Yeah, I'm bringing that up again. While performing updates and maintenance to Wedge Antilles, which clocks in as the longest article on the site at over 631 KB, over the past several months, I've run into technical problems. On most of my edits, once I hit "save", it takes a full minute or more for the edit to actually register, and then Firefox actually fails to load the new version of the article, giving me an error message instead; I have to re-open the article from my watchlist or another link to it to continue. These problems have been present for months, approximately since the article broke 600 KB.

Problems like these are IMO unacceptable. We need to reduce the size of pages like this. Therefore, I'm proposing a way to bring down page lengths:

• Any article over 400 KB should be split into multiple pages. The only articles which currently qualify to be split under this criterion are Palpatine (400 KB), ‎Luke Skywalker (410 KB), Lando Calrissian (436 KB), Darth Caedus (449 KB), Anakin Skywalker (537 KB), and Wedge Antilles (629 KB).
• A split will occur as follows:
  • The main title (e.g. "Wedge Antilles") will contain only the infobox, intro, table of contents (which will have to be manually constructed), appearances, sources, succession box(es), navigation templates (e.g. {{RogueLeader}}), a "notes and references" section for the infobox and succession box(es), "see also", external, and interlanguage links, and content categories.
  • The body of the article will be split across several subpages. It will be written as a single article, except that references will need to be defined anew on each page, and each article should be linked once on each page instead of only once in the whole body (reflecting the fact that some readers may access a subpage directly from an external site without having read the main page or previous subpages). Each page will have a separate "notes and references" section.
  • Page breaks should occur at level 2 headings when appropriate, or failing that, level 3 headings. Page breaks at level 4 or lower headings should be avoided when possible, and page breaks in the middle of a section are not allowed.
  • Subpages should generally be around 75–125 KB each. However, this is not a hard restriction, and pages may be shorter or longer if that enables more natural page breaks. In particular, a reasonable effort should be made in character articles to insert a page break immediately before the P&T.
  • In the case of featured articles or articles nominated for or soon to be nominated for featured status, the decision on where to break pages rests with the author, though poor choices may be objected to on FAN if they make reading difficult. On non-featured articles, the decision of the user who splits the article should generally be respected, though consensus on the talk page may result in changing the page breaks.
  • A special template, customized for the article, will be placed at the top and bottom of all subpages to enable readers to navigate from one page to another. This template will have links to all pages of the article, including the main page containing the intro, et al.
• For purposes of FA status, the entire thing (main page plus all subpages) will be considered a single article.
• Links to the article from other articles will link to the main page, not subpages, unless a link to a specific section is warranted.

Example of a split article:

• User:Master Jonathan/Wedge Antilles (main page)
• User:Master Jonathan/Wedge Antilles/1
• User:Master Jonathan/Wedge Antilles/2
• User:Master Jonathan/Wedge Antilles/3
• User:Master Jonathan/Wedge Antilles/4
• User:Master Jonathan/Wedge Antilles/5
• User:Master Jonathan/Wedge Antilles/6
• User:Master Jonathan/Wedge Antilles/7

This will enable easier reading and editing of these massive articles without undue slowdowns and browser hang-ups. What do you guys think?