User:NYKevin/archive template/doc

Usage

Use this template to create a cut and paste archive of a talk page with links to various useful pages (such as history and the original) (the tabs become linkified if you use the template):

{{User:Thinboy00/archive template|talk page title, including namespace|oldid immediately before blanking|total # of edits since last archival|date of blanking edit, in YYYYMMDDHHmmss}}

put archived text here

For the title, if it contains an = sign, put 1= in front of it.

for the date,

YYYY

4 digit year

MM

2 digit month

DD

2 digit day of month (e.g. 03, 31, 17, etc.)

HH

2 digit hour in UTC

mm

2 digit minute

ss

2 digit second (set to 59 if unsure)

Example

{{User:Thinboy00/archive template|Talk:Metasyntactic variable|123456|215|20081009233659}}


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In this example, the date is 20081009233659, or 2008 10 09 23 36 59, or Year 2008, month 10, day 9, at 23:36:59, UTC

Status

Still being tested and fine tuned, but should be ready soon.

See also

When I get around to making it, User:Thinboy00/archive template/help will contain more complete instructions

Help:history

Template:Talkarchivehist does similar things, somewhat more polished, but stylistically different.