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Talk:Political views of J. K. Rowling

Should this article characterise holocaust denial as one of Rowling's political views?

Background

Status quo ante bellum is no. Rowling did, however, make a tweet in March 2024 which, according to Vox, "appears to deny ... that trans people were targeted during the Holocaust." [1] The tweet: [2]. She also quoted another tweet [3] and asked for sources [4]. Some news sources reported this. One newspaper opinion characterised her views as holocaust denial. An edit was added to this page, adding a description of this to the article [5].

Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 12:28, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

Talk:2025 India–Pakistan conflict

Prior discussions and attempts at dispute resolution, fulfilling WP:RFCBEFORE, can be found here and here.

Should the following statement be included under the "India" subsection of the "Reactions" section?

Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi criticised Modi's acceptance of the ceasefire, alleging that it amounted to a surrender under pressure from Trump.

Sheriff | ☎ 911 | 22:03, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Military history

Should text at MOS:MILUNITNAME that advises all unit names include a parenthetical qualifier even when no other unit covered on Wikipedia uses that name be deleted for conflicting with article title policy? Mdewman6 (talk) 01:58, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Talk:AT&T Corporation

Which logo should be used in the infobox for AT&T Corporation? Emiya1980 (talk) 21:36, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Talk:2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests

Should the Safal Committee be mentioned ?

1. In the infobox and in the text of the article?
2. In the text of the article but not in the infobox?
3. No.

Please answer A,B, or C in the Survey with a brief statement. Please discuss in the Discussion section. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:25, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Talk:Parasnath

Please see diff 1313154152 which was offered as an improvement on this article on a prominent and notable geographical feature. This was not accepted by two other editors who have removed sourced content, possibly as they are of the view that the religious notability of the feature for one of two relevant religions/subcultures is most important. ChaseKiwi (talk) 10:20, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Talk:Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Should the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth article include a Polish Statehood template Template:Polish_statehood? PJK 1993 (talk) 11:53, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Talk:Tet Offensive

I recently changed the Outcomes Section from the "Viet Cong suffered catastrophic losses... etc."

To "Viet Cong suffered significant losses... etc"

A user reverted the change below.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tet_Offensive&diff=prev&oldid=1312724376

A user had reverted the change, but did not attempt to reconcile the different positions in the last thread. The previous outcome description had no clear evidence or references, and clear contradictions since neither the Viet Cong nor its method of insurgency was destroyed by the Tet Offensive as these results implied. This is inserting a POV perspective which contradicts historical records.

Reference for the basis for these changes is found below:

"At the end of 1967, approximately 225,000 Viet Cong and PAVN forces were in the south. Despite casualties taken, Viet Cong and PAVN forces numbered 251,000 by the end of 1968. The Tet Offensive had little impact on troop numbers, and the Viet Cong remained a viable fighting force until the end of the war."

Summerhall fire (talk) 06:38, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Talk:Spanish Empire

Should this article have a diachronic map? Bubba6t3411 (talk) 20:15, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

Talk:Imran Khan

Should we remove the Controversy section and place its content in relevant parts of the article body? Burrobert (talk) 16:12, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Weather

Should WikiProject Weather encourage the use of infobox collages for weather with standalone articles?

Brief background: Infobox images are an often-debated topic for weather articles, sometimes leading to edit wars. In fact, tropical cyclones has an extremely detailed ordering of what image should take precedent (WP:WPTC/IMG), due to how many edit wars have occurred. Very few weather articles currently contain infobox collages; four examples include 2020 California wildfires, Joplin tornado, Tornadoes of 2024, and the very recent July 2025 Central Texas floods. I am able to locate less than 20 weather articles with infobox collages. Some of the most notable weather disasters only display a single image in their infobox including these five examples: Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Maria, Tornadoes of 2025 and Hurricane Helene (along with Effects in North Carolina subpage). According to WP:COLLAGETIPS, "The great benefit of collages is that they allow an article to present multiple visuals for the topic. This makes them particularly useful for leads of broad subjects such as many cities, where using a single image could never be representative enough to suffice by itself."

Just in September 2025, Effects of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina and Hurricane Maria have both had infobox image debates and edit wars. To reduce edit wars, should infobox collages be more widely encouraged for all weather articles, should they be discouraged, or should be encouraged for certain types and discouraged for certain types? The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 22:13, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Talk:Hrvatska

The page Hrvatska should be redirected to Croatia because most people who type "Hrvatska" are looking for "Croatia". Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 10:28, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Talk:Afsharid Iran

For this article, which official name best complies with reliable sources & Wikipedia's policies? Please consider WP:OR, WP:SYNTH and focus on usage in reliable English-language sources. Krsnaquli ^(🙏) 01:49, 13 September 2025 (UTC)