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This template employs intricate features of template syntax.

You are encouraged to familiarise yourself with its setup and parser functions before editing the template. If your edit causes unexpected problems, please undo it quickly, as this template may appear on a large number of pages.
You can conduct experiments, and should test all major changes, in either , the general template sandbox, or your user space before changing anything here.

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{{subst:DNAUTemplate:DNAU}}

Use this template to prevent automatic (bot) archival of a given thread, either semi-permanently or for a specified number of days. Conventionally this template is used at the top of the thread, just under the header, but it may be placed anywhere in the thread. Please set an expiry date in days with the first unnamed parameter, such as |1=30 for 30 days. If no value is specified, the default expiry is 3,560 days (ten years).

This template places an HTML comment that contains a future date in the talk thread. The comment is invisible to readers when rendered from HTML to the viewable page by a web browser, but visible to archiving bots who parse through the code when 'reading' a page. The bots will not archive a thread until the most recent signed comment's date is at least one archival period in the past. Therefore, the thread will only be archived one archival period after the future date in the HTML comment. This comment can be seen when the page is edited with the source and visual editors, and looks like the following:

<!-- [[User:DoNotArchiveUntil]] 22:45 29 August 2035 (UTC) -->{{User:ClueBot III/DoNotArchiveUntil|2072040355}}

The date is determined by the parameters entered into the template.

Usage

This template must be substituted to work.

This template takes two parameters, both optional.

Use the first to specify the number of days to prevent the thread from archiving. If the parameter is omitted, the template will set the thread to archive in 3650 units (which for the default unit of "days" is close to 10 years, but not exactly due to leap years). Use the second to specify a different unit than days. To use this template, type in the following:

{{subst:DNAU}} – to prevent a thread from being archived for a very long time.
{{subst:DNAU|200}} – to prevent a thread from being archived for 200 days.
{{subst:DNAU|47|weeks}} – to prevent a thread from being archived for 47 weeks.
{{subst:DNAU|2=hours}} – to prevent a thread from being archived for 3650 hours (close to 5 months).
{{subst:DNAU|1=10000|2=mins}} – to prevent a thread from being archived for 10000 minutes (almost 7 days).

Since not all pages are archived daily, the parameter should be read as the minimum number of days before thread is archived.

Parameters

|1=: first unnamed parameter: number of units until autoarchival (default is 3650)
|2=,: second unnamed parameter: type of unit (default is 'days'). All relative PHP unit formats are acceptable: 'sec', 'second', 'min', 'minute', 'hour', 'day', 'week', 'fortnight', 'month', 'year', and their respective plurals 'secs', 'seconds' etc.

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