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This page is to request comment on policy or guideline topics. That applies both to disputes about any current policy or guideline, and any new proposals or amendments to those. Further, policy matters are also discussed at Misplaced Pages:Village pump (policy). Template:RFCheader

• A propose for the adoption of the following new policy: Misplaced Pages:Responding to suicidal individuals. This proposal has been extensively discussed here, and that discussion is also reproduced and has been expanded on at the talk page for the proposed policy. In a nutshell the policy is “Misplaced Pages is not a counseling service. Respond to suicidal individuals by pointing them towards one of the listed crisis lines/websites. Do not ridicule or make personal attacks on suicidal editors.” Please edit or comment upon this proposed policy. Thank you. 22:29, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

• User:Itayb/Randopedia - a suggestion for introducing randomization into Misplaced Pages to help deal with some problematic aspects, such as conflicts of interest and cabals (I know, there is no cabal. But just to be on the safe side...). Comments are most welcome. 15:59, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

• Reference Desk Talk Page There is a major dispute going on there. People are deleting things written by other users, there are edit wars, people are telling other people to leave Misplaced Pages and people are starting to leave Misplaced Pages. Some people are even going away to Wikiversity. Please, comment there! It's a dispute about what is the Reference Desk and how the Misplaced Pages pillars apply to the Reference Desk. A.Z. 16:52, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

• Privacy proposals. Should the proposals Misplaced Pages:Protecting children's privacy, Misplaced Pages:Youth protection, and Misplaced Pages:Privacy be marked as {{rejected}}? Please comment here. 11:38, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

• Image:FBISeal.png According to the United States Code, Title 18, Section 709, (and this does apply; Misplaced Pages's servers are in the US state of Florida) unauthorized use of the FBI seal, the words “Federal Bureau of Investigation,” the initials “FBI,” or any imitation “in a manner reasonably calculated to convey the impression that such ...is approved, endorsed, or authorized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation” is prohibited. Especially on the template Template:User FBI (which you'll have to look at a past version of) this is conveyed. 00:47, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

• Misplaced Pages:Scope: Requesting commentary about ensuring that information in articles remains within the scope of the article content. --Wasted Sapience 12:20, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

• Disambiguation: I cut down the list of Ohio townships on Franklin Township to just a link to Franklin Township, Ohio, thinking to make the page less cluttered and easier to use somewhat as a directory. Another editor disagreed, saying "is there a point to forcing readers to go to a second disambiguation page?" I don't know the proper policy on this. Would there please be somewhat of discussion on the Franklin Township talk page? 13:25, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

• Misplaced Pages talk:Naming conventions (UK_stations)#Request for Comment: Is this a policy a proposal or already policy?. Is policy formed when consensus is reached or when the majority of the relevant articles have been moved to conform to the policy? 03:13, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

• User:Jayron32/Guide to reviewing Good Articles. A draft proposal for more extensive guidance to editors wishing to review Good Articles candidates. Please make any changes as you see fit, and leave any comments you have on the talk page. I propose a goal of having the draft finalized within 2 weeks from today (by April 13) and moved to the GA project by that date. Thank you all for your attention to this. --Jayron32|talk|contribs 16:12, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

• Use of international wheelchair symbol — debate over acceptable use of the International Symbol of Access. 05:11, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

• Chemical compounds: Misplaced Pages has hundreds, if not thousands, of articles on chemical compounds, generally found in the many subcategories of Category:Chemical compounds by element. Unfortunately, many of these are permanent stubs and low on content, such as those listed here. Misplaced Pages:Chemical compounds has been created to discuss what to do with all this. Deletion is arguably a waste, but perhaps some articles can be combined into lists for greater comprehensiveness. Please join the discussion on Misplaced Pages talk:Chemical compounds. 16:25, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

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• Misplaced Pages:Naming conventions (UK stations) A proposal for the naming of stations in the UK. 19:00, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
• Misplaced Pages:Notability (organizations and companies) This page is a result of a merger of WP:ORG and WP:CORP. There is disagreement over the resolution of the wording of the former Misplaced Pages:Notability (organizations), and the issue of "notabilty" for non-commercial organizations. 23:37, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
• Misplaced Pages:Disruptive editing Should the guideline stipulate that community bans be decided by a consensus of uninvolved or impartial editors? 14:15, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
• User:Clarityfiend/Bus route notability A proposal to get rid of the thousands of articles describing bus routes. They're not what one expects to see in an encyclopedia, and there's already a policy against train and subway routes. 02:53, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
• Misplaced Pages:Administrator intervention against vandalism: Proposal to redefine the present convention of not blocking persistent vandals who space out their disruptive edits in order to evade blocks by taking advantage of the requirement that "the vandal active now". 18:38, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
• Misplaced Pages:Fair use/Amendment/Historical images A proposal to change fair use policy wording to more specifically allow fair use historical images (such as logos) which provide visual historical information about the subject of an article. DHowell 05:32, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
• Misplaced Pages:Credential ban A propsal to disallow the use of most credentials on Misplaced Pages. 23:34, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
• Misplaced Pages:Paid editing One possible solution (of many) to the question of paid editing. Inspired by the discussion on wikien-l. William Pietri 21:00, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
• User:Acalamari/IWN‎ Proposal involving the creation of a new noticeboard. Acalamari 20:39, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

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