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Hi -- would it be possible to wait more than one (1) day before archiving talk page entries? This diff is clearly unconstructive and should have been reverted, but certain people are adamantly opposed to even breathing on an archive, so now it's there forever. Gnomingstuff (talk) 15:12, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• @Gnomingstuff Mostly out of WP:AGF or WP:Bite that some might prefer archiving over reverting, so long as it's not too nasty or rev-del worthy. ——Randomstapler's alt 05:29, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Generally speaking, this kind of edit is someone mistaking a talk page with a box for search, Siri, or ChatGPT queries; which is why they don't appear as coherent sentences, why they often look like copy-pasted prompts, often homework questions, and why they often come with instructions to "read aloud", or in a "[soft/clear/female/male/etc] voice", or the language in which to translate the response to.

  They're "good-faith" edits in the sense that they're not vandalism, but they're still disruptive, they clog talk pages, and WP:TPO is very clear that they can and should be reverted. I have reverted tens of thousands of these, and I have literally never seen any of the users engage or have more than one edit, unless it's to post multiple queries in one sitting.

  At any rate, 1 day is way, way, way, way too early to archive anything. Gnomingstuff (talk) 07:24, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]