This page lists alternative procedures for archiving a talk page that are generally no longer used. Note that if you have used the page move procedure on your user talk page, those pages do not qualify for speedy deletion by user request.
Archive standards |
See Wikipedia talk:How to archive a talk page/Archive 1#Archive standards for earlier discussions on this topic |
With this method, instead of copying discussions to a separate page, you simply provide a link to an earlier version of the page. You can make the links with the {{ oldid2}} and {{ oldid}} templates. These pages do not show up in search engines, as they are dynamically generated.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia_talk:How_to_archive_a_Talk_page&oldid=1709131 Archive 1]: June 2004 – May 2005
You can make the link shorter, and hence keep the wikitext of the page more readable, by replacing the path to the page with a {{fullurl}} link, leaving the "oldid" section at the end. For example, the link given above could be replaced by this:
which would display as Archive 1.
Since October 2011, you can instead make a normal wikilink to Special:PermanentLink:
which displays as Archive 1.
Or, you can write more primitively as
which displays as Archive 1. The <span> tags, if used, prevent the "external link" icon from appearing.
This page lists alternative procedures for archiving a talk page that are generally no longer used. Note that if you have used the page move procedure on your user talk page, those pages do not qualify for speedy deletion by user request.
Archive standards |
See Wikipedia talk:How to archive a talk page/Archive 1#Archive standards for earlier discussions on this topic |
With this method, instead of copying discussions to a separate page, you simply provide a link to an earlier version of the page. You can make the links with the {{ oldid2}} and {{ oldid}} templates. These pages do not show up in search engines, as they are dynamically generated.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia_talk:How_to_archive_a_Talk_page&oldid=1709131 Archive 1]: June 2004 – May 2005
You can make the link shorter, and hence keep the wikitext of the page more readable, by replacing the path to the page with a {{fullurl}} link, leaving the "oldid" section at the end. For example, the link given above could be replaced by this:
which would display as Archive 1.
Since October 2011, you can instead make a normal wikilink to Special:PermanentLink:
which displays as Archive 1.
Or, you can write more primitively as
which displays as Archive 1. The <span> tags, if used, prevent the "external link" icon from appearing.