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::*''"Because of the nature of this wiki"'' I showed in my first post that this is '''not''' the nature of this wiki, nor of any wiki. | ::*''"Because of the nature of this wiki"'' I showed in my first post that this is '''not''' the nature of this wiki, nor of any wiki. | ||
::*''"Because of the ... precedent set by the talk page policy"'' I'm saying this precedent is bad. Using the bad precedent to argue that nothing needs to change does not help anyone. The fact that people do post replies to old questions is evidence that they do read the rest of the talk page, not just the bottom. [[User:Hypershock|Hypershock]] ([[User talk:Hypershock|talk]]) 16:13, 11 June 2016 (UTC) | ::*''"Because of the ... precedent set by the talk page policy"'' I'm saying this precedent is bad. Using the bad precedent to argue that nothing needs to change does not help anyone. The fact that people do post replies to old questions is evidence that they do read the rest of the talk page, not just the bottom. [[User:Hypershock|Hypershock]] ([[User talk:Hypershock|talk]]) 16:13, 11 June 2016 (UTC) | ||
:::The policy explicitly allows for replying to unresolved discussions. (This is still usually best interpreted as ''answering'' an unanswered/open question. Something like a 4-year old attempt to start a discussion is still better re-started.) [[User:Tiddlywinks|Tiddlywinks]] ([[User talk:Tiddlywinks|talk]]) 16:48, 11 June 2016 (UTC) | |||