Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-11-23/Discussion report

Discussion report

Discussion report for this week

Foul play on Wikipedia

biographies of living persons policy: France/Ireland match fallout". The article regarding the Republic of Ireland national football team

has seen a low level of vandalism but has yet to be protected at any level.

The article created to summarise the match itself,

Hand of God goal. Three community requests for comment are currently open on the issue, see below

for details.

Policy report

WP:Update has monthly reports of changes to all the policy pages in subcategories of Wikipedia policy and guidelines (except "legal") and all the General style guidelines going back to mid- to late 2008. Since September, policy reports have also been generated a week before the end of each month, in the hope that editors will use the information to discuss policy changes before the Update at the end of the month. Any editor is welcome to edit the reports or start a new report at WP:Update/3.

Here are some of the changes reported this month at

Community sanctions

, with guidance extended in line with the new focus.

Who watches the admins

The recent request for comment regarding Admin Recall held at Wikipedia:WikiProject Administrator/Admin Recall has been closed and summarised. Ben MacDui concluded that "The status quo, whilst garnering some support, is very unpopular. 77% of respondents do not support its continuation. Only one proposal achieved a greater degree of support than opposition—'Wikipedia:Community de-adminship'—which received a majority of 13, and the support of 65% of those who considered it. Hats off to its creator Uncle G (talk · contribs)." This led to the creation of Wikipedia talk:Community de-adminship/Draft RfC, which aims to refine Community de-adminship through discussion so that a formal Request for comment can be held as to whether or not to adopt the proposal. The drafting process will continue until 8 pm GMT on Monday 4 January 2010.

Deletion round-up

There are a number of contentious deletion debates this week. The article on

BLP". The subject of the article has requested deletion of the article, and is currently suing the WikiMedia Foundation based on German statutes (see last issue

). Many Wikipedians believe the article should be kept since the coverage in reliable sources allows a balanced article to be created, while a number believe the article should be deleted as the subject has minimal notability.

A fifth nomination for
Wikipedia Watch at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia Watch (5th nomination)
.

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The article on Mishk'vei ishah has been nominated for deletion here as being "more of an essay than an article"" by Avi. Opinion is divided
List of socialist countries has been nominated for a third time here due to concerns that it is "too simplistic—the world can not be organised into lists as basic as this one". This nomination is by Matt Lewis
This week's too long didn't read award goes to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oregon High Desert Grotto
Relisted debate of the week is Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SUPER (software), currently on its third relisting

Briefly

At the Biographies of living persons Noticeboard there are concerns that the Roman Polanski article is being undermined
Wikipedia:Naming conventions (architecture) is a new proposal
Should we add a small featured star to the caption box near the featured picture so that
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