Wikipedia talk:Reference desk

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/February 2025 has a link to Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2025 February 17, complete with links to the sections that are transcluded on it, but there's no such page, and it has no deletion log. Any idea what could have happened? Its bot-created talk page is a redirect here. Nyttend (talk) 04:30, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

@Nyttend: Nice find. Checking the logs, there was indeed an error during the archiving run on 2025-03-04, which I must have overlooked at the time. That page was simply never created in the first place, although the per-month index page was set up to point at it, as you observed.

It was a bit tricky (the archiving scripts try to be general, but they do nominally assume that "February 17" means February 17 of this year), but I believe I've successfully rerun that pass and belatedly created the missing archive, complete with your contribution. Thanks for reporting this. —scs (talk) 12:09, 14 January 2026 (UTC) (edited 14:03, 14 January 2026 (UTC))

I really like the "skip to bottom" link at the top of every RD page. Can we get a similar "skip to top" link at the bottom of every RD page? --Viennese Waltz 08:32, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

I asked for that many years ago - more than a decade at least (it was long enough ago that the RefDesks were active enough that navigation was actually a concern) - and someone pointed out that you can just press your <Home> and <End> keys on your keyboard to get the same effect. So, that's what I do now. Matt Deres (talk) 14:35, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

Huh. I had not noticed that feature until now. It goes to "Humanities#footer" or whichever desk you're in at the time. I wonder if there's a technical issue with putting something like "Humanities#header" at the bottom? [Actually #top, as it turns out.] ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 14:36, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

Ah here it is. However, instead of "Skip to top?" I used the infinitely better subject line of "Skip to the top" Matt Deres (talk) 16:53, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

We'll have to check back in 2042 and see if this idea has been implemented. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 21:37, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

I’m curious why it isn’t stated that the “pirates” were extremist Muslims ? This is part of our history with them. ~2026-17311-33 (talk) 15:50, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Have you brought this up at Talk:Barbary Wars where it belongs? —Antonissimo (talk) 23:56, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

What were the pirates who raided the Spanish Main? Extremist Protestants? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 01:42, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

Dear Sir, It has been noticed that the name of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj has been mentioned only as “Shivaji.” This is highly inappropriate and disrespectful. I kindly request you to please correct it at the earliest and ensure that the full and proper name, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, is mentioned. Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.

Regards, Sachin Madhukar Kadam. ~2026-19774-46 (talk) 02:37, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

Where? If in a Wikipedia article, bring this up on that article's Talk page. —Antonissimo (talk) 05:19, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

And now I have looked at Talk:Shivaji, where this request has been rejected fourteen times in six weeks. —Antonissimo (talk) 06:44, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

He died 400 years ago. Maybe the OP will get his wish within the next 400. 😛 ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:04, 1 April 2026 (UTC)