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Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations

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By Drilnoth

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

Policy

New! Request for comment: How should "Wikipedia is not plot" be worded? Should it be a policy, guideline, or essay?

New! Discussion: Should the notability guideline for pornographic actors be rolled back?

Style

New! Request for comment: How should the Macedonia naming conflict be resolved?

Technical

New! Request for comment: Should Google be allowed to include Wikipedia user pages in their search results?

Open bot requests for approval

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! BOTijo 2 (again): Confirmation of community's support requested on bot's creation of large numbers of redirects from other capitalizations.

New! Chris G Bot 7: To fix external links to the IUCN Red List.

New! EarwigBot I 3: To tag articles that are members of WikiProject United States presidential elections with the project's banner.

New! EarwigBot III: To update statistics related to articles for creation.

New! JCbot 2: To deliver newsletters for Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of knowledge

New! Numbo3-bot 3: To update Template:Linked on Google News.

Other

New! Discussion: For the Wikimedia Foundation's 2009 fundraising effort, should a button saying something like "Donate now" or "Support Wikipedia" be added to the sidebar?

Open requests for adminship

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

New! Ceranthor 2: Final, (54/27/6), closed at 12:11, 1 July 2009 (UTC) by PeterSymonds

New! decltype: Final: 73/5/3, ended 12:19, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

New! LouriePieterse: Final: (16/29/3); closed by User:Kingturtle as unsuccessful at 20:04, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

New! Mlaffs: Final (73/3/1) Closed 21:14, 1 July 2009 (UTC) by Avi

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