Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Project-wide topics
The following discussions related to project-wide topics are requested to have community-wide attention: (refresh )
Wikipedia style and naming
[edit ]Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Weather
- Part 4 of WP:DISASTER reads
- If there is no accepted name, the name should be formatted as follows: tornado, tornado outbreak, or tornado outbreak sequence, followed by Geographic location (only if necessary: City, State, Country, Continent, or any combination of these), followed by Year (or Month/year, or day/month/year if need be). Example: Tornado outbreak of April 14–16, 2011
- Narrow date range
- Tornado outbreak of January 2–3, 1234 when January 2–3 covers ~60% of sources
- Broad date range
- Tornado outbreak of January 1–4, 1234 when January 1–4 covers ~90% of sources
- Part of month
- Tornado outbreak of Early January, 1234, Tornado outbreak of mid-January, 1234, Tornado outbreak of Late January, 1234
- Each part is 10 days, moved forward or back 3 days for flexibility and discretion
- Month
- Tornado outbreak of January 1234
The next preferred option is used to disambiguate two events in the same (part of the) month. Year ranges can be used for December–January events. This RfC does not change the WP:COMMONNAME name/location parts 1–3 of WP:DISASTER. 216.58.25.209 (talk) 14:33, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Realistically, Bangalore is far more commonly used name both worldwide and in India. Regardless, that is an essentially anecdotal, subjective statement and there exists a WP standard for this reason. The Bengaluru moves adheres to the standard.
This article adhered to the standard when it changed to 'Denali' in 2015. It currently does not. It is factually true that the AP as well as Britannica are following the federal name change. This is not to mention that every map of the world in every textbook and atlas used in US schools from 1896 to 2015 used Mt. McKinley. I don't believe it is unreasonable to assume this to be proof of a status quo. The Obama name change was an obvious deviation from this well established status quo of more than a century – Wikipedia followed it still, as it was in accordance with COMMONNAME standards.
I would like to understand why that same standard is not being applied presently. We are either to say the COMMONNAME rules are in need of relitigation, or the article title must be changed to 'Mt. McKinley'. Jibolba (talk) 22:35, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biography
A: Can belonging to an Aboriginal Australian or Torres Strait Islander group be considered a form of nationality?
B: Should MOS:NATIONALITY be edited to include an example of someone belonging to an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander nation with that nationality named as a demonym in the first sentence of the lead, similarly to the example given for Native Americans and Indigenous Canadians? E.g. the first sentence of the Ashleigh Barty article reads:
Ashleigh Jacinta Barty AO (born 24 April 1996) is an Australian (Ngarigo [1] [2] ) former professional tennis player and cricketer.
Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Film
Wikipedia policies and guidelines
[edit ]Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Newspapers/Notability
Wikipedia:WikiProject Newspapers/Notability→ Wikipedia:Notability (newspapers)
Having a guideline for notability of newspapers addresses the challenge of supporting recent increased interest in developing Wikipedia's relationship with fact-checking, journalism, reliable media, and newspapers in particular.
One existing closely related guideline is for books. Here is that, and several comparable essays for media.
Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
WikiProjects and collaborations
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Wikipedia technical issues and templates
[edit ]Template talk:Redirect for discussion
Should "do not remove this notice before the discussion is closed" be added to {{Redirect for discussion }}, similar to {{Article for deletion }}? --Jax 0677 (talk) 07:47, 28 February 2025 (UTC)
Wikipedia proposals
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- ^ Evans, Richard (10 July 2021). "Grounded and meticulous Ash Barty writing tennis history of her own". The Guardian.
Barty, a Ngarigo woman and deeply proud of her Indigenous heritage
- ^ Spits, Scott (18 January 2023). "Open hearts: Indigenous kids bring joy for Barty, Goolagong Cawley". The Age.
Ngarigo woman Barty admitted it felt "a bit strange" to be back in Melbourne with a relaxed frame of mind