Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Politics

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Shortcut: WP:RFC/P WP:RFC/POLITICS

Requests for comment on Politics Please help out by providing comment on another dispute listed here List newer entries on top, stating briefly and neutrally what the debate is about. Provide a link to the relevant section on the article's talk page. Sign entries with the date only, by using five tildes: ~~~~~. Do not continue the debate here, or make personal comments on this page.

• Talk:Racism (section) There is a tag team edit operating on Wikipedia blocking all atttempts to discuss or develope the discussion of insitutional racism as part of Israels goverment policy. I have cited the comments by Desomond Tutu, and also discussed the case of the Beta Israel whom according to the references are being denied equal rights as Jewish citizens.--Halaqah 21:59, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
• Talk:London_Action_Resource_Centre Three editors are stuck in a dispute about the contents of this page. Two of the editors are apparently expelled members of the centre. Informal mediation has failed.03:27, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
• Talk:List_of_Lebanese_people#Request_for_Comment:_Notable_Lebanese_and_assassinations - This is a dispute encompassing two issues. Specifically on whether "assassinated" politicians should be described as such in a general list and generally over the detail of descriptions added to individuals listed. Also the extent to which indivduals with no Wiki articles (yet) and questioned notability should be listed. 00:03, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
• Talk:Temple Street 10:09, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
• Talk:Beit Hanoun November 2006 incident#pic regarding pictures. 22:13, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Talk:Scottish national identity#Request for Comment Long edit war regarding the separate identity of Orkney and Shetland inhabitants. --18:31, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
• Talk:Democracy#Removal of Marxist/Socialist view section Wether or not the Marxist and socialist view on democracy should be represented in the article.06:13, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
• Talk:Barack Obama#Odd addition of controversy.... Is this addition to the article a legitimate controversy regarding Barack Obama or based on original research? 04:46, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
• Talk:Bolivarianism#Merge proposal Dispute over the merger of Chavismo into Bolivarianism. 13:05, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Talk:Killian documents. Can blogs be used to provide citations, in an article regarding issues principally explored by and reported on blogs, in potential violation of WP:V and WP:RS? Kaisershatner 16:10, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• Talk:A.N.S.W.E.R.#Request for Comment re: "Infoshop link" Dispute regarding inclusion of a specific external link on A.N.S.W.E.R. whose content is critical of the organization. 22:55, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
• Talk:Lehi (group). Dispute over the use of a foreign-language novel as a source. 21:45, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
• Talk:Palestinian exodus. Serious and protracted disagreement over compatibility of sources with the policy on verifiability. --20:26, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
• Talk:Zionism Dispute concerning whether early Zionists regarded Israel alone as the geographical homeland to be created for the Jewish people, or whether Israel was one of many possible homelands. 19:04, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Talk:List of acts labelled as state terrorism sorted by state This page is called "List of acts labelled as state terrorism sorted by state". Should acts that haven't been labelled as "state terrorism" be carried on this page? Or would that contravene WP:NOR and WP:V? --15:31, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
• Talk:Single-party state – User:Huaiwei, an editor from Singpaore, has insisted Singapore is not a single-party state. He argues that other political parties exist, despite they have never been in power since the independence of Singapore, and are even having difficulties to fulfill the requirements in filling candidates in elections. 12:06, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
• Talk:2002_Gujarat_violence#Summary_of_debate:Debate over the inclusion of Ramesh Rao's analysis.Hkelkar 02:35, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
• Talk:Boy_Scouts_of_America_membership_controversies#Request_For_Comment - What should the intro look like in this Feature Article. 01:08, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
• Talk:Democratic_Underground#RFC - Which of the disputed external links (with special attention to the blog Dummie Funnies) should be included/excluded? 23:04, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
• Talk:Larry Craig#Come on Guys- this is where the dispute starts. It continues down the talk page. The background: several weeks ago, a blogger came out and reported to have talked to 4 different men who said they had sex with Craig. Naturally, Craig being a "traditional values" Republican, the reports were quite juicy. The report was mentioned, I believe, by Bill Maher, a left-wing commentator, and picked up by the Seattle Post. Several mainstream newspapers picked up the story, not to report on it, but to criticize that a paper like the Seattle Post would carry a story from a source like a blogger. There have been three major sides:

• It warrants no inclusion, per WP:BLP. At least one BLP admin thinks this. See [1]
• It warrants some inclusion. At least one BLP admin thinks this too. See [2]
• It should be included without caveat. This position has been added only by a few IPs that, to be honest, are possibly the same person. See [3].

To be honest, I doubt this will work, but it's a required first step. 03:31, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

• Talk:Views and controversies concerning Juan Cole is it OR and relevant to include a 3rd party's criticism of a critic of Cole, which does not actually mention Cole or the critics's criticism of him 02:04, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Also: does it comport with WP:BLP and WP:RS to include extensive quotations from blogs attacking Cole, and does it violate WP:NPOV to censor material indicating that the blog writer has an agenda of attacking the organization Cole presides over?10:16, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
• Talk:Anarchism#Peter Marshall and anarcho-capitalism Dispute about whether an illogical statement from a source is rightly a marginal and incorrect view, or not. 15:38, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
• Talk:Jim_Inhofe#Request_for_Comment. Does the graph in the environment section simply provide context for one of Senator Inhofe's controversial statements, or does it violate WP:NPOV by implying criticism of his opinion, as well as being outside the scope of this article? -06:19, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
• Israel and weapons of mass destruction Is describing the well-documented Israeli nuclear collaboration with South Africa extraneous or relevant? 03:19, 9 November 2006 (UTC)