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Bots/Requests for approval/Lowercase sigmabot IV 1
Your bot request has been approved for a limited trial, please see Bots/Requests for approval/Lowercase sigmabot IV 1 for details. — xaosflux  Talk 19:17, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Backlog
The NPP backlog now stands at 13,158 total unreviewed pages.

Just to recap: You naturally  don't  have to feel obliged, but if there's anything you can do it would be most appreciated. I've spent 40 hours on it this week but it's only a drop in the ocean.--Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 18:08, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 13 July 2016: 7,000
 * 1 August 2016: 9,000
 * 7 August 2016: 10,472
 * 16 August 2016: 11,500
 * 28 August 2016: 13,158

Proposal: New Page Reviewer user right
A discussion is taking place to request that New Page Patrollers be suitably experienced for patrolling new pages. Your comments at  New pages patrol/RfC for patroller right are welcome. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 18:08, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Antisemitism in 21st-century France
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Antisemitism in 21st-century France. Legobot (talk) 04:24, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

sigmabot III skips certain posts that are signed with Unsigned
I found that in two instances, sigmabot III skipped discussions whose last posts were signed with Unsigned. In one case I re-applied the template manually and it worked, the other case is still pending (I just applied the fix). See here and here. The distinctive change in both instances seems to be that an HTML comment is placed in the front of the Unsigned template, whereas it was placed after the template before. In both cases the templates were added by SineBot, see here and here. In the first case another HTML comment ("auto signed by SineBot") was also removed, so this may also be relevant. Can you have a look at this and find out why sigmabot III did not archive these posts?–Totie (talk) 09:09, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

sigmabot III skips certain posts that are signed with Unsigned
I found that in two instances, sigmabot III skipped discussions whose last posts were signed with Unsigned. In one case I re-applied the template manually and it worked, the other case is still pending (I just applied the fix). See here and here. The distinctive change in both instances seems to be that an HTML comment is placed in the front of the Unsigned template, whereas it was placed after the template before. In both cases the templates were added by SineBot, see here and here. In the first case another HTML comment ("auto signed by SineBot") was also removed, so this may also be relevant. Can you have a look at this and find out why sigmabot III did not archive these posts?–Totie (talk) 09:09, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

Archiving declined unblock notices
Just to say that Lowercase sigmabot III has archived at least one declined unblock request, kind-of contrary to WP:REMOVED ("A number of important matters may not be removed by the user...") - it doesn't come up much because talk pages usually go dead after a block, but if a user has an aggressive archiving rule or is getting a lot of automated post-block traffic, it could end up with Sigmabot archiving a block request.

I raised it on the talk-page-guidelines talk page and got the response that "Any archiving bot should be reverted if it removes notices of the type listed at WP:REMOVED and should be blocked until the bug is fixed if removed notices are in a standard format that a bot should be able to recognize and avoid archiving. IMO." from someone, so thought I'd pass that on.

An example diff where Sigmabot has archived a declined unblock would be this one. --McGeddon (talk) 14:59, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Sigmabot and collapsed sections
Lowercase sigmabot III doesn't appear to recognise the &#123;&#123;cot&#125;&#125; and &#123;&#123;cob&#125;&#125; templates, and will archive collapsed sections without checking for the opening and closing templates, sometimes archiving the bottom template but leaving the top, breaking the page. (See this edit.) --Paul_012 (talk) 05:51, 17 September 2016 (UTC)