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[edit]Based on discussions at Template talk:Archives, I plan to update this page soon. Feel free to join in the conversation there or to offer any feedback on things that should be fixed. Regards, Rjjiii (talk) 00:40, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
Merging two different archiving styles?
[edit]The Amanita Muscaria Talk page has two archive methods—traditional numbered archives, and a CluBot III archive since 2020. Shouldn't these two be merged, and if so, how is this done? — al-Shimoni (talk) 15:40, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, they should, and I've gone and done this. The page receives far too little traffic for date-based archives (they mostly only contained one section each), so I cut-and-pasted all the text from the newer archives into Talk:Amanita muscaria/Archive 3 (except for the October 2022 archive, which only contained an earlier version of the section in the June 2023 archive). I switched the archiving bot over to Lowercase sigmabot III because that's just easier at this point, but automated archiving probably won't be needed there again for a while yet. I also attended to a broken link anchor notice on that talk page and, as an admin, deleted the useless ClueBot indexing subpages. Graham87 (talk) 03:43, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
Merge subpages?
[edit]This template currently uses several subpages:
- Help:Archiving a talk page/Other procedures
- Help:Archiving a talk page/Manual archiving
- Help:Archiving a talk page/Naming
Would there be any objection to merging all of these onto a single subpage like:
Help:Archiving a talk page/Details
I think that would make the content easier to access, Rjjiii (talk) 21:17, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
- No problems here, as the creator of the first subpage as a result of this RFC. Graham87 (talk) 03:57, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
Can someone merge the tiny archive pages at Special:Prefixindex/Talk:J.G. Wentworth/ together? This page is not active enough to need yearly archive pages, archiving just 2 or 3 threads per archived year of 1 or 2 posts on each thread, with many years of no threads whatsoever.
-- 65.92.246.77 (talk) 21:38, 24 October 2024 (UTC)
- Done. The user who set up this archiving system did so on many hundreds or thousands of pages in such a disruptive manner that I got them indefinitely topic-banned from doing so. Graham87 (talk) 02:56, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
Can someone merge the tiny by year talk archives for this page Special:Prefixindex/Talk:Predictive analytics/ into regular serial archives? There's not much to archive in each year. and the last archive year is 2018. -- 65.92.246.77 (talk) 22:28, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
- I'm on it. Graham87 (talk) 03:49, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- Done; same as previous section ... and I switched the archiving bot because it's easier. As I'm no longer an admin, I'll have to tag the remaining indexing pages with {{Db-g6}} rather than deleting them myself. Honestly I've encountered so many of these situations that I usually ignore them these days unless they're really egregious. The user I mentioned above is by no means the only person to use date-based archives incorrectly; they're just by far the most prolific. Graham87 (talk) 04:16, 18 December 2024 (UTC)