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[edit] Empty page

I thought I'd take a look at this page, but it is coming up empty for me. Anyone else have a problem? 18:15, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Ian Cairns 18:16, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)


It's currently empty. Someone probably tried to refresh it, but didn't succeed. For now there are just the two lists generated offsite:
-- User:Docu

[edit] Biomedical link pages

List_of_biomedical_terms (one of the longest pages) seems duplicative of stuff in: List_of_biomedical_topics,_A_to_E, List_of_biomedical_topics,_F_to_J, List_of_biomedical_topics,_K_to_O, and List_of_biomedical_topics,_P_to_T. -- 8^D BD2412gab 22:09, 2005 Mar 29 (UTC)

I went ahead and broke these pages up into smaller sections and combined everything into a single list with redirects etc. Some are still long but it is better than the massive pages we had before.
Lists of biomedical topics: | # | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
On a side note do these massive lists serve a sensible role? Many of the topics are not linking since they are not articles or stubs and never will be. Unless someone is willing to manually fix the links to the appropriate pages these lists will never be a useful indexing aid. David D. 21:02, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] List of all cities in the United States

I'd like to start the discussion here to say that I'm creating a very long page for a very specific reason. I have looked around for over 2 hours yesterday on the web, and cannot find anywhere a list of all the cities in the United States where the complete list is on one web page.

This would mean I'd have to cut and paste from each of the pages to create my own list. Since I firmly believe that I'm pretty normal (this may or may not be actually true), I figure other people either have had or will have this problem. So, I'm creating another page (besides the existing List of cities in the United States named List of all cities in the United States. It is just devoted to being a list of all the cities in one palce, about 19,000 of them. This is according to the U.S. Census bureau, and has links to all the other Wiki pages for each city. This page should be pretty static, but if someone needs a definitive list all in one place, they can now get it.

The complete list page is and will be rather long, but to have this info all in one place is a Good Thing. I'm putting significant effort into creating it, so I hope it will be useful for other people. --Justanyone (IRL: Kevin J. Rice), 28 April 2005 12:17 pm USCDT.

[edit] Totally inaccurate

Special:Longpages lists articles with a few hundred bytes as having over half a million. Whatever is wrong should be looked at. 216.237.179.238 22:25, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Absolute music

What is the 7MB article Absolute music supposed to mean?? Georgia guy 16:05, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Long lists

I think lists should be excluded from the list of large pages. The point of having a list is to have all the information in one place, so breaking up a list is troublesome to use. 24.210.73.62 03:40, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

I agree. Me and a couple friends were wondering what the longest page was and we were quite disappointed when we found out that it was a list. TigerKL81 20:52, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Title

The title ("Long pages") and the page name in the URL ("Longpages") are different. This causes confusion in linking. Ardric47 23:15, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] remove

you can remove: List of M*A*S*H episodes, Series finale, List of Animorphs books, and List of The Simpsons episodes. i divided all those pages. -Xornok 03:24, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The 15 *REAL* longest pages

Excluding all lists, timelines, and user pages, here are the fifteen longest actual articles on Wikipedia:

  1. Paleoconservatism [138,179 bytes]
  2. Srebrenica massacre [132,454 bytes]
  3. First English Civil War [131,365 bytes]
  4. Joseph C. Wilson [129,621 bytes]
  5. Indo-Greek Kingdom [128,778 bytes]
  6. Paul McCartney [127,741 bytes]
  7. Pat Buchanan [126,407 bytes]
  8. Condoleezza Rice [125,097 bytes]
  9. Race and intelligence [124,978 bytes]
  10. World War II [124,691 bytes]
  11. New antisemitism [122,278 bytes]
  12. Transport [119,905 bytes]
  13. Circumcision [119,725 bytes]
  14. Immigration to the United States [118,747 bytes]
  15. Byzantine Empire [118,515 bytes]

Hope this helps. Floaterfluss 20:38, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Good work, this helps. I'm presently making one that is science article focused. --Sadi Carnot 15:23, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

updated to 2 dic 2006:

  1. History of virtual learning environments ‎[187,375 bytes]
  2. 2006 Texas Longhorn football team ‎[165,158 bytes]
  3. Features new to Windows Vista ‎[144,557 bytes]
  4. Antisemitism ‎[141,109 bytes]
  5. Paleoconservatism ‎[136,901 bytes]
  6. British Caledonian ‎[133,537 bytes]
  7. Srebrenica massacre ‎[132,766 bytes]
  8. Indo-Greek Kingdom ‎[132,045 bytes] featured
  9. Joseph C. Wilson ‎[131,953 bytes]

.--BMF81 12:01, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Extra-long article project

Hi, I recently started a new project the: WP:Extra-Long Article Committee; if interested please join. Thanks: --Sadi Carnot 13:30, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Real long articles=

Don't judge articles on how many bytes they tae up. the article S.I.E.L.D is tiny, but takes up 200,000 bytes. World war 2 is the true longest articles because it has the most words. It would take you about 3-4 hours, maybe more to read through it all! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Leemyster (talk • contribs) 15:37, 4 April 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Merge

I've merged the content from Wikipedia talk:Longpages here, under the two archives I've listed. -Amarkov blahedits 16:12, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

I don't know how this happened, but the article Ned Ludd is number ten on the Special:longpages section, even though it's still a stub.... 206.15.236.254 18:40, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Thats nothing compared to this. --Bobby D. DS. 03:53, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Longest Article talk page

I came across this talk page which is up to 170,886 bytes (which would rank it as #64 on Special:Longpages) and may bring up WP:OWN issues among others. As a way to permit admins to find potentially troubled article talk pages and troubled articles, would someone please create a Special:Longtalkpages for article talk pages. Thanks. -- Jreferee (Talk) 16:10, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

I'd also like this feature. WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:30, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
Ditto. And the other namespaces too. Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Magazines for example, isn't currently loading for a number of people. -- Quiddity (talk) 19:52, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Shat

Shat broke the 200k barrier two days ago, owing to a vandal copy pasting "*I did Shat" for page upon page. I pruned it to its previous 700b, so it should fall off the list shortly (no pun intended). Best, ZZ Claims ~ Evidence 20:32, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Technical problems with long articles

I split Wikipedia:List of missing journals into 100K chunks because it broke several of my web browsers. I wound up using an old web browser with JavaScript disabled to do the split. The Wikicode was over 400,000 bytes and my web browser saw it as over 1.4MB including graphics. Well before the split it was extremely difficult to edit the entire article at one time.
I highly recommend any article or other Wikipedia page over about 300K be trimmed split on technical grounds.
I'll look into List of Unicode characters‎[387,643 bytes] and Probability derivations for making low hands in Omaha hold 'em ‎[312,676 bytes] over the next day or two. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 14:41, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

List of unicode characters is useful as is. truthfulcyinc —Preceding unsigned comment added by Truthfulcynic (talk • contribs) 03:32, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Articles over 100K should have {{Edit-first-section}} or similar

Editing entire large articles is very slow on some web browsers. Therefore, they should have {{Edit-first-section}}, {{Edit-top-section}}, or something similar. To add this section easily, use the &section=0 trick described here. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 14:46, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Those templates have been deleted per TfD. Please use the "Add an [edit] link for the introduction section of a page" option in Preferences > Gadgets tab instead. — Edokter • Talk • 14:44, 28 January 2008 (UTC)