I was looking for the specific edits by Blueboar and Boracay Bill on the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Reliable_sources/Archive_21 and both queries returned 0 edits to that page, which is patently wrong -- see this section where at least they have each edited once --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Reliable_sources/Archive_21#Overuse_of_%22third-party%22_in_nutsell_and_intro_paragraphs_causing_problems . Maybe "archive" pages are excluded from the index?? Thanks for input. --~~~~
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OK - I found the problem. You need to search the ORIGINAL article from which archives are produced in order to find edits by users which are show in ARCHIVES.
Correct, the edits themselves were made to the original page, not the archive page. The archive pages are merely a copy/paste of the original text. See the revision history.