Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2012-03-05/Discussion report

Discussion report

COI and NOTCENSORED: policies under discussion


In brief
Discussions of note
  • Poll to determine why there is a lack of non-date-specific submissions for "Today's featured article"
  • An RfC on the Arbitration Committee and how to deal with good-editing sockpuppets.
  • RfC on adding a more prominent link to Special:MyContributions for IP editors
  • RfC about allowing watchlisting of user contributions
  • Binding community discussion on the Abortion article titles, as requested by the Arbitration Committee
  • RfC on the proposed cessation of selective delete (other than history merge fixes) and resulting changes to deletion policies, including the removal of a Revision Deletion criterion
Discussions covered in the main body of the discussion report are not listed here.

This week saw a major change in focus from conduct (last edition) to policies. Discussions have been started through various avenues on Wikipedia about a number of policies such as WP:NOTCENSORED and WP:COI.