Wikipedia talk:Centralized discussion

The open letter to the WMF

So this is still open, and people are still signing it. Thing is, it isn't a discussion, people are just adding signatures. Technically that shouldn't really be on CENT at all, but clearly that ship has sailed. My question would be at what point is it to be de-listed and archived? Just Step Sideways ^{from this world ..... today} 22:53, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

I see it's been dealt with now. Just Step Sideways ^{from this world ..... today} 21:08, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

Elon Musk Statement

Just letting you know that Elon Musk's statement about Wikipedia is causing people to donate. I just donated. Keep up the great work. 76.104.102.155 (talk) 22:19, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

Archive?

Does there exist, anywhere, an archive of all the items that have been added to the central discussion notice? Apart from dumpster-diving them out of the template history, of course. jp×g🗯️ 01:27, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Archive. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 10:02, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

D'oh! Thanks. jp×g🗯️ 21:36, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

Should we really be telling people to create subpages of this talk page to have discussions?

There are a goodly number of subpages of this page (apart from the archives) -- 71 of them to be exact, see this search. Most seem to have been created an extremely long time ago. The same seems to be true for the same search in talk space; search including both. Likewise, most seem to be from an extremely long time ago (eg the '00s). All of the recent ones seem to have been made in error, or else weird stuff like Wikipedia:Centralized_discussion/Color_Bars (created by a user and then never responded to by anyone, in all likelihood never looked at).

I note that, on the main page here, we are telling people to create these subpages. Is this a good idea? I would say no, since there are already a large number of venues available for a general discussion (e.g. the village pump or a dedicated RfC subpage, and if you really want eyes on it, you can ad it to the CENT template) -- I don't see the need for another venue (especially one that's almost never used). For this reason I am going to remove this instruction from the main CENT page; I expect this to be uncontroversial but I'm posting here so that others may have a chance to object or clarify or agree or disagree or whatever. jp×g🗯️ 21:43, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

Good call. (I'd never even noticed that was there.) The modern equivalent is creating a subpage of either a village pump or Wikipedia:Requests for comment, but I'm neutral on whether that's worth mentioning. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 23:55, 18 March 2025 (UTC)