User talk:Σ/Archive/2020/October

I posted at Talk:Anarchy: earlier today

and it had been archived by tonight. Something needds some retooling. Fast. Carptrash (talk) 04:52, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

@Carptrash: Yes, you posted to Talk:Anarchy. No, whilst one thread (including one subthread) was archived, yours was not and may still be seen at Talk:Anarchy#Unjustified. Why do you think that it was archived? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 08:41, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

I just missed it, sorry to you and to your . . . ....... friend. Carptrash (talk) 16:48, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

Archiving

Be great if you could leave my talk page alone. Thanks. - Seasider53 (talk) 15:07, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @Seasider53: Your talk page is being archived because the page has

{{User:MiszaBot/config
|maxarchivesize = 100K
|counter = 48
|algo = old(14d)
|archive = User talk:Seasider53/Archive %(counter)d
}}

which has been there since this edit by yourself, just over two weeks ago.

Tip: if you don't want your page to be archived by a bot, don't set it up for bot archiving. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:18, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

September 2020

Can you please turn off your fucking bot. As mentioned in a previous revert, it's archiving reports at AN/I that haven't been there for three days. JG66 (talk) 12:16, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

@JG66: Please tone down your language.

If you edit Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents and examine the top matter, you will find a {{User:MiszaBot/config}} which contains the bot configuration. One of the lines has |algo=old(72h) which means that any thread with no posts for at least 72 hours is eligible for archiving. The bot edit that you reverted occurred at 03:28, 11 September 2020 (UTC); and 72 hours back from that is 03:28, 8 September 2020 (UTC). Therefore, any thread whose most recent timestamp is earlier than that was eligible for archiving. For the record, the bot archived nine threads, as follows:

Thread name	Most recent timestamp
AnOrionPicturesRelease25	13:17, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
67.61.89.32	18:10, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
User:Phil Bridger	20:46, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
Persistent promotional edits and block evasion at Karnal	04:56, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
Vandalism, socking, NPA violations and abuse	20:50, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
RFC closure review	13:50, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
User:5.186.116.1	21:59, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
Irrelevant image	00:24, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
Carliertwo	03:22, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

Which of these threads was archived in error? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 10:44, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Redrose64, fair point, well put. Σ, my apologies. And it had been in my mind to come back here and remove the comment – I'm sorry for forgetting to do that.

I guess my complaint is: why archive the reports so quickly – why can't they stay up there for longer? Three days is nothing. All a serial offender needs to do, whether at AN/I or /EW, is hold their breath and there's a chance they'll get off the hook. Unfortunately, I've seen this happen twice now with the same user. Either that or have some sort of checking system for when an admin "takes" the report, so that any report that remains untaken/unchecked can stay on the page rather than being swept away as if it has been addressed and the matter's closed. JG66 (talk) 11:11, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

The archiving interval used to be a lot shorter, it's been as brief as 24 hours (for instance in April 2015). It is altered occasionally, such as from 60 hours to 72 hours with this edit at 03:20, 25 May 2015 (UTC) by Od Mishehu (talk · contribs), see this AN thread. AN is not really the right place to get it increased though - you should really seek consensus at WT:ANI. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 12:13, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

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Spam blacklist hit produces unexpected behavior

At Talk:Maratha (caste) Lowercase Sigmabot is acting strangely. It seems to be trying to archive a thread that has a link to a site on the title blacklist, which prevents the edit from being saved. The bot then posts the error in the edit summary, but the important parts are cut off, and it increments the archive page counter despite having not archived anything. Does anyone know how to resolve this? — Wug·a·po·des​ 22:16, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

This should let it through. Basically, by removing the http:// part, it's no longer a link so shouldn't be tested against the spam blacklist. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:11, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

And it worked. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 08:14, 17 October 2020 (UTC)