User:The Wonk

The Wonk
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Name	The Wonk
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Gender	Male
Country	United States
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Ongoing Disasters

Third opinion disputes

Talk:Flavan-3-ol § WP:3O for content dispute. Disagreement whether a large RCT of flavanols should be neutrally mentioned or not. User has agreed that any 3rd uninvolved editor can remove the COI tag. 22:05, 28 May 2026 (UTC)
Talk:Nala Ray § WP:3O for name, picture, multiref, and international attention. Four points of disagreement about article content. 22:00, 29 May 2026 (UTC)
User talk:MrOllie § Restoring Nonprofit section (RAD365 removed). Disagreement about whether the "Nonprofit" section in the Teleradiology article should remain, be revised, or be removed because it may be treated as a provider directory rather than a historical summary. 17:04, 31 May 2026 (UTC)update, Purge

Contentious topics
Use	Area of conflict	Decision linked to	Topic specific subpage
`a-a`	Armenia, Azerbaijan, or related conflicts	Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan 2#Final decision	Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Armenia-Azerbaijan
`a-i`	the Arab–Israeli conflict	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Palestine-Israel articles#Final decision	Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Arab–Israeli conflict
`ab`	abortion	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Abortion#Final decision	Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Abortion
`ap`	post-1992 politics of the United States and closely related people	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/American politics 2#Final decision	Wikipedia:Contentious topics/American politics
`at`	article titles and capitalisation	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Article titles and capitalisation 2#Final decision	Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Article titles and capitalisation
`blp`	living or recently deceased subjects of biographical content on Wikipedia articles	Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Editing of Biographies of Living Persons#Final decision	Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Biographies of Living Persons
`cam`	complementary and alternative medicine	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Acupuncture#Final decision	Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Complementary and Alternative Medicine
`cid`	discussions about infoboxes, and edits adding, deleting, collapsing, or removing verifiable information from infoboxes	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Civility in infobox discussions#Final decision	Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Infoboxes
`covid`	COVID-19	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/COVID-19#Final decision	Wikipedia:Contentious topics/COVID-19
`ee`	the Balkans or Eastern Europe	Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Eastern Europe#Final decision	Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Balkans or Eastern Europe
`gg`	gender-related disputes or controversies or people associated with them	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gender and sexuality#Final decision	Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Gender and sexuality
`gmo`	genetically modified organisms, commercially produced agricultural chemicals and the companies that produce them	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Genetically modified organisms#Final decision	Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Genetically modified organisms
`horn`	the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes)	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Horn of Africa#Final decision	Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Horn of Africa
`irp`	post-1978 Iranian politics	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Iranian politics#Final decision	Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Iranian politics
`kurd`	the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Kurds and Kurdistan#Final decision	Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Kurds and Kurdistan
`ps`	pseudoscience and fringe science	Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience#Final decision	Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Pseudoscience and fringe science
`r-i`	the intersection of race/ethnicity and human abilities and behaviour	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Race and intelligence#Final decision	Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Race and intelligence
`rne`	the results of any national or sub-national election	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Historical elections#Final decision	Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Historical elections
`sa`	the region of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal), including but not limited to history, politics, ethnicity, and social groups	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Indian military history#Final decision	Wikipedia:Contentious topics/South Asia
`tt`	the Troubles	Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/The Troubles#Final decision	Wikipedia:Contentious topics/The Troubles
`ya`	Yasuke	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Yasuke#Final decision	Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Yasuke

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22 May 2026
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