wikidoc:How to break up a page

The length of a given Wikidoc entry tends to grow as people add information to it. This cannot go on forever: infinitely long entries would cause problems. So we must remove information from entries periodically. This information should not be removed from Wikidoc: that would defeat the purpose of the contributions. So we must create new entries to hold the excised information.

Articles covering subtopics
Wikidoc entries tend to grow in a way which lends itself to the natural creation of new entries. The text of any entry consists of a sequence of related but distinct subtopics. When there is enough text in a given subtopic to merit its own entry, that text can be excised from the present entry and replaced by a link. Some characteristics:


 * Longer articles are split into sections, each about several good-sized paragraphs long. Subsectioning can increase this amount.
 * Ideally many of those sections will eventually provide summaries of separate articles on the subtopic covered in that section (a Main article or similar link would be below the section title.)
 * Each article on each subtopic has a lead section.
 * As a rule, they do not trigger a page size warning, although it is not uncommon for this rule to be broken since the point is to limit readable text, not markup, and sometimes markup may push a page above 32KB.

Balance parts of a page
Where an article is long, and has lots of subtopics with their own articles, try to balance parts of the main page. Do not put overdue weight into one part of an article at the cost of other parts. In shorter articles, if one subtopic has much more text than another subtopic, that may be an indication that that subtopic should have its own page, with only a summary presented on the main page.

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