Help talk:Archiving a source

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little problem

The last sentence of the paragraph on the IA Wayback Machine does not show up on this page. I suppose it has something to do with the unusual code in the original page. I do not know how to solve this. Can anyone with more "technical" experience please fix this? Thanks, --Dick Bos (talk) 15:07, 9 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Dick Bos: I've switched to a different method for displaying the text and example code here. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:40, 9 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Mass archiving of live links

Should live links be mass archived in all articles preemptively? Please see also this discussion at VP/T. Your input is appreciated. Thank you. Dr. K. 19:06, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"New URLs added to Wikipedia articles (but not other pages) are usually automatically archived by a bot."

Under the "Internet Archive Wayback Machine" section of this article it says: "New URLs added to Wikipedia articles (but not other pages) are usually automatically archived by a bot." This is empirically untrue. I have created and significantly rewrote and improved over 15 Wikipedia pages, and every single time only some or half or if I'm lucky, most are archived when I use IABot. But every single time I find that I have to make custom archive URLs myself either through Wayback Machine or Archive.is. So what is the deal? Is this statement ("New URLs ... usually automatically archived by a bot.") inaccurate, am I doing something wrong, or both? Does the Wikipedia automatic archiving need to be fixed? And if so, how would I go about correcting the archiving, or notifying the person in charge? Factfanatic1 (talk) 10:51, 18 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]