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and are used on talk pages to archive old discussions. Users can apply the templates manually, and autopatrolled users can enable the aWa gadget in their preferences, which uses the templates when archiving certain discussion pages.

Usage
For discussions archived from standard venues, place the following on the talk page:

== Header text == discussion content

The first positional parameter to denotes the venue from which the discussion was archived: ,  ,  ,  ,  ,   or.

The second parameter is optional and denotes the result of the verification process or deletion debate:,   or. The default value is.

Discussions from arbitrary pages can be archived as such:

== Header text == discussion content

The second parameter should not be passed.

Incorrect usages of place the page in Category:Archive boxes needing attention.