User talk:Preposterous

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[edit] Archiving

Welcome on Wikipedia, Preposterous!

You can learn how to archive here. Some additional comments: I like to keep/make a talk page structured (moving discussions to other sections & merging certain discussions), which makes the talk page less chaotic and makes archiving or searching in archives easier. (It is sometimes frustrating to see however that people don't even try to respect the talk page structure and just keep adding topics which are already being discussed above). Then I make an archive box (see the above link) and I use the "cut-and-paste"-method to fill the archives with dead or repetitive discussions (and nonsense-topics), most of the times till they reach 75-90kbs (there isn't really a policy about archive size I think - but I find it an appropriate size). Then I start a new archive. I also try to keep the talk page below 150kb, which seems way too much but is quite difficult to achieve for fast growing talk pages. In order to easily find earlier discussions, I provide a link in similar live discussions to the archives, sometimes with a summary. Have fun! Sijo Ripa 23:22, 20 July 2006 (UTC)