Wikipedia:WikiProject Extra-Long Article Committee/Reports

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This is a page to report or make suggestions on articles that are potentially too long. If you know of any such articles, excluding lists (which are being dealt with using a top-down basis), please attach them below, per category, with kilobyte size attached, including a short comment and your signature. Furthermore, to help the WP:Extra-Long Article Committee prioritize cleanup efforts, if you feel strongly about any of the articles in this list, you are encouraged to vote in support of long-article cleanup. In this manner, the more votes an article has the faster it will spring-cleaned, i.e. divided up into cogent subpages:

Contents 1 List 1.1 100+ kb articles in need of ELAC attention 1.1.1 Biographies 1.1.2 Science 1.1.3 Sociology 1.1.4 Wars 1.1.5 Other 1.2 85-99 kb articles in need of ELAC attention 1.2.1 Science 1.2.2 Biographies 1.2.3 Wars 1.2.4 Other 1.3 50-84 kb articles in need of ELAC attention 1.3.1 Movies 1.3.2 Geography 1.4 32-49 kb articles in need of ELAC attention 1.4.1 Other

[edit] List

According to Wikipedia's Longest Articles, aside from lists, there are only a few real articles in the 85+ kb range that are in need of breakup and reduction, those include, but are not limited to, the following group. If you know of other’s in the 85-300kb article range that are in need of ELAC attention please add them to the list:

[edit] 100+ kb articles in need of ELAC attention

[edit] Biographies

• Elvis Presley - 116kb
• Hugo Chavez - 114kb

No one wants to touch this one ... Patstuart 15:09, 6 December 2006

• George W. Bush - 107kb

[edit] Science

• GABA A receptor 167kb Done: article is now two pages at 10kb. --Sadi Carnot 04:47, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Note: I wish we could prove it, but this one has clear copyvio problems. Patstuart^talk|edits 17:25, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll add it to the ELAC issues list. --Sadi Carnot 17:51, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

• Schizophrenia - 100kb
• Zoophilia - 106kb

[edit] Sociology

• Antisemitism - 126kb

[edit] Wars

• Vietnam war - 110 kb
• World war I - 109kb
• American Civil War - 108kb

[edit] Other

• History of virtual learning environments - 184kb.

It just goes on and on... Patstuart 04:28, 7 December 2006

• Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda timeline - 174kb

Added to list. Catchpole 14:19, 7 December 2006

• Race and intelligence - 124kb

[edit] 85-99 kb articles in need of ELAC attention

[edit] Science

• Evolution - 91kb
• Fossil birds - 91kb

[edit] Biographies

• Albert Einstein - 92kb
• Madonna (entertainer) - 85 kb

[edit] Wars

• Iraq War - 92 kb

[edit] Other

• Columbia University - 85kb
• Divorce - 90 kb

[edit] 50-84 kb articles in need of ELAC attention

Please add any long articles from this category that you feel are too long to read:

[edit] Movies

• The Wizard of Oz (1939 film) - 83kb

• Psycho (1960 film) - 53kb

Added: Philbertgray - 10:54, 10 December 2006

[edit] Geography

• Washington, D.C. - 74 kb

The history section appears to need shortening and merging into History of Washington, D.C. The Media section could be exported to a daughter article and summarised in the main article. ScottDavis 13:00, 7 December 2006.

[edit] 32-49 kb articles in need of ELAC attention

Please add any long articles from this category that you feel are too long to read:

[edit] Other