David Gerard wrote:
2008/5/25 Ray Saintonge:
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 paste 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.)
It would be a step in the right direction, and I agree it would be a lot of work. It still leaves open the possibility for frequently discussed problems to have their own separate archive pages.
Ec