Wikipedia talk:Administrators' noticeboard

AirshipJungleman20 / Maxim Masiutin

@ScottishFinnishRadish regarding your close, I suggest you add something to the effect of "no action taken against AirshipJungleman29", since this was notionally a complaint against them which deserves to be officially dismissed. RoySmith (talk) 14:02, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

All set. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 14:12, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Archive question

If an ANI is archived but still open, does adding a comment un-archive or do I have to manually do something? Orange sticker (talk) 11:13, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

If an ANI discussion has not been closed (being pedantic for technical purposes) but has been archived by a bot, then continuing the discussion in the archive will do no good. If there is a good reason to continue the discussion, it should be un-archived: cut it from the archive and paste into a new section. Be sure to include a new statement and signature so that the bot doesn't turn around and re-archive it. Primefac (talk) 11:16, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, sounds tricky but I'll have a go! Orange sticker (talk) 11:17, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

Is it necessary to notify users for TPA removal requests?

What I've said in the title.

It precisely says, "When starting a discussion about a user, you must notify ...", and I don't see a TPA removal request as an actual discussion, rather, just a simple task to be answered yes or no by an admin.

I am quite not sure what the point of doing it is, as the blocked user is blocked from editing AN/I and so won't be able to jump in and respond anyway.

Perhaps we could change the wording of the "You must notify ..." banner to reflect this. — AP 499D25 (talk) 14:14, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

If you are discussing the potential removal of TPA for a blocked user, it is a discussion and therefore they must be notified. Must means must; if someone's name is showing up at AN or ANI, they should be notified. Just because they cannot respond here does not mean they cannot respond at all. Primefac (talk) 14:47, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

Useful protip that should be mentioned somewhere

While searching through the archives of this talk page, I discovered, by accident, that AN and AN/I archives actually have automatically created talk pages on them (example), and those talk pages contain a table with an index of all the discussions on the archive page, with indicators of length (bytes) for each section (including sub-sections). From a glance you can see how long or short a thread is, as well as if there are additional sub-topics within it, and you can read all the thread names much more quickly and easily than through the table of contents on the archive page.

How is this incredibly useful feature not mentioned anywhere on the banner or on info pages?!? — AP 499D25 (talk) 14:30, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

Feel free to add it if you find a good spot for it. –Novem Linguae (talk) 16:18, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

Edit notice

The edit notice currently reads:

This noticeboard is for issues affecting administrators generally – announcements, notifications, information, and other matters of general administrator interest.

If your post is about a specific problem you have (a dispute, user, help request, or other narrow issue needing an administrator), you should post it at the Administrators' noticeboard for incidents (ANI) instead. Thank you.

I think it would be more accurate to reword it:

This noticeboard is for general administrative issues – announcements, notifications, information, and other matters of general administration interest.

If your post is about a specific problem you have (a dispute, user, help request, or other narrow issue needing an administrator), you should post it at the Administrators' noticeboard for incidents (ANI) instead. Thank you.

The current wording gives the misleading impression of the purpose of this board (the title has a related issue; I believe it would be better titled WP:Administration noticeboard, but that's a different discussion). BilledMammal (talk) 07:13, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Every noticeboard deals with administration in some way. AN does wind up serving as a "catch all" noticeboard sometimes, but that's not really the intention. ⇌ Jake Wartenberg 14:09, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

The current message (and title) fits my understanding of this page better: it's a noticeboard for administrators. If it wasn't, we'd need one, because admins do a lot of work that are not relevant or interesting to other editors (though of course they are always welcome to follow and participate in discussions). – Joe (talk) 14:35, 3 July 2024 (UTC)