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AllEdit
- Special:PrefixIndex/Requests_for_comment (almost 1000 pages as of year 2021)
2005Edit
- cs.wp: Aphaia and Tomos discussion, January 2005 - archived inactive December 2008.
- cs.wp: Cswiki issues, August 2005 - archived inactive December 2008.
- and abortive Cswiki issues 2, September 2005, archived inactive December 2008.
- Image:Evolution-tasks.png, September 2005 - archived inactive, December 2008.
- ko.ws: Korean Wikisource, September 2005 - Archived inactive December 2008.
2006Edit
- Board Election 2006, 30 September 2006, last substantive edit December 2006, archived inactive December 2008* cs.wp: Cswiki issues 3, November 2006, archived inactive December 2008.
- Wikicode, October 2006 - archived inactive, December 2008.
- Received only one comment.
- simple.wp: Netoholic on Simple English Wikipedia, 15 October 2006, concluded 21 November 2006, archived resolved December 2008.
- Request to Stewards regarding User:Netoholic on Simple Wikipedia, 8 November 2006, concluded 20 November 2006, archived resolved December 2008.
2007Edit
- yi.wp: Yiddish wikipedia sysop abuse, 14 January 2007, last substantive edit August 2007, archived inactive August 2010.
- simple.wp: Blockinblox on Simple English Wikipedia, 15 January 2007. Outcome: transwikied to Simple English Wikipedia 16 January 2007. Discussion at Simple English Wikipedia had been open only a few days before RFC on Meta was launched.
- Zazaki Wikipedia v. Kurdish Wikipedia, 1 March 2007, last substantive edit May 2007, archived inactive August 2010.
- ug.wp: Jose77 on Uyghur Wikipedia, 27 March 2007. Outcome: user desysopped by User:MaxSem following stewards discussion on IRC, statement 1 April 2007.
- ru.wb: User:VasilievVV&Ramir abuse at ruwikibooks, 23 June 2007. Archived inactive August 2010. No comments received, but Ramir's rights removed "temporarily" in January 2008 following January 2008 Requests for comment/Ramir on Russian Wikibooks.
- Board Election 2007, 12 July 2007, last substantive edit September 2007, archived inactive August 2010.
- he:wn: Yonidebest sysop flag on he.wikinews, 24 July 2007, last substantive edit August 2007, archived inactive August 2010. Outcome: sysop flag removed before RFC not restored.
- ja.wp: user Penpen Block, 7 August 2007, archived inactive August 2010. No comments received.
- tpi.wp: Tpi issues, on actions of tpi:User:K. Kellogg-Smith, 14 August 2007, archived inactive August 2010. Discussion was copied from Requests for Permissions.
- az.wp: Azerbaijani wikipedia sysop abuse, September 2007, archived inactive August 2010. No comments received.
- sr.wp: Serbian Wikipedia Sockpuppetry, 4 September 2007, archived inactive August 2010. Discussion was copied from Requests for Permissions; no further comments added in the RFC.
- EDP on Afrikaans Wikipedia, 7 September 2007; statement by creator that problem is resolved 12 September 2007.
- pt.wp: JSSX and Ozalid Wikipédia PT / Bullying and sysop abuse, 12 September 2007, last substantive edit 3 October 2007, archived inactive August 2010.
2008Edit
- Hostage situation in Russian Wikipedia, 7 January 2008, on Russian Arbcom handling of offwiki issues, with privacy implications; closed stale December 2008. No substantive comments received (except for a personal attack from a banned user).
- ru.wb: Ramir on Russian Wikibooks, 17 January 2008, closed resolved June 2008. Outcome: Ramir's rights removed "temporarily" in January 2008.
- az.wp: Azerbaijani wikipedia, 4 February 2008, archived inactive February 2012.
- Wikimedia Foundation staff permissions, 8 February 2008, archived resolved August 2010. Outcome: implemented by September 2008.
- ar.wp: الباحث@ar Wikipedia rights removal, 9 March 2008, contestation of local desysop vote, closed resolved 12 March 2008.
- cs.ws and others: -jkb-, 17 March 2008, closed 26 March 2008 when RFC filer withdrew it.
- Meta-wiki suffrage in regards to local elections, 19 March 2008, closed dormant November 2008.
- Usernames and SUL, 26 March 2008, marked as dormant November 2008, archived August 2010.
- ko.ws: Problems on ko.wikisource, May 2008, archived resolved August 2010. Outcome: User:WonRyong's temporary adminship removed 31 May 2008.
- ar.wp: Riadismet sysop flag on Arabic wp, 10 May 2008, closed resolved July 2008. Outcome: voter qualification issue clarified.
- cs.wp: Personal attacks on cs, 21 May 2008, archived stale August 2010.
- ce.wp: Bots on Chechen wikipedia, 31 May 2008, on blocking of bots by ce:User:Girdi, archived stale August 2010.
- Save the Siberian Wikipedia, 7 June 2008, closed as "trolling" by a user banned on multiple wikis.
- fa.wp: Zereshk's RfA at the Persian Wikipedia, 18 June 2008, archived inactive August 2010.
- Special global permissions, 7 July 2008, moved to new policy page 2 August 2008.
- Zazaki wikipedia, 6 August 2008, archived inactive October 2010.
- nl.wp: Dutch Wikipedia - unblock request, 7 August 2008, closed unproductive September 2008.
- cross-wiki: Poetlister and Cato, September 2008. Documents investigation of high-level socking across Wikimedia sites.
- zh.wp/Meta: Shizhao's use of steward privileges, 26 November 2008, last substantive edit February 2009, archived resolved 4 January 2011. Outcome: "no abuse found".
- ru.wp: Canopus Kilya Blocking, 29 November 2008, closed as "bad-faith RFC due to massive trolling and sockpuppetry" 1 December 2008.
- Croatian Wikipedia - User Suradnik13 - blocking and deleting
- Korean wikipedia
- Lombard wikipedia - problems
2009Edit
- Sysop abuse on Zazaki Wikipedia
- Sysop has disclosed my personal information on diq.wikipedia
- Wikispecies - Use of venacular names
- Russian Arbcom obliges an user to report his sockpuppets to arbitrators
- Bot request spam on small wiki Community Portals
- Mass deletion request on Haitian Wikipedia
- Sysop abuse on Ru Wikipedia
- Threaten by sysop on Uk Wikipedia with blocking (текст на русском языке)
- Intrusion into private affairs by ru.wikipedia.org checkusers
- Continuing serious conflict between users in the BAR-Wikipedia
- Croatian Wikipedia - User:Dalibor Bosits case
2010Edit
- fi.wikipedia and community action missing in problem solving
- "What adminship is not" does not work in the Portuguese Wiktionary
- ace.wikipedia and Prophet Muhammad images
- Prophet Muhammad images around Wikimedia projects
- Administrative abuse by User:SergeyJ
- Alsandro on ka wikipedia
- Armenian Wikipedia tolerance
- Ban User:PauloHelene globally
- Croatian Wikipedia-misuse of admin tools by User:Kubura
- External links to pages censored in other projects
- Global Arbitration Committee
- Improve Wikiversity
- Lithuanian Wikipedia and Wikibooks
- Public or non-public personal information
- Shut down Wikiversity
- Thekohser - user talk access
- Locally indef-blocked global sysops
- Rights and closed wikis
- Dispute resolution committee
- uk:Special:AbuseFilter/12
- Indic Sysop
- part B-2 of deletion policy of jawp
- "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" on Hebrew Wikipedia
- Username locks
- Remove Founder flag
- Restore Founder flag
- No Israel
- Violation of local policy by Ukrainian arbitration committee
- remove User:아흔 's permission at korean wiki
- Minimum voting requirements
- Vitek
- Copy editors' tab
- User:Mer du Japon
- User:Ottava Rima
- "Anais" article with abusive content in Azerbaijani Wikipedia
- Russian Wikiversity Deletions
- Global requests committee
2011Edit
- Policy for global bans
- SB Johnny
- User:Fry1989
- Blocking admin on fawikinews
- Italian admins acting without following wikipedia rules on user blocks
- Blocking for Anecdote
- Dispute resolution committee
- ПешСай@mhr.wikipedia
- Global ban for Poetlister
- Abigor
- Blocked users and talkpage access
- sr.wiki
- Wikisource administration problems
- Oppression in zh wikipedia
- Global lock for severe continuous cross wiki damage done by sockpuppet abuse
- Abuse_on_an.wikipedia.org
- Censorship of dissent to Italian Wikipedia's lockout
- Enable Narayam on Meta Wiki
- Sysop abuse:Mirzali
- User:Sortilegus@az.wikipedia
- Stewards' question: How to make your Wikimedian life easier?
- Abuse on Zazaki Wikipedia
- Vibhijain and Mayur
- Sindhi Wikipedia, a house of problems
- Image filter on Wikisource
- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton@brwikimedia
- User:Cekli829
- Rename of Kurdish Wikipedia
2012Edit
- POV in Chechen Wikipedia
- Transwiki on zh wikimedia
- Unblock request on bs.wiki
- New Wikimedia Project: a Travel Guide/
- Chapters. Proposal to give transparency and voice to the communities
- Limited global rights editing for global sysadmin members
- Userrights on Hindi Wikipedia
- Talk:Oversight_policy/Archives/2012#Clarity_of_scope.
- User:Erik Evermtus
- Abuse of multiple accounts
- User:SPQRobin
- Tatar Wikipedia - Unnecessary tip for anonymous users
- Internet Defense League
- Approval of the rewritten Meta-Steward relationship document as policy
- Meta-wiki requests for comment on users
- Global bans
- Legal Fees Assistance Program
- (formerly: That we submit a request to the WMF to consider and support a "Wiki Travel Guide")
- Wiki mobbing on de.wikipedia
- Allowing stewards to rename users on all wikis (formerly New global group to rename users 'Rename user')
- Ukrainian Wiki - Racism, Dictatorial burecrats, Historical Revisionism and POV
- Sysop abuse on the Zazaki Wikipedia
- Turkish wikipedia copies again from Ansiklopedika.org
- Cultic emphasis on classical latin at latin wikipedia
- Conflict of interest and partiality of administrators on Serbian Wikipedia
- Dispute over Turkish representation at Turkic Wikimedia Conference 2012
- "But woe to you, scribes"
- Global rename policy
- Global usurpation policy
- Concern about recent ko.wikipedia
- Spanish Wikisource needs help
- Disable local uploads on smaller wikis
2013Edit
- Global ban for Ottava Rima
- Wikidata_rollout_and_Interwiki_bots
- Massive sysop abuse in Chechen Wikipedia
- Sysop massive abuse on Bulgarian Wikipedia
- Sysop (Mirzali) abuse on the Zazaki Wikipedia
- Proposal for a policy on involved administrators
- Disable upload for selected users
- Activity levels of advanced administrative rights holders (proposed close 21 May 2013)
- Harassement, intimidation and WP's rules infringements and abuse by French WP's administrator JPS68 and others
- Protection of Users in the Wikis against Abuses and Mobbing
- Sysop (Ferhengvan) abuse on the Kurdish Wiktionary
- Administrators' abuses and harassments in the German Wiktionary
- X!'s Edit Counter
- Sysop (Fastily) abuse on Commons
- Scope of Ombudsman Commission
- Feel persecuted by Danny B.
- Sysop (Yabancı) abuse on the Turkish Wikipedia
- Petition of HTTPS default
- 2013 issues on Croatian Wikipedia
- Interproject links interface
2014Edit
- Wikimedia Commons interwiki prefix
- Global ban for DanielTom
- Danny B.’s abuse of admin rights
- Wikimedia user group logos
- Abd's disruption on Wikiversity
- Privacy violation by TBloemink and JurgenNL
- Language proposal policy
- Creation of a global OTRS-permissions user group
- Required attributions of OpenStreetMap missing in slippy maps of French Wikipedia
- Sysop (Asmen) abuse on the Zazaki Wikipedia
- Global sysops on Fiji Hindi Wikipedia
- Sheriff right Proposal
- Distinguishing Wikimedia Foundation staff accounts for official actions and personal use
- On a scale of billions
- Scores for Wikisource
- Mission(s) policy
2015Edit
- Inactive Global bot accounts
- Global Interface editors group policy
- Sysop abuse on the Turkish Wikipedia
- Wikimedia user groups approval process and agreements - Spring 2015
- Global file deletion review
- Restore normal editing permissions on all mobile sites
- Global block for Orange ranges (2015)
- Sysop (Diego Grez) abuse on Scots Wikipedia
- Administrator's abuse of authority by Lilitik22 in Armenian WP
- Global ban for Tobias Conradi
- Confirmation of stewards
2016Edit
2016-2020Edit
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2018Edit
- Requests for comment/Racism at Azerbaijani Wikipedia started 2018, closed 2019, follow-up Requests for comment/Do something about azwiki
- Requests for comment/Administrator abuse on the EO Wiktionary started 2018, closed 2020 as unsuccesfull, follow-up Requests for comment/Resolve massive copyright infringement on Wiktionary in Esperanto
2020Edit
- Amendment of CheckUser policy and Oversight policy, closed as unsuccessful on 21 June.
- The regulation on Vietnamese Wikipedia opposed Checkuser policy of Wikimedia Foundation, closed on 21 June, the problem was addressed by the Ombudsman Commission.