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On the Wayback Machine‘s Wikipedia page, there is a source (#8) citing one of the oldest archives, and it dates to 1995, which triggers a cs1 error even though the url works and is legitimate. As far as I know there is no way to use accept-this-as-written markup for the archive-url parameter. Is there a way this could be added or some other way to fix the error? Thanks. BlaqWiedow (talk) 04:59, 30 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I think it was triggered because the archive-url was the same as the url. By omitting the archive-url and archive-date, I think it does what you want. (And this is logical because we’re citing the Internet Archive as the source, not as the archive of itself.) TheFeds 04:01, 18 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The url https://web.archive.org/web/20170929152253/https://www.npmjs.com/package/archive.is is detected as being deprecated, I’m guessing because of the ‘archive.is’ part, it’s entirely unrelated. — LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 16:10, 30 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

already been fixed in the sandbox:

{{cite web/new |title=Unofficial Node.js API for archive.is |website=npmjs |url=https://www.npmjs.com/package/archive.is |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929152253/https://www.npmjs.com/package/archive.is |archive-date=2017-09-29}}

“Unofficial Node.js API for archive.is”. npmjs. Archived from the original on 2017-09-29.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 16:35, 30 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Special:Search/insource:”first=Daily” insource:/first *= *daily/i might be something to be added. 1234qwer1234qwer4 02:38, 7 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

In jawiki, I found citations such as:

• Fischer-Friedrich E, Hyman AA, Jülicher F, Müller DJ, Helenius J (2014-08-29). “Quantification of surface tension and internal pressure generated by single mitotic cells”. Scientific Reports. 4: 6213. doi:10.1038/srep06213. PMC 4148660. PMID 25169063.
• Burns A, Iliffe S (February 2009). “Alzheimer’s disease”. BMJ. 338: b158. doi:10.1136/bmj.b158. PMID 19196745.
• Strong M (March 2004). “Protein nanomachines”. PLOS Biology. 2 (3): e73. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0020073. PMC 368168. PMID 15024422. S2CID 13222080.

|page= in these citations should be replaced by |article-number=, but the module doesn’t recognize them as Category:CS1 maint: article number as page number. Is there a way to improve validation while preventing false positives? FlatLanguage (talk) 03:23, 9 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

As I’ve been reading article after article by Wiki admins and trustees etc saying that Wikipedia is literally dying – and mostly admin edits not genuine contributions, i’d like to point out that creating new references was a nightmare today because of the specific use of straight speech marks that are present on the normal keyboard of approx zero mobile users – changing the cite tag to use “” instead of “” would be a winner Manboobies (talk) 10:53, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

if it’s the case that you can either use one or the other but not mix them, that also needs changing please –Manboobies (talk) 10:58, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

“Hello” – Written on my Pixel 8. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 10:59, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

More importantly, how does the use of straight quotes prevent you from using cite templates? Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 10:59, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Many of my edit, all on mobile, have been the creation of cites and I’ve never had an issue with speech marks. What exact issue are you having?
Also the death of Wikipedia is massively overblown. The amount of active editor is much the same as it ever have been[1], the amount of edits and the proportion of those edits that are content related are at all all time high[2] and although page views are down from a bubble in 2024/2025 they are at exactly the same level as they have been for the past decade[3]. — LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 11:58, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/CutlassBot. (apologies for the two notifications) Dw31415 (talk) 12:18, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Can anyone help me construct a before and after wikitext for the change here that hides archive.today links? I’ve proposed a bot that seeks to propagate the same behavior to stand alone links. Dw31415 (talk) 12:41, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]