archiving are you sure all those pages need an archive setup open channel i believe so they didn't have one before and now they'll be enabled for the oca script for whenever it becomes necessary is there a reason not to have that it's not affecting the talk pages until someone decides to use it right b e c k y s a y l e s my concern is a mass setup should be discussed first open channel becky yes generally shouldn't be the only archiving on article talk pages if archiving is to be set up on those pages it should be automatic archiving using using that will still allow usage of oca if there is a section with no timestamp or something else preventing automatic archiving also talk pages should generally not be archived if they are less than k in size please go back through your list and change all of them to use instead of i'll also note that setting up archiving on talk pages like this usually only occurs once a discussion is started on the talk page to see if there is any objection if there is consensus or no comments or if the page is above the k threshold thank you u e t c i have undone the addition of archive basics can you help me understand the difference i'm not sure i understand what you mean by oca shouldn't be the only archiving on article talk pages using user miszabot config sets up automatic archiving but archive basics doesn't it just sets up for use of oca so if someone wanted automatic archiving user miszabot config could still be added right help archiving a talk page says archiving is suggested when there's resolved or stale discussions so isn't it unnecessary improbable to have a discussion on archiving resolved stale discussions b e c k y s a y l e s sorry about the delay i got got up in some stuff that prevented me from replying sooner oneclickarchiver is intended for archiving a user's own talk page it is also useful for archiving sections that bots don't archive automatically on other talk pages for various reasons while it is acceptable to use only oneclickarchiver on a user's talk page if that is what they wish and the size of their page doesn't get out of hand bots should archive all other talk pages not sure if that is any clearer but it is my interpretation of the current consensus u e t c