User talk:68.97.131.85

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Sincerely, Walter Görlitz (talk) 19:08, 23 February 2022 (UTC)   (Leave me a message)

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Walter Görlitz (talk) 19:08, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks 68.97.131.85 (talk) 20:52, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

I have a template Idea

Can someone help make this template idea for me? I’ve been thinking of making a “Defunct Article” template for articles that have been largely inactive. This way, editors won’t have to waste their time on articles that haven’t been edited for nearly 3-9 years. If someone can help me make one that’d be helpful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.97.131.85 (talk) 20:06, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

Editing an "abandoned" article is actually the opposite of a time waste; we want people to update information when appropriate. If a specific, low-quality abandoned article seems to have genuinely fallen through the cracks and shouldn't exist anymore, you can nominate it for procedural deletion, so we don't have to rely on people reacting well to being told what to do. I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 20:27, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

I agree with I dream of horses. This isn't really a help request, more of an edit request, but I don't see the purpose in such a template, in particular, I wouldn't describe editing such pages as "wasting time"-- if anything, those pages should be drawn to. Naleksuh (talk) 20:28, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

@I dream of horses @Naleksuh Apologies for not being on time with responding, nor being specific on what I meant. My proposal was only to let editors know that the article has been largely inactive, that’s all. My bad for putting “waste their time”, I should have been careful and used different words. 68.97.131.85 (talk) 22:08, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

There's no reason to inform people that the article has been largely inactive on the article itself. We already have Wikiproject Abandoned Articles, which articles can be added to via a talk page template. I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 22:14, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Oh, I didn’t know that, apologies for the inconvenience I have brought. 68.97.131.85 (talk) 22:41, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

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