Template talk:GOCEinuse

proposals for improving template
1. Remove "several" regarding hours and just pick an amount. 3 or 24 or whatever. Since we already say please and consider, we don't need to add more weaseling.

2. Also, direct interested, held-up potential editors to list their edits on the article talk page (rather than directing them to GOC project page).

TCO (talk) 18:58, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Wording
The present wording to me looks a bit too self serving. I would simplify "Thanks for your patience and cooperation while we improve the quality of Wikipedia" to "Thank you for your patience". Feezo (send a signal | watch the sky) 11:56, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

I've made the change, since there were no objections. Feezo (send a signal | watch the sky) 18:59, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

Timing on tag
I think something is off on the timestamp of the tag. The problem is not in the actual timestamp of the last edit but in parenthesis after the timestamp which never seems to update correctly. Like I checked an article that I had put the tag on a few hours before and the parenthesis after the timestamp said "1 second ago". Hope someone can fix this problem or let me know if it just me. Karthanitesh (talk) 18:13, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
 * You have to WP:PURGE or WP:NULLEDIT the page to see an accurate time stamp. The template can't be programmed to fix this on its own. It is a shortcoming throughout WP. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:51, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Ahh, thank you. If that is the case, why is the parenthesis part necessary? People can determine whether it has been 24 hours by looking at the rest of the timestamp. Not a criticism but a suggestion. Similarly, we could add a purge link to the template so that way users can click and update the timestamp. Karthanitesh (talk) 18:02, 13 July 2017 (UTC)
 * That's a decent idea. I have updated the template to try to explain it better. Take a look at it now, in (for example) Expulsion of Chileans from Bolivia and Peru in 1879. Feedback is welcome. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:00, 13 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Works really well for me. Thanks for editing it! -Karthanitesh (talk) 23:26, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

Any way to incorporate {Bots}?
It would be useful to piggyback (or similar) either literally or effectively along with this template. A/The? solution might be to hardcode AWB to recognize this template (and aliases) directly, but it would be easier & faster to softcode it here, if possible. The only way I can think of is to require a careful combination of safe/WP:SUBSTing GOCEinuse & Bots, but that would probably be a breaking change. Does anyone know another way? ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 23:21, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * It looks like this feature is already hard-coded into AWB based on the 22nd section of this page (I can't link to it properly since the section title includes a -ed template). Might be worth a test to see if it's working if you have AWB privileges.  Titan  Andromeda  01:17, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Indeed, AWB stops processing and gives the user a popup that says 'This page has the "Inuse" tag, consider skipping it', so that *is* good. But I think (5+ months ago now...) I was looking/hoping for AWB to have a reaction similar to when it encounters, where AWB auto-skips the page, and continues processing without requiring user input. It's not a big deal though.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  20:40, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
 * @Tom.Reding On the skip criteria page, you can set it up so the inuse causes you to skip the page automatically, as you suggest. I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 18:37, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Behavior on Wikipedia namespace pages
I updated this template in order to prevent the template from adding WP:GOCE/T to its hidden category for pages that have it transcluded for more than 24 hours. It suppresses that feature if it's transcluded on a page in the Wikipedia namespace.

I tested the change out on the template's sandbox and on Sandbox before implementing it, but if my change has caused any problems please revert them and let me know. Titan Andromeda  01:06, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Good idea! After looking at the population of the category, I changed your approach slightly, using main other in order to limit the "staleness check" to main (article) space. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:58, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks, even better! Titan  Andromeda  03:02, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

Text in bold
Is it necessary for the word "article" to appear in bold in the template? It doesn't feel necessary. What do others think? Toccata quarta (talk) 11:56, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
 * The word "article" changes to "section" when yes is set. The bolding is not strictly necessary, but I don't see the harm in it. I would not object to be bolding being removed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:44, 19 September 2020 (UTC)