Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Wikipedia policies and guidelines

The following discussions are requested to have community-wide attention:

Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Linking

It remains unclear to many editors how MOS:GEOLINK should be interpreted in relation to sequences such as Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Should this edit be restored? Khiikiat (talk) 23:45, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Notability (species)

Shall Wikipedia:Notability (species) be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline? WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:25, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Please do not bite the newcomers

Background: This page was created in 2003, and the guideline header was added in 2005.

The proposed rewrite can be found here: Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers/rewrite. Please refrain from making significant changes to the rewrite while the RfC is ongoing.

Do not accept the rewrite as guideline; this page does not need to be rewritten.
Do not accept the rewrite as guideline; the rewrite needs more work to replace the current text.
Accept the rewrite as guideline, but add the template {{under discussion}}
Accept the rewrite as guideline, and do not add the template {{under discussion}}

Ca ^{talk to me!} 11:31, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers

Hi,

According to MOS:FILMCAST, common nouns within roles should not be capitalised to distinguish between character names and job descriptions. Currently, the use of sentence case introduces ambiguity for readers; for instance, it does not clarify whether 'Joker' refers to a character name or if 'Joker' describes his job when no character name is provided. I encourage you to refer to my related discussion with the user's talk. Therefore, I recommend adopting lowercase for common nouns in the Role field to ensure alignment with MOS:FILMCAST. Anoop Bhatia (talk) 01:51, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion

Should C4 (unused maintenance categories) be enacted as a new criterion for speedy deletion? 03:09, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biography

There are two questions:

Should guidance be added to the Manual of Style regarding the position of "retired" and "former" in the first sentence of biographical articles?
If guidance is to be added, which form should be recommended?
A. X is an American retired actor.
B. X is a retired American actor.

Khiikiat (talk) 10:49, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)

Back in 2017, the community decided in this RfC that moved pages should be unpatrolled. The feature was stuck in Phabricator purgatory and was never actually implemented.

Does the community still want this feature implemented? (cc @Pppery, @Hey man im josh and @Novem Linguae who participated in an initial discussion on the NPP Discord server, also see T370593) Sohom (talk) 07:44, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

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