Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20150325130621/@comment-1251315-20150326083255

AIdmeri wrote: My point is a person should be able to decide when to archive. You're talking about the amount of messages that should be on a single archive page. If the community came up with a standard amount of messages to be on a single archive, then there should be something in that standard that allows us to archive when we want, and still abide by the "how many messages until the next archive can be created" rule. If I were to archive my page today, and a few months down the road I get 3 more messages, I should be free to archive that along with my additional messages in my first archive, instead of creating a new one. Get it? But as pointed out, an archive can't really have a standard number of messages. What happens if one whole heading consisted of paragraphs and paragraphs of text?

Why can't we just make it simple: only create an archive of old and/or resolved discussions? Why are people so determined about having limits that shouldn't exist? It is absolutely not the duty of this wiki to go around yelling at people because they made their archive too small. Tough luck, it's not anyone's personal responsibility to determine limits for a talkpage archive.

@Rim: I'm sorry, but it just sounds like you are trying to force your personal opinion about people's archives onto others. Nobody else really seems to be agreeing with you, especially as you are wrong about how archives work: they work based on the age of the message, not on how many messages there are. You might have seen I've compressed up my archives just by adding to them, instead of creating new ones, since I don't feel a need to create more, but I don't do it because of the stupid archiving policy we have here: I don't even know of any wiki's that have such a policy (except having a policy like I have suggested).