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@Owl In The House: The {{User:MiszaBot/config}} settings include |algo=old(90d) so anything posted to less than 90 days ago won't be archived. This is approximately three months, so anything posted to in May, June or July is not yet eligible for archive. There are two threads that have not been posted to since April:
New Constituency opinion poll - last posted to 21:04, 24 April 2014 (UTC), i.e. 87 days ago: this will archive 23 July 2014
Add events to graph - last posted to 01:00, 22 April 2014 (UTC), i.e. 89 days ago: this will archive 21 July 2014 (tomorrow)
(talk page stalker) Odd! It looks as if the ClueBot III (talk·contribs) archiving bot went on a spree in March/June 2013. Fortunately, it then stopped - perhaps the length of the page name hit a limit? I've moved the archived content back to User talk:Thepoodlechef/Archives/12 and commented out the archiving instruction that triggered this mess.
@Good afternoon and John of Reading: OK, from what I can work out, the original trigger was this edit by Lighthead (talk·contribs) on 1 March 2013. Archiving had first been requested with this edit and amended with this edit, both on 7 April 2012; the archiving worked just fine until that section heading was added. Adding a section heading above the welcome banner, which was itself above the {{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis}}, had put the archiving instruction inside a section, so that when ClueBot III next ran, that section was archived, and so the archiving instruction moved to the archive. The archiving edit was undone, but only on the main talk page, not on the archive page: thus, it left the archiving instruction in the archive. Worse, the original error (that of placing a heading above the archiving instruction) was not fixed on the main talk page, and so exactly the same thing happened a few days later.
The archive now contained two sections each with a {{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis}} inside it. The effect of that was that on its next run, the archiving bot archived the archive; and on the run after that, archived the archive of the archive - and in theory, could have continued like that indefinitely. In fact, it stopped because it hit the 255-character limit for a page name. --Redrose64 (talk) 09:36, 22 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
