Talk:Charles Peace

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[edit] Article length

This article is rather absurdly long, substantially longer than the Jack the Ripper article - which deals with a much more well-known criminal. At the least breaking it up into subpages would be good. Perhaps I will find the time at some point myself. Ataru 02:24, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

-Is there a lot of detail? - yes. But is there any irrelevant detail? (So why "absurd"? ). I'm all for cutting out innaccuracies, unreferenced text etc. but if all the detail is true...? The fact that Jack the Ripper has never been unambiguously identified obviously limits the detail which could be reasonably included in the cited article. Sub-pages? maybe.Wikityke 16:43, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

I am objecting on what amount to admittedly idealistic and unrealistic grounds. Would you expect to find an aricle of such lengh on this individual in an encyclopedia? Certainly not, but then again Wikipedia has even more absurdly long articles on things as un-encylopedic as particular anime series. So clearly length and detail aren't valid grounds for complaint under any circumstances. Tellingly, I think the Jack the Ripper page would be substantially longer if it weren't divided into subpages, so what this article really (really) needs is simply a reorganization and division into headings and subheadings (and, yes, subpages, even though it strikes me as ridiculous overkill given the subject). The article as it is is extremely dense and inaccessible, making it a strong candidate for at least some reorganization. Ataru 05:36, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

--As Help:Page_size states "> 30 KB May eventually need to be divided" (the current article has a size of 45k), your sub-pages suggestion seems a valid suggestion.Wikityke 16:55, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

This article started as a text dump of an old public-domain biography, which mostly explains its length and odd level of detail. People have been periodically cleaning it up, making parts more concise, rewording, etc., but it can still use some work obviously. --Delirium 16:05, 22 March 2007 (UTC)