Talk:List of self-proclaimed deities. Should
Jesus be included in a list of 'self-proclaimed deities? If so with what comments? Apart from that, in one day four templates have variously been added to this article by one user after the article maintained a long streak of popularity and perceived neutral content by many editors. These are {{cleanup}}, {{wikify}}, {{disputed}}, and {{{{limitedgeographicscope}}. When one is removed, a different one is added. Playing the template game is frustrating for all users involved and it makes it very difficult to discuss any relevant issues.
Only template remaining is {{disputed}}, all others have been cleared after discussions and edits were done to the article. See the
talk page.
Talk:Fart fetishism - Post VfD debate, to keep or delete fart diary section.
Talk:Desperate Housewives - A section was added called "Characters and Crimes" detailing main characters and the crimes they have perpetuated. A user removed this section, stating it did not belong, after a number of other users edited/contributed to the section. The article has been reverted pending user input on the issue.
Talk:Kurdistan Workers Party - Seems overly biased against PKK, much stronger and more definate use of language than other "terrorist" organisation articles, seems fairly one-sided, any attempt to try and reach a consensus nearly always ends in deadlock, although some progress has been made. One user frequently reverts to his (poorer) grammar and spelling and removes POV/info.
Talk:Israel unilateral disengagement plan of 2004 - should an article about the Gaza pull-out plan which discuss the Israeli opposition to the plan include links to photos of the protest, incluiding photos showing who build Ileagl homes in the settlments in an attempt to house in them anti pull-out protestors - the links are being added by an anonymous user who owns the photos.
Talk:José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero - hopelessly POV article (against Zapatero), any attempts to change it result in personal intimidation from one user, making a collaborative editing atmosphere impossible.
Talk:Subhash_Chandra_Bose - debate regarding Bose's collaboration with the Axis forces, and its consequences for ordinary Indians/the Indian freedom fight against the British.
Talk:Economy of the United States: Currently, several articles take into account the European Union when discussing the gross domestic product and ordered ranking of national economies. It is debated whether or not the EU should be referenced in these cases.
Talk:George W. Bush Ongoing diagreements regarding the omission of politically charged opinion and constituting this as merely stating facts about opinions. In particular, the section regarding mental health but also the discussion regarding drug and alcohol abuse.
Talk:Frank_Chu - debate about appropriateness and accuracy of the term "schizophrenia" as used here; currently two authors are at loggerheads in an edit-revert war.
Talk:Fidel Castro. Several issues all in talk. Issues are primarily with the introduction and several of the more controversial subsections of the article.
Talk:Israeli-Palestinian conflict#Why does the table of the emblems belong here? -- appropriateness of the table systematizing official emblems of major Palestinian organizations. A common element (the map of Israel) on the emblems contradicts official policy of the Palestinian Authority and therefore contributes to the conflict.
Talk:Ahvaz - A NPOV dispute about this Iranian location's history. See also
Talk:Khuzestan for a related NPOV dispute between the same users.
Talk:Nebula class starship - The inclusion of weapons counts for Star Trek ships is in dispute. Weapons counts are derived from studying footage from the shows and examining pictures of official models. These counts can be open to intepretation. It is disputed whether this may be considered original research and ineligible for inclusion.
Talk:Internet Explorer - Dispute over including criticism of the browser, and possible anti-MS bias.
Talk:Greater Serbia - A seemingly intractable dispute between two editors. Input from anyone with specialist knowledge would be helpful.
Talk:Cheating in Counter-Strike - The article's conclusion is that essentially,
Pro gamers have to cheat to remain competitive. This is of course quite a statement, RfC'ing! The article was set on disputed (presumably till next friday) and additional input is requested, especially from more experienced wikipedians that know how to deal with such issues. (Presumably NPOV & factually correct articles that people may find offensive)
Talk:Orkut#Brazilian invasion - Dispute over the neutrality and the factual accuracy regarding the situation of the Brazilian users in the
orkut virtual community.
Talk:Saudi Arabia -- see section Factual corrections, the dispute is over whether institutions like the
mutaween (religious police) exist in countries other than Saudi Arabia.
Talk:Fallout (computer game) - dispute over the description of Fallout community, each of which is claimed to be POV by the author of the other.
Talk:Dieselboy - Two users disagreed, third opinion was sought, one user is refusing to respect the third opinion.
Talk:Jerome H. Lemelson - A personal threat to engage in a dispute with Wikipedia is made on the page, after added matter was removed on grounds of lack of neutrality and original research.
Talk:DVD — Should the topic of DVD-Audio be split into its own article?
Talk:Death Star - Wording describing the size of the Death Star. Which wording has less POV?
Talk:Jawaharlal Nehru - disputes between registered and anonymous users over whether a lengthy, unsourced section containing comparisons between Nehru and
Joseph Stalin should be included.
Talk:Islamofascism Issues:- whether behavior of Admin:Mel Etitis in banning only one side of an RV war that Mel Etitis was involved in, is acceptable.
-whether behavior of Admin: jpgordon in locking a topic he was involved in to a specific edit, is acceptable.
-Ongoing questions on what factual information should be allowed into article following a failed VfD and repeated vandalism (wholesale content deletion).
It's inappropriate to refer to article editing you disagree with as "vandalism".
User:Grace Note explained his edits fully on the Talk page. He removed various material that he felt was original research and not properly sourced.
Except that various editors with admin status have been involved in condoning abusive and vandalist edits whose POV (anti existance of
Islamofascism) they agree with.
Klonimus15:09, 12 May 2005 (UTC)reply
Talk:Jesus - whether using "Before Christ" (BC) and "Anno Domini" (AD, or in the year of the Lord) or "Before Common Era" (BCE) and "Common Era" (CE) is POV -- particularly with regard to the
Jesus article (Note: see
Wikipedia Manual of Style)
Talk:Thule Society - Whether and to what extent modern conspiracy theories shall be included.
Talk:Palpatine - Star Wars fans: Should content from
Darth Sidious be merged and redirected into this article, or the other way around.
Talk:William Pène du Bois A quoted passage from a work of fiction refers to balloons as having a "combined lifting pull of 600 pounds." In the context of this article, to assist non-U.S. readers, conversions are added in brackets. Should these conversions be given in kilograms or in newtons?
Talk:Suicide - Need further input about NPOV regarding suicide as a medical emergency vs. a choice.
Talk:Christian right -- Disagreement over fair and acurate way to describe the Christian Right.
Talk:Appeal to belief - Editor insists that "Most scientists believe in evolution, so it must be true" is a common example of an "appeal to belief"
Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (biographies)/Survey on Style-Prefixed Honorary Titles - A page using an unorthodox statistical method to seek consensus about the use of "styles" in biographies (titles like "Her Majesty"). Multiple users have expressed a desire to junk the page (on grounds that the survey is confusing and the options offered vague or inappropriate) and instead use a more usual wikipedia approach to resolving the issue; others seem committed to carrying the survey though to a conclusion which will become policy.
Talk:May day - Dispute originally regarding a single sentence in the article has now degenerated into personal attacks and ideological sparring.
Talk:Vilna Gaon - whether it is appropriate to put footnotes in small print.
Talk:Pablo Neruda - ongoing dispute about the factual accuracy of claims made about Neruda and the NKVD/KGB
Talk:Timothy McVeigh — dispute over whether McVeigh is a terrorist or whether is is more NPOV to state that he was convicted of terrorism.
Talk:Theistic realism - How should the article be written, should extensive quotations of the inventor of the term (
Philip Johnson) be used, and how should criticism be handled? Ultimately, should the article be merged or deleted?
Talk:Joseph Smith, Jr.: should the list of wives of Joseph Smith be removed from his article.
Wikipedia:Deletion policy/Masts: There is a discussion about how stub articles on radio masts (large antennas) should be handled. A merger of these stubs into a single table at
List of masts is proposed.
Talk:Evacuation of East Prussia: Should the article begin by referring to its topic as "the Prussian Holocaust," and acting as though this is a commonly accepted term?
Talk:Metrication: Should the article contain a section on the ideology of metrication?
Talk:Chemtrail#NPOV tag Is the article intrinsically non-neutral, unless reduced to a mere definition? Does serious discussion of the belief system amount to advocacy for the truth of the belief?
Talk:Technological_singularity#Definition Comments needed on whether definition should be changed. I don't want to make a significant change without a consensus as Wiki is no place for orginal researech.
Talk:Battlestar Galactica (disambiguation) There's a revert war going on, on whether or not the ship Battlestar Galactica deserves to be disambiguated *in any way*, to point to its article page at all.
Talk:Anthony Flew. Fundies and the US press have taken his conversion from
atheism to
deism and ran with it, meanwhile atheists are denying he even exists. A right mess.
Talk:Shemale and
Talk:Hormone replacement therapy (trans) IP inserted highly questionable paragraphs, those were removed to the talk page and discussed. Discussion on both articles deteriorated into rabid rants and insults, with cross-references to the other debate. (Note: This RfC is more about the discussion style than particular content, so most people will be able to comment despite the rather specialised 2nd topic.)
Talk:Bill_Clinton#Photos. Dispute over whether pictures of bodies from the Kosovo conflict shoudl be included.
Talk:Jeb Bush. Dispute over NPOV, copyrighted photographs. One user is accusing others of harrassment. Other methods of dispute resolution, including requesting comment from other editors and a listing at peer review, have already been attempted. [Intemperate accusation removed by
Bishonen, please see "How to use RFC" above!]
talk:Guru - Problem description: revert war between two editors, mainly about the structure of the article. Should the structure of the article based on "Eastern Perspective"/"Eastern Context" and "Western Context and secular views" or on "gurus in the West and their American and "European followers" and "Assesments of guru's authenticity and criticism"? And also a dispute about one editor alleged disregard for consensus. One editor accuses the other of advocating an anti-guru POV and in return, after this RfC was posted, the other acsuses the other to using the article to minimize the documented problems of assessing the gurus's authenticity and the documented alleged extensive criticism. Solution: no editor is happy with the current article but they can live with it. Criticism and analysis of gurus remains in the article.
Talk:Clay Aiken — Sentence stating There is a vocal segment of fans who speculate that Clay is
gay, but he has said he is not. is being deleted out of the article repeatedly by an anon user. Article is fast approaching the 3RR for today. (Article was protected and anon user banned)
Archived
And twice more.
Talk:Perverted-Justice.com. Edit-revert war going on for months: mostly the site administrator of Perverted Justice vs. everyone else on Wikipedia. My own personal involvement makes me a non-neutral party, therefore I am requesting assistance from more NPOV Wikipedians and administrators.
Talk:Allies - Should WWII Allies be divided into Major or Minor, or listed by date of entry/alphabetically? Note that current Major/Minor division seems to be a POV invented on Wikipedia.
category talk:Eugenics. Is eugenics a pseudoscience? Does evolutionary biology support eugenics? Was Darwin a eugenicist?
Talk:Bisexuality Are the Kinsey statistics unacceptably inaccurate? Should they be removed from the article?
Talk:Lancaster (disambiguation). Dispute over whether
Lancaster should link to the British city, Pennsylvania city, California city, Ohio city, or the disambiguation page.
Talk:Nation of Islam and anti-Semitism. This article has apparently been a chronic site of edit and revert wars. Current issues of dispute: to what extent should statements like "the NOI believes that Jews control the financial system" be presented as fact? Should extensive quotes from
Khalid Abdul Muhammad be included? Are the
Catholic League's charges relevant to an article on anti-Semitism?
Talk:Journalistic standards and ethics - There is an increasingly heated debate over whether the terms "standards" and/or "ethics" should be in the title, and whether or not the article is about one, the other, or both.
Talk:Battlestar Galactica (ship) – We are having a disagreement on the existence of an article on the ship Battlestar Galactica. As it is a redirect, people might not think to start an article there.
Talk:Harper's_Magazine - Does the text constitute a copyvio that requires the article to listed as such, or can a rewrite fix it, due to significant added material?
Talk:Centre Party (Germany) - dispute between
User:John Kenney and
User:Flamekeeper over Flamekeeper's additions to the article, which seem designed to provide material to support the idea of the existence of a Vatican conspiracy to bring the Nazis to power.
Talk:David Dreier Dispute over one user's removal of the entire section about Campaign 2004 - i.e., the issues in the campaign of this U.S. representative and the vote total he received in the election of 2004.
Opus Dei more than 600 edits since March have turned that article into a publication of Opus Dei, or so it seems. Not even remotely NPOV any more, compare version before those IPs started to edit:
[2]. Diff from that:
[3] Various complaints on the talk page, too.
Talk:Russell Tribunal Should contemporary views and/or possible criticism of the Tribunal, including some from a Russian author, be permitted within the article?
Talk:Henry Kissinger Should the discussion of war crimes accusations be greatly condensed, and mention removed from the lead paragraph?
talk:Jim Ogston; it seems the chap himself has turned up, and he is not very happy (or very notable, but the vfd trolls didn't bite before...
Talk:Thimerosal Should the Thimerosol article contain or exclude detailed discussion of the suspected connection between autism and vaccination? There's been an edit war going on here for many days.
Talk: Zanskar User is making strange and sarcastic comments, and preventing me to change the article for the better with my version, which was an adaptation of the original content after I have done a massive rework (mainly cleanup and adding the Tourism section). I can't understand why they want to restrict information.
Talk: Bell's theorem A defender of the accepted pov is arbitrarily deleting all contributions by another member, on the grounds that she supports a minority pov. Many of her edits are, however, of a neutral character and are clearly necessary, since (among other problems) the present page presents a supposed derivation of one of the Bell inequalities that bears no relation to Bell's reasoning and is not valid.
Talk:Citizens Commission on Human Rights Is the fact that one website claims there is "no proof of [mental illness] actually existing" all that is needed to state this as factual?
Talk:Jim RobinsonDiscussion as to whether a website owner known only for his site deserves his own page, including a hardban threat if a certain person were to edit the
Free Republic page after once trying to merge the two articles, allegations of unilateralism, and the lot.
Talk:Western betrayal. Discussion as to whether or not this title is NPOV and appropriate, as well as whether or not the article itself is inherently POV.
Category talk:New York state highways There seems to be some strong feeling that numbered highways must follow the three digit rule when being categorized. Thus Highway 25A must be listed under "0" as though it were really highway 025A. Categorizing the entry Highway 25A under "2" results in an immediate (or pretty fast) rv. Also, please look at
Category: State highways for examples from other States, some one way and some the other. Looks like we should have (yet another) policy to avoid future conflicts.
Talk:Elamite_Empire ongoing edit war over alleged ethnic origins, the old persian name of elam and its modern reflex, and other sundry points. lack of sources a problem.
Talk:List of automotive superlatives: dispute over the inclusion of automobiles which are not type-approved as road legal, but which can be made road legal through, for example, the British Single Vehicle Approval process.
Talk:Yale University and
Talk:Ivy League: dispute over unattributed inclusion of the phrase "one of the most prestigious universities in the world" in the Yale article and not in any of the other ivies' articles.
Talk:Golliwogg: dispute about if the term is the root of the term wog. The level of offensiveness and regularity of usage of wog and golliwog has also seen debate. (Note that this summary is neither neutral nor accurate, but the editor in question keeps changing it.) Note: a dispute tag was first placed on the article on 06:39, 11 Apr 2005. The dispute tag was last removed from the article, by a different editor, on 05:45, 12 Apr 2005. The editor who placed the tag has since made five edits to the talk page since that time, including one compliment on an edit. It has not been explicitly stated that the dispute is over.
Talk:List of occultists: should
Jesus,
Solomon, and the
Three Wise Men be listed as occultists? Reasons for including them have been mooted in talk; one user and a number of anons insist on reverting w/o discussion on talk. Moreover, this request was deleted by an anon.
Talk:Anarchism - Calm dispute resolution (or blocking of the talk page) might be called for here. A few users are posting constant messages, one every few minutes in some cases, in what is clearly not a helpful attempt at reasoned discourse. It would seem that the situation has gotten out of hand in an article which has long been tumultuous.
Talk:Arabs and anti-Semitism - Seems to have quieted down, but had been a long-running dispute, for reasons including those listed by one user in discussion on talk page.
Talk:Anarchism - This page has been in a state of turmoil almost continuously since before I became a Wikipedian (which was in January of last year). It needs as much attention as it can get from disinterested Wikipedians. Current dispute centers on how best to disambiguate diffrent uses of the word "anarchism".
Talk:Arabs and anti-Semitism - Can anything be done to improve the point-of-view of this article or its factual accuracy? It has been in dispute for more than a year! This page has just been kept after a
vfd. Any suggestions would be most welcomed.
Talk:The Matrix - to resolve a dispute over deletion of content and whether it is justified, and whether participants have argued in good faith.
Talk:GreenFacts - to resolve a dispute between an individual and an organization, regarding an article on that organization.
Talk:Golan Heights - Based on Wikipedia:Categorization rule "Unless it is self-evident and uncontroversial that something belongs in a category, it should not be put into a category.", debate over which Geography categories the Golan Heights should be placed in.
Talk:Main page - This article is constantly undergoing massive, rapid change. Some help in settling things down would be appreciated.
Talk:Circumcision and Anti-semitism - As a formality, I hereby request comment on the controversial issue of the page being blanked or deleted including credible external sources and internal links to other articles.
Talk:Homosexuality and transgender - there is a dispute concerning the relevancy and validity of classifying intersexual people which is defined as scientific term to be transgender when gender identity refers to a socially constructed classification outside of science. See
Talk:Homosexuality for the ongoing dialogue.
Talk:Homosexuality - there is a dispute as to whether the common definition refers to same sex or same gender; with gender having being undisputed and agreed upon for quite a while now. See
Talk:Homosexuality#Definition dispute. Similar diputes with the definition can be found on
Hijra (India) and
Homosexuality and transgender. To give an example - it is to as whether the defintion should include the scientific meaning of sex without the socially constructed meaning of gender as in Merriam Webster and the American Heritage Dictionary along with its implications on the article's topic.
Talk:Gene Ray and
Talk:Time Cube - revert wars and NPOV problems over the question of the scientific merits of Mr. Ray's ideas, much discussion but no resolution in sight
Talk:mind control Dispute whether the quotes by Evangelical Christian writers Bob and Gretchen Passantino are notable enough to deserve to have a complete section to their POV or should their POV mentioned succintly that "not all counter cult activists like Bob and Gretchen Passantino believe in mind control". See also
Talk:Cult#Benjamin_Zablocki_notable.3F
Talk:Mizrahi Jew One user feels recent insertions should be sourced, other feels that recent insertions need to be disproved to be removed.
Talk:Talk radio One user has tagged a section of the as article disputed and an NPOV "puff piece," another user doesn't see the problem.
Talk:Trusted computing - Should an unreferenced anti-TC opinion piece be included as the bulk of this article? Do statements like "TC has placed at risk the priceless inheritance that Gutenberg left us" belong in an encyclopedia article?
Talk:List of celebrities with links to the U.S. Democratic Party. What should the format and introduction of the article be? Should people whose links to the Democrats are unexplained be removed until explanation and/or verification is given? See 2 different versions in page history, and comments on
its VfD. Note both versions are works in progress.
Talk:Ford GT90. There is a disagreement between editors about (1) whether metric units should be in the article and (2) aspects of copy.
Computer ethics. Two users persist in addding copyrighted material to the article, without explanation or response to a request on the Talk page for copyright permission.
Talk:New York City. A revert war over trimming and moving content from the article. Summary on talk page.
Talk:Sydney Hilton bombing There is evidence that the bomb was planted by Australian Security forces. Dispute is whether just enumerating this undisputed evidence makes the article POV. Has been a revert war. Summary on Talk page.
Niger Innis: Is it appropriate to illustrate this article with a photograph of the incident where CNN misspelled his name on-screen as "Nigger Innis"?
Talk:L. Ron Hubbard#revert of 3/20 - Dispute on whether
L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the
Church of Scientology, based his methodology "on the
scientific method and an optimized research
algorithm" and "recent discoveries in the field of
Quantum mechanics have begun to vindicate a great deal of his work." —
3RR violated, 18 reverts in total and counting... Update: 23 reverts in 15 hours, more parts of the article are starting to change.Update: the article was protected, then unprotected, and the intro paragraph gets edited by anon users on a regular basis again, against the consensus on the talk page, reverted by other anon users, then changed again... See the history:
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Talk:Human - Dispute about finding an appropriate introduction to
Human between those who want a more scientific introduction and those who want a stronger spiritual or religious component. Several compromise intros have been suggested, none acceptable so far. See here for the versions:
Talk:Human/draft. Discussion taking place here
[5].
Wikipedia talk:Google test#POV tool - Dispute over whether the list of examples of where the Google test is invalid is POV. GRider has refused to compromise on his
talk page. 18:10, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Dragostea Din Tei - Another editor, who consulted "some people in the chat room",
reverted a rewrite of mine, which I feel improved the article in many various fundamental ways. I would appreciate a wider opinion of the two versions. 00:21, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Israeli settlement#The Sasson Report. There is a disagreement about the length of the section entitled The Sasson Report. Please read the related Talk discussion and give us your input on whether the section is too long, adequate, or a candidate for a seperate article. Thank you.
Talk:Book of Esther - This text needs to be differentiated from the possibly historical figure
Esther. The additions to the text need to be discussed. The interpretations of Esther as a didactic fiction as well as a literalist historical document need to be neutrally assessed. There is a Rabbinic tradition that is untouched. I have done what I can. your help is needed.
Talk:Ann Coulter - Dispute as to whether Ann Coulter's statement in which she insisted that "Canada sent troops to Vietnam" can be reasonably interpreted as "10,000 former Canadian troops and Canadian citizens crossed the border and joined the United States army to fight in Vietnam." And various related disputes on wording of the article.
Talk:MPC (audio compression format) - anonymous user is removing information from the article and accusing people of "trolling" and "propaganda".
Nazarene - Two IP editors feel that a section discussing the "Nazarene Judaism" movement of Clint Van Nest is inaccurate, and have been attempting to replace it with a different version. A number of other editors feel that the replaced version violates a number of Wikipedia policies, and insist that the proposed changes need to be discussed and agreed to in Talk: first.
(Alternative view) Various IP editors feel that the original version of a section about modern Nazarenes is unsourced slander concucted mainly by User:Jayig and have been attempting to promote enlightened discussion on a fully sourced new version of that section to encourage editing.Specific criticisms have been addressed, but a revet possy all of whom have claimed connections in various places on wiki to the same religious group are doing everything they can to prevent progress.
Capitalism - After a very long process some time ago, consensus was reached concerning the introduction to this article (the main problem is that there are many definitions of capitalism).
RJII is constantly deleting content, which other editors must restor, and occasionally adds a new "definition of capitalism" which is either unnecessarily redundant (its elements are already in the introduction) or inappropriate. As one will learn from the talk page (and archived talk pages), RJII has been asked repeatedly to provide a source for his/her definition. To this date s/he has refused to provide any sources. Although virtually all of the editors who have been working on this article have had some sharp disagreement, all have ultimately been able to reach some compromise -- except RJII. Two editors have taken on the burden of reverting RJII's unilateral edits. Not one single editor has supported RJII's major changes. See
refusal to have a serious discussion over content, see
an example of a blanket personal insult
Much of this is lies ..particularly about providing sources. But, apparently somebody is upset that they they got the intro of the article just like the wanted it after a lot of work, then someone like me comes along and points out that it's horrible. But, just because it took a lot of effort to get an article any particular way doesn't mean that it's a good article. Sometimes it takes someone such as me that wasn't involved in the process of appeasing each other to take an objective look and point out that an article is bad. I'm sorry, buddy, but I have just as much right to change and article as you have to guard the status quo.
Talk:Fear Factor - Dispute on whether it is in reality a game show or reality game show.
Black supremacy - Dispute over obvious POV and factual issues such as definition, history, influence and so forth. The article before my edit looks like a long afrocenrist rant, and is likely to be reverted to that version quickly.
Talk:Cool (aesthetic) Disagreement on "Cool (aesthetic)" about excessively verbose intro.
LUElinks/
Luelinks is a private website whose members insist on creating vanity articles under one or both names. Often reverted as a redirect to
GameFAQs from where they spun off.
Science & Environmental Policy Project - Can some unaffiliated outsiders with a good sense for Wikipedia standards please comment on, or help resolve,
this prolonged edit war.
Prem Rawat revert war between
user:John_Brauns and anon with ip
user:64.81.88.140 about the names used for Prem Rawat/Maharaji with some discussion on the
talk page. (The decision was to continue to use the name of Rawat in the article)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Rankings - proposal was overwhelmingly rejected. An alternative proposal has been floated and discussed without sarcasm.
Talk:Blink-182 - A fan of the group is removing all mention of the terms "pop" and "pop punk".
Talk:Manx (cat) and
Manx (cat) - Dispute over wether Manx syndrome exists or not, and other stuff, check talkpage and article's
history for good documentation. Thanks.
Image talk:Photo of magazine page.jpg. How should this image of a bare-chested boy, a bare-breasted woman, and the sleeve of a man be explained? Should it be used to illustrate
Pederasty?
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Talk:Jubal Harshaw Question on fictional characters' quotations, Wikiquote, standard quotation practices
Talk:Revisionist Zionism dispute over the inclusion of factual information about the fascist sympathies of some early right wing Zionists.
Talk:Vandalism (big surprise, no?) Stalled discussion wherein an editor on a number of "public password" accounts is pushing to have the article vandalized as an example of its subject matter. Sub-squabble over the status of "public password" accounts.
Talk:Javier Solana One user turned the article into evidences that Javier Solana is the Beast of Revelations; the Antichrist. Disputes edits that delete their thesis.
Talk:Interval (music) What is the best presentation of similar intervals in different tuning or theoretical systems? By system or by interval? What is the proper way to title alternative presentations? For example, if
Interval (music) contains a system by system break down, what would one name the article which contains a comparative listing?
Talk:Melanin Re: article subhead on "Role in social and race bias." Back-and-forth/edit war over whether there should be passing reference to this matter or an abbreviated overview of the issue with mention of Wiki-linked examples of skin color bias in various societies -- as well as a brief mention of hair-color stereotyping (since the article also mentions melanin and hair color). For relevant discussion threads in Talk: portions of "Cleanin' it up" and "Reorganization: crappy, but maybe a start"
Talk:Bible One user maintains "Christian Bible" is a pleonasm, while others contend that other religions have Bibles.
Talk:Republic The argument is stalled and the page is protected. One user wants to put in an external link and the other refuses to allow external link. Need comment on stalled process and more input on external links.
Wikipedia:Requests for Comment/user 220.233.86.223 Threats of legal action and the publishing of one user's complete home address, phone number and email address. One user appears to be threatening another. This is serious.
Alberto Fujimori: subject of edit warring, etc.; at least one contingent are claiming that only Peruvians may write on this topic; even spelling corrections are being reverted.
Pedro Santana Lopes Two sets of editors (some dedicated only to this article) with opposing political views are pulling the article backwards and forwards, with no sign of willingness to compromise.
Talk:Sydney Hilton bombing Revert war involving a Wikipedia arbitrator(!) removing large well meant contribution without discussion.
Talk:Adams motor#Request for comment Is it important to identify this as a claimed
perpetual motion device in the opening paragraph? Is the description factually accurate? Is the terminology used, particularly the portions describing it as a "reluctance" motor, acceptable?
Talk:Police brutality Should convicted murderer Mumia Abu-Jamal be listed as a victim of police brutality?
Talk:Myth Is C.S. Lewis a notable source on myths?
Talk:Terri Schiavo POV dispute between a right-to-life activist and a few other editors. Some arguments over terminology, e.g. is Schiavo in a "vegetative state"? Is it NPOV to state that Michael Schiavo is "estranged"?
Talk:Criticism of Prem Rawat Can a very long article whose primary content is reported criticism of a particular person be considered to have a neutral point of view? This seems to be a general policy issue, not confined to this article. Exactly the same question can be asked about
talk:Allegations against Sathya Sai Baba
Talk:Cyber-terrorism Should the content of the article
Internet terrorism, which was per
VfD turned into a redirect to
Cyber-terrorism, be added to that latter article (or any other) even though no vote of the VfD mentioned salvaging or merging any of the content?
talk:William A. Dembski A particular editor has insisted citations be placed for the statement that intelligent design/specified complexity is perceived by the mainstream scientific community as pseudoscience. This was done. Now that same editor insists on edits that imply the
National Academy of Sciences and the
National Center for Science Education are not representative of mainstream science; could users look at the page to see what's going on for themselves?
Talk:Anarchism - talk page is a trainwreck, w anyone who isn't a left-anarchist being vigorously flamed
Template talk:Sisterproject - presently, basically a disagreement as to whether the majority vote at a
poll should be followed through. (That is, whether the poll is valid.)
Talk:Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed territory. Content dispute resolution in progress. Comments and new participants, please.
Talk:RNA world hypothesis Should anon. IP address be inserting links to creationism in a scientific article.
Talk:Supercentenarian: Should national age record holders be broken out into a separate article?Should the article avoid tables for the convenience of one editor?
Talk:Bombing of Dresden in World War II - One user had deleted text that that user does not like. Another user has re-inserted it. It has become a revert war. Although text written onto the talk page meaningful communication seems impossible.
Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese)#Political NPOV section - does the
"NPOV section" of the Chinese naming conventions page itself contain NPOV statements? And do phrases like "China's economy" refer to the economy of the People's Republic of China, or is it necessary to consistently use "economy of the People's Republic of China"?
Talk:T-X gynoid/cyborg - T-X is technically a gynoid, not a cyborg. because there are no organic components in her construction. Other editor keeps reverting my edits without stating why they should be reverted. I have left messages on his Talk page which he deletes without comment. I placed a request for discussion on the article's talk page explaining my own position, which he then ignored and went and reverted my edit without comment yet again.
Talk:BollywoodSkin color - do South Asians prefer light-skinned matinee idols? Anon editor with strong POV, history of vandalism, engaging in revert war and retaliatory deletions. But he is interacting.
Talk:Autofellatio#Vote on external links - should we link to a commercial porn site? Does doing so constitute "spamming"? Is calling someone a spammer worse than repeatedly trying to drill into someone's head that one's self is not a spammer? Is it acceptable to change a poll option after people have voted for it?
Talk:Human A number of questions regarding a past poll and its results, the positioning of the taxobox and an image, the definition of "Human", if
Homo Sapiens should split off into its own article, and even if the "article in need of attention" header is appropriate.
Talk:Altruism#Edit_warring. How should "altruism" be defined in the article? (and other issues that stem from that)
Note: I would phrase this differently: Debate over whether a quotation regarding the
Disengagement Plan belongs in the Sharon biography. Saying "details about the Plan" suggests that it is discussed at length, ehich it is not.--
A. S. A. 19:57, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
Right, one particular quote supporting one POV is given at length, and the rest is pretty much ignored.
Jayjg (talk) 20:44, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Afrocentrism - Need help in establishing how the critical scholarship tends to view claims made by Afrocentric scholars. Few participants are familliar with this topic, except for one editor who is markedly on the Afrocentric side.
Talk:Liberal Party of Australia - Discussion on the style/policies/platform of government of a political party (conservative vs. neoliberal), discussion is deadlocked (please read
Liberal Party of Australia to see the first paragraph).
Talk:Safavids - Protracted edit and revert war between two editors on the origin of the Safavid dynasty in Iran (1501-1736). One argues Safavids were Turkic-speaking, other claims the dynasty has Kurdish and/or Persian ethnicity.
Talk:Northern Europe#Northern Europe definitions - On whether Wikipedia articles should try to change how terms and concepts are understood, or maybe just relect and report how they are used in English
Talk:Second_Chechen_War - The other Wiki's Chechnya articles are related to this one. The Article 'Second Chechen War' and the impartial Analyses and Reports resume deserves professional writing due to the sensitive political situation and Genocide topically on the spot.
BBC viewpoints
Talk:Howard Zinn - anonymous user wants to add (original) criticism of Zinn to the article
Brandon Teena - dispute over whether subject should be referred to using "he" or "she". Subject was biologically female, but identified and lived as a man.
Talk:Elohim - An anon ISP user keeps changing it so the article states that "Elohim" means "Those who came from the sky". This is a
Raelian belief, which belongs under the ==Raelian== heading, however, not in the main body of the article.
Outposts of tyranny - contains the phrase "is often highly criticised", but doesn't state whether the criticism is right or wrong. Most seem to agree this is therefore neutral, although an edit war caused by one user who has decided this is not the case seems to be brewing.
Marietta, Georgia - a slow-speed revert war in process, several people involved.
This is only one problem user, who has a fixation on Marietta and
Phil Gingrey. He was banned from the latter
[8] and his behavior here looks no different. He should be banned from Marietta as well.
alteripse 00:52, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Ahmad Shamlou - this article was originally a copyright vio. On contact, the real author is not happy, but allows it to remain (?). Please comment
Talk:Robert Byrd - Disagreement between two users over the truthfulness of additions to the article and whether they constitute POV. Discussion has not been productive.
User_talk:Wik - (please don't comment on that page directly) - dispute over whether a link to
User:Vandalbot should be placed on the page. Please make comments on
User_talk:Vandalbot.
Talk:Bahá'í Faith - Baha'is and non-Baha'i cannot agree on placement of certain info and photos and the wording of a section title.
Talk:The Powerpuff Girls - Two users are in a dispute over how the article should be categorized.
May have already been resolved.
Peter O. (
Talk) 23:46, Jan 31, 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Internet Explorer - Persistent neutrality dispute, with editors on both sides of an issue accusing the other of being blinded by bias. Editors on both sides taking an "edit-war first, explain on the talk page later" attitude.
One side had announced his resignation.
Peter O. (
Talk) 23:46, Jan 31, 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Race - Dispute between one user and other editors. Revert war (user has reverted the page 4x in three hours, 5x in 22 hours). Some editors remove dispute tags while there is an outstanding and lengthy dispute.
Talk:Gundam Mark II — no dispute, it's just that the anonymously-written entry lacks vital information which I can't provide.
Talk:Historical revisionism One user is adding information. Another user is reverting most additions because he thinks they are POV. An email sent by one party to the other has been published on the talk page. As it seems that only three people are involved in the discussion a few more voices might help to establish a consensus.
Talk:America's_Army issues over whether two definitions of the game should be listed should be listed, or only one.
Talk:Mainland China: Whether to include the significance of the term "mainland China", to distinguish from Hong Kong and Macao because of the One Country, Two Systems provisions.
Talk:1944: Where is the line (and should there be one) for births and deaths listed in the year articles?
Talk:Surrealism: Dispute over who is to define "surrealism", repeated removals of material.
Talk:Eastern philosophy: The inclusion of maoism in the category that the article describes is controvercial, also there was a bizarre redirect to
Talk:Eastern culture which created a good deal of confusion.
Talk:Charlottetown Accord: Flagged as neutrality dispute by an anon user on Jan 1; user has provided no further information as to what their concern is.
Talk:Chernobyl: Dispute over inclusion of mugwort and wormwood in the article.
Talk:Polygamy#2Wives.com: Should the article on
polygamy contain a link to a site with personal ads "for people looking to meet single women seeking polygamy"?
Talk:Open gaming. Two users disagree on the content of the article. One user thinks that a certain passage is necessary, factual, and relevant to the article. Another user thinks the disputed passage is irrelevant and highly POV. Attempts at rational discussion between the two parties have not been fruitful. It is hoped that a community consensus would aid in resolving the dispute.
Talk:Natural monopoly. One editor and one admin seem to be exerting an untoward amount of control over the article, including the admin unprotecting an article which was protected because of back-and-forth reverting in which he was involved. Dispute resolution in the talk page is stalled, with the controlling faction apparently under the belief that
WP:NPA doesn't apply to them.
Page was protected (by a different admin) to stop a revert war over one user insisting on the insertion of a badly-written paragraph with very little relevant content. User was not amenable to reasonable argument (which along with said editor's ignorance of a well-defined economic term incidentally led to the
WP:NPA issues). So rather than leave the page protected indefinitely, the admin who had been involved in editing unprotected the page. The disputed paragraph (now grown even more unwieldy) has been allowed to stand, so what exactly is the issue here?? Yes, the article is still a mess, which is why I posted it on
WP:PR.
Rd232 08:36, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Polish-Soviet_War A POV notice. RfC suggested, as there is still no consensus. Thank you for your comments.
Talk:Intelligent design Two users have requested dispute resolution. One claims the page to be a "bad faith fraud." POV concerns, much reverting going on.
Talk:Joshua A. Norton. Is referring to this gentleman as "Emperor of the United States" throughout his article misleading or appropriate? Is humorously referring to a faux emperor's reign, decrees, etc. misleading and contrary to the facts?
Category talk:Languages of Wikipedia Projects - Should the content of this category be changed from articles about languages to articles about wikipedia projects in that language? No real dispute, I'm listing this here because "category talk:" usually does not get much attention.
Talk:Macedonian Slavs - Should we cite a population estimate that some people disagree with?
Talk:Sollog - an argument between critics and supporters of Sollog (members of the Temple of 'Hayah, accused of being Sollog's sock-puppets), mostly about the accuracy of quake predictions and the NPOV
Talk:List of Palestinian children killed by Israelis in 2004 - What should have been a plain list of names has suddenly turned into a full-out edit war with proselytizing that will end up as long as the list. Also, note that the article is to be transwikied.
Talk:Frankfurt School - Should
Kevin B. MacDonald be listed as a "notable critic" of the Frankfurt School in the absence of any evidence of his being cited or regarded as such?
Talk:Abraham Lincoln - Should the section on Lincoln's sexuality be removed from the main page?
Talk:Lev Davidovich Landau There is a discussion on the (polit)correctness of using the adjective "Russian" with respect to ethnically non-Russian people.
Ended in January 2005
Talk:Tsunami Should there be a pronouciation guide for 'tsunami', and what form should it take?
Talk:Little_Green_Footballs - Dispute over the inclusion and placement of a paragraph in the article text that specifically directs readers to a single external link containing highly critical comments about the article subject. Dispute seems to have waged for quite some time, all surrounding a single frequent editor of this article. Said editor has also begun attacking other editors in the discussion forum for additions made on completely unrelated articles elsewhere on wikipedia.
Talk:Chess#Vote - Should we include a paragraph talking about computer chess events as being "Publicity stunts".
Talk:Vojvodina#Disputed - One of the most multinational region's of Europe needs some input, so that its turbulent history can be described in an accurate and neutral way, instead from the exclusive point of view of one group of inhabitants.
Talk:Autobiography (album) - should this album article go into some detail and some of its content moved into singles articles when it grows too large, or should it simply be a brief summary without any breakout articles?
Talk:Chess - Where did the game of Chess originate?
Talk:Laser - dispute over removals of incomprehensible convoluted sentences and mention of uncorroborated theory of "liquid light".
Talk:Patricia Heaton - Article is being reverted beyond the 3RR by all parties (one side being anon) between an attempted rewritten version and another which a user has claimed to have withdrawn their permission for after a previous dispute.
Talk:Tucson, Arizona - An RfC success story: A vote was held between two versions that differ on where the indigenous name for the city should be, twenty-two votes were cast, and one version prevailed. Thanks to everyone who voted. You can still come by to edit or propose something new. (This RfC item is now concluded and ready for archiving.)
Talk:Stop consonant Are nasal stops stops or not? Seeking comments on whether we should state the commonly held view that they are or branch out on our own. Linguists particularly welcome.
Five articles that were written by one editor, and entirely deleted and replaced by different articles by another editor:
Talk:Criticisms of War on Terrorism - Seeking comments on whether the use of quotation marks constitute a NPOV issue and if the article requires the cleanup boilerplate.
Talk:Patricia Cornwell - seeking comments regarding the placement of information about Cornwell's book about Jack the Ripper.
Talk:Drum Corps International - See article history for reverts; is this a 'reasonable' edit war or an NPOV issue -- if so, which point of view is more NPOV? Equally
Talk:Drum and bugle corps (modern) for the same issue. Is this in fact a vandalism case? (Inactive)
Talk:Lenora Fulani - Should the article include information about her political mentor and close associate, Fred Newman, and the political organizations he founded (with which she is also closely associated)? (probably resolved)
Talk:Viking dispute surrounding the scandinavian vs. the English usage of the word "Viking" as well as the content of the article.
Talk:Côte d'Ivoire Should this article be moved to Ivory Coast, the name most English speakers use? Or should the article reflect the wishes of this country's government?
Talk:Bob Jones University What's the best term in this particular context? "Blacks," "Negroes," "African-Americans," whatever? (Resolved)
Talk:Creation vs. evolution debate Should two sections consisting almost entirely of quotes, with flimsy attempts at connecting prose, be part of the article?
Talk:The Road to Serfdom Overiding bias against this book was the theme of this article until a couple minutes ago. Need an eye kept on it and neutral additions made
Talk:Masturbation - should this article repeatedly mention the obscure purported
traumatic masturbatory syndrome, which scraped through VfD, and whose article is mainly an explanation of how obscure the references to it are?
Talk:Sexual intercourse - NPOV dispute over circumcision, also referencing in-depth article vs discussion of same
Talk:Al-Aqsa Intifada - Is it balanced and NPOV to use loaded terms like "lynched" and "murdered" in reference to deceased Israeli soldiers while only using the word "killed" to refer to deceased Palestinian civilians?
Talk:Atheism - Basic disagreement over whether atheism is a passive or an active stance as well as whether one must be either atheist or theist by definition.
Talk:Artificial consciousness - The whole talk page was deleted by user 80.4.32.9, previously 30% of the article was deleted by a single user, then the whole article was moved to
Strong AI and replaced by a completely new text. I think that this is not a way to edit Wikipedia articles. The user was contacted.
Talk:Green Party (United States) - Should an article about the general politics, history, and activity of the Green Party in the United States -- encompassing various organizations and splits -- be titled generically, as with the Democratic and Republican Parties, or should it be titled so as to refer to the current leading national organization? (No responses.)
Talk:Black September (group) - Is it appropriate to use
weasel words like "some sources" and "linked to (terrorist group)" to falsely state that
Yasser Arafat "controlled" or "led" Black September? (Discussion moved on to other issues.)
Ended in November 2004
Talk:September 11, 2001 attacks - Should the current truce on use of the word "terrosist" be followed? Should the attacks be described as "freedom fighter" attacks? Should information about the location of the crashes be taken out of the introduction? (New user apparently decided to follow consensus.)
This dispute has been more or less resolved. -- [[User:Ran|ran
(talk)]] 15:54, Nov 13, 2004 (UTC)
talk:hate group - What elements of a hate group should be mentioned? Should unreferenced elements be mentioned. (Resolved on November 3, 2004, by mentioning two elements as unreferenced)
Talk:Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact - on the existence of the confidential protocol, and on credibility of Soviet propaganda in general
This seems to have been resolved
Ruy Lopez 23:38, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Ended in October 2004
Talk:International_Humanitarian_Law - Disagreement over the differences between Laws of War and International Humanitarian Law. "Basic Rules of IHL" also disputed. (Apparently ended in October 2004.)
Talk:Style guide - Should references to "descriptive" style guides be removed until a source is given stating that any style guide is purely descriptive and not prescriptive? (Resolved October 31, 2004, mainly by removal of the words "descriptive" and "prescriptive.")
Talk:Chen Duxiu - Group of users, namely
User talk:0101CHANhk. 0101, continuously changing the page to what they feel belongs there, namely linking non-english articles and putting back anything cut out. Its difficult because they DO want to contribute legitimately but have seriously messed up the talk page and the article itself at times. (Problem ended in October 2004.)
Talk:Surrealism - various content disputes. Please vote in the poll regarding the inclusion of Keith Wigdor's recent manifesto. (Dispute apparently ended in October 2004.)
Talk:Exxon Mobil - Should verified, factually correct information be deleted from this article, when that information is insignficent and makes the article unneutral by lack of counter-point (Dispute apparently died out in October 2004.)
Talk:Call for help - is the definition of a "call for help" a
tautology? (Dispute apparently ended in October 2004.)
Talk:Jehovah -- neutrality dispute over specific religious POV vs generic interpretation of term (Dispute apparently ended in October 2004.)
Talk:M. Karunanidhi - Attempts to get
User:Rrjanbiah to justify a categorization that is not supported by the text of the article. Rrjanbiah has had almost three months to justify his assertion, but has provided no evidence to back up his claim. Apparently it is 'well known fact'.
Talk:Neopets. New user claims to be one of two long-lost co-founders of the Neopets website. Should they be allowed to add their name to the article as a co-founder?
Talk:American World University The link to American World University originally in the article has the effect of improving the AWU site's Google pagerank. Is this a problem? If so, how can it be solved? Is the use of
this tinyurl link, improving tinyurl's pagerank, acceptable practice?
Talk:Empire of Atlantium has had an edit war and two protections over a very minor change in wording. Please vote here for the wording you prefer, so we can resolve this edit war once and for all.
Talk:Australian Labor Party Was King O'Malley a significant intellectual influence in the early ALP? If so, does this represent an influence of American System economic ideas?
Talk:United Nations Children's Fund This short article seems to be being used to pursue an argument about another issue, leading to an imbalance. Any attempt to remove the relevant content is reverted. Discussion not making progress.
Talk:Jew Watch - is it NPOV to describe the website as "
anti-Semitic" and "controversial". Should the website be described as having been "censored"?
Talk:Reformed Egyptian - The Book of Mormon says it is an ancient book that was written with reformed Egyptian characters, which only Mormons believe. How can we best characterize this in the article? Is it fair to say there is no non-Mormon evidence of such writing's existence? Is it fair to suppress that fact?
Talk:Cross-dressing Quite a little edit war going on on the inclusion of Joan of Arc and whether including her into this article implies anything "indeecent" about her.
Talk:Genocides in history how can allegations regarding Israel and Palestine be included NPOV and relevant to genocide? Are allegations of acts of anti-Semitism topical as "incitement to genocide" if the acts are not themselves genocide?
Talk:Communist state - a heavy editwar regarding deaths caused by communist rule. See the "Death toll" section in the discussion page.
Talk:Khmer Rouge - NPOV dispute regarding U.S. involvement/support and number killed - This worse than this goes as far as denying that there was agenocide.
Talk:Falun Gong - NPOV dispute; one side of an edit war keeps removing NPOV header from main page
Talk:Malaysia - neutrality dispute over phrasing and mentioning of certain facts
Talk:Lyndon LaRouche Debate over how much space to devote to quotes from various critics and/or opponents of LaRouche, which has lead once again to page protection
Talk:San Francisco 49ers Should a fan be allowed to post a link to an "unofficial site"? It may be helpful to read the discussion taking place, and visit the link to decide on the validity of it on Wikipedia
Talk:MP3 - An anonymous user insists on removing criticism of MP3 on the basis that he is an "expert" and is the only one qualified to comment on the subject. Says his edits are "100% fact (not up for discussion)" and calls other edits "stubborn nonsense."
Talk:Anti-American sentiment - A controversy on correct language and correct Wikiquette and similar things, where protection seems to have resulted in stalled discussions rather than a solution
Talk:Dick_Cheney - Help nip a potential dispute in the bud about langauge surrounding Mary Cheney's lesbianism.
Talk:Swift Boat Veterans for Truth - Should the year "1971", in referrence to the year of John Kerry's Senate testimony about Vietnam, be included in the 1st paragraph introduction?
Talk:Clitoris - Dispute on whether a photograph or a drawing should be used.
Talk: Weimar Timeline: should this article be divided into two articles or combined into one article?
Dormant. [[User:Poccil|
Peter O. (
Talk)]] 06:06, Oct 18, 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Flecainide: persistent copyvio material being added to the article.
Talk:Classical_definition_of_republic NPOV dispute; the dispute covers only a very small part of the article, but it seems that no consensus can be reached.
Talk:Nazism - should Nazism be described as a reactionary or revolutionary ideology?
Talk:United States Republican Party -- should an external link to "Republicans for Kerry," a special interest group of registered Republicans, be removed or stay?
Talk:Falcon I (and Falcon V+SpaceX) — Should articles be allowed to include pricing info and use language that at least one user considers advertising? - resolved with apology and article changes
Talk:Oradour-sur-Glane - should the article include mention of other massacres in order to show how this massacre was less important?
Talk:CHSH inequality This article is copied in other encylopaedias etc but is largely wrong. I have suggested a re-write. Should I go ahead?
Talk:Effeminacy - Definition of effeminacy. Also borderline personal attacks.
Talk:Ladislaus - should Ladislaus or Vladislaus be used as primary spelling of the name for Polish kings?
Talk:Yeshu - Should the article state at the start that references to Yeshu in the
Talmud are believed by most scholars to be references to
Jesus, or should it first discuss Yeshu without mentioning Jesus and then discuss the identification with Jesus as a minority view?
Talk:Nazarene Judaism The Dispute is over whether to reveal the netzarim movement as a branch of mordern orthodox Judaism or to present it as a form of apostate Messianic Judaism.
Talk:Evolutionism just generally request any comments from people who are not as POV as us two.
Talk:Mesa, Arizona - Should articles include the Pima language or any other foreign name in the article headers?
Inactive since early August. [[User:Poccil|
Peter O. (
Talk)]] 06:06, Oct 18, 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Childlover is an article about
pedophiles. Conflicts are about whether it should argue that "non-violent" "consensual" sex with children is nothing bad, whether it should display a list of links to forums of such people, and whether it should have links to organizations that help both pedophiles searching for treatment and those who suffer from the described "love".
Talk:Anti-American_sentiment: Dispute over how to include alleged consequence of terrorism and view that fundamentalist islamic terrorism is not directed solely against the US, wording of introduction.
Talk:Timeline of Slovene history - dispute whether information about the two Slovenian political leaders being sued for alleged war crimes by some Serbian political parties should be included. Similar dispute was on
Talk:Janez Drnovsek (for both Milan Kucan and Janez Drnovsek) and the community almost-consensus was not to include it until the
International Court of Justice has decided to hear it.
Talk:Drew Barrymore - should information as to whether Drew Barrymore is nude in each movie she has made relevant material for inclusion in Wikipedia?
Talk:Sailor Moon — Should the character names use the original Japanese name, or should they use the names used in the manga released by TokyoPop in North America (Most fans use Japanese names but no known "official" English adaptations stick or stick completely to Japanese names)
Talk:Sociobiological theories of rape a great deal of POV fussing regarding a topic I know little about, I intend to bow out. See what sense you can make of it, and be sure to review the edit history.
Category talk:Cold War people - discussion as to how extensive this category should be, and whether additions of people whose article don't discuss their involvement in the Cold War should be included.
Talk:Invisible Pink Unicorn - There is difficulty in reaching agreement about which image captions would most accurately describe their images.
Talk:John Boone: The
Red Mars page had several stubs on the individual characters in this series, such as
John Boone which were listed on 'Votes for Deletion'. Talk page indicates consensus of the deletion votes was to redirect to
Red Mars page rather than delete the stubs. Subsequently, a user wishes to remove the redirects and develop the stubs. Early discussion may be found at
Talk:Red Mars.
Talk:Phil Gingrey--anon repeatedly adding POV, emphasizing unimportant incident to make Gingrey look bad. Refuses to compromise on talk, or propose other changes.
Talk:Lyndon LaRouche - dispute over NPOV of two different versions of the article
Talk:Nikola Tesla - insertion and reversion of extreme POV material.
Talk:Iran-Contra Affair: Dispute over whether to label the elected Nicaraguan Sandinista government as "Soviet-aligned".
Talk:Ship model - discussion on whether
ship model or
model ship is the correct term for the purposes of primary article name. One party is changing multiple articles without reaching consensus.
Talk:Nebra skydisk - Apparently mainstream and sensible material about this
archaeoastronomical object is being consistently suppressed. Would folks with some archaeological grounding, and no superBriton axe to grind, please look at the article, the Talk page and the History, and bring some neutral sense and good manners to this problem?
Talk:Unlawful_combatant - Dispute over interpretations of the Fourth Geneva Convention—is the material within the proper scope of the article? Are the disputed interpretations
original research?
Talk:Saddam Hussein - Lir insisting that the use of the name "Saddam" can be argued to be demeaning, vs. many other Wikipedians who have already had this discussion.
Talk:Kim Sun-il -- dispute over whether or not to include external links to videos, one showing his execution, and to stills, neither showing his execution.
Talk:Chelation therapy--dispute over whether statistic on use of chelation therapy in NCCAM report should be included--the report itself says that this statistic is not reliable or precise.
Talk:Grand Admiral - Should this article be split into two? One dealing with Star Wars and the other with Germany. or remain a single unified article about Grand Admiral.
Talk:European Union#Origins of the EU - whether Nazi plans for a united Europe ought to be mentioned in the history section of the main article on the European Union, if it could be kept in the article on EU's history, or if it shouldn't be mentioned at all
Talk:Surrealism - what is the importance of Keith Wigdor (what is Surrealism 2003?), Daniel C.Boyer (does Daniel have too many articles posted in Surrealism and its related pages as a vested self-interest), Evi Moechel(Zazie, is she a cyberartist or surrealist?),Eric W.Bragg (is Eric a surrealist poet?),Franklin and Penelope Rosemont (did they meet Andre Breton as they allege and where is the proof of that meeting?) to surrealism;
Talk:Iran - dispute on whether Iran's alleged ties with terrorism in the 1980s should be included in Iran's history.
Talk:Communism - dispute on whether a certain negative quote by Reagan should be included. A more general question is whether it is appropriate to include heavily opinionated quotes by extreme opponents (or proponents) of something on controversial pages.
Talk:Allah - dispute over Allah in relation to Judaism and other religions.
Talk:Retributive justice - Dispute over accuracy of article (it appears to be rather confused as to what exactly constitutes Retributive Justice).
Talk:Dido - A NPOV/factual dispute as to whether a reconstruction of Dido's life "based on new studies" should appear in the article.
Talk:Pikey. (particularly FAO British contributors) This currently read like a tabloid article. It needs serious NPOV attention or a complete rewrite.
Talk:List of Pantheists - two users are in serious disagreement and on the verge of an edit war about whether this list should contain self-identified pantheists, those that have been called pantheist by others at some point, or something in between.
Talk:Erika Steinbach - classical edit war/reversion war over whether the POV of the revanchist organisation Steinbach heads merits mentioning, and then how to combine this with the point of view of Polish nationalists at the other end of this RL-conflict
Talk:Coca-Cola - Should Pepsi/the stock ticker be mentioned in the opening paragraph? Should there be an overview of Coke's medical controversies in the opening paragraph?
Talk:Kingdom of Israel: Dispute over whether to include Hebrew transliterations of the names as they are known to English speakers. (Resolved that the article can contain both the well-known Biblical names and transliteration of the Hebrew.)
Talk:Winny - potential edit war/NPOV dispute on the addition of subjective content ("poor imitation"), unverified/unverifiable content (Kaneko's intents) and verifiably false content (The nonexistence of a P2P developer in Japan that faced litigation prior to Kaneko) presented as fact, and the removal of a paragraph of verifiable content (Kaneko's support fund) and NPOV/Accuracy dispute markers.
Talk:Transwoman The part on sexual orientation is disputed, the links that are supposed to prove one point of view actually don't when read by the other side. (Or vice verca.)
Talk:Transylvania#Expectation - edit war over the text to accompany a link to a (slightly) related article. Communication attempts on talk page largely failed.
Talk:Local Church controversy and
Talk:Local churches. Articles have schismed due to falure to compromise, talk pages are still a mess, POV/original research edits are getting put in left and right... this is a chronic and messy edit war, and there's no end in sight.
Talk:Schnorrer - Edit war between two users that refuse to compromise on the inclusion of Karl Schnörrer. Ongoing poll to determine article content.
Talk:Computer software - Edit war between two users who have differing understanding of the definition of software.
Talk:Liancourt Rocks - Dispute on whether alternate name "East Sea of Korea" should be included in article.
Talk:Janez Drnovsek (for both
Milan Kucan and
Janez Drnovsek) - dispute whether information about the two Slovenian political leaders being sued for alleged war crimes by some Serbian political parties should be included.
Talk:Traditional Chinese medicine - Dispute over what is vandalism, and how much this article should accomodate persistent vandalism. Comment requested on reverting to a pre-vandalism version.
Talk:Oil for food - A long edit war. One user insistant that there be a 4:1 ratio of corruption allegations to description of the program itself; two users insistant that as long as the allegations are uninvestigated, that this is completely unreasonable.
Talk:Che Guevara - "Cold" edit war that doesn't need to get hot.
Talk:Peter Lynds - Dispute about description of Lynds (eg. comparison to Einstein) and whether the allegation about Lynds producing the press release himself should be mentioned.
Talk:David Rohl - Discussion of some disputed Egyptological theories.
Talk:Cycle - Whether to call the article cycle or cycles. Also, whether a large section of links is appropriate.
Resolved that the article is named "cycles". [[User:Poccil|
Peter O. (
Talk)]] 18:07, Aug 25, 2004 (UTC)
Talk:George W. Bush, also at
Talk:John Kerry. Anti-Bush editors are relentlessly making small edits (many anonymously) to keep the article negative POV, especially as compared to Kerry article. Please review articles and comments in Talk for the issues.
Talk:Al Gore - extensive paraphrasing and borrowing from Gore campaign materials.
Talk:Patch_(computing) - the current version seems unclear and unfocused, currently being rewritten.
Apparently resolved; inactive since March 27, 2004. [[User:Poccil|
Peter O. (
Talk)]] 00:48, Aug 14, 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Subject-object problem -
User:24.45.99.191 (Paul Vogel) is edit warring over the inclusion of some content in the first paragraph. Attempts at a compromise have been made and rejected by him. Discussion is proving extremely difficult.
Talk: Atlantium - are the phrases "pretends to be a
sovereign state" and "George Francis Cruickshank plays the role of head of state" POV?
Talk:Neoconservatism (United States) - attempt to avoid an edit war with anon user on (1) whether it is appropriate to keep "pro-war" in the lead paragraph and (2) disagreement about how this anon user describes April Glaspie's interaction with Saddam Hussein (presumably referring to the July 25, 1990 interview)
Talk:WWJD - how to present variations and parodies of the phrase.
Talk:Daniel Wright - dispute consists of one dynamic anonymous IP using guerilla warfare to get this page deleted even though consensus on VfD is to keep, and everyone else with far better things to do than to keep reverting the general vandalism and abuse posted by this user.
Talk:War - comment "War does not determine who is Right, Only who is Left!" destroyed on page and talk without any argumentation.
Talk:Sant Cassia general dispute over content in the latter article, has been reverted and changed many times. Any input is welcome on the pages talk area.
Talk: Micronation - Dispute between Wik and Gene Poole over whether Atlantia is a Micronation. Although the two are constantly reverting, the page has been protected and the situation isn't that urgent, but I would appreciate viewpoints nonetheless.
Talk:Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2004. Edit-warring, and now a vote, over whether the set of pages should be one timeline of Israeli and Palestinian violence, or multiple timelines (Palestinian terrorism against Israel, Israeli military operations that resulted in Palestinian deaths, etc.).
Talk:atheism G vrs. g spelling of "God" primary problem. Various other minor disputes over citations (validity of the term "weak" atheism, accurate count of atheists worldwide) as well as NPOV. has become very heated at times.
Seems resolved to me, thanx to eloquence, and I put it here so...
Sam Spade 10:00, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)
talk:agnosticism similar to atheism, with G vrs. g but there is also a dispute over "logic of agnosticism" portion. Many participants the same as in atheism.
Same as above, nice to see what good a little time (and a good editor like eloquence) can do.
Sam Spade 02:16, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Prem Rawat - dispute over this guru's involvement in the
Divine Light Mission. Extreme POV when discussing the ex-followers as if they are a hate group without allowing a discussion in the main article why they oppose the guru so much.
Not fully resolved, but the extreme POV has gone. It continues to be a very problematic article. One non-Wikipedians will issue a justified warning on his website because of he sees as "cult revisionism".