Wikipedia:Village pump (technical): Difference between revisions

 

::This question actually calls out one of the problems with organization of talk pages and any other kind of page that effectively tries to track multiple topics on a single page, particularly when they are used for the purpose of "cases" which have their own individual "lives". When you get a permalink, that lets you view the state of the page at some point in time. So if you get a permalink for such a page at some instant in time, you can see the case of interest at that point in time. You can link forward to the following version of that page, but there may have been no change to the case you're interested in. You might need to go through large numbers of versions for which the case you're interested in hasn't change. To find it just before it got migrated to an archive could have involved hundreds of versions. Of course, you can check the archive, but there could have been versions where content which was added but subsequently deleted, so you wind up having to look at numerous versions that did not affect the topic you're interested in. This is just an inherent limitation of the way that talk pages are managed.