I very much believe that Winnie the Pooh could be
treated in a single
page. Someone who wants to learn more about Winnie should have all the
basic information available on that page without having to click on
links to stubs. Of the different character pages the one for
Christopher Robin is the only one to exceed 500 bytes in length. The
main Winnie the Pooh page at 2470 bytes is still fairly modest in
length. They should be recombined.
Although my numbers are fairly arbitrary, I would still favour as
general rules of thumb:
1. Avoid creating dependent stub articles with fewer than 500 bytes.
2. When considering whether to sub-divide an article
a) Don't bother if it has fewer than 10,000 bytes,
b) For articles between 10,000 and 20,000 bytes sub-divide if
there are reasonable place to sub-divide,
c) Actively look for reasonable ways to sub-divide if the
article is more than 20,000 bytes long.
This still leaves the question of what to do once the great amount of pages
has been created. The preferable option seems to be (to me) to move the
text of the 'sub-pages' to the main page, and change the latter into redirects.
However, if there is _one_ page that would reasonably be expected to link to
these pages, it is the main page itself. But doing so in this way of combining
things, would make these links self-links.
So should we:
* just accept that the pages are created, saying "I would not do it, but as
they're there, we'll just keep them"
* make links on the main page to the characters, even though they will become
self-links
* not make links on the main page, with the risk that when someone comes and
de-redirects the page, the most logical page to do so will not be linking
to the page, or
* decide that it's better to delete the pages rather than turning them into
redirects?
They all have their pros and cons. Anyone a clear preference?
Andre Engels