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 Subpages are usually only meant to be linked to from their root page and navigation templates. For instance, [[Twelfth Doctor - list of appearances]] is [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Twelfth Doctor - list of appearances|only linked to]] from [[Twelfth Doctor]] and {{tlx|Doctor appearances}}, making it an obvious candidate for a subpage. This is the <code><nowiki>{{Main|/subpage}}</nowiki> + Summary</code> method. Subpages should be named after top-level sections, which have headings formatted with <nowiki>==</nowiki>, such as "Biography" or "Plot". There should never be in-universe subpages: for instance, if the section [[Twelfth Doctor#Continued adventures with Clara]] were deemed too big, we would move it to [[Twelfth Doctor/Biography#Continued adventures with Clara]], ''not'' [[Twelfth Doctor/Continued adventures with Clara]].
-Alternately, [[User:FishTank|FishTank]] [[w:c:community:User blog:FishTank/Short and long pages on Fandom|suggests]], "A character's narrative in a television season could be placed into &quot;Character/Season 1&quot; with detailed plot points and spoilers in that article." There's an appealing logic to this as well.
+Alternately, [[User:FishTank|FishTank]] [[w:c:community:User blog:FishTank/Short and long pages on Fandom|suggests]], "A character's narrative in a television season could be placed into &quot;Character/Season 1&quot; with detailed plot points and spoilers in that article." There's an appealing logic to this as well, and it lines up with our current use of subpages at [[Doctor Who Magazine/1985]] et al.
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 Many articles on this wiki are already written like subpages. Our [[:Category:Lists of appearances|1000+ lists of appearances]] are perfect examples of subpages in both purpose and execution – except that they're not actually subpages! [[Twelfth Doctor - list of appearances]], to name of one of many, should be moved to [[Twelfth Doctor/List of appearances]]. Similarly, we have [[:Category:Galleries|almost 100 "galleries"]], most of which are already linked to from story or series pages with {{tlx|main}}. [[BBC New Series Adventures covers]] should be moved to [[BBC New Series Adventures/Covers]] without hesitation.
-You might ask, why would it be better to put these articles as subpages rather than the status quo? What are subpages, anyway?
+You might ask, why would it be better to put these articles as subpages rather than the status quo? What are subpages, anyway? You're on one! Because of the slashes I've built into the title of this page, it's a subpage of both [[User:NateBumber]] and [[User:NateBumber/Sandbox]], and as a result there are links to those pages at the top of this one, just below the title. This is great for navigation. A subpage can also be linked to from its parent page via only partial urls: if you're on [[BBC New Series Adventures]], the link <nowiki>[[/Covers]]</nowiki> will take you to [[BBC New Adventures Series Adventures/Covers]]. It's even more powerful than the pipe trick!
-Compared with [[w:c:community:User blog:FishTank/Short and long pages on Fandom|best practices]], subpages are direly underutilized on this wiki.
+Fandom's Editor Experience team explains,
+{{quote|Google understands that subpages have a distinct parent relationship with the base page. […] These subpages have a natural method to get back to the base article: they're linked from the top of the page!|[[w:c:community:User:FishTank|Isaac Fischer]]|w:c:community:User blog:FishTank/Short and long pages on Fandom}}
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 === Biographies ===
-In [[Thread:264489#9]], [[User:Shambala108|Shambala108]] ruled that the biography sections of character pages should only have 2-3 sentences per story. This ruling was widely ignored – I do not think it has been enforced on any page anywhere – and I believe that many, myself included, did not understand it at the time. But I have come to see the wisdom in Shambala's approach.
+In [[Thread:264489#9]], [[User:Shambala108|Shambala108]] ruled that the biography sections on pages of "highly-recurring characters" should only have 2-3 sentences per story. This ruling was widely ignored – I do not think it has been enforced on any page anywhere – and I believe that many, myself included, did not understand it at the time. But I have come to see the wisdom in Shambala's approach.
 We can use [[Twelfth Doctor/Biography]] to cover the character's biography in maximum detail while [[Twelfth Doctor#Biography]] gives a briefer overview focusing on major appearances.