Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations

The following is a brief overview of discussions taking place on the English Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.

Note: Starting with this issue, a notice will be placed next to items which have been added since the last issue, for easier locating of discussions which you may not have known about.

New! Request for comment: Self electing groups: Should "unofficial" electable groups of Wikipedians be allowed?

• Request for comment: Paid editing: How should paid editing be handled? Is it perfectly allowed? Or is it a blockable action? Something in the middle? (See related story)
• Request for comment: Notability and fiction: How should notability work with regards to fiction? Numerous possible proposals have been put forth.

New! Request for comment: Full-date unlinking bot: Should a bot be allowed to unlink dates under this proposal? Specifically, unlinking only full dates with day, month, and year information, and not editing the same page twice to do so in case the edit is reverted? So far the community seems supportive of this proposal.

• Request for comment: Should the relatively new template, {{italic title}}, be used to italicize names? If so, what articles should it be used for?
• Discussion: Should guidelines be adopted for what order talk page templates should be sorted in? There is a draft of the proposed guideline.
• Request for comment: Should a bot "fix" section levels when they are skipped (e.g., changing a level 2 header followed by a level 4 header to being a level 2 header followed by a level 3 header). Currently 20 supporters and 9 opposers.

This is a list of current bot requests for approval, with brief descriptions of the proposed tasks. See this week's technology report for information on recently-approved bots.

New! AnomieBOT 31: To move {{translated page}} from articles to talk pages.

• Coreva-Bot 2: To add maintenance tags to articles.
• CSDCheckBot: To notify users who tagged an article for speedy deletion if that article was not deleted or deleted under a different criteria from what they selected.

New! DrilBot 3: To tag image files where the image license migration would be redundant.

• Erik9bot 9: To tag articles with {{unreferenced}} if it can't find any evidence of references.
• Erwin85Bot 8: To notify major article contributors when an article is nominated for deletion.

New! MondalorBot: To cleanup interwikis and rename categories.

• NKbot 2: To delete pages in Category:Temporary Wikipedian userpages.
• NNBot II: To enforce rules regarding the removal of speedy deletion templates.
• OgreBot: To update sports scores on a regular basis.
• SPCUClerkbot 3: To modify all existing checkuser/sockpuppet related templates to one single template: {{sockpuppet}} with correctly named parameters.
• Thehelpfulbot 9: To recategorize pages when a category is "moved".
• UnitBot: To fix articles that describe unit conversion to "a ridiculous degree of precision"

The following requests for adminship are currently open (numbers indicate support/oppose/neutral voting, and are updated every half hour):

New! Cool3 4: Final (55/7/1); closed by Rlevse at 17:57, 27 June 2009 (UTC).

New! Jarry1250: Final (77/2/1); closed by EVula at 16:33, 24 June 2009 (UTC).

New! Patar knight: Final (52/7/2); closed by Kingturtle at 3:11, 28 June 2009 (UTC).

New! Plastikspork: Final (52/7/6); closed by bibliomaniac15 at 22:39, 25 June 2009 (UTC).

New! Timmeh 2: Final (55/37/10); withdrawn by candidate.

New! Wtmitchell: Final (65/1/4); closed by Rlevse at 12:13, 26 June 2009 (UTC).

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