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