Wikipedia:Requests for comment/History and geography

The following discussions are requested to have community-wide attention:

Talk:Francisco Franco

Question: Should the "Fascism" sidebar and "fascist" categories such as "Spanish fascists", "Christian fascists" and "Fascist rulers" be included in this article? Beyond My Ken (talk) 17:52, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

Talk:Uyghur genocide

What changes should be made to the first sentence of this article?

• Option A: Change the first sentence to The Uyghur genocide is the series of ongoing human rights abuses committed by the government of China against Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang.
• Option B: Change the first sentence to "The Chinese government has committed a series of ongoing human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang, often characterized as genocide."
• Option B2 Change the first sentence to "Since 2014, the Chinese government has committed a series of ongoing human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang, often characterized as genocide."
• Option C: Change the first sentence to The allegations of oppression of the Uighur ethnic group, that some Western academics have characterized as a genocide, constitute a series of alleged human rights abuses committed by the government of China against Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang
• Option D: Replace the current first sentence with some other descriptive sentence.
• Option E: Leave the first sentence as-is.

— Mhawk10 (talk) 20:49, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

Talk:Ukrainian crisis

Should Ukrainian crisis be a disambiguation page? (Rather than an article on the 2014 crisis that resulted in the Russian annexation of Crimea.)

Robert McClenon (talk) 22:35, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Talk:Ghurid dynasty

Should the current map () in the infobox of the Ghurid dynasty article be replaced by this map: ? पाटलिपुत्र Pat (talk) 14:00, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Talk:Founding Fathers of the United States

Are the sources being used sufficient for declaring signers of a particular document "Founding Fathers"? Allreet (talk) 16:54, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Talk:Gallican

Should this disambiguation page contain entries for France, Gaul and Roman Gaul? Srnec (talk) 05:19, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Talk:Martin Luther King Jr.

Is it permissible to use "African American" or "Black American" in the lead sentence? Sundayclose (talk) 22:36, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lead section

How should dualled place names generally be presented in an articles lede and infobox, when the dual name is not the common name?

A: As at Uluru - Both individual names and dual name in the lede as WP:ALTNAMES, with the title as the leading name. Both individual names in infobox.

B: As at Disentis - Both individual names and dual name in lede as WP:ALTNAMES, with the title as the leading name. Dual name in infobox.

C: As at Bradshaw Sound - Only the dual name in lede, dual name in infobox.

The RFC is held at this central location as it affects articles about places in Australia, France, New Zealand, and Switzerland, but it is not intended to alter the MOS. The context of the RFC is ongoing debate about the ideal format, which this RFC is intended to resolve in a consistent manner. 03:03, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Talk:Banaras Hindu University

Can Lord Hardinge, and Harcourt Butler be termed as the founders of the university, for they laid the foundation stone, and presented the bill in parliament, as then Education Minister and Viceroy respectively?

Please see Related talk User4edits (talk) 13:22, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Talk:2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement

Should Zangezur corridor be merged into 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement (this page)? See filer's original question for details. El_C 22:17, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Talk:House system at the California Institute of Technology

The names of two buildings, the South Houses and North Houses, have been capitalized in this article since it was created in 2005. There have recently been discussions and edits proposing that these terms should be lowercase. The disagreement arises from whether these building names are proper nouns, and whether the sources using capitals constitute a "substantial majority".

According to MOS:CAPS, "In English, proper names, which can be either single words or phrases, are typically capitalized," and "Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia." This RfC applies to this article as well as the related articles History of the Caltech house system, Campus of the California Institute of Technology, and California Institute of Technology.

Please !vote whether to retain uppercase or change to lowercase. Antony–22 (^talk⁄_contribs) 03:42, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

Talk:Nestorian rebellion

Should the article subject be changed from Nestorian to Assyrian? I explained my reasoning on the talk page;

the main source used in this article "The Emergence of Kurdish Nationalism and the Sheikh Said Rebellion, 1880–1925" states the people were Assyrian. "One of these was the Assyrian (Nestorian) rebellion of 3-4 September 1924 of Beyt Sebab, which, as indicated above, was itself very much related to the Sheikh Said rebellion." Nestorian is a theology of Christianity that is incorrect and does not apply to Assyrians and was incorrectly used sometimes to describe them. The Assyrian people page explains this as well: Assyrian_people

1. Yes
2. No

TukultīApilEšarra (talk) 01:24, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

Talk:Sri Lanka Armed Forces

Shall the content proposed below, on human rights violations, in either of the two forms proposed below, be added to the article?

Robert McClenon (talk) 20:10, 9 January 2022 (UTC)