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[edit] Biographies

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  • Talk:Todd Bentley recent rewrite has been questioned as to making the article too whitewashed
  • Talk:Carl Freer Is multiply sourced content about alias and past crimes appropriate?
  • Talk:Harvey Milk Does the content in the "Peoples Temple" section violate WP:UNDUE and WP:BIO and is the materially covered sufficiently in the career section above?|
  • Talk:Neil Goldschmidt Is a 30-year-old man having sex with a 14 properly called "child abuse" or is there a better term?
  • Talk:Alan Hovhaness An editor says that a former neighbor of Hovhaness personally told the editor that Hovhaness said they moved out of Somerville to escape discrimination against Armenians. How can this interesting information be included in the article?
  • Talk:Fergie (singer) What are the genre's of music this artist covers.
  • Talk:Ingrid Newkirk A discussion over whether the name of the Wikipedian photographer's dog should be included in the caption
  • Talk:G. David Schine Repetition of information in footnotes, irrational use of 3 footnotes when none of them supports the statement they're attached to, etc.
  • Talk:William Remington Pointless repetition of information in recent edits
  • Talk:Elizabeth Bentley Repetition and trivia in recent edits
  • Talk:Rupert Sheldrake can Sheldrake works be considered to be a WP:RS beyond the limited scope of WP:V#Self-published and questionable sources in articles about themselves?
  • Talk:Lynn Conway Recent edit wars concerning controversies about transsexual theory and activism, and inclusion of statements published by participants in those controversies, need to be sorted out with respect to BLP and article balance for when the article get unprotected.
  • Talk:Chappaquiddick incident Is included text proper given the weight of the source?
  • Talk:Bear Grylls Discussion over whether the article subject's sons' names should be included in the article.
  • Talk:Catherine Deneuve A dispute between two editors, Luke4545 (talk · contribs) and 70.108.119.24  (talk · contribs) over full-scale edits that 70.108.119.24 (talk · contribs) did not discuss prior to making them. Luke4545 (talk · contribs) disputes that these edits contained various formatting mistakes.
  • Talk:Antonio Meucci In 2002 a Congressional resolution honored Antonio Meucci. The resolution does not say, but can be interpreted as implying, that Meucci was the inventor of the telephone. It's appropriate to mention the resolution in the lead section. Editors disagree on how to describe or characterize what the resolution says.
  • Talk:Frédéric Chopin Editors having some difficulty agreeing about how to edit this article for NPOV, grammar, style, formatting, NOR, etc. Please give a look & suggest ways in which all editors can most effectively be encouraged to familiarize themselves/comply with WP editing rules and guidelines, *and* to ensure no mechanism exists to prevent/discourage other editors from complying, etc. See recent comments, above. Third-party input sincerely appreciated.
  • Talk:Bill Moyers Dispute about weight, truth and accuracy of details of subject's life (involves liason activity with the FBI on LBJ's behalf )
  • Talk:John Howard/Archive 11 Should a paragraph about an incident between Australian Prime Minister John Howard and US Presidential Candidate Barack Obama be included or deleted from the article?

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[edit] Economy and trade

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[edit] History and geography

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  • Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard Is there enough support for alternative start dates to be considered the viewpoint of, at least, a significant minority?
  • Talk:National Liberation War of Macedonia There is a dispute about the neutrality of the article between Kobra85 and Revizionist, with admin Future Perfect at Sunrise and a few others sometimes involved in the discussion. There are basically two versions being argued for here. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title
  • Talk:Contras Need support of third party to request mediation unless you can think of a way to solve reversion and disputes
  • Talk:Knights Hospitaller Should order be described as "revived." Does it "claim" sovereignty or does it have sovereignty?
  • Talk:List of infantry divisions of the Soviet Union 1917–1957 This was a national troop type that can not be readily translated into English, with a variety of translations offered (see copious sources above). The naming in Wikipedia is based on the same principle as that used for Cossacks, Hussars and Landwehr
  • Talk:GADA 601 GADA 601 is an article about a South American military unit, the majority of the article covers a war with the British. Which form of English spelling should be used?
  • Talk:Belgrade Offensive there are several issues involved 1)that at the operation was not a combine/joint operation between the Red Army and the Yugoslav Army at the planing involving higher headquarters, but only involved front-line incidental cooperation at tactical level as required on those occasions when the troops from the two forces encountered each other; 2) That when this encounter occurred, the Yugoslav troops came under command of the Red Army (I need to provide a source for this, but English sources seem rare); 3) that the sources provided by User:DIRECTOR are valid, one being derived from a very general reference in the Library of Congress country dara entry, and others from a site the owner of which admitted they are not referenced (even if true)
  • Talk:List of military occupations The opposition to renaming this article is based on the suggestion that another article can not be created to list pre-1907 occupations due to difficulty in defining the term
  • Talk:Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz Is it appropriate to use a represntative quote by the book's author stated it's main thesis, as well as quotes from favorable book reviews, even if some editors find the POV of the book objectionable
  • Talk:Master Mahan Is the "Master Mahan
  • Talk:Chetniks Deleting of WWII USHMM pictures
  • Talk:Pomeranian duchies and dukes Persistent reverts to push Polish names here as well as in various related articles
  • Talk:Yerida whether to reference modern historians and (at least one) recent book claiming there was no widespread exile from Israel (Palestine) in 70CE and 135CE under the Romans.

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[edit] Language and linguistics

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[edit] Mathematics, natural science and technology

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[edit] Art, architecture, literature and media

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[edit] Politics

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[edit] Religion and philosophy

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[edit] Society and law

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  • Talk:Pederasty in the Middle East and Central Asia dispute over whether to change the name back to Pederasty in the Muslim world from
  • Talk:Penis Should we put a diagram in the lead and put the photos in as thumbnails and/or a gallery?
  • Talk:Breast Should we change the breast picture in the lead?
  • Talk:Satellite High School Does lengthy 1992 Clinton laud of Bailey detract from high school?
  • Talk:Miss Universe 2008 3 questions -- Is the current hidden comment regarding references appropriate? Is the current standard of referencing (in regards to what constitutes reliable sources) appropriate? What is people's opinion of this discussion?
  • Talk:Major League Soccer An editor has disputed the standing consensus against inclusion of the Supporters' Shield results.
  • Talk:Pedophilia I am adamant that the version supported by SqueakBox, PetraSchelm and Jack-A-Roe misrepresents sources and fails to attribute them. Others claim that the version supported by myself and AnotherSolipsist is biased.
  • Talk:2008 Summer Olympics torch relay route I and another editor appear to disagree as to whether two tables each containing the names of 120 runners of the Hong Kong and Macau legs of the torch relay should belong specifically in this article, or whether it is unencyclopaedic
  • Talk:Adoption Which terminology should be used a) in the lead and b) in the article as a whole. Read Talk:Adoption#Terminology_of_parties_to_adoption to see the terms
  • Talk:List of University of Toronto people Does this list need to use in-line citations?
  • Talk:Taser Should information on "excited delirium" as well as scientific studies on the Taser be included in this article or in the Taser controversy spin-off. Is moving critical information in the Taser article, such as medical studies regarding the device, to the Taser controversy article consistent with NPOV? Is having a separate criticism article or section consistent with NPOV?
  • Talk:Carefree (chant) Should we be including "parody" sections in entries such as Carefree (chant)? Seems like a clear case of inviting trouble.

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[edit] Style issues

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  • Template talk:Infobox DTV Issues with handling the insertion of final digital TV channel assignments for 400-500 US stations changing frequency at the end of digital transition in February 2009.
  • Template talk:Infobox Television Disability issues with using small fonts in templates. Arguments for include disability and preference for screen resolution over direct template editing.
  • Wikipedia talk:Citing sources/Archive 21 What to do with named references that have never existed in an article.

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