Wikipedia:Village pump

Welcome to the village pump. This set of pages is used to discuss the technical issues, policies, and operations of Wikipedia, and is divided into five village pump sections.

This page is not for discussions. Please use the table below to find the most appropriate section to post in, or post in the miscellaneous section.

Village pump sections
Policy watch To discuss existing and proposed policies	Technical watch To discuss technical issues. For wiki software bug reports, use Phabricator	Proposals watch To discuss new proposals that are not policy-related. See also: perennial proposals.	Idea lab watch To discuss ideas before proposing them to the community and attempt to find solutions to issues	Miscellaneous watch To post messages that do not fit into any other category
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Other help and discussion locations

I want...	Where to go
...help using or editing Wikipedia	Help desk
...to find my way around Wikipedia	Department directory
...specific facts (e.g. Who was the first pope?)	Reference desk
...constructive criticism from others for a specific article	Peer review
...help resolving a specific article edit dispute	Requests for comment
...to comment on a specific article	Article's talk page
...to view other Wikimedia projects	Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
...to learn about citing Wikipedia in a bibliography	Citing Wikipedia
...to report sites that copy Wikipedia content	Mirrors and forks
...to ask questions or make comments	Questions

Archiving

Discussions older than seven days (the date of last made comment) are moved to a subpage of each section (called section name/Archive n). These discussions can then be moved to a relevant talk page if appropriate. To view these archives and the history before September 26, 2004, see Wikipedia:Village pump archive.

See also

• For ongoing discussions and current requests, see Wikipedia:Dashboard.
• Community bulletin board