User:Anthony.Sebastian/Archiving instructions

Archiving Talk Pages

Example: Archive Talk:Chemical elements

• Go to the page: Talk:Chemical elements
• In a new tab, go to Citizendium Welcome Page, use search box to search for: Talk:Chemical elements/Archive X, where X=1 if the Talk page has had no previous archives, or X=2,3,etc....the next archive number. In doing the search, click the 'Go to Page' button, not the 'Search' button.
• That takes you to a page that says: There is no page titled "Talk:chemical elements/Archive X". You can create this page.
  • Click on create this page
• That takes you to the edit page of the new archive page entitled: Talk:Chemical elements/Archive X
  • At the very top of that edit page, enter this template: {{Archive box|auto=long}}
  • Then save the page (but remember the name!). You need to get back, so you could leave the tab intact after saving.
• Go to: Talk:Chemical elements. Open the whole page for editing.
  • Select and copy all of the contents that you want to archive.
• Go back to the new archive page: Talk:Chemical elements/Archive X
  • Paste in the contents that you copied from Talk:Chemical elements and then save the new archive page
• Go back to edit page of: Talk:Chemical elements
  • Delete all of the contents that you copied to the new archive page.
  • At the very top of the edit page, enter this template: {{Archive box|auto=long}} and save the page. The template may already be there if the page has had an earlier archive. You are now finished.

Example: Archive your own user talk page

Follow the same steps as above, except search for and create: User talk:Anthony.Sebastian/Archive X. Substitute your own user name for 'Anthony.Sebastian'.

The above was transmitted to me by Milton Beychok 20:23, 28 July 2009 (UTC). I made a few minor edits.