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January 2017

Pending changes level 2 added 2 November 2016, archived 2 January 2017

Stand-alone lists – eligibility for nomination as Good Articles added 2 December 2016, archived 8 January 2017

Closing deletion discussions with low participation RfC opened 21 November 2016, added here 28 November 2016, removed 13 January 2017

Minimum time before tagging new articles for some types of speedy deletion RfC opened 2 January 2017, archived 17 January 2017

Hosting content from countries with no copyright relation with the U.S. RfC opened 21 December 2016, archived 17 January 2017

Allow FFD discussions to be closed as delete via non-admin closure RfC opened 28 December 2016, archived 17 January 2017

Make PC2 no longer available to admins RfC opened 19 January 2017, archived 27 January 2017

February 2017

Notability of beauty pageant participants added 11 January 2017, archived 11 February 2017

How editing restrictions are listed added 25 January 2017, archived February 14 2017

Notifying creators of pages nominated for speedy deletion added 29 January 2017, archived 14 February 2017

Notability of secondary schools added 8 January 2017, archived 19 February 2017

New wikitext editor added 30 January 2017, archived 23 February 2017

Unpatrol pages that have been moved added February 10 2017 , archived 23 February 2017

Investigating COI editing added 27 January 2017, archived 23 February 2017

New CSD: Article created to evade salted titles added 26 February 2017, archived 27 February 2017

March 2017

Routine file deletion added 24 February 2017, archived 2 March 2017

Future of Articles for Creation added 23 January 2017, archived 6 March 2017

Create LTA tool added 13 February 2017, archived 6 March 2017

Mandatory tagging of all refdesk pages and some refdesk questions added 9 February 2017, archived 10 March 2017

"Today's featured article" slot on the main page added 20 February 2017, archived 16 March 2017

Guidelines for recent year articles added 13 January 2017, archived 17 March 2017

"File autopatrolled" user right proposal added 24 February 2017, archived 20 March 2017

Future years – how far is too far? added 14 February 2017, archived 20 March 2017

Expansion of qualifications for IP Block Exemption added 26 February 2017, archived 20 March 2017

Applying proposed-deletion procedure to files added 5 March 2017, archived 23 March 2017

Guidelines for "joke" categories on user pages added 3 March 2017, archived 30 March 2017

Should the bureaucrats maintain the existing private mailing list for matters not suitable for on-wiki discussion? Added 30 March 2017, archived 31 March 2017

April 2017

Proposed: Minor change to inactivity policy notifications added 20 March 2017, archived 2 April 2017

Adminship following a clean start added 18 March 2017, archived 5 April 2017

Create "Wikipedia:Naming conventions (China and Taiwan)"? added 5 April 2017, archived 6 April 2017

Combining AfC reviewers and new page reviewers added 16 March 2017, archived 18 April 2017

Merging "Infobox single" and "Infobox song" added 17 March 2017, archived 18 April 2017

Wikimedia Movement 15 year strategy discussion added 18 March 2017, archived 23 April 2017

Remove speedy deletion criteria A7 and A9 Added 26 April 2017, archived 28 April 2017

Linking to details regarding the offline Medical Wikipedia app added 30 March 2017, archived 28 April 2017

Adopting a gender neutral default for policy, guidelines and help pages added 7 April 2017, archived 28 April 2017

May 2017

Proposed policy update on cosmetic edits done by bots added 26 March 2017, archived 3 May 2017

Recent policy changes about verifiability as a reason for inclusion added 9 April 2017, archived 3 May 2017

Which sister projects should appear in search results? added 14 April 2017, archived 2 May 2017

MOS:GENDERID for genderqueer people added 14 April 2017, archived 3 May 2017

Inclusivity of the criteria of "Wikipedia:Notability (sports)" added 23 April 2017 archived 3 May 2017

RFC to check global consensus about the sports notability guideline added 06 May 2017, archived 06 May 2017

2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections added 3 May 2017, archived 15 May 2017

Merging Infobox song and Infobox album added 10 May 2017, archived 16 May 2017

Acceptable non-free images of deceased persons added 6 May 2017, archived 17 May 2017

Banning and blocking policies added 10 May 2017, archived 19 May 2017

New merged song/single infobox, added 16 May 2017, archived 25 May 2017

Wikipedia and Net Neutrality added 22 May 2017, archived 29 May 2017

Unblocking after community-imposed block added 10 May 2017, archived 30 May 2017

June 2017

Revisions to the harassment policy, about non-editors added 17 May 2017, archived 5 June 2017

Lead wording/ titling of "Canvassing" guideline added 8 May 2017, archived 12 June 2017

Relationship between sports-specific criteria and general notability guideline added 12 June 2017, archived 13 June 2017

Wikimedia Movement 15 year strategy - themes added 13 May 2017, archived 14 June 2017

Inclusion of non-encyclopedic pages in mainspace as a technical workaround added 9 June 2017, archived 14 June 2017

2017 WMF Funds Dissemination Committee elections added 8 June 2017, archived 16 June 2017

Opt-out of search results from sister projects added 18 June 2017, archived 26 June 2017

"Assume good faith": upgrade to policy? added 18 June 2017, archived 27 June 2017

July 2017

Relocating RfCs added 26 June 2017, archived 6 July 2017

Adding {{Redirect category shell}} to redirects containing just one redirect template added 27 June 2017, archived 7 July 2017

Processing requests at WP:CHUU added 10 June 2017, archived 13 July 2017

Clarifying B4 consensus of the stale drafts RfC added 25 June 2017, archived 13 July 2017

RM discussion regarding "New York" and "New York State" added 7 July 2017, archived 19 July 2017

Guild or WikiProject of paid editors added 16 July 2017, archived 22 July 2017

Wikibooks in cross-wiki search results added 23 June 2017, archived 26 July 2017

Opening sentences of lead sections added 19 June 2017, archived 30 July 2017

Proposal to expand A7 to films and television shows added 29 July 2017, archived 31 July 2017

August 2017

Wikimedia referrer policy added 9 June 2017, archived 1 August 2017
Red links in infoboxes added 22 July 2017, archived 2 August 2017
Culturally-sensitive disclaimers added July 29, 2017, archived 5 August 2017
ANI reform RfC added 5 August 2017, archived 12 August 2017
Account Creators to mark new users as Confirmed users added 5 August 2017, archived 15 August 2017
Expand G13 to cover all old drafts in draftspace added 25 July 2017, archived 25 August 2017
WT:RY#RFC: guideline status of this project's inclusion added 2nd August 2017, closed 29 August 2017.
Automatically forming columns while using <references /> added 14 July 2017, archived 30 August 2017
Human Development Indices in Infobox country added 2 August 2017, archived 31 August 2017

September 2017

Modify proposed deletion policy added 3 September 2017, archived 4 September 2017
Speedy deletion criteria for undeclared paid editing added 19 July 2017, archived 9 September 2017
Moving articles to draft space or user space added 10 August 2017, archived 10 September 2017
Allowing exceptions to WP:CIRCULAR for Wikidata added 11 September 2017, archived 12 September 2017
Edit filter helper user right added 17 August 2017, archived 12 September 2017
New Event Coordinators user group added 18 August 2017, archived 18 September 2017
Amending media (books, films, etc) notability guidelines to accord with PSCI added 18 September 2017, archived 20 September 2017
A "not commentary" subsection in WP:NOTNEWS added 25 August 2017, archived 24 September 2017
CheckUser and Oversight appointments added 18 September 2017, archived 30 September 2017

October 2017

Arbitration Committee Election format added 9 September 2017, archived 2 October 2017
Academic notability guideline modification added 29 August 2017, removed 5 October 2017
Allowing Template Editors to indirectly edit Main Page added 13 October 2017, archived 15 October 2017
Unrecognized non-UN entities as bordering countries Added 20 September 2017, removed 19 October 2017
Enabling the Timeless skin added 18 October 2017, removed 19 October 2017
Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission nominations added 5 October 2017, archived 24 October 2017

November 2017

Non-language characters in usernames added 4 October 2017, archived 6 November 2017
Main Page link to WP:In the news/Candidates added 26 October 2017, archived 7 November 2017
"Levels of consensus" on WP:Consensus added 7 October 2017, archived 7 November 2017
Signature fields in infoboxes added 9 October 2017, archived 8 November 2017
Wikipedia:Reference desk/Guidelines added 18 October 2017, archived 8 November 2017
Allowing non-admin XfD closes to delete pages added 11 November 2017, archived 12 November 2017
RFA votes and questions; threaded discussion under votes added 13 October 2017, archived 15 November 2017
Self-nominations for the Arbitration Committee added 12 November 2017, archived 22 November 2017
Extended confirmed protection for RFA added 9 November 2017, archived 22 November 2017
Closing Wikipedia:Reference desk added 19 October 2017, archived 22 November 2017
WP:RAWDATA and sports practice added 25 October 2017, archived 23 November 2017
New "Interaction Timeline" tool added 19 October 2017, archived 28 November 2017

December 2017

NOTNEWS policy added 25 September 2017, archived 3 December 2017
Showing the metadata gadget to all readers added 10 November 2017, archived 3 December 2017
Vote in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections added 28 November 2017; archived 11 December 2017
Vote in the 2017 community wishlist survey added 28 November 2017, archived 13 December 2017
December 12th net-neutrality action added December 8 2017; archived December 13, 2017