I don't have a complete answer for you.  The  to the configuration do not appear to have broken anything and should do what your edit summaries indicated you desire. My experience is that ClueBot III (CB3) will sometimes take a while (days) to either begin making archive edits on a page, or act on changes to a configuration.  As you can see from the , it took CB3 4 days to start making archives from when I initially added the configuration template on that page. I have not looked at the code for the bot to see why this is the case, but it is what happens from the outside looking in.  My assumption has been: that in order to reduce the load on the servers, it does not look at every page each time it runs.  Even though it has been about 48 hours since you made the change to reduce the , let's give it a bit more time.  If CB3 does not pick up the change in the near future, we can switch to