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Discussion report
Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations
The following is a brief overview of the current discussions on the English Wikipedia.
Proposals
- Article Feedback Guidelines
- Currently there is no formally adopted guideline that exists for editors that work with the Article Feedback program. A draft of the guideline is currently in the works.
- Authority control identifiers
- A proposal to extend the use of authority control identifiersto a large number of articles.
Requests for comment (RfCs)
- Global ban discussion
- As mentioned in the previous Discussion report, the community is still trying to work on the details of the global ban policy regarding problematic editors.
- Purpose of the Community portal
- A recent discussion about the purpose of the Community Portal was started by Maryana, a Wikimedia Foundation employee. Is this page for new users to be educated about the community or is it for experienced users to find updates about the community?
- New suppressredirect userright
- The suppressredirect permission has the ability to not make a redirect when moving an article. Discussion has opened up to see if this should be a new userright for editors.
- X on Twitter articles
- Recent articles such as Justin Bieber on Twitterare drawing controversy about whether they are appropriate for Wikipedia. This also leads to the discussion of future X on Y articles for other internet properties.
- Updating level-one user warnings
- With a view to retaining new editors, a study is looking at how warnings are affecting users—in particular, whether the warning bites the newcomer or reminds the user of the rules.
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