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Actions taken by staff, and the reasoning behind them.

55 topics 19 solved Group: Community process

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Topic	Participants	Replies	Views	Activity
Why the timeline is on the right and not the left Meta › Site feedback moderation site feedback guidelines Solved Why the timeline is on the right and not the left — that is the question, and I have not found it answered plainly anywhere I have looked. Something about timeline does not reconcile and I would like a second…	+66	73	19k	10mo
About the Site feedback category Meta › Site feedback site feedback moderation guidelines Pinned Wiki Closed Bugs, friction, and the parts of the site that do not work the way you expected. This post is a community wiki: any member at trust level 3 or above can edit it, and every edit is recorded with its author and…		4	54k	10mo
Pages past their review date, listed Meta › Wiki maintenance wiki post maintainership review date moderation Pages past their review date, listed Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. Posting a small dataset on pages past. It is mine, it is uncontrolled, and the method is…	+26	30	6.4k	10mo
Tag proliferation and whether we should prune Meta › Site feedback guidelines site feedback moderation Closed On the subject in the title: Tag proliferation and whether we should prune Working notes rather than a conclusion. I have spent a fortnight trying to pin tag proliferation down and I want to set out where I…		2	11k	11mo
A friction point in the promotion workflow Meta › Site feedback guidelines moderation site feedback A friction point in the promotion workflow — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. Asking about friction point directly, because I have read four threads on it and each answered…	+4	8	491	11mo
Follow-up: Why we hide unevidenced fraud accusations and log the hiding Sourcing › Red flags mislabelling disputed moderation underdosing The question in the title: Why we hide unevidenced fraud accusations and log the hiding I will give what I have already checked below so nobody repeats it. Filing a documentation observation rather than a…	+12	16	17k	12mo
Reverting an edit that had no revision note Meta › Wiki maintenance citation check moderation review date maintainership Posting this under the heading it deserves: Reverting an edit that had no revision note Everything below is what sits behind that. Reverting an edit: setting out the arithmetic in full, because I have had to…	+17	21	4.5k	12mo
[2026 update] Citation sweep results: how many references did not say what was claimed Meta › Wiki maintenance maintainership review date moderation citation check Citation sweep results: how many references did not say what was claimed Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. What changes if the standard account of Citation…	+41	45	47k	12mo
A supplier that answers analytical questions with restated claims Sourcing › Red flags documentation quality disputed moderation mislabelling Solved Wiki On the subject in the title: A supplier that answers analytical questions with restated claims Working notes rather than a conclusion. Reading back through what has been written here about supplier, three…	+107	118	45k	12mo
Follow-up: The topic list is dense — is that deliberate? Meta › Site feedback site feedback guidelines moderation Solved The question in the title: The topic list is dense — is that deliberate? I will give what I have already checked below so nobody repeats it. A follow-up question about topic list that I did not know to ask…		4	23k	12mo
A friction point in the promotion workflow — the long version Meta › Site feedback moderation site feedback guidelines On the subject in the title: A friction point in the promotion workflow — the long version Working notes rather than a conclusion. A narrow question about friction point, deliberately narrow, because the…	+1	5	46k	13mo
A certificate whose chromatogram axes do not match its stated method Sourcing › Red flags underdosing moderation mislabelling Pinned Posting this under the heading it deserves: A certificate whose chromatogram axes do not match its stated method Everything below is what sits behind that. A narrow question about certificate whose…	+9	13	182	13mo
Why we hide unevidenced fraud accusations and log the hiding Sourcing › Red flags underdosing mislabelling disputed moderation Solved Why we hide unevidenced fraud accusations and log the hiding — that is the question, and I have not found it answered plainly anywhere I have looked. Filing a documentation observation rather than a result,…	+97	106	63k	14mo
An orphaned page with no inbound links Meta › Wiki maintenance wiki post maintainership citation check moderation An orphaned page with no inbound links — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. What changes if the standard account of orphaned page is wrong? I ask because I have been treating…	+44	48	7.5k	14mo
Follow-up: Documentation that appears only after payment Sourcing › Red flags disputed mislabelling underdosing documentation quality Wiki Posting this under the heading it deserves: Documentation that appears only after payment Everything below is what sits behind that. Proposing that Documentation deserves a maintained page rather than a…	+82	87	50k	14mo
Pages past their review date, listed — does this still hold? Meta › Wiki maintenance review date moderation citation check maintainership Solved Closed Pages past their review date, listed — does this still hold? — that is the question, and I have not found it answered plainly anywhere I have looked. I would like to disagree carefully with the settled view…	+26	31	52k	15mo
Scheduled maintenance and what will be unavailable Meta › Announcements guidelines trust levels moderation site feedback Scheduled maintenance and what will be unavailable Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. Collecting what is known about scheduled maintenance in one place, because…	+121	128	25k	15mo
A supplier who responds to a discrepancy with silence Sourcing › Red flags underdosing documentation quality moderation mislabelling Closed On the subject in the title: A supplier who responds to a discrepancy with silence Working notes rather than a conclusion. Two things I would like separated before anyone answers on supplier, because they get…		2	6.1k	16mo
Maintainer handover: how it works Meta › Wiki maintenance review date moderation citation check wiki post On the subject in the title: Maintainer handover: how it works Working notes rather than a conclusion. I would like to disagree carefully with the settled view on maintainer handover, and I would like to be…	+76	82	14k	16mo
The topic list is dense — is that deliberate? Meta › Site feedback guidelines site feedback moderation Solved The topic list is dense — is that deliberate? — that is the question, and I have not found it answered plainly anywhere I have looked. A narrow question about topic list, deliberately narrow, because the…	+84	91	49k	18mo
[2026 update] New subcategory: rationale and scope Meta › Announcements guidelines site feedback moderation trust levels Solved New subcategory: rationale and scope — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. Proposing that New subcategory deserves a maintained page rather than a recurring topic, and drafting…	+139	163	1.8k	18mo
Revisiting: Moderation log format change Meta › Announcements guidelines trust levels moderation site feedback Revisiting: Moderation log format change Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. Moderation log format change keeps being re-asked here and I think that is because…	+66	71	9.1k	19mo
A revision dispute resolved on the topic rather than in the history — a second dataset Meta › Wiki maintenance moderation citation check maintainership wiki post Solved On the subject in the title: A revision dispute resolved on the topic rather than in the history — a second dataset Working notes rather than a conclusion. Posting a small dataset on revision dispute…	+44	50	33k	20mo
Revisiting: A staff appointment, and what the role involves Meta › Announcements moderation site feedback guidelines Revisiting: A staff appointment, and what the role involves — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. Reading back through what has been written here about staff appointment, three…		2	1k	22mo
Guidelines revision: what changed and why Meta › Announcements guidelines moderation trust levels Guidelines revision: what changed and why Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. I was wrong about guidelines revision in a thread last spring and I would like to…	+126	142	1.7k	2y