Talk:Archived ride locations

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The ‍'Archived ride locations'‍ page is designed to help cleanup the global 'List of rides' page. Rides may have lapsed after a year or so, or never got off the ground. In some cases, a promoter created a new page only to post a spam link, never intending to organize a WNBR. Anyway, here's how to archive such rides, or bring one back if you're serious about organizing a ride in any of these cities.

This typically involves 3 pages:

• A 'ride location page' about the city or town, by its name in English language, with presentation and/or documentation of the planned and/or held WNBR‍(s).
• 'List of rides', the global overview of WNBR locations that —on this wiki— show fairly recent activity and/or earlier have shown proof of at least one effectively carried out WNBR.
• 'Archived ride locations', the global list of locations at which a WNBR had been planned and/or may have occurred but hitherto without presenting proof on their page, and appear inactive.

Archive a ride location

If a ride has lapsed (and there had not been earlier sure, documented rides):

1)	Add the link to the 'ride location page'‍ (even if that page would not exist) behind « Archived: » — In the Edit window [tab 'Edit'] of the 'List of rides', out of the location's ride line, copy the link to the 'ride location page' with the name in local language‍(s), if present, & paste it to the top of the country's list of (activated) locations. The line « Archived: » gets cities/towns in alphabetical order, separated by a semicolon ' ; '. If the country would not yet have a line « Archived: », set it according to the user manual for template 'Archived', as shown hereunder:
	Example only for identical name in native and English languages: ===[[Germany]]=== {{NamesOf|Germany|Deutschland}} {{Archived|Germany}} [[Leipzig]] Note: This last line may just as well be: {{Archived|Germany}}{{NamesOf|Leipzig}} Note: see also the user manual for template 'NamesOf'.
	Example for different names (or also for identical name) in native and English languages (see also the user manual for template 'NamesOf'): ===[[Germany]]=== {{NamesOf|Germany|Deutschland}} {{Archived|Germany}}{{NamesOf|Leipzig}};{{NamesOf|Muenster|Münster}}
2)	From the 'List of rides' (while still in its Edit window [tab 'Edit']), cut the location's ride line (including the complete {{Previous rides|..., ...}} information, if any) & paste it into the 'Archived ride locations' (in its Edit window [tab 'Edit']) under the proper country/area, alphabetically by location. Change the «Ride status tab» to Kickstart this ride:
	Example: *{{Ride status tab - Kickstart this ride}}{{NamesOf|Muenster|Münster}} keep any details {{Previously planned|27 Jun 2009}}
3)	At the very top of the Edit window [tab 'Edit'] of the hereby archived 'ride location page' (if it exists — you will have seen a blue link before you started editing the 'List of rides'), insert this: {{Archived}}

Make sure you have saved all three pages, and take a good look at the results.

Unarchive a ride location

If a ride location is being reactivated:

1)	Cut & paste the location's ride line from the 'Archived ride locations' (while in its Edit window [tab 'Edit']) into the Edit window [tab 'Edit'] of the 'List of rides', at the proper country (for some also area) alphabetically by linked 'ride location page'. Set the newly planned ride date (day of the month without leading zero + blank + first 3 characters of the month in English + blank + 4-digit year) and change the «Ride status tab» according to how far the organizing already got, to one of these:
	*{{Ride status tab - New ride planned}}{{NamesOf|Muenster|Münster}} keep e.g. province, state: d MMM yyyy {{Previously planned|27 Jun 2009}}
	*{{Ride status tab - Committed to ride}}{{NamesOf|Muenster|Münster}} keep e.g. province, state: d MMM yyyy {{Previously planned|27 Jun 2009}}
2)	There above, remove the link to the 'ride location page'‍ from behind the word 'Archived:'. If there remains no other archived location, simply remove that entire 'Archived:' line.
3)	From the very top of the Edit window [tab 'Edit'] of the 'ride location page' being reactivated, remove this: {{Archived}} In case that page did not yet exist (you will have seen a red link before you started editing the 'Archived ride locations'), create that page (see examples by active other locations, preferably in the same country).

Make sure you have saved all three pages, and take a good look at the results.