On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 09:43:07PM -0700, Daniel Mayer wrote:
They may not be subpages but they will most certainly lead to the creation of needlessly long pages. There is nothing more intimidating to edit than a huge page therefore we shouldn't encourage their creation.
Well, the question of when a page is too long is a matter of judgement.
I think a Wiki page is better for reaching consensus than a mailing list, so I've put my thoughts at
http://meta.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Consolidating_v/s_breaking_up
. You'll have to scroll to the bottom, because I didn't use an in-page anchor :-)
-M-