On 2/21/07, Luna <lunasantin(a)gmail.com> wrote: Your comments are quite helpful, Luna. {{X|Arbitrary section|Foo discussion}} -- links to [[Talk:Page/Foo It occurs to me that a bottleneck here is how sections are named. Im thinking that we could use redundant numbered headers just as place links within the ordered archive: == Header with a really long name == === 5 === or = 5 = == Header with a really long name == That way things can be pointed to by number, I'm not skilled at template syntax at all, so Ill leave that to someone else. To link from talk ordered archive to topical archive: {{ta|5|Archive 4}} It occurs to me that it might make more sense to have the archive name as May be better to keep the hierarchy of template|archive|section : {{ta|Archive 4|5}} [[{{TALKSPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}/{{{1}}}#{{{2}}}|{{{1}}}]]. and compact the archive, so that archiving is standardized {{ta|4|5}} [[{{TALKSPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}/Archive {{{1}}}#{{{2}}}|{{{1}}}]]. {{oa|4|5}} -- links to [[Talk:Page/Archive 4#5]] [[{{TALKSPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}/Archive {{{1}}}#{{{2}}}|{{{1}}}]]. I think this will work. It keeps the cross linkages abstract rather than literal. They dont have to be too precise anyway - as long as they point to the right general area within the right archive. :) -Stevertigo

On 22/02/07, Luna <lunasantin(a)gmail.com> wrote: The main problem with any form of archiving is that it's the busiest pages that need it, and the busiest pages tend to be controversial. So picking how to archive them is not so much a technical matter as politics. Date-based archiving is generally tolerable to most. - d.