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*] - stalled discussion regarding audience of technical articles *] - stalled discussion regarding audience of technical articles

*] — As currently defined, ] is in conflict with ], which significantly impairs the ability of users in ], ], ] and the ], among others, to illustrate government-related articles, as in many cases (political biographies, military decorations, etc.) there's simply no viable way around using Crown-copyrighted images. Discussion is to clarify to what extent ] can be applied to these types of images. ] 23:45, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

*] is a proposal for a new namespace similar to the category namespace but image-specialised. ] 19:58, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

*] has attempted to defined consensus at 60% for moving pages merely to ease the work of admins. This is not compatible either with general practice of how consensus is built on Misplaced Pages. The page also encourages ] (not ]s as a way of solving disputes and disagreement, rather than encouraging people to discuss the issues first. This goes against core policy such ] and has led to very problematic disputes surrounding several article moves.

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The non-"dispute resolution" wikipedia policy and guideline topics are currently at Misplaced Pages:Current surveys (although that page may be renamed in the future).

Further, policy matters are also discussed at Misplaced Pages:Village pump (policy).

This list is only for when policy and guideline issues are still problematic after inconclusive talks. Don't list here, unless steps prior to "further dispute resolution", as described in Misplaced Pages:dispute resolution, have been concluded. Please always make a link to where the main body of prior inconclusive talk can be found.

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  • Misplaced Pages:Be_bold_in_updating_pages - The longstanding guideline is being edit warred for the fourth or fifth time this year, and the revision (which contradicts later sections of the guideline) requires prior discussion of significant changes, in effect gutting the policy. 18:39, 8 November 2005 (UTC)