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Guidelines ยป Archival
This page is considered a guideline on BRWiki.
It illustrates standards of conduct, which many editors agree with in principle. However, it is not policy.
When a talk page is growing too large, and there's plenty of old discussions that are no longer active, it's a good idea to archive some of them.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!
[edit] 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!)
- The top of the talk page will now look something like this:
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- Past discussions archived to...
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- Follow the red link to create the archive.
- Add {{Archive}}, to the top of the new blank page.
- Paste the contents you cut earlier.
You're done!
[edit] 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.:
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{{Archives1|03:22, 3 June 2006 (EDT)}} becomes
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{{Archives2|03:22, 3 June 2006 (EDT)|~~~~~}}
