User talk:Andrew Davidson/Archive 3

Latest comment: 4 years ago by Andrew Davidson in topic Archiving

Archiving edit

  Hello. It appears your talk page is becoming quite lengthy and is in need of archiving. According to Wikipedia's user talk page guidelines; "Large talk pages become difficult to read, strain the limits of older browsers, and load slowly over slow internet connections. As a rule of thumb, archive closed discussions when a talk page exceeds 75 KB or has multiple resolved or stale discussions." - this talk page is 537 KB. See Help:Archiving a talk page for instructions on how to manually archive your talk page, or to arrange for automatic archiving using a bot. If you have any questions, place a {{help me}} notice on your talk page, or go to the help desk. Thank you. --Jax 0677 (talk) 16:15, 14 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

  • I archive manually and that takes time and effort. Checking others, I find that EEng is about 1110K and DGG is about 740K. The latter has topical archives and that's a format that I like so I'll be comparing notes to see how they manage their larger talk pages. I don't want to invest too much effort into a custom format though because the WMF is working on this too and WP:TPC19 may provide a general solution. Apropos the AfD, I do like Canned Heat's On the Road Again which is on my cycling playlist. Recommendations of other good tracks are also welcome. Andrew D. (talk) 18:11, 14 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

Your talk page has 404,142 bytes of markup. Please archve most of it (and do so regularly). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:09, 27 January 2020 (UTC)Reply

  • I spent some time in the New Year period setting up a suitable structure and archived or cleared about 150K. Andrew🐉(talk) 11:59, 28 January 2020 (UTC)Reply