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Headline correction

Hi there. Just FYI that I've checked the headline on Newspapers.com and ProQuest, and it appears to have been correct before you changed it here. Cordless Larry (talk) 11:00, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

OK I'll revert that one. It looked like two different headlines in the newspaper archive TarnishedPath^talk 11:13, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Ah, I see - where it continues on p. 4, it has a slightly different headline to what's on the front page, where the article starts. But I think it's best to use the first headline. Cordless Larry (talk) 11:16, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

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Re: Fifth five-year plan (China) moved to draftspace

Thank you for your comments. I have now added a few books as references, please review them again. HelenAtkinson2002 (talk) 03:21, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi @HelenAtkinson2002, I see that @SafariScribe has reviewed the article when you submitted it through WP:AFC. I suggest that you take onboard any feedback that they've provided and further improve the article. TarnishedPath^talk 04:39, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

ANI archiving

On 26 September you used Archiver to archive some threads from ANI. It looks like Archiver may not understand ANI archive names. The threads should have gone into the current archive Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1167 but instead Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents/Archive 1 was created and they were put there. I'll try to fix it. NebY (talk) 10:46, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

@NebY, thanks for the advice. I didn't realise that the archiver wouldn't work there and won't use it on that page again. TarnishedPath^talk 11:01, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

@NebY thanks for cleaning up after me. I think the error might have been mine for not specifying a non-standard archiving name and presuming the script would automatically know. I will use more care in the future. TarnishedPath^talk 11:21, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Aha; Archiver might be great in other ways (I've not used it) but it does seem a curious design choice not to look at the page's |archive= and |counter=. I've seen OneClickArchiver used on ANI without apparent problems, and of course Lowercase sigmabot III just keeps going. NebY (talk) 11:32, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

I was just reading the documentation for both Archiver and OneClickArchiver. It seems that OneClickArchiver does look at the archiving templates on a page to determine the archiving location. Archiver automatically looks for the highest number to archive to, e.g. Foo/Archive x or Foo/Month Year. Anything else outside of that isn't suported for Archiver. I just asked the maintainer and they advised that they have no intention to add the functionality. TarnishedPath^talk 11:36, 1 October 2024 (UTC)