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| Office action: Removals on the article Caesar DePaço | 282591 | 540 | 181 | 2025-08-05 05:12:00 | 2025-09-05 06:09:00 |
| This thread, opened by Joe Sutherland, Lead Trust and Safety Specialist with the Wikimedia Foundation, concerned the WMF's actions at the Caesar DePaço article in August, whose surrounding events were covered by the Signpost at the time. | |||||
| WMF loses legal challenge to UK Online Safety Act (OSA) at High Court linku | 52544 | 107 | 74 | 2025-08-11 18:40:00 | 2025-09-01 20:01:00 |
| As previously covered by the Signpost, | |||||
| Wikipedia under US House of Reps Oversight Committee | 21856 | 58 | 54 | 2025-08-28 01:28:00 | 2025-09-01 08:18:00 |
| Another event previously covered by the Signpost, | |||||
| RFC: Adding featured and good content status to the tagline | 202115 | 359 | 169 | 2025-07-08 02:33:00 | 2025-09-05 07:49:00 |
| A proposal, raised by Dan Leonard, concerning whether the site tagline should include mentions of an article's featured or good status (currently, solid consensus exists for articles to have small graphical topicons, which they do, except not on mobile). | |||||
| Bot to make list-defined references editable with the VisualEditor | 51557 | 94 | 60 | 2025-09-04 05:00:00 | 2025-09-09 07:19:00 |
Pursuant to a previous consensus at Wikipedia talk:Citing sources, Alenoach proposes a bot to reformat articles with list-defined reference sections from {{reflist|refs=...}} to <references>...</references>. The purpose is to make them compatible with the visual editor, which for unclear reasons has never been fixed to work with list-defined references (despite a Phabricator ticket for this bug being open for more than a decade).
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| Propose to deprecate direct linking to non-English Wikipedia in articles | 46677 | 102 | 63 | 2025-08-31 08:56:00 | 2025-09-09 21:22:00 |
| Change the Village Pump's colour. | 40341 | 59 | 62 | 2025-08-21 04:26:00 | 2025-09-07 22:43:00 |
| Unsalt of Gaza Holocaust | 33206 | 78 | 69 | 2025-08-25 21:12:00 | 2025-09-05 05:09:00 |
| Text to Speech for Wikipedia Articles | 32988 | 48 | 50 | 2025-08-17 21:37:00 | 2025-09-01 00:53:00 |
| Signatures of living people | 30698 | 65 | 32 | 2025-08-01 18:05:00 | 2025-08-09 06:07:00 |
| Proposal to clarify WP:AIGI in line with MOS:AIUPSCALE | 22127 | 38 | 40 | 2025-07-20 04:41:00 | 2025-09-05 11:35:00 |
| Superscript and subscript typography guideline | 15122 | 39 | 42 | 2025-04-20 11:14:00 | 2025-08-25 12:01:00 |
| Are political userboxes now allowed in Templatespace? | 42057 | 82 | 131 | 2025-06-22 17:58:00 | 2025-08-04 14:54:00 |
| Citation Needed Epidemic: Tag Bombing Violates Good Faith and Hurts Wikipedia! | 38532 | 59 | 42 | 2025-07-25 01:31:00 | 2025-08-03 00:30:00 |
| Simple Calculations Re-Definition | 22033 | 36 | 35 | 2025-09-03 21:46:00 | 2025-09-07 09:18:00 |
| Essay I wrote about avoiding a subject's self-descriptions | 49871 | 62 | 22 | 2025-08-06 03:39:00 | 2025-08-13 23:44:00 |
| Declined vs rejected at AfC | 48308 | 85 | 51 | 2025-07-26 18:05:00 | 2025-08-11 21:21:00 |
| AWC 2025 Edit-a-thon Follow-up & Request for Community Guidance | 19759 | 24 | 46 | 2025-07-30 00:30:00 | 2025-08-06 21:39:00 |
| User:MichaelQSchmidt has died | 8021 | 8 | 93 | 2025-09-08 10:12:00 | 2025-09-10 05:00:00 |
| Revisiting WP:INACTIVITY | 239285 | 371 | 129 | 2025-07-16 23:53:00 | 2025-09-08 20:07:00 |
| The problem of AI generated deletion nominations | 64743 | 102 | 37 | 2025-08-26 20:38:00 | 2025-09-08 06:42:00 |
| Require an edit history to propose sanctions (gauging support for such a rule) | 52155 | 76 | 47 | 2025-08-16 03:16:00 | 2025-08-24 06:53:00 |
| Firearm brands and models in articles about mass shooting events | 41040 | 46 | 41 | 2025-09-03 11:43:00 | 2025-09-07 21:58:00 |
| AI Moderator proposal | 35328 | 69 | 65 | 2025-09-05 15:53:00 | 2025-09-09 09:40:00 |
| Thread | Length | Sigs | Users | Opened | Closed |
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| WIRED admitting to publishing stories without fact checking them, knowingly doesn't publish a retraction until outed months after the fact | 65202 | 69 | 36 | 2025-09-04 09:36:00 | 2025-09-08 00:48:00 |
| National Post on Israel/Palestine | 36676 | 58 | 36 | 2025-08-11 23:13:00 | 2025-08-24 23:40:00 |
| Thread | Length | Sigs | Users | Opened | Closed |
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| "Supreme state organ of power" and "Supreme executive and administrative organ" | 35097 | 37 | 15 | 2025-08-22 01:29:00 | 2025-09-04 21:51:00 |
| NPOV dispute on Evie Magazine | 33734 | 25 | 14 | 2025-07-29 00:04:00 | 2025-08-09 02:03:00 |
| Overemphasis on shipping in Fire Emblem character articles | 30120 | 54 | 15 | 2025-08-29 07:03:00 | 2025-09-09 21:10:00 |
| J. K. Rowling#Philanthropy | 28124 | 45 | 35 | 2025-08-25 00:31:00 | 2025-09-09 01:00:00 |
| Naoki Higashida and Facilitated Communication | 38214 | 78 | 17 | 2025-08-11 23:48:00 | 2025-09-01 20:45:00 |
| Chicken burger | 31034 | 13 | 6 | 2025-09-03 10:40:00 | 2025-09-08 12:05:00 |
| Laos | 28318 | 51 | 12 | 2025-08-05 05:23:00 | 2025-09-01 04:18:00 |
| Socialist Party (Ireland) | 65498 | 137 | 19 | 2025-08-03 20:12:00 | 2025-08-10 02:06:00 |
| Thread | Length | Sigs | Users | Opened | Closed |
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| Horse Eye's Back failing to assume good faith, being uncivil spanning years | 246828 | 479 | 207 | 2025-08-14 00:57:00 | 2025-08-29 00:08:00 |
| I believe that a page is being used as a suspected battleground | 116477 | 177 | 104 | 2025-08-25 23:03:00 | 2025-09-08 15:47:00 |
| User:WikiCleanerMan and User:4vryng, again | 77621 | 111 | 35 | 2025-09-05 19:57:00 | 2025-09-10 03:16:00 |
| Edit War and excessive deletions from user | 75461 | 112 | 35 | 2025-08-16 06:29:00 | 2025-08-19 01:21:00 |
| Possible hounding and uncivil conduct by User:JalenBarks | 65020 | 100 | 42 | 2025-07-30 12:31:00 | 2025-08-03 13:16:00 |
| User:GiantSnowman mass-changing "committed suicide" including in quotes, against consensus | 64835 | 135 | 68 | 2025-08-31 22:44:00 | 2025-09-10 00:42:00 |
| User:GiantSnowman's renewed disruptive editing | 56667 | 120 | 71 | 2025-08-17 23:52:00 | 2025-08-25 09:20:00 |
| User:JoseyWales019 creating AI-generated mainspace articles | 56399 | 115 | 88 | 2025-08-13 02:50:00 | 2025-08-16 17:04:00 |
| SchroCat | 52982 | 76 | 57 | 2025-09-02 19:59:00 | 2025-09-09 08:39:00 |
| User:Locke Cole | 48861 | 49 | 21 | 2025-08-13 02:56:00 | 2025-08-19 09:40:00 |
| User:ClarkKentWannabe | 46821 | 48 | 41 | 2025-09-02 18:22:00 | 2025-09-07 07:42:00 |
| User:Gymrat16 uncivil behavior and personal attacks | 43659 | 54 | 31 | 2025-08-14 02:59:00 | 2025-08-16 11:11:00 |
| Edit warring with personal attacks in edit summaries | 42118 | 93 | 33 | 2025-07-16 19:19:00 | 2025-09-06 03:07:00 |
| Disruptive editing by 101.100.177.230 | 41527 | 58 | 27 | 2025-08-13 16:12:00 | 2025-08-23 19:07:00 |
| User:Srich32977 modifying ISBN formats again, despite years of requests not to do so | 41085 | 77 | 44 | 2025-08-05 05:54:00 | 2025-08-12 22:09:00 |
| IP word vandalism | 34872 | 98 | 68 | 2025-07-27 19:03:00 | 2025-08-07 11:07:00 |
| Disruptive editing/ vandalism | 33575 | 42 | 34 | 2025-08-19 17:13:00 | 2025-08-25 21:20:00 |
| Dahawk04 and undisclosed AI use | 32736 | 62 | 34 | 2020-02-25 13:27:00 | 2025-08-31 10:25:00 |
| The Banner (again) | 30143 | 37 | 22 | 2025-09-08 17:40:00 | 2025-09-09 21:52:00 |
| User:Joeyburner4 | 26887 | 54 | 26 | 2025-08-17 05:14:00 | 2025-08-17 10:24:00 |
| Rewriting of leads by LLM | 25743 | 45 | 35 | 2025-09-06 02:03:00 | 2025-09-09 20:40:00 |
| Killing of Iryna Zarutska and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Killing of Iryna Zarutska likely canvassing | 24674 | 57 | 49 | 2025-09-08 06:03:00 | 2025-09-09 14:54:00 |
| Likely undisclosed AI/LLM use to expand articles by Covnantay | 23205 | 39 | 36 | 2025-08-17 03:29:00 | 2025-08-22 15:13:00 |
| IDHT and OR issues from Kabul madras | 22990 | 53 | 31 | 2025-08-20 22:28:00 | 2025-08-29 08:49:00 |
| White Genocide conspiracy theory | 22761 | 59 | 51 | 2025-09-03 18:39:00 | 2025-09-04 20:36:00 |
| IDHT and OR issues from Kabul madras | 22324 | 51 | 29 | 2025-08-20 22:28:00 | 2025-08-25 21:50:00 |
| Kanikosen | 21628 | 51 | 27 | 2025-08-01 17:41:00 | 2025-08-02 04:19:00 |
| Weird WP:AIV behavior | 18663 | 45 | 39 | 2025-08-20 00:22:00 | 2025-08-24 17:30:00 |
| Admin User:Ergo Sum and MOS:DEADNAME at Annunciation Catholic Church shooting | 14161 | 32 | 40 | 2025-08-28 04:12:00 | 2025-08-28 10:39:00 |
| Clean start (Morning277) | 75241 | 103 | 54 | 2025-08-04 06:09:00 | 2025-08-18 10:20:00 |
| Possible disruptive editing by SpaceHelmetX1 | 45656 | 58 | 25 | 2025-08-11 08:58:00 | 2025-08-20 21:19:00 |
| Latin American politics TBAN appeal | 31583 | 32 | 30 | 2025-07-13 04:33:00 | 2025-08-15 06:18:00 |
| RfC closure on Talk:Shubhanshu Shukla | 26777 | 51 | 56 | 2025-08-23 07:59:00 | 2025-08-28 20:37:00 |
| Ban appeal (TonyTheTiger) | 25097 | 50 | 58 | 2025-08-16 23:26:00 | 2025-08-23 05:28:00 |
| Willbb234 unblock request | 23293 | 45 | 48 | 2025-07-30 04:54:00 | 2025-08-16 09:55:00 |
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