Last modified: 2013-06-18 16:19:28 UTC
It would be useful if Anonymous IP talk pages included a relatively short expiration, primarily to avoid DHCP issues. The Welcommittee is very industriously welcoming hundreds of users whose IPs may be assigned to someone else once their DSL or cable modem falls off the net.
Clarified summary, assigned to enhancements.
This would be very useful. It's quite ugly now how many school and proxy shared IPs talk pages are full of years of old warning messages. We should autodelete or autoblank them as Amgine says. Or, if that is impractical, we should tell some bot to autoarchive them for now.
This is specifically *not* done by consensus on many wikis - I would not want it enforced by the software.
(In reply to comment #3) > This is specifically *not* done by consensus on many wikis - I would not want > it enforced by the software. Indeed it's impossible, many IPs are static or their talk pages have to be kept for various reasons which need to be carefully tracked on wikis which delete IP talks, and still there are errors.
I wrote a bot to do it on he.wiki, if anyone would like to use it ever.
(In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #3) > > This is specifically *not* done by consensus on many wikis - I would not want > > it enforced by the software. > > Indeed it's impossible, many IPs are static or their talk pages have to be kept > for various reasons which need to be carefully tracked on wikis which delete IP > talks, and still there are errors. Impossible is a strong word. I don't think the requesters really care about static ips and what not, more viewing anon talk pages as ephemeral, even if they would still go to the right person after the time limit. Certainly not something that would ever get enabled in Wikimedia land though. (But I don't feel strongly enough to debate the wontfix)
