Help:Archiving a talk page

Archiving

The preferred method for archiving a talk page is to copy the older sections to a series of subpages, and remove the sections from the original page. This can be performed either by hand or automatically by a bot.

There are two common methods of naming archive pages. The most common, and easiest, is sequentially numbered archives. Archive pages should be named as follows: take the name of the talk page, and add "/Archive #", where "#" is the number of the archive. Note that the word Archive has a capital A, there is a space before the number, and there are no leading zeros.

Manual (do it yourself)

• Cut and paste
• Semi-automated (user scripts)
• Move entire talk page

Automated (get bot to do it)

• Wikisource-bot
  • runs daily check and archive if required
  • Sequential or time-based archives
  • Uses user:Wikisource-bot/config that follows syntax of w:User:Lowercase sigmabot III/Archive HowTo
  • Pages using archiver

• SpBot‎
  • runs daily check and archive if required
  • uses {{Autoarchive resolved section}} and {{Section resolved}}

See also

• w:Help:Archiving a talk page at English Wikipedia