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Internationalism

An awful lot of entries are biased towards one country, and the United States in particular. I suppose that this isn't surprising considering that most English-language users of Wikipedia are likely to be American. Moreover, most of us are apt to know most about our home country's version of any given topic. This said, it's no excuse for what is a lazy practice of many contributors of crafting an article without referring to its international dimensions (where these are relevant/substantive). I've sought to draw attention to this by adding a content guideline tentatively called "Internationalism". If there is a better way of going about this, don't hold back!

Adding datetime stamp to facilitate archiving process.G716 <T·C> 10:56, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Archive?

Would it be best to archive this? it is long and it is getting to be a little slow in the loading territory. Rgoodermote  02:57, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Good idea - done - anything over 90 days old will be auto-archived—G716 <T·C> 15:29, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Administrators

Is this a policy? It has a tag saying so, & a discussion by a small number of people agreeing, but it's not listed here. Peter jackson (talk) 14:05, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and listed it. Ryan Postlethwaite 14:31, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Who does policy speak to?

The text and even the nutshell version talks to "users", but in fact the vast majority of users are purely readers. Policies only affect "editors". The text should reflect this.LeadSongDog (talk) 17:42, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Towards New proposal policy

Many community members strongly disagree with the current policy. We are proposing a modification of languages criteria to star a wikimedia project, with a community draft. feel free to contribute with your opinion:


thak you, very much. —Preceding Crazymadlover

Adding datetime stamp to facilitate archiving process.G716 <T·C> 10:56, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Moving a few things in and out of the Content section

There are currently 7 policy pages in Category:Wikipedia content policy, and I altered the Content section of this page so that it conforms. Attack pages seems more a matter of deletion policy than content policy to me, so I moved it to that section. WP:NFCC and related pages are constantly coming up in article review processes, and it's generally regarded as a content matter; a month or two ago, I added the "content policy" cat, and it's one of the pages I keep track of at WP:Update. WP:NFCC is also in the "copyright" cat, but even though our policy on images and clips has its roots in international law, it's evolved into something uniquely Wikipedian. WP:NOT has always AFAIK been in the "content policy" cat since most of the page concerns content. - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 16:00, 15 November 2008 (UTC)