Wikipedia:Proposed article splits

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This is the page to make requests for the splitting of an article into two or more separate articles.

This process is usually undertaken to keep articles from becoming too large or unfocused; but may also occur when an element of an existing article gains substantial notoriety in its own right. In such a case, requests for splitting-off said content from an existing article into a newer, stand-alone article, should be directed here. After familiarizing yourself with the splitting process, please make your requests for article splitting below. We will also attempt to get more people to comment on proposals, however, if the split is contested or potentially controversial, it may be best to run the discussion through Requests for Comment or Articles for Creation instead of here.

All split comments and discussions should be directed to the "discussion" subsection of the Original Article's Talk Page, NOT here.

Note

Splits of CATEGORIES should not be proposed here. Please see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.
Splits of TEMPLATES should not be proposed here. Please see Wikipedia:Templates for discussion.
MERGING of ARTICLES should not be proposed here. Please see Wikipedia:Proposed article mergers.

Split requests

If you need assistance with proposing a split, list it below and someone will make sure it's properly listed. Note that this will not get the split completed, as there may be a backlog, and splits often require considerably more discussion than, for instance, a merge request. To request a split, list the article below as well as requested target article title(s). Include a short descriptive reason why you think a split is in order. Please sign your request(s). Thank you.

Making a request

If you need assistance with proposing a split, list it below in "NEW REQUESTS" and someone will make sure it's properly listed. Note that this will not get the split completed on its own. After a split is listed properly, move it to the "Answered requests" or "Awaiting consensus" sections below as appropriate. Please list new requests at the bottom of the section. Use the edit summary and list at least a link to the original article. Please legitimize your request by signing each listing or comment by typing four tildes (~~~~). Unsigned requests can not be honored.

To request your split, copy the following template, paste it at the bottom of the NEW REQUESTS section, and fill in (replace) the article titles specific to your request. (NOTE: Often the original article name and one of the preferred new names are the same. However, at least one of the preferred new name(s) should appear red.) Indicate if your request will involve Page Moves, creating Disambiguation Page(s), or any other related work. Also, please indicate if you are willing to do the split if such a consensus is reached.

Template

*'''Split''' [[Original article name]] into [[Split-article preferred new name 1]] and [[Split-article preferred new name 2]].  If agreed, I {will} {cannot} do the split.  See discussion at [[Talk:Original article#Proposed split]]. ~~~~

NEW REQUESTS

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• Split Regional municipality to Regional municipality (Ontario). If agreed, I cannot do the split; however, I could try to mock-up new articles in DRAFTspace. This article is misfocused and unbalanced. It derives its intro and much of its content from Ontario, inapplicable to the other jurisdictions found in the article. To rebalance and unbias the article, Ontario would be split off, and a summary left behind, with a new intro. See discussion at Talk:Regional municipality#Split article (2021). 65.93.183.33 (talk) 12:38, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

• Split Punjabi University into Punjabi University and Yadavindra College of Engineering. See discussion at Talk:Punjabi University#Proposed split. Quality Check ^(talk) 18:47, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

• Proposed Split - Richard Childress Racing into Richard Childress Racing (providing a summary overview of the broader organisation), Richard Childress Racing No. 3 Car Team, Richard Childress Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series, and Richard Childress Racing in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. Article is currently the ninth largest on English Wikipedia because it attempts to cover 15 different sports teams across 3 different leagues in a single article on the grounds that they are all owned by the same person. See discussion at Talk:Richard Childress Racing#Page size. HumanBodyPiloter5 (talk) 18:08, 29 November 2020 (UTC) HumanBodyPiloter5 (talk) 18:21, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

• Split USSR State Prize into USSR State Prize and List of the USSR State Prize laureates. The article is too long and the recipients list is not full yet - it can grow further. See discussion at Talk:USSR State Prize#Split proposal. I can perform the split if consensus is reached. Less Unless (talk) 14:26, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

• Split Veiled Prophet Ball into Veiled Prophet Ball and List of Veiled Prophet Queens. Article is now too long and is getting longer as sources are added. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 02:15, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
  • I can do this myself if there is no objection. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 02:20, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

• Split Wile_E._Coyote_and_the_Road_Runner into Wile_E._Coyote and Road Runner (Looney Tunes). I have noticed that most recurring Looney Tunes characters have their own unique pages. I believe Wile E. Coyote is a significant enough character to have his own page. Since this is my first split request and I am still new to Wikipedia, I don't yet feel comfortable splitting the page myself. See discussion at Talk:Wile_E._Coyote_and_the_Road_Runner#Proposed split. AtlantisBabylon123 (talk) 05:10, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

• Split 2020-2021 United States racial unrest into 2020-2021 United States racial unrest and List of incidents and protests of the 2020-2021 United States racial unrest. This article appears too long with a huge list of events and incidents and it may help readability to split them off into a separate article. See discussion at Talk:2020–2021 United States racial unrest#Separate page.

• Split Forged in Fire into Forged in Fire and List of Forged in Fire episodes. With all the season/episode tables, the article is extremely lengthy. The long tables also detract from the series' flow of production information, etc. See the discussion on the talk page: split. If it helps speed up the support process, the proposed draft can be reviewed at Draft:List of Forged in Fire episodes. CYAce01 (talk) 17:53, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

AWAITING CONSENSUS

After the involved article is tagged for the split discussion, the request should be added at (or moved to) the bottom of this section. This section can also be used if a proposal needs further discussion due to age, disagreement, or lack of consensus.

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• Split Chrysler into FCA US and Chrysler. The article is currently titled "Chrysler" but this is a misrepresentation because the name of the company is FCA US. "Chrysler" is the name of the predecessor of FCA US, but today it is merely the name of one of FCA US's brands. The differentiation can only be made if this article is split. See discussion at Talk:Chrysler#Moving the Chrysler marque to its own page. (Talk:Thunderbolt.wiki 1:37, 18 July 2020 (UTC))

Comment Ongoing discussion has not yet reached a consensus. GenQuest ^"scribble" 19:33, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

• Split USSR State Prize into USSR State Prize and List of the USSR State Prize laureates. The article is too long and the recipients list is not full yet - it can grow further. See discussion at Talk:USSR State Prize#Split proposal. I can perform the split if consensus is reached. Less Unless (talk) 14:26, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

• Split Forged in Fire into Forged in Fire and List of Forged in Fire episodes. With all the season/episode tables, the article is extremely lengthy. The long tables also detract from the series' flow of production information, etc. See the discussion on the talk page: split. If it helps speed up the support process, the proposed draft can be reviewed at Draft:List of Forged in Fire episodes. CYAce01 (talk) 08:09, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

• Split Content from List of transgender characters in film and television into a page titled List of transgender characters in television series. I'm doing this because although the page needs help with more sources, it is currently too big, violating the rules laid out on WP:SIZESPLIT. See discussion at Talk:List of transgender characters in film and television#Proposed split and renaming. Historyday01 (talk) 16:10, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

• Split Kevin Johnson (basketball) into Kevin Johnson (basketball) and St. HOPE. See discussion at Kevin Johnson (basketball)#Proposed split. Ddang17 (talk) 22:52, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

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ARTICLES TO BE SPLIT

After discussion concludes, completed requests indicating SPLIT is to be carried out should be moved below (to the bottom of this list). Notate as {{Working}}

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ARCHIVED and REJECTED Split Requests

When article discussion and split has been completed (if closed as proceed), notate and move the request to the TOP of the following ARCHIVED list. Articles that have been rejected for splitting should go here directly from the AWAITING CONSENSUS list. Please notate both types as {{Done}}, or {{Not done}}.

• Split WWNN into WWNN and WRBD. See discussion at Draft talk:WRBD. AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 21:09, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

 Not done Consensus is against a split. GenQuest ^"scribble" 19:55, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

• Split Rui Borges (footballer) into Rui Borges (footballer, born 1973) and Rui Borges (footballer, born 1981). The current article is mixing up two players of the same name, one who has a Wikipedia article and one who doesn't. Here are profiles of both players from a Portuguese database: [1] [2] The footballer born 1973 who is the current subject of the article is not the same man who managed Mirandela and Academico Viseu and now manages Academica. This reference for when a man called Rui Borges became manager of Mirandela in 2017 said he was 35 and played for "Bragança, Trofense, Moreirense, Famalicão and Freamunde". This clearly identifies that Rui Borges as being the one born in 1981. 109.153.12.180 (talk) 20:05, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Moot Request withdrawn following standard copy editting. GenQuest ^"scribble" 19:43, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

• Split We_Need_Answers#No_More_Women into We Need Answers and No More Jockeys. The game was always separate from the erstwhile TV programme, and now has its own YouTube channel etc and needs more saying about it. The earlier placeholder should link to new main article instead. The change of game's name is not the point. Please see Contested Deletion at Talk:No_More_Jockeys.

 Not done Minor, small article on defunct 2 season show does not qualify for would result in two perma-stubs. GenQuest ^"scribble" 19:07, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

• Split A Double Shot at Love into A Double Shot at Love with the Ikki Twins and Double Shot at Love with DJ Pauly D & Vinny. The latter is its own franchise.

 Not done Request is unsigned and no discussion was started. GenQuest ^"scribble" 18:54, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

• Split 16th Street NW be split into 16th Street NW and Black Lives Matter Plaza See: Talk:16th Street NW. P,TO 19104 (talk) 21:12, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

 Done Not Done Consensus is against a split at this time; a BOLD split did take place, however, and remains. GenQuest ^"scribble" 18:48, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

@GenQuest: Already split in July - consensus was actually for keeping the article after the split: Talk:Black Lives Matter Plaza. P,TO 19104 (talk) (contribs) 18:51, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

• Split Casualism into Casualism (Philosophy) and Casualism (Art) See discussion at Talk:Casualism#Proposed split. Smokyhallow (talk) 19:59, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

 Done by Move & Disambiguation by interested editor. GenQuest ^"scribble" 18:41, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

• Split Philippine Health Insurance Corporation into PhilHealth and Philippine Health Insurance Corporation. See discussion at Talk:Philippine Health Insurance Corporation. RioHondo suggested on move request that the content related to the health insurance program (PhilHealth) must be separated from the company article (where a summary of the program can be kept). TagaSanPedroAko (talk) 23:18, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

 Not done Only comment after months is opposed to requested split. Pinging proposer, @TagaSanPedroAko: GenQuest ^"scribble" 18:22, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

• Split Sports league, or at least restructure it, into separate coverage of professional and amateur league systems. There are some WP:DICDEF, WP:SUMMARY, and WP:SETINDEX issues at play here.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  00:29, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

  Article is tagged and awaiting split/restructure discussion. >>>Discussion Here<<<.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  00:29, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

 Not done Stale proposal with no input after 10 months, Proposer, SMcCandlish may wish to go BOLD and do a split. Good luck. GenQuest ^"scribble" 18:16, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

• Split Pipeline transport into Pipeline transport, Oil pipeline* and Gas pipeline*. The oil and gas pipeline may end up in one article or in their own articles. The current article is heavily based on oil and gas pipeline, while other kinds of pipelines have a much lower weight. See discussion at Talk:Pipeline transport. Sociable Song (talk) 02:40, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

 Not done stale and stalled proposal getting little input. Try again down the road. GenQuest ^"scribble" 18:00, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

• Split Community into Community (settlement) and Community (sociology): to distinguish between the only tenuously related 1) original human geography sense of the term, based on physical living environment; and 2) the subcultural derived meaning of intentional community, voluntary association, and self-selecting participation. What we have right now is basically a messy WP:COATRACK situation.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  00:21, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

  Article is tagged and awaiting split discussion. >>>Discussion Here<<<. Also notified WT:SPORTS.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  00:21, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

 Not done Only weak opposition expressed; closed; may survive a BOLD split by proposer, SMcCandlish. GenQuest ^"scribble" 18:16, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

Old Archives

Split article requests: 2019 and 2020 completion archives

Split Michael Flynn into Michael Flynn and United States v. Flynn.  Working Update: United States v. Flynn is now in the mainspace. Relevant notices were posted (e.g., re: copying, and inviting editors from Michael Flynn, Emmet G. Sullivan and WikiProject Law) to contribute, and a notice has been posted to Michael Flynn re: the need to trim content there, as it wasn't possible to carry out a clean split from that page, given the organization of the content on that page and the desire to keep some info about the case there -- FactOrOpinion (talk) 14:30, 11 July 2020 (UTC)  Done GenQuest "scribble" 17:41, 4 December 2020 (UTC) Split Stagg Field concerns two distinct topics - the old Stagg Field/Marshall Field (used by a Big 10 football team, the site of nuclear testing, and torn down in the 50s/60s) and the new Stagg Field (tiny complex built relatively recently). There should be two articles. --B (talk) 12:34, 11 October 2018 (UTC) Article is tagged and awaiting merger discussion. >>>Discussion Here<<<. Richard3120 (talk) 15:22, 1 February 2019 (UTC)  Not done No desire to split. GenQuest "Talk to Me" 02:59, 20 April 2019 (UTC) Split Mena (name) into Mena (given name) and Mena (surname): All the references and the prose text is just about the surname. The given name is just a list of names without information concerning the given name. This is a surname article with some given names tacked on, so the given names should be removed to its own list. -- 67.70.33.184 (talk) 21:24, 11 January 2020 (UTC)  Done. Both Mena (given name) and Mena (surname) now exist, and Mena (name) redirects to the Mena#People disambiguation page section.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  00:29, 29 January 2020 (UTC) Split Richard Arlook into Richard Arlook and The Arlook Group. See discussion at Talk:Richard Arlook#Proposed split. This article should be split because while Richard Arlook is an important figure of the Arlook Group, the company has grown to include several more talent managers and has gained more credits since the last update. Max Kliman (talk) 18:18, 3 March 2020 (UTC)  Not done GenQuest "scribble" 15:50, 4 December 2020 (UTC) Split American Bucking Bull into American Bucking Bull, Inc. and American Bucking Bull cattle: There's a WP:COATRACK here, where an animal breed article's content is basically hidden inside an article on an organization. This is not how we do things. The breed article should be split out to American Bucking Bull cattle, with {{Infobox cattle breed}} and the normal sections for a breed article, like "Breed characteristics", "History", "Genetics", or whatever we'll have the sources for.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  18:52, 31 July 2018 (UTC)  Not done Article is tagged and awaiting merger discussion. >>>Discussion Here<<<.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  18:52, 31 July 2018 (UTC) Oppose: This is a distinction without a difference. The Bucking Bull breed and its registry have no need for a split. If the corporation needs a separate article, that's a separate question, not a split discussion (Like American Quarter Horse and American Quarter Horse Association). As usual, the lead editor on these articles appears to not have been notified. Montanabw(talk) 16:35, 1 August 2018 (UTC) Whoops, sorry, moved this to the discussion page of the article. Montanabw(talk) 17:09, 1 August 2018 (UTC) Request  Completed Withdrawn by proposer GenQuest "Talk to Me" Split Champ Clark Bridge into Champ Clark Bridge (2019) and Champ Clark Bridge (1928). A well-intentioned new editor changed the scope of Champ Clark Bridge to be about the new bridge. Please archive Champ Clark Bridge (1928) to a subpage, maybe Talk:Champ Clark Bridge/Champ Clark Bridge (1928). Then split here, with the aformentioned revision being the starting point of Champ Clark Bridge (2019). Then please move the Champ Clark Bridge to Champ Clark Bridge (1928). Champ Clark Bridge should be a dab page until consensus emerges on the primary topic. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 07:43, 22 October 2019 (UTC) ​Since this split was already executed through the cut-and-paste move at Special:Diff/910423731, I've moved Champ Clark Bridge to Champ Clark Bridge (2019), then recreated Champ Clark Bridge as a disambiguation page between Champ Clark Bridge (1928) and Champ Clark Bridge (2019). All links to Champ Clark Bridge from the article namespace have been disambiguated. I've also requested a history merge of all edits from Special:Diff/37397272 to Special:Diff/903652095 (inclusive) into Champ Clark Bridge (1928), and an administrator will attend to the request. I hope this resolves the problem. Please let me know if there are any outstanding issues. — Newslinger talk 11:08, 22 October 2019 (UTC)  Done.​ The history merge has been completed by Anthony Appleyard, and the split is finished. — Newslinger talk 17:29, 22 October 2019 (UTC) Split Frankfurt_School#Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory into Cultural Marxism (Culture Wars). See discussion here. Trialpears (talk) 08:25, 1 May 2019 (UTC) Article is tagged and awaiting discussion. Trialpears (talk) 08:25, 1 May 2019 (UTC)  Not done.​ Talk:Frankfurt School § RfC: Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory section - possible split was closed with no consensus to split the article. — Newslinger talk 18:11, 22 October 2019 (UTC) Split Anderson shelter out of Air raid shelter. I think this a very well known topic in the UK and is worthy of its own article. Having a separate article would also encourage further expansion in future. See Talk:Air raid shelter#Anderson shelter BubbleEngineer (talk) 19:27, 27 August 2018 (UTC) Comment: proposal appears to be withdrawn, and proposer no longer active on Wikipedia – waiting for confirmation of status of proposal. Richard3120 (talk) 15:22, 1 February 2019 (UTC)  Not done – proposal has stalled and proposing editor is no longer active on Wikipedia. Richard3120 (talk) 16:11, 12 March 2019 (UTC) Split Template:Survivor should be split into Template:Survivor and Template: Survivor (U.S. TV series). Currently the template includes both world-view and US-franchise templates which is a problem as the US navigation template is placed in non-US series pages which have no relevance to it. This merged style is unique to this template as other reality-show templates, such as Big Brother, have individual templates. --Gonnym (talk) 20:19, 1 September 2018 (UTC)  Done by interested party. Richard3120 (talk) 15:11, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

See also

• Wikipedia:Splitting, a guide on when to split
• Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia, policy on copying content within Wikipedia