Encyclopedia:Village pump archive

This page lists archived pages from the sections of Wikipedia:Village pump.

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September 2004 – Current

	Old series (September 2004 – October 2007)	New series (October 2007 onwards)	Search
News (inactive)	Template:Archive list alpha (6 total)	Template:N/a	Template:Google custom
Policy	Template:Archive list alpha (67 total)	Template:Archive list	Template:Google custom
Technical	Template:Archive list alpha (50 total)	Template:Archive list	Template:Google custom
Proposals	Template:Archive list alpha (44 total)	Template:Archive list	Template:Google custom
Persistent proposals (inactive)	Template:N/a	Template:Archive list	Template:Google custom
Idea lab	Template:N/a	Template:Archive list	Template:Google custom
WMF	Template:N/a	Template:Archive list	Template:Google custom
Miscellaneous<ref>The miscellaneous village pump was Template:Diff from text that was Template:Diff. Archive A of this village pump section contains threads that either originated at the miscellaneous village pump or had text added after the switchover; attribution for the earlier text can be found at Wikipedia:Village pump archive 2004-09-26.</ref>	Template:Archive list alpha (24 total)	Template:Archive list	Template:Google custom
Assistance (inactive)	Template:Archive list alpha (19 total)	Template:Archive list	Template:Google custom

July 2001 – September 2004

The village pump was all on one page before being split on 14 September 2004; text from an earlier central onwiki venue, Wikipedia chat, is also included here.

	Old series (July 2001 – November 2002)	New series (July 2002 – September 2004)	Search
Village Pump (attribution history)		Template:Archive list alpha (47 total)	Template:Google custom
Wikipedia chat	1 (never archived)		Template:Google custom

Special discussions

Sometimes discussions are moved into their own subpage because they are too long.

• Policy:
  • Using diacritics (or national alphabet) in the name of the article (2006)
  • Trivia is what Wikipedia does best (2007)
  • Image:User.gif: unintended bias? (2008)
  • RfC: Should the Reference Desks be closed (2017)
  • RfC: Wikimedia referrer policy (2017)
  • Sports notability (2022)
• Technical:
  • Preparing for MediaWiki deployments (2011)
  • Proposal by Jc37 (2012)
• Proposals: