User talk:Wuku
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Talk:2009 swine flu outbreak in the United Kingdom
[edit]Talk:2009 swine flu outbreak in the United Kingdom is autoarchived, so you should _not_ delete talk discussions, they will be archived automatically. 70.29.210.130 (talk) 06:39, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
sorry. i obviously have not come across all this yet. if its autoarchived... where's the link? i'm assuming there is a link to it. and how often is an autoarchive carried out? i've read the archiving page, but i'm not sure i'd be able to do it. Wuku (talk) 10:00, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
- When you press "more information" on one of those coloured boxes at the top of the talk page, you will see that it says that MiszaBot archives the page for threads with no activity for two weeks. Typically archiving is done when the talk page gets long, unless a bot is set up to do it. "long" usually means over 32kB. Generally you can archive things with no activity for a month, and people usually won't complain about overly speedy archiving. For talk pages that acquire alot of activity, someone usually automates the archiving process with a bot request. If you find a talk page that is not autoarchived by a bot, you can request an archival of the old talk discussions by placing an {{archiveme}} tag at the very top of the talk page, and someone else, who knows archiving procedure will do it instead of you.
- Sometimes archiving talk pages is very tedious, since several older discussions have continuous activity, interspersed with dead discussions, so you have to tease out dead ones, and leave active ones in place, when you manually archive talk pages, especially on some very long talk pages (over 100kB). I archive talk pages on occassion.