Shortcut: WW:ARCHIVE
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This page is considered a guideline on WoWWiki. It illustrates standards of conduct, which many editors agree with in principle. However, it is not policy.
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When a talk page is growing too large, and there's plenty of old discussions that are no longer active, it's a good idea to archive some of them.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:
- Step One
- Add
{{Archives1|~~~~~}}(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:
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- Step Two
- Follow the red link to create the archive.
- Add {{Archive}} 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)|~~~~~}}