Wikipedia talk:Administrators' noticeboard
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Useful protip that should be mentioned somewhere
[edit]While searching through the archives of this talk page, I discovered, by accident, that AN and AN/I archives actually have automatically created talk pages on them (example), and those talk pages contain a table with an index of all the discussions on the archive page, with indicators of length (bytes) for each section (including sub-sections). From a glance you can see how long or short a thread is, as well as if there are additional sub-topics within it, and you can read all the thread names much more quickly and easily than through the table of contents on the archive page.
How is this incredibly useful feature not mentioned anywhere on the banner or on info pages?!? — AP 499D25 (talk) 14:30, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- Feel free to add it if you find a good spot for it. –Novem Linguae (talk) 16:18, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
Edit notice
[edit]The edit notice currently reads:
This noticeboard is for issues affecting administrators generally – announcements, notifications, information, and other matters of general administrator interest.
If your post is about a specific problem you have (a dispute, user, help request, or other narrow issue needing an administrator), you should post it at the Administrators' noticeboard for incidents (ANI) instead. Thank you.
I think it would be more accurate to reword it:
This noticeboard is for general administrative issues – announcements, notifications, information, and other matters of general administration interest.
If your post is about a specific problem you have (a dispute, user, help request, or other narrow issue needing an administrator), you should post it at the Administrators' noticeboard for incidents (ANI) instead. Thank you.
The current wording gives the misleading impression of the purpose of this board (the title has a related issue; I believe it would be better titled WP:Administration noticeboard, but that's a different discussion). BilledMammal (talk) 07:13, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
- Every noticeboard deals with administration in some way. AN does wind up serving as a "catch all" noticeboard sometimes, but that's not really the intention. ⇌ Jake Wartenberg 14:09, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
- The current message (and title) fits my understanding of this page better: it's a noticeboard for administrators. If it wasn't, we'd need one, because admins do a lot of work that are not relevant or interesting to other editors (though of course they are always welcome to follow and participate in discussions). – Joe (talk) 14:35, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
Tupac page
[edit]The article is fully protected, go work out your content problems with other editors |
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Tupac Page can now be edited by everyone; it wasn't like that before. Previously, only administrators and users with permission could edit it (like me). This rule needs to be reinstated, or it will be edited every day Pier1999 (talk) 13:20, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
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Should talk pages of header subpages be redirected here?
[edit]I found it surprising that Wikipedia talk:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents redirects to Wikipedia talk:Administrators' noticeboard, but Wikipedia talk:Administrators' noticeboard/Header and Wikipedia talk:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents/Header don't.
Should these talk pages of header subpages for AN and ANI be redirected to WT:AN? There are no talk page archives there, which makes creating these redirects easier. The older discussions could there be archived to archive pages here. The latest one is Archive 17, but time-wise more appropriate earlier archives could be found. —andrybak (talk) 19:19, 17 July 2024 (UTC)