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Ultimately, the content of Wikipedia is determined by making progress toward a community consensus. However, the size of Wikipedia prevents community members from actively following every development. As a result, sometimes it's useful to request broader opinions from the rest of the community.

This page is a way that anyone can request other wiki-ists to help them resolve difficulties and disputes in articles or talk pages. Anyone may visit any of these articles, to help them reach agreement. A good quality RFC can help contributors resolve differences, add different insights, give comments and opinions how others might see some wording, and so on.

It will help the RFC process if everyone who lists something on this page tries to help out at least one other page listed here.

Contents
1 Overview

1.1 When to use RFC
1.2 How to use RFC
1.3 General hints for dispute resolution

2 Article content disputes
3 Comment about individual users

3.1 General user conduct
3.2 Use of administrator privileges
3.3 Choice of username

4 General convention and policy issues

Overview

When to use RFC

  • RFC is appropriate when you want other wiki-ists to visit the page, to allow a consensus or a better quality of decision, to help resolve a dispute or break a deadlock.
  • If you simply want peer review of an article, then list it at Wikipedia:Peer review.
  • If the dispute involves allegations that a user has engaged in serious violations of Wikipedia policies and guidelines, create a subpage for the dispute. Use the subpage to elaborate on the allegations.

How to use RFC

  • To request other users to comment on an issue, add a link to the Talk page for the article, a brief neutral statement of the issue, and the date.
  • Don't sign it, don't list the details, and don't submit arguments or assign blame.
  • On the Talk page of the article, it can help to summarize the dispute.

General hints for dispute resolution

  • Whatever the nature of the dispute, the first resort should always be to discuss the problem with the other user. Try to resolve the dispute on your own first.
  • For disputes over user conduct, before requesting community comment, please wait until at least two people have contacted the user on their talk page, or the talk pages involved in the dispute, and failed to resolve the problem.
  • Don't forget to follow Wikiquette. Wikiquette is more important in resolving a dispute, not less.

Article content disputes

Please only list links to talk pages where two or more participants cannot reach consensus and are thus stalling progress on the article. Discussions with no new comments in over two weeks old may have dried up, in which case please talk to the people involved to determine whether the problem was resolved.


Items listed on this page may be removed if you fail to try basic methods of dispute resolution.

List newer entries on top — do not sign entries.

Article dispute archive

Comment about individual users

This section is for discussing specific users who have allegedly violated Wikipedia policies and guidelines. In order to request comment about a user, please follow the instructions to create a subpage in the appropriate section below. Disputes over the writing of articles, including disputes over how best to follow the NPOV policy, belong in the Article content disputes section above.

General user conduct

Discussions about user conduct should be listed in this section unless the complaint is specifically about the use of admin privileges or the choice of username. To list a user conduct dispute, please create a subpage using the following sample listing as a template (anything within {...} are notes):

  • Example user - Allegations: {one or two short sentences giving the dry facts; do not sign entry.}

Before listing any user conduct dispute here, at least two people must try to resolve the same issue by talking with the person on his or her talk page or the talk pages involved in the dispute. The two users must document and certify their efforts when listing the dispute. If the listing is not certified within 48 hours of listing, it will be deleted.

Candidate pages - still need to meet the two person threshold
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  • jguk -- disruption to make a point, going against consensus

Approved pages - have met the two person threshold
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  • Robert the Bruce -- refusal to discuss changes, pushing non-NPOV on various pages. Problems with a variety of users.
  • Kris45 - revision against general consensus, possible vandalism
  • Pename - makes insulting comments and engages in personal attacks
  • Lysdexia - misrepresents other users in talk pages
  • CheeseDreams - Frequently makes insulting comments, breaks the 3RR rule, and has previously thrown {{NPOV}} and {{cleanup>> tags on 50+ articles that he/she had never worked on, nor did he/she ever attempt to work on in the future, with the exception of a few articles (and reverting the removal of those tags)
  • Manos — uploads pictures and text off the internet and ignores request to clarify copyright status.
  • Pnikolov - uncivil remarks toward other editors.
  • Cheung1303 Allegations: Persistent uploading of images that violate copyrights, failure to provide source information for images, attempts to defeat process for removal of images
  • Pumpie - Allegations: Insists on cutting and pasting bizarre little substubs from goodness-knows-where regarding geographical coordinates of individual municipalities in the Sao Paulo, Brazil area. Refuses to answer polite inquiries and seemingly refuses to do anything to these "articles" beyond their initial creation.

Use of administrator privileges

This section is only for discussions specifically related to the use of sysop rights by Wikipedia:Administrators. This includes the actions of protecting or unprotecting pages, deleting or undeleting pages, and blocking or unblocking users. If the dispute is over an admin's actions as an editor, it should be listed under the General user conduct section above. To list a dispute, create a subpage using the following sample as a template:

  • Example admin - Allegations: {one or two short sentences giving the dry facts; do not sign entry.}

As with disputes over general user conduct, at least two people must certify that they believe there is a legitimate basis for the complaint. If the listing is not certified within 48 hours of listing, it will be deleted.

Candidate pages - still need to meet the two person threshold
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Approved pages - have met the two person threshold

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Choice of username

If you believe someone has chosen an inappropriate username under Wikipedia's username policy, you may create a subpage here to discuss whether the user should be forced to change usernames. However, before listing the user here, please first contact the user on his or her talk page and give them an opportunity to change usernames voluntarily.

New listings here, please


User dispute archive

General convention and policy issues

Some proposed conventions and policies can be found at Category:Wikipedia policy thinktank.

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  1. The quote at the beginning of style guide.
  2. Fowler's "good" guidelines.
  3. The expressions "period" and "full stop."
  4. The serial comma.
  5. "U.S."

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