User:RoxasXIIILK/Archiving Tutorial

Step 1: What is Archiving?
Right now you may be thinking, “Archiving.... what's that?" Archiving is when you clear out your talk page when it gets too full and putting it onto another page for storage. Sooner or later every user has to do this to their talk page.

Step 2: When Do I Archive?
It is ideal to archive your talk page when it becomes too full to work properly. This is usually seen when the pages template limit has been exceeded. This happens when there are too many templates on the page. This will be seen when all new post that include templates do not show up. You also know you need to archive when the page is so full that it takes a long time to load. Of course, it's always up to you when you want to archive your page. Whenever you want to archive it you are always free to do so.

Step 3: How To Archive
Archiving is actually extremely simple. It only takes 4 easy steps:
 * 1) Copying your talk page- The first step in archiving your talk page is to copy all the content of your talk page. A good idea would be to (for the time being) paste it on a word document or something that can safely hold the content until later. Once that's done you can go on to the next step.
 * 2) Creating your archive page- Create a page called User talk:(Your Username Here)/Achive (Achive number here). For example my first archive is User talk:RoxasXIIILK/Archive 1. You may be asking to yourself... "Well how do I make a new page Roxas?? GREAT confuse me more why don't you! XP" Well don't worry those are not my intentions..... this time >:D But anyway, to create a new page you can do one of three things: You can; A) Go to the main page and scroll down to the "Helping Out" section and type the complete name of the new page in the bar, then click the "Create new article" button to create it then get started. B) Go to the navigation bar on the left of the screen and go to the search bar and type in the complete name of the page then hit search. It should bring you to a page that has the title you types it and say "This page needs content. You can help by adding a sentence or a photo!" Just hit create and get started. Or my personal favorite C) Just edit the page and write in the name of the page in – if it's a template (like this is) or in if it's a regular page then click PREVIEW NOT PUBLISH again PREVIEW  NOT  PUBLISH and follow the red link it gives to the page and follow the same steps as B. So for example lets say my name is Subject V and I'm trying to make my first archive page. So I'd put  and follow to red link it gives me to the page and get started. Now you may be thinking at this point, "Get started with WHAT Roxas??? Counting geese and putting them into lovely baskets?" The answer to that is no not in this particular tutorial. :3 So, once you've got the page you are going to paste the content of your talk page onto the archive page. Then you are ready to go on to the next step.
 * 3) Erasing you talk page= Now that all of the posts of your talk page have been archived and are safe from harm you can now clear all the posts of your talk page so you have no posts on your page. How you go about this obviously is your choice. You may choose to leave some messages that are part of conversation that is taking place. For reference, this is my first archive. Now for the final step.
 * 4) Linking your archive to an archive box- You will want to attach a link to your archive page in some sort of Archive box. An example of this is the box to the right of my talk page. If you want to know how to make one you can read my User:RoxasXIIILK/Archive Template Tutorial.

Now that you've read this tutorial you should know how to archive you page. If you have any questions at all you are always free to ask me. Have a nice day.