User talk:KDayne

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Archiving

Thanks for archiving the "Max 207" reference. Unfortunately the archive doesn't seem to work properly, for me anyway. The Wayback Machine is still not 100% operational. I just tried to archive the "Max 206" reference from Wuhan and that didn't work properly either. I was using Ghost Archive for a while but it is a bit "iffy" sometimes, so I've just kept a record of all the citations either "ghosted" or not archived atall, and intend to go back through them all once the Wayback Machine is working properly again.  Alan  (talk) 19:49, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

Yeah no worries. I saw that you were the one who used to archive all the references and then I noticed that they stopped being archived, so I went to the Wayback Machine myself and saw what the problem was. Just had another look today and it seems to be working again for me. It shouldn't be a huge issue, the WST articles should stay up at least for the rest of the season, if not longer now that they've revamped the whole website, I doubt they're gonna do another major rehaul anytime soon. But yeah, it's good to get those archived if possible because WST as a whole can't be relied upon to keep the urls live. KDayne (talk) 20:21, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

That archive for the "Max 207" reference seems to be working OK now. Patience is all that is required I think.  Alan  (talk) 16:03, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

@KDayne: I have been going through and updating archives, and the Wayback Machine "Save Page Now" is still not working reliably. It keeps telling me that "there was a delay in registering", but 24 hours later it's still not done. You seem to be having the same problem, since this archive which you did yesterday doesn't work either. I'm running out of patience. Any ideas?

 Alan  (talk) 09:27, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

Nah, don't know, just keep trying I guess. KDayne (talk) 10:01, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

I just tried a different approach, which was only partially successful. I copied five refs into my sandbox, deleted the non-working archives from them, and then ran the "Fix dead links" IABot on the page. It took a long while to complete, and was successful for only one of the five. This is becoming really frustrating.  Alan  (talk) 10:21, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

I've posted this message on the Internet Archive forum, but I don't expect to get a response.  Alan  (talk) 13:15, 15 November 2024 (UTC)