Wikipedia talk:Talk page guidelines

message: There is currently a discussion titled Deletions of (article) talk page material at WP:ANI related to this discussion.
Z80Spectrum (talk) 06:39, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion at WP:ANI 

message: Hi. There is an ArbCom discussion with one of the main topics being ip talk page posts. It is at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case#Consensus process, censorship, administrators' warnings and blocks in dispute, and responses to appeals. Your input is welcome. This notice is placed to attract objective input (whether in favor or against) of uninvolved editors related to the interest of the talk page guideline.  It is not canvassing, 
 Sincerely, Thinker78 (talk) 20:56, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thinker78 (talk) 20:59, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Why have I been pinged here? I'm aware of the discussion, thanks. 331dot (talk) 21:22, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: ArbCom discussion

message: You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Redirect § Deprecation of redirecting the talk page of a mainspace redirect.  Nickps (talk) 21:29, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion at [[:Wikipedia talk:Redirect#Deprecation of redirecting the talk page of a mainspace redirect|Wikipedia talk:Redirect §&nbsp;Deprecation of redirecting the talk page of a mainspace redirect]]

message: 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:
:In mainspace article talk pages, archiving too aggressively can be controversial see this thread for example. Archive select threads that are stale and likely to remain so. Archive based on size, not date. Try not to archive the entire page, just enough to reduce size not eliminate it. You are permitted to delete posts by InternetArchiveBot, these posts take up a lot of space and are no longer needed.
-- GreenC 01:15, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: This is very much one person's opinion.  The claim that aggressive archiving is controversial is disingenuous, since the controversy, as presented in the linked thread, is that you personally don't like archiving. The proposal here would represent a large change to the way people archive, and a change for the worse. The advice to archive selected threads is particularly bad, since this would have to be done manually. Dan Bloch (talk) 02:04, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Also I don't think "Try not to archive the entire page, just enough to reduce size not eliminate it" has consensus. There's nothing wrong with archiving ann entire page if the page calls for it (eg if everything on the page is stale, or if everything on the page is disruptive). Clearing a page is not "eliminating" it. Levivich (talk) 02:15, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll add that some things just don't require guidance, and I think that how much to archive and archiving by date versus size are such things. A mixture of common sense and local consensus (or, more precisely, lack of local objection) are usually enough to make things work OK. --Tryptofish (talk) 23:23, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: There are also best practices and bad practices. If required I'll write an essay (in user space), if I ever get the time, they are often more effective anyway for changing how things are done. -- GreenC 23:57, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

text:  Not really. See the linked thread where others concurred. The wording for the guideline can be changed but something needs to be said. 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. It's the bot algorithms which are controlling what is archived. I can never recall seeing a user carefully choosing threads to manually archive. Indeed such a thing would necessitate not using an archive bot - unless the bot had a "sticky thread" feature (that was used). But 99% of the time someone will enable an archive bot with a date-based algo and that's it. -- GreenC 23:51, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text:   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)

text: "Others concurred" is an incomplete description of the VPIL discussion. Levivich (talk) 01:57, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

text: Strike me as WP:CREEP. It's easy enough to archive and then someone else can revert, and if you can't work out such a trivial matter there's something more seriously wrong with the dynamic than adding still more words to this guideline will fix.NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 00:45, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed addition to [[WP:TALKCOND]] 

message: 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)
replies: text: Agreed.  This is disruptive editing, maybe vandalism. Dan Bloch (talk) 18:56, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

text: You could try posting a Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on their user talk page. ―Mandruss ☎ 19:53, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Name posted as the singular comment