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Closed 2011

January 2011

  • Discussion regarding using Find-A-Grave and IMDb as external links.
    • Listed 3 January 2011, archived 19 January 2011
  • Proposal to divide "Wikipedia is not censored" into two policies.
    • Listed 1 January 2011, archived 18 January 2011
  • DRV on the recent TfD of the {{expand}} tag.
    • Listed 27 December 2010, archived 4 January 2011
  • Feedback is solicited on all aspects of the December 2010 ArbCom elections.
    • Listed 6 December 2010, archived 10 January 2011
  • RfC on recommending columns in reference lists longer than 20 entries.
    • Listed 15 December 2010, archived 10 January 2011
  • RfC on styling <references /> like {{reflist}} sitewide.
    • Listed 13 December 2010, archived 10 January 2011
  • RfC on the use of leaked classified documents.
    • Listed 15 December 2010, archived 26 Jan, 2011
  • RfC regarding transparency in the ambassador selection process.
    • Listed 6 January 2011, archived 27 Jan 2011


February 2011

  • RfC on moving optional questions at WP:RFA to the talk page.
    • Listed 17 January 2011, archived 1 Feb 2011
  • Proposal to amend the protection policy.
    • Listed 8 January 2011, archived 1 Feb 2011
  • Proposal to make RefTools available to everyone by default.
    • Listed 12 January 2011, archived 1 Feb 2011
  • RfC on the use of cover images in articles about the work pictured.
    • Listed 3 January 2011, archived 2 February 2011
  • RfC regarding merge and redirect at AfD.
    • Listed 17 January 2011
  • RfC on expanding policy on requiring pre-approval for mass page creation to apply to all namespaces, not just articles.
    • Listed 19 January 2011, archived 14 February 2011
  • TfD on Template:Invitation to edit
    • Listed 7 February 2011, archived 15 February 2011
  • RfC on the use of revision deletion criterion RD3.
    • listed19 January 2011, archived February 16 2011
  • RfC to modify MediaWiki:Common.js to add links to archived citations at Wikiwix
    • listed 11 February 2011, archived 28 February 2011


March 2011

  • RfC regarding procedures of the Arbitration Committee
    • listed 27 Feburary 2011, archived 1 March 2011
  • RfC on the entire dispute resolution ecosystem
    • listed 21 January 2011, archived 2 March 2011
  • Proposal to add featured lists to the Main Page
    • listed 23 February 2011, archived 3 March 2011
  • Proposal to introduce lay arbitrators in the arbitration committee
    • listed 28 February 2011, archived 3 March 2011
  • RfC on the replacement of non-free character images by free actor images
    • listed 4 February 2011, archived 4 March 2011
  • RfC on the Audit Subcommittee
    • listed 31 January 2011, archived 4 March 2011
  • Requested move to rename Miscellany for deletion to Miscellany for discussion
    • listed 28 February 2011, archived 6 March 2011
  • Proposal to create a filemover usergroup
    • Listed 23 February 2011, archived 9 March 2011
  • Proposal to set a mandatory term limit on administrators.
    • Listed 16 March 2011, archived 18 March 2011
  • BLP public documents discussion on the proper use of legal filings
    • Listed 18 February 2011, archived 18 March 2011
  • Phase 3 of RfC on the future of pending changes
    • Listed 20 March 2011, archived 20 March 2011 due to RFC being placed on hold
  • Discussion: When a search title relates to two or more articles should readers be taken to the most likely article they are looking for or the most educational?
    • Listed 4 March 2011, archived 24 March 2011
  • Proposal to promote Notability (video games) to a Subject Notability Guideline.
    • Listed 28 February 2011, archived 24 March 2011


April 2011

  • Discussion to improve the general In the News criteria for the main page.
    • Listed 6 March 2011, archived 2 April 2011
  • Discussion about a bot's posting 40,000 talk page messages requesting responses to a survey on an external website
    • Listed 31 March 2011, archived 4 April 2011
  • RfC regarding the effectiveness of portals.
    • Listed 23 March 2011, archived 22 April 2011
  • RfC to remove pending changes protection from articles in the short-term
    • Listed 24 March 2011, archived 23 April 2011
  • Discussion about making prompting for a missing edit summary the default
    • Listed 20 March 2011, archived 23 April 2011


May 2011

  • Added 12 March 2011, archived May 3 2011
  • Ongoing RfCs regarding new users creating new articles; CSD criteria for new articles; being templated; socialising on WP; being welcomed
    • Listed 12 March 2011, archived 10 May 2011
  • Proposed new wording for Primary Topic
    • Listed 24 March 2011, archived 10 May 2011
  • RfC on standardizing some parameters across all the different biographical infoboxes
    • Listed 26 March 2011, archived 10 May 2011
  • RfC on adding certain userrights to the CheckUser, Oversight and Bureaucrat user groups
    • Listed 12 April 2011, archived 15 May 2011
  • RfC on requiring adminship for being granted CU or OS rights
    • Listed 12 April 2011, archived 15 May 2011
  • Discussion about the retirement of {{hang on}} tags in favor of a direct speedy deletion contest link in the db templates.
    • Listed 11 April 2011, archived 17 May 2011
  • Final draft of the updated Arbitration policy is now available for review or comment
    • Listed 21 April 2011, archived 22 May 2011
  • RfC proposing a change to the Manual of Style to address issues with dash and hyphen usage.
    • Listed 6 May 2011, archived 22 May 2011
  • Proposal on altering the AfD process.
    • Listed 14 May 2011, archived 22 May 2011
  • Discussion about using the import tool to solve the attribution problem with category renames
    • Listed 17 May 2011, archived 22 May 2011
  • Proposal for an editnotice for the Main namespace
    • Listed 17 May 2011, archived 22 May 2011
  • RfC on proposal to require autoconfirmed status in order to create articles
    • Listed 4 April 2011, archived 27 May 2011


June 2011

  • RfC on streamlining noticeboards
    • Listed 4 May 2011, archived 4 June 2011
  • RfC on adding a criterion to RevisionDelete, and removing one
    • Listed 9 May 2011, archived 4 June 2011
  • RfC on recent removals of images from currency articles
    • Listed 10 May 2011, archived 4 June 2011
  • Proposal for the creation of a "greylist" to flag material from dubious sources in BLPs
    • Listed 16 May 2011, archived 4 June 2011
  • Proposal to promote Notability (video games) to SNG
    • Listed 17 May 2011, archived 4 June 2011
  • RfC on creating a new naming convention for slang terms
    • Listed 3 June 2011, archived 4 June 2011
  • RfC on adding a dead url parameter to citation templates
    • Listed 30 May 2011, archived 9 June 2011
  • Formal proposal to put Today's featured list onto the main page.
    • Listed 6 June 2011, archived 12 June 2011
  • TfD of the {{Cleanup}} template
    • Listed 12 June 2011, archived 19 June 2011
  • TfD of the {{Notability}} template
    • Listed 20 June 2011, archived 20 June 2011
  • RfCs on the use of flagicons in lists and in infoboxes
    • Listed 22 May 2011, archived 21 June 2011
  • RfC on changing the requests for bureaucratship promotion threshold
    • Listed 29 May 2011, archived 28 June 2011

July 2011

  • Proposal to suspend sysop rights after one year of inactivity due to recent security concerns
    • Listed 31 May 2011, archived 3 July 2011
  • Final proposal on implementing changes to the dispute resolution process, following previous discussion
    • Listed 4 June 2011, archived 3 July 2011
  • RfC on whether images of historical importance must themselves be the "subjects of commentary" before we can claim fair use for them
    • Listed 4 June 2011, archived 5 July 2011
  • Poll to gain consensus on use of hyphens and dashes in relation to a request for arbitration
    • Listed 3 June 2011, archived 5 July 2011
  • RfC on improving account security
    • Listed 3 June 2011, archived 5 July 2011
  • RfC on a proposed new exemption from the three-revert rule
    • Listed 8 June 2011, archived 7 July 2011
  • Proposal to establish a minimum prep-time for main-page blurbs
    • Listed 22 June 2011, archived 7 July 2011
  • Proposal to elevate WP:MILMOS/N from Essay status to Guideline status
    • Listed 12 June 2011, archived 12 July 2011
  • RfC on how to improve enforcement of non-free content issues
    • Listed 31 May 2011, archived 18 July 2011
  • Proposal to enable the LiquidThreads extension on the English Wikipedia.
    • Listed 7 July 2011, archived 19 July 2011
  • Proposal requiring all new articles contain at least one source
    • Listed 10 July 2011, archived 19 July 2011
  • Discussion on allowing blocked users to remove their own block notices
    • Listed 24 June 2011, archived 25 July 2011
  • Proposal to remove the unblockself permission
    • Listed 16 July, archived 30 July 2011


August 2011

  • Discussion to clarify the use of diacritics for subjects whose native names contain them
    • Listed 4 July, archived 6 August 2011
  • Proposal about splitting deletion discussions for non-free files and free files
    • Listed 12 July, archived 6 August 2011
  • Discussion about a possible "Publishers cited by Wikipedia" compilation, mirroring the existing "Journals cited by Wikipedia" compilation
    • Listed 16 July, archived 6 August 2011
  • Proposal to grant bureaucrats the technical ability to remove the admin flag and proposals for a policy to govern this use if granted
    • Listed 7 July 2011, archived 7 August 2011
  • Proposal to remove the bureaucrat permission from users who have been inactive for more than one year
    • Listed 9 July 2011, archived 7 August 2011
  • Proposal to improve policy compliance in DYKs and/or introduce articles from other forums into DYK.
    • Listed 23 July 2011, archived 10 August 2011
  • Proposal to provisionally close the content noticeboard and redirect to the new dispute resolution noticeboard as a trial, following on from the original proposal
    • Listed 20 July 2011, archived 17 August 2011
  • Discussion about the trial duration for requiring autoconfirmed status in order to create articles
    • Listed 10 July 2011, archived 18 August 2011
  • Discussion on how to deal with processes (such as XfDs) created in violation of block, topic-ban, or ban, but has had input from other (legitimate) editors supporting the processes
    • Listed 30 July 2011, archived 25 August 2011

September 2011

  • RfC on the addition of identifier links to citations by bots
    • Listed 15 August 2011, archived 10 September 2011
  • Discussion on whether all of the dates in articles' reference sections (publication, access and archive dates) should be in the same format
    • Listed 12 August 2011, archived 20 September 2011
  • Discussion regarding what features should appear on the main page
    • Listed 13 July 2011, archived 20 September 2011
  • RfC to lower the limit of account creation in a 24-hour period by non-autoconfirmed accounts
    • Listed 2 September 2011, archived 20 September 2011
  • Discussion about a proposed policy regarding images of signatures of living people
    • Listed 17 August 2011, archived 22 September 2011
  • RfC about eliminating problems with linkrot
    • Listed 11 September 2011, archived 22 September 2011
  • RfC on providing structure to WP:WQA conversations.
    • Listed 18 September 2011, archived 22 September 2011
  • RfC: Should underage editors be topic banned from articles in the WikiProject Pornography topic area?
    • Listed 20 September 2011, archived 25 September 2011
  • RfC about checks and balances in the AfD nomination process
    • Listed 24 September 2011, archived 27 September 2011
  • RfC on the creation of an OTRS member group
    • Listed 3 September 2011, archived 30 September 2011

October 2011

  • RfC on the pros and cons of pending changes.
    • Listed 14 September 2011, archived 1 October 2011
  • RfC about clarifying style on capitalization of common names of animal species
    • Listed 16 September 2011, archived 1 October 2011
  • Idea lab discussion on crafting a proposal to balance gender representation in sporting topics
    • Listed 18 September 2011, archived 1 October 2011
  • RfC on extending the ArbCom moratorium on Ireland/Republic of Ireland page move discussions
    • Listed 18 September 2011, archived 10 October 2011
  • RfC on the use of images in section headings, should they be allowed or not?
    • Listed 29 September 2011, archived 12 October 2011
  • RfC on a proposal to remove or rename outline articles
    • Listed 7 September 2011, archived 12 October 2011
  • Invitation to comment on candidates for appointment to CheckUser and Oversight
    • Listed 26 September 2011, archived 13 October 2011
  • RfC about whether articles that contain only unreliable sources are eligible for tagging under the BLP proposed deletion rules
    • Listed 1 October 2011, archived 19 October 2011
  • Discussion on whether a new forum for issuing binding decisions on content as a last resort should be convened
    • Listed 1 October 2011, archived 19 October 2011
  • RfC about whether {{db-repost}} (CSD G4) is applicable or inapplicable to a previously kept page whose most recent discussion ended in deletion
    • Listed 30 September 2011, archived 20 October 2011
  • RfC about non-admin closes at XfDs
    • Listed 24 October 2011, archived 24 October 2011
  • Discussion on whether to modify blocking policy to allow for punishment blocks
    • Listed 16 October 2011, archived 26 October 2011

November 2011

  • RfC on the rules and procedures for the December 2011 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election
    • Listed 18 September 2011, archived 4 November 2011
  • RfC about revising/rewording the notability guidelines for albums
    • Listed 6 October 2011, archived 12 November 2011
  • RfC about guidelines for non-admin closures of non-AfDs such as RfCs and merge discussions
    • Listed 25 October 2011, archived 19 November 2011
  • RfC about whether Wikipedia should have a "share" button
    • Listed 22 October 2011, archived 22 November 2011
  • Urgent RFC on the number of Arbcom seats to be filled by WP:ACE2011
    • Listed 25 November 2011, archived 26 November 2011
  • RfC about revising the first sentence of Wikipedia:Verifiability
    • Listed 6 October 2011, archived 28 November 2011
  • Proposed wordings aimed at preventing directory-style stubs
    • Listed 9 November 2011, archived 28 November 2011
  • Proposal for implementing a new extension to show user status
    • Listed 29 October 2011, archived 28 November 2011

December 2011

  • Discussion about dealing with disruptive editing
    • Listed 28 October 2011, archived 1 December 2011
  • RfC on proposal to promote Notability (astronomical objects) to guideline
    • Listed 3 November 2011, archived 3 December 2011
  • Proposal to implement a file namespace noticeboard
    • Listed 18 November 2011, archived 3 December 2011
  • RfC to clarify the purpose of Wikipedia is not censored
    • Listed 7 November 2011, archived 13 December 2011
  • RfC on the purpose and future of the Portal namespace
    • Listed 16 November 2011, archived 13 December 2011
  • Proposal to implement block templates that automatically update to reflect when a user is no longer blocked
    • Listed 16 November 2011, archived 13 December 2011
  • RfC asking whether Wikipedia should protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act by going on strike
    • Listed 10 December 2011, archived 17 December 2011
  • RfC to add "mark as read" to watchlist
    • Listed 4 December 2011, archived 18 December 2011
  • RfC about creating binding solutions to intractable content disputes through RfCs
      • Listed 2 December 2011, archived 21 December 2011
  • RfC about deprecating or maintaining WP:PORNBIO
    • Listed 23 November 2011, archived 26 December 2011
  • RfC about enabling multilingual search results for registered Wikipedians
    • Listed 23 November 2011, archived 26 December 2011
  • RfC to enable "show changes since last visit" on watchlist
    • Listed 4 December 2011, archived 29 December 2011
  • RfC about a three-month trial of Tool apprenticeship, a proposed supplement to Requests for adminship
    • Listed 28 November 2011, archived 29 December 2011
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