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MfD nomination of User:Σ/Testing facility/T

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107.1.99.186 has discussion archives

I have discussion archives on my user talk page, which Lowercase sigmabot III needs to archive. Can you get this user to archive it? --107.1.99.186 (talk) 13:03, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

Bot mistakenly removes comment

In this edit [1], bot removed a post made seconds before. (Search the text That's well and good to a point in the diff.) Just a guess, but I wonder if this is related to the fact that the archive counter was incremented. I've restored the post, BTW. EEng 11:27, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

Same happened here, bot archived a thread in which the last edit was yesterday. Please look into it. Regards SoWhy 06:44, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

The underlying problem is that it takes some time, maybe a second or two, to process the talk page, determine which threads should go to which archives, etc. before the bot prepares the new text and makes the edit. It's certainly an edit conflict, but not in the classical sense that we're used to when people rapid-fire vote on AfDs or something. And it's certainly an issue that can be fixed. →Σσς. (Sigma) 02:16, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

The obvious fix is to abort and start over if the page version that was analyzed is no longer the current version. EEng 02:40, 11 August 2017 (UTC) As a P.S. I want to express my appreciation for the work you do in maintaining this important facility.

Pretty much. I will find time to implement this. And thanks for the kind words. →Σσς. (Sigma) 22:33, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

Another race condition example

In this diff [2] the bot does its thing, but mistakenly removes something added just seconds before (my flippant image – see the left side of the diff). EEng 03:44, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm working on it. →Σσς. (Sigma) 21:02, 22 October 2017 (UTC)