Requests for Comment
Requests for comment is the open part of the dispute resolution process, which seeks community input regarding specific topical, policy, and personality disputes. Ultimately, the content of ConRunner is determined by making progress toward a community consensus. However, the size of ConRunner prevents community members from actively following every development. As a result, sometimes it's useful to request broader opinions from the rest of the community.
This page is a way that anyone can request other ConRunners to help them resolve difficulties and disputes in articles or talk pages. Anyone may visit any of these articles, to help them reach agreement. A good quality RfC can help contributors resolve differences, add different insights, give comments and opinions on how others might see some wording, and so on. When listing a dispute here, you should also place a notice on the appropriate talk page.
It will help the RFC process if everyone who lists something on this page tries to help out at least one other page listed here.
Contents
Overview
When to use an article RfC
RFC is appropriate when you want other ConRunners to visit the page, to allow a consensus or a better quality of decision, to help resolve a dispute or break a deadlock.
Before adding an entry here:
- Whatever the nature of the dispute, the first resort should always be to discuss the problem with the other user. Try to resolve the dispute on your own first.
- Don't forget to follow simple etiquette. Courtesy and respect are more important in resolving a dispute, not less.
How to use RfC
- To request other users to comment on an issue, add a link from ConRunner:Requests for Comment/All to the Talk page for the article, a brief neutral statement of the issue, and the date. Do not put any issues on this page.
- Only with the date, don't list the details, and don't submit arguments or assign blame.
- On the Talk page of the article, it can help to summarize the dispute.
Responding to RfCs
- Try not to be confrontational. Be friendly and keep calm.
- Mediate where possible - identify common ground, clarify differences. Attempt to draw editors together rather than push them apart.
List of Requests for Comment
Article content disputes
List links to talk pages where participants cannot reach consensus and are thus stalling progress on the article. Discussions with no recent comments may have dried up, and will be removed.
- Do not put any issues on this ( RfC ) page.
- Link to the Talk page.
- Sign entries with the date only. Use five tildes: ~~~~~.
