Wikipedia:Perennial proposals 

Common decisions & arguments
Deletion (xFD)
Arguments to avoid
Common outcomes
Overcategorisation
Adminship (RfA) &
Bureaucratship (RfB)
Arguments to avoid
Arbitration (Arbcom)
How to present a case
Past decisions
Proposals & policy
Perennial proposals
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This is a list of things that are frequently proposed on Wikipedia, and have been rejected by the community several times in the past. It is recommended that you address rebuttals raised in the past if you make a proposal along these lines.

Contents

Content

Content warnings

Censor offensive images

Legal issues

Advertising

Enforce American or British spelling

Define reliable sources

Protect featured articles

Indicate Good Articles to readers

Editing

Prohibit anonymous users from editing

Automatically prompt for missing edit summary

All words and phrases should be linked

Talk pages and discussions

Prohibit removal of warnings

Use a bot to welcome new users

Disallow personalized signatures

Deletion

Numerical rules for deletion

All authors must be notified of deletion

Deleted pages should be visible

Administrative

Requests for Adminship is broken

Demote inactive admins

Reconfirm administrators

Hierarchical structures

Technical

Create a counter of people watching a page

Allow watchlisting individual sections of a page

Notes

  1. ^ From Wikipedia:Featured article criteria, as of April 2, 2008.
  2. ^ As of March 2008, there are 1,979 featured articles and 511 former featured articles (541 that have lost featured status minus 30 that have regained it). If you divide the 511 former featured articles by the 2490 articles that have ever been featured, 21% of FAs have been de-featured.
  3. ^ Wikipedia Statistics - Tables - English. Accessed April 2, 2008.
  4. ^ Who Writes Wikipedia?. Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought. Accessed April 2, 2008.