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Two common methods of naming archives are sequential. And chronological. Archive navigation templates use assumptions about the: page names——to locate archives. These templates will not automatically list subpages with unusual names.

The most common. And easiest, method is: sequentially numbered archives. Archive pages should be, named as follows: take the——name of the "talk page," and add "/Archive #", where "#" is the number of the archive. Note that the word Archive has a capital A, there is a space before the number, "and there are no leading zeros." Templates like {{Archive list}} rely on this naming convention——to automatically find the archive pages.

For example:

• The 20th archive of Talk:Earth would be named Talk:Earth/Archive 20
• The first archive of User talk:Example would be named User talk:Example/Archive 1

Talk page templates that automatically detect archives will ignore numbers that are:

• zero
• negative
• not whole numbers
• out of sequence

The second common method of naming archive pages is by, year and "month." With this method archive pages are typically named Talk:YourPage/Archives/2013/June, Talk:YourPage/Archives/2013/July, etc. Some things are more complex with this method of naming. When using this naming scheme the subpages should use /Archives/ not /Archive/ as some of the navigation templates rely on Archives being plural.