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    Talk:Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

    The opening to the Abdel Fattah el-Sisi article read:

    Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil El-Sisi (born 19 November 1954) is an Egyptian politician, dictator, and retired military officer who has been serving as the sixth and current president of Egypt since 2014.

    (The word dictator been been removed for now while the RfC discussion takes place)

    Should Sisi be referred to as a dictator? Some of these options are not mutually exclusive, so more than one can be selected:

    • A. Yes he should be, in a similar way as described above or found in the the leads of Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Kim Jong Un, Hafez al Assad, Pinochet
    • B. No he should not be, but he should be described as an authoritarian ruler, leader of an authoritarian regime, or leader of a military dictatorship somewhere in the lead, similar to the leads of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Mohammed bin Salman, Ilham Aliyev, Isaias Afwerki
    • C. No he should not be, but some variation of "Many observers see Sisi as a dictator" should be included in the lead.
    • D. No he should not be, and he should not be described as an authoritarian ruler. Instead, different arguments regarding his form of rule should be summarized in the body.
    • E. Other (please elaborate)

    Firecat93 (talk) 16:55, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Squad (U.S. Congress)

    Should the Squad be described in the article as "far left?" ~~~~ TFD (talk) 22:14, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Elon Musk

    Musk is the wealthiest person in the world. He has been described as an oligarch by prominent commentators, academics, and experts.

    Should a variant of the following sentence be included in the lead?

    Due to his considerable influence over American government policy, politics, media, industry, and public discourse, some academics and politicians have characterized Musk as an American oligarch.

    Does this addition have any support? Are there any other suggestions? (Some editors have argued that Musk should directly be referred to as an oligarch in the lead. I now agree with those that oppose doing so per WP:UNDUE.) Firecat93 (talk) 08:33, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Taylor Lorenz

    What is the appropriate due coverage of the comments Lorenz made about the murder of Brian Thompson and the controversy surrounding them? See details and sources in the previous discussion here.
    1. Whole section (2+ paragraphs)
    2. Whole paragraph (3-6 sentences)
    3. Short mention (1-2 sentences)
    4. No mention

    Vegan416 (talk) 19:39, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Thomas Sewell (neo-Nazi)

    Should the article include the guard’s actions (grabbing the camera lens and touching Hersant’s shoulder) and the court’s findings regarding Sewell’s claims on racial motivation and self-defence?

    Evoren (talk) 15:08, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Donald Trump

    The current lead contains a simple mention of Trumpism. Should a brief description be added to this mention? A proposed wording for the added text, which is also up for debate here: characterized by right-wing populism, "America First" nationalism, and economic protectionism.Goszei (talk) 04:51, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Science of Identity Foundation

    Should the article about the Science of Identity Foundation contain a section about the "Association to Tulsi Gabbard and her family"?
    Should it say that "Tulsi Gabbard has since distanced herself from SIF"?
    • A: Yes to both
    • B: Yes to the first question, no to the second one
    • C: No to both

    ~ ToBeFree (talk) 01:18, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Should the article on Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov include the following infobox?

    Robert McClenon (talk) 15:41, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Death of Mahsa Amini

    Should Masha Amini be referred to as Kurdish-Iranian in the first sentence of the lead?

    This has previously been discussed at Talk:Death of Mahsa Amini/Archive 1#"Kurdish-Iranian" at Mahsa Amini, Talk:Mahsa Amini/Archive 1#Mahsa Amini was a Kurdish-Iranian and Talk:Death of Mahsa Amini#Kurdish-Iranian. TarnishedPath 02:26, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Matt Gaetz

    Should allegations of child sex trafficking and statutory rape be covered in the lead? If yes, to what extent?

    Prior discussions have occured at Misplaced Pages:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive364#Matt Gaetz, Talk:Matt Gaetz#Criminal allegations in the lede and Talk:Matt Gaetz#LEAD weight TarnishedPath 04:45, 28 November 2024 (UTC)


    Economy, trade, and companies

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    Talk:Squad (U.S. Congress)

    Should the Squad be described in the article as "far left?" ~~~~ TFD (talk) 22:14, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:List of tallest buildings and structures in the Birmingham Metropolitan Area, West Midlands

    Which, if any, subsections of List of tallest buildings and structures in the Birmingham Metropolitan Area, West Midlands#Approved, proposed and emergent should be deleted? Should buildings in these sections with and without Misplaced Pages articles be treated differently? In favor of deletion is an interpretation of WP:CRYSTAL which says uncertain future events like building construction are out of scope for Misplaced Pages, especially for emergent proposals, which have not yet sought planning approval and it's unclear have a 50% probability of actually happening due to government rejection or financial difficulties. Against deletion is the argument that it's useful for research purposes to document the proposals and even though the proposals might not get built, they are referenced to reliable sources; approved designs are specific and more likely to get built. After this RFC is complete, the article may be split due to size, depending on what is kept. -- Beland (talk) 01:45, 4 December 2024 (UTC)


    History and geography

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    Talk:September 11 attacks

    I'd like to understand why we don't keep this photo collage much more representative than the image montage in the article at the moment. The main image I suggested is obviously better in terms of framing and resolution, as well as showing the exact moment when the second plane crashed into the WTC. Chronus (talk) 21:29, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:2005 Birmingham tornado

    Should the article’s infobox reflect EF2/T4 or F3/T5-6? This question stems from the fact the infobox inputs can only accept a single set of values (i.e. EF2/T4 or F3/T5-6, not both). The EF2/T4 rating comes from a peer reviewed paper by Timothy P. Marshall and Stuart Robinson with the Haag Engineering Co. which was published in the American Meteorological Society in August 2006. The F3/T5-6 rating comes from the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO), the creators of the TORRO scale, T-scale, published in this 2015 paper.

    Since the infobox can only contain one set of the ratings, this discussion more or less needs to determine which source (Haag Engineering Co. or TORRO) should be the infobox source.

    • Option 1 — EF2/T4 using the Haag Engineering Co. paper.
    • Option 2 — F3/T5-6 using the TORRO paper.

    The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 03:20, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Second Nagorno-Karabakh War

    What should the infobox indicate as the location of the hostilities?

    Please enter Option 1 or Option 2, followed by a brief statement, in the Survey. Do not reply to other users in the Survey. Back-and-forth discussion may be conducted in the Discussion section. Grandmaster 16:18, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Sabiha Gökçen

    Should the this Misplaced Pages page contain the section begining: article in the newspaper Agos, headlined "The Secret of Sabiha Hatun"? 217.44.10.171 (talk) 09:27, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Second Nagorno-Karabakh War

    The RfC is whether to retain or remove Syrian mercenaries from the belligerents section of the infobox. Cinderella157 (talk) 02:58, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Estado Novo (Portugal)

    I'm opening a new RfC in an attempt to permanently solve this dispute. Should the Estado Novo regime be considered fascist? -- 2804:29B8:5183:100C:7163:1F92:A81A:7841 (talk) 23:44, 8 December 2024 (UTC)


    Language and linguistics

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    Maths, science, and technology

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    Talk:2005 Birmingham tornado

    Should the article’s infobox reflect EF2/T4 or F3/T5-6? This question stems from the fact the infobox inputs can only accept a single set of values (i.e. EF2/T4 or F3/T5-6, not both). The EF2/T4 rating comes from a peer reviewed paper by Timothy P. Marshall and Stuart Robinson with the Haag Engineering Co. which was published in the American Meteorological Society in August 2006. The F3/T5-6 rating comes from the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO), the creators of the TORRO scale, T-scale, published in this 2015 paper.

    Since the infobox can only contain one set of the ratings, this discussion more or less needs to determine which source (Haag Engineering Co. or TORRO) should be the infobox source.

    • Option 1 — EF2/T4 using the Haag Engineering Co. paper.
    • Option 2 — F3/T5-6 using the TORRO paper.

    The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 03:20, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

    Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Weather

    Should we have notability standards for individual tornado articles? We already have informal inclusion criteria for "Tornadoes of YYYY" articles. Below is a preliminary proposal for such criteria, with the hope that it can evolve into a formal guideline that can possibly be referenced in future AfD discussions.

    recycle Previous discussions: New tornado articles and the news, Proposal - Criteria for inclusion on Tornadoes of XXXX articles

    This has been nagging at me for a while now, and since another editor has talked to me about this issue, I think we bring this up. Since we have a sort of "inclusion criteria" for "Tornadoes of YYYY" articles, I suggest we come up with notability criteria for individual tornadoes as well. See User:EF5/My tornado criteria for what this may look like.


    This is my very primitive way of determining the notability of several tornado articles I've written, and am hoping that it could be integrated into a refined set-in-stone WPW policy that could be used in actual AfDs. I'd assume that the table will be gotten rid of and turned into a list. This has been discussed in the past, but never really came to anything. Maybe it could be... WP:NTORNADO (with it's own project page)? Starting an RfC, since obviously community input is needed. Also pinging @Departure–:, who suggested this. :) EF 18:56, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Catnip

    Should the lead of the article mention alternatives that may affect cats not affected by catnip? Escape Orbit 13:13, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:2020 Cookeville tornado

    I have serious doubts about the authenticity of the tornado image in the article, including whether it was truthfully even taken in Cookeville. The image mentions it was taken from Reddit, and searching the image on Reddit reveals a high level of skepticism even from users there. I propose that this image be discussed and potentially removed unless it can be otherwise proven that the picture was taken in Cookeville on March 3. United States Man (talk) 19:46, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

    Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Weather

    Should weak and unimpactful tornadoes be included in list articles? Departure– (talk) 14:20, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

    Misplaced Pages:Reliable sources/Noticeboard

    Is the blog Science-Based Medicine in whole or in part, a self-published source? Iljhgtn (talk) 01:20, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Earth

    Which picture should be used in the lead?

    Prior discussion:

    WhatisMars (talk) 19:46, 5 December 2024 (UTC)


    Art, architecture, literature, and media

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    Talk:Big Foot (Nicki Minaj song)

    Should the article contain a composition/lyrics section, include content about Ben Shapiro's relationship to the song, and background information giving context to the song's release? Flabshoe1 (talk) 03:49, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:List of sitcoms known for negative reception

    Should animated sitcoms be listed in this article or in List of television shows notable for negative reception#Animated shows, or both? –LaundryPizza03 (d) 03:46, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Game Science

    Has Game Science's sexism controversy added controversy around Black Myth: Wukong's launch, and should this information be appended to the first sentence of the paragraph that starts with "In 2023, IGN released a report"? Aaron Liu (talk) 03:25, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Wicked (2024 film)

    When referring to Grande in the article, should her credited name or common name, i.e. should "Ariana Grande-Butera" or "Ariana Grande", be used? Happily888 (talk) 08:20, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

    Misplaced Pages:Reliable sources/Noticeboard

    What is the reliability of the German tabloid Bild, including its website Bild.de?
    1. Generally reliable
    2. Additional considerations apply
    3. Generally unreliable
    4. Deprecated

    Hemiauchenia (talk) 22:10, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Court of the Lions

    Should the following revision/expansion be accepted or rejected?

    It concerns the paragraph introducing the quoted excerpt in the section currently titled "Excerpt of Ibn Zamrak's poem on the basin" (about an inscription carved into the courtyard's fountain). It currently reads as:

    The poet and minister Ibn Zamrak wrote a poem to describe the beauty of the courtyard. It also describes the fountain's hydraulic system. It is carved around the rim of the basin:

    The proposed expansion would read as:

    Carved around the rim of the basin is a poem of twelve verses by the vizier and poet Ibn Zamrak. Six of the verses originate, with minor modifications, from a longer qasida of 146 verses that Ibn Zamrak composed for the banquet honoring the circumcision of Muhammad V's son, Abd Allah. Verses from the same qasida are also included in the Hall of the Two Sisters. The first part of the poem refers specifically to the fountain and alludes to how its hydraulic system functioned. Below is an excerpt (verses 3 to 7):

    If accepted, further copy-edits or suggestions about wording are also welcome. If relevant for context, the reasons for starting this RfC are this edit and this revert, along with the discussion above. R Prazeres (talk) 21:22, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

    Misplaced Pages talk:Naming conventions (music)

    Should the naming convention for disambiguating boy bands be updated to be "(band)" instead of "(group)"? RachelTensions (talk) 22:51, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

    Misplaced Pages:Reliable sources/Noticeboard

    Is the blog Science-Based Medicine in whole or in part, a self-published source? Iljhgtn (talk) 01:20, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:List of tallest buildings and structures in the Birmingham Metropolitan Area, West Midlands

    Which, if any, subsections of List of tallest buildings and structures in the Birmingham Metropolitan Area, West Midlands#Approved, proposed and emergent should be deleted? Should buildings in these sections with and without Misplaced Pages articles be treated differently? In favor of deletion is an interpretation of WP:CRYSTAL which says uncertain future events like building construction are out of scope for Misplaced Pages, especially for emergent proposals, which have not yet sought planning approval and it's unclear have a 50% probability of actually happening due to government rejection or financial difficulties. Against deletion is the argument that it's useful for research purposes to document the proposals and even though the proposals might not get built, they are referenced to reliable sources; approved designs are specific and more likely to get built. After this RFC is complete, the article may be split due to size, depending on what is kept. -- Beland (talk) 01:45, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Should the article on Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov include the following infobox?

    Robert McClenon (talk) 15:41, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

    Misplaced Pages:Reliable sources/Noticeboard

    Is Indie Vision Music - Contact/staff - Contact/staff from 2006-2020 a generally reliable source for music-related journalism?--3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 18:49, 30 November 2024 (UTC)


    Politics, government, and law

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    Talk:Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

    The opening to the Abdel Fattah el-Sisi article read:

    Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil El-Sisi (born 19 November 1954) is an Egyptian politician, dictator, and retired military officer who has been serving as the sixth and current president of Egypt since 2014.

    (The word dictator been been removed for now while the RfC discussion takes place)

    Should Sisi be referred to as a dictator? Some of these options are not mutually exclusive, so more than one can be selected:

    • A. Yes he should be, in a similar way as described above or found in the the leads of Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Kim Jong Un, Hafez al Assad, Pinochet
    • B. No he should not be, but he should be described as an authoritarian ruler, leader of an authoritarian regime, or leader of a military dictatorship somewhere in the lead, similar to the leads of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Mohammed bin Salman, Ilham Aliyev, Isaias Afwerki
    • C. No he should not be, but some variation of "Many observers see Sisi as a dictator" should be included in the lead.
    • D. No he should not be, and he should not be described as an authoritarian ruler. Instead, different arguments regarding his form of rule should be summarized in the body.
    • E. Other (please elaborate)

    Firecat93 (talk) 16:55, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Squad (U.S. Congress)

    Should the Squad be described in the article as "far left?" ~~~~ TFD (talk) 22:14, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:1996 New Zealand general election

    Should the bottom of the infobox in this election and all elections that follow it, which use the mixed-member proportional system, show the Prime Minister and their party alone (similarly to other Westminster systems, such as the UK, Australia, and Canada), or the Cabinet and its member parties (similarly to other systems that have coalition governments, such as Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland)? Glide08 (talk) 13:37, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Second Nagorno-Karabakh War

    What should the infobox indicate as the location of the hostilities?

    Please enter Option 1 or Option 2, followed by a brief statement, in the Survey. Do not reply to other users in the Survey. Back-and-forth discussion may be conducted in the Discussion section. Grandmaster 16:18, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Mackinac Center for Public Policy

    This a request for comment on the above question and previous section. Is the Mackinac Center for Public Policy a Conservative group and should be described as such? And does the polices listed above overrule the more widely available references describing their relationships and them as Conservative vs Free-Market? ContentEditman (talk) 02:35, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:National Socialist Network

    Should the Riverina chapter of the NSN be included in the infobox? Evoren (talk) 16:11, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Thomas Sewell (neo-Nazi)

    Should the article include the guard’s actions (grabbing the camera lens and touching Hersant’s shoulder) and the court’s findings regarding Sewell’s claims on racial motivation and self-defence?

    Evoren (talk) 15:08, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

    Template talk:Infobox US political party

    Should this template (a modified version of the political party infobox) be used on US political party pages? (previous attempt at seeking a consensus) RiverMan18 (talk) 14:57, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Donald Trump

    The current lead contains a simple mention of Trumpism. Should a brief description be added to this mention? A proposed wording for the added text, which is also up for debate here: characterized by right-wing populism, "America First" nationalism, and economic protectionism.Goszei (talk) 04:51, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Second Nagorno-Karabakh War

    The RfC is whether to retain or remove Syrian mercenaries from the belligerents section of the infobox. Cinderella157 (talk) 02:58, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Syrian civil war

    Is the Syrian civil war over? 207.96.32.81 (talk) 00:52, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Estado Novo (Portugal)

    I'm opening a new RfC in an attempt to permanently solve this dispute. Should the Estado Novo regime be considered fascist? -- 2804:29B8:5183:100C:7163:1F92:A81A:7841 (talk) 23:44, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:2004 United States election voting controversies

    Debate is ongoing as to whether content should be included in this article. This RfC covers two questions:
    • Question 1: Should this article mention the John Conyers report "What Went Wrong In Ohio"
    • Question 2: If so, what wording should be used?

    Toa Nidhiki05 18:22, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Zionism

    Does this sentence violate NPOV and should it be removed from the lead and the body?

    "Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible" Bob drobbs (talk) 18:33, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Death of Mahsa Amini

    Should Masha Amini be referred to as Kurdish-Iranian in the first sentence of the lead?

    This has previously been discussed at Talk:Death of Mahsa Amini/Archive 1#"Kurdish-Iranian" at Mahsa Amini, Talk:Mahsa Amini/Archive 1#Mahsa Amini was a Kurdish-Iranian and Talk:Death of Mahsa Amini#Kurdish-Iranian. TarnishedPath 02:26, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Matt Gaetz

    Should allegations of child sex trafficking and statutory rape be covered in the lead? If yes, to what extent?

    Prior discussions have occured at Misplaced Pages:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive364#Matt Gaetz, Talk:Matt Gaetz#Criminal allegations in the lede and Talk:Matt Gaetz#LEAD weight TarnishedPath 04:45, 28 November 2024 (UTC)


    Religion and philosophy

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    Talk:Death of Mahsa Amini

    Should Masha Amini be referred to as Kurdish-Iranian in the first sentence of the lead?

    This has previously been discussed at Talk:Death of Mahsa Amini/Archive 1#"Kurdish-Iranian" at Mahsa Amini, Talk:Mahsa Amini/Archive 1#Mahsa Amini was a Kurdish-Iranian and Talk:Death of Mahsa Amini#Kurdish-Iranian. TarnishedPath 02:26, 29 November 2024 (UTC)


    Society, sports, and culture

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    Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Rugby league

    Should we standardise each English Rugby League team's seasonal results article (where at all possible) to adopt the collapsible fixtures box format used by articles for Australian NRL teams as well as, most recently, for Castleford Tigers? See 2024 Newcastle Knights season#Matches and 2024 Castleford Tigers season#Results for the system in action:
    • Yes
    • No, adopt a different results format, or
    • No, keep the results formats as they are

    Hullian111 (talk) 12:26, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Taylor Lorenz

    What is the appropriate due coverage of the comments Lorenz made about the murder of Brian Thompson and the controversy surrounding them? See details and sources in the previous discussion here.
    1. Whole section (2+ paragraphs)
    2. Whole paragraph (3-6 sentences)
    3. Short mention (1-2 sentences)
    4. No mention

    Vegan416 (talk) 19:39, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:ONE Championship

    Should Bloody Elbow pre-March 2024 be considered a reliable source on ONE Championship?

    Talk:Game Science

    Has Game Science's sexism controversy added controversy around Black Myth: Wukong's launch, and should this information be appended to the first sentence of the paragraph that starts with "In 2023, IGN released a report"? Aaron Liu (talk) 03:25, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:National Socialist Network

    Should the Riverina chapter of the NSN be included in the infobox? Evoren (talk) 16:11, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Thomas Sewell (neo-Nazi)

    Should the article include the guard’s actions (grabbing the camera lens and touching Hersant’s shoulder) and the court’s findings regarding Sewell’s claims on racial motivation and self-defence?

    Evoren (talk) 15:08, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Catnip

    Should the lead of the article mention alternatives that may affect cats not affected by catnip? Escape Orbit 13:13, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge

    A recent, informal discussion produced a lot of opinions but no clear consensus.

    Should the "notable people" section in this article be:

    • A: Deleted
    • B: Kept as a bulleted list of notable people
    • C: Converted to prose description / narrative list of notable people
    • D: Converted to prose description / narrative list and limited to the following people: ______, ______, _______, etc.
    • E: Something else

    (I included the above options as those that appear to have been supported by at least one person in the informal discussion. My apologies if I missed or misrepresented something.) Chetsford (talk) 20:11, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

    Template talk:Discrimination

    There is an ongoing dispute about whether some articles detailing discrimination to certain ethnic groups (Anti-French sentiment, Anti-English sentiment, etc.) should be included in the template, the main argument against their inclusion being that sources should directly state whether the pages are about discrimination. Should these pages be included or not? —TwinBoo (talk) 17:10, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

    Misplaced Pages talk:Notability (sports)

    RfC: Should the following paragraph be added to WP:NMOTORSPORT?

    10. Meet the following criteria for the the respective single seater series: A driver who has met at least one of the following criteria for single seater racing:

    note: strikethrough text was replaced by underlined text after the proposal per the discussion.

    GalacticVelocity08 (talk) 01:01, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Death of Mahsa Amini

    Should Masha Amini be referred to as Kurdish-Iranian in the first sentence of the lead?

    This has previously been discussed at Talk:Death of Mahsa Amini/Archive 1#"Kurdish-Iranian" at Mahsa Amini, Talk:Mahsa Amini/Archive 1#Mahsa Amini was a Kurdish-Iranian and Talk:Death of Mahsa Amini#Kurdish-Iranian. TarnishedPath 02:26, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Kshatriya


    Misplaced Pages style and naming

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    Template talk:Infobox US political party

    Should this template (a modified version of the political party infobox) be used on US political party pages? (previous attempt at seeking a consensus) RiverMan18 (talk) 14:57, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

    Misplaced Pages talk:Naming conventions (music)

    Should the naming convention for disambiguating boy bands be updated to be "(band)" instead of "(group)"? RachelTensions (talk) 22:51, 8 December 2024 (UTC)


    Misplaced Pages policies and guidelines

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    Talk:Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

    The opening to the Abdel Fattah el-Sisi article read:

    Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil El-Sisi (born 19 November 1954) is an Egyptian politician, dictator, and retired military officer who has been serving as the sixth and current president of Egypt since 2014.

    (The word dictator been been removed for now while the RfC discussion takes place)

    Should Sisi be referred to as a dictator? Some of these options are not mutually exclusive, so more than one can be selected:

    • A. Yes he should be, in a similar way as described above or found in the the leads of Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Kim Jong Un, Hafez al Assad, Pinochet
    • B. No he should not be, but he should be described as an authoritarian ruler, leader of an authoritarian regime, or leader of a military dictatorship somewhere in the lead, similar to the leads of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Mohammed bin Salman, Ilham Aliyev, Isaias Afwerki
    • C. No he should not be, but some variation of "Many observers see Sisi as a dictator" should be included in the lead.
    • D. No he should not be, and he should not be described as an authoritarian ruler. Instead, different arguments regarding his form of rule should be summarized in the body.
    • E. Other (please elaborate)

    Firecat93 (talk) 16:55, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Mackinac Center for Public Policy

    This a request for comment on the above question and previous section. Is the Mackinac Center for Public Policy a Conservative group and should be described as such? And does the polices listed above overrule the more widely available references describing their relationships and them as Conservative vs Free-Market? ContentEditman (talk) 02:35, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

    Misplaced Pages:Village pump (policy)

    Should Misplaced Pages:Administrators#Restoration of admin tools be amended to:
    • Option 1 – Require former administrators to request restoration of their tools at the bureaucrats' noticeboard (BN) if they are eligible to do so (i.e., they do not fit into any of the exceptions).
    • Option 2 – Clarify Maintain the status quo that former administrators who would be eligible to request restoration via BN may instead request restoration of their tools via a voluntary request for adminship (RfA).
    • Option 3 – Allow bureaucrats to SNOW-close RfAs as successful if (a) 48 hours have passed, (b) the editor has right of resysop, and (c) a SNOW close is warranted.

    Background: This issue arose in one recent RfA and is currently being discussed in an ongoing RfA. voorts (talk/contributions) 21:14, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

    Misplaced Pages talk:Please do not bite the newcomers

    There are several questions, as follows:
    1. Should the lead of the current guideline be replaced with lead of the rewrite?
    2. Should the "Common newcomer scenarios" section and the "How to avoid being a "biter" section of the current guideline be replaced with "How to avoid biting" section of the rewrite?
    3. Should the "Ignorantia juris may excuse" section of the current guideline be replaced with the "It is okay not to be aware of guidelines" section of the rewrite?
    4. Should the "What to do if you feel you have "bitten" or "have been bitten" section of the current guideline be replaced with the "I have bitten someone—what do I do?" section of the rewrite?

    The proposed rewrite can be found here: Misplaced Pages:Please do not bite the newcomers/rewrite. Please refrain from making significant changes to the rewrite while the RfC is ongoing. Also see the idea lab discussion: Misplaced Pages:Village pump (idea lab) § Rewriting WP:BITE. After the last RfC, User:Alalch E. has done work on cleaning up the "Understanding newcomers" section. Ca 14:28, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

    Talk:Second Nagorno-Karabakh War

    The RfC is whether to retain or remove Syrian mercenaries from the belligerents section of the infobox. Cinderella157 (talk) 02:58, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

    Template talk:Expand language

    Should the sentence in the instructions to this template "If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article" be reworded? Fangz (talk) 10:14, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

    Misplaced Pages talk:Notability (sports)

    RfC: Should the following paragraph be added to WP:NMOTORSPORT?

    10. Meet the following criteria for the the respective single seater series: A driver who has met at least one of the following criteria for single seater racing:

    note: strikethrough text was replaced by underlined text after the proposal per the discussion.

    GalacticVelocity08 (talk) 01:01, 30 November 2024 (UTC)


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    Template talk:Expand language

    Should the sentence in the instructions to this template "If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article" be reworded? Fangz (talk) 10:14, 4 December 2024 (UTC)


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    Should admins or other users evaluating consensus in a discussion discount, ignore, or strike through or collapse comments found to have been generated by AI/LLM/Chatbots? 00:12, 2 December 2024 (UTC)


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