Wikipedia talk:Special:ShortPages
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Explanation for "Long comment to avoid being listed on short pages": User talk:Necrothesp/Archive 4#long comment
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Long comment
editSince Bot1058 automatically removes the long comment from pages in Category:Long monitored short pages, should we add a note to the special page not to long comment pages over a certain size? Although the problem is infrequent, when someone long comments a page over 256 bytes (before such comment), Bot1058 immediately removes the long comment on its next check. This recently happened at Pincushion moss, which was already 256 bytes to begin with. Jalen Barks (Woof) 14:59, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
- Update: threshold now at 246 bytes with the recent update to the Long comment. I've submitted a report of this to the Bot1058 Talk page, still awaiting a response. Jalen Barks (Woof) 15:34, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
More types of pages to exclude
editThe top of this report is loaded with pages that transclude {{Surname}} and {{Set index}}and {{TempUndelete}} and {{Copyvio}}. It is basically impossible to find actual short pages that are a problem. How can we get pages with these templates excluded from the report? Is there a database report that provides better data? If so, how do we get it linked from the top of this page? – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:41, 25 April 2025 (UTC)
- Yes, change the system to avoid surname pages being added to this list, which results in editors spending time adding templates and comments (very clumsily in this and other cases) to perfectly ordinary surname pages which are quite legitimately short and may or may not expand over time. PamD 11:09, 17 August 2025 (UTC)