Help:Archiving

Archiving of talk pages refers to removing completed discussions from the current talk page, and placing them in a separate page, known as an archive page. This is generally done when a talk page becomes excessive in length. As a basic guideline, a new archive page should usually be created when a page reaches either 30,000 bytes, or 30 sections, whichever comes first.

How to create an archive

 * 1) Open the location at which you will create the archive page, and begin editing. These should ideally follow the format "Talk:Article/Archive X", where X is a number increased by 1 for every new archive page. Thus, the first archive of User talk:Moydow would be User talk:Moydow/Archive 1, the second User talk:Moydow/Archive 2, and so on.
 * 2) In a separate tab or window, open the current talk page, and click "edit".
 * 3) Cut the archive content out of the current talk page, and paste it into the archive page.
 * 4) Place links to archive pages at the top of the archive page, and save it, with an edit summary such as "created archive".
 * 5) Place links to archive pages at the top the current talk page, and save it, with an edit summary such as "moved to archive".

Do not edit a talk page that has been marked as an archive. If you are having problems with a user/users continuously editing your archive pages, please contact an administrator, who can lock your archive pages from further editing, and warn and/or ban the offending user(s).