Editing Help:Archiving a talk page (section)

== Technical overview ==
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There are several standard ways to archive a talk page. Each consists of moving sections from a talk page to an "Archive" [[Wikipedia:Subpages|subpage]]. The most common method of [[Help:Archiving a talk page/Naming|naming talk page archives]] is with sequentially numbered archives. For example:

* The 20th archive of [[Talk:Earth]] would be named <code>Talk:Earth/Archive&nbsp;20</code>
* The first archive of [[User talk:Example]] would be named <code>User talk:Example/Archive&nbsp;1</code>

Remember to use the correct namespace&nbsp;– the part before the colon (<code>:</code>)&nbsp;– when archiving your own user talk page. It should start with "<code>User talk:</code>", not "<code>Talk:</code>".

Alternatively, archives are often named chronologically. Archive templates will not automatically detect subpages with unusual names.