Wikipedia talk:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2014

The missing proposal

The wording of this RfC is not neutral. It reads as if the greenlighting of PC2 is essentially a foregone conclusion, with only a trivial detail or two to be decided first, and that is far from the case. Editors who do not favor the use of PC2 in any context are left only with the option of opposing the two highly specific proposals, and if those proposals are defeated they can be tweaked and put right back on the table ad infinitum. The matter could be remedied by also including a third proposal that the status quo remain in place—i.e., that the use of PC2 remain officially proscribed—but that proposal really needs to be there from the beginning of any valid RfC. Either that or a separate RfC needs to run concurrently, but imo that would be more awkward than starting over. Rivertorch (talk) 06:44, 9 January 2014 (UTC)