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January 2016

• Redirects - should the article history be deleted when a small article is redirected to a larger article? added 2 December 2015, archived 19 January 2016
• Community radio stations - notability standards added 8 December 2015, archived 21 January 2016
• Clerking at RfA added 21 December 2015, archived 21 January 2016
• Should Jimbo Wales be able to amend or grant appeals to ArbCom remedies? added 19 December 2015, archived 24 January 2015
• Discussion on The meaning of "seven days" in AfD closures, added January 28, 2016, closed as consensus January 31, 2016.

February 2016

• Allowing admins to impose unblock conditions as part of the blocking policy added 18 January 2016, archived 7 February 2016
• New autopromoted group to implement ArbCom "30-500" protection, added January 10, 2016, archived February 11, 2016 (consensus for new group).
• 2016 WMF Strategy consultation, added January 20, 2016, archived 16 February 2016 (consultation closed)
• Should the "Gather" extension be disabled on English WP, added January 26, 2016, archived 23 February 2016 (closed as disable)

March 2016

• Should MfD relists be allowed or disallowed? added February 15, 2016, archived March 3 2016
• Should the "Resting place" parameter of Infobox Person be used to note cremation added February 11, 2016, archived March 3, 2016
• CSD#G13 criteria to include Draft and Draft talk namespaces added January 25, 2016, archived March 3, 2016
• Guidelines for authority control added January 25, 2016, archived March 3, 2016
• Multiple letter capitalisations in articles added January 31, 2016, archived March 3, 2016
• Moving articles from mainspace to draft namespace added January 26, 2016, archived March 17, 2016

April 2016

• Towards a standard biography footer added March 3, 2016, archived April 4, 2016
• Film title disambiguation year added March 29, 2016, archived April 6, 2016
• Closure of Possibly Unfree Files added March 8, 2016, archived April 7, 2016
• Corrections on Main Page added March 23, 2016, archived April 28, 2016\

May 2016

• 2016-17 draft WMF Annual Plan added April 3, 2016, archived May 5 2016
• Ethnicity & religion parameters in Infobox person (2 RfCs) added March 24, 2016, archived May 11, 2016
• Separate articles for reactions to terrorist incidents added March 27, 2016, archived May 11, 2016
• Proposal for COMMONNAME to defer to MOS on styling of article titles added May 11, 2016, archived May 13, 2016
• Embedding full-length films/videos in articles added March 11, 2016, archived May 24, 2016
• Consensus for changes in citation coding style added March 26, 2016, archived May 24, 2016
• Related Pages extension added March 28, 2016, archived May 24, 2016
• Add a link to high-use maintenance templates explaining how they are removed added April 14, 2016, archived May 24, 2016

June 2016

• Persian Gulf and Arabian Gulf naming guidelines added June 7, 2016, archived June 9, 2016
• HTTP or HTTPS for external links added April 7, 2016, archived June 12, 2016
• Wikidata in infoboxes, opt-in or opt-out? added May 17, 2016, archived June 18, 2016
• Removing archive.is from the spam blacklist added May 23, 2016, archived June 22, 2016
• Increase throttle limit for page movers? added May 28, 2016, archived June 27, 2016

July 2016

• How safe are GMOs? (Ends 18:01 UTC, 6 July. Active ArbCom remedies apply.) added June 8, 2016, archived July 6, 2016
• Confirm on save when adding links to disambiguation pages added May 18, 2016, archived July 7, 2016
• April Fools' Day on Wikipedia added June 6, 2016, archived July 7, 2016
• Does the Main Page need an update in style and/or content? added July 4, 2016, archived July 7, 2016
• IP block exemptions to users in good standing? added May 24, 2016, archived July 9, 2016
• Confirm on save when adding links to disambiguation pages added May 18, 2016, archived July 9, 2016
• Allow non-admins to close RfDs to "delete"? added May 25, 2016, archived July 9, 2016
• Revise WP:DATERANGE styling? added June 18, 2016, archived July 21, 2016
• Rename Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons to Wikipedia:Living persons added July 15, 2016, archived July 26, 2016
• Adding a new button to the wikitext editor to preview mobile view added June 22, 2016, archived July 26, 2016

August 2016

• Creating temporary speedy deletion criteria for exceptional circumstances added August 2, 2016, archived August 3, 2016
• New content-related user rights package added July 8, 2016, archived August 11, 2016
• Use of extended confirmed ("30/500") protection added July 4, 2016, archived August 12, 2016
• Posting links to accounts on other sites and WP:OUTING added July 3, 2016, archived August 24, 2016
• Coordinate parameters in infoboxes added August 12, 2016, archived August 25, 2016
• Categories about water courses added July 11, 2016, archived August 27, 2016
• F11 policy waiting period for expired OTRS-received images added August 8, 2016, archived August 29, 2016

September 2016

• Use of Google Translate links in citations & external links, added August 19, 2016, archived September 11, 2016
• Proposed confidential COI mailing list, added August 16, 2016, archived September 12, 2016
• WMF survey: Flow on Talk pages, added September 8, 2016, archived September 21, 2016

October 2016

• Should articles "1" – "100" be about years or numbers?, RfC started August 19, 2016, entry added September 7, 2016, archived October 4, 2016
• Protecting user pages by default, added August 31, 2016, archived October 5, 2016
• New user right for New Page Patrolling added August 28, 2016, archived October 5, 2016
• Rewriting PORNBIO, added August 21, 2016, archived October 6, 2016
• CheckUser and Oversight candidates added 27 September 2016, archived October 9, 2016
• Does this source violate WP:BLPSPS? added September 2, 2016, archived October 15, 2016
• Route diagram templates and Template:Routemap, added August 25, 2016, archived October 15, 2016
• Two-item disambiguation pages added September 15, 2016, archived October 15, 2016
• Preventative/punitive blocks and outing added September 19, 2016, archived October 19, 2016
• 2016 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission added October 7, 2016, archived October 22, 2016
• Qualifications for the New Page Patroller user right archived October 24, 2016
• 2016 FLC delegate elections added 3 October 2016, archived 30 October 2016

November 2016

• What should the articles from 1 to 100 be moved to? added October 6, 2016, archived November 5, 2016
• Promotional usernames policy added 11 October 2016, archived November 6, 2016
• Expanding usage of PC1 protection added 6 November 2016, archived November 7, 2016
• Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 added 6 October 2016, archived November 10, 2016
• Deferring suspect edits for review added 14 October 2016, archived November 11, 2016
• Nominations for the 2016 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee elections, added November 6, 2016, archived November 16, 2016

December 2016

• Speedy deletion criterion for books added October 26, 2016, archived December 4, 2016
• Arbitration Committee election. added November 21, 2016, archived December 5, 2016
• Access locks: appearance added 29 October 2016, archived December 8 2016
• Access locks: citation template behaviour added 29 October 2016, archived 8 December 2016
• Pending changes level 2 added 2 November 2016, archived 8 december 2016
• 2016 Community Wishlist Survey. Closes 12 December. Added 10 November 2016, archived 13 December 2016.
• Proposal for coordination of Good articles added December 11, 2016‎, archived December 19, 2016
• Password strength requirements and advanced permissions added 16 November 2016, archived 23 December 2016
• Considering additional use cases for extended confirmed protection added 22 December 2016, archived 31 December 2016
• Patrolling new pages without a user right added 22 November 2016, archived 1 January 2017