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option, which will paste the old discussions which you have copied onto your clipboard into the edit box. Before saving your archive, you should add a note at the top of the page to tell users that the following discussions are inactive, and should not be edited. Once you have done that, click the
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can currently perform this type of archival on any discussion page that has "talk" in the namespace. Any sections older than a certain age in days are cut-and-pasted to a specified subpage. A detailed tutorial on setting this up on a discussion page can be found
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When a talk page becomes too long, it will need to be archived. This is because long talk pages are often difficult to navigate, and also because some users may not be able to edit pages longer than 32kb.
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You now need to create a page for your text to be archived to. There are two ways of doing this. Firstly, you can add a link to your archive page on the current talk page (i.e.
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option. The selected text will have been removed from the talk page, and copied to you clipboard, ready to be transferred to your archive.
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Remember, try not to mix between both methods of archiving, as this can become confusing for users searching through the archives.
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There are two main methods to archiving pages, manual, and automated.
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You can now Right-click/control click, and select the
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When a talk page needs archiving, begin by clicking
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