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). However, the system is also intended to categorize other miscellaneous discussions, including those from the Administrator Noticeboard.

[edit] Archiving Process

Any inactive discussion can be added to the archives, if that discussion is of general interest and is likely to be referenced in future. On high-volume pages, such as the Community Portal, archived subpages should be created when a section of the Community Portal is archived (see CP Archiving Guidelines for details). On other pages, subpages for individual topics may never be necessary (e.g., all the old topics can be moved to a single /Archive page), or it may be appropriate to only move one topic from the page to an archived subpage. In either case, each individual topic from a talk page is archived separately, allowing the individual topics to be separately categorized.

To move content to the archives:

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 an Archive Header to the new archive subpage, enclosed in noinclude tags
   • For example, <noinclude>{{Archive Header|date=2008 June}}</noinclude>
   • If the subpage was taken from a page other than the Community Portal, add a source parameter to the template to provide the original discussion location, e.g.,
     <noinclude>{{Archive Header|date=2008 June|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.