2008/5/25 Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net>et>:
Archiving doesn't help, especially when those
archive pages are
accompanied by a warning that they are not to have further comments
added. Some of the shorter threads on a talk page might do well to be
revived, especially when they deal with an easily refuted but popular
misconception. If a topic is subject to constant dispute the talk page
and its related archives become an unmanageable multitude that would
deter anyone from looking to them for answers. An improvement might be
to archive by topic or question instead of by date as is currently done,
but that would involve more work than simply using cut and past for
everything added before a given date.
Would listing talk page archives with a short list of matters
discussed help? (I've tried this and it's a lot of work.)
- d.