Forum:SH:Unaddressed talk page messages

Given the ever-changing nature of the Recent Changes log, talk page messages tend to be buried and forgotten by newer edits. This informal repository of talk pages serves to highlight messages that have yet to be addressed by other Wookieepedians. Feel free to add to this list if you encounter a talk page message that you cannot directly address immediately, and remove items if they have been resolved. Users pending a response to their messages may be specified for convenience's sake on long or busy talk pages. OOM 224 22:30, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

List of unaddressed messages

Canon

• Talk:PLX-1
• Talk:Galactic Republic "1019 BBY vs 1032 BBY"
• Talk:Claimsies
• Talk:Sweebotta's species

Legends

• Talk:Executor-class Star Dreadnought/Legends "Power output statistics"
• Talk:RHTC-560 HT Drone
• Talk:Versafunction88 datapad
• Talk:Minstrel-class space yacht/Legends "The Far Orbit Project?"
• Talk:Raff Syndicate "Nunk is one of many leaders of the Raff Syndicate."
• Talk:Maris Brood "Concept art from Wii"
• Talk:Caamas Firestorm + Talk:Base Delta Zero/Legends "The Essential Atlas (2009) a later source than Starships of the Galaxy Saga Edition (2007), says Caamas was devastated by mercenaries."
• Talk:Carnor Jax "Did Carnor Jax destroy Palpatine's clones twice?"
• Talk:Coruscant/Legends "Continuity Errors"
• Talk:Progenitor "Force Sensitive or Species trait?"
• Talk:Atha Prime/Legends "Skye"
• Systems: Talk:Maltoria system + Talk:Esfandia system/Legends + Talk:Rhigar system + Talk:Glee Anselm system
• Talk:Brandei
• Talk:Meetra Surik "Why is her Character Infobox still labeled as "Jedi" despite being exiled?"
• Talk:Diophos Spur
• Talk:Acklay-class mobile fortress

OOU

• Talk:Timeline of Legends media "Jedi Academy: Leviathan misplaced" + "Place Paradise Lost before Sabotage" + "UK Magazine (Volumes 6 and 7) comics depicting Ahsoka"
• Talk:YT-2400 Freighter Expansion Pack "Merge or redirect please"
• Talk:Episode I Snapshot
• Talk:Maestro (video game)
• Talk:Star Wars Handbook 3: Dark Empire
• Talk:The Essential Atlas "Laratos system"

Recent changes to article talk pages

Discussion

• Does this list have to be limited to recent threads, or can older ones that remain unresolved (e.g., Talk:Ten Numb#Who played this guy?) also be listed here? Asithol (talk) 15:49, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
  • Yeah that makes sense, I guess those can be listed here as well. OOM 224 06:43, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
• This. Is. Brilliant. MasterFred(talk) (he/him) 08:45, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
• In the Recent changes to article talk pages section, is there a way to filter out changes made by a bot, since those will never need to be "addressed" in any meaningful sense, and the number of them only obscures those links having legitimate recent discussion? Asithol (talk) 02:33, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
  • Jocasta isn't marked as a bot so that her edits are seen in the RC, so there isn't a way to filter it out afaik. JediMasterMacaroni^(Talk) 03:41, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
    • OK, then I guess my question is, shouldn't JocastaBot be marked as a bot? Asithol (talk) 22:02, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
      • (outdented cascade ↵)
• (outdented from above) @Asithol & JediMasterMacaroni: The rationale for JocastaBot not having the bot flag is, as Master Macaroni said, that "we prefer nomination archiving to be visible in Special:RecentChanges by default". But I think part of the issue is, as that same about/documentation page says, "It performs several steps" — per action. For example, the recent successful CAN for Hibinacho juice resulted in all of the following JocastaBot edits:

• 00:33, 6 January 2023 +153‎  m Wookieepedia:WookieeProject The High Republic/Comprehensive ‎ Adding new CA: Hibinacho juice
• 00:33, 6 January 2023 +234‎  m Wookieepedia:WookieeProject Novels/Comprehensive Articles ‎ Adding new CA: Hibinacho juice
• 00:33, 6 January 2023 0‎  m User:JocastaBot/Rankings/2023 ‎ Updating Rankings: +1 CA for User:JediMasterMacaroni
• 00:33, 6 January 2023 +1,148‎  m User talk:JediMasterMacaroni ‎ Notifying user about new CA: Hibinacho juice
• 00:33, 6 January 2023 +161‎  m Wookieepedia:Comprehensive article nominations/History ‎ Archiving Wookieepedia:Comprehensive article nominations/Hibinacho juice
• 00:33, 6 January 2023 +280‎  N Talk:Hibinacho juice ‎ Creating talk page with article nomination
• 00:33, 6 January 2023 +232‎  m Wookieepedia:Comprehensive article nominations/Hibinacho juice ‎ Archiving successful nomination
• 00:33, 6 January 2023 −7‎  m Hibinacho juice ‎ Successful CAN current
• 00:33, 6 January 2023 −22‎  m Wookieepedia:Comprehensive article nominations ‎ Archiving Hibinacho juice

That's nine separate edits, and all for a single conceptual action on JocastaBot's part. It feels like a fair question to ask, do all of those actions need to be visible in the RC list? At least some of them seem like they fall below the threshold of "nomination archiving" that needs to be visible in Recent Changes, at least from my perspective. Like (for starters, and most obviously) the update to its own rankings page, the edit to notify the nominating user (which — heh — was Master Macaroni, in this case), or the edits to the various WookieeProject pages.

Perhaps — though, let me say, I do fully appreciate the work involved in what I'm suggesting — JocastaBot's activities would be better handled by two separate bots (or separate bot instances): one without the bot flag, which handles major actions that require monitoring, and a second with the bot flag to handle the "housekeeping"?

I don't even know if this would address Asithol's concern re: the article talk page edits, TBH. Perhaps not, perhaps "Creating talk page with article nomination" is one of the edits that would be deemed necessary to remain visible in the RC list. But just in general, shunting some of the housekeeping edits over to a "true" bot would cut down on the overall RC churn significantly. Just a thought, but probably one that'd understandably be rejected for having too low a cost:benefit ratio. I'm completely willing to accept that, just wanted to get it out there anyway. FeRDNYC (talk) 02:25, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

• • You bring up an interesting thought, particularly for a user with only a couple edits on this wiki, but at the end of the day I think it probably would indeed be too much work for such a minor issue - and we don't like to poke Jocasta's creator, Cade Calrayn, unless it's something of great importance :P JediMasterMacaroni^(Talk) 02:31, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
    • I've left multiple messages on talk pages over the past few years that have been buried and lost. Not easy to have a discussion about clearing some small pages when it's been buried. - Noash Retrac (talk) 02:44, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
      • Ditto. Red Heathen (talk) 05:13, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

at the risk of bumping an old thread thus looks like a good idea. SeichanGrey (talk) 17:55, 2 September 2024 (UTC)