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Closed 2010
January 2010
February 2010
- Proposal to move petitions to user space.
- Added 1 Feb 2010. Snow fail 4 Feb 2010.
- Proposal to manage commons images which can't go to FFD for a number of reasons
- Added 3 Feb 2010. Marked as failed by proposer and removed 5 Feb 2010.
- Proposal to limit information included in Wikipedia about wildlife locations deemed to be sensitive
- Added 3 Feb 2010. Marked as failed and removed 9 Feb 2010.
- Petitions to turn on, and not to turn on, the Flagged revisions extension.
- Added 18 December 2009. Removed 9 Feb 2010.
- Proposal to give bureaucrats the technical ability to remove admin and bureaucrat rights. No consensus
- Added 10 January 2010. Removed 13 Feb 2010. No consensus
- Discussion on refining Community de-adminship (aka Admin Recall) to formalize a RfC.
- Added 25 November 2009. Stalled. Re-added 10 Jan 2010. Stalled again. Removed 13 Feb 2010.
- Petition against the perceived misuse of ignore all rules (IAR)
- Added 21 January 2010. Removed 14 February 2010.
- Proposal to tighten the notability criteria on biographies of living people.
- Added 6 February 2010. Removed 14 February 2010. Wrong venue, and there is an existing proposal for this anyway.
March 2010
April 2010
- Request for Comment on how we do Requests for Comment
- Added 2 March 2010, removed 2 April 2010
- Wikipedia:Quotations – Promotion to guideline
- Added 13 March 2010, removed 2 April 2010
- Wikipedia:Media copyright questions#Non-PD images which don't link to their image description page – Is it legitimate to have non-public domain images, such as File:LinkFA-star.png, not link to their description page?
- Added 8 April 2010, removed 10 April 2010
- Infobox headings - 'Title' or 'Above' position (MoS)?
- Added 4 April 2010, removed 11 April 2010
- Unsourced BLP deletion process - finalisation
- Added 2 April, removed 16 April
- Preemptive protection of BLPs at risk (proposal)
- Human settlements – New naming convention for top-level categories
- Added 15 March 2010, removed 21 April 2010
- Admin/crat flags - removal by bureaucrats
- Added 18 Mar 2010, removed 21 April 2010
- Village pump (development) (creation)
- Added 29 March 2010, removed 21 April 2010
- AfD Procedure for poorly sourced articles
- Added 18 April 2010, removed 21 April 2010
- Gender bias on Main page.
- Added 23 April 2010, removed 28 April 2010
- Can removing unsourced contentious material from BLP articles be supported with blocks done by involved admins
- Added 21 April 2010, removed April 29 2010
- Proposed addition of reference books and materials to Wikipedia:Notability (books)
- Added 17 April 2010, removed April 29 2010
- Proposed rewrite of the lead section of Wikipedia:No original research
- Added 21 April 2010, removed April 29 2010, restored April 29 2010 (reason for removal incorrect)
- RfC on identifying MoS guidelines and renaming them "Wikipedia:Manual of Style (foo)"
- Added 20 April 2010, removed 30 April 2010 and merged in a single entry with next two
- Proposed merge of WP:NEO, WP:PEA, WP:WEASEL and WP:AVOID into Wikipedia:Words to watch
- Added 7 April 2010, removed 30 April 2010 and merged in a single entry with previous and next
- Organising the Manual of Style by merging various individual guides into the main guide.
- Added 1 April 2010, removed 30 April 2010 and merged in a single entry with previous two
May 2010
- RFC on whether the userfication essay should become a policy or guideline
- Added 17 May 2010, archived 3 June 2010
- Discussion on the appearance of {{Wikipedia-Books}} and CfDs concerning several Wikipedia books-related categories
- Added 28 April 2010, archived 22 May 2010
- Proposal on whether to promote the class assessment processes by indicating article class at the top of articles.
- Added 17 May 2010, archived 22 May 2010
- Discussion on the appearance of {{Wikipedia-Books}} and CfDs concerning several Wikipedia books-related categories
- Added 28 April 2010, archived 8 May 2010
- Deletion discussion over deletion of {{expand}}
- Added May 8, 2010, archived 11 May 2010
- Proposed rewrite of the lead section of Wikipedia:No original research
- Added 21 April 2010, archived 15 May 2010
- Reorganisation of the Manual of Style and RFC on titles.
- Added 30 April, merged 3 older items, archived 15 May 2010
- Clarification requested for policy status of Wikipedia:Research which involves the operation of a bot to recruit editors to partake in off-Wiki research
- Added 21 April 2010, archived 15 May 2010
- Proposal to reconsider what it means for WikiProjects to be active or inactive
- Added 23 April 2010, archived 17 May 2010
- RfC on a proposal to ban all vulgarity in inter-editor communications.
- Added 13 May 2010 archived 15 May 2010
- Request for comment on protection of 'Today's Featured Article'
- Added 23 April 2010, archived 19 May 2010
- Requests for comment/Picture of the day photo credits
- Added 25 April 2010, archived 24 May 2010
- Proposal to change the Wikipedia tagline, adding "that anyone can edit" and possibly wikilinks.
- Added 13 May 2010, archived 25 May 2010
- Proposal to include the "Good article" icon on the article page of articles rated GA
- Added 7 May 2010, archived 31 May 2010
June 2010
- Request for Comment on changing the "View source" tab so that it says "Edit this page*".
- Listed 12 May 2010, archived 4 June 2010
- RFC on the recent interface change
- Listed 15 May 2010, archived 4 June 2010
- URLs in infoboxes: how to display.
- Listed 29 May 2010, archived 7 June 2010
- Request for Comment on accepting Subject-specific guidelines as a guideline.
- Listed - no date, archived 7 June 2010
- Ideas for stimulating collaboration on content between Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.
- Listed 13 May 2010, archived 11 June 2010
- Proposal to let BAG handle recruitment requests by researchers.
- Listed (undated), archived 15 June 2010
- Proposal to split apart Wikipedia:Manual of Style (MUSTARD) and merge it into the other Music Guidlines. See Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (MUSTARD)#Page Split
- Listed 8 June 2010, archived 21 June 2010
- Discussion of the way username-only blocks on promotional accounts are being handled
- Listed 27 May 2010, archived 24 June 2010
- Bilateral relations redux New guideline needed?
- Listed 26 May 2010, archived 24 June 2010
- Request for comment on the usefulness of the climate change probation
- Listed 23 May 2010, archived 24 June 2010.
- Proposal to rename the usergroup Autoreviewer to Autopatroller.
- Listed 11 June 2010, archived 1 July 2010.
- Request for comment on recent checkuser and oversight election, following Arbcom request for community input.
- Listed undated, archived 1 July 2010.
- Request for comment on developing a community procedure to assign the 'researcher' permission
- Listed 9 June 2010, archived 1 July 2010.
- RFC: What should our policy be on articles that contain lists related to television?
- Listed 24 June 2010, archived 5 July 2010
- RFC: Should the user page guideline be amended, prohibiting "vandal spaces"?
- Listed 16 June 2010, archived 5 July 2010
- RFC: Should Notability (fiction) be reinstated as a guideline? has opened for comments.
- Listed 18 June 2010, archived 5 July 2010
- RfC on whether Wikipedia:Pedophilia should be labeled a policy?
- Listed 29 June 2010, archived 5 July 2010
- Discussion concerning the retitling of the page "Ownership of articles"
- Listed 30 June 2010, archived 13 July 2010
- Discussion to promote Wikipedia:Notability (sports) to guideline.
- Listed 9 June 2010, archived 17 July 2010
- Review of the BLP RFC at BLPRFC3.
- Listed 16 June 2010, archived 21 July 2010
- RFC: Should Wikipedia:Notability (criminal acts) be merged with Wikipedia:Notability (events) and Wikipedia:Notability (people)?
- Listed 30 June 2010, archived 29 July 2010
- RFC on Consensus: To what extent and under what circumstances can contributors/Projects customize article appearance with individual styles that deviate from site-wide style guidelines?
- Listed 30 June 2010, archived 29 July 2010
August 2010
- Rfc: Wording of the SOCK policy regarding clean starts and prior blocks
- Listed 5 July 2010, archived 4 August 2010
- Should user books be always NOINDEX?
- Listed 10 July 2010, archived 4 August 2010
- RfC on Username policy: Should the username policy be reworded, to tolerate the innocent use of obscure company, group or product names?
- Listed 20 July 2010, archived 8 August 2010
- Possible ways to sift tricky BLPs before hitting problems or "out of process" deletions and avoid some predictable AFD/COI cases.
- Listed (undated), archived 10 August 2010
- RfC: Does WP:NOTMYSPACE apply to secret pages, or if not, should it.
- Listed 27 July 2010, archived 10 August 2010
- Discussion about the future of the Valued Pictures process -- do we still need it, and can it play a meaningful role next to the WP:FPC process?
- Listed 02 August 2010, archived 16 August 2010
- RFC: Presumption of RS for FOX News
- Listed 03 August 2010, archived 16 August 2010
- Updating Arbitration policy The latest draft is here with discussion of the draft here.
- Listed, 01 August 2010, archived 19 August 2010
- RfC: Should ahnentafels (ancestry tables) be uncollapsed by default?
- Listed 08 August 2010, archived (by lister) 27 August 2010
September 2010
- Straw poll: on interim usage of Pending changes.
- Listed 20th September 2010, archived 27th Septenber following closure of the poll.
- RfC: Discussion of wording for proposed poll relating to Pending Changes
- Listed 19th September, archived 20th September when the Poll went live.
- Straw poll: should the pending changes protection trial be continued or abandoned?
- Listed 22 August 2010, archived 06 September 2010
- RfC: Is there consensus to include support for microformats in templates?
- Listed 10 August 2010, archived 10 September 2010
- RfC: Does WP:NAMES apply to fictional characters?
- Listed 14 August 2010, archived 13 September 2010
- Discussion about which links & references to sites on the now-closed GeoCities web host to rescue, and how.
- Listed 16 August 2010, archived 13 September 2010
- Proposal to create a new WikiProject namespace.
- Listed 17 August 2010, archived 15 September 2010 - Result was proposal failed.
- RfC: What should be the inclusion criteria for "List of X" articles?
- Listed 19 August 2010, archived 24 September 2010
October 2010
- Straw poll: How many times can an AfD be relisted? If not indefinitely, how to close an AfD with insufficient participation?
- Listed 27 August 2010, archived 6 October 2010
- Discussion: We have 23,197 articles to investigate for potential copyright violations. We're blanking approximately 10,000 of them with a 'bot. What to do with the remaining 13,000?
- Listed 10 August 2010, archived 9 October 2010
- Discussion: Should featured list criterion 3b, which deals with requirements for stand-alone lists, be modified or removed?
- Listed 16 September 2010, archived 9 October 2010
- Straw poll on the creation of a new noticeboard for revision deletion requests.
- Listed 21 September 2010, archived 9 October 2010
- RfC on userspace "vandalism sandboxes".
- Listed 27 September 2010, archived 9 October 2010
- Discussion: Should our policy on article ownership contain a section about featured articles?
- Listed 27 September 2010, archived 9 October 2010
- Discussion: Should icons be used to identify external links to formats such as Word (.doc), Excel (.xls), etc., the way it is done for PDF files?
- Listed 4 October 2010, archived 12 October 2010
- Discussion: Should WP:NFCC expressly require that all verbatim uses of non-free text be specifically denoted as quotations
- Listed 8 October 2010, archived 27 October 2010
- RfC: Are association football players an exemption to the general notability guideline?
- Listed 8 October 2010, archived 27 October 2010
November 2010
- RfC: Should users be prohibited from removing a block notice while the block is in effect?
- Listed 28 September 2010, archived 3 November 2010
- RfC: Should the word "football" be preceded with the disambiguation "code" (association, American, etc.) for all types of football on the first use of the word?
- Listed 4 October 2010, archived 3 November 2010
- Request for input on the reader ratings extension ("Article Feedback Tool") being tested on some articles.
- Listed 4 October 2010, archived 3 November 2010
- RfC: should the secret ballot method via SecurePoll continue to be used for the upcoming 2010 Arbitration Committee election in December?
- Listed 24 October 2010, archived 4 November 2010
- RfC: How long can an abandoned userspace draft stay before being deleted as a fake article?
- Listed 10 Oct 2010, archived 15 November 2010
- Discussion on how to deal with the extreme abuse coming from an IP range of about 67 million IP addresses.
- Listed 12 Nov 2010, archived 15 Nov 2010
- A proposal to create a user right allowing non-admins to edit fully protected pages
- Listed 14 Nov 2010, archived 19 Nov 2010
- Talk page proposal to refine the WP:V policy section describing best practices in using scholarly and media sources.
- Listed (undated), archived 19 Nov 2010
- RfC: Proposal to change the icons used for user talk deletion notices.
- Listed (undated), archived 19 Nov 2010
- RfC: Follow-up to various Sept+Oct RFCs on handling of 'meatpuppetry' in policy. Includes proposal to cover external canvassing with internal canvassing on one page and promote latter to policy.
- Listed 15 October 2010, archived 19 Nov 2010
- Wide-ranging Discussion on adminship and RFA.
- Listed 10 November 2010, archived 22 November 2010
December 2010
- Straw poll: should lifespans be expressed in years alone at the top of a bio article, where the days/months appear in the body of the article and are not significant per se.
- Listed (undated), archived 2 December 2010
- We're discussing the backlog of unsourced biographies of living persons and the progress made in clearing it.
- Listed (undated), archived 3 December 2010
- A proposal to make the link to the general disclaimer more prominent in the standard Vector skin by putting it into the sidebar.
- Listed (undated), archived 3 December 2010
- RfC: BLPs of children: What special provisions if any are appropriate for an article about a child?
- Listed 19 November 2010, archived 14 December 2010
- RFC: Identification requirement for arbitrators – If a candidate does not want to identify, can they still serve without having access to confidential information, or does the community consider having such access a necessary part of being an arbitrator?
- Listed 1 December 2010, archived 14 December 2010
- Proposed guideline/policy to summarize the key norms and expectations about the community itself for the benefit of newcomers.
- Listed 10 November 2010, archived 15 December 2010
- RfC about whether the admin policy should be amended to require discussion before undoing administrative actions.
- Listed 3 December 2010, archived 15 December 2010
- Poll open to adopt Commons:Sexual content as a Wikimedia Commons policy.
- Listed 6 December 2010, archived 15 December 2010
- RfC regarding whether the Incubator should be reframed as "soft deletion" mechanism.
- Listed 29 November 2010, archived 16 December 2010
- A third MfD discussion on Wikipedia:Valued pictures.
- Listed 5 December 2010, archived 21 December 2010