Help talk:Archiving your User talk page: "move" style

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Technopat, I just had this brief thought: folks experienced enough to have acquired a talk page worth archiving, or to contemplate archiving any talk page, will at this stage know the wiki basics. Furthermore, few people (me included) have time, or is it patience, to read long instructions these days. So removing all beginner wiki details from this Help page may help even more than the details. In deference to your effort however, I am reluctant to delete all those carefully written details. So I wrote a brief Help:Archive page on the "cut and paste" method instead, and cross linked between the two articles at top. The two articles could be merged some day. You will noticed I favor short article names. I can type them from memory better than long article names, which facilitates typing links. Cheers! --Roger 20:06, 19 February 2012 (CST)
 * Merge done (Help:Archive), with link to this page for more details. --Roger 23:11, 19 February 2012 (CST)
 * Am all for brevity - the soul of wit - but re. instructions, etc. am constantly astounded by the number of colleagues and students who, while using computers on a daily basis for work, have absolutely NO idea of how to even look for stuff on internet, let alone do things on wikis. BTW, I was going to title it "Foolproof Archiving" but thought that maybe it wouldn't be in keeping with a semi-serious wiki like teflpedia that's trying to build a reputation. As for volume of stuff at talk pages, it's early days yet :) Cheers! --Technopat 03:50, 20 February 2012 (CST)
 * A few thoughts. I rather think that we need just one set of instructions. I may be confused but we seem to have Help:Archive and Help:Archiving your User talk page. I also think that it's dangerous to assume too much knowledge from users, but any real wiki expert won't read the page anyway so it's probably best to make it idiot-proof.
 * I'm not keen on the "delete" option at Help:Archive.
 * I think we need another option for real first timers such as - "Just ask somebody else"
 * Finally, having just been inspired to archive a large chunk of my talk page I don't think that I used any of these systems.--Bob M 05:47, 20 February 2012 (CST)
 * Idiot proof means, for starters, KISS. "Delete style of archiving" means, hay, for what reason are folks archiving pages on a wiki that already archives everything already already (see "View history")? Near as I can see, and putting it politely, how one copes with ones excessively long User Talk page is a matter of personal style. KISS and "Delete style of archiving" seem to have a magnetic attraction for me. --98.207.154.233 13:56, 20 February 2012 (CST)
 * It's just that I would rather not encourage people to delete conversations.--Bob M 14:42, 20 February 2012 (CST)