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"redundant" sections
Please make the documentation clarify exactly why and when NG creates "duplicate" user talk page sections, such as adding a second - identical - "October 2019" section when an editor (or even NG itself) has already created one. Please provide a succinct summary AND policy links, not just one or the other. I checked the FAQ but it didn't help. I did a casual browse of the archives and sure enough: this has been asked before. Time to improve your docs! :) Thanks CapnZapp (talk) 14:11, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
- See here as to why the bot creates duplicate headings. Pinging in Cobi for your comment about improving the documentation and FAQs.-- 5 albert square (talk) 17:18, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
There needs to be a documentation link on User:ClueBot III
User:ClueBot III/Documentation. -- Timeshifter (talk) 04:52, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
- It is. It's transcluded onto that page: User:ClueBot III#How your page is archived -- Cobi 04:59, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
- There is no link to the documentation. -- Timeshifter (talk) 05:08, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
- What do you mean? The documentation is on User:ClueBot III. Why does there need to be a link to it given it is already on that page? -- Cobi 05:10, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
- Furthermore, readership doesn't make a whole lot of sense on User:ClueBot Commons -- that userpage isn't really used for anything. That's why I removed the template you added. -- Cobi 05:17, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
- There is no link to the documentation. -- Timeshifter (talk) 05:08, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
- The documentation is in need of much improvement. Can't do that without a link to that documentation page. Most templates and tools have links to view their documentation page.
- I was curious as to why such an old archiving tool has documentation in such need of improvement. The readership partially explains it. Not having a link to the documentation page is a much bigger reason. Not having a link to the table of contents on the talk page explains it a little more. These are 3 ease-of-use problems. -- Timeshifter (talk) 05:33, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
- @Timeshifter: Readership is pointing at the wrong page. This is User talk:ClueBot Commons, so the readership template is for User:ClueBot Commons, not User:ClueBot III.
- The "" links on sections in the userpage work fine and take you to the documentation page:
- Clicking on any of the "" links takes you to:
- -- Cobi 05:38, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
How many people use Cluebot archiving versus Sigmabot archiving?
I am trying to figure out why people would not want the archiving tool (Cluebot) that also fixes links broken when threads are archived. -- Timeshifter (talk) 05:26, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
- ClueBot III is used by about 8,500 talk pages. See this. -- Cobi 05:38, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
"age" parameter. Is it OK to do it like this: "720 (30 days)"
Hours is not intuitive for the age parameter. Days would be a lot better. But in the meantime can I put the number of days in parentheses? -- Timeshifter (talk) 05:31, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
- It's not supported, and may break if things change, however, due to a quirk in the way that it looks for numbers, that might work. -- Cobi 05:41, 28 October 2019 (UTC)