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  2. Wikipedia:Edit requests - Wikipedia

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    Propose a specific change on a talk page. Don't add an edit request template yet. Once there is consensus for the change, and any final details have been worked out, put a template on the talk page along with a short, clear explanation. A user who can make the edit will notice the template has been added, and will respond to the request.

  3. Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 460 - Wikipedia

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    Specifically, the templates {Centurybox} and {Millenniumbox} produce text that uses numerals for numbers under nine, which violates the MOS. The templates cause these style violations to propagate across Wikipedia. I'd like for the templates to be changed so that they use words instead of numerals for numbers one through nine.

  4. Face negotiation theory - Wikipedia

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    In other words, facework is the sum of all messages received by someone that helps them gain or lose face. [4] With these concepts and frameworks, the face-negotiation theory investigates intercultural conflict styles. The perceived or actual conflict differences revolved around three issues: content, relational, and identity. [14]

  5. Wikipedia talk:Speedy deletion/Archive 35 - Wikipedia

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    This proposal is based upon the assumption that administrators are able to confirm real world identities. This is a false assumption. Just because someone registers the account User:Elvis Presley does not mean they are the Elvis Presley mentioned in the article. Such a user, in real life, may not even be named Elvis Presley and administrator ...

  6. Wikipedia : Village pump (proposals)/Archive 138

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    Proposal: maintain a list of public sandboxes in a form bots can read, rather than rely on templates being left in place. I noticed that for two and a half days , one of the tutorial sandboxes was a redirect to Field Tracing , which must have been confusing for the affected newcomers.

  7. Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 216 - Wikipedia

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    I would propose to develop a mechanism to expand the shortened URL to its full form. For example, either write a bot that automatically expands certain short URL patterns upon user publishing an edit, and if the expanded URL hits the spam blacklist, revert the edit. There are already external Spam blacklist search tools . Or,

  8. Politeness theory - Wikipedia

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    The final politeness strategy outlined by Brown and Levinson is the indirect strategy; This strategy uses indirect language and removes the speaker from the potential to be imposing. The strategy of doing off-record is to express something general or different than the speaker's true meaning and relies on the hearer's interpretation to have the ...

  9. Proposal (business) - Wikipedia

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    A proposal puts the buyer's requirements in a context that favors the seller's products and services, and educates the buyer about the seller's capability to satisfy their needs. [ 2 ] There are three distinct categories of business proposals: formally solicited, informally solicited, unsolicited.