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:::I support this. I think that the wider use of subpages will also help some of our more bloated location pages such as [[London]] or [[Earth]], where there's so much information already on the page that any new information can often fall by the wayside. We could perhaps also have subpages for <code><nowiki>[[London/19th century]]</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>[[London/20th century]]</nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki>[[London/21st century]]</nowiki></code>. This could describe the history of these eras, and have geography sections on how the the location appears during these centuries, as the geography of a location obviously changes over time. [[User:66 Seconds|66 Seconds]] [[User talk:66 Seconds|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 16:54, 15 March 2023 (UTC) | :::I support this. I think that the wider use of subpages will also help some of our more bloated location pages such as [[London]] or [[Earth]], where there's so much information already on the page that any new information can often fall by the wayside. We could perhaps also have subpages for <code><nowiki>[[London/19th century]]</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>[[London/20th century]]</nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki>[[London/21st century]]</nowiki></code>. This could describe the history of these eras, and have geography sections on how the the location appears during these centuries, as the geography of a location obviously changes over time. [[User:66 Seconds|66 Seconds]] [[User talk:66 Seconds|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 16:54, 15 March 2023 (UTC) | ||
:::Note that I've written more about this in the locations section below. [[User:66 Seconds|66 Seconds]] [[User talk:66 Seconds|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 10:44, 24 March 2023 (UTC) | |||
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: I like this idea a lot. [[User:Bongolium500|<span title="aka Bongolium500">Bongo50</span>]] [[User talk:Bongolium500|<span title="talk to me">☎</span>]] 19:26, 23 March 2023 (UTC) | : I like this idea a lot. [[User:Bongolium500|<span title="aka Bongolium500">Bongo50</span>]] [[User talk:Bongolium500|<span title="talk to me">☎</span>]] 19:26, 23 March 2023 (UTC) | ||
=== Centuries for location pages === | |||
I put something above which probably deserves a discussion of its own. | |||
As N8 states above, articles "should likely take about 7 minutes to read, and be somewhere between 1000 and 2500 words". Some of our location pages are notably very long. I'm thinking of pages like [[London]] and [[Earth]]. Never mind 7 minutes, I'm petty sure you could write a novel on the history of London with the DWU, and that appears to be what our London page is slowly turning into. They are so packed full of information, that any new information often falls by the wayside. | |||
Hence, my proposal is that we split some of our larger location pages into centuries. Using London as an example, we could potentially have pages for <code><nowiki>[[London/19th century]]</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>[[London/20th century]]</nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki>[[London/21st century]]</nowiki></code>. We would still have a the whole history of London on the main London page, but as a broader, less detailed, overview. Any in depth details about these centuries would be placed on the subpages. This would allow us to go into much greater detail about specific eras of London's history. We could also have geography sections on how the the location appears during these centuries, or government sections on how a city or country is governed during these periods. Locations change over time. I think by using subpages in this way, we can enhance the readability of our location pages, while also increasing the amount of content. [[User:66 Seconds|66 Seconds]] [[User talk:66 Seconds|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 10:44, 24 March 2023 (UTC) | |||