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I propose that we change archiving at Help desk so that a discussion may only be archived after it has gone stale for whatever period is generally agreed upon. (Three days? to be discussed separately) The current behavior is that Scsbot archives discussion N days after the day they began, not N days (or hours/whatever) after the last comment in a discussion. The upshot of this is that lively discussions may be suddenly archived in the middle of ongoing discussion; this is disruptive. (Technical note: the current behavior may be related to use of level-one headings at Help desk. I will raise a separate discussion at
Lowercase sigmabot III to see if it would work in this environment.) Thanks,
Mathglot (
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The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
({{Archive top}}{{Archive bottom}}) templates. RuzDD ( talk) 04:07, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
Oppose. Lively discussions often do not belong on the help desk in the first place. They generally belong either on the talk page of an article or on the talk page of a policy page. If we do occasionally need to keep a discussion, I would strongly prefer the default to be "archive". Preventing the archiving should be an active decision. - Arch dude ( talk) 04:27, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
Support the original proposal. Three days seems about right; two weeks seems much too long. I oppose "x=1 for marked as solved discussions"; if someone gives a wrong answer and someone marks it as closed, the thread should still stay around to give others a chance to look at it. I don't understand the "oppose" above - this is a discussion about archiving, not about regulating what questions and responses are acceptable. Maproom ( talk) 08:29, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
Unrelated to the thread just above, scsbot, the current Help Desk archiving bot, is going solo for the next two weeks while I'm traveling. If it should make a mistake, someone here will have to notice and fix it, as I won't be watching over its shoulder as I normally do. Further information over on the Ref Desk talk page. — scs ( talk) 22:35, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
Dear Administrator,
I hope this message finds you well.
I am writing to seek urgent assistance regarding an ongoing issue with an article on Wikipedia. The article titled "Ayaz Sheikh" is currently under discussion for deletion, and I'm deeply concerned about its potential removal.I firmly believe that the article provides valuable information about a notable Pakistani singer and musician. However, there seems to be some misunderstanding leading to the deletion discussion.I kindly request your support in ensuring that the article is not deleted and that any necessary changes are made to maintain its integrity and compliance with Wikipedia's guidelines. I am open to making necessary revisions to address any concerns raised during the discussion.Your prompt attention and assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated.Thank you very much for your time and consideration.
Best regards, [Syed Shaveer] Syed Shaveer ( talk) 05:24, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
How do I request two articles to be merged Maestrofin ( talk) 06:50, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
I suspect that there are many, like me, who only occasionally edit a Wiki page and are not well versed in the Wiki editing conventions. In particular, I just made a minor edit to a page and went to identify my authorship. I did remember that there was a simple convention for this but did not remember the format. Nowhere on the page was there any help or hint. Searching the help desk was frustratingly unsuccessful. After a long and tedious search I finally found the "~ ~ ~ ~" code but this experience was a demotivator for contributing. These should be a link to a quicky help page on every edit page (as I think there used to be), with short descriptions/examples of common edit conventions. ArtKocsis ( talk) 10:21, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
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is a lot less frequently used nowadays due to the
Reply tool. If you're using the source editor and have enabled the 2010 editing toolbar or the 2017 wikitext editor in your preferences, the editor has a button you can press (using the 2010 editing toolbar) or an item in the dropdown menu under the +
icon.There's no need to sign inside edit summaries as the amount of wiki markup they can parse is limited, and the account making the edit is noted in the page's history. —
Tenryuu 🐲 (
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📝 ) 15:20, 29 March 2024 (UTC)There is currently a discussion at WT:Drafts regarding a proposed split of WP:Drafts. The thread is WT:Drafts#Split into help page and guideline. Thank you. S0091 ( talk) 17:05, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
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Courtesy link: User talk:Σ/Archive/2024/February § Archiving in the context of a page that uses level-one headings as dividers
I propose that we change archiving at Help desk so that a discussion may only be archived after it has gone stale for whatever period is generally agreed upon. (Three days? to be discussed separately) The current behavior is that Scsbot archives discussion N days after the day they began, not N days (or hours/whatever) after the last comment in a discussion. The upshot of this is that lively discussions may be suddenly archived in the middle of ongoing discussion; this is disruptive. (Technical note: the current behavior may be related to use of level-one headings at Help desk. I will raise a separate discussion at
Lowercase sigmabot III to see if it would work in this environment.) Thanks,
Mathglot (
talk) 18:21, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
({{Archive top}}{{Archive bottom}}) templates. RuzDD ( talk) 04:07, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
Oppose. Lively discussions often do not belong on the help desk in the first place. They generally belong either on the talk page of an article or on the talk page of a policy page. If we do occasionally need to keep a discussion, I would strongly prefer the default to be "archive". Preventing the archiving should be an active decision. - Arch dude ( talk) 04:27, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
Support the original proposal. Three days seems about right; two weeks seems much too long. I oppose "x=1 for marked as solved discussions"; if someone gives a wrong answer and someone marks it as closed, the thread should still stay around to give others a chance to look at it. I don't understand the "oppose" above - this is a discussion about archiving, not about regulating what questions and responses are acceptable. Maproom ( talk) 08:29, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
Unrelated to the thread just above, scsbot, the current Help Desk archiving bot, is going solo for the next two weeks while I'm traveling. If it should make a mistake, someone here will have to notice and fix it, as I won't be watching over its shoulder as I normally do. Further information over on the Ref Desk talk page. — scs ( talk) 22:35, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
Dear Administrator,
I hope this message finds you well.
I am writing to seek urgent assistance regarding an ongoing issue with an article on Wikipedia. The article titled "Ayaz Sheikh" is currently under discussion for deletion, and I'm deeply concerned about its potential removal.I firmly believe that the article provides valuable information about a notable Pakistani singer and musician. However, there seems to be some misunderstanding leading to the deletion discussion.I kindly request your support in ensuring that the article is not deleted and that any necessary changes are made to maintain its integrity and compliance with Wikipedia's guidelines. I am open to making necessary revisions to address any concerns raised during the discussion.Your prompt attention and assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated.Thank you very much for your time and consideration.
Best regards, [Syed Shaveer] Syed Shaveer ( talk) 05:24, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
How do I request two articles to be merged Maestrofin ( talk) 06:50, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
I suspect that there are many, like me, who only occasionally edit a Wiki page and are not well versed in the Wiki editing conventions. In particular, I just made a minor edit to a page and went to identify my authorship. I did remember that there was a simple convention for this but did not remember the format. Nowhere on the page was there any help or hint. Searching the help desk was frustratingly unsuccessful. After a long and tedious search I finally found the "~ ~ ~ ~" code but this experience was a demotivator for contributing. These should be a link to a quicky help page on every edit page (as I think there used to be), with short descriptions/examples of common edit conventions. ArtKocsis ( talk) 10:21, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
~~~~
is a lot less frequently used nowadays due to the
Reply tool. If you're using the source editor and have enabled the 2010 editing toolbar or the 2017 wikitext editor in your preferences, the editor has a button you can press (using the 2010 editing toolbar) or an item in the dropdown menu under the +
icon.There's no need to sign inside edit summaries as the amount of wiki markup they can parse is limited, and the account making the edit is noted in the page's history. —
Tenryuu 🐲 (
💬 •
📝 ) 15:20, 29 March 2024 (UTC)There is currently a discussion at WT:Drafts regarding a proposed split of WP:Drafts. The thread is WT:Drafts#Split into help page and guideline. Thank you. S0091 ( talk) 17:05, 24 April 2024 (UTC)