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"Maryland Welcomes You" road sign, c. October 1981.png

Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 19:23, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Page cleanup?

I'd like to gauge the interest of removing location-specific images and only have images found in the national MUTCD. The MUTCD is inherently flexible, so it's not necessary to list every example. I would not be against creating Road signs in X pages for those locations that have their own manuals. –Fredddie ™ 19:30, 17 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the cleanup. There's a reason why there's a supplement specifically for signage. There's also a new edition expected next year. There's just going to be more examples to use. (For instance, RRFBs will definitely be added) – The Grid (talk) 02:48, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia editors at large are very good at creating exhaustive lists of instances rather than explaining why anything does anything. This article doesn't explain the importance of sign shape and color at all! I suppose I'll start a draft and see where it goes. –Fredddie ™ 03:11, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Unarchived discussions

I recently replied to archived discussions, which means unarchiving them.

When nobody has replied to a discussion for over a week, they tend to get archived. What about unarchiving them after somebody has replied? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.241.14.29 (talk) 21:26, 19 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for raising this concern. Per WP:ARCHIVE#Continuing discussions we shall restore the thread that has been archived prematurely, such as when it is still relevant to current work or was not concluded by unarchiving it by copying it back to the talk page from the archive, and deleting it from the archive. Is it still relevant? A09090091 (talk) 21:29, 19 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It is still relevant. 50.241.14.29 (talk) 21:38, 19 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It is current set that if a year goes by since the last comment on a thread, it will be archived. So the original contention that they get archived here after a week is false.^[1] After that long (and many talk pages are set to shorter intervals), the discussion has gone quite stale. That doesn't mean it can't be resumed. Either someone can copy the section back from the archive, or just start a new discussion and link to the archived version. Imzadi 1979 → 01:29, 20 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The IP in question is evading a block on user:Kaguyafromtouhouproject Meters (talk) 03:23, 20 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion should have already been archived back in 2017. The way the last comment was signed in 2016 is not standard so the bot never picked it up. The discussion is just not relevant, even added "there is now" adds nothing to the conversation. – The Grid (talk) 13:52, 20 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

^ The bot hadn't been set up, so it archived a bunch at once, all older than a year. The earliest this thread could be archived is May 2023 unless someone does so early or the parameters are shortened.

[1] The bot hadn't been set up, so it archived a bunch at once, all older than a year. The earliest this thread could be archived is May 2023 unless someone does so early or the parameters are shortened.

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 Participate in the deletion discussion at the [[commons:Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Illegitimate Barrister|nomination page]]. —[[User:Community Tech bot|Community Tech bot]] ([[User talk:Community Tech bot|talk]]) 19:23, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
-== New examples of regulatory signs ==
-Back then, only prohibition sign were in the "Signs such as… …are considered regulatory signs" section. Can we also include mandatory signs in the section? [[Special:Contributions/2601:C6:C580:6B20:6DCB:7C3A:1FB0:7D9D|2601:C6:C580:6B20:6DCB:7C3A:1FB0:7D9D]] ([[User talk:2601:C6:C580:6B20:6DCB:7C3A:1FB0:7D9D|talk]]) 16:47, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
-::I'm open to considering adding additional examples, but not by removing the ones that exist. {{u|Imzadi1979}} reverted your edit because they have concerns with it, so you need to discuss why the changes you want to make are an improvement or otherwise needed per [[WP:BRD]]. I am not sure I understand your reasoning above. If two editors have concerns about your edit, do not reinstate the edit, because there is clearly no consensus for it, at least not yet. [[User:Mdewman6|Mdewman6]] ([[User talk:Mdewman6|talk]]) 18:54, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
 == Page cleanup? ==