User talk:ClueBot Commons/Archives/2018/January

How often does Cluebot III look at a page for potential archiving?
A consensus is emerging at Wikipedia talk:AIV to have a bot archive threads that have been stale for more than 6-8 hours. I'm considering trying to set up the page in such a manner that Cluebot III can do the archiving. Will the bot look at the page to decide if an archive is needed at least every 2 hours if I set the minimum age to archive at 6 hours? Tazerdadog (talk) 22:32, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I believe it currently runs every 6 hours, but can correct me if I am wrong.  -- Cobi(t&#124;c&#124;b) 00:15, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

"Unarchiving ... (Archive failed)"
seems okay to me, but was subsequently removed from the archive by ClueBot III, saying "(Archive failed)". But the section was also removed from Village pump (miscellaneous), and wasn't restored.

I thought about undoing the removal from the archive, but arbitrarily decided to undo the removal from Village pump (miscellaneous) instead, which I now have done.

--Pipetricker (talk) 03:37, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * That happens when ClueBot III tries to remove the section from the Talk page, after adding it to the archive, and Wikipedia tells ClueBot III that the edit to remove the sections was not successful. So ClueBot III will go and remove the sections from the archive so it isn't duplicated.  What must've happened is something went wrong either on Wikipedia's side after the edit was saved, but before it told ClueBot III that it succeeded, or the connection was broken between ClueBot III and Wikipedia after the edit was saved and before Wikipedia told ClueBot III that it succeeded.  If this happened just once or twice, I'd just say something went wrong on a WMF server somewhere or the Internet was flaky at just the wrong time.  If it keeps happening, then maybe there is a more fundamental flaw.  -- Cobi(t&#124;c&#124;b) 04:10, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the explanation. --Pipetricker (talk) 09:55, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

My Spams? No.
I was told minutes ago that I was vandalizing the North Harford High School page. I am here to say that there is a bit of a misunderstanding. Someone else under the names "Feetman123" and an IP address of 38.124.151.79. Someone has been using my name and writing comments that I personally do not appreciate. Here is the link to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=North_Harford_High_School&action=history from 16:42 to present. I actually go to this school, and someone I know was just making fun of me. Take whatever action is necessary. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Patrickcorrelli (talk • contribs) 18:27, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
 * You have not received any warnings on this account concerning edits at North Harford High School.  If you received warnings concerning those edits, you received them while using the IP or logged into the account that vandalized that page.  General Ization  Talk  18:46, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Ok, I looked at my page again and that IP address' talk page and realized I made a mistake. I saw that the IP address was sent the warnings. Sorry for the confusion. Patrickcorrelli (talk contribs) 18:54, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Not indexing correctly
Hi all, I created a topic on the help desk regarding the archiving not indexing on my talk page (see here). Aparently they've seen this before. Any clues? Lee Vilenski(talk) 18:47, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

January 2018
Hello, I'm PrinterBot. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Greninja have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. —Preceding undated comment added 04:25, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
 * fake bot talking to real bot. This is like non straight girl on straight girl action. :D — usernamekiran (talk)  08:10, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

Cheese its
you changed my edit even thoguh it was correct — Preceding unsigned comment added by Topkekin (talk • contribs) 17:38, 22 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi Topkekin, if the bot has made a mistake, please report it here and not on this page. Thanks, — k6ka  🍁 ( Talk ·  Contributions ) 03:50, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

ClueBot III not running for three days
ClueBot III has not archived any talk pages for more than three days. - MrX 🖋 01:58, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
HI

HistoryFinder2474 (talk) 22:19, 26 January 2018 (UTC) 

ClueBot III ArchiveThis template error
Take a look at Talk:Insulator (electricity) or the pages at Special:WhatLinksHere/!_(disambiguation). It seems like an error in the configuration of User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis is resulting in the box weirdly being populated by the top of the all pages list. Is this a known issue? --Paul_012 (talk) 05:01, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
 * You can't use in the template.  Use |archiveprefix=Talk:Insulator (electricity)/Archives/ or similar.  Once you update the template, the next time ClueBot III runs it will fix the index.  -- Cobi(t&#124;c&#124;b) 05:19, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
 * What I find interesting is, Clue the third was setup with special:diff/796361836; with faulty parameters. Yet Clue archived the page: special:diff/796417720. Can somebody explain this please? ? — usernamekiran (talk)  00:33, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
 * ClueBot III will, during archival, if it cannot understand the archiveprefix=, use the page name where it found the template combined with /Archives/. Unfortunately, the index process which is separate, goes and simply asks Wikipedia for the first 1000 or so pages that start with the archiveprefix. Because the value is passed to Wikipedia's API verbatim, Wikipedia doesn't understand and just starts spitting out all of the pages in the Main Namespace.  -- Cobi(t&#124;c&#124;b) 01:21, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
 * a very thoughtful reply: hmmm. — usernamekiran (talk)  08:13, 18 January 2018 (UTC)