The bot is inserting archivedates into pages even when the url is still live: Ah Louis, Agnosticism. It also is not checking to see what dateformat is already used for accessdates. -- JimWae ( talk) 20:34, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
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parameter is set to no.I am not sure how this is supposed to work, but probably the same just happened in Aguas Corrientes. There are two active links linking to DOC format and the bot added the archived version in the ref template with a deadurl= no parameter. It doesn't bother this article (though it may overload longer ones) but it is adding tons of needless KBs doing this in all similar links. Hoverfish Talk 20:54, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Thank you Tim, the tech part goes a bit over my head. But yes I am aware that the original links remain intact. In practical terms: I follow only some main Geography of Uruguay articles where such links to doc files in this domain are in use and so far I only got the one notice I mentioned. If I notice a large number of such double links in articles where they add too much code in articles, I will be back. Cheers. Hoverfish Talk 16:21, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Currently the bot seems to store the archivedate parameter in the dmy format, regardless of the date preferred in the article. This does not follow the WP:MOSDATE guidelines. Maybe the bot could be amended, so it scans for either {{use dmy dates}} or {{use mdy dates}} to determine the correct date format to be used and stored. If neither template is found, then the bot could store the parameter in the 20yy-mm-dd format, which, according to the same guidelines, is acceptable in both cases. HandsomeFella ( talk) 18:43, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
I've stopped the bot, as the West Midland Bird Club link in this edit (since reverted) was - and is - working, with no bogus response to bots (I'm the webmaster of that site). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:27, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
When adding a Wayback Machine link to archiveurl=
, could you please use https://
, since the Internet Archive has
recently turned on HTTPS support and encourages people to use it. Thanks. --
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21:15, 10 November 2013 (UTC)