User talk:Σ/Archive/2024/November

Lowercase sigmabot III archiving glitch?

Hi there. I was just looking back for an old RfC on Talk:Rishi Sunak/Archive 2 and I happened to notice that everything from April—November of last year seems to have disappeared from that archive? Did a little deep dive into the page history and noticed that all of it was still present as of this edit by the bot [1], but was removed by the time of this one [2], and yet the removal isn't shown in the difference between the two edits [3]. Not sure if this is a glitch with the bot or just something I'm missing, but I figured it was best to bring it to your attention. Thanks, estar8806 (talk) ★ 18:12, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

@Estar8806: It's nothing to do with lowercase sigmabot III. The clue is at the bottom of your second diff, in the section headed "Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 13 April 2023" where we see the big red error message . You'll also notice that in that section, there's a big gap between the timestamps. The thing about unclosed <ref> tags is that they attempt to pair up with the next </ref> tag, even if that is miles away down the page and actually belongs to a completely different <ref> tag - this pairing effectively hides the content between them. This edit fixes it for the present version, but it can't be applied retrospectively. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:05, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

I did not use it correctly

Hi, I wanted to archive the talk page of Talk:Andreas_Papandreou. I placed the template and the bot [the archive] to a page Talk:Andreas_Papandreou/Archive2. However, there is no Achieve box with the appropriate link(s) at the talk page to this newly created archive page. What have I missed? I really appreciate any help you can provide. A.Cython (talk) 01:14, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

@A.Cython: Basically, see thread below: it's the same cause. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 08:37, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your quick response. I have fixed the counter value from 2 to 1. However, I do not know how to rename the paper Talk:Andreas_Papandreou/Archive 2 without a redirect. I do not have the administrative privileges. Is there another way or how to get these privileges in order to fix this? A.Cython (talk) 14:46, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

@A.Cython: I moved it w/o redir; there were no inward links to fix. As for the archive box, that needs to be added manually, which I've done. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:29, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much! A.Cython (talk) 20:00, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

Talk:New Zealand Wars

In January 2024 someone set up auto-archiving for Talk:New Zealand Wars. Lowercase sigmabot III created Talk:New Zealand Wars/Archive 2, but there is no Talk:New Zealand Wars/Archive 1. And there is nothing I can see at Talk:New Zealand Wars that indicates that any archive exists – I only chanced on it by looking at the history. Surely this is not how things are supposed to work, but I am not familiar with how to make it work correctly. Thank you in anticipation. Nurg (talk) 01:47, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

@Nurg: That was Riposte97 (talk · contribs) who set a wrong value for |counter= in this edit. What you need to do is adjust |counter=2 to |counter=1, move Talk:New Zealand Wars/Archive 2 to Talk:New Zealand Wars/Archive 1 without leaving a redirect, and fix up all inward links to that archive. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 08:35, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you very much. All fixed. Nurg (talk) 09:07, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

Apologies both. Riposte97 (talk) 09:37, 27 October 2024 (UTC)