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Splitting Larger Pages

I think it's time the larger Sightings pages got split up as they're getting rather large. Websites in particular encompass a large number of sightings. Guybrush20X6 22:37, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Moved from main page talk, where I posted simultaneous to this post being raised:

A recent series of edits was made to a couple of rather long sightings pages without (as far as I can tell) discussion or consensus, with the purpose of breaking them up into smaller pages. These pages were broken up by seemingly arbitrary segments of the alphabet, rather than by anything that objectively makes sense. I reverted those changes, as such broad changes should not be made without consensus, so I'm raising the issue here. First of all, I personally don't see the problem with long pages. You can still navigate by table of contents, and despite this version of MediaWiki's dire warnings, browsers that have trouble editing long pages have not been in use for quite some time. Splitting the pages up doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Secondly, even if there is some argument for breaking up pages, perhaps a more refined way of breaking them up than "some random letters" should be discussed? Perhaps by filtering the entries into smaller sub-categories? So with that, I pose the two questions to everyone else:

1. Is there really a need to break up long pages at all
2. If so, is there a better way to break up long pages than by arbitrary segments of the alphabet?

— Defender1031*Talk 22:42, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

I was basing it off an old discussion from year ago that seemed to lean in the direction of splitting. The letter were mostly from me scrolling down the sub-heading list and finding the half-way point. Now that I've explained myself, I'd say splitting pages makes sense, at least from from the editing side of things. Makes it easier to look through pages for the place to make the change. There's probably a much better way to divide pages though. Guybrush20X6 22:48, 18 September 2017 (UTC)