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RfM

this William / subnational entity naming thing? it's quite since at least two weeks. fine with me not todo anything there. thx a lot and happy new year. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 02:13, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

RFM - Beatriz Marinello

Thanks for your kind offer. Mediation would most likely be fruitless. Billbrock 02:19, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

RFM subnational entities?

Hello, are you still interested in mediation? Please reply at my talk page. Redwolf24 (talk) 02:07, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure. I don't quite understand the processes yet, and they are not well documented.
  • When do the the RFCs become complete? I don't see any time limit listed, and it's hard to figure out where everything stands:
    1. Conradi never responded to the Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/Tobias Conradi. What happens next?
    2. The MedCab guy issued "final" comments on the one that he started at Misplaced Pages:Request for comment/Naming conventions (subnational entities). Again, what happens next?
  • Meanwhile, having been driven off the "(subnational entities)" project page, I posted my proposed text on the superior project "(places)" — and after virtually no controversy (unlike the fierce fights over US and Canada there), it's all now part of the adopted guidelines at Misplaced Pages:Naming conventions (places). It probably helped that I've some experience writing international standards (Google is your friend).
  • Really, it all came down to the tamper tantrums of one guy.
  • The reasons for the tantrums became apparent when I discovered Conradi had been vigorously moving/renaming pages to create a de facto standard after losing the straw poll of August 2005.
  • The issue isn't resolved with finality, as there are still thousands of pages to be moved and fixed to conform to the new guidelines.
    • Do RfCs persist until all the problems are fixed?
    • Would a goal of RfM be that Conradi help in putting things back where they belong?
  • After so long a wait, I'd hate to give up the opportunity for actual RfM help, but as I don't know what's the regular practice for completion of RfCs, and how RfM fits into the schema, I don't know what to do next.
  • (I'll watch here for the answer.)
--William Allen Simpson 02:49, 10 January 2006 (UTC)