Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Maths, science, and technology
The following discussions are requested to have community-wide attention: You can sign up to receive a user talk page invitation to participate in discussions of interest to you, see Wikipedia:Feedback request service
There is ongoing disagreement about how to phrase the following sentence in the article:
- Current version: "Hubbard established an organization to promote his pseudoscientific ideas about the mind, which he called Dianetics, in 1950."
- Alternative proposal: "Hubbard established an organization to promote Dianetics in 1950, a system widely described by scholars as pseudoscientific."
The core issue is whether Wikipedia should state in its own voice that Hubbard promoted "his pseudoscientific ideas", or whether the pseudoscience characterization should be attributed to reliable sources in a separate clause. The earlier discussion is at Talk:Scientology § Wikivoice.
Input from uninvolved editors is welcome to help determine the most neutral and policy-compliant phrasing.
- Option 1: Keep the current version.
- Option 2: Change it to the alternative proposal.
14:52, 31 October 2025 (UTC)
What should the Dingo be listed as in the taxobox?
- A. As a member of the dog species Canis familiaris, Linnaeus 1758 (example [1])
- B. As the species Canis dingo Meyer, 1793 (example [2])
- C. As the subspecies Canis lupus dingo Meyer, 1793 (example [3])
- D. As the subspecies Canis familiaris dingo Meyer, 1793
- E. As the subspecies Canis lupus familiaris Linnaeus, 1758 (treating the dog as a subspecies of the grey wolf).
- F. Omit a taxobox entirely
Hemiauchenia (talk) 23:39, 29 October 2025 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Writing articles with large language models
Should this proposal be accepted as a guideline? (Please consider reading the FAQ above before commenting.) Cremastra (talk · contribs) 20:56, 24 October 2025 (UTC)
Should VSCode be described as a source-code editor, or should it be described as an IDE? NasssaNser 04:17, 18 October 2025 (UTC)