En Pine <deyntestiss(a)hotmail.com> wrote: Although Dario Taraborelli has claimed that such Committee approval is required, he has refused to say where such a policy statement exists: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:FAQ The only minutes I was able to find wherein the Research Committee discussed the possibility of reviewing and approving research, doing so was explicitly rejected, including by Dario, in favor of issuing guidelines instead: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Committee/Meetings/Meeting_2010-09-… A Wikipedia Research Policy was announced in April 2010, but never formally approved by the English Wikipedia community or the Foundation: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2010-April/000955.html At one point it included a proposal for a "Subject Recruitment Approvals Group" but that was removed in September 2010: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AResearch&action=h…