Wikipedia:Update/1/Content policy changes, 2015

4th Quarter 2015

  • Wikipedia:Article titles
    • New subsection, WP:TITLE#Name changes, expanding on a sentence above this subsection: "Sometimes, the subject of an article will undergo a change of name. When this occurs, COMMONNAME still applies, but we give extra weight to sources written after the name change is announced. If the sources written after the change is announced routinely use the "new" name, Wikipedia should follow suit and change relevant titles to match. If, on the other hand, sources written after the name change is announced continue to use the "old" name, Wikipedia should continue to do so as well, per WP:COMMONNAME."


3rd Quarter 2015




  • Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not
    • In WP:NOT#Wikipedia is not a directory, added: "Simple listings without context information. Examples include, but are not limited to: listings of business alliances, clients, competitors, employees (except CEOs, supervisory directors and similar top functionaries), equipment, estates, offices, products and services, sponsors, subdivisions and tourist attractions. Information about relevant single entries with encyclopedic information should be added as sourced prose. Lists of creative works in a wider context are permitted."
    • In WP:NOT#Wikipedia is not a crystal ball, added: [Certain scientific extrapolations are considered to be encyclopedic, such as chemical elements documented by IUPAC before isolation in the laboratory,] "provided that scientists have made significant non-trivial predictions of their properties."
    • WP:NOT#Wikipedia is not censored was rewritten.
2nd Quarter 2015

No significant changes to the policies this quarter.

1st Quarter 2015