Talk:French horn/Archive 2

Archive talk page?
I feel that it would be useful to set up automatic archiving of this page, which is getting quite long and goes back 10-11 years. Does anyone else have a view on this, please? DBaK (talk) 08:39, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I agree. How does one go about establishing such a thing?—Jerome Kohl (talk) 15:56, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Well, assuming that no-one is unhappy with it  (hoho, this is Wikipedia, get real sonny)  then after a decent interval - say, a week - I could have a go at setting it up. I have both done it myself with only moderate screaming and crying, and, perhaps more usefully, have watched proper grown-ups doing it, so I would be happy to try. Best wishes DBaK (talk) 16:42, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Unhappy editors will be encouraged to sit in a comfy chair until they cheer up. Page seems ripe for archiving. Just plain Bill (talk) 17:13, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the responses. Well, I have had a go. Traditionally there may then follow some or all of these: Hope this helps, or will have helped, or willen haven ongehelppt, depending upon when you are reading this. Best to all, DBaK (talk) 09:51, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Turns out I messed it up and have to redo it 94 times. It's a learning thing.
 * Nine outraged editors emerge to express their deep unhappiness at the archiving. We have a big row, followed by tea and cake.
 * It sort-of works (though not at once - the documentation warns of likely delays), but I have to do some sorting out by hand of initial anomalies during the first runs; these are sometimes but not always caused by strangenesses in the date format in ancient threads, and it is usually faster to just fix them with C&P by "hand" than to try to massage them into a righteous glow and wait for the bot to pick them up, which is just annoying.
 * I go back to sleep for another year or two.
 * Please see progress note at the (current) top of this page. DBaK (talk) 17:10, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Update: the bot that I tried to use is not running at the moment. I have tried to change it to the other option. DBaK (talk) 21:53, 13 April 2017 (UTC)