Wikipedia talk:Closure requests

Awesome job folks

I think this is the least number of open closure requests I've ever seen when visiting this page. Great job, closers. Thank you. –Novem Linguae (talk) 11:59, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

Tools to make summaries easier

It seems that providing a description of the participation level (e.g., "100 comments" or "50 editors") increases editors' perception that the closer has done a good job. There is a tool for doing this, but you'll have to opt in. Go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures and turn on "Discussion Tools". Every ==Section== on a Talk: page (but not yet, sadly, the Village Pumps^[*]) will get a "topic container" that says when the last comment was made in that section, how many comments have been made, and how many unique users/accounts have posted comments.

Some of you may already have this turned on, since it's part of the package that brought us the Reply tool.

[*] Until User:PPelberg (WMF) deploys it everywhere, you can trigger it as a one-off on a Village pump or any other non-talk page by going to the regular page URL (e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous), not with a #Section_heading in the URL) and adding this magic code: ?dtenable=1 (and then reload the page). For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)?dtenable=1 WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:37, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

About a closing of an RfC

Hello. I had an RfC but it seemingly went snowy. But I realized only a couple of editors were uninvolved from a previous RfC on the topic and all the involved ones except, I think, one, had voted in the same way in the previous RfC. I had requested to allow for a couple more editors with a different leaning to provide insights before closing but I was accused of soliciting. The RfC was closed by an involved editor. I appreciate your insights. Regards, Thinker78 (talk) 00:42, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Do we need the "Place new discussions above" as headings?

The TOC is quite cluttered, especially for those working with the new skin. Is it possible to omit these headings? Or will the bot break if we do that? —Femke 🐦 (talk) 10:26, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

@Femke: No, because ClueBot III archives from one level 3 heading (inclusive) to the next level 3 heading (exclusive), even if there is an intervening level 2 heading. It took us well over a year of broken archives to work that out; and since Cobi refuses to fix the bot, we're stuck with a redundant level 3 heading above every level 2 heading. The one at the very bottom of the page is in fact completely unnecessary, but it's there to balance up the page. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:58, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

anrfc-lister user script has been repaired

Hello all. I ran across Ajbura's anrfc-lister script. It's a great idea, but it wasn't working and Ajbura hasn't edited in a year, so I fixed it up. I think I got all the bugs out if you want to try it out: User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/anrfc-lister.js. Don't forget to remove the Ajbura version if you have it installed, to avoid the script double loading. Please report any bugs or feature requests. Happy editing :) –Novem Linguae (talk) 11:20, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

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@Levivich: –Novem Linguae (talk) 11:26, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

@Carleas –Novem Linguae (talk) 00:59, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

@Novem Linguae, I used it once and quickly discovered it didn't work, with it putting my RfC listing down the bottom below the misc listings, and discontinued usage. Thanks for the advise that it's been repaired. TarnishedPath^talk 11:42, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

@Novem Linguae, and thanks heaps for your hard work repairing it. Stuff like this is a real quality of life improvement. TarnishedPath^talk 11:45, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Good to know. Thanks @Novem Linguae. NW1223<Howl at me•My hunts> 13:35, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the ping I'll try it out! {{u|Gtoffoletto}}  ^talk 15:57, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Haven't tested it yet, but I'm AGF that it works—I've seen NL do good technical work at least once or twice—and I'm grateful for the fix. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 18:25, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Close peer review

If someone has the time, I would appreciate a peer review of this close. For background, see this discussion and this discussion on my talk page, as well as this discussion at the CESSPIT. voorts (talk/contributions) 18:04, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

In the name of Jesus, Mary, Joseph, and all the saints and apostles, will you get a clue and stop beating this dead horse? Find something useful to do and stop wasting people's time in your endless search for approbation for what you've been told over and over was a huge boner on your part. EEng 21:45, 1 January 2024 (UTC)