[WikiEN-l] What to do about our writing quality?

[David Gerard]

2008/5/25 Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>:

> 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.