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• For discussions older than April 2006, see Misplaced Pages:Centralized discussion/Conclusions

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2006 February 16

(Misplaced Pages:Deletion policy/Area codes) I'd like to close this (since there's only been one comment), but I'm a little hesitant since Uncle G linked to a talk page, where an actual debate seems to have taken place. Any thoughts? --InShaneee 04:42, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

2006 April 6

• change Significance to Notability/Proposal (object moved)
• rm Misplaced Pages:Portal/Proposals (inactive new proposal)
• move Proposed policy on userboxes to old (stalled)
• group under Notability:
  • Notability/Proposal
  • Notability (academics)
  • WikiProject Music/Notability and Music Guidelines/Songs
  • Notability(software)
  • Misplaced Pages:Schools
• rm duplicate entry for Blocking Policy Proposal
• move Misplaced Pages:Requests for rollback privileges/Poll from poll to discussion (poll closed inconclusive, discussion still active)
• rm old Centralized discussion/Verses of John 20 (inactive, stalled)
• rm old Centralized discussion/Whole bible chapter text (inactive, stalled)
• rm old Centralized discussion/Television episodes (inactive, consensus achieved)
• rm old Requests for comment/Enforcement (rejected, inactive)
• rm old Deletion policy/Area codes (was re-opened, but discussion inactive on all fronts)

John Reid 04:11, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

2006 April 10

• Remove Misplaced Pages:Schools, as it is now marked as a rejected guideline. --Rob 20:48, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

2006 April 11

• Added Misplaced Pages:Deny recognition. // Pathoschild (_admin / ) 18:48, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
• Removed the Misplaced Pages:Proposed deletion message; its discussion has concluded with it being made policy. rspeer / ɹəədsɹ 21:47, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
• Misplaced Pages:Portal/Proposals restored by Steve block

Just to clarify, I dispute the description of Misplaced Pages:Portal/Proposals as inactive. Steve block talk 23:06, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Instruction creep

Is this not instruction creep? I would have posted this on the talk page but it redirects here. Apologies if I missed where this was discussed, but in all the time I've used cent, I've added and removed to it freely. Steve block talk 20:54, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

I think it would simply be much too meta meta to discuss what we were going to discuss. We will all continue to make changes freely to the template; this is just a way for us to log those changes. Thank you. John Reid 11:33, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

I agree with Steve block. This is instruction creep. We don't need this log. -- RHaworth 12:44, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

This discussion noticeboard changes much more quickly than any conventional template and the changes have potential for contention that I'm sure we all want to avoid. Please give it a try. Thank you. John Reid 21:51, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

2006 April 12

• Added Misplaced Pages:Archives as sources, as it is marked as a straw poll on that page. I also capitalized Bible while I was at it because the one lowercase letter when the others began capitalized was really bugging me. -- stillnotelf is invisible 03:54, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
• Added Misplaced Pages:Centralized discussion/Method Engineering Encyclopedia. -- RHaworth 12:42, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

2006 April 13

• add Notability (memes) (by Urthogie)
• rm old Userbox policy poll (rejected)
• rm old Proposed policy on userboxes (rejected) John Reid 21:04, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

2006 April 19

• Added Misplaced Pages:Proposed policy on userpages in the "Discussions" column. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 01:13, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
• Removed Misplaced Pages:Proposed deletion from the "Old discussions" column. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 01:15, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
• Added WP:MFD/QIF to the straw poll section. Johnleemk | Talk 13:35, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

2006 April 20

• I rm * Proposed policy on userpages; sorry, but it's really unnecessary. You don't need to debate this; just go ahead and make the edit. Feel free to talk with me if you run into any dispute about it. John Reid 04:48, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

2006 April 21

• Added CSD A7 criteria / examples in the "Discussions" column. GeorgeStepanek\ 23:13, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
• Removed Archives as sources. I chose not to put it under old discussions because frankly it never attracted much attention anyway. -- stillnotelf is invisible 03:07, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

2006 April 28

• Removed CSD A7 criteria / examples—discussion has petered out, not much attention anyway. GeorgeStepanek\ 22:44, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

2006 May 3

• Moved Deprecating qif into 'Old discussions', since the poll has closed. SeventyThree 17:07, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

2006 May 7

I added Misplaced Pages:Editor review a few days back. Computerjoe's talk 14:08, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

2006 May 10

Added Misplaced Pages:Removing warnings. Stifle (talk) 12:20, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

2006 May 12

• Changed a couple of entries to use the pipe shorthand link form: ]. This displays as Foo. The rationale is that there's no need to disambigate discussions by namespacing them. John Reid 09:10, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
• Added CSD T1 Changes. Kotepho 20:56, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
• Added pornographic actors and actress notability proposal. -- Joe Beaudoin Jr. 01:38, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

2006 May 13

• Moved new discussions to the top. John Reid 23:11, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

2006 May 14

• Added Titles differing only in capitalization linking to Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions#Page titles that differ only in capitalization -- cmh 01:11, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

2006 May 15

• Added A Proposal for Compromise Regarding Userboxes linking to Misplaced Pages:Mackensen's Proposal. Mackensen (talk) 23:10, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
• Removed Titles differing only in capitalization -- cmh 05:39, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

2006 May 20

• Replaced the link to Misplaced Pages:Mackensen's Proposal. I won't pretend I'm unbiased in this regard -- but let's not use this as a soapbox for our views. In general, links to proposals should reflect their titles or perhaps their shortcuts; generally, with the namespace omitted.
• Rm Bible verses from Old Discussions.
• Rm Main Page replacement poll from Old Discussions.
• Add WP:BOXPOL.
• Move Deny recognition to Old Discussions (has become an essay)
• Group Userbox policy, Mackensen's Proposal, and CSD T1 Changes together under UBX; perhaps this is the most honest approach.

John Reid 08:13, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

2006 May 21

• Move Notability/Proposal to old discussions
• Move Portal/Proposals to old discussions

-- (Steve Block)

2006 May 22

Added a link to TheTrueSora's userbox policy poll under "straw polls" – Gurch 09:54, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

2006 June 9

• Changed UBX to Userbox-related, makes more sense to newbies.
• Removed link to archived CSD discussion: CSD T1 Changes

Kimchi.sg 16:52, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

2006 Jun 11

• Move State route naming conventions to old (rejected) John Reid 16:50, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

2006 Jun 12

• I added a link to this page to the text asking people to log their changes on the template. Steve block Talk 10:53, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

2006 June 16

Added Changes to Special:Blockip. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 23:12, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

2006 June 21

• Removed Changes to Special:Blockip. Seemed to have settled down. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 22:34, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

2006 June 22

added Misplaced Pages:Political subdivisions of New York --SPUI (T - C) 01:36, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

added Misplaced Pages:Avoid using WikiProject talk page templates --SPUI (T - C) 00:41, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

30 June 2006

Added a link to Misplaced Pages talk:Spoiler warning, since we are requesting comments on the nature and purpose of the page. Steve block Talk 11:43, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

2006 July 2

• Added link to Misplaced Pages:Fair use/Fair use images in lists. --bainer (talk) 05:11, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

2006 July 09

• Move Wheel war policy to old; guideline. John Reid 04:03, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

2006 July 14

Added link it notability section to Misplaced Pages:Notability (books).--Fuhghettaboutit 04:27, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

2006 July 17

Replaced WP:MACK userbox Proposal (it failed to reach consensus) with The German Userbox solution to the userbox controversy (not really a policy, but accepted by many). Removed the link to the failed May userbox policy strawpoll. CharonX/talk 03:01, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

2006 July 20

• Changed the link to German Userbox Solution from WP:GUS to Misplaced Pages:German userbox solution, as it's pointless to link to a redirect, and I changed "German Userbox Solution" to "German userbox solution", per the page title. 1ne 04:01, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• Misplaced Pages:Deletion policy/Maltese nobility has been re-opened because of concerns raised in Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Barony of Tabria. Uncle G 18:33, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• Closed Misplaced Pages:Requests for rollback privileges with consensus for. It's in the devs hands what happens next. --InShaneee 18:58, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

2006 July 24

Added Misplaced Pages:Cross-namespace redirects to discussions. --Zoz (t) 11:08, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

2006 August 1

Added Misplaced Pages:Ref reform. El_C 18:20, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

2006 August 5

• State route naming conventions reopened. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 04:53, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

2006 August 7

Added Historical information.—msh210℠ 05:33, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

2006 August 8

Christopher Parham moved Notability (memes) to 'Old discussions'. --Sam Blanning 23:18, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

2006 August 11

Added Admin recall. --Sam Blanning 23:18, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

2006 August 19

Added Misplaced Pages:Removing warnings poll. John254 16:30, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

2006 August 21

Added Misplaced Pages:German de-adminship solution. - Mailer Diablo 17:14, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

2006 August 22

Added Misplaced Pages:Simple userbox solution --NThurston 18:52, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

2006 August 24

Removed Misplaced Pages:Removing warnings poll, which is now closed. John254 20:12, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

2006 August 25

Removed Editor review, closed it as impossible to close, you can't reject a voluntary process that people use, and I'm not sure how you consensually adopt a voluntary process except through usage. The page presents no guidance on editor actions, nor any policys to keep to. Steve block Talk 13:24, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Added Misplaced Pages:Centralized discussion/Removing warnings. JYolkowski // talk 21:54, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

2006 Aug 30

• rm WikiProject talk page templates (rejected, essayified)
• move Removing warnings to old (superceded by Cent/Removing warnings)
• move Method Engineering to old (many comments, no conclusion)
• move Political subdivisions of New York to old (stalled, no conclusion)
• update Spoiler warnings to Spoiler warnings (RFC)
• move Maltese nobility to old (stalled, status quo)
• move Misplaced Pages:State route naming conventions poll to polls (it's a poll)

  note: poll closing soon, should move to old

• move Historical information to old (stalled)
• rm Image galleries (endorsed)
• rm Deprecating Qif (keep and deprecate)
• rm Portal/Proposals (rejected)
• rm Wheel war policy (guideline)
• rm Internet memes (rejected)

John Reid 10:12, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

2006 Aug 31

• rm all Notability-related discussions; replaced with general notice at bottom of template. Notability has simply become too large of a topic to be handled on cent. It has its own directory template and interested parties are thrashing out dozens of issues in their own ways, on at least 40 pages. There isn't much virtue in highlighting only a handful of these pages here and to list them all would be needless duplication. John Reid 11:12, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• Undid one of the styling changes made by John, which was applying an aqua background to some paras. This bright background caused me physical pain in my eyes, which surprised me somewhat. Just zis Guy you know? 15:09, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• Restore the backgrounds; they have a purpose. To show good faith on my part, I've changed the tint. John Reid 17:47, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

  Better, but I'm still curious as to the basis for this change. How well does it fit in with accessibility guidelines and different skins? Just zis Guy you know? 18:19, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

  Please don't whinge. Thank you. John Reid 04:13, 1 September 2006 (UTC)