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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.

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


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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[edit]

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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, and give the reason why you think the page should be split. (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.

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*'''Split''' [[Original article name]] into [[Split-article preferred new name 1]] and [[Split-article preferred new name 2]]. GIVE YOUR REASON FOR THE SPLIT HERE. If agreed, I ''{will} OR {cannot}'' do the split.   ~~~~

New requests[edit]

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. If agreed, I {will} OR {cannot} do the split. 92.11.125.76 (talk) 18:56, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. I have no experience splitting articles and would think if a significant amount needs to be moved from the Internet celbirity to the new article that I have created, someone else should handle that.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 22:36, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Awaiting consensus[edit]

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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Articles to be split[edit]

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[edit]

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)).

sporeball (talk) 18:28, 11 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Old archives[edit]

Split article requests: 2022 completion archives
  • Split The history sections of Door County, Wisconsin and Door Peninsula into History of Door County, Wisconsin. The Door County, Wisconsin article became (or still is) too long. This option would re-unite the two history sections. About a year ago, half of the history section had been moved to Door Peninsula to save space on Door County, Wisconsin.--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 00:22, 31 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Split 2017 in home video into 2017 home video film releases and 2017 home video television releases. Current article is far too long. Blubabluba9990 (talk) (contribs) 14:16, 7 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    •  Not done The article has been deleted in the meantime. Felix QW (talk) 19:22, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • 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))
  • Split List of fictional antiheroes into List of fictional antiheroes in literature, List of fictional antiheroes in film, List of fictional antiheroes in television, List of fictional antiheroes in anime and manga, List of fictional antiheroes in comic books and List of fictional antiheroes in video games. The list is simply too large and difficult to navigate; such that some tables are made collapsable. Kailash29792 (talk) 06:38, 24 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Split Woke into Woke and Movement against decolonialism and identitarian ideologies. If agreed, I accomplish this split. See discussion at [[Talk:Woke#Proposed "split" [sic] for "contra wokeness" material (as otherwise tangential to our topic at hand?)]]. Hodgdon's secret garden (talk) 21:53, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
    •  Not done Consensus is against a split. Felix QW (talk) 08:13, 21 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Split (DISCUSS) Domingo into Domingo (name). The people section of this disambiguation page is rather large, so it is better to split it off into a separate name set index page. If agreed, I may be able to do the split, if someone creates a redirect at the target location first, page creation is a protected process, so I can't actually create a new page. I may be able to do it if I have not rotated off my IP address at that time so that I can be informed; if I have rotated, I may nolonger have this discussion linked to. As an IP user I may be reverted in any changes I make. See discussion at TALK: Domingo#Split off the people section to Domingo (name). -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 20:30, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    •  Done 9 April 2022 (UTC)
Split article requests: 2019 to 2021 completion archives
 Not done Consensus is against a split. GenQuest "scribble" 19:55, 4 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • 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: [8] [9] 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)[reply]
Moot Request withdrawn following standard copy editting. GenQuest "scribble" 19:43, 4 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
 Not done Request is unsigned and no discussion was started. GenQuest "scribble" 18:54, 4 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
 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)[reply]
@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)[reply]
 Done by Move & Disambiguation by interested editor. GenQuest "scribble" 18:41, 4 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
 Not done Only comment after months is opposed to requested split. Pinging proposer, @TagaSanPedroAko: GenQuest "scribble" 18:22, 4 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
 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)[reply]
 Not done stale and stalled proposal getting little input. Try again down the road. GenQuest "scribble" 18:00, 4 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
    Article is tagged and awaiting split discussion. >>>Discussion Here<<<. Also notified WT:SPORTS.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  00:21, 27 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
 Not done Only weak opposition expressed; closed; may survive a BOLD split by proposer, SMcCandlish. GenQuest "scribble" 18:16, 4 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
 Done Consensus in favorite of split. Historyday01 (talk) 14:27, 27 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
 Not done It was decided instead to move to Heterodox teachings (Chinese law) instead and re-focus the article. - - mathmitch7 (talk/contribs) 15:21, 3 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
 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)[reply]
 Done GenQuest "scribble" 17:41, 4 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
    Article is tagged and awaiting merger discussion. >>>Discussion Here<<<. Richard3120 (talk) 15:22, 1 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
     Not done No desire to split. GenQuest "Talk to Me" 02:59, 20 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
 Not done GenQuest "scribble" 15:50, 4 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
 Not done
  • Article is tagged and awaiting merger discussion. >>>Discussion Here<<<.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  18:52, 31 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    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)[reply]
    Request  Completed Withdrawn by proposer GenQuest "Talk to Me"
 Done.​ The history merge has been completed by Anthony Appleyard, and the split is finished. — Newslinger talk 17:29, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
     Done by interested party. Richard3120 (talk) 15:11, 1 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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