UTC)