Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Maths, science, and technology

Biology and related

• Talk: Virago: Whether the term "virago" is a concept in anthropology. 23:29, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:Female_Nobel_Prize_laureates — A dispute exists as to the neutrality of one section of this article.

Mathematics

Mathematics RFC's should also be cross-posted and announced at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics

• Talk:Arabic numerals- Heated dispute over content changes and revisions with major parties not discussing the issue but just repeatedly reverting. Peyna 16:27, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

See also Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_comment/Roylee for a similar dispute. ---CH 01:11, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Clinical and medical topics

• Talk:Chi Machine - A device that "oxygenates" the body and supposedly heals a lot of things. Originally presented as fact. Claims and references were added, but the original editor keeps reverting them. 13:42, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:Condom - a user has repeatedly added information claiming that talc on condoms was linked to cancer, that condoms had known carcinogen benzene in them, that pores in condoms were larger than the "so-called HIV", etc.08:08, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:Zombie - request for comments, a user believes "there is a realistic zombie threat that might happen". 18:43, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:Natasha Demkina - — POV conflict between two editors, one of which appears to be a primary source on the topic. A second editor who appears to have a passive involvement in the topic has altered the content to denigrate the research and the researchers, as well as the credentials and validity of the primary source. I'm not familiar with the research or the participants, and hoping someone with more familiarity can shed some insight. 17:53, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:MMR vaccine - Should the external webpage whale.to be included on this and other vaccine-related pages? Prior discussion about the topic and summary included on this talk page. 19:42, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:Penis - Discussion is ongoing about whether to remove one of the images of the glans penis from the page. One editor keeps removing it for what are clearly censorship/prurience issues. Other editors are responding — understandably — by restoring the picture because Wikipedia is not censored for the protection of minors. A third opinion is that the picture itself is inappropriate not because of a desire to censor, but because it is a poor photo, there are already other photos on the page that do a better job of illustrating the glans, and the number of photos on the page is making the layout of the page ugly. 15:02, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:E. Fuller Torrey — edit conflict between two people, one of whom is aligned with an anti-psychiatry advocacy group, over how to adequately portray Torrey and his work in psychiatry. Neutral eyes needed. 03:53, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
• præpuce —A dispute exists at præpuce about whether the præpuce helps protect the protective properties against heat cold, mechanical, et cetera, to such structures as the glans, meatus, frænulum, its own inner smooth and ridge mucosa, et cetera. One side claims it does, while the other side claims that the præpuce is devoid of function. The discussion on the talkpage can be found here: Præpuce . This topic was entered into the RFC November 5, 2005

Physical science

Physics RFC's should also be cross-posted and announced at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Physics

• Talk:Green Fireballs Please check on the neutrality and accuracy. 04:59, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

• Talk:False Doppler – Long dispute about the validity of the term "false doppler". 14:52, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Telecommunications and digital technology

• Talk:Gnu/linux - Basically boils down to whether Gnu/linux should redirect to Linux or GNU/Linux_naming_debate. 00:20, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:Blue screen of death#Foo Screen of Death merge - Should the various other Screens of Death be merged into Blue screen of death? 23:59, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
• Ken Kutaragi - disageements about Sony Computer Entertinment losses, POV editions, Kutaragi be acused to be responsible of Sony Corp losses, POV about Sony board of directions changes, page protected today because a revert war just emerge. --Brazil4Linux 23:23, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Technology and engineering

• Talk:Depleted uranium which version best reflects Wikipedia policy, is more factual, and is NPOV Old Version or Revised Version03:55, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:Motorized bicycle#Merger: The merger of moped with motorized bicycle 22:52, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:Timeline of Motorized bicycle history and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Timeline of Motorized bicycle history: For the article Timeline of Motorized bicycle history it has been put in the deletion process contrary to WP:RFC. "The first resort should always be to discuss the problem with the other user. Try to resolve the dispute on your own first." Some Users believe the creator has a point to prove. Debate also concerns the relevance of facts being submited (inclusion vs. noninclusion) and the idea of duplicating information from a timeline within the article motorized bicycle. Discussions and edits are escallating from mediocre wikietiquette to bad. 22:52, 25 November 2005 (UTC)