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After Toomai pointed out on discord that [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Talk_page_guidelines#Archiving Wikipedia now uses a 75KB standard for archiving], I want to officially '''propose''' we update our archiving standard to 75KB too, as it does seem more reasonable and much less restrictive (e.g. back in the prime of my activity, I had to archive my talk page about every month or two, which just felt excessive, and any lengthy conversation with a couple WoTs could use up much of it). If you are a current active user who does actually have an inability to properly load or edit pages larger than 32KB, please speak up now. <span style="font-family:Edwardian Script ITC; font-size:12pt">[[User:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Omega</span>]] [[User talk:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Tyrant</span>]]</span> [[Image: TyranitarMS.png ]] 18:22, March 2, 2021 (EST)
After Toomai pointed out on discord that [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Talk_page_guidelines#Archiving Wikipedia now uses a 75KB standard for archiving], I want to officially '''propose''' we update our archiving standard to 75KB too, as it does seem more reasonable and much less restrictive (e.g. back in the prime of my activity, I had to archive my talk page about every month or two, which just felt excessive, and any lengthy conversation with a couple WoTs could use up much of it). If you are a current active user who does actually have an inability to properly load or edit pages larger than 32KB, please speak up now. <span style="font-family:Edwardian Script ITC; font-size:12pt">[[User:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Omega</span>]] [[User talk:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Tyrant</span>]]</span> [[Image: TyranitarMS.png ]] 18:22, March 2, 2021 (EST)
I definitely '''support''' increasing the recommended size from 32KB. After all, this very talk page is larger than that, and isn't too bloated just yet. However, I don't think adopting Wikipedia's 75KB standard is necessarily the best option for this Wiki. Wikipedia talk pages can get extremely bloated as is, and individual sections on said talk pages tend to be much longer. Thus, if we used the same standard, the number of sections on a typical talk page on the verge of being archived would be quite a bit higher here, making the talk pages even more bloated. It's also worth noting that a lot of talk page discussions on Wikipedia are archived in chunks, meaning once a specific discussion on the talk page is clearly closed, just that discussion's section is archived. This practice also helps to cut down on bloat on the Wikipedia talk pages, but here, we generally archive talk pages in their entirety, once the talk page becomes too large. Thus, our talk pages will likely bloat even more. Combine these points with our lower activity, making cutting down on the frequency of archiving less pressing an issue, and I think it's clear that Wikipedia's standard works better on Wikipedia than it would work here. May I suggest a lower value for the standard, like 50KB for instance? ''[[User:Alex the weeb|<span style="color: blue;">'''Alex'''</span>]] the [[User talk:Alex the weeb|<span style="color: red;">'''Weeb'''</span>]]'' 18:37, March 2, 2021 (EST)

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