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When a talk page is growing too large, and there's plenty of old discussions that are no longer active, it's a good idea to archive some of them. This page explains how to do so. Never archive ongoing discussions!
Archiving a talk page
If there is nothing previously archived:
- Add
{{Archives1|~~~~~}}
(yep, five tildes!) to the top of the talk page.
- Cut out the pieces that you would like to archive (pasting them into a notepad is a good idea so you don't lose them!)
- Save the talk page.
- The top of the talk page will now look something like this:
Template:Archives1 |
- Follow the red link to create the archive.
- Add Template:T1link, e.g.
{{Archive|WoWWiki talk:Archival}}
to the top of the new blank page.
- Paste the contents you cut earlier.
- Save.
You're done!
Adding another archive
If there's already an Archives(n) tag in a page, you basically follow the above procedure, but instead you modify the existing tag, e.g.:
{{Archives1|03:22, 3 June 2006 (EDT)}}
becomes
{{Archives2|03:22, 3 June 2006 (EDT)|~~~~~}}