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This task is based on @Elvey's comment: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=15978644&oldid=15801003
Several points to consider:
- Should orphaned archive pages never be created or does it depend on different communities? I personally tend to think an optional command-line option for it would suffice.
- For cleaner edit histories, how can we make it preventive rather than self-reverting own edits? Templates like {{Archive box}} generate links dynamically, making it difficult to check the existence of such links without having to actually save the changes.
- Elvey suggested the bot should add the archive box template, but I deliberately excluded it from this task in an effort to make it lead to a language/wiki agnostic solution. (English Wikipedia and Meta might have {{archive box auto}}, but what about other wikis?) That feature might have its own merit, but I'd prefer to discuss it separately.
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