UESPWiki:Archive

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This is the main page for a system archiving various past discussions of community-wide interest. All of the various archived topics are subpages of this page.

To browse the archives, use the Archive category page. The complete category hierarchy can be viewed here.

To date, most of the contents of the archive are past Community Portal discussions (all of which are listed at CP Archives) and those from the Administrator Noticeboard. However, the system is also intended to categorize other miscellaneous discussions.

Archiving Process

Any inactive talk page (or similar) discussion can be added to the archives. On high-volume pages, such as the Community Portal or Administrator Noticeboard, topic-specific archive subpages should be created when a section of the page is archived (see CP Archiving Guidelines for details). This allows the individual topics to be separately categorized. On other pages, subpages for individual topics are usually not necessary (e.g., all the old topics can be moved to a single /Archive # page). Instructions for each method follow.

Basic Method

1. Cut and paste the existing discussion to an appropriate Archive subpage. In general, the new page should use the same title as the existing page, followed by /Archive #, where # is the next consecutive number, or 1 if there are no archive pages yet.
2. Add {{Archive Header}} to the new archive subpage, along with any appropriate parameters. Typically, this will look like: {{Archive Header|date=2024 abril|none}}.
   • For general talk page archives, do not add categories to the template. Simply use "none", as in the example above.
3. Add an {{Archive Table}} entry near the top of the original talk page, listing the archive name and the dates it spans. Typically, this will look like:

<pre style="width:; white-space:-moz-pre-wrap; white-space:-pre-wrap; white-space:-o-pre-wrap; white-space:pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; ">{{Archive Table |Archive 1||Start Date - End Date |Archive 2||Start Date - End Date ... }}

Topic-Based Method

1. Cut and paste the existing discussion to an appropriate Archive subpage:
   • In general, the new page should use the header from the existing topic, unless the topic was poorly named to start with.
   • For Community Portal archives, the name should start with "CP". So a topic with the header "Example Topic" would be moved to a page named UESPWiki:Archive/CP_Example_Topic
   • For Administrator Noticeboard archives, the names should start with "AN".
   • For other source pages, the names should start with "Other".
2. Replace the original discussion with a transclusion of the new archive subpage, e.g., {{UESPWiki:Archive/CP Example Topic}}.
3. Add {{Archive Header}} to the new archive subpage, along with the starting date for the archive, enclosed in noinclude tags, e.g., <noinclude>{{Archive Header|date=2008 June}}</noinclude>.
   • If necessary, add a source parameter to the template to provide the original discussion location. Discussions filed under UESPWiki:Archive/AN and UESPWiki:Archive/CP will automatically be given the appropriate source, as will any discussions filed under their parent page. The primary use of this parameter will be on RfA, RfB and Archive/Other pages, e.g., on User:Nephele/RfA, you would use <noinclude>{{Archive Header|Administrators|date=2006 July|source=UESPWiki:Administrator Noticeboard}}</noinclude>.
   • Add any appropriate categories to the template (if no categories are added, the subpage will be placed in an uncategorized category so other editors know that categories are needed).
     • If the discussion does not fit into one of the existing categories, a new category may be necessary. In particular if there is a UESPWiki page describing the topic, then a matching archive category is appropriate.
     • Use a category of "none" to leave the page completely uncategorized.