I don't know why this search does not work: [1] Sample edit it should see with 2,344 others: [2] -- GreenC 13:24, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This was apparently due to replication lag. -- GreenC 19:56, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. The bot has recently on two occasions tried to archive a discussion still ongoing as a valid part of the Deaths in 2024 article, namely this section. Could you please ensure that this section remains for the forseeable future? Thanks. Ref ^(chew)(do) 21:01, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page watcher) @Refsworldlee: As I've pointed out before, lowecase sigmabot III has no way of knowing if a discussion is still ongoing or not, it goes purely on the most recent timestamp in the thread, compared against the archiving settings. In this case, the top of the page has a {{User:MiszaBot/config}} containing the parameter |algo=old(40d) so anything where the most recent timestamp is more than 40 days ago is eligible for archiving. In this case the most recent timestamp is 13:19, 9 March 2024 (UTC), which is 45 days ago - so the thread has been eligible for archiving since 13:19, 18 April 2024 (UTC). You should either amend the archiving settings to a longer period, or get people to actually add posts to this "ongoing" discussion.

On a related matter, if you revert a bot's archiving edit, you must also remove the thread concerned from the archives. You have not done that, and so the same thread now appears twice at Talk:Deaths in 2024/Archive 1, although there are differences between the versions. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:23, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I had no idea this issue had been clarified before. And I should indeed have checked the relevant Archive to revert that. Thanks for sorting that out, and I will be more diligent next time (if there is a next time). (If you look at the talk page edit history, you will see that names are being added to its list of outstanding unreferenced deaths regularly, and then removed regularly once they are sourced, so there is fairly regular activity.) Once again, thanks. Ref ^(chew)(do) 21:38, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Refsworldlee: Perhaps you could consider signing each new addition, so that the most recent timestamp does not remain at 13:19, 9 March 2024 (UTC). --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:47, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think I will add that proviso to the list, good idea. Thanks again. Ref ^(chew)(do) 23:25, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Lowercase sigmabot III last did an archiving run through regular pages on 25 April. Does it need a reset or special encouragement to resume doing such runs daily? (Sorry; I don't do Wikipedia email; if someone else would like to in order to get Σ's attention, that's fine.) It has continued to archive the Administrators' noticeboard and Incidents pages at midnight and noon daily, but that's all. Thanks for getting the bot working again. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:21, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Earwig gave it a kick last time. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:28, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I went ahead left him a message. Safiel (talk) 16:38, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the notice. I've kicked it again and added a workaround in case this issue happens again. — The Earwig (talk) 04:29, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How does the bot work? Do you have to urge the bot to archive from talk pages it has archived from before (a 'kick', as mentioned above) or will it somehow work automatically? How do you do this?  ; As we see the human society is liquid, we are all just running with the flow (talk) 10:57, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is Lowercase sigmabot III working or has it been retired? Should talk pages which have been archived by it be archived by some other bot from now on and how is this changed? Thanks in advance for any answer.  ; As we see the human society is liquid, we are all just running with the flow (talk) 10:54, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page watcher) @As we see the human society is liquid, we are all just running with the flow: What makes you think that it's not? Always give examples of pages exhibiting the problem. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:45, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Redrose64:: I'm asking a general question, I didn't know I had to add an example since the question should be easy to give an answer to for anyone running the bot, but according to the history of the page, this bot used to archive discussions at Talk:Bandy but haven't done so in a while.  ; As we see the human society is liquid, we are all just running with the flow (talk) 11:05, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It ran today, do you have any others? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:49, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]