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| ==Question== | |||
| The 'general discussion' section has been blank for 2-3 days - either the MP has not managed to catch people's attention or the archive bot has been too zealous. Which? ] (]) 14:08, 9 December 2015 (UTC) | |||
| :The bot is supposed to leave a minimum of two threads on this page, but it doesn't appear to be happening (). The main page error report probably counts as one thread (even if empty), but I would still expect to see one thread remaining. Pinging {{ping|Σ}}, the bot's owner, to see if he can explain this. ] (]) 15:58, 9 December 2015 (UTC) | |||
| :Why do we need threads here at all? If there is nothing to discuss, why do we need to keep viewing stale discussions? --]] 16:01, 9 December 2015 (UTC) | |||
| ::One reason is that it shows newbies where to post questions. When faced with a blank page they may feel they are in the wrong place. ] (]) 16:10, 9 December 2015 (UTC) | |||
| :::Could have added 'or some glitch' to my question. | |||
| The nature of the main page is that it generates an intermittent discussion on one component or another - so if there is 'persistent blankness' something is off-kilter. ] (]) 17:36, 9 December 2015 (UTC) | |||
| :I don't agree that persistent blankness indicates that something is wrong. Often there is nothing about the main page that needs comment. Many new user postings here are spam (quickly removed), or in the wrong place anyway (there's a big box that tells you where you want to go for most things that is often apparently invisible). Nevertheless I've upped the minimum threads from 2 to 3 on the basis that the "main page error reports" and "general discussion" level-1 headings both probably count as threads for the bot's purpose. ]] 17:40, 9 December 2015 (UTC) | |||
| ::Jayron likes to remove threads he personally dislikes. Doesn't seem to care about discussion at all. ] (]) 00:50, 11 December 2015 (UTC) | |||
| :::That's an interesting accusation. Could you link to a diff of me removing a thread from this page? --]] 12:08, 14 December 2015 (UTC) | |||
| ::::You mean like how you cleared out a thread recently after accusing people of MRAs because it was pointed out that the outrage at only one sex being represented was non-existent?] (]) 06:45, 17 December 2015 (UTC) | |||
| :::::I have no memory of this event. Could you include some diffs of me removing such a thread? --]] 16:35, 17 December 2015 (UTC) | |||
| ::Subjectively one accepts that 'the bots' will occasionally 'get ahead of themselves' with the discussions, and that most entries on the MP will excite no particular comment (but are likely to elicit traffic to the various pages in question) - but if the talk page is empty for longer than a day one wonders if there is a glitch or something. ] (]) 10:22, 11 December 2015 (UTC) | |||
| :A solution which was used in some printed technical manuals (and may still be for all I know) was to include the self-contradictory phrase "This page intentionally left blank" on pages which would otherwise have nothing on them. Can "There are no discussions at present" or similar be automatically displayed when this section would otherwise contain nothing, thus preventing the impression that Something is Wrong. ] (]) 12:13, 15 December 2015 (UTC) | |||
| ::Why is this even a problem? The error reports sections often have nothing in them, but people seem to be able to figure them out when they are blank. Do people really have more difficulty figuring it out when the General Discussion section is empty? Isn't the purpose of the "edit source" links to show you where to click to add something? I see no reason to leave old discussions up when they are no longer active. If that leaves the section empty, so what? --] (]) 16:29, 15 December 2015 (UTC) | |||
| ::For the record, MediaWiki also has an ]: ]. It displays ] so it could really be blanked if wanted. ] (]) 16:39, 15 December 2015 (UTC) | |||
| :::The point I was making is that it is 'somewhat unusual' for the MP talk page to be totally blank, especially for more than a day; and there #are# occasional glitches with pages - and there should be some entries which promote discussion (but not necessarily complaints). ] (]) 17:07, 16 December 2015 (UTC) | |||
| == Errors in the summary of the language section == | |||
| When I enter the main page of English wikipedia, the Kurdish section(kurdî) seems like it isn't found, please can you solve it or tell me the reason?--] (]) 15:44, 17 December 2015 (UTC) | |||
| :Because, according to , it has c.20,000 articles, and the lists at the foot of the Main Page say that they only list Wikipedias with 50,000 articles+ --] (]) 15:55, 17 December 2015 (UTC) | |||
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