Wikipedia:Village pump
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Welcome to the village pump. This set of pages is used to discuss the technical issues, policies, and operations of Wikipedia, and is divided into six village pump sections. Please use the table below to find the most appropriate section to post in, or post in the miscellaneous section. You can view all village pump sections at once here. The village pump is not a place to make lasting comments as inactive discussions are archived after seven days, and then permanently removed after a further seven days. Please sign and date your post (by typing ~~~~ or clicking the signature icon in the edit toolbar).
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| News post To announce things that don't fit into Announcements or Goings-on |
Policy post To discuss existing and proposed policies |
Technical post To discuss technical issues |
Proposals post To discuss new ideas and proposals that are not policy related. See also: perennial proposals. |
Assistance post To post requests for assistance not covered by the Help desk, try the Reference desk |
Miscellaneous post To post messages that do not fit into any other category |
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| I want... | Where to go | |||||
| To browse all village pump topics at once | Village pump (all) | |||||
| Help using Wikipedia | Help desk | |||||
| Constructive criticisms from others for a specific article | Peer review | |||||
| Help resolving a specific article edit dispute or making a user conduct dispute complaint | Requests for comment | |||||
| To comment on a specific article | Article's talk page | |||||
| Specific facts (e.g., Who was the first Pope?) | Reference desk | |||||
| To make wiki software bug reports and feature requests | MediaZilla | |||||
| To check if an idea has already been proposed/discussed | Village pump (perennial proposals) | |||||
| To view other Wikimedia projects | Wikimedia Meta-wiki | |||||
| To know about citing Wikipedia in a bibliography | Citing Wikipedia | |||||
| To report sites that copy Wikipedia content | Mirrors and forks | |||||
Add to Watchlist
Click these links to add village pump pages to your watchlist.
- Add News to your watchlist
- Add Policy to your watchlist
- Add Technical to your watchlist
- Add Proposals to your watchlist
- Add Assistance to your watchlist
- Add Miscellaneous to your watchlist
Archiving
Discussions older than 7 days (date of last made comment) are moved to a sub page of each section (called (section name)/Archive). These discussions will be kept archived for 7 more days. During this period the discussion can be moved to a relevant talk page if appropriate. After 7 days the discussion will be deleted from the archive and main pages. They will be still accessible (albeit with a bit of difficulty) via page history but not searchable.
