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The community about itself: feedback, governance, wiki maintenance, announcements and feature requests. Moderation decisions are discussed here and logged publicly.

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Topic	Participants	Replies	Views	Activity
Trust level 3 requirements: a clarification Meta › Announcements guidelines site feedback moderation Trust level 3 requirements: a clarification — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. Trust level 3 requirements, and specifically the version of it that the documentation does not…	+10	14	7k	9mo
New subcategory: rationale and scope Meta › Announcements trust levels site feedback moderation guidelines On the subject in the title: New subcategory: rationale and scope Working notes rather than a conclusion. Proposing that new subcategory deserves a maintained page rather than a recurring topic, and drafting…	+123	138	13k	9mo
An orphaned page with no inbound links — the long version Meta › Wiki maintenance review date wiki post citation check Posting this under the heading it deserves: An orphaned page with no inbound links — the long version Everything below is what sits behind that. A narrow question about orphaned page, deliberately narrow,…	+14	18	21k	10mo
Why the timeline is on the right and not the left Meta › Site feedback moderation site feedback guidelines Solved Why the timeline is on the right and not the left — that is the question, and I have not found it answered plainly anywhere I have looked. Something about timeline does not reconcile and I would like a second…	+67	73	19k	10mo
Pages past their review date, listed Meta › Wiki maintenance wiki post maintainership review date moderation Pages past their review date, listed Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. Posting a small dataset on pages past. It is mine, it is uncontrolled, and the method is…	+26	30	6.4k	10mo
Tag proliferation and whether we should prune Meta › Site feedback guidelines site feedback moderation Closed On the subject in the title: Tag proliferation and whether we should prune Working notes rather than a conclusion. I have spent a fortnight trying to pin tag proliferation down and I want to set out where I…		2	11k	11mo
A friction point in the promotion workflow Meta › Site feedback guidelines moderation site feedback A friction point in the promotion workflow — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. Asking about friction point directly, because I have read four threads on it and each answered…	+4	8	491	11mo
[2026 update] Reverting an edit that had no revision note Meta › Wiki maintenance wiki post citation check maintainership Reverting an edit that had no revision note — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. Collecting what is known about Reverting an edit in one place, because it is currently spread…	+8	12	54k	12mo
Reverting an edit that had no revision note Meta › Wiki maintenance citation check moderation review date maintainership Posting this under the heading it deserves: Reverting an edit that had no revision note Everything below is what sits behind that. Reverting an edit: setting out the arithmetic in full, because I have had to…	+17	21	4.5k	12mo
[2026 update] Citation sweep results: how many references did not say what was claimed Meta › Wiki maintenance maintainership review date moderation citation check Citation sweep results: how many references did not say what was claimed Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. What changes if the standard account of Citation…	+41	45	47k	12mo
Follow-up: The topic list is dense — is that deliberate? Meta › Site feedback site feedback guidelines moderation Solved The question in the title: The topic list is dense — is that deliberate? I will give what I have already checked below so nobody repeats it. A follow-up question about topic list that I did not know to ask…		4	23k	12mo
Request declined, with reasoning Meta › Feature requests site feedback translation wiki post Wiki Request declined, with reasoning — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. I would like to know what people here actually do about request declined, as distinct from what is…	+2	6	173	13mo
A friction point in the promotion workflow — the long version Meta › Site feedback moderation site feedback guidelines On the subject in the title: A friction point in the promotion workflow — the long version Working notes rather than a conclusion. A narrow question about friction point, deliberately narrow, because the…	+1	5	46k	13mo
Coming back to: Request: tag synonyms surfaced in search Meta › Feature requests site feedback wiki post translation Solved Request: tag synonyms surfaced in search Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. Tag synonyms surfaced in search — I have the observation and I do not trust my…		2	26k	13mo
An orphaned page with no inbound links Meta › Wiki maintenance wiki post maintainership citation check moderation An orphaned page with no inbound links — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. What changes if the standard account of orphaned page is wrong? I ask because I have been treating…	+44	48	7.5k	14mo
Pages past their review date, listed — does this still hold? Meta › Wiki maintenance review date moderation citation check maintainership Solved Closed Pages past their review date, listed — does this still hold? — that is the question, and I have not found it answered plainly anywhere I have looked. I would like to disagree carefully with the settled view…	+27	31	52k	15mo
Scheduled maintenance and what will be unavailable Meta › Announcements guidelines trust levels moderation site feedback Scheduled maintenance and what will be unavailable Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. Collecting what is known about scheduled maintenance in one place, because…	+120	128	25k	15mo
Maintainer handover: how it works Meta › Wiki maintenance review date moderation citation check wiki post On the subject in the title: Maintainer handover: how it works Working notes rather than a conclusion. I would like to disagree carefully with the settled view on maintainer handover, and I would like to be…	+74	82	14k	16mo
The topic list is dense — is that deliberate? Meta › Site feedback guidelines site feedback moderation Solved The topic list is dense — is that deliberate? — that is the question, and I have not found it answered plainly anywhere I have looked. A narrow question about topic list, deliberately narrow, because the…	+84	91	49k	18mo
[2026 update] New subcategory: rationale and scope Meta › Announcements guidelines site feedback moderation trust levels Solved New subcategory: rationale and scope — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. Proposing that New subcategory deserves a maintained page rather than a recurring topic, and drafting…	+136	163	1.8k	18mo
Revisiting: Moderation log format change Meta › Announcements guidelines trust levels moderation site feedback Revisiting: Moderation log format change Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. Moderation log format change keeps being re-asked here and I think that is because…	+65	71	9.1k	19mo
Request: a diff view for wiki revisions Meta › Feature requests site feedback wiki post translation Request: a diff view for wiki revisions — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. I would like to know what people here actually do about diff view for wiki revisions, as distinct…	+24	30	3.1k	19mo
A revision dispute resolved on the topic rather than in the history — a second dataset Meta › Wiki maintenance moderation citation check maintainership wiki post Solved On the subject in the title: A revision dispute resolved on the topic rather than in the history — a second dataset Working notes rather than a conclusion. Posting a small dataset on revision dispute…	+45	50	33k	20mo
Revisiting: A staff appointment, and what the role involves Meta › Announcements moderation site feedback guidelines Revisiting: A staff appointment, and what the role involves — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. Reading back through what has been written here about staff appointment, three…		2	1k	22mo
[2026 update] Request: show the solution author in the topic list Meta › Feature requests site feedback wiki post translation Request: show the solution author in the topic list Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. Bringing the figures rather than the impression, since a process question…		2	59	2y
Guidelines revision: what changed and why Meta › Announcements guidelines moderation trust levels Guidelines revision: what changed and why Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. I was wrong about guidelines revision in a thread last spring and I would like to…	+125	142	1.7k	2y