The following discussions are requested to have community-wide attention:
Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
| Currently, the status quo for events listed on the main page is to use the present tense, even if the event in question has definitively ended. I didn't really notice this was an issue until yesterday when I noticed that the main page said that the
Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 is visible through parts of North America. Knowing that it was not currently visible and double checking that the article referred to the event in the past tense, I changed this to was visible.
[1] I did not realize that this is against the current consensus at
WP:ITNBLURB which says that these events must always be described in the present tense. If one is interested in further background, I encourage them to read this discussion
here (scroll down to errors).
I think that this status quo is misleading to readers because it cases like this, we are deliberately giving inaccurate and outdated information. I believe this is a disservice to our readers. The eclipse is not visible anymore, yet we must insist that it is indeed visible. I think that we should also be consistent... If the article for a blurb is using the past tense, we should use the past tense on the main page. Therefore, I propose that events listed on ITN that have definitively ended should be described in the past tense if it would otherwise mislead readers into thinking an event is ongoing. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 11:33, 10 April 2024 (UTC) |
Should
the 2020 consensus to remove |residence= from the
Infobox person template be overturned?
4theloveofallthings (
talk) 01:05, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
|
Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Enforcing ECR for article creators
| The purpose of this RfC is to determine the consensus for how creations in violations of general sanctions such as WP:ARBECR should be enforced. Awesome Aasim 04:14, 8 April 2024 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard
What is the reliability of the
Anti-Defamation League's
database of hate symbols?
|
Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard
What is the reliability of the
Anti-Defamation League regarding antisemitism?
|
Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard
What is the reliability of the
Anti-Defamation League regarding the Israel/Palestine conflict?
|
The following discussions are requested to have community-wide attention:
Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
| Currently, the status quo for events listed on the main page is to use the present tense, even if the event in question has definitively ended. I didn't really notice this was an issue until yesterday when I noticed that the main page said that the
Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 is visible through parts of North America. Knowing that it was not currently visible and double checking that the article referred to the event in the past tense, I changed this to was visible.
[1] I did not realize that this is against the current consensus at
WP:ITNBLURB which says that these events must always be described in the present tense. If one is interested in further background, I encourage them to read this discussion
here (scroll down to errors).
I think that this status quo is misleading to readers because it cases like this, we are deliberately giving inaccurate and outdated information. I believe this is a disservice to our readers. The eclipse is not visible anymore, yet we must insist that it is indeed visible. I think that we should also be consistent... If the article for a blurb is using the past tense, we should use the past tense on the main page. Therefore, I propose that events listed on ITN that have definitively ended should be described in the past tense if it would otherwise mislead readers into thinking an event is ongoing. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 11:33, 10 April 2024 (UTC) |
Should
the 2020 consensus to remove |residence= from the
Infobox person template be overturned?
4theloveofallthings (
talk) 01:05, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
|
Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Enforcing ECR for article creators
| The purpose of this RfC is to determine the consensus for how creations in violations of general sanctions such as WP:ARBECR should be enforced. Awesome Aasim 04:14, 8 April 2024 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard
What is the reliability of the
Anti-Defamation League's
database of hate symbols?
|
Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard
What is the reliability of the
Anti-Defamation League regarding antisemitism?
|
Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard
What is the reliability of the
Anti-Defamation League regarding the Israel/Palestine conflict?
|