User talk:Misza13/Archives/2014/07

Talk:Opinion polling for the next United Kingdom general election
This talk page could do with being archived, there seems to be wrong with the automatic archive. Please archive Talk:Opinion polling for the next United Kingdom general election accordingly. Thanks Owl In The House (talk) 07:31, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
 * The User:MiszaBot/config settings include old(90d) so anything posted to less than 90 days ago won't be archived. This is approximately three months, so anything posted to in May, June or July is not yet eligible for archive. There are two threads that have not been posted to since April:
 * New Constituency opinion poll - last posted to 21:04, 24 April 2014 (UTC), i.e. 87 days ago: this will archive 23 July 2014
 * Add events to graph - last posted to 01:00, 22 April 2014 (UTC), i.e. 89 days ago: this will archive 21 July 2014 (tomorrow)
 * The last bot archive edit was (note that it was performed by ). The archiving is working correctly. -- Red rose64 (talk) 08:44, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
 * . -- Red rose64 (talk) 08:42, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Archiving
I found User talk:Thepoodlechef/Archives/12/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1 accidentally and I doubt the reason why it will occur. --Good afternoon (talk) 04:59, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Odd! It looks as if the archiving bot went on a spree in March/June 2013. Fortunately, it then stopped - perhaps the length of the page name hit a limit? I've moved the archived content back to User talk:Thepoodlechef/Archives/12 and commented out the archiving instruction that triggered this mess.
 * Perhaps a passing admin might like to delete all the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=Thepoodlechef%2FArchives%2F12%2F&namespace=3 empty archive pages]? -- John of Reading (talk) 07:15, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
 * OK, from what I can work out, the original trigger was by  on 1 March 2013. Archiving had first been requested with  and amended with, both on 7 April 2012; the archiving worked just fine until that section heading was added. Adding a section heading above the welcome banner, which was itself above the User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis, had put the archiving instruction inside a section, so that when ClueBot III next ran, , and so the archiving instruction . The archiving edit was undone, but only on the main talk page, not on the archive page: thus, it left the archiving instruction in the archive. Worse, the original error (that of placing a heading above the archiving instruction) was not fixed on the main talk page, and so exactly the same thing happened.
 * The archive now contained two sections each with a User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis inside it. The effect of that was that on its next run, the archiving bot ; and on the run after that, archived the archive of the archive - and in theory, could have continued like that indefinitely. In fact, it stopped because it hit the 255-character limit for a page name. -- Red rose64 (talk) 09:36, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
 * OK...--Good afternoon (talk) 09:40, 22 July 2014 (UTC)