Wikidata:Requests for comment

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This is the Requests for comment process, the place where the community gathers to discuss on a specific topic. You are more than welcome to open a new RFC process to get opinions over a topic, but that should be done after a long discussion via the other channels.

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Open requests

Issue	Started by	Description	Start date
Sockpuppetry guidelines	Sven Manguard	Proposed guidelines on handling sockpuppetry	2013-06-18
Personal names	Yair rand	Handling personal names	2013-06-18
How to classify items: lot's specific type properties or few generic ones?	Paperoastro	choose a unique method to classify items	2013-06-01
Non-article items for property:p107	분당선M	Using property:p107 in non article items	2013-06-01
Time DataType Properties	23PowerZ	As time datatype is available now we have to discuss this in detail	2013-05-30
Place of the property documentation	Nightwish62	Where should the property documentation be stored?	2013-05-30
One vs. several sitelink-item correspondence	Reosarevok	to consider the possibility of using a sitelink for multiple items in certain cases	2013-05-27
Inheritance of taxon ranks	Ricordisamoa	to define whether some taxon properties could be inherited from "upper" items	2013-05-19
Property documentation	Pyfisch	Discussion about a new property documentation.	2013-05-11
Disambiguation pages guidelines	Nouill	To ask some exceptions to the disambiguation pages guidelines	2013-05-07
Automatic labelling	Ricordisamoa	To define a mechanism so that some items could have labels automatically set even without sitelink	2013-05-06
Kinship	23PowerZ	The current system for properties about family relation is a mess	2013-04-26
References and sources	Micru	Reference and sources in Wikidata	2013-04-16
Software statements	MichaelSchoenitzer	Some open questions about statements for items about software	2013-03-30
Merge article interwikis and category interwikis	ŠJů	Solution for Wikipedia categories	2013-03-12

Closed requests

These are discussions that have been closed in the past. Closed discussions can also be found in this category.

Issue	Started by	Closed by	Description	Outcome	Start date	End date
Exclusion of pages in the file namespace	Vogone	John F. Lewis	to gauge whether Wikidata should link to files uploaded to local projects	Exclusion of locally uploaded images to Wikipedias.	2013-05-29	2013-06-11
Which road to take for help pages	Raoli	Snipre	How to improve the legibility of the help pages.	No consensus, discussion died since 6 month	2012-11-18	2013-6-11
Several datatypes for the same property	Snipre	Snipre	A request for comment about creation 2 properties with the same name but different datatypes	Creation of new properties when necessary to allow different datatypes for the same property	2013-03-23	2013-8-2
A need for a resolution regarding article moves and redirects	Steel1943	filceolaire	Should we allow Wikidata links to Wikipedia redirect pages?	Code to be changed to allow sitelinks to redirect pages	2013-03-04	2013-6-2
Species and genus	Ettrig	filceolaire		Problem will be solved if we can have sitelinks to redirect pages	2013-03-01	2013-6-2
Editprotected and Editinterface for Translation Administrators	John F. Lewis	Hazard-SJ	to gauge whether translation administrators should be granted editprotected and/or editinterface permissions	No consensus for any changes	2013-05-20	2013-06-01
Labels and descriptions in language variants	Saehrimnir	John F. Lewis	Reducing complexity by only allowing as few labels per wikipedia as needed	Keep: British English and Swiss High German. No consensus: Canadian English, Informal Netherland or Português do Brasil. Consensus to remove: Formal-German (Deutsch-Sie Form)	2013-04-27	2013-05-31
Items for Wikimedia projects besides Wikipedia	King jakob c 2		Judging whether other Wikimedia projects should be connected to Wikidata	Its clear that interwikis will be centralized for all Wikimedia projects but how should be decided when its actually worked on	2013-04-28	2013-05-29
Script to add banners on an item	Jitrixis	John F. Lewis	How do we use this Script ?	No consensus on usage of script or implementation of usage.	2013-04-14	2013-05-19
Bureaucrats' role in removal of permissions	John F. Lewis	Sven Manguard	Discuss whether bureaucrats should be able to remove sysop and crat flags	No consensus as to whether or not bureaucrats should be allowed to desysop, defaulting to an unsuccessful proposal. Clear consenus against allow bureaucrats to de-crat, however.	2013-05-09	2013-05-15
Abusefilter-view-private and abusefilter-log-private for rollbackers	FrigidNinja	John F. Lewis	RfC related to this discussion	No consensus for addition of rights	2013-04-25	2013-05-07
Flood flag	Vogone	Hahc21	To gauge whether the flood flag should be enabled for Wikidata	The flood flag is enabled for Wikidata	2013-04-28	2013-05-03
Defining oversighters	Hahc21	Hazard-SJ	Definition of roles and rules about local oversighters	Update of Wikidata:Oversight	2013-04-18	2013-05-02
Wikidata:Vandalism	King jakob c 2	Legoktm	Whether to adopt WD:Vandalism as a policy	Tagged as a guideline	2013-04-19	2013-05-01
Right to vanish	Vituzzu	Jasper Deng	If and how should we implement right to vanish	No consensus	2013-04-14	2013-04-28
Items for user pages	Kolega2357	Legoktm	Items for user pages	Closed early due to no new arguments having been provided since the last few discussions on this topic	2013-04-19	2013-04-21
Adopt metawiki policy for translation administrators	Vogone	Addshore	To gauge whether the requirements for translation adminship should be the same as on metawiki.	Wikidata is to Adopt the full metawiki translation admin policy including the approval procedure.	2013-04-08	2013-04-14
Defining bureaucrats	Rschen7754	Vituzzu	Definition of roles and rules about bureaucrats	Update of Wikidata:Bureaucrats	2013-04-05	2013-04-12
Inclusion of non-article pages 2	Reza1615	PinkAmpersand	To exclude items on pages in specific namespaces.	Several types of pages are declared ineligible for Wikidata items, as detailed here.	2013-03-08	2013-04-09
Restrict creation of properties to some users	Ricordisamoa (Subsequent clarification discussion started by Vogone)	Ajraddatz (Subsequent clarification discussion closed by Hahc21)	To define whether and which edit restrictions should be set on the property namespace.	Property creation is restricted to administrators and a new "property creator" user group; the latter right can be added or removed by administrors.	2013-03-26	2013-04-07
Sock puppetry	Moe Epsilon	Rschen7754	To gauge whether Wikidata:Sock puppetry should become policy.	No consensus for adoption, and several suggested changes.	2013-03-25	2013-04-07