Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies
The following discussions are requested to have community-wide attention:
| Should Kash Patel be called a conspiracy theorist in the first sentence? Relisted 16:36, 18 March 2025 (UTC) |
Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biography
| As per Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of Australia#First Nations group names in the first sentence of bio articles?:
A: Can belonging to an Aboriginal Australian or Torres Strait Islander group be considered a form of nationality? B: Should MOS:NATIONALITY be edited to include an example of someone belonging to an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander nation with that nationality named as a demonym in the first sentence of the lead, similarly to the example given for Native Americans and Indigenous Canadians? E.g. the first sentence of the Ashleigh Barty article reads:
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| I propose this modification for infobox into {{Infobox writer}}, with the inclusion of political career. Following multiple discussions at: |
| Should the three-paragraph version of the Rhetoric section discussed above be implemented? Riposte97 (talk) 10:38, 14 March 2025 (UTC) |
| For the lead sentence of this article, should this article retain the current version with no note, or should we change it to the version with a note?–06:05, 14 March 2025 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard
| This source has been discussed here twice: 338, 463. The source is used in several articles, most notably List of Roblox games. Not sure if it is reliable or not...
There are four options:
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| Should the sentence on the Unite the Right rally include more context?
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Talk:Aristides de Sousa Mendes
The first sentence of the second paragraph of the lede section of the article currently reads: Should the sentence be changed to: ? |
| Should HIV-related deaths be added to §Mass terminations of federal employees? I.e.:
"Trump and Elon Musk are attempting to dismantle most of USAID,[3] |
| Should B. R. Ambedkar be referred to as the "chief architect of the Indian Constitution" in the article's lead? |
| TLDR: Should the section be left there, or deleted?
Context is in conversation above. I am not very sure as to the verifiability, so I will hand the issue over to more knowledgeable individuals. On one hand, the section has been the stable version for quite a long time, and had sources which are also long-standing On the other hand, @User:Satheravi has raised new evidence which state otherwise, and i am not capable of discerning whether they "outweigh" the current sources. Help will be appreciated, and I will not try to bludgeon this any further if a consensus is reached, whatever the result is. —Mint Keyphase (Did I mess up? What have I done?) 09:01, 3 March 2025 (UTC) |
Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biography
| MOS:NICKNAME says: "If a person is known by a nickname used in lieu of or in addition to a given name, and it is not a common hypocorism of one of their names, or a professional alias, it is usually presented between double quotation marks following the last given name or initial." Does that apply only to nicknames that are our article titles, or to all nicknames that are sufficiently prominent to be in the lead sentence? --GRuban (talk) 21:35, 25 February 2025 (UTC) |
| Should the article have an infobox? Dronebogus (talk) 12:27, 25 February 2025 (UTC) |
| What should we do with the article's name and pronouns? (CC) Tbhotch™ 01:08, 24 February 2025 (UTC) |
| Can Wilt Chamberlain be called the greatest player of all-time? Yes or no? Sources offered for the claim thus far.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] Left guide (talk) 20:33, 21 February 2025 (UTC) |
- ^ Evans, Richard (10 July 2021). "Grounded and meticulous Ash Barty writing tennis history of her own". The Guardian.
Barty, a Ngarigo woman and deeply proud of her Indigenous heritage
- ^ Spits, Scott (18 January 2023). "Open hearts: Indigenous kids bring joy for Barty, Goolagong Cawley". The Age.
Ngarigo woman Barty admitted it felt "a bit strange" to be back in Melbourne with a relaxed frame of mind
- ^ Knickmeyer, Ellen; Amiri, Farnoush; Gomez Licon, Adriana (February 3, 2025). "Trump and Musk move to dismantle USAID, igniting battle with Democratic lawmakers". AP News. Retrieved February 5, 2025.
- ^ Lubin, Rhian (March 4, 2025). "Nearly 15,000 will have died already because of Trump and Musk's cuts to USAID, advocacy program claims". The Independent. and "PEPFAR Impact Tracker". Impact Counter. March 4, 2025.
- ^ "Amazon.com: The Greatest Player Ever: Wilt Chamberlain (himself), Cecil Mosenson: Movies & TV". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 16 February 2025.
- ^ Swartz, Bryn. "The Greatest NBA Player of All-Time: Michael Jordan or Wilt Chamberlain?". Bleacher Report. Archived from the original on April 30, 2022. Retrieved April 30, 2022.
- ^ Smith, Steve. "Greatness Revisited: Why Wilt Chamberlain Was the Greatest NBA Player Ever". Bleacher Report. Archived from the original on April 30, 2022. Retrieved April 30, 2022.
- ^ "The NBA's true greatest player of all time, Wilt Chamberlain". Hoops Habit. April 29, 2020. Archived from the original on September 12, 2021. Retrieved April 30, 2022.
- ^ "Legends profile: Wilt Chamberlain". NBA.com. Retrieved 16 February 2025.
- ^ Acedera, Shane Garry (11 November 2023). "Gary Payton explains why Wilt Chamberlain is the greatest player ever: "You know everybody is chasing after him"". Basketball Network - Your daily dose of basketball. Retrieved 16 February 2025.
- ^ Carter, Richard G. (19 May 2023). "Wilt Chamberlain is the Greatest Pro Basketball Player of all Time". Shepherd Express. Retrieved 16 February 2025.
- ^ "THE WORLD'S GREATEST POST-WAR ERA ATHLETE HAILED FROM PHILLY - WILT CHAMBERLAIN!". Edge of Philly Sports Network. 22 December 2022. Retrieved 16 February 2025.