Talk:List of rivers of New South Wales

Merge proposal
The two articles should be merged for ease of use. They are well under the 85kb article length. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 21:23, 9 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Oppose - List of rivers of New South Wales (A-K) and List of rivers of New South Wales (L-Z) were originally created as separate articles because of the recommendations made in Article size. Additionally, the two articles combined list 439 rivers, all with coordinate conversion templates that can result in long page load times, even as two separate articles. Combined into one large article, 65kB in length, page load times would be excessive, especially for those on dial-up (a significant portion of Australian readers). It should be noted that the actual page that is downloaded is not the edited size of the page (32kB and 33kB respectively). The html versions of these pages as they stand are 272.5kB and 285.5kB rerspectively. This does not include images or other items. The total download for a single, merged page is about 876kB. As well as the issues that affect the reader, editing would be made considerably more awkward for editors. WP:SIZERULE recommends that articles exceeding 60kB should probably be split so 2 short articles, instead of one long one seems appropriate. For these reasons and others I oppose the proposal to merge. --AussieLegend (talk) 02:26, 10 June 2009 (UTC)