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Archiving talk pages is useful when a talk page has a lot of messages. There is no certain number of topics or size to wait for when archiving. If you are not an admin, you will need one of them to protect the archived talk page. There are two ways to do this.
Archiving a Talk Page
Method 1: Moving the Page
- Click the pencil icon in the upper-right hand corner.
- Click on "Rename".
- Uncheck leave a redirect behind, put in "archiving" for the 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)
- Click on move page.
- Recreate the talk page.
- Ask an admin to protect the archive at S:CPSYS, or add the {{protect}} template.
Method 2: Copying the Contents
- Make a page called Talk:TALKPAGE/Archive n or User talk:TALKPAGE/Archive_n
- Copy all of the contents from the talk page to the archive.
- Delete the contents of the original talk page.
- Ask an admin to protect the archive at S:CPSYS, or add the {{protect}} template.