Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-01-28/Discussion report

Discussion report

Administrator conduct and requests

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Moderator user group: A new user group was proposed that would contain an abbreviated set of the administrator user-rights.

Resysopping policy: A change to the policy of resysopping former administrators is under discussion. This discussion hopes to clear up cases of when to resysop admins and when they should go through the RFA process again.
Article titles: Should a section be added to the article titles guideline to recognize how titles are styled currently to avoid arguments between the relationship of WP:MOS and WP:TITLE?
Today's article for improvement: After being successfully proposed, there are still unanswered questions regarding "Today's article for improvement". Questions still needing answers include how many are displayed per day, how the articles are chosen and what the edit notice on the article page will look like.
Noreferrer: Should noreferrer be enabled for all external links on Wikipedia?
Policies and Administrators: Should administrators be held to the same standard as regular users or should their behavior be monitored more closely?
Request for Adminship reform: The request for adminship process is currently under discussion. This is intended to find out the problems with the process and figure out solutions.
Clerks in the request for adminship process: A clerk system for the adminship request process is being discussed. The clerks are planned to help the request process.
Article feedback: As the scheduled date for full release of the article feedback approaches, users are being asked for their input on concerns regarding the tool.