Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Wikipedia style and naming

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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aviation

Should the article title be styled as the IATA name, Branded name, or the ICAO name?

• American Airlines Flight 5342 (IATA name)
  • Consistency with sources including the NTSB, NY Times, and Washington Post
  • Brand recognition of American
• American Eagle Flight 5342 (Branded name)
  • Ticketing and passenger experience
• PSA Airlines Flight 5342 (ICAO name)
  • Operational and legal accuracy

The same question applies to the recent Delta accident:

• Delta Air Lines Flight 4819
• Delta Connection Flight 4819
• Endeavor Air Flight 4819

All follow the style of <airline> Flight <flight-number> as described in the [conventions section]

Should the title be styled as the IATA name, Branded name, or the ICAO name? Zaptain United (talk) 02:34, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation)

We need to change the naming convention for elections in communist states. The naming convention, in many ways, does not make sense: the elections, in North Korea, for example, are called 1959 North Korean parliamentary by-election. Does North Korea have a parliamentary system? No, it has a supreme state organ of power that holds the unified powers of the state. And North Korea is not the exception, but the norm. The communist state election model was formed in opposition to parliamentary, the fusion of powers, and the separation of powers. In the communist bloc, and in present-day China and North Korea, the term traditionally used is "Election of deputies to the" organ in question, that is, "election of deputies to the National People's Congress" and the "election of deputies to the Supreme People's Assembly". However, in the case of China, this title is problematic: the election process begins at the grassroots and ends with the provincial and other provincial-level people's congresses electing members to the National People's Congress. The entire election process begins at the bottom and goes from each level until it reaches the supreme state organ of power, that is, the National People's Congress.

A more correct, and less controversial title often used is legislative election, as in the 1984 Soviet Union legislative election. But again, that might make it seem like the election process was identical in the US as in the Soviet Union: it was not. I, here, also propose using the formal term used by the communist states themselves: 1984 Election of Deputies to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union or 1984 Soviet Election of Deputies to the Supreme Soviet.

I have several proposals:

1. At the very least, we need to STOP describing communist state elections as parliamentary. The communist states had supreme state organs of power that held the unified powers of the state and monopolised legislative power; that is, let's use the term' legislative' in the article title, as in the 1984 Soviet Union legislative election.
2. Take the most radical and correct route. Make clear that communist state elections were different from once in liberal democracies and used different terminology. Follow the WP naming convention, but use terminology used by these states themselves: "1984 Soviet Election of Deputies to the Supreme Soviet" or, for example, "2018-19 Chinese Election of Deputies"
3. Be exceptionally bold, and create a new naming convention for communist state elections: "Election of Deputies to the 11th Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union" (instead of "1984 Soviet Union legislative election"), "Election of Deputies to the 1st People's Chamber of East Germany (instead of 1950 East German general election), and "Election of Deputies to the 14th Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea" (instead of 2019 North Korean parliamentary election)
4. Status quo, but use the name of the overall body where applicable, 1984 Soviet of Nations election.
5. 2019 North Korean supreme state organ of power election, 1984 Soviet supreme state organ of power election, 1950 East German supreme state organ of power election. This is logical as well: they are supreme state organs of power, and keeps the structure intact without making it too complicated.

What should be transparent for everybody is the lack of consistency when describing communist state elections, which I hope we can all agree is a bad thing... Since they all practised the same electoral system based on electing lower-level state organs of power and a supreme state organ of power. @The Account 2, Nikkimaria, JArthur1984, Chipmunkdavis, Jack Upland, Abo Yemen, and Easternsahara: --TheUzbek (talk) 13:10, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Infoboxes

How the biographic infobox birthplace of people born on the territory of Lithuania, Latvia, or Estonia during 1940–1941 and 1944–1991 annexation by the Soviet Union should be displayed? e.g. Artūras Barysas; Born 10 May 1954;

1. Panevėžys, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union
2. Panevėžys, Lithuania
3. Panevėžys, Soviet Union
4. or propose another variation

Please briefly explain your decision. Gigman (talk) 17:34, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Weather

How should the names of tornado articles be handled going forward, especially around the use of the year and the existing convention WP:NCWWW? Departure– (talk) 16:37, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Article titles

Should Wikipedia:Naming conventions (U.S. state and territory highways) be revised with regard to the naming conventions for state routes in Kansas and Michigan so that the parenthetical disambiguators "(Kansas highway)" and "(Michigan highway)" are only used when disambiguation is necessary, or another format entirely is used instead? Mdewman6 (talk) 22:25, 18 October 2025 (UTC)