Wikipedia talk:Historical archive

Broken archives

 * Archives for archive 1 works.

I hve redicit here but this rediciton was the archive below. So that the talk page was that archive. Those are not right. It should be these archives right. To a curret verzion page. I just get these redicits are broken.--70.225.141.61 (talk) 23:50, 11 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm with you - I'm in a maze of redirects, trying to discuss Homer. Wikipedia has out-classed itself, and become an unindexed encyclopedia in its backwaters. No matter, it's all good.--LeValley 19:47, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
 * In response to the HTML comment added to the top of this section, I can explain what was going on. Previously WP:XYZ and Wikipedia:XYZ were separate pages in the Wikipedia namespace, but this was changed in December 2007 so that the WP pseudonamespace became an alias of the Wikipedia namespace. This caused problems for this page because it used to be at the title, which was confusing because the all-uppercase shortcut for archiving a talk page which used to be at WP:ARCHIVE was now at in the Wikipedia database. When I realised the nature of this problem, I moved the historical archive to its modern title to fix up the namespace/pseudonamespace conflict. Graham87 (talk) 14:52, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Cool! Thank you. —  Scott  •  talk  14:56, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Lag redirect
Lag currently redirects to Historical archive/Lag. However, I feel it would be better as a disambiguation page in the vein of WP:Dead and WP:DB, which in addition to Wikipedia:Historical archive/Lag links to documentation about database lag in the current MediaWiki software (mw:Manual:Maxlag parameter, mw:Manual:Database access, mw:Manual:$wgSlaveLagWarning etc.) Any suggestions/comments? SoledadKabocha (talk) 17:39, 10 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Sounds sensible to me. Graham 87 08:53, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Thirded. —Quiddity (talk) 20:05, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I'd need a few days to get around to actually drafting something. Also, not all of the documentation in question is necessarily on ; I'll keep looking in project space here. SoledadKabocha (talk) 21:04, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Add deleted cleanup templates
I think that cleanup templates that were widely-used eons ago but were deleted later for various reasons (e.g. totallydisputed, noncompliant, unencyclopedic) should be in the historical archive. lo prenu .katmakrofan. (talk) 22:17, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm sort of ... meh about this, admittedly partly because I'd probably have to do the work of putting them there. :-) Most of the pages in the historical archive are there to preserve old history from 2004 or earlier, and I don't see much point in preserving the history of (relatively modern) templates. Note that the history at Unencyclopedic is at the title NOT. Graham 87 08:35, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

Grouping collections
I've just grouped the policy-related pages together as a fonds under a subpage: see Historical archive/Policy. I'll gradually do the same for the other categories of item. I also created Wikipedia historical archive collection for use on the collection indexes. —  Scott  •  talk  16:15, 13 July 2024 (UTC)