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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard
| Is behindthename.com a reliable source for Wikipedia? See #behindthename.com where it comes from. --Altenmann >talk 18:19, 14 December 2025 (UTC) |
Talk:List of oldest universities in continuous operation
| Should the University of New Brunswick (UNB) be included in this list of oldest universities in continuous operation, with a Note distinguishing between (a) its predecessor institution’s founding, (b) the 1800 provincial charter granting degree-conferring authority, and (c) the earliest documented university-level instruction in the 1820s?
Some editors argue that inclusion is inappropriate because documented university-level teaching begins only in the 1820s. Others argue that, consistent with existing table precedent (founding versus charter versus formal university status, e.g., Harvard, which is included based on founding and charter despite later formal university status), UNB may be included with a clarifying Note reflecting charter authority and documentation limits, without asserting undocumented instruction. For clarity, multiple draft phrasings of the proposed Note have been discussed above; the RfC concerns whether UNB should be included at all with a clarifying Note of this type, not endorsement of a specific final wording. Input is sought on how WP:V, WP:BURDEN, and table precedent should be applied.Tinterest (talk) 00:00, 14 December 2025 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
| Request for comment: Should we replace the current text of the guideline at Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models with the draft guideline at User:Qcne/LLMGuideline?
The new draft guideline defines an LLM, strongly advises editors not to use LLMs to add content to Wikipedia, and describes how to handle LLM-generated content that is already present. This follows on from the RFCBEFORE discussion at Wikipedia talk:Writing articles with large language models#Further amendment proposal #2: qcne, where several alternative drafts were discussed. qcne (talk) 11:28, 4 December 2025 (UTC) |
Template talk:Infobox chess biography
Should |country= be used for the flag under which the player plays or the federation to which the player is affiliated? This issue has previously been discussed here: Khiikiat (talk) 16:26, 30 November 2025 (UTC)
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User talk:Athanelar/Identifying AI-generated text
| This has been up for a bit over 24 hours and has had a fair few eyes on it with no strong objections and some good tweaks, so I'm moving forward to RfC.
The RfC closer for WP:NEWLLM stated that a community consensus on identifying AI-generated text would be necessary in order for that guideline to be properly enforced. The question for this RfC is thus: should this proposal be accepted as a supplementary essay to WP:NEWLLM (and future AI-restricting guidelines) to serve as a consensus standard for how to identify AI-generated text? Athanelar (talk) 00:19, 28 November 2025 (UTC) |
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Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Tables
| Should data table captions be required only for screen readers? If yes, the first sentence of MOS:HEADERS would be changed to remove "and used on all data tables." In its place, a second sentence would be added saying that captions are still required for accessibility, to be voiced by screen readers, with Template:Sronly hiding the caption from sighted readers by default. Binksternet (talk) 00:49, 23 November 2025 (UTC) |