Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1732320-20160627020859/@comment-17623-20160628102754

Omnibender wrote: While I agree with user talk pages, that still doesn't cover how article talk pages should be archived. I've mentioned archiving old and big, but the way the talkpage policy currently is, it can sort of be interpreted as an "either or" case with big and old, when I think it should in fact be "simultaneously", and that section is specifically in the user talkpage section.

Ah I see. Well until Talk Page Archiving Hijinks (as I will now be calling it), yeah Talk Pages were allowed to get as long as possible until they were, for lack of a better term, massive. Age had nothing to do with it. It was all about size. If a talk page was (and I'm making up numbers here) 3 or 4x the size of the article in question, then it could be archived to make room for newer content. How long discussions being there was irrelevant, because at the end of the day "age" is irrelevant to discussions. Typically, what we discuss in the past doesn't all of a sudden become moot because time has gone by.