Template talk:Cbignore/Archive 1

reason?
Should this template have a "reason=" parameter? I used the template recently and explained why on the article talk page, but I could see someone coming along years later, not finding my comment in the talk page archives, and removing the template. Kendall-K1 (talk) 19:16, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
 * If you want to put a reason in there, feel free but the template is simply something that the bot will look at and therefor will remain blank.—cyberpower  Chat :Online 20:48, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Also I realized after posting this that it probably makes more sense to just put in a comment. Kendall-K1 (talk) 01:11, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

ignore page
Might be worth adding to the documentation how to make the bot avoid the page altogether (rather than an individual link) – czar   18:25, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
 * From IABot's FAQ page:


 * Cheers CapnZapp (talk) 10:45, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Bot usage
My initial plan was for WaybackMedic bot to add Cbignore to prevent a race condition where one bot is adding invalid archive links, another is removing them then another is adding them back etc.. however this is probably a bad idea. The reason is Cyberbot may in the future add other archives besides Internet Archive and could correctly add an archive, even if one is not available today at IA. The race condition can be addressed so long as all bots are using the same API method to determine if an Internet Archive link is available. (This includes how it determines the timestamp.)

If a developer wants to add Cbignore using a bot, recommend including id for example mybot so that it's possible to return later and identify which Cbignore's were added by a certain bot using a certain method of determining a page is dead or not. -- Green  C  14:45, 12 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Since Cyberbot is still producing IA links that don't match the API results, a race condition is still possible. I'm going to add cbignore with a tag of medic so it will look like - will keep a log of which pages were added and when the Cyberbot and/or API problem are resolved will go back and remove the template. --  Green  C  15:17, 12 March 2016 (UTC)