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Line 3: At the close of the trial, [[Wikipedia:Pending changes/Closure\|community opinions]] varied on whether the trial had been successful and, if it was felt to have been successful, what form “Pending Changes” should take going forward. As a result of this [[Wikipedia:Pending changes/Straw poll\|community indecision]], and at the urging of [[User talk:Jimbo Wales/Archive 64#Announcement about Pending Changes\|Jimbo Wales]] in September of 2010, Pending Changes entered a kind of limbo, in which it remained on some pages but had no clear guidelines for implementation or usage. A [[Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment February 2011\|2011 Request for Comment]] addressed the limbo state in which Pending Changes had been left and brought about [[Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment February 2011/Archive 3#Closure\|the removal of Pending Changes]] from the English Wikipedia. On the basis of [[User:Newyorkbrad\|Newyorkbrad]]’s closing statement in that RfC that ‘’“this community decision [to end the trial of Pending Changes] is without prejudice to any future discussion relating to adoption of pending changes or flagged revisions or some similar system based on a new discussion. There seems to be a consensus that a bit of a break from this discussion would be a good thing,”’’ a new RfC was begun roughly one year later, on 23 March 2012, to address the essential question of “should Pending Changes be activated on the English Wikipedia?” '''Basis of the Current RfC:''' Formatted by [[user:Beeblebrox\|Beeblebrox]] as a choice between three mutually-exclusive options, the 2012 RfC was intended to produce [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Pending_changes/Request_for_Comment_2012&diff=480017574&oldid=479987817 “an actionable result”] regarding whether Pending Changes should [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Pending_changes/Request_for_Comment_2012&diff=480082914&oldid=480077657 “be permanently deployed here”]. Commenters were encouraged to support one of three possible options: #Position 1: “The negative aspects of pending changes outweigh the positive. Therefore the tool should not be used at all on the English Wikipedia.”

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