User talk:Σ/Archive/2020/April

Incorrect diffing?
I created this huge mess while archiving with Archy McArchface. I wonder if there is any bug related to diffing when subthreads are used? Or something to do with edit conflicts? Best, --MarioGom (talk) 13:00, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi--don't know if I am doing this right. Went to Teahouse to get old difs, searched by user name and got this: https://tools.wmflabs.org/sigma/usersearch.py?name=Jenhawk777&page=Wikipedia%3ATeahouse&server=enwiki&max= It said I should tell you--so I am? Sorry if this is wrong! Jenhawk777 (talk) 21:26, 23 March 2020 (UTC)


 * That's quite alarming. Two suspicions immediately pop to mind:
 * the page was edited some time after you visited it, but before you started archiving
 * the page was edited some time after you started picking threads to archive, but before you archived them
 * That said I will try to investigate this at some point, and if I don't, email me to nag me to fix it. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. → Σ σ  ς . (Sigma) 10:00, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

Requests for changes to User:Σ/Testing facility/Archiver
Hi! I use your script User:Σ/Testing facility/Archiver occasionally and it is really nice. However one weird thing about it is that whenever it is used, I need to manually add archives to the talk page and add talk archive to the archive page. Could you please change the script so that these two templates are automatically added? This would make it easier to use and reduce the chance of there being threads archived but the user (i.e. me) who does it forgetting these templates, making the archive hard to find.

Another request: could you please rename the option to use this in the "More" menu above articles to something more intuitive? Currently it is labeled "ØCA", which can be kind of confusing when I haven't used this script for a while; the name doesn't have any discernible meaning, and I am looking for an option named something like "Archive".

Thanks for this script, it is great! DemonDays64 (talk) 01:16, 26 March 2020 (UTC)


 * "ØCA" is for "One Click Archiver", I believe. In a way, ØCA is a minimalist script; you are expected to do some of the work yourself. —guywan (talk • contribs) 15:46, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Suggestion: lowercase sigmabot shouldn't archive open edit requests
Here's an example of this happening: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic&diff=947423377&oldid=947422659

From what I've heard, this has happened on other coronavirus-related articles as well due to the extremely low archive times. Ionmars10 (talk) 14:45, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

need section archived.
Hi. the talk page section beloww should already have been archived. I think that misszabot may have missed it, simply because the section is rather large. is it possible forr you to manually cause the bot to archive this section? I appreciate your help.

Thanks. --Sm8900 (talk) 02:57, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Link to section: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Council
 * The size has nothing to do with it, it's the age. The has old(60d) so every timestamp must be at least 60 days ago; 60 days back from 31 March 2020 is 31 January 2020; but one post is timestamped 20:40, 1 February 2020 (UTC), which is (at present) approximately 58 days 11 hours ago. You should wait until 20:40, 1 April 2020 (UTC) at the earliest - that's Wednesday afternoon, U.S. time. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 07:38, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
 * ok that's terrific. thanks for the reply, . --Sm8900 (talk) 17:26, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
 * And . -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 11:34, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Please have a look at the discussion at Help talk:Archiving a talk page
Help talk:Archiving a talk page

In particular the talk section titled "A better all-around bot".

I was requested to directly ask the bot maintainers to join the discussion. --Timeshifter (talk) 20:28, 18 April 2020 (UTC)