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[edit]Talk:List of antisemitic incidents in the United States
| Should the July 23, 2026 Upper West Side stabbing of a Jewish congregant be included in this list if the entry uses carefully attributed language and reports that authorities charged the assault as a hate crime?
The incident received independent coverage describing the stabbing as apparently antisemitic, and prosecutors brought hate-crime charges. One editor contends that inclusion in this list would nevertheless state an unproven motive in Wikipedia’s voice and violate WP:BLP and WP:OR. Other editors contend that inclusion would reflect the reliable-source characterization rather than an editorial inference. The preceding discussion contains the sources, arguments and proposed revised wording. A.T.S. in Texas (talk) 02:46, 31 July 2026 (UTC) |
Talk:Assassination of Park Chung Hee
| This RFC has three questions about the article on Assassination of Park Chung Hee, about the tone, the presence of excessive detail, and the number of quotations..
The questions are repeated below and should be answered below. Please answer each question in the sections below. Robert McClenon (talk) 05:27, 29 July 2026 (UTC) |
| Should marriage dates and a link to a list of awards be present in the infobox?
Shogeneral (talk) 09:32, 26 July 2026 (UTC) |
Talk:Princess Alice of Battenberg
| Should we refer to her as Alice throughout the page instead of "Princess Andrew", which is repetitive and unnecessary? Most royal pages refer to them by their first given name, such as Philip, Elizabeth, William, and Harry etc.
Editors keep switching between "Princess Andrew" and "Alice", but most royal pages refer to royals by their first given name. ItsShandog (talk) 14:34, 23 July 2026 (UTC) |
Should the first sentence describe Guardiola as a Spanish football manager and former player from Catalonia("Spain first") or a Catalan football manager and former player from Spain("Catalan first")? Background:
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| We have to reach a consensus whether we should add the infobox criminal to he existing infobox. The corruption case may be or may not be politically motivated and during the interim government, thousands of such cases were filed against the former ruler and their family members and there are controversies surrounding the cases. Moreover it is not a criminal cases like murder or rape which makes someone really a "criminal" to add a criminal infobox. So, my opinion is that we should not put this infobox criminal to the existing. See what others say about this. Bellow is the infobox in discussion: Rht bd (talk) 16:52, 13 July 2026 (UTC) |
| Question: Should the lead of George Kurtz include a sentence about the 2024 CrowdStrike-related IT outage, or should coverage of that event be limited to the Career section?
Background: The lead currently states: "In 2024, CrowdStrike released a software update that disrupted millions of Microsoft Windows systems around the world, an event that has been called the largest outage in the history of information technology." This sentence has been discussed above at #2024 outage in the intro? and as you can see there are differing views on whether it belongs in the lead. This RfC is to get broader input. Chopcha (talk) 20:14, 10 July 2026 (UTC) |
Economy, trade, and companies
[edit]Talk:Wealth inequality in the United States
| Those knowledgeable in graphic design and data visualization on Wikipedia are requested to consider designs for charts, here, specifically for choice of a chart summarizing wealth inequality in the United States suitable for the article lead section. Please focus on policies, guidelines, principles and reasoning underlying your opinion. —RCraig09 (talk) 15:59, 29 July 2026 (UTC) |
Talk:Fractional-reserve banking
| Should the lead describe fractional-reserve banking by saying that banks "typically lend the remainder" of deposits? Reissgo (talk) 18:43, 12 July 2026 (UTC) |
| This and the Apple article claim Apple was on the "brink" or "verge" of bankruptcy. Many sources express such opinions. Apple's own financial statements say the opposite. Should claims of imminent bankruptcy be removed? Mevsherd (talk) 17:48, 4 July 2026 (UTC) |
History and geography
[edit]Talk:Assassination of Park Chung Hee
| This RFC has three questions about the article on Assassination of Park Chung Hee, about the tone, the presence of excessive detail, and the number of quotations..
The questions are repeated below and should be answered below. Please answer each question in the sections below. Robert McClenon (talk) 05:27, 29 July 2026 (UTC) |
| Should specific ancestries be included in the language section?
BreadAndHumus (talk) 13:07, 28 July 2026 (UTC) |
Talk:Federal subjects of Russia
| Should stress marks on the map on the names of the subdivisions be used to aid in the pronunciation of the place names when reading the article in English?
Please answer Yes or No or the equivalent with an optional brief statement in the Survey. This RFC is about whether there should be stress marks on the place names on the map. It is not about the place names anywhere else in the article. 18:14, 23 July 2026 (UTC) |
Should the infobox for Battle of Lumë state that the dates of the battle and the result of the battle were:
Robert McClenon (talk) 09:36, 20 July 2026 (UTC) |
Talk:Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
| In the paragraph related to displacement of Sinhalese in the subsection "Forced Displacement," how much detail should state/non-LTTE actions should be present? SinhalaLion (talk) 15:24, 19 July 2026 (UTC) |
| Should people be listed in the infobox "Commanders and leaders" section? If so, who should merit inclusion? Emiya1980 (talk) 02:10, 19 July 2026 (UTC) |
Please see the previous discussion here (ie right above) and lend your opinion on the following questions:
Guile's Theme (talk) 16:20, 11 July 2026 (UTC) |
How should the lead define “Northeast Africa” / “Northeastern Africa”?
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Talk:Slavery in 21st-century jihadism
| Do you believe the following additions help improve this article?: Plasticwonder (Cat got your tongue?) 02:38, 8 July 2026 (UTC) |
Talk:Republican Party (United States)
| Is the claim that "white nationalist beliefs have become influential within the party" DUE for the article lead?
Prior discussion Talk:Republican_Party_(United_States)#White_Nationalism_Lead_vs_Body, recent related RfC and discussion from archive [1] Springee (talk) 10:49, 7 July 2026 (UTC) |
Language and linguistics
[edit]Maths, science, and technology
[edit]Talk:Violence by UFO believers
In the list "Violence by UFO believers", what is within scope for inclusion?
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| Which image should be used in the infobox? –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:11, 22 July 2026 (UTC) |
Talk:Windows 11 version history
| Should the Windows 11 version history article (and by extension, Windows 10 version history) have tables listing every patch (build) of the OS ever released, as seen in this revision? — AP 499D25 (talk) 08:44, 13 July 2026 (UTC) |
| Is Livni, Joseph; Skorecki, Karl (2025-06-28). "Distinguishing between founder and host population mtDNA lineages in the Ashkenazi population". Human Gene. 45 201445. doi:10.1016/j.humgen.2025.201445. ISSN 2773-0441. reliable and due for inclusion in the article? Andre🚐 18:21, 6 July 2026 (UTC) |
| This and the Apple article claim Apple was on the "brink" or "verge" of bankruptcy. Many sources express such opinions. Apple's own financial statements say the opposite. Should claims of imminent bankruptcy be removed? Mevsherd (talk) 17:48, 4 July 2026 (UTC) |
Art, architecture, literature, and media
[edit]| With the character move merging both Terry and Michael's respective versions to the page, I want to discuss how much of the article weight should factor for both; in my opinion, the weight should be more on the Michael Holt version; not because of WP:RECENT (Holt has existed for 29 years) but moreover, Michael's character is the primary version of Mister Terrific since his inception to the point despite debuting in 1942, Slone has around 300 appearances whereas Michael, debuting in 1997, has over 1,000+. Now I understand character's number of appearances doesn't guarantee anything but that's a noticably wide gap there. Furthermore, it would be a lot harder to argue WP:GNG for Terry wherein Michael has had some academic focus and coverage as a African-American superhero even before the Superman movie puts him in a spotlight even if the page has not (yet) highlighed such.
As it stands, the current inclination is to treat the characters somewhat equally. My edits prior would prioritize Michael Holt as the page's focus and Terry was moved to "other versions" as a sub-heading to address the character. I would like to have some comments and other considerations to be made about this topic about this. CosmicMordecai (talk) 00:13, 31 July 2026 (UTC) |
Talk:Love You Madly Hate You Badly
| Should this article's introduction start as follows: "Love You Madly Hate You Badly is the fourth and final studio album by American singer-songwriter Oliver Tree."? Tbhotch™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 23:39, 25 July 2026 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard
| How should we assess the reliability of ARY News? Gotitbro (talk) 13:42, 21 July 2026 (UTC) |
| Should the historical inaccuracy commentary currently in the "Promotional material and trailers" and "Responses to accusations of historical inaccuracies" subsections be condensed into a single paragraph within the Production or Marketing sections? Madcoverboy (talk) 00:09, 19 July 2026 (UTC) |
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums/Album article style advice
| Should the lead sentence of articles on albums prioritise the date of release or order of release? For example, should it be "Exile on Main St. is the tenth studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on 12 May 1972", or "Exile on Main St., released on 12 May 1972, is the tenth studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones". SilkTork (talk) 15:30, 9 July 2026 (UTC) |
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games/Sources
| How reliable is Android Police, specifically for topics related to apps and video games?
Related threads:
NewAccount7295 (talk) 21:52, 6 July 2026 (UTC) |
| Should the season summaries be kept as-is, trimmed, split, or deleted? ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs 20:57, 2 July 2026 (UTC) |
Politics, government, and law
[edit]Should the position parameter in the infobox be changed from Right-wing to far-right to Right-wing populist or Right-wing to right-wing populist while keeping the breakdown of these varying characterisations, like far right, in the article body?
Proposed Options:
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Talk:Federal subjects of Russia
| Should stress marks on the map on the names of the subdivisions be used to aid in the pronunciation of the place names when reading the article in English?
Please answer Yes or No or the equivalent with an optional brief statement in the Survey. This RFC is about whether there should be stress marks on the place names on the map. It is not about the place names anywhere else in the article. 18:14, 23 July 2026 (UTC) |
Whether in light of MOS:LABEL, WP:NPOV, WP:SYNTH, WP:FRINGE and other relevant policies and guidelines, the article...
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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elections and Referendums
| Should a new color, perhaps , be adopted as the default for electoral units in which no votes were cast, rather than using the grey color ( ) reserved for areas with no data? Delcoan (talk) 02:15, 20 July 2026 (UTC) |
Talk:Torture of immigrants during the second Trump administration
| Should we establish Wikivoice convention of saying Torture of immigrants or Alleged torture of immigrants in the United States? Alexandraaaacs1989 (talk) 02:41, 16 July 2026 (UTC) |
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elections and Referendums
| Should a new map color scheme, specifically 2023 proposal A by Kavigupta, be adopted as the default for election maps in the United States? Presently two different color schemes are used for presidential and downballot races. Please answer Yes or No. 02:14, 12 July 2026 (UTC) |
| Which color variant of the flag is the correct version?
The emblem in the center is the coat of arms of Egypt, which will also be updated to the correct color. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 19:35, 8 July 2026 (UTC) |
Talk:Slavery in 21st-century jihadism
| Do you believe the following additions help improve this article?: Plasticwonder (Cat got your tongue?) 02:38, 8 July 2026 (UTC) |
Talk:Republican Party (United States)
| Is the claim that "white nationalist beliefs have become influential within the party" DUE for the article lead?
Prior discussion Talk:Republican_Party_(United_States)#White_Nationalism_Lead_vs_Body, recent related RfC and discussion from archive [3] Springee (talk) 10:49, 7 July 2026 (UTC) |
Which image is better to use in the lead section? The choices are as follows:
– SimpleObjects-9ei (talk) 15:25, 2 July 2026 (UTC) |
Religion and philosophy
[edit]| Which of the following images should be used in the infobox? (Due to the large amount of options, feel free to provide an order of preference in your vote for those images you prefer) — ♠ Ixtal ( T / C ) ⁂ Non nobis solum ♠ 18:51, 21 July 2026 (UTC) |
Talk:Antioch International Movement of Churches
| Should the "Life groups and discipleship practices" and "Impact on local community" sections of the article retain their current phrasing (Option 1) or be updated to incorporate detailed reporting from BuzzFeed News, The Baylor Lariat, and the Waco Tribune-Herald (Option 2)? Previous discussions resulted in inclusion of material concerning former members. In further discussions, editors have disagreed about whether the current text accurately reflects the cited sources, the amount of detail that should be included from those sources, whether the current "social justice-minded" wording accurately reflects the Waco Tribune-Herald source, and whether material from The Baylor Lariat should be included. This RfC is opened to determine the preferred wording and extent of coverage. HonestHarbor (talk) 00:54, 9 July 2026 (UTC) |
Talk:Slavery in 21st-century jihadism
| Do you believe the following additions help improve this article?: Plasticwonder (Cat got your tongue?) 02:38, 8 July 2026 (UTC) |
Society, sports, and culture
[edit]Talk:List of antisemitic incidents in the United States
| Should the July 23, 2026 Upper West Side stabbing of a Jewish congregant be included in this list if the entry uses carefully attributed language and reports that authorities charged the assault as a hate crime?
The incident received independent coverage describing the stabbing as apparently antisemitic, and prosecutors brought hate-crime charges. One editor contends that inclusion in this list would nevertheless state an unproven motive in Wikipedia’s voice and violate WP:BLP and WP:OR. Other editors contend that inclusion would reflect the reliable-source characterization rather than an editorial inference. The preceding discussion contains the sources, arguments and proposed revised wording. A.T.S. in Texas (talk) 02:46, 31 July 2026 (UTC) |
Talk:Assassination of Park Chung Hee
| This RFC has three questions about the article on Assassination of Park Chung Hee, about the tone, the presence of excessive detail, and the number of quotations..
The questions are repeated below and should be answered below. Please answer each question in the sections below. Robert McClenon (talk) 05:27, 29 July 2026 (UTC) |
| Which of the following images should be used in the infobox? (Due to the large amount of options, feel free to provide an order of preference in your vote for those images you prefer) — ♠ Ixtal ( T / C ) ⁂ Non nobis solum ♠ 18:51, 21 July 2026 (UTC) |
Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (events)
Should WP:NCWWW be rewritten to include these changes? See Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (events)#NCWWW for previous disussion relating to the development of the current proposal.
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Should the first sentence describe Guardiola as a Spanish football manager and former player from Catalonia("Spain first") or a Catalan football manager and former player from Spain("Catalan first")? Background:
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| There has been a long-running edit war on this page over the website link in the infobox, of which previous attempts to curb it through page protection and admin noticeboard discussions has failed to resolve. The dispute is centred over the inclusion of the official website link, austenasia.org in the infobox. An editor has repeatedly attempted to remove this link through several edits. On the advice of User:ScottishFinnishRadish I have other to begin an RfC to seek a long term solution to this issue. The question at hand is: Should the page include the Austenasia.org domain in the infobox? Pax Brittanica (talk) 00:24, 10 July 2026 (UTC) |
Talk:Antioch International Movement of Churches
| Should the "Life groups and discipleship practices" and "Impact on local community" sections of the article retain their current phrasing (Option 1) or be updated to incorporate detailed reporting from BuzzFeed News, The Baylor Lariat, and the Waco Tribune-Herald (Option 2)? Previous discussions resulted in inclusion of material concerning former members. In further discussions, editors have disagreed about whether the current text accurately reflects the cited sources, the amount of detail that should be included from those sources, whether the current "social justice-minded" wording accurately reflects the Waco Tribune-Herald source, and whether material from The Baylor Lariat should be included. This RfC is opened to determine the preferred wording and extent of coverage. HonestHarbor (talk) 00:54, 9 July 2026 (UTC) |
Talk:Slavery in 21st-century jihadism
| Do you believe the following additions help improve this article?: Plasticwonder (Cat got your tongue?) 02:38, 8 July 2026 (UTC) |
Talk:World Athletics Championships
| Hi everyone. Having been informed by the earlier unanimous consensus to merge all articles at Somalia at the World Athletics Championships, I'd like to present for consideration a slate of nations whose performance at the competition I believe should be consolidated en masse into singular articles. I estimate that we could remove anywhere from 2-600 articles from the mainspace in this manner.
CSGinger14 (talk) 04:03, 7 July 2026 (UTC) |
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games/Sources
| How reliable is Android Police, specifically for topics related to apps and video games?
Related threads:
NewAccount7295 (talk) 21:52, 6 July 2026 (UTC) |
Talk:Kerch Polytechnic College massacre
| Hello. User AFeatherlessBipehead believes that the article on the Kerch Polytechnic College massacre should include the category “School shootings motivated by bullying,” even though bullying is only a suspected motive in this crime and the investigation has not reached a consensus. I also do not see other school attacks listed in this category — for example, those in Russia where bullying was suspected as a motive and where there is information about possible bullying. Please clarify whether this category should be included in the article and whether it should be added to other articles YillowsGiblles (talk) 18:40, 6 July 2026 (UTC) |
Talk:Cricket at the 2028 Summer Olympics
| In light of the above discussion regarding conflicting MOS advice, should this article follow WP:OLY and use American English for the hosts or follow WP:CRIC and use British English for consistency across cricket articles? The C of E God Save the King! (talk) 11:58, 5 July 2026 (UTC) |
Wikipedia style and naming
[edit]Talk:Wealth inequality in the United States
| Those knowledgeable in graphic design and data visualization on Wikipedia are requested to consider designs for charts, here, specifically for choice of a chart summarizing wealth inequality in the United States suitable for the article lead section. Please focus on policies, guidelines, principles and reasoning underlying your opinion. —RCraig09 (talk) 15:59, 29 July 2026 (UTC) |
Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (events)
Should WP:NCWWW be rewritten to include these changes? See Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (events)#NCWWW for previous disussion relating to the development of the current proposal.
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Should the first sentence describe Guardiola as a Spanish football manager and former player from Catalonia("Spain first") or a Catalan football manager and former player from Spain("Catalan first")? Background:
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| Should the lead sentence describe Rafah as "largely destroyed and depopulated"? Buskärs knöte (talk) 12:05, 14 July 2026 (UTC) |
Talk:Cricket at the 2028 Summer Olympics
| In light of the above discussion regarding conflicting MOS advice, should this article follow WP:OLY and use American English for the hosts or follow WP:CRIC and use British English for consistency across cricket articles? The C of E God Save the King! (talk) 11:58, 5 July 2026 (UTC) |
Wikipedia policies and guidelines
[edit]Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)
I propose removing the provision in Wikipedia:Political endorsements that allows local consensus to overrule our general policy that facts be sourced to independent reliable sources for organizational endorsements. Specifically, I propose striking the following sentence from the guideline: Local consensus can determine whether a specific list requires independent sources or sources connected to the organization itself, such as its website or official social media accounts. WP:RFCBEFORE discussion here. Prior RFC here. Dcpoliticaljunkie (talk) 20:36, 29 July 2026 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Administrator elections/May 2026/RFC phase
| Please opine on the below questions related to the English Wikipedia administrator elections process. Staraction (talk · contribs) 15:41, 20 July 2026 (UTC) |
Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (events)
Should WP:NCWWW be rewritten to include these changes? See Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (events)#NCWWW for previous disussion relating to the development of the current proposal.
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Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
| Should comment-free relists be allowed at MfD? 02:01, 16 July 2026 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Visual Editor for new editors
| Should Visual Editor become the default on mobile and/or desktop for new editors? Existing preferences are unaffected. In solidarity, —Femke (talk) 🐦 16:52, 6 July 2026 (UTC) |
Wikipedia talk:Speedy deletion
Should the current WP:G15 criterion ("LLM-generated pages without human review") be replaced with this proposed version?
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WikiProjects and collaborations
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Wikipedia technical issues and templates
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Wikipedia proposals
[edit]Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)
Should any of the following be added to WP:ITNBLURB:
Should the following be added to WP:ITN/R:
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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation
| I've been workshopping an option list for this RfC discussion a moment ago and settled on the version of the list that now appears below. Each of the first four options describes a specific proposal for condensing or collapsing draft decline notices (except for the latest one on each draft), and each of these four entries is accompanied by a collapsible box containing an example of how these proposals may look in action. Although essential, all that content was too much to be displayed at the RfC listing page, so I've expanded the paragraph above it and made it its own comment. – MrPersonHumanGuy (talk) 10:10, 25 July 2026 (UTC) |
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games/Sources
| How reliable is Android Police, specifically for topics related to apps and video games?
Related threads:
NewAccount7295 (talk) 21:52, 6 July 2026 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)
| This is a proposal to adapt this week's article for improvement (TWAFI) to focus primarily on helping create new editors while also improving articles. Each week a new article that is not contentious, a biography of a living person, a medical topic, or otherwise non-ideal for new editors (as determined by consensus) would be shown on the main page with accompanying text that encourages newcomers to improve it. Guidance and suggestions will also be given when editing via an edit notice. The selected article would normally remain unprotected while on the main page to allow for prospective editors to edit at any time.
Should TWAFI be shown on the main page? InfernoHues (talk) 05:19, 2 July 2026 (UTC) |
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