Forum:Addendum to COD:DDD (Archiving)

Something I feel has recently come up as a slight issue is Archiving. While Archiving large talk pages is perfectly dine, I feel there's an issue with users using archives to hide warnings from public eye. Two examples of this is DeeMoShow's archive and Dan67's archives, all of which are ridiculously short (DeeMoShow only having 4 messages). As such I feel an addendum is required for COD:DDD to ensure users are using archives for clearing cluttered talk pages and not for simply hiding warnings. There are many ways this could be achieved, such as only allowing sysops to perform archiving, only allowing pages of certain sizes to be archived, or something along those lines, however in short I feel we need to cut on archives made solely for warning hiding.

Also please note I'm open to suggestions on how deal with archives, the two suggestions I posted were simply my ideas, they're not set in stone so don't oppose because you don't like the bridge design when we need to cross a river. 22:50, March 5, 2013 (UTC)