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Outcome |
Notes |
See Also
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| Area codes (telephone)
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Deletion policy/Area codes
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No consensus
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The status quo is a large number of stubs, one for each area code; the page title format is Area code ###. Concerns about US-centricity. Concerns about cruft. See history of debate.
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Deletion policy/Area codes,
List of North American area codes
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| Bible verses
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Whole bible chapter text,
Verses of John 20,
200 verses of Matthew,
Bible source text
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Endorsed
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Entire chapters of the Bible do not belong on Wikipedia. Any article containing only Bible text should be speedily deleted or redirected.
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Don't include copies of primary sources,
Wikisource,
Verses of 1 Kings 4 and 5
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| Bilateral relations
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Bilateral international relations, BR task force
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WikiProject task force
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After a string of AFDs with varying results, it was decided to agree on a guide to what criteria would make relations between pairs of countries notable subjects
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Wikipedia is not a directory
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| Biographical Opt Out
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Biographical optout
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Rejected
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Requests have been received in various fora from the subjects of Wikipedia biographies for the biography to be removed. It was proposed that anyone other than a public official or someone who has placed themself at the forefront of public controversies should be able to request the Wikipedia article about them to be deleted without discussion.
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BLP subject response
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| Brand name products
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Deletion policy/Brand name products
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Endorsed
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Objective information on brand products should be kept. An "iconic" or "universally well known" products deserves its own article. A major product should be added to its company article. Minor products should be merged into a list kept in the company article.
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| Categorization
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Categorization
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Guideline
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Article: Michael Jackson
Useful category: Category:Pop singers
Not useful: Category:Musicians whose first name starts with M
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| Categorization (naming conventions)
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Naming conventions
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Policy
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Categories should have "head" articles. Be specific. Avoid abbreviations. Avoid topical plurals. Avoid descriptive adjectives. Use care in disambiguating and namespacing.
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| Categorization (people)
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Categorization of people
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Guideline
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No derogatory cats. WP:V, WP:NOR. Subcats (e.g, African American musicians) only okay if topic itself warrants head article; otherwise list.
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Categorization/Gender, race and sexuality
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| Comics (copyright)
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WikiProject Comics/copyright
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Guideline
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Covers okay under fair use. Interior art maybe not. Must illustrate the subject.
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WikiProject Comics,
WikiProject Fair use
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| Date delinking
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[(dates and numbers)]
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Superseded by Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking
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Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
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| Date formatting
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Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)/Proposal on international date format
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No consensus
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Where articles clearly concern a North American subject, the North American date format (June 2) should be used. Otherwise, the international format (2 June) should be used.
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Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
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| Dictionary definitions
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Wikipedia is not a dictionary
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Policy
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Cent failed to alter status quo.
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Dictionary definitions
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| Federal Standard 1037C
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Federal Standard 1037C terms
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Cleanup process
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Most technical terms are mere dictionary definitions and don't need individual articles. Copyvio concerns.
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Federal Standard 1037C clean up
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| Fictional characters
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WP:FICT
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Guideline
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See guideline. Avoid non-notable substubs. Items from video games and Pokémon are included.
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Deletion policy/Middle-earth items,
Poképrosal,
Deletion_policy/Nintendo_items
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| Fiction (again)
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WP:FICT
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No consensus to do anything
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Discussion did not accomplish anything as the proposed guideline was too weak for some and too strong for others
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Wikipedia:Notability
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| File names
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Generic image file names
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Guideline
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Don't upload images or other files with generic, non-specific file names such as Untitled.png.
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Image:Pleasedont.gif,
Image:Forbidden filename.png
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| History (of all subjects)
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Historical information
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Converted to WikiProject
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Wikipedia has a large number of articles about all sorts of things that should include an historical element but do not. (This is not about purely historical topics.)
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WikiProject Historical information
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| Images (in lists)
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Fair use images in lists
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No change
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Concern that large numbers of fair use images in one place fall outside fair use exceptions. Opposing concern that such images, in some cases, (e.g, List of Simpsons episodes) are essential and cannot be replaced.
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Wikipedia:Fair use criteria,
Wikipedia:Fair use,
Category:Wikipedia copyright,
Wikipedia:Copyrights
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| Languages (constructed)
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Constructed languages
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Poll itself rejected
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| Lists (images)
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See Images (in lists).
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| Lists (religion, ethnicity, profession)
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Lists by religion-ethnicity and profession
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Rejected
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Attempt to limit.
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Lists in Wikipedia
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| Lists (songs)
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Lists of songs
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Rejected
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Attempt to limit.
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Category:Lists of songs
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| Lists of basic topics
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Village pump (proposals) thread
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No consensus
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Change pages called "List of basic foo topics" to "Topic outline of foo".
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| Lists of unusual things
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Lists of unusual things
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Consensus
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Lists of unusual things can be eligible for inclusion; they don't automatically breach policy just by being lists of unusual things
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| Location of the main page
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Proposal to move the Main Page to Portal:Wikipedia
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No consensus, although some discussion is still ongoing
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Move the Main Page to the Portal or Wikipedia namespace
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| Main Page
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Main Page replacement poll
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Endorsed
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Facelift drifting slightly toward more elaborate.
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Main Page,
Main Page (old style)
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| Moving of US city names
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Naming conventions (settlements) (permanent link)
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Passed with exceptions
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Move city names like Baltimore, Maryland and Minneapolis, Minnesota to Baltimore and Minneapolis respectively.
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| Names (personal)
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Deletion policy/names and surnames
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No Consensus
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An attempt was made to draw conclusions from this debate. Names alone are not notable; Wikipedia is not a geneological database. Some names may have encyclopedic value; names may be useful as disambiguation pages and these may carry a bit of geneology or etymology. Beyond this, Wiktionary.
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Wiktionary Appendix:First names,
Wiktionary Appendix:Surnames,
Categories for deletion/Names
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| Nobility
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Deletion policy/Maltese nobility
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Recently reopened; status quo
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Genealogy of nobility and royalty encyclopedic. Must be sourced.
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| Non-free content criterion 8
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NFCC 8 debate
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Edits reversed and no consensus to restore them
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A bold edit to WP:NFCC suggested that the eighth criterion have "and its omission would be detrimental to [understanding of the topic of an article]" removed as a requirement for a non-free image. The change was reverted and discussion did not lead to a consensus to restore it.
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Non-free content criteria
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| Non-free sports logos
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Use of Non-free logos of sports teams
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No consensus.
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No consensus was determined on if sports logos may be used outside of articles on the subject team.
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Non-free content criteria
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| Notability
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Notability (essay)
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Beyond scope of Cent
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Discussion has expanded to a large number of pages indexed on {{notabilityguide}}.
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Notability/Proposal
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| People (biography)
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CSD A7 debate
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No consensus
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Concerns about inconsistent speedies of vanity pages.
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CSD Ax
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| Places (West Bank)
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Political subdivisions of New York
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Endorsed
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About the preferred usage names as a result of WP:RFAR/West Bank - Judea and Samaria
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Wikipedia:Naming conventions (West Bank)
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| Plot summaries
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Plot summaries
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Essay
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How much of plot summaries would be considered notable enough to be included.
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Notability
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| Pokémon
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Pokeprosal
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Endorsed
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WP:FICT applies. No "Pokemon:" namespace. Walkthroughs to Wikibooks. Merge stubs to lists.
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Pokémon Collaborative Project
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| Politicians (candidates)
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Legislative candidates
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No consensus
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Leaning toward exclusion of very minor candidates.
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Criteria for inclusion of biographies
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| Politicians (local)
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Deletion policy/Local politicians
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No consensus
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| Postal codes (Zip codes)
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Deletion policy/Postal district
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Endorsed
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Sheer madness to have an individual article for every postal code. Lists okay.
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Do lists of postal codes belong on Wikipedia?
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| Radio masts
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Deletion policy/Masts
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Endorsed
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Add Location, Coordinates, Purpose, Owner and FCC registration columns to list. Merge stubs to list. Individual articles only if substantial content beyond list.
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List of masts
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| Roads and streets
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Deletion policy/Roads and streets,
B roads in UK
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Weakly endorsed
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Don't create articles about trivial roads. WP is not an atlas.
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State route naming conventions poll/Old
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Rejected
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Should a naming convention be decided upon by poll?
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State route naming conventions poll
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Manual of Style
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US State Highways are given definitive names for all occasions.
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Manual of Style (U.S. state highways)
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| Rorschach test
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RfC
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No action taken yet (discussion going stale; potentially outside {{Cent}}'s scope anyway).
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The question is of whether the inclusion of certain images on the Rorschach test may damage readers' ability to respond genuinely to the test in the real world.
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Rorschach test, Related request for mediation, Talk:Rorschach test/images, Talk:Rorschach test/2009 consensus review
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| School lists
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Deletion policy/Lists of schools
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Endorsed
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Lists of schools should be more informative than equivalent Categories. Deletions should wait consensus on general schools issues.
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Schools
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| Spoilers (warnings)
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Spoiler warning/RfC (talk),
Spoiler warning (talk)
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Spoiler guideline accepted: Wikipedia:Spoiler
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That spoiler warnings should be deprecated
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Spoiler template TfD
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| Sports results
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Sports results
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No consensus
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Championship events okay for articles; what about the rest? Concerns about WP:NOR and copyvios.
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Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
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| Sports teams
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Naming conventions
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Policy
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(1) In cases where there is no ambiguity whatsoever as to the official spelling of a club's name in English, the official name should be used. (2) In cases where there is some ambiguity as to the official spelling of a club's name in English, the name most commonly used by the English-language media should be used (as determined using the number of hits at Google News). See history for full policy
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History of discussion
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| Television episodes
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Television episodes
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Endorsed
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See debate. Avoid large numbers of episode stubs. Start with single article on a given show; expand only as verifiable info permits. Avoid trivia, synopsis, and extensive quotation from scripts. Put the episode in context.
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Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
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| Towns (New York)
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Political subdivisions of New York
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No consensus
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State of New York townships are formally called "towns", which is confusing since there are real towns in New York, as elsewhere. Some towns are in "towns" with the same name, some aren't. Not to mention counties, villages, and cities. Historical government madness.
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Incomplete table of "towns", towns, and villages
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| Word lists
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Deletion policy/Lists of words
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Endorsed
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Article about "Words of <foo>" may be okay. "List of words of <foo>" to Wiktionary.
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Wikipedia is not a dictionary
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