Talk:Early life of Marcus Aurelius

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Merging with Marcus Aurelius
Hi fellow editors. I stumbled across this page when doing research on Marcus Aurelius. I don't see why it's necessary to have Early life of Marcus Aurelius as a separate page from the main Marcus Aurelius page. May I suggest we merge? Historic13 (talk) 18:28, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I would strongly oppose the merging of the articles; for cases where there is a very known figure, it is somewhat common to spin off segments of their life, such as early life, in order to reduce page sizes on the main article. Iazyges   Consermonor   Opus meum  08:57, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose officially; also apparently I was the GAN reviewer four years ago. Iazyges   Consermonor   Opus meum  11:21, 6 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Oppose No good reason to merge this Good Article into another very long article.★Trekker (talk) 09:06, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose: I agree with and : this seems like a perfectly appropriate sub article spun out for length reasons.  The main article on Marcus Aurelius is already 9,300 words long, and there's probably scope for expanding the legacy/in popular culture sections further.  I can't see any reason why we would want to add thousands more words to the discussion of Marcus' early life in the main article. Caeciliusinhorto-public (talk) 10:37, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose for the reasons already given: both articles are quite long and detailed, and cover different scopes; a general life, and one focused exclusively on the future emperor's youth, education, and preparation for his elevation. The main article is over 130K, which is very long; this one is over 70K, and both are of a size that would support further splitting, if deemed appropriate (although I don't think that it's necessary if they function well currently).  Together they would make a huge article that would require splitting pretty much exactly the way they are now, so merging them would be an extremely lengthy and difficult process with no benefit to either readers or editors.  P Aculeius (talk) 14:36, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the speedy and constructive opinion. Now that I read through the main article it seems appropriate to keep them separate. Cheers Historic13 (talk) 21:50, 6 January 2023 (UTC)