Editing Help talk:Citation Style 1 (section)

=== <code>|archive-url=</code> is malformed: timestamp ===
I dont see anything wrong in archive url of the following citation:<br /><syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">{{cite web |url=http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/clubs/club=52806/profile/index.html |title=Rosenborg BK |publisher=[[UEFA|Union of European Football Associations]] |access-date=20 April 2011 |archive-date=21 April 2011 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20110421131034/http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/clubs/club=52806/profile/index.html |url-status=dead }}</syntaxhighlight>Which is creating:<br />{{cite web |url=http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/clubs/club=52806/profile/index.html |title=Rosenborg BK |publisher=[[UEFA|Union of European Football Associations]] |access-date=20 April 2011 |archive-date=21 April 2011 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20110421131034/http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/clubs/club=52806/profile/index.html |url-status=dead }}<br />––<span style="background-color: #DEF3FD;"><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold; font-family: Georgia;">KE</span>mel<span style="color: red;">49</span>([[User talk:KEmel49|📝]],[[Special:Contributions/KEmel49|📋]])</span> 12:45, 25 January 2026 (UTC)
:This seems to be an instance covered by a previous comment, [[#Archive error error]]. archive.today didn't exist as such in 2011 (see previous comprehensive discussion for details). [[User:Pol098|Pol098]] ([[User talk:Pol098|talk]]) 12:58, 25 January 2026 (UTC)
:::The above example confused me. Change {{tld|cite web}} to {{tld|cite web/new}} and it is fine. Only waiting for the sandbox to update. -- [[User:GreenC|<span style="color: #006A4E;">'''Green'''</span>]][[User talk:GreenC|<span style="color: #093;">'''C'''</span>]] 17:45, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

* <s>'''Yes undo this change''' - it has no consensus and is spamming the site with over [https://sdzerobot.toolforge.org/category-counts/raw?category=CS1+errors%3A+archive-url 16,000 error messages and going up daily]. There is no requirement to use the Wayback Machine. They often removes archives - Archive.today is ''the only option available''. It's usually why we use archive.today they still have what Wayback removed. It's an unfixable red-error messages in many cases.</s>  -- [[User:GreenC|<span style="color: #006A4E;">'''Green'''</span>]][[User talk:GreenC|<span style="color: #093;">'''C'''</span>]] 06:34, 31 January 2026 (UTC)
* I have this problem too, in [[Pop screamo]] fn 9. The archive link is valid and the error report is completely erroneous. The [[Help:Citation_Style_1#Accept-this-as-written_markup|accept-this-as-written markup]] is not working for {{para|archive-url}}. This should be fixed. [[User:Hawkeye7|<span style="color:#800082">Hawkeye7</span>]] [[User_talk:Hawkeye7|<span style="font-size:80%">(discuss)</span>]] 20:58, 3 February 2026 (UTC)