Wikipedia talk:Help desk#Recent constant use of the resolved template

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Westie4680 (talk) 07:42, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

I would like to edit please

:{{not done}}: You are able to edit on most pages. If you are unable to, leave a message on the associated talk page with what you want to edit. For articles, it is best to quote what you want changed and give proposed text with a reliable source provided. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 07:54, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

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I need you help me to publish my page. Ishuri (talk) 20:56, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

:File:Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Cannolis (talk) 21:01, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

{{atop|reason=Blocked vandal-only. A certain LTA IP spammer for several months is why. 2601AC47 (talk·contribs·my rights) Isn't a IP anon 22:09, 15 January 2025 (UTC)}}

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Why is the help desk semi protected I want to ask a question about templates SnowyOhio (talk) 17:20, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

:SnowyOhio the Helpdesk is semi protected due to abusive editing. Ask your question here and it can be moved. TSventon (talk) 17:24, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

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Something (likely on the Mediawiki side) has changed, and the RD/HD archiving bot 'scsbot' has stopped working. For the moment, date headers are not being automatically added to the help desk, and old entries are not being archived. It's not immediately obvious what changed or what went wrong, and unfortunately I'm fantastically busy in real life at the moment, so I'm not sure how soon I'll able to dig in and fix this. All apologies. —scs (talk) 11:29, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

:I have been doing cut and paste archiving, but I support a suggestion from {{u|Future Perfect at Sunrise}} at RD talk {{tq|I'll reiterate something I must have said some time before: we should take this opportunity and simply switch the whole reference desk archiving to a standard bot setup as used on all other talk pages and noticeboards. The ref desk setup with its baroque pattern of archiving and indexing by days might have been useful ten years ago when the volume of questions was much higher, but it's long been overkill and useless ballast. A simple sequence of numbered sequential archives and a standard archiving bot will work just fine.}} TSventon (talk) 21:19, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

::Agree. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:20, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

::Well, the help desk is approaching 100K now, which is when I would normally step in and archive a day or two by hand. Unless someone objects in the next 24 hours, I will instead remove the remaining date headers, add a User:MiszaBot/config, and let the standard archiving bot take over. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:10, 27 March 2025 (UTC)

:::I have no objection. I am still not sure when I will have time to even attempt to repair the ailing scsbot. —scs (talk) 12:11, 27 March 2025 (UTC)

:::I just dropped by to say thanks for working on this and that the lack of day headers is a dream on mobile. I don't really know much about auto-archiving and I would suggest that questions stay for as long as possible - balanced with page loading times. Commander Keane (talk) 09:58, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

::::I've made the switch - I hope! Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives and Template:Help desk archives will each need a further edit once the first new archive has been created. I've set the auto-archiving to four days, but that can be adjusted any time the page seems too long or too short. -- John of Reading (talk) 10:36, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

::::: And... Just in the nick of time... Not!, I've managed to install a workaround to get poor ol' scsbot limping along again. It's chewing through its backlog over at the Reference Desks, but I've reconfigured it so it won't worry about the Help Desk any more.

::::: Thanks, John, for taking the initiative to call in MiszaBot. —scs (talk) 00:45, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

Just curious. it says vandalism but does anyone know what the vandal/s did? mgjertson (talk) (contribs) 13:05, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

:We try not to feed the trolls, but the simple answer is long-term abuse. Unfortunately, that's come at the expense of inexperienced editors. I haven't been keeping up with how well the {{Help me}} userpage template is working out, but clearly it's still around and will do for now. Departure– (talk) 13:43, 1 April 2025 (UTC)