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This section has no guidance on how much to archive, or the method of archiving (date vs size). The proposed new second paragraph Special:Diff/1221314215/1222242991:
-- Green C 01:15, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
What normally happens is people enable one of the archive bots, which are based on date, and the bot clears most or the whole page.This is the system working as intended; basically the WP:EDITCONSENSUS on the various pages. Also note, setting up archiving is discussed in detail at WP:ARCHIVE and the examples there use "minthreadsleft=5", so that's likely the most common configuration, not clearing the whole page. Dan Bloch ( talk) 00:59, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
More than once, an IP (anon) editor has posted my name in a discussion without giving a reason for doing so. The latest:
@ Talk:You (TV series).
Am I being solicited to participate in the discussion? Am I only supposed to know there is a discussion? Whatever ... posting an editor's name, and only the name, as a "comment" or "reply" should be deletable without a
WP:TPO justification.
Pyxis Solitary
(yak yak). Ol' homo.
02:42, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
According to this policy, any person who is subject to a "topic ban" is forbidden to discuss that topic on any talk page.
The talk page guidelines don't mention this policy at all; should it be mentioned in this section? Jarble ( talk) 20:51, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
Involved in a situation recently where there was someone effectively giving the appearance of !voting more than once, to which another editor struck through the bolded part of the !vote. I can see the reasoning behind it, but
WP:DISCUSSAFD explicitly recommends self-strikethroughs so someone else striking it can cause confusion. (The only exception to "Striking out text with <s>...</s> or {{strike}} or marking text as deleted with ... constitutes a change in meaning. It should be done only by the user who wrote it, or as otherwise provided in this talk page guideline." here seems to be the common
WP:SOCKSTRIKE.) A method I have seen to address such !votes, as well as similar situations such as SPAs, is to write a small-text tag inline after the signature. Would it be worth formalising some guidance on that practice here?
CMD (
talk)
04:27, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
At WP:MULTI, I would like to enhance the sentence
so that it reads
{{
fyi}}
and {{
subst:please see}}
are available for this.This is in response to this post. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 16:30, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
The redirect Wikipedia:CURRENTSECTION has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 July 29 § Wikipedia:CURRENTSECTION until a consensus is reached. jlwoodwa ( talk) 22:22, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
Talk page guidelines page. |
|
Archives: Index, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16Auto-archiving period: 90 days |
This page is only for discussions about the Wikipedia page Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines. To discuss an article, please use that article's talk page. To ask for help with using and editing Wikipedia, use our Teahouse. Alternatively, see our FAQ. | This page is not meant for general questions, nor discussions about specific articles.
This section has no guidance on how much to archive, or the method of archiving (date vs size). The proposed new second paragraph Special:Diff/1221314215/1222242991:
-- Green C 01:15, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
What normally happens is people enable one of the archive bots, which are based on date, and the bot clears most or the whole page.This is the system working as intended; basically the WP:EDITCONSENSUS on the various pages. Also note, setting up archiving is discussed in detail at WP:ARCHIVE and the examples there use "minthreadsleft=5", so that's likely the most common configuration, not clearing the whole page. Dan Bloch ( talk) 00:59, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
More than once, an IP (anon) editor has posted my name in a discussion without giving a reason for doing so. The latest:
@ Talk:You (TV series).
Am I being solicited to participate in the discussion? Am I only supposed to know there is a discussion? Whatever ... posting an editor's name, and only the name, as a "comment" or "reply" should be deletable without a
WP:TPO justification.
Pyxis Solitary
(yak yak). Ol' homo.
02:42, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
According to this policy, any person who is subject to a "topic ban" is forbidden to discuss that topic on any talk page.
The talk page guidelines don't mention this policy at all; should it be mentioned in this section? Jarble ( talk) 20:51, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
Involved in a situation recently where there was someone effectively giving the appearance of !voting more than once, to which another editor struck through the bolded part of the !vote. I can see the reasoning behind it, but
WP:DISCUSSAFD explicitly recommends self-strikethroughs so someone else striking it can cause confusion. (The only exception to "Striking out text with <s>...</s> or {{strike}} or marking text as deleted with ... constitutes a change in meaning. It should be done only by the user who wrote it, or as otherwise provided in this talk page guideline." here seems to be the common
WP:SOCKSTRIKE.) A method I have seen to address such !votes, as well as similar situations such as SPAs, is to write a small-text tag inline after the signature. Would it be worth formalising some guidance on that practice here?
CMD (
talk)
04:27, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
At WP:MULTI, I would like to enhance the sentence
so that it reads
{{
fyi}}
and {{
subst:please see}}
are available for this.This is in response to this post. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 16:30, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
The redirect Wikipedia:CURRENTSECTION has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 July 29 § Wikipedia:CURRENTSECTION until a consensus is reached. jlwoodwa ( talk) 22:22, 29 July 2024 (UTC)