Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Wikipedia style and naming

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For countries that were struck by Iran, what label should we use for them in the Infobox?

Attacked by Iran
Defensive only
Spillover
Others

This label alone is a particular point for edit wars (ish), as I've seen this label being changed constantly nhals8 08:12, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Vietnam

Maybe it's time to revise WP:VIETPLACE? Given that Vietnam has implemented a new local government system since July 2025, the current convention – which applies to cities (thành phố), towns (thị xã), urban districts (quận) and rural districts (huyện), all of which were abolished after the administrative reform – no longer works.

Some issues to consider are:

Naming conventions for former cities, towns and districts:
- All district (quận and huyện) articles currently have the word "district" appended after the placename. This is fine and we can leave them as it is.
- But most of the cities and towns are currently still the primary topic (e.g.: Thủ Dầu Một, Mỹ Tho, Bắc Giang, Hạ Long, Đồng Hới, Đông Hà...). This makes little sense since they no longer exists. Should they be changed to "Placename (city/town)" instead?
Wards/communes named after the former cities, towns and districts (e.g. Thủ Dầu Một, Ho Chi Minh City, Mỹ Tho, Đồng Tháp, Bắc Giang, Bắc Ninh...). Should they be the primary topic? Or there's no primary topic for these cases?
Places named after people when there's no article on the person it's named after (e.g. Dương Minh Châu, Trần Văn Thời, Lục Sĩ Thành, Hồ Đắc Kiện...). One issue with this kind of placename in Vietnam is, they are mostly the exact name of the person, rather than just taking their first name or last name of the person like other countries? Therefore, I personally think that leaving the title as it is can be misleading, since it can obviously refer to the person, not the place. Maybe appending the province's name after the place's name?

Kynguyenvuonminh (talk) 15:50, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Categories, lists, and navigation templates

There hasn't been any clear guidance on whether navboxes with an arbitrary number of ranked entries should be allowed. Templates such as this have been deleted in the past but others remain.

Should the following be added to the guideline:

Sections in navboxes should be finite and not include an arbitrary number of ranked entries. That is: navbox entries should not use an arbitrary number as its threshold or inclusion criterion. In other words: an arbitrary cutoff should not be used when deciding how many entries to include in the navbox itself or navbox section.

09:24, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Talk:Ashkenazi Jews

Should this article make the following statement in WP:WikiVoice?

Like other Jewish ethnic groups, the Ashkenazim originate from the Israelites and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah.

إيان (talk) 11:57, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Template talk:Interlanguage link

Should the documentation for {{ill}} be revised to either remove the statement that "more than 2 or 3 links are very rarely recommended" or to indicate that while some editors believe this to be the case, other editors believe that attempting to "curate" the list of languages in this manner is counter-productive? Fabrickator (talk) 02:10, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Hong Kong

This RfC is intended to discuss whether the sovereign state should be included when Hong Kong is mentioned in templates. —👑PRINCE of EREBOR📜 00:57, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums

When an article title includes the name of a band (or other musical act) in parentheses, how should definite titles ("the") before the name be treated?

Option A: capitalize "The", eg Zombie (The Cranberries song)
Option B: lowercase "the", eg Zombie (the Cranberries song)
Option C: remove "the", eg Zombie (Cranberries song)

Popcornfud (talk) 04:23, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (royalty and nobility)

Should we remove WP:SOVEREIGN's point #5 or amend it to sanction the format Henry II of Champagne instead of Henry II, Count of Champagne, etc? 22:56, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

Talk:Operation Cedar Falls

Edit: User is reverting my edits to campaign box, I am RFCing this edit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Operation_Cedar_Falls&diff=1339950814&oldid=1339730550

The formatting of this campaign battle template is irregular and inconsistent compared to the standard format of other types of wars. I noticed most edits are being reverted and blocked by a user. Several articles in this conflict seem to have similar issues with having a consistent format or following template conventions.

A second issue is wounded figures are missing despite being found in the article itself.

I would suggest this campaign box be edited to follow the format of Siege of Mariupol. In particular the casualties section and figures for non-combatants, including internal relocations.

Summerhall fire (talk) 14:49, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

Talk:Greyhound racing

What level of coverage and what structure are appropriate in the main article for welfare, lifecycle, and regulatory oversight, consistent with WP:NPOV, WP:DUE, and WP:SUMMARYSTYLE? JasonGen (talk) 14:01, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

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