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== Size == {{anchor|SIZE}}{{shortcut|WP:BETTER#SIZE}} {{seealso|Wikipedia:Article size}} Well-developed articles typically contain between 2,000 and 5,000 words, though some need to be larger. Excessively large articles can be [[WP:SPLIT|split]] into smaller articles to improve readability and ease of editing, or may require trimming to remain [[WP:CONCISE|concise]]. The headed sub-section should be retained, with a concise version of what has been removed under an italicized header, such as ''Main article: [[Ruritania|History of Ruritania]]'' (a list of templates used to create these headers is available at [[:Category:Wikipedia page-section templates]]). Otherwise, context is lost and the general treatment suffers. Each article on a subtopic should be written as a stand-alone article—that is, it should make sense without reading the main article. When a subject is large (e.g., [[World War II]]) and has many sub articles, try to balance the main article. Do not put undue weight into one part of an article at the cost of other parts. In shorter articles, if one subtopic has much more text than another subtopic, that may be an indication the subtopic should have its own page, with only a summary presented on the main page. === Articles covering subtopics === Wikipedia articles tend to grow in a way that leads to the natural creation of new articles. The text of any article consists of a sequence of related but distinct subtopics. When there is enough text in a given subtopic to merit its own article, that text can be [[WP:Summary style|summarized]] in the present article and a link provided to the more detailed article.<!--note:nearly verbatim from [[WP:SS]]<ref>A similar approach is an [[WP:Article series|article series]], in which related articles are connected to each other with a special-purpose index box. An example of this is [[Isaac Newton#Biography]], where articles on various periods of his life are listed in {{tl|IsaacNewtonSegments}}.</ref> Note: commenting out this footnote because [[WP:Article series]] needs some work.--> [[Cricket]] is an example of an article covering subtopics: it is divided into subsections that give an overview of the sport, with each subsection leading to one or more subtopic articles.
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