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Experienced editors but unexperienced to new editors

There is an user @Orangemike i just asked for his help for How to improve Actor Sunil Dutt's page. Because Dutt's page was incomplete and i have contributed by including important details even his Legacy section wasn't well written. I also included Tribute section of his with reliable sources but this editor removed the Tribute section. His replies -

1. A lot of your edits seem dedicated to puffing up his significance and adding unreliable sources. Those editors, by and large, have been improving it from your less impartial versions.

2. Look at recognized "Good Articles" on actors or politicians. I would also suggest finding other editors in India who are more experienced in this kind of thing. An article should not contain any material that suggests the editor was looking for praise, tributes, and compliments; but you keep adding that kind of thing back in. The chants resonated in the air by all the Congress party, the common people and communities like the Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus; Jab Tak Suraj Chand Rahega Sunil Dutt Tera Naam Rahega (As long as the sun and the moon exist, Sunil Dutt your name will remain) is embarrassing to read, much less to see in an encyclopedia article. We aren't talking about Mohandas Gandhi or even Vishram Bedekar here. I told him that give me some time I will improve it. But in return he mentioned me in Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard. What on earth is this? Did committed a crime? I just improved his page as he was a finest actor of Indian Cinema like Dilip Kumar, Devanand, etc. and his page wasn't well written unlike others. Even some of his information before were wrong and i corrected with proper source. Moreover, he said that i am obssessed with this person and making his page a memorial. This is really heart-breaking. Gooshh (talk) 13:04, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Orangemike is a very experienced Wikipedia editor, and looking at your edits in question, I would say that Orangemike has a much better understanding of Wikipedia policies and guidelines than you do. I strongly advise you to heed his advice and suggestions. Donald Albury 14:45, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
He was experienced i admit but he mentioned me on WikipediaCOnflictInterest(what the). He can explain it to me properly. I asked for his help for the improvement for the page but he will react like this i never knew. Gooshh (talk) 14:52, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Gooshh: have you notified Orangemike of this discussion? I know this isn't AN per se, this is AN's talk page, but I think notification would be at least good manners, even if not strictly a requirement. (Besides which, I'm not sure why this is being discussed on the talk page in the first place, but I guess you have your reasons.) -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 14:59, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think Donald Albury touches on those reasons. —Fortuna, imperatrix 16:50, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with Donald. No doubt Orangemike is very knowledgeable editor. I apologise for my words. But please let me contribute to wikipedia. I will be more careful. Gooshh (talk) 16:56, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Archive counter for the non-autoconfirmed noticeboard seems frozen

I just wanted to bring some attention to the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Non-autoconfirmed posts (AN/NAP) subpage, where it appears that the archive page counter in the auto-archive bot configuration is stuck at 300 since February 2020. Is this normal? Shouldn't it be always auto-archiving to the very latest (#371 as of now) archive page? — AP 499D25 (talk) 22:20, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It is set up with |maxarchivesize=700K, and Archive 300 is still less than 700K in size. But it's getting close – it is currently 672,954 bytes. Once it reaches 700K (716,800 bytes), it should move on. But manually changing |counter=300 to |counter=371 would probably be a good idea. (It hasn't archived anything since February.) —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 17:13, 12 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RfC

Pinkvilla has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. 2405:6E00:2826:CDF3:C061:2AFF:FE38:B1DC (talk) 08:37, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Word limits on ANI threads?

The recent capitalization debate shows that we might need word limits to some extent – to be able to follow the discussion, and, on a more technical level, to be able to even load the page at a reasonable speed. Has this already proposed for ANI, and would it be feasible? Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 15:10, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I really don't think it would be feasible. ANI needs to be able to talk things out, where other forums like ARB/AE have more structured designs. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 15:12, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
What we have done a few times in the past is spin off a very lenghty discussion into a subpage of ANI, with a link on ANI for as long as the discussion continued. This would solve the load issue for ANI. Archiving long-dead subsections may also in some cases be a feasible solution. A word limit is not a good idea in my opinion.
Fram (talk) 16:10, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
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It's not a good thing when User talk:EEng is shorter. With that said, subpages might work better, as Fram said. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 16:43, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I've noticed in the last few days that scrolling has become a bit difficult without losing the discussion. I think we should be a little more aggressive about imposing Fram's ideas.
Phil Bridger (talk) 16:50, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply
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I almost removed the third long thread, but I wasn't sure it was dead for long enough. I think I'll do it again just because of how dire the situation is. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 16:51, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I did just remove the CAPS thread, as it was closed. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 16:55, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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