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Airport destination lists sourcing RfC

Hi there,

I'm leaving this message because you contributed to the recent RfC regarding the inclusion of airport destination lists. As promised, now that that RfC has closed, I've initiated a further discussion about the sourcing standards to be applied to these lists.

If you wish to contribute to the discussion, please do so at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Airport destination lists - sourcing requirements.

Cheers! Danners430 _{tweaks made} 15:02, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks Benjamin (talk) 06:13, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

Archving

Hi - would you consider setting up archiving on your talk page? It's at the size now where it's becoming difficult to load and navigate. You can get bots to do this for you, and I'd be more than happy setting it up for you if you so choose.

Many thanks! Danners430 _{tweaks made} 15:04, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

Yes, do I have to make any decisions about how it is to be done? Benjamin (talk) 06:29, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

Only a few basic ones…

• Do you want sequential (where the next archive is created when the first is full) or monthly/yearly archives (one archive per month/year)?
• How long you want discussions to be “stale” for before they get archived
• How many (if any) discussions you want left on your talk page

Danners430 _{tweaks made} 07:00, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

Sequential seems fine I guess. How about archiving everything at least two years old, once a year? Benjamin (talk) 08:56, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

It's possible, and wouldn't be a problem to have it be two years - most folk have much shorter periods though... the value used in the "easy setup" subst template is 30 days, and I've got mine set to 7 days.

The bot also doesn't run once a year - it runs constantly, on average once per day... so as soon as a message reaches the threshold for archiving in terms of age, it gets archived usually within a day (providing there's still sufficient other discussions on the talk page, although you can set that parameter to zero if you want an empty talk :-) ) Danners430 _{tweaks made} 09:01, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

I'd rather not have the bot run very often. Benjamin (talk) 07:29, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

There isn't a parameter to "slow it down" as such… the best option might be to use the parameter which tells the bot how many threads to archive at once, so it only runs when, say, 5 threads are ready to be archived - that should mean it only runs infrequently, once five threads are ready for archiving Danners430 _{tweaks made} 07:44, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

How about running just once per archive page? Benjamin (talk) 08:18, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Seems like the bot missed some? Also I don't want the template at the top of my talk page, except to display the archive. Benjamin (talk) 08:23, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

I'm afraid the parameter to control how many it archives at once isn't that granular - we absolutely could set it to something like 30 or 40? The reason it's missed some is there's another parameter that sets a minimum number of threads to be left on the talk page - that can be set to zero if you like… I have mine set to 2 so there's always something here to not discourage discussion. Can change the header from a talk header to {{Archives}} too :) Danners430 _{tweaks made} 08:26, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

No I mean it seems to have left a thread that's older than others that were archived. Shouldn't they go in order? Benjamin (talk) 08:47, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Oh - my guess is it's because it was unsigned (no signature added)… can be manually archived. I'll get that in just a sec. Danners430 _{tweaks made} 11:01, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

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