User talk:VQuakr

Question about indent

Your indentation here indicates you are speaking to me. If so, I don't understand. Please fix the indent, or explain your meaning more clearly. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 21:17, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

My indent intent was to reply to AYW. Feel free to refactor as I sometimes get lost in the sea of text, as appears to have happened here. VQuakr (talk) 21:24, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Talk:Andrew Tate

Ok, have it your way but to me there doesn't seem to be much encyclopedic value in keeping article talk page threads around for 2 months without any new replies/posts... Shearonink (talk) 16:45, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

@Shearonink: archival is done to keep a talk page from getting too large. The goal isn't to "clean up" old discussions. WP:PREMATUREARCHIVE suggests 75kB as a reasonable workable talk page length. We consider accelerating auto-archival when we're exceeding that. VQuakr (talk) 16:57, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

In addition to the parameters for keeping a talk page from getting too large, WP:PREMATUREARCHIVE (bolding mine) also states:

As a rule of thumb, archive closed discussions when a talk page exceeds 75 KB in wikitext or has numerous resolved or stale discussions...

Just keeping stale and/or resolved discussions around on the main article talk doesn't seem to serve an encyclopedic purpose but ok. Shearonink (talk) 17:23, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

That talk page doesn't have "numerous" discussions; it has four. No difficulty navigating those. Having discussions unarchived helps people see what's been already discussed, which helps avoid repetition. Premature archival actively hinders that purpose. There's no reason to rush archival. VQuakr (talk) 17:58, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Ok. - Shearonink (talk) 21:47, 15 August 2024 (UTC)