Talk:The Midwich Cuckoos

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Archive settings?[edit]

Before it gets archived, please clarify why you think the ~~shorter~~ longer times are better than the existing settings? Chaheel Riens (talk) 06:49, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your talk is directly opposite to your edition. Sawol (talk) 06:55, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Typing in a hurry, fixed. According to Cluebot a maxarchive size of 10000 is 100Kb per instance, which is plenty large enough, being (rather obviously) nearly 10,000 characters of text, not counting formatting etc. There's no need to have it any larger, nor is there any reason to change the timing to 3 months, 45 days is perfectly adequate for a thread to go stale, even on low-traffic articles. Chaheel Riens (talk) 07:07, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That's your opinion. #Archive settings? has no relations with The Midwich Cuckoos. This is inconvenient. Read Help talk:Archiving a talk page/Archive 5#Size of Archives. Open the new talk at Help talk:Archiving a talk page. And Talk:The Midwich Cuckoos is not yours. Sawol (talk) 07:46, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Now it's time for me to question the meaning behind your posts. You'll have to better explain what you're talking about if you want further useful input. Where have I made any claim of talk page ownership? And why do you think that the archive settings for the Midwich Cuckoos has nothing to do with The Midwich Cuckoos?

I literally have no idea why you linked to a closed and archived discussion, especially when the closing statement includes the phrase This is quite clearly a no-consensus situation: after rereading everything, I can't see anything that would attract substantial agreement, aside from Beeblebrox's obvious point that one editor ought not to be making major changes alone - and although I admit not "major changes" - you're the one making changes to the page; the archive settings (error notwithstanding) has been in place for over 16 months.

I think we both have better things to do here - you're quite welcome to use different settings when you set up talk page archives, and I'll not change them, but in return I'd hope you'll respect my edits and not force your own opinions on them when there is no reason or precedent to do so - and certainly no "misuse" as you initially stated. Chaheel Riens (talk) 18:12, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Johnsoniensis, WhisperToMe, Nick Cooper, Timtrent, Chiswick Chap, Paleface Jack, PatGallacher, Staecker, Alfietucker, Hebrides, LyleHoward, Rithom, Escape Orbit, Bob Emmett, ThePeg, Cyberman TM, Dger, HairyDan, Kevinalewis, Ebyabe, Jatrius, RossyG, Deathbunny, and Myleslong: User:Chaheel Riens reverted the standard archive settings as Special:Diff/1172996083. He hopes other users respect his edits although this may sound strange. Two views are as follows:

User:Chaheel Riens		User:Sawol
10,000 bytes	size	100,000 bytes
45 days	period	90 days

Talk:The Midwich Cuckoos/Archive 1 has already exceeded the size (10KB) of archives. This thread will be quickly (45 days) archived. Sawol (talk) 16:45, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This does not concern me. WP:BRD may be appropriate. This appears to be a dispute between the pair of you. Please sort it out together. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 16:55, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I was under the impression we had. Sawol thinks one way and I think another, yet both viewpoints can co-exist without stepping on each other's toes. I proposed that we leave each other to it, and use our time more wisely - so am a little surprised that Sawol has brought it up again - seeing fit to ping no less than 24 editors - after several days of inactivity. Chaheel Riens (talk) 20:57, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]