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Special:PrefixIndex/Requests_for_comment (almost 1000 pages as of year 2021)

2005

cs.wp: Aphaia and Tomos discussion, January 2005 - archived inactive December 2008.
cs.wp: Cswiki issues, August 2005 - archived inactive December 2008.
- and abortive Cswiki issues 2, September 2005, archived inactive December 2008.
Image:Evolution-tasks.png, September 2005 - archived inactive, December 2008.
ko.ws: Korean Wikisource, September 2005 - Archived inactive December 2008.

2006

Board Election 2006, 30 September 2006, last substantive edit December 2006, archived inactive December 2008* cs.wp: Cswiki issues 3, November 2006, archived inactive December 2008.
Wikicode, October 2006 - archived inactive, December 2008.
- Received only one comment.
simple.wp: Netoholic on Simple English Wikipedia, 15 October 2006, concluded 21 November 2006, archived resolved December 2008.
- Request to Stewards regarding User:Netoholic on Simple Wikipedia, 8 November 2006, concluded 20 November 2006, archived resolved December 2008.

2007

yi.wp: Yiddish wikipedia sysop abuse, 14 January 2007, last substantive edit August 2007, archived inactive August 2010.
simple.wp: Blockinblox on Simple English Wikipedia, 15 January 2007. Outcome: transwikied to Simple English Wikipedia 16 January 2007. Discussion at Simple English Wikipedia had been open only a few days before RFC on Meta was launched.
Zazaki Wikipedia v. Kurdish Wikipedia, 1 March 2007, last substantive edit May 2007, archived inactive August 2010.
ug.wp: Jose77 on Uyghur Wikipedia, 27 March 2007. Outcome: user desysopped by User:MaxSem following stewards discussion on IRC, statement 1 April 2007.
ru.wb: User:VasilievVV&Ramir abuse at ruwikibooks, 23 June 2007. Archived inactive August 2010. No comments received, but Ramir's rights removed "temporarily" in January 2008 following January 2008 Requests for comment/Ramir on Russian Wikibooks.
Board Election 2007, 12 July 2007, last substantive edit September 2007, archived inactive August 2010.
he:wn: Yonidebest sysop flag on he.wikinews, 24 July 2007, last substantive edit August 2007, archived inactive August 2010. Outcome: sysop flag removed before RFC not restored.
ja.wp: user Penpen Block, 7 August 2007, archived inactive August 2010. No comments received.
tpi.wp: Tpi issues, on actions of tpi:User:K. Kellogg-Smith, 14 August 2007, archived inactive August 2010. Discussion was copied from Requests for Permissions.
az.wp: Azerbaijani wikipedia sysop abuse, September 2007, archived inactive August 2010. No comments received.
sr.wp: Serbian Wikipedia Sockpuppetry, 4 September 2007, archived inactive August 2010. Discussion was copied from Requests for Permissions; no further comments added in the RFC.
EDP on Afrikaans Wikipedia, 7 September 2007; statement by creator that problem is resolved 12 September 2007.
pt.wp: JSSX and Ozalid Wikipédia PT / Bullying and sysop abuse, 12 September 2007, last substantive edit 3 October 2007, archived inactive August 2010.

2008

Hostage situation in Russian Wikipedia, 7 January 2008, on Russian Arbcom handling of offwiki issues, with privacy implications; closed stale December 2008. No substantive comments received (except for a personal attack from a banned user).
ru.wb: Ramir on Russian Wikibooks, 17 January 2008, closed resolved June 2008. Outcome: Ramir's rights removed "temporarily" in January 2008.
az.wp: Azerbaijani wikipedia, 4 February 2008, archived inactive February 2012.
Wikimedia Foundation staff permissions, 8 February 2008, archived resolved August 2010. Outcome: implemented by September 2008.
ar.wp: الباحث@ar Wikipedia rights removal, 9 March 2008, contestation of local desysop vote, closed resolved 12 March 2008.
cs.ws and others: -jkb-, 17 March 2008, closed 26 March 2008 when RFC filer withdrew it.
Meta-wiki suffrage in regards to local elections, 19 March 2008, closed dormant November 2008.
Usernames and SUL, 26 March 2008, marked as dormant November 2008, archived August 2010.
ko.ws: Problems on ko.wikisource, May 2008, archived resolved August 2010. Outcome: User:WonRyong's temporary adminship removed 31 May 2008.
ar.wp: Riadismet sysop flag on Arabic wp, 10 May 2008, closed resolved July 2008. Outcome: voter qualification issue clarified.
cs.wp: Personal attacks on cs, 21 May 2008, archived stale August 2010.
ce.wp: Bots on Chechen wikipedia, 31 May 2008, on blocking of bots by ce:User:Girdi, archived stale August 2010.
Save the Siberian Wikipedia, 7 June 2008, closed as "trolling" by a user banned on multiple wikis.
fa.wp: Zereshk's RfA at the Persian Wikipedia, 18 June 2008, archived inactive August 2010.
Special global permissions, 7 July 2008, moved to new policy page 2 August 2008.
Zazaki wikipedia, 6 August 2008, archived inactive October 2010.
nl.wp: Dutch Wikipedia - unblock request, 7 August 2008, closed unproductive September 2008.
cross-wiki: Poetlister and Cato, September 2008. Documents investigation of high-level socking across Wikimedia sites.
zh.wp/Meta: Shizhao's use of steward privileges, 26 November 2008, last substantive edit February 2009, archived resolved 4 January 2011. Outcome: "no abuse found".
ru.wp: Canopus Kilya Blocking, 29 November 2008, closed as "bad-faith RFC due to massive trolling and sockpuppetry" 1 December 2008.
Croatian Wikipedia - User Suradnik13 - blocking and deleting
Korean wikipedia
Lombard wikipedia - problems
- The meatpuppeting attack to the LMO wikipedia - Corrective actions requested
- The meatpuppeting attack on LMO wikipedia - Origin (source) of the meatpuppets

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2022

Stop accepting cryptocurrency donations
Stop accepting fiat money donations
A bureaucrat which supports a troll in the Hebrew Wikipedia
Use of Spam blacklist for links to copyright violations
LTA database at meta
Global ban for Niveles and socks, 7 February 2022, closed as unsuccessful. Despite unanimous consensus, the level of support was insufficient for enacting a ban.
Reduce Asturian web presence
Improve WMF collaboration with social media sites, 2 March 2022, closed as out of scope.
A Critical review on Persian Wikipedia Admins
Global file deletion review 2
Crimean Tatar coverage on ruwiki
De-adminship for Jusjih in certain projects
Revoking Metaverse's global rename permission, 15 May 2022, unanimous support for revocation of permission.
New Group for viewing deleted content
Technical agreement on dates and times
Global ban requirements
Removal of advanced rights
Limit depth of marked reverts
Allow sysops to override the spam blacklist
Global ban for Velimir Ivanovic
Scope issues and copyright violations on Kyrgyz Wikibooks
Copyright violations on Macedonian Wikibooks
Admin behavior on ruwiki, 2 September 2022, closed as unsuccessful.
Global ban of BFDIFan707 and Heraldrist, 15 September 2022, closed as invalid.
IP-Info for global groups
Global ban of BFDIFan707 and Heraldrist 2, 29 September 2022, closed as invalid.
Global ban for Александр Мотин, 30 September 2022, speedily closed as invalid.
Blatant arbitrariness and abuse on the part of the Arbitration Committee of the Russian Wikipedia, harassment in Wikimedia projects
Global ban for Александр Мотин 2
Make all new wikis global bot wikis
LGBTQIA phobia, 25 October 2022, no consensus for changing the Oversight policy.
Global ban for Trieu Thuan Son
Global ban for PlanespotterA320, 1 November 2022, speedily closed as unsuccessful.
Concerning sentiments in a particular wiki
Severe conflict involving problematic sysop on pt.Wiki, currently open.
Give a reason to block, 27 December 2022, closed as no action. Local dispute on Karakalpak Wikipedia.

2023

Discussing sources on the Croatian Wikipedia, 2 January 2023, currently open.
Abuse of power by sysops in Spanish Wikipedia, 10 January 2023, closed as no action. The RFC went inactive for almost two years.
Clarification to Global rename policy, 12 January 2023, closed as resolved.
administrator tools' abuse in french wikipedia, 13 January 2023, speedily closed as invalid.
- admin tools' abuse in French Wikipedia, 22 January 2023, speedily closed as invalid and a duplicate.
Add a statistic to show registered users excluding locked accounts, 21 January 2023, procedurally closed. Phabricator was recommended as the appropriate venue.
Global ban for Livioandronico2013, 19 February 2023, closed as no consensus.
I need help resolving issues I have with en.wikt and en.wiki since I am blocked, 20 February 2023, closed as stale; no response after over a year.
Limit creation of Wikipedia, etc. in minor languages, 1 March 2023, procedurally closed.
Ideals and realities on the ground in Norwegian Wikipedia, 3 March 2023, currently open.
Make global abuse filters opt-out, 12 March 2023, closed as successful.
Intentional disruptive editing by bnwiki admin, 12 April 2023, currently open.
Global ban for Piermark, 13 April 2023, closed as successful; unanimous support for ban.
Block without any proof, warning, public investigation and discussion, 14 April 2023, currently open.
CheckUser activity RFC, 15 April 2023, currently open.
Sysop abuse on Vietnamese Wikipedia, 27 April 2023, resolved to the satisfaction of the original poster.
Global ban for Leonardo José Raimundo, 24 May 2023, closed as successful.
Improving the steward election process, 25 May 2023, currently open.
Abuse of power by sysops in Russian Wikinews, 17 June 2023, closed as no action. The RFC went inactive for almost two years.
Allow thanking bots, 7 July 2023, currently open.
Bureaucrat abuse of vote in Belarusian Classical Wikipedia, 30 July 2023, currently open.
Sister Projects Committee, 30 July 2023, currently open.
Global ban for Бучач-Львів, 7 August 2023, currently open.
Serious problems on Azerbaijani Wikipedia, 10 August 2023, currently open.
Hiding the number of Russian/Belorussian/Kazakh contributors on the statistics map, 17 September, 2023, currently open.
Motion of No Confidence in Some Bureaucrat and Administrators of the Chinese Wikipedia, Curbing Collective Bullying, and Foundation Action Requests, 22 September 2023, speedily closed because the initiator was globally locked.
Change the logo of the Wikinews project, 22 October 2023, closed as no consensus.
user:ネイ, 24 October 2023, closed because the complaint was considered to have no merit.
Permanently blocked in WP in Aragonese, without right to defense, for requesting the deletion of insulting expressions, 1 December 2023, currently open.
Broad IP ban on the German Wiktionary, 13 December 2023, currently open.
Violating the Neutral point of view in Arabic Wiki, 23 December 2023. Allegations were made about biased editing and actions on the Arabic Wikipedia related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. While the initial complaints were about a controversial text on the Main Page, attention later shifted to NPOV violations in specific articles. There was no clear consensus for taking any action, and the RFC was closed as unsuccessful.
"Putin khuylo!" on the main page, 25 December 2023, closed as out of scope; local dispute.
Blocking access based on the second paragraph of alternative accounts, 27 December 2023, closed by the initiator.
Drama created by the only active administrator of viwikipedia, 31 December 2023, closed as "no proposal, no consensus". The initiator of the RFC was globally locked.

2024

Global ban for Guido den Broeder, 13 January 2024, closed as successful.
Authoritarian vibe on the Romanian Wikipedia, 26 January 2024, currently open.
Jimbo perms, 30 January 2024, currently open.
Board permissions, 16 February 2024, currently open.
UPE by az.wiki admins, 21 February 2024, currently open.
Community consensus for blackouts and other advocacy, 26 February 2024, closed as unsuccessful.
AnToni and his administratorship abuse on Bosnian Wikipedia, 6 March 2024, closed as invalid.
Global ban for Slowking4 (2), 14 March 2024. Despite massive support, the request was closed as unsuccessful. Nevertheless, the closer explicitly called out Slowking4's behaviour during the discussion.
threatening language and censorship by two Arabic Wikipedia admins, 21 March 2024, currently open.
New global filter for "bot", 22 March 2024, no consensus for enacting the proposal.
Unjustified blocking of the administrator of the Azerbaijani Wikipedia, 30 March 2024, resolved with a two-way interaction way between the parties.
Tulsi advanced permissions and UPE, 3 April 2024, closed as "nothing to do here". No action was taken against Tulsi.
Sysop abuse in the swahili Wikipedia, 10 April 2024, currently open.
Gotquestions and Tektonics, 15 April 2024, currently open.
Trwiki block of RuzDD by an unproven sockpuppet claim, 25 April 2024, currently open.
KOSA, 27 April 2024, closed by the initiator.
Should a global ban be issued for User:Stanistani, 19 May 2024, closed as invalid.
The block log lacks useful information - basic requirements for sysop/admin accountability, 24 May 2024. While the proposal to reform blocking policy received modest support, the proposer AP295 was subsequently globally locked for bludgeoning.
Uncleared sockpuppet claim in viwiki, 4 June 2024, closed as procedurally invalid.
Redesigning Wikipedia brand text font, 9 June 2024, speedily closed.
Unauthorized screenshots from private WhatsApp conversations, 14 June 2024, currently open.
Global ban request for POSSUM chowg, 21 June 2024, withdrawn by the initiator.
Requesting a look into Arabic Wikipedia Bias, 22 June 2024, currently open.
Abuse of power by bureaucrats in the Hebrew Wikipedia, 24 June 2024, currently open.
- Banned without any explanation, 25 June 2024, closed as stale.
- blocked and ignored by the bureaucrats in Hebrew Wiki, 27 June 2024, closed as stale.
- Unjustified block in the Hebrew Wikipedia, 27 June 2024, closed as stale.
- unexplained blockage in Hebrew wikipedia, 2 July 2024, closed as stale.
- Blocked without breaking any rule, 2 July 2024, closed as stale.
- Blocked without warning Hebrew Wiki, 6 July 2024, closed as stale.
- unjustified block by Hebrew bureaucrat, 16 July 2024, closed as stale.
- blockage from activity in Hebrew wiki, 17 July 2024, closed as stale.
- denial of editing in Hebrew wikipedia, 23 July 2024, closed.
- My voting rights were taken away without a reasonable explanation, 27 July 2024, closed as stale.
Hoaxes about Azerbaijan in Armenian Wikipedia, 14 July 2024, currently open.
Zhxy 519, the admin with a recording of multiple severe abuses in history, today abuses in zh.wikisource once again., 17 July 2024, currently open.
Blocked for no reason at Greek Wikipedia, 13 August 2024, currently open.
Request for exemption, an local blocking, 23 August 2024, currently open.
Global account blocking practices, 25 August 2024, about a proposal to reform the scope of global blocks and global locks. It successfully passed.
GFDL to CC License Migration of files, 11 September 2024, currently open.
Amend language policy to ban new conlang Wikipedias, 4 October 2024, currently open.
Global ban for Won1017, 25 October 2024, closed as successful.
Indefinite ban for Laziz Baxtiyorov, 8 November 2024, currently open.
Extract global bot policy to own page, 13 November 2024, currently open.
Entire nation portrayed as fascist on Greek Wikipedia - objections are not welcomed, 25 November 2024, currently open.
Welcoming policy, 27 November 2024, currently open.
Turkish Wikipedia Faulty CheckUser operation, 3 December 2024, currently open.
Update standard license for Wikinews, 18 December 2024, currently open.