Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20150325130621/@comment-27033815-20150325185340

The Rim of the Sky wrote: Disagree, 25 messages needed for a talk page archive is just common sense. Without the policy, people could just archive their talk page every time there are 2 messages on it. So for example, if someone gets 20 total messages and they archive their page for every 2, they'd have 10 archives. Of course it wouldn't be achievable with only two messages. If you specifically replied to me without hitting reply, I didn't quite mean that.

If there was a message that was very long, with about five equally long messages on it, and they are both well over a year old, even if that only was six messages, I see a need to archive it there. I would say we might need an age over messages count formula, like if it's this month, you need 25 messages, 4 months 20, and you see what I mean.

Not to point out that if we did that we would need a better formula! :)