User:OnBeyondZebrax/sandbox/Archive

Click on the Edit source tab for the talk page you wish to archive.

In the edit box, highlight all the text you want to archive, right-click (Windows/Linux) or control-click (Mac) and then select cut (also Ctrl+X, ⌘ Cmd+X for Mac). The text will then be copied to your clipboard. Any WikiProject header templates should remain on the main talk page and should not be cut and pasted to an archive page.

While still in the edit window, make a link to the archive name you plan on creating – you can link directly to a subpage by putting a slash (/) in front of it.

If you're making a topical archive, use the name of the topic, for example /Place of birth debate.

If you're just archiving old discussion, use the next available number; so if the last archive page was Archive 3, call it /Archive 4.

If there are no archives yet, call it /Archive 1.

Archive links can be conveniently placed in an archive template (How to do this is described in the archive box section below)

Click Save page. (It's helpful to include an Edit summary like "Archiving old material".) You should now have a page of recent discussion with a red link to your archive at the top.

Open the newly created subpage by clicking the red link. Paste the old discussions from your clipboard into the edit box. Add to the top and bottom of the page. This adds a notice explaining that the page is an archive, and links back to the main talk page.

If this is a numbered archive, you can add a navigation template to make it easier to navigate through to other numbered archives. See the section navigation templates below. Save page. You have now created an archive.