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Close the welcoming policy RfC

Moved from Meta:Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat#Close the welcoming policy RfC. – Phương Linh (T · C · CA · L · B) 04:17, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

Requests for comment/Welcoming policy has been open for over half a year and should be closed. Hopefully this is the right place to ask. Aaron Liu (talk) 03:23, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

For the record, a closure was previously requested in March by Pppery, and (it looks like) declined for then by Johannnes89, due to issues around notifications of affected wikis. (non-stew comment) Best, ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 07:22, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

I didn’t explicitly decline the requests, they‘ve been automatically archived after 30 days without further replies. But I still believe that all wikis affected by the RfC should be notified per Requests for comment/Policy#Initiating an RFC. Some random users on meta deciding something about local communities without their involvement / a chance for them to offer their perspective feels wrong even without considering the RfC policy. @Aaron Liu fyi. Johannnes89 (talk) 08:19, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

thanks for correcting me :) ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 10:14, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. Do you know a way to find a list of wikis that use such automatic welcoming? Aaron Liu (talk) 17:47, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

Truly automatic could be found in configuration, however I think from that discussion that broader sense of "automatic" here includes user-managed bots and scripts? — xaosflux ^Talk 18:39, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

I guess one way might be to create a new account, run User:Krinkle/Tools/Global SUL, and see what wikis have left a note on its talk page after (e.g.) a week. ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 18:52, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

Projects that use NewUserMessage extension can be found here. – DreamRimmer ■ 01:25, 8 July 2025 (UTC)