With runbotsingle on the article "Hamlet" on enwiki, with "Add archives to all non-dead references" enabled, the report comes back having run for around 22 seconds and finding 0 links (analyzed, rescued, tagged, archived: 0). The article does contain web links, both in "cite web" templates and in the form of [URL title] extlinks. Reverified several times over the last few weeks, and last a few minutes before filing this. A different article works as expected, so fairly obviously there's something about en:Hamlet that the bot chokes on (length? or maybe there's weird syntax in there somewhere?).
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@Cyberpower678
Is that (must be inside <ref> tags) a requirement? Is it documented? It seems really non-intuitive that URLs inside the various cite templates (all the CS1/CS2 templates take a |url= parameter) are not checked. That would make IABot non-functional for any article that uses short citations. And what about plain extlinks?
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When you check that checkbox, it is. If IABot suddenly mass added archives to all links in an article, it would cause major drama on Wikipedia.
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- Edits are now made by the user running the tool and not IABot, and users are responsible for any edits they make regardless of whether they were manual or automated.
- Wikipedia doesn't mandate a single reference style, so short citations with full references in a separate section are by definition equally a part of the concept "references" as full references inside <ref> tags.