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Gun show loophole has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 20:45, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

In addition to predictions and polls, going forward, can we add a section on "Fundraising" to political campaign articles? Discuss. Bearian (talk) 12:45, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

If there are reliable sources on the matter, why not? On a related matter, the German Wikipedia has a specific section for "finances" on each article about a party (see de:Wikipedia:Formatvorlage Partei). --Friniate ✉ 15:47, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2023 Guinea-Bissau coup attempt#Requested move 28 December 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vestrian24Bio 10:13, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

FYI if you, like me, checked this RM to find it already closed, the closer has reverted for a few days to allow more participation, as they hadn't realized this and other WikiProjects had been alerted so recently prior to their close. --Pinchme123 (talk) 05:31, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I have nominated Douglas MacArthur for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 17:06, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

There is a discussion at WT:MOSBIO § Tallinn, Soviet Union, regarding the birth and death place names of Estonian/Latvian/Lithuanians outside of infoboxes. GoodDay (talk) 16:51, 12 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi all,

I am curious to know what other editors think of the page Political career of David Paterson. Much of the information is duplicated from David Paterson, and some of it isn't even about his political career (him being at home during 9/11, his arrest).

Would this be viewed as an unnecessary fork? I was thinking of nominating for deletion but wanted a second opinion as to whether I am perhaps overthinking it. aesurias (ping me in your reply, or I won't see it) (talk) 09:47, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Courtesy ping: Aesurias. It certainly looks redundant, given that the main bio is almost entirely politics. I'd maybe start a thread on the bio talk page to discuss a merge - post a link to the thread on the 'political career' talk page too. AndyTheGrump (talk) 10:05, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:ICE recruitment during the second Trump administration Alexandraaaacs1989 (talk) 18:07, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Alexandraaaacs1989: You might also want to examine the degree to which federal law enforcement officials in other agencies and capacities have been reassigned to ICE. I have heard at least anecdotal accounts through friends and colleagues of FBI and DEA agents Doing analytical work at desk jobs suddenly finding themselves assigned to work in the streets with a vest and a gun. BD2412 T 21:44, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply] Thanks for the pointer, I'll look into this. Alexandraaaacs1989 (talk) 22:09, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

There is a requested move discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 January 14#Category:Members of the Alabama House of Representatives that may be of interest to this WikiProject. You are invited to weigh in on moving Category:Members of the Alabama House of Representatives to Category:Alabama state representatives so that it's consistent with Category:Alabama state senators. Woko Sapien (talk) 16:59, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Nikolai Podgorny has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 15:02, 17 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I would like to request more people from this wikiproject to voice their opinions on a discussion. I would prefer for "Sunni Region" to be the only and sole name in usage for the article, but someone else has stated that both the names "Sunni Region" and "West Iraq" should be used together.

Said discussion can be found here: Talk:Sunni_Region#Name_consistancy_for_the_article GuesanLoyalist (talk) 01:28, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Australian politics#RfC: Inclusion of minor parties and independents in election infoboxes, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Qwerty123M (talk) 03:42, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I've been making some major expanisions to the Politics of Mozambique page and I noticed the section on elections and transition to democracy had been copypasted from U.S State Department website with no citation. I removed the offending section in elections but tried to reword and add sources to the transition to democracy section.

Anyways, could someone check the section "Civil war and transition to democracy" to make sure it's changed enough and not too closely paraphrased to the State Department? (Source 5)

I'd also appreciate if someone could review the page since I don't think it's start class anymore, but I'm awful at judging my own work. Thanks! Urchincrawler (talk) 00:35, 24 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 04:12, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Minority Treaties has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 04:02, 29 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Sabaeans in the Horn of Africa#Requested move 29 January 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. 𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨 Abo Yemen (𓃵) 12:52, 29 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

There is a discussion at Talk:Hindutva#Lead paragraph, regarding the association of Hindutva and European fascism. Interested editors are requested to join. — EarthDude (Talk) 12:53, 31 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I have nominated League of Nations for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 00:10, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]