User:SMcCandlish/Logs/Proposals

Proposals

Major successful proposals

• MOS:LIFE
  updated to reflect this. I was neutral on the matter, just insistent that we pick either that or lower-case, not continue to have no clear answer. (December 2018 – January 2019)
• Wikipedia:Proposed article splits – Y I created this noticeboard in July 2018, though originally as a section [1] of what is now Wikipedia:Proposed article mergers (suggesting a broader name); it ran that two-in-one way until April 2019, when it was split off into its own noticeboard by GenQuest.
• A series of merge proposals from 2016–2018 to consolidate biographical advice into
  MOS:CAPS in a long series of back-to-back edits [2]
  (June 2018).
• MOS:CAPS
  , and essentially identical material already in there about over-capitalizing dances and dance genres was merged into it. (January–February 2018)
• MOS:BIO (before vs. after), based on my WP:Using nicknames essay; accepted almost verbatim (November 2017); there was some later clarification discussion
  , long but not major (December 2017).
• MOS:FICT
  .
• Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 126#RfC: Religion in biographical infoboxes – Y Removed contentious |religion= and |denomination= parameters from most biographical infoboxes (March–April 2016).
  • See also Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 127#RfC: Ethnicity in infoboxes, which was going nowhere until I moved it to Village Pump right after the above RfC, then it closed with strong consensus against |ethnicity= parameter for similar reasons (March–April 2016).
• Grevy's zebra
  ). (April–May 2014)
• WP:TRANSACTIONAL – Original idea from Hurricane_Noah, but most of the wording is my policywonkery. Successful proposal here
  (November 2023)

• Virtual-reality game article, since the topic is distinct from virtual reality hardware, and we already have a Category:Virtual reality games
  .
• WP:CONSISTENT
  .
• South Scandinavian languages nominated for deletion, unless a proper target article/section can be found. Presently redirecting to Danish dialects
  , but does not appear to be a term for this (or for anything else – zero hits in Google Scholar (March 2021).
• WP:RECOGNIZABLE
  (this is dialectal/colloquial use of "according to", and unnecessarily wordy anyway.
• MOS:CAPS
  .
• Talk:Yan Tan Tethera#Section merge from Cumbric
  – It is duplicative of the material at the latter and inappropriate in huge chart form in the former; all that's needed there is a general summary (March 2021).
• WP:DAB
  : don't use a longer disambiguation term than is necessary.
• Template:Cite presentation
  , since we cite presentations at conferences (or in conf. proceedings), not entire conferences.
• Talk:FKM#Merge from Viton – To merge spammy and redundant brand-name article into article on the substance (March 2021)
• MOS:PN
  merge left a section on this in MOS:CAPS without any actual material pertaining to capitalization, and we actually have plenty to say about that (February 2021).
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters#Wording proposal on ethnic/racial terms, in light of the recent RfC – To address "[b|B]lack", "[c|C]olo[u]red", etc., since there's been a lot of churn about that, including an RfC with clear results which are not yet reflected in the guideline (February 2021).
• WP:OPERATITLE
  essay in the mix (December 2020).
• Talk:James D. Zirin#Merge book stubs here – Proposal to merge three questionably notable stubs into a single article that is more encyclopedic (December 2020).
• Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 72#Proposed documentation and parameter alias changes for Template:Cite episode – N to make the template more relevant in the age of digital media, and less US-centric (October 2020). Archived without resolution, so will need to be re-started. [Leaving it in this section, because I should do this, and while it is still quasi-recent.]

Accepted proposals needing further work

(That's further work by me or by anyone.)

• WP:CONSISTENT
  ) just moving this one article. Leaving it in this section (despite not an accepted proposal), since I actually need to do the work of building that RM.
• Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2020 December 19#Template:Hover title and Template:Tooltip – Y to merge the former to the latter. In progress: Re-develop code for better accessibility.
  • Related: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Accessibility#New tooltip testcases and Template:Tooltip/testcases
• WP:PROJPAGE
  essay) Followup: It's likely that essay needs revision as a result of this and other moves.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals/2020/October#Folklore stubs – Y because we don't have a stub category tree for folklore, leading to lots of uncategorized and mis-categorized stubs. "The result of the debate was create." Confer with Pegship
  on building this out over time: "I suggest this be set up under Culture stubs | Other culture."
• dog-breed-stub
  }}, and their categories (also a rename of an over-long one). Result: create parent-only category, and file breed stub sub-categories under it. (I'm not sure about the rename; may need to separately revist that.)
• Wikipedia talk:Categorization of people/Archive 10#A point needs clarification into guidance instead of non-guiding observation (and tacit approval) of conflict
  – Y Needs to proceed if MoS is going to incorporate that page by reference. Did not attract opposition, but I'm not sure there's enough feedback to declare consensus. May need to re-ask, or just go do it and see if it sticks.
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lists#Propose merging WP:Manual of Style/Embedded lists into WP:Manual of Style/Lists – Y Pretty straightforward. Some of this got done while I was on wikibreak, but some may still need to be completed.
• Wikipedia talk:Templates for discussion/Archive 26#RfC: Proposal to make TfD more RM-like, as a clearinghouse of template discussions – Y Just what it says. While this passed almost unanimously, nothing has been done to actually implement it yet. We need a listing template, and a bot that goes looking for it.
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American Temperament Test Society – Y Result: Merge to Temperament test. Non-notable org; not unencyclopedic, but should merge to Temperament test
• WP:BOLDly
  do it. Will take some merging work.
• WP:CONTENTFORK
  . Unopposed, but merges need to happen.
• Talk:Terrier#Merge from Terrier Group – Y close out a CONTENTFORK. Unopposed, but merges need to happen.
• Talk:Herding dog#Merge from Herding Group – Y close out a CONTENTFORK. Unopposed, but merges need to happen.
• Talk:List of dog breeds recognized by the American Kennel Club#Merge redundant articles – Y close out more CONTENTFORKs. Unopposed, but merges need to happen.
• Talk:Fédération Cynologique Internationale#Merge from "FCI [Whatever] Group" pages – Y close out more CONTENTFORKs. Unopposed, but merges need to happen.
• Talk:Breed standard#Merge from Breed standard (dog) – Y close out another CONTENTFORK. Unopposed, but merges need to happen.
• Talk:Non-Sporting Group#Requested move 20 February 2018
  – Y de-capitalization multi-RM, plus some further merge ideas. Most articles moved; merges need to happen. Y One article was carved out of the RM by the closer, but without any actual basis and in direct contradiction of a recent RfC on the matter. Closer has been asked to reverse that; otherwise, I will re-RM this later.
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters#RfC: Capitalisation of traditional game/sports terminology – Y WP will use "chess" and "baseball bat" not "Chess" and "Baseball Bat" (question didn't seem like it needed to be asked, until editwarring proved that it did). Some game and equipment articles still need to be lower-cased, as does lots of text in them.
• WP:WIKILAWYER, but so it goes. Still needs the fix at Template:Post-nominals that inspired this to be reopened from original 2015 request in the first place. Follow-up request also open at Module talk:Yesno#Support on/off
  .
• Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2018 January 24#Template:IUPAC spelling US – Y merge some redundant ENGVAR templates, to just be parameters; merge needs to actually be done.
• WP:SUMMARY version to List of cat breeds
  , but it requires condensing the material.
• WP:Manual of Style/Proper names
  almost unanimously supported, but need to actually do it.
• Wikipedia talk:Media help#Requested move 10 January 2018
  – Y some cleanup work needs to be done, and possibly a merge (see final comment at discussion)
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 February 21#Category:Fédération Cynologique Internationale members – Y move to name without "members" (we don't have narrow subcats. without a parent cat.)
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 February 22#Category:Male dogs – Y upmerge as unencyclopedic; more sensible to split by dog type/role.
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 February 22#Category:Glossaries of medical terms – Y upmerge to more concise duplicate/parent Category:Glossaries of medicine.

Log of closed proposals

Changes to

WP:PROCESS

pages

Expect to see a lot of yellow and red icons in here, since writing and changing policy is hard.

• MOS:CAPS and other places); there was an initial bit of confused and very circular noise about this, from a single party, then no further dispute. (will probably end up in Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 221
  or 222).
• MOS:NAMEFMT
  .
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Infoboxes/Archive 16#RfC on birthplace, nationality, and citizenship parameters with matching values – Y Is |birthplace=Paris, France |nationality=France} |citizenship=France redundant or helpful? I say redundant. Result: "Consensus has been determined that |nationality= or |citizenship= should not be used when the country would match that found in |birthplace=".
• WP:UNDUE
  attention to particular viewpoints.
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters/Archive 28#Expand MOS:INSTITUTIONS to cover 'act', 'bill', 'resolution' and other items of legislation? – Y Someone else opened this, though I was quite active in it, and had suggested essentially the same RfC more than once; someone just beat me to it. Near-unanimous support.
• Wikipedia talk:What Wikipedia is not/Archive 56#Change to "Memorial" – N Quasi-proposal (not "advertised") to tweak some policy wording for clarity. The respondents mostly appeared to misinterpret it, so it self-evidently wasn't formulated well enough to be a solid proposal. The underlying issue still remains to be addressed.
• Wikipedia talk:User pages/Archive 17#Minor GAMING/WIKILAWYER fix – Y Proposal to tweak some guideline wording for clarity. While my exact original edit wasn't accepted, it inspired a big round of group editing, and the section is now clearer, so mission accomplished.
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lists#Overly long list items – N We have no advice on this in ANY page, somehow. Proposal got some support, then a pile of opposes. I think this can still be worked out, but it will have to be phrased differently.
• WP:COMMONNAME) is about style). The discussion we did get through was productive, and had a strong influence on some later ones, such as Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 148#RFC on capitalization of prepositions
  . The underlying policy-wording problem (simply a lack of an MoS cross-reference) has been needing a fix for years, so we're not done yet.
• WP:VPPOL
  thread pointed to the proposal. Will try again some other month.
• Ds/alert
  }} template was totally overhauled. However, nothing about how DS operates was changed, so that will need to be reformed some other way. PS: Surprisingly, the bot proposal actually had majority support.
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Words to watch#RfC Terms that can introduce bias [may end up in Archive 8 or 9] – Y Someone's re-re-RfC of my item immediately below. It passed this time, resulting in Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch#Easily confused terms, some decade-old advice that was removed from the main MoS page as too specific for it.
  • WP:POINTily
    reverted, so did another RfC (and another).
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 205#Proposed footnote to discourage mass changes – Y No formal close, seems not to have come to a consensus. After three mass "enforcement of MoS" disputes in one week (with two ANI cases and a Village Pump thread about it, this seemed necessary at the time. We might have to revisit this if similar issues arise again.
• wikiproject style essays
  , into a coherent single page.
• specialized-style fallacies
  .
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biography/2018 archive#Proposed MOS:JOBTITLES tweak – Y Supported, unopposed, so implemented. Proposal to stop requiring capitalization of commercial and informal job titles in front of a personal name
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biography/2018 archive#MOS:POSTNOM limit proposal – Y Original numeric limit idea rejected. Some follow-on discussion about other limitations was productive but stalled at copyediting phase. Worth revisiting later, to somehow limit the number of post-nominal acronyms after a biography subject's name in the lead.
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 204#Expanded use of code syntax highlighting – Y No support for doing this, and the party in favor of the idea has stopped. Not an RfC, but a discussion of use of code syntax highlighting on sourcecode words in mid-sentence in regular prose.
• MOS:JR
  .
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters/Archive 26#Scouting conflict with MOS:DOCTCAPS, MOS:JOBTITLE – Y Seeking to resolve a style conflict, in favor of lower-case (i.e., in favor of what the site-wide guideline says vs. a topical essay). Result: Didn't conclude anything in particular, and didn't have a formal closure. Some followup discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters/Archive 27#Marines vs. marines (and Soldier, Sailor, Airmen, etc.), and innumerable prior discussions about overcapitalization of job and organization titles/roles, plus various later ones (e.g. about "Lord Mayor of [Where Ever]" article about roles/titles as such, versus "List of lord mayors of [Where Ever]" articles where it's a genericized plural/collective reference to a bunch of individuals) all indicate the direction this should eventually go.
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 201#Re-deprecate and merge the ENGVAR-related templates that do not serve an encyclopedic purpose – N RfC, self-explanatory. Result: Consensus was against the specific proposal, though a prior RfC was in favor of doing something about this mess. So, this will need to be revisited later with a different proposal.
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers/Archive 157#RfC on use of "crore" – Y RfC, to advise against use of "crore" for "ten million". Concluded to continue to permit it, but with some new limitations.
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#RfC: "Allows to" – Y Accept or advise against this construction (mostly used by non-native English speakers but increasingly common in tech writing)? Conclusion: consensus it's bad grammar, but no consensus to add a line about it to MoS (it's not a frequent enough problem, supposedly. Trust me, it will be.)
• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Wikipedia Awards#Barnstar bureaucracy (informal discussion) – Y While the response was defensiveness, a suggestion of an RfC or more formal proposal was made, and is the next step.
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Proposal: Adopt WP:WikiProject Video games/Article guidelines into MoS – Y Was adopted into MoS, with some minor revision. (I was not a principal author of the material in the page.)
• Revisiting gendered categories: Let's have a clear criterion of "has or can have a proper article" (a discussion draft) – Y Proposal not supported, but something worth implementing instead did emerge: "The solution to the problem you raise is to have an explicit guideline that these categories are non-diffusing and for editors to enforce that."

Mergers and splits

• North Briton
  , since north[ern] Britons are not a distinct ethnic, linguistic, or cultural group, thus not an encyclopedic topic on their own (January 2021).
• Talk:John Hornor Jacobs#Merge from The Incorruptibles – Y Merge stub (already AfDed once) on non-notable book into stub on marginally notable author, in lieu of speedy deletion for re-creation of previously deleted material (December 2020). Merge completed 3 January 2020 [3].
• WP:SOAPBOX
  pseudo-articles. Just for the record, I have nothing against Mill or her Bengal breed – it's my favorite! (March 2019)
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American Temperament Test Society – Y Non-notable organization; merged to Temperament test. (November 2018)
• Teaching English as a foreign language into Teaching English as a second or foreign language
• WP:PROJPAGEs
  about the same thing. Discussion did not have a clear resolution, and both pages still have merge tags on them.
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 February 5#Category:Fictional location redirects – Y Proposal to upmerge to Category:Redirects from fictional locations. Result: "rename Category:Redirects from fictional locations to Category:All fictional location redirects and restructure accordingly" (i.e., it was renamed and re-scoped to include redirects to fictional locations).
• Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2020 February 5#Template:R to anchor 2 – Y merge back into Template:R to anchor, and fix the latter to stop auto-categorizing things as unprintworthy (bots aren't allowed to do that either). Both propositions were accepted.
• WP:SETINDEX
  as rationales. Did not garner commentary. Need to RfC it to get sufficient input to assess consensus.
• MOS:LINKING#Interwiki links
  . While not supported, there does seem to be some support Y for merging part of that material to MOS:LINKING. My was point is that it's unproductive to have interwiki-linking-style-and-layout material in two different places; this may still be fixable in a narrower proposal.
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 December 7#Category:Template-related templates – Y Upmerged to Category:Template namespace templates, as redundant.
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 December 1#Category:Calf (cattle) – Y Upmerged to parent, Category:Cattle.
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 December 1#Category:Individual calves – Y Upmerged to parent
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 June 30#Bplus-Class articles – Y Merged away a bogus article assessment class only used by one project, in the 2000s. Cleaning up all the pages and templates took more work than I thought. I did most of it, but a few good peeps found some spots I missed.
• WP:GAMED to provide author three promotional articles, one for him as a bio, plus two for his books. (June 2018) Update: The author article, James D. Zirin
  , was also nominated for deletion (by someone else), and also narrowly survived. As zero of the three articles has improved in the interim, I'm going to recommend they be merged.
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 January 20#Category:Placer mining – Y Proposed deleting, but was technically upmerged to Category:Mining as it contained something not in the parent cat. yet.
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 January 10#Category:Wikipedia Cabal decrees – Y Upmerged to Category:Wikipedia cabal humor.
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2017 December 18#Category:Wikipedia proposals in brainstorming stage – Y Merged into Category:Wikipedia draft proposals.
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2017 November 24#Category:Articles containing Pushto-language text – Y Merged into Category:Articles containing Pashto-language text.
• Talk:New Zealand rabbit#Proposed merges (March 2016) Y After a bunch of venting by one of "the usual suspects" (who for some time was trying to impede almost every single thing I did at breed articles), the merges did in fact proceed exactly as I suggested and for the reasons I suggested them.
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Le vaillant petit tailleur – Y Non-notable book; redirected to author, Éric Chevillard. (September 2015)
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ComicsAlliance – Y Non-notable website (September 2012). It was re-created later, but after ComicsAlliance won a major industry award in 2015, which is enough to establish notability.
• WP:Proposed mergers
  , though it was at that time not well established. A dozen years later, these articles have not improved at all, and lack substantial coverage in secondary sources. (January 2008)
• Card shark into Card sharp
  . The discussion initially closed as "keep", but they were later that month re-merged anyway Y, as I predicted, and by someone else. (December 2007)
• content-forked stub to News style
  (October 2007).
• WP:PM
  existed (June 2007).
• WP:NFT nonsense; some random schmoe's comments about Godwin's law
  (July 2006).

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Flashflight (2nd nomination) – Y Non-notable product. First AfD was "no consensus", and over a decade later, the page has not improved even slightly (December 2020).
• Voodoo Tiki nominated for speedy deletion per
  G4, A7, and G11 (December 2020). Y It was speedily deleted; see User talk:Nobsonwiki#Why Voodoo Tiki was deleted - again
  for details. This was, I think, the 5th time it was deleted (not counting a move-related redirect deletion).
• Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 November 20#MOS:DISABILITY – Y cross-namespace redirect nominated for deletion (was pointing to an essay, not to part of MoS).
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 February 5#Category:Redirects from route numbers – Y Proposed to delete, as essentially unused and trivial; the end result was coming up for a use for it and populating it.
• Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 January 25#Ashera – Y Bogus cat-breed (hoax/fraud) article nominated for simple deletion, or deletion and replacement with redir to unrelated Asherah; the latter was the result.
• WP:OR
  and supposition. (November 2018)
• Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:PigeonIP/RMs – Y An anti-consensus RM "hit list"
• Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User talk:MjolnirPants/Editnotice – Y On grounds of WP:TPG, WP:OWN, WP:CIVIL, WP:AGF, WP:POLEMIC, WP:CONSENSUS, WP:GAMING, etc., all at once.
• WP:PROD
  Y – Non-notable, promotional, no independent sources.
• WP:NODISCLAIMER
  . Ended up being kept on the basis of an argument (that trademarks are not intellectual property) which is completely wrong, legally. But whatever; template has no legit purpose but isn't harmful; someone else will just nominate it for deletion again later.
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gary Price (librarian) Y – Non-notable bio, promotional purpose, nothing but primary sources. (December 2018)
• WP:BATTLEGROUNDing
  needed to be nuked back in 2014.
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rise Nation – Y Non-notable e-sports team. Someone else technically nominated this, but was immediately blocked as a sock. The nom was correct, though, and I supplied the detailed deletion rationale. (July 2018)
• Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2018 June 5#Western Dance – Y to delete highly ambiguous redir; consensus was to convert to disambiguation page at Western dance
• MOS:BLPLEAD
  .
• WP:SURNAME
  .
• WP:OPENPARA
  .
• Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2018 February 4#Wikipedia:STOPCHANGINGIT – Y Got rid of pointless, confusing redir.
• Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2018 February 2#State Investment Company – Y Deleted redirect, since term not mentioned at target article, and there are other entities that actually use this name, one of which may be notable.
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Post-grunge lit – Y Zero sources cited use this term other than a self-published PhD thesis. This is a non-notable neologism. (January 2018)
• WP:REDLINK
  .
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 January 3#Category:WikiProject Masculinism – Y No such project any longer (superseded by WP:WikiProject Men's Issues).
• Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2018 January 1#Nick Lucero – Y Redlink will inspire article creation, and current redir is confusing.
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2017 December 3#Category:Cattle hybrids – Y Misnomer for the contents (could be recreated with different content, if Category:Cattle breeds were subdivided into taurine, indicine/zebu[ine], and sanga).
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2017 October 23#Category:Wikipedians who consider themselves participants in many WikiProjects – Y Deleted as pointless.
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeannette H. Lee – N Kept as (barely) notable. I ended up significantly improving the article instead. (October 2017)
• WP:PROMO
  . (March 2012)
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chipo Chung – N Non-notable actor. Has had work, and some press coverage, but it isn't in-depth. This is yet another case of confusion of competence/employability with WP:Notability (a common problem in WP articles pertaining to the entertainment sector). The article was narrowly kept, and after nine+ years has not significantly improved. If anything, the person's claim to notability seems shakier now than it was then, with fewer roles of importance since the 2000s, no increase in non-trivial sourcing, and an increased focus on doing charity work, for which this person isn't notable either. (October 2011)
• WP:TOOSOON
  deletion of a then-hypothetical project. Article was later re-created after it became non-iffy. (August 2011)
• WP:DICDEF (August 2011). Later redirected to proper article Women in government
  .
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carrie Borzillo – Y Non-notable bio (May 2010). Was re-created later N, and should probably be deleted again (has no independent and secondary in-depth coverage, only state-level and industry-insider coverage and awards, so is not encyclopedically notable}}
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joan Carroll Cruz – Y Non-notable writer (April 2010).
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Incorruptibles – Y Non-notable book (April 2010). Article was rapidly re-created N in essentially the same form and without any better sourcing. I proposed it for merger into the author article, instead of speedy deletion, and Y this was done.
• WP:NOR
  . This should be AfDed again.
• WP:GNG, and is simply competent/employable, plus related to someone notable. Over a decade later, it remains unsourced other than brief mention at unreliable website, plus subject's own primary-source material. I even correctly predicted that her non-notable musician brother would end up with an article because celeb-chasers on WP can't stand having the "set" of Evigans incomplete. There's another sibling article that also looks iffy, too. Greg Evigan is notable, but sharing genes with him and having some bit parts in TV shows does not WP:Notability
  make. (January 2010)
• WP:BEFORE
  . (January 2010)
• WP:HOAX
  (January 2010).
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Flashflight – N Questionably notable product; result: "no consensus" (December 2009). Over a decade later, the article had not improved even slightly, so I renominated it for deletion.
• WP:NFT
  game (December 2009).
• OR
  game variant (December 2009).
• WP:NFT
  game (November 2009).
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nguyen Thanh Nam – Y Non-notable businessperson (June 2009).
• WP:POLITICIAN
  (non-notable candidate). I rescinded the nomination, as moot, after Fleming was elected, since the guideline was then satisfied (April 2009).
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mary Forsberg – Y Non-notable model/actor (February 2009).
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steve Cook (songwriter) – Y Non-notable bio (February 2009).
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Fresh Mex restaurants – Y Deleted as OR, basically. "Fresh Mex" is a registered trademark of a particular company, not a generic description, and we have no Fresh Mex article (October 2008).
• WP:NFT
  game (March 2008).
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amjad J. Qaisen – Y Deleted non-notable actor bio (February 2008)
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Exploding head – Y Deleted as a mixture of nonsense and fancruft, and fundamentally unencyclopedic in approach (December 2007).
• WP:CFORK; now redirects to Lists of Stargate characters
  (October 2007).
• WP:NFT
  game (September 2007).
• WP:HOAX
  game (June 2007).
• WP:N
  wasn't a guideline yet (July 2006).

• Something I pushed on repeatedly for over a decade, in various venues, without quite gaining enough traction: renaming all the "WikiProject Topic members" categories and pages to "WikiProject Topic participants", to help bring an end to the poisonous misconception that wikiprojects are independent and exclusive walled gardens instead of simply pages at which editors with shared interests agree to collaborate, in keeping with
  WP:CONLEVEL policy. Y Kudos to Sdkb for the proposal that this time finally got it done: Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 October 1#Category:WikiProject Foo members
  .
• WP:DAB
  .
• MOS:GAMECAPS
  .
• WP:COMMONNAME
  .
• WP:COMMONNAME
  .
• Goliard
  , as a naturally plural title.
• WP:CONCISE
  .
• WP:ASTONISH
  .
• Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Index/Principles 2 to Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Index/Principles, and move the dead page then occupying that pagename to "Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Principles (historical)" or something (it ended up going to Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Principles/Pre-2020
  ).
• Quote
  |Too-short block quotations like this.}}
• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disability/Style guide#Requested move 20 November 2020 – Y to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disability/Style_advice, since this is not a guideline and the name is confusing (this is a {{WikiProject style advice
  }} essay)
• MOS:OP-ED
  , etc., and the whole point of "MOS:" shortcuts is to not "hog" all the mnemonic "WP:" ones for MoS stuff.
• WP:JARGON
  .
• MOS:JOBTITLES
  and previous discussion on that page. Due to some initial confusion, this turned into a trainwreck, and ended no consensus.
• Arkansas Militia in Reconstruction
  , so it makes some kind of sense.
• Template:Cross with is redirect Template:Xmark
  , since "cross" is ambiguous.
• WP:CONCISE
  and to better agree with lead and scope.
• Talk:Rafeiro do Alentejo#Requested move 21 February 2020 - N Rename another Portuguese dog breed to the official FCI name for it in English, instead of the original Portuguese name. No consensus was reached on what name to use, so it remains at the status quo article title.
• Curlie
  , and is not defunct, so the page needs to be move and to be updated. Other editors want to treat them as separate entities. I'm not sure there's any sourcing to back that position, but it is what it is for now.
• WP:USEENGLISH
  .
• WP:IKNOWIT
  "dictionarian" basis that isn't actually supported by dictionaries at all, and which we can see is already causing miscategorization. This will have to be revisited eventually; the problem is still there, and putting our heads in the sand won't fix it.
  • Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 February 5#Category:Redirects from catchphrases – Proposed merge to Category:Redirects from slogans. Ditto the above pseudo-resolution.
• councils of governments (the entities); "council of governments
  " seemed logically wrong. However, I appear to have misinterpreted.
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 January 30#Category:One-shot (comics) – N Proposed to move to "Category:One-shot comics and manga" because it includes a manga subcat. and there's no need for the punctuation. I somewhat suspected the outcome might be that manga are a subset of comics, thus that title would be redundant. But I rather hoped otherwise. Treating manga as nothing but a subset both denies a major West/East cultural difference, and requires more cat. changes (to ensure that comics cats. which can apply to manga either do so directly or via a manga subcat, and to ensure that all extant manga cats. have at least one comics parent cat.) And we still don't need the parentheses.
• WP:TWODABS
  , since a reasonable PRIMARYTOPIC case can actually be made. There was only one respondent, who did not reply to rebuttal. So, this is probably best re-RMed later, with some notice at relevant wikiprojects (TV, film, video games, fantasy) to draw in sufficient editorial input to reach a real consensus.
• WP:FALSECONSENSUS
  based on fallacious reasoning again.
• MOS:DOCTCAPS
  ; sources are not consistent in capitalizing it, and it's not a proper name but a descriptive phrase.
• Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2019 December 6#H₂O – Y Retargeted from Properties of water to Water.
• WP:CONSISTENT
  .
• Template talk:Main talk other#Requested move 18 November 2019 – Current name is just confusing. Y Closed as no consensus due to inability to agree on a consistent set of names for that entire template family. Closer suggests re-RMing it after a while, with a clarified proposal.
• WP:CONSISTENT) with main article title, Das Kapital
  . Followup to the RM immediately below this one.
• Capital, Volume IV
  ) was rejected (which is consonant with a prior RM). However, the alternative proposal to move the volume articles to a name consistent with the main one met with support, and that was laster opened as a new RM, which succeeded (see entry immediately above).
• WP:SINGULAR
  .
• WP:CONCISE
• MOS:GAMECAPS
  .
• North Ossetia – Alania
  , etc.
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 March 10#Category:Wikipedia character-substitution templates – Y We don't need to stick "Wikipedia" at the front of category names unless there's a likelihood of confusion with real-world topics (or we should do it to all of them just in case, to be consistent – but not be veering back and forth for no reason).
• Lumiere (website)
  , but we settled on "(database)".
• MEDIA Programme
  , because it's not an acronym, and "Media Programme" by itself is ambiguous.
• George Hill Hodel
  , as over-disambiguation (by middle name, which we don't do) for something that isn't ambiguous with any other article anyway
• Winter sport
  ; I didn't open the RM, but provided the title that prevailed.
• Talk:Attack on Titan (TV series)#Requested move 18 January 2019 – Y Moved from List of Attack on Titan episodes, with that page now redirected to Attack on Titan (TV series)#Episode list; we don't need a "List of Foo episodes" page unless and until a embedded episode list becomes too long for a main show article, and no such list article should exist without such a main show article in the first place.
• WP:UNDUE marketing focus (on non-notable brand or pseudo-breed) in what should be (and now is) a general article on boar–pig hybrids
  and their environmental and agricultural impact.
• WP:RECOGNIZABLE
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy#Current requests (permalink) – Y Unopposed. Category:Chicken hybrids → Category:Chicken crossbreeds; these words are not synonymous, and all entries in the category are crossbreeds. A cat. redirect was left behind briefly, but later removed as unnecessary.
• WP:CRITERIA
  ; now a disambiguation page.
• P&G
  ; this was a re-RM of one listed below which closed against the move despite policy and sources supporting it.
• Talk:Lists of domestic animal breeds#Requested move 15 November 2018
  – Y No such thing as a breed of wild animal.
• URB (magazine)
  )
• Talk:Science Daily#Requested move 11 November 2018 – Y correct publication title is ScienceDaily
• WP:PRIMARYTOPIC
  ; both items in the DAB page really resolved to the same encyclopedic topic anyway: a nomenclature code and its publisher. (August 2018)
• WP:NTITLE
  .
• WP:NTITLE
  , just like the above case.
• [A large block of them are missing; I forgot to keep track.]
• WP:CONSISTENT
  mess to clean up; this is an open "what should we do?" discussion more than an RM per se, though I do make a proposal to favor Henri for French subjects and Henry for English ones. Result: No consensus reached, with regard to that article or the entire lot of them, so this will need to be revisited again later.
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy#Opposed nominations (at Category:Steeplechase horse racing to Category:Steeplechase), and eventually Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 February 28#Category:Steeplechase horse racing – Y Consensus went with an alternative disambiguation.
• Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2018 February 20#Complex Media – Y Delete an inappropriate redir from company to product; alternative proposal to link to the (now identified) parent company. Conclusion: use alternative redirect target.
• WP:MR. This admin nuked his entire talk page and replaced it with an "I'm busy" note [4]
  , which makes it difficult to demonstrate the level of hostility thrown at me when I made this request. Too late for MR now; will need to re-RM it.
• Talk:Gun control/Archive 21#‎Requested move 18 February 2018 – Y Not my proposal, but an important RM I've supplied a lot of input into. Closed as "no consensus" but needs to be revisited, and I may do it myself.
• Waterskiing
  to reflect more common usage. Closed as "no consensus", so will have to try it again later with more sourcing.
• WP:CONSISTENT with contents of Category:Individual dogs
  , away from a marketing appellation used in <10% of reliable sources. Was closed as "Not moved" (i.e. no consensus) despite there being no policy- or sourced-based reason to retain the present misnomer title (bad close that just "counted votes"). Y Re-RMed later with additional rationales (see above).
• MOS:VG
  .
• Nicastrese to Nicastro (instead of Nicastrese goat
  )
• Talk:Australian White sheep#Requested move 24 January 2018 – Y multi-page RM to Australian White sheep, etc., from naturally ambiguous names.
• Talk:Brown Caucasian cattle#Requested move 24 January 2018 – Y multi-page RM to Brown Caucasian cattle, etc., from naturally ambiguous names.
• Guilty party
  disambiguation page
• WP:THE
  and to match its own content
• 2 Tone (music genre) which is confusing the genre with 2 Tone Records
  trademark
• Wikipedia:Sound/list
  )
• Wikipedia:Media help
  , etc.)
• Help:Picture tutorial
  ).
• Template:Refimprove); someone's opened an MR about it here
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2017 December 18#Category:Wikipedia procedure header templates, etc. – Y Renamed to "procedural".
• WP:SYSTEMICBIAS
  one favored by a single US-based group
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2017 November 15#Category:World sports champions – Y Renamed to Category:World champions by sport.
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2017 November 13#Category:World snooker champions – Y A more complex solution was arrived at than my original proposal.
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2017 November 4#Category:Domesticated pigeon breeds by country of origin and subcats – Y Renamed to "Pigeon breeds by country of origin".
• [huge gap]
• New Mexican English
  , which asserted a dialect (that not all sources agree is distinct) and is too narrow a subtopic
• [years missing]
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Voodoo Tiki – Y Re-userfication of an insufficiently sourced draft (previously deleted then later userfied on the condition that it not be moved out of userspace until fully sourced (February 2008). Was later re-created in mainspace in at least as a bad for as the original, so nominated for speedy deletion.
• WP:DAB
  page that links to all the articles to which various meanings of the term apply, and at which they are sourced. (July 2007)

Changes to template functionality

• Template talk:Infobox person/Archive 35#Proposal: Repurpose and redocument the home_town parameter – N to replace this trivia parameter with one for places of residence during period of notability. Insufficient feedback for consensus to be clear. RfC it?
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Infoboxes/Archive 16#RfC on birthplace, nationality, and citizenship parameters with matching values – See entry under #Changes to WP:POLICY and WP:PROCESS pages, above.
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 219#RfC: Use of Large Quotes in article space, and the Cquote template – See entry under #Changes to WP:POLICY and WP:PROCESS pages, above.
• Template talk:R from television episode#RfC: The template wording's accuracy – N To resolve a dispute about instructions in the template. No consensus was reached.
• Template talk:Interlanguage link#Use square brackets – Y Style cleanup; implemented with unanimous support.
• WP:WIKILAWYER
  , but so it goes.
• Module talk:Yesno#Support on/off detection – Y Module-improvement request accepted; a follow-up to the successful proposal at the template version, since it did not carry over, somehow, to the module implementation.

Nominations of others for permissions, etc.

• Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Page mover#ProcrastinatingReader – Y Nomination of editor for WP:Page mover permission. Was accepted [5].

Sockpuppet investigations, requests for arbitration, sanctions/remedies

I won't list all of them here, just those that "did something". Lots of noticeboard action just archive away without closure, or close as "no action at this time".

• Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#WanderingWanda – Y Won't go into details here. Closed as something to be addressed by ArbCom directly, but closed with admonition [6]. That was my actual expectation of and intent for the outcome, though the suggested topic-ban would also have been appropriate.
• WP:POVRAILROAD attempt. Case was going to close with simply a mutual interaction-ban [9], which is what was proposed/expected at the start, before it was hijacked for railroading. Case closed without formal decision [10] upon the death, after a long illness, of one of the parties (see WP:Deceased Wikipedians/2021#Flyer22
  )
• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1004#Proposed image-placement topic ban for Beyond My Ken – Y Long-term editwarring case. As I expected, it did not result in the proposed T-ban; it did result in a self-imposed restriction, which is more than what I did expect (just a warning). So, issue solved.
• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1003#Fæ's return to canvassing and incivility/aspersions in gender-related disputes – Y Closed without consensus; remanded to Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case#Conduct dispute involving gendered pronouns (still open as of March 2018)
• Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/107.215.53.37/Archive#06 January 2019 – Y A pair of IPs used by the same person for consistent vandalism.
• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive997#Incivility, disruptive "dumping" in threads, and activism against notability guidelines by James500 – Y Warning issued (the actual intent, though it came close to a topic ban)
• Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Best known for IP – Y A set of disruptive and uncivil IP socks was positively IDed and blocked.
• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive997#Disruptive editing by User:IQ125 – Y Topic ban from terriers, and dog-fighting.
• Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Civility in infobox discussions – Y Request to include someone as a party in the RfArb about someone else; was accepted, but the end result was just a warning.
• Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Tobias Conradi/Archive#10 December 2017 – Y A set of IP socks was positively IDed and blocked.
• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive968#Editwarring, incivility, etc. by FleetCommand (November 2017) – Y Disruptive editor topic-banned from MoS.
• Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement/Archive189#Darkfrog24 (January–February 2016) – Y MoS's longest-term disruptor finally topic-banned. This was, I think, the fifth such noticeboard action, the second by me; same user has since got blocked, got indeffed, had talk-page access revoked, and had multiple appeals declined.