Forum:When to archive?

It occurs to me that we have an archived discussions section here, but we don't really have a good guideline for when a discussion is considered up for archival. Any thoughts on a good time to wait before archiving? --  LiR speak ~ read 20:49, November 7, 2012 (UTC)
 * Whilst I think that for the vast majority of discussions that we should keep them around until we get a definite answer, I'd say wait until it's dried up for a couple of weeks. I realise that discussions dying before we can get any answer has been, and still is, a major issue though to be honest I think that the community should step up and give sufficient input before they dry up... 14:27, November 8, 2012 (UTC)
 * Ok, maybe this works better as two questions. How long after a conversation completes (i.e. a conclusion is reached) do we wait before we archive it? Alternately, how long after a conversation has dried up do we wait before archival? --  LiR speak ~ read 18:42, November 8, 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure, but how was "archival" even implemented back when we still used the community talk page? I think it's just based on how long it's been since last time a topic is discussed.  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  14:46, November 10, 2012 (UTC)

I don't want to bother making a new thread, so I'll post it here.

IMO, there's just a small thing that disturbs me about archiving a thread. Upon archiving, someone in the end will have to edit the forum header / page. This cause the last poster and the last edit time to change based on the archival time, which, I think, is incorrect, as we would expect the last poster and edit time to refer the discussion, not when it was archived. This may cause confusion when an admin archives multiple threads at the same time, or others might think there was a new post, which is not.

I know this is not an issue or something that needs to be resolved, but I think I just wanted to share my thoughts here.  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  11:22, November 28, 2012 (UTC)