User:Ned Scott

I'm not that active these days, but I'm still around. Feel free to send me an extra poke here or via e-mail for anything, trivial or important (or to just say hi).
E-mail: Special:Emailuser/Ned Scott

I live in Arizona, USA. My main focus on Wikipedia is working on articles about entertainment and fiction (particularly anime and science fiction, which is probably not a big surprise), though I do enjoy working on much more than just those kinds of articles. Lately I've been more active in meta space than in article space, focusing on discussions and technical features such as templates. I'm also very interested in applying some of the methodology of Wikipedia to other wikis around the internet, which lead me to start up WikiProject Transwiki.

Unfortunately my personal time is being consumed by some other stuff lately, and I'm not nearly as active as I once was. Don't let that stop you from leaving me a message or asking for assistance if you feel I can be of some help! I will always be a Wikipedian, and look forward to always having at least some level of contribution to this great project. I also plan on getting more active again to at least finish a number of projects/ideas that I've either had or was involved in.

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Transwiki- An effort to help with the technical issues when reusing Wikipedia content.

User:Ned Scott/transwiki - A rough rough draft and collection of thoughts for guidelines and advice about transwiking articles.

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RfCs - Art, architecture, literature and media

Talk:Bitch (album)

Should the second sentence of the lede paragraph read:

A. It was released through Nice Life and Atlantic Records on June 5, 2026.

or

B. It was released through Nice Life Recording Company and Atlantic Records on June 5, 2026.

Please enter A to shorten the name of the recording company or B to use the full name of the recording company, or an equivalent, with a brief statement.

Robert McClenon (talk) 17:04, 24 June 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard

How reliable is CBS News under the leadership of Bari Weiss? Prior discussion here.

The options are:

Generally reliable
Additional considerations needed
Generally Unreliable
Deprecate

Generalrelative (talk) 16:18, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

Talk:Clop (erotic fan art)

Should this page include hardcore pornographic images (such as File:Czu_MLP_clop_Wikimare.png or File:Lead shits in Crunchy's mouth by Lordcuckness.png)? Note that this is not about the softcore images also present on the page. ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk) 22:30, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Talk:Maurice Ravel

Shall the infobox shown below be added to the article on Maurice Ravel?

Robert McClenon (talk) 22:13, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

Talk:List of largest church buildings

This RfC follows the discussion immediately above.

Under the table's current definitions of internal and external floor area, how should the disputed area figures for St Peter's Basilica and the Basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida be treated? This RfC ended and was restarted to seek additional comments. --Podz00 (talk) 19:45, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Talk:Christina Aguilera

Should the lead infobox image for Christina Aguilera be changed from the current image (Option A) to a technically superior option like Option C or Option E? Enakpat18 (talk) 16:00, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

Talk:Doctor Who

Should the infobox at Doctor Who continue to use open-ended date ranges for the modern series (e.g. "2005–present"), or conclude the current date ranges (e.g. "2005–2025") following recent news around the show's future and upcoming invitation to tender process?

Diff showing proposed change: [1]
Template:Infobox television documentation ("last_aired" parameter section most relevant)
Pertinent sources on show's status raised during prior discussion: [2], [3], [4] 05:56, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard

Given that Idolator is defunct and no longer accessible from Wikipedia because of the archive.today blacklist, should it be deprecated as a reliable source?----3family6 (Talk to me|See what I have done) 23:59, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Talk:Black Adam

My RfC is because me and Kahndaqi can't seem to get a consensus on adding the character's real name and would like a third comment. Thus far, the argument boils down to this: I have added "Theo Ramses Djoser Teth-Adam" in the real name portion (see here) because in Black Adam (2022) #1, the character expresses his full name in the first few pages of the comic (here). It is clear, demonstratable, and easy to conclude in my opinion. Kahndaqi has reverted these edits, stating in edit summaries (here and here) and above that they believe that it is considered a "editorial mistake", "outdated", "non-canoical" and should be ommitted. I countered, beleving the information to be both considerable and relevant for the reasons above. I'd like for another party to chime in and give their thoughts onto this. CosmicMordecai (talk) 03:37, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Talk:List of best-selling video game franchises

There are two questions:

How many entries should be on the list and by what criteria should it be limited?
Does adding the sales for each game of a franchise to get the total sales of said franchise constitute WP:OR?

--Nihlus1 (talk) 16:55, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Talk:The Furious

First of all, I want to thank Prince of Erebor and all the other editors for their contributions on this article. So about the film's country/countries, while I do think some of Prince of Erebor's concerns and reasonings are valid, but I also think they are very overly stringent on what to include in terms of countries of origin. If you look at other Wikipedia articles, especially many of those Hollywood productions that includes both United States and United Kingdom as country, none of these articles were met with the same type of scrutiny. Many films articles on Wikipedia includes multiple countries, such as many European productions and Asian productions.--Febetsh23 (talk) 09:35, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

RFCs - Wikipedia style, referencing, layout and WikiProjects

Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)

Should the new Image Carousel feature, deployed on all pages in mobile view, be

A. Removed
B. Made opt-in only
C. Kept default enabled for everyone

Fram (talk) 15:06, 24 June 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aviation

Part 1 - How should airports be listed in airport and airline destination lists? Note in all examples, the "Airport" suffix is dropped.

List the official airport name (eg. Sydney Kingsford Smith)
List as named by Wikipedia (ie. the name of the airport's Wikipedia article) (eg. Sydney Airport becomes "Sydney")
List the airport by the city, town or municipality (in order of preference) that the airport is physically located in (eg. Sydney Airport is listed as "Sydney", Luton Airport would be named "Luton", instead of currently "London-Luton", and Charles de Gaulle Airport would be listed as "Roissy".)
Use the name of the primary city served by the airport, to be determined by consensus in individual cases where there is dispute (eg. Luton Airport primarily serves London, therefore it would be listed as London Luton. Where an airport serves multiple cities, consensus should be reached on which is the primary city.)

Part 2 - How should cases be handled where multiple airports serve the same primary location (as determined by part 1)? For example, when Western Sydney Airport opens, the city of Sydney will have two airports serving it. How should they be differentiated? Note - in all cases the "primary region" is determined by the outcome of part 1.

Where one airport is outwith the primary region, list it differently (eg. Western Sydney Airport is located 27 miles from Sydney itself, so list it as "Luddenham" or "Badgerys Creek" instead
Disambiguate all airports in the same region using IATA codes - eg. "Sydney-SYD" and "Sydney-WSI"
Disambiguate all airports in the same region using the official airport name - eg. "Sydney Kingsford-Smith" and "Sydney-Western"
Disambiguate all airports in the same region using the specific locality the airport is located in (eg. "Sydney-Botany Bay" and "Sydney-Luddenham")
A combination of options 2, 3 and 4 depending on consensus for the specific situations
Use a method similar to WP:COMMONNAME to determine the disambiguator, based on a commonly-used name from reliable independent sources
Do not disambiguate airports in the same primary region

Context: this RfC has been started as there has been repeated disagreement on how the existing style guide for airports should be implemented when writing destination lists. I've posted here rather than at the Airports WikiProject as this also affects airline destination lists. Danners430 _{tweaks made} 10:51, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

Template talk:Barack Obama series

Which image should be used in Template:Barack Obama series? 2x2x2x2x2 (talk) 01:03, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Astronomy

{{Infobox planet}} is the infobox template used for articles about planets, moons, and minor planets. Does the proposal below make sense and satisfy color accessibility? If not, what changes would you make? Be specific about any new colors you propose. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 18:30, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

Template talk:Infobox military conflict

This is an RfC proposing to deprecate the use of collages, whether created using {{Multiple image}} or compiled as a single image file, from use with military conflict infoboxes and similar. Cinderella157 (talk) 22:27, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

RFCs - Wikipedia policies, guidelines and proposals

MediaWiki talk:Createacct-username-help

Howdy hello folks. After yet another incident where someone's username had to be oversighted and their account abandoned because they signed up with their real name, we need to revisit the wording of this string.

I propose that we add the following sentence after the existing text: Avoid using your real name. (Why?), which would thus render the whole line as Your username is public and cannot be made private later. Avoid using your real name. (Why?). The link is to WP:REALNAME.

Credit to Asilvering for helping workshop the language. I would ask that folks not propose alternatives so that it is easy to assess consensus. Many variations have been workshopped in the past, such as 1, 2, 3, 4, so lets keep the comments here to support/oppose. 19:28, 24 June 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Non-free content

There have been articles about and whose titles are based on primarily death-related events, only ones that low-profile victims have been notable for, e.g. "Murder / Killing / Death / Shooting / Suicide of [a deceased low-profile/BIO1E victim]" articles. Also, such victims have been subject to WP:BIO1E/WP:BDP1E, both redirects to WP:NBIO. (Even recently deceased ones have been subject to WP:BDP, a redirect to notorious WP:BLP policy.) Before their own deaths, victims were photographed when those individuals were alive. Such photos have been used in such death-related articles whose titles also use the victims' names, i.e. "X of Y" (X = death-related; Y = victim's name).

Have usages of non-free pre-event/pre-death photos in such death-related articles been generally acceptable or unacceptable, and are such uses still acceptable or unacceptable? --George Ho (talk) 19:07, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

Template talk:Infobox military conflict

This is an RfC proposing to deprecate the use of collages, whether created using {{Multiple image}} or compiled as a single image file, from use with military conflict infoboxes and similar. Cinderella157 (talk) 22:27, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

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