Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Style issues

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The following discussions are requested to have community-wide attention:

• Talk:Tip (What should happen with this article? ) — This article contains an enormous list of descriptions of how tipping occurs in each country. Almost all of these are unsourced. Those that are sourced are to non–reliable sources such as DHL, a postal company that has no editorial process and no real expertise in the area of tipping customs. The article has been tagged with "needs sources" since August 2007. During that time someone split the page off to Tipping by region, a page with the same problems, but the section has remained intact. A lot of arguments have ensued, but this page hasn't seen any progress.My questions here are:* Should all the unsourced material be removed?* Should material sourced to unreliable sources like DHL (and other travel websites) be removed?* Should "tipping by region" even be included, since there appears to be a dearth of accurate, peer-reviewed information on this subject?Noisalt (talk) 23:32, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Eurovision (RfC on reliable sources for Eurovision articles ) — What sources are considered reliable and can be used in Eurovision articles? Camaron · Christopher · talk 16:05, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
• Talk:Joseph Priestley (RfC on lead image alignment ) — "Should MOS:IMAGE be interpreted to allow the lead image to be left-aligned to ensure the face and/or eyes are directed at the text?" Madcoverboy (talk) 02:58, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
• Template talk:Italic title (RFC: Should this be used? ) — None of the discussions linked above seem to show a strong consensus for using this template one way or the other, because they weren't really advertised enough. So, what is the community's view on this template? I'm going to put this on WP:CENT, and I'll spam the talk pages of WP:TOL, WP:VG, WP:BOOKS, and WP:FILMS, since this would most affect the articles in those projects. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 16:42, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) (RfC: Acceptable number format? ) — This request for comment is for several related questions. This RfC is about the appearance of the numbers, and whether they can be successfully cut-and-pasted into other applications. The templates used to format them is not the topic of this discussion; template coding can follow whatever conclusions the RfC comes to.# Is 4,046.8564224 an acceptable number format? (Notice the comma to the left of the decimal point and the gap to the right used to group digits into groups of three digits.)# Is 4046.8564224 an acceptable number format? (Notice that gaps are used on both sides of the decimal point to group digits.# If gaps are acceptable both to the right and left of the decimal point, and an article needs gaps to the right in some numbers in the article, should all the numbers in the article, including numbers with three or fewer digits right of the decimal, be formatted with gaps?The Manual of Style (dates and numbers) (MOSNUM) for quite a while advocated comma separators to the left of the decimal, and either no separators, or gap separators, to the right of the decimal. However, none of the examples in the MOSNUM or in the documentation for the {{Val}} illustrated that this could occur in the same number, thus creating a style clash within the same number. About a week ago this was changed to allow 4046.8564224 or 4,046.8564224 but not 4,046.856 422 4. Today the change was reverted and the reverting editor suggested wider input be sought.(In case you are curious where the number 4046.8564224 came from, it is the exact number of square meters in an international acre.) --Jc3s5h (talk) 02:08, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
• Talk:Campantar (Material without citations) — As the edit history shows, there have been a large number of edits from various IP addresses with substantially the same intent. The flags I added to the page have finally managed to draw the above comment. Suggestions for procedure welcome. Redheylin (talk) 03:23, 6 June 2009 (UTC)