Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Persistent proposals

This page is currently inactive and is retained for historical reference. Either the page is no longer relevant or consensus on its purpose has become unclear. To revive discussion, seek broader input via a forum such as the village pump.

This page is no longer used or actively monitored. It should be viewed as an archive.

Rationale: The purpose of this page was to provide safe haven to proposals that showed consensus, but that would otherwise have become automatically archived due to inactivity before they could be implemented. It was an effort to ensure that potentially valuable proposals were not forgotten simply because there was currently no time to implement them. Developer intervention is required in order to implement most proposals, so this page was viewed as especially necessary while the developers are particularly busy with long-term projects.

However, in reality, discussions here were mostly forgotten. The page was only active for its first year or so, and then rarely saw comments anymore, and the number of comments placed continually declined.

If a proposal needs to be "persistent", try opening a new discussion on the Village Pump that specifically discusses implementation. If the proposal is potentially complex, create a new page for this purpose. For purely technical implementations, open a bug at one of Mediawiki's bug-tracking systems.

Note: This is not the place to post new proposals that have not been discussed at all yet. Post new proposals at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals). Also, do not confuse this with perennial proposals, which are "persistent" in that they are frequently made, but have all been rejected. Proposals here, conversely, showed some degree of consensus.