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Requests for closure

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ANI proposal to dissolve IBAN between me and Catflap08

title=Misplaced Pages:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive886&oldid=663493124 This proposal received no opposition, was supported by one of the subjects and three other users; the other subject was neutral. But the thread got archived no result by a trigger-happy archive bot. It's not really a close request so much as a request to read the discussion and remove the WP:EDR entry accordingly. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 10:49, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#History of the WWE - Long-running edit war

No comments for a couple of days bar my bump, consensus is pretty clear. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 00:56, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

(Initiated 3526 days ago on 18 May 2015) Steel1943 (talk) 22:36, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 April 23

There are two open discussions that were open almost a month ago, and nobody has commented on them in over 3 weeks, and to me, the conesus seems pretty clear on both of them. JDDJS (talk) 19:28, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

(Initiated 3551 days ago on 23 April 2015) Steel1943 (talk) 22:36, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Messy RfDs about Ottoman princesses

There are two expired RfDs on Misplaced Pages:Redirects for discussion/Log/2015 May 4 which seem to have arisen from a botched move / fork sequence. I'm not sure I know what the best course of action is - can we have a fresh pair of admin eyes to close this and perform the appropriate remedial actions? Der yck C. 22:32, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

(Initiated 3540 days ago on 4 May 2015) Steel1943 (talk) 22:36, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Miscellany_for_deletion/Wikipedia:Advocacy_ducks

This has been open 7 days, it was opened 14 May 2015, and looks like a possible WP:SNOW. Real discussion has stopped a few days ago and a few !votes have trickled in since then, but its pretty clear the direction this is heading. At this point we have those that are against the essay rehashing the same arguments. AlbinoFerret 14:04, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Already done by The Herald AlbinoFerret 20:46, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

CfD backlog

There are currently many open discussions, including some going all the way back to December. Please see the list at Misplaced Pages:Categories_for_discussion#Discussions_awaiting_closure. - jc37 17:44, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

As of 12 May, December is done but there are three remaining from January, 9 from February and over 70 from March. – Fayenatic London 07:39, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 February 21

There are twelve discussions of Feb 21 still open while it's nearly two months later. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:26, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

(Initiated 3612 days ago on 21 February 2015) Steel1943 (talk) 22:36, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Down to ten discussions as of now. Ncmvocalist (talk) 09:13, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

Don't think so, I still count 12. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:57, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

OK, but it's now down to 9. Ncmvocalist (talk) 15:40, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Now down to two. Some of the usual CfD closers can't close these as they have participated in the discussions. – Fayenatic London 16:20, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Inappropriate Actions and behavors by Editors Padenton and Msnicki

This Incident Misplaced Pages:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive885#Inappropriate_Actions_and_behavors_by_Editors_Padenton_and_Msnicki was archived without being officially closed or any action taken. Could someone review it and officially close it or take appropriate action. Thank you for your time. Itsmeront (talk) 20:26, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

(Initiated 3533 days ago on 11 May 2015) Steel1943 (talk) 22:47, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
Note: I have unarchived this thread. It can now be found at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Inappropriate Actions and behavors by Editors Padenton and Msnicki. Steel1943 (talk) 22:47, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2015_May_3#Template:2010s_controversial_killings_of_African_Americans

Please disposition Misplaced Pages:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2015_May_3#Template:2010s_controversial_killings_of_African_Americans, which has been open for over two weeks without relisting. --Jax 0677 (talk) 02:07, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Requested moves

Requested moves backlog

Anyone have a mop? Some of the discussions there are backed up all the way from early February. Erpert 08:12, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Update: situation is much improved, but there's still a six-week backlog of move requests. -- Diannaa (talk) 18:32, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Masjid al-Haram

The move request was withdrawn about half a month ago (on 8 May 2015), and there have been no more comments since that day. Khestwol (talk) 12:04, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

(Initiated 3543 days ago on 1 May 2015) Steel1943 (talk) 22:36, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Rodney_Moore (pornographic actor)#Requested move 27 April 2015 (Initiated 3547 days ago on 27 April 2015)

This discussion has been open for almost a month now. Could someone please close it already? The article is WP:Move protected, making WP:Non-admin closure impossible. Rebecca1990 (talk) 06:49, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Requests for comment

Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Film#RfC: Do list items need their own WP article in order to be sourced in list articles?

This discussion, begun April 27, has reached a point of repeated arguments by the same few editors. It is over 26,000 words long after fewer than 10 days. If it's left without closure for much longer, it will be the size of a small novel and daunt any attempts at closing it. --Tenebrae (talk) 00:03, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

(Initiated 3547 days ago on 27 April 2015) Steel1943 (talk) 22:36, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
It's two weeks since the initial request, and the time-consuming morass is worse than ever. Respectfully requesting closure, with the acknowledgment that it might be a challenging task. --Tenebrae (talk) 16:36, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

I'm the originator of the RfC. I agree, and came here to request formal closure by an uninvolved admin. The issue is contentious and consensus remains unclear; It may also have wiki-wide implications. The RfC discussion is quite lengthy, so a summary of the RfC (i.e. a concise outline of the main points presented by both sides of the issue) is here. Lapadite (talk) 02:05, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

This RfC's introduction is essentially flawed: It does not propose two (or more) options to choose from, neither does it make a proposal which may me supported or opposed. This led some !voters to support or oppose a large variety of things without being clear how these thing stand in connection with what other !voters support or oppose. Other !voters said yes or no, while the introduction actually presents different positions (for or against) concerning the inclusion of different things, to wit: non-notable, non-sourceable, and/or no-wiki-article-having awards. That makes it even more difficult to know what these !voters actually said yes or no to. For that reason, the usual closers active in this area have so far refrained from tackling this thread. Kraxler (talk) 21:03, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Bengali people#List of people in the collage

An RfC and a survey was opened following inconsistency and edit-war for place in the collage at infobox top. After long discussion a list of 30 people and a resulting collage image was made. This process started on March 31. A total of 122 nominations were made, 29 editors voted, 14 editors discussed, 2 filter systems were discussed and merged, 11 editors have agreed to ratify it, 3 editors complained, 1 editor remained apprehensive. This is time for closing this long discussion. An non-involved admin would be the right person to do it. –nafSadh did say 06:30, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

(Initiated 3574 days ago on 31 March 2015) Steel1943 (talk) 22:36, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Talk:MacBook (2015 version)#Merge Discussion: MacBook (2015 version)→MacBook

Would an uninvolved editor please close this merge request? PaleAqua (talk) 20:32, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

(Initiated 3585 days ago on 20 March 2015) (This was when the section was created, but it has since been renamed.) Steel1943 (talk) 22:36, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

WP:Village pump (proposals)#RfC: Proposal to add global JavaScript and redirect all IRC help links through a disclaimer page

RfC has run for 30 days. Note that there are two parts to this RfC, the disclaimer and the JavaScript. Consensus about the disclaimer seems pretty clear, but people might disagree about the clarity of the consensus related to the JavaScript. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 19:54, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

(Initiated 3562 days ago on 12 April 2015) Steel1943 (talk) 22:36, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

I would like to have an experienced admin close the RfC at Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion. The consensus for BLPs is pretty clear, but additional guidance on whether I need to post another RfC for fictional characters, dead people, schools, nations, etc., that contain "religion = None" in the infoboxes would be helpful. --Guy Macon (talk) 05:53, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

(Initiated 3553 days ago on 21 April 2015) Steel1943 (talk) 22:36, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Tree of Life#Confusion over taxonomy of subtribe Panina and taxon homininae (are chimps hominins)

Would an admin assess the consensus at the RfC at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Tree of Life#Confusion over taxonomy of subtribe Panina and taxon homininae (are chimps hominins) (Initiated 3585 days ago on 20 March 2015)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 01:39, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Meghan Trainor#RFC: Describing Trainor

Would an admin assess the consensus at Talk:Meghan Trainor#RFC: Describing Trainor (Initiated 3553 days ago on 21 April 2015)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 01:39, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Talk:G. Edward Griffin#RfC on admissibility of additional sources

Would an admin assess the consensus at Talk:G. Edward Griffin#RfC on admissibility of additional sources (Initiated 3554 days ago on 20 April 2015)? Please consider Talk:G. Edward Griffin#RfC on sources in your close. Thanks, Cunard (talk) 01:39, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Would an admin assess the consensus at the RfC at Talk:Capitalist mode of production (Marxist theory)#How to remove bias (Initiated 3581 days ago on 24 March 2015)? The opening poster wrote: "Should be article be redirected, or kept and improved?" Thanks, Cunard (talk) 01:39, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Would an admin assess the consensus at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Religion#Disambiguations of divinities (Initiated 3591 days ago on 14 March 2015)? See the subsection Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Religion#Extension to RfC. Thanks, Cunard (talk) 01:39, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Palestinian stone-throwing#RfC Should the article be renamed to something like 'Stone throwing in the Palestinian territories'/'Stone-throwing in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict'? to comply with NPOV?

Would an admin assess the consensus at Talk:Palestinian stone-throwing#RfC Should the article be renamed to something like 'Stone throwing in the Palestinian territories'/'Stone-throwing in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict'? to comply with NPOV? (Initiated 3579 days ago on 26 March 2015)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 01:39, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Operation Dragoon Ride#RFC - Ill-Mannered Protestors Outnumbered by Cheering Throngs Chanting "America!" ... is U.S. Government a RS for this claim?

Would an admin assess the consensus at Talk:Operation Dragoon Ride#RFC - Ill-Mannered Protestors Outnumbered by Cheering Throngs Chanting "America!" ... is U.S. Government a RS for this claim? (Initiated 3566 days ago on 8 April 2015)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 01:39, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Would an admin assess the consensus at Template talk:World War I infobox#RfC (14 April 2015) (Initiated 3560 days ago on 14 April 2015)? The opening poster wrote: "Should the Emirate of Jabal Shammar be included in the infobox as a co-belligerent of the Central Powers?" Thanks, Cunard (talk) 01:39, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Genocides in history#RfC: Inclusion criteria

Would an admin assess the consensus at Talk:Genocides in history#RfC: Inclusion criteria (Initiated 3557 days ago on 17 April 2015)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 01:39, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages talk:Naming conventions (Places in Bangladesh)#Request for Comments

Would an admin assess the consensus at Misplaced Pages talk:Naming conventions (Places in Bangladesh)#Request for Comments (Initiated 3556 days ago on 18 April 2015)? Please consider Misplaced Pages talk:Naming conventions (geographic names)#Proposal for WP:NCGN#Bangladesh in your close. Thanks, Cunard (talk) 01:39, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Talk:E-meter#RfC: Should the Corydon book be used to say that Hubbard's patent was based on the work of Breeding and Wallis?

Would an admin assess the consensus at Talk:E-meter#RfC: Should the Corydon book be used to say that Hubbard's patent was based on the work of Breeding and Wallis? (Initiated 3581 days ago on 24 March 2015)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 01:39, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Would an admin assess the consensus at Talk:AC/DC#RfC: AC/DC's Current Drummer (Initiated 3552 days ago on 22 April 2015)? The opening poster wrote: "Is the current drummer of AC/DC Phil Rudd or Chris Slade?" Thanks, Cunard (talk) 01:39, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Misconduct in the Philadelphia Police Department#RfC: Should this be a list of cases or a discussion of PPD misconduct? If a list, what are the inclusion criteria be?

Would an admin assess the consensus at Talk:Misconduct in the Philadelphia Police Department#RfC: Should this be a list of cases or a discussion of PPD misconduct? If a list, what are the inclusion criteria be? (Initiated 3574 days ago on 31 March 2015)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 01:39, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages talk:Naming conventions (US stations)#RfC: Should the USSTATION capitalization advice be adhered to, using reliable sources for what is an official station name?

Would an admin assess the consensus at Misplaced Pages talk:Naming conventions (US stations)#RfC: Should the USSTATION capitalization advice be adhered to, using reliable sources for what is an official station name? (Initiated 3559 days ago on 15 April 2015)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 01:39, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Would an admin assess the consensus at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiBullying#Recent changes to the essay (Initiated 3584 days ago on 21 March 2015)? See the subsection Misplaced Pages talk:WikiBullying#WP:RfC: Should the page be changed back to its previous version, partially or wholly? in your close. Thanks, Cunard (talk) 01:39, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

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