Help:Archiving a talk page

Archiving talk pages is useful when they have quite a lot of messages. If you are not an admin, you will need one of them to help you. There are two ways to do this.

Method 1: Moving the page

 * 1) Hover over the arrow and click on move
 * 2) Uncheck leave a redirect behind, put in "archiving" for a reason, and move it to Talk:TALKPAGE/Archive n or User talk:TALKPAGE/Archive n (where n represents the archive number, with the first archive being 1, the second being 2 and so on)
 * 3) Click on move page.
 * 4) Recreate the talk page
 * 5) Ask an admin to protect the archive.

Method 2: Copying the contents

 * 1) Make a page called Talk:TALKPAGE/Archive n or User talk:TALKPAGE/Archive_n
 * 2) Copy all of the contents from the talk page to the archive.
 * 3) Delete the contents of the original talk page.
 * 4) Ask an admin to protect the archive.