Forum:CT Archive/Length of Articles

Having read or skimmed through a number of our major topic articles&mdash;particularly Luke Skywalker, Jacen Solo and Han Solo&mdash;I have become concerned about the length of the pages. Now, don't be mistaken. I am not advocating trimming articles to 30 or 40KB. By the nature of the amount of the topic's usage in Star Wars media, the article has to incorporate more information in order to keep up to date with new sources.

For example, let's take the Luke Skywalker article. As the character is still actively used in Star Wars media (ie. the Legacy of the Force novel series and the upcoming Outcast and Blood Oath novels), the article will have to be continously expanded. Already its 219,838 kilobytes and the article is so long that it makes it harder to read and to edit especially for those with small computer browsers. Now, I'm not an active user but I am around enough to have reason to voice these concerns.

Should we make such long articles easier to read by making the current article a disambiguation page linked to sub-articles which deals with different times in their lives or with different aspects of the topic, ie. separate sections on the topic's role in the Galactic Civil War, the New Jedi Order and the Legacy eras. Now this idea may have some flaws including being harder to maintain due to the widespread nature of the topic and being more susceptible to vandalism. Please give me your thoughts. Andykatib 13:22, 12th January 2009 (UTC)