Forum:Amending Page Splitting Guidelines

With Kaidou's page likely set to be split very shortly, I would like to propose a small change regarding how we split articles. Right now, the standard approach is to split pages over 100,000 bytes into 5 subpages: Main, Personality/Relationships, Abilities and Powers, History, and Misc. However, while these splits are understandable for REALLY long pages like the Straw Hats, for pages that are just barely over 100k, a 5-way split can leave some subpages a bit bare. I think it might be better, instead, to start out just splitting the page in 2: Main and History, as History is frequently by far the longest section on these pages, and simply splitting them off usually puts the remainder of the page comfortably under 100k bytes. We did this several years ago with the Seven Warlords of the Sea page, having a separate history subpage until that was condensed enough for everything to fit on the main page.

Here's a look at the byte breakdowns for all the non-Straw Hat characters with split articles:

Kin'emon:
 * All non-history subpages combined: 51k bytes
 * History subpage: 60k bytes

Smoker:
 * Non-History: 57k bytes
 * History: 43k bytes

Buggy:
 * Non-History: 60k bytes
 * History: 42k bytes

Crocodile:
 * Non-History: 61k bytes
 * History: 41k bytes

Ace:
 * Non-History: 66k bytes
 * History: 37k bytes

Whitebeard:
 * Non-History: 76k bytes
 * History: 24k bytes

Law:
 * Non-History: 92k bytes
 * History: 102k bytes (split into 2)

Doflamingo:
 * Non-History: 115k bytes
 * History: 67k bytes

Big Mom:
 * Non-History: 137k bytes
 * History: 41k bytes

My proposal would be to only split character articles into two pages, Main and History, until the Main page once again exceeds 100k bytes, at which point we'd give the character the full, five-subpage treatment. Thus, Doflamingo and Big Mom's pages would remain unchanged. Thoughts on this? Kaido King of the Beasts (talk) 01:08, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

Discussion
I'm for this 100%! Well thought out and definitely necessary on these pages. Splits can make navigating on mobile more difficult, so I'd be happy to see the number of overall pages reduced. 02:01, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

Makes sense. 08:46, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

That's a positive change for sure. StoopidGuy (talk) 12:48, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

Divide into three (Main - Abilities and Powers - History) instead would be much better and more functional since they are the most important sections Mugy69 (talk)