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Split by 1st and 3rd Party was the agreed upon outcome, but there are a few unforeseen challenges that await from making this an easy transition, that I addressed, but were never replied to. I don't think that people were informed enough about the potential ramifications of doing such a split. Ideally, splitting an article that is 100,000+ characters long with MediaWiki markup into 2 50,000+ character articles sounds good in theory, but it might not work out that way in practice. Here's the rundown why I think this will cause unnecessary maintenance:
Split by 1st and 3rd Party was the agreed upon outcome, but there are a few unforeseen challenges that await from making this an easy transition, that I addressed, but were never replied to. I don't think that people were informed enough about the potential ramifications of doing such a split. Ideally, splitting an article that is 100,000+ characters long with MediaWiki markup into 2 50,000+ character articles sounds good in theory, but it might not work out that way in practice. Here's the rundown why I think this will cause unnecessary maintenance:
#Manual sorting what is 1st and 3rd party since all the titles are mixed.
#Manual sorting what is 1st and 3rd party since all the titles are mixed.
#Because this page will be split into two, there is still a chance the split still results in an article that is over 100,000 characters long or is still unreasonably high. This would go against [[MarioWiki:Article size|policy]] as we ended up not getting very far. This also applies to [[mw:Help:Formatting#Level 2|header counts]] and rendered page length, possibly creating an unbalanced ratio, like a page with 50 headers in one page and 150 headers in another.
#Because this page will be split into two, there is still a chance the split still results in an article that is over 100,000 characters long or is still unreasonably high. This would go against [[MarioWiki:Article size|policy]] as we ended up not getting very far. This also applies to [[mww:Help:Formatting#Level 2|header counts]] and rendered page length, possibly creating an unbalanced ratio, like a page with 50 headers in one page and 150 headers in another.
#Because of reason #2, this could make maintenance harder to transition to a different splitting method if the winning split method fails to keep pages reasonably sized.
#Because of reason #2, this could make maintenance harder to transition to a different splitting method if the winning split method fails to keep pages reasonably sized.
#If one page ends up being too long anyways, splitting further could make overall organization of the splits very hard to navigate and understand.
#If one page ends up being too long anyways, splitting further could make overall organization of the splits very hard to navigate and understand.

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