User:Rjjiii/sandbox2

On Wikipedia, discussions are held on talk pages and notice boards. Over time, these pages can grow too large. To keep them readable, old discussions are moved to archives. This process is not automatic. Editors can move the discussions from a talk page or set the talk page up for a bot to do so. Step-by-step instructions to set up a talk page for archiving are at Help:Archiving (plain and simple).

Two main bots archive talk pages. ClueBot III uses settings from User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis. User:Lowercase sigmabot III uses settings from User:MiszaBot/config.

Editors can also create archives and archive discussions. You can manually copy and paste discussions from a talk page to an archive. One click archiving streamlines this process by adding a button to talk page sections.

Only noticeboards and talk pages are archived because both can become very long. The guidelines suggest archiving a talk page over 75 KB (or 75,000 bytes). They also suggest archiving resolved or stale discussions. You summarize older but relevant discussions with the {{tl|FAQ}} template. Archiving one's own user talk page is advised but optional; some users simply blank the page.