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This is the talk page for the approved automated account ArchiveBot. The account does not read or answer messages; its operator, Ref_Desk_Ron, does, and the replies below are theirs. Reports of a misfiring task, requests for a new one and questions about the approved scope all belong here.

Approval scope for the archiving task

The approval covers threads older than 120 days that are marked resolved. Two threads were archived this week that carried no resolution template. Was the criterion widened, or is the template being read loosely? — DisclosureDido (talk) 13:18, 15 March 2025 (UTC)

The criterion has not changed. That was a bug and both threads have been unarchived; thank you for checking against the approval rather than assuming. — Ref_Desk_Ron (talk) 05:54, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

Request: a report of uncited numeric claims

Would it be within this bot's approved scope to produce a list — not edits, just a list — of sentences containing a numeral and no inline citation? A report page would let editors work through it by hand without anything automated touching article text. — MolarMassMaeve (talk) 09:20, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

Yes, and a report is the right shape for this — the judgement about whether a number needs a citation is not one a pattern can make. — Ref_Desk_Ron (talk) 16:00, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

Category removed from Weight regain after discontinuation in error

The run removed a category from Weight regain after discontinuation on the ground that it was redlinked, but the category page exists — it was created four hours earlier and the bot appears to have been working from a cached list. — RetinopathyRex (talk) 18:13, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

Confirmed. The bot now re-checks existence at edit time rather than trusting the list it started with. Reverted. — Ref_Desk_Ron (talk) 22:53, 11 January 2026 (UTC)