Talk:Political views of Bertrand Russell

Talk-page for: Bertrand Russell views on philosophy.

Created/split from article Bertrand Russell
09-Nov-2008: Main article "Bertrand Russell" had been 101kb (where 32kb is considered large), so splitting into 3 or 4 parts has reduced each sub-article to 50kb (or less). A size of 50kb is equal to nearly 7,300 words (6-letter average). Bertrand Russell is a subject that is too large for one article: as a very famous man who lived/worked 80 years after college, writing thousands of letters & many books. Also, as a philosopher, his viewpoints will be compared with many other philosophers, causing the article text to explode over 5x times beyond merely stating his viewpoints alone. On 08-Nov-2008, I made the following split: The sub-articles were copied verbatim from the main-article (approved) text, and now those sections can be greatly trimmed, as short summaries, removing the long quotations which have been moved into the subarticles. Although it can be tempting to condense all information into a single, solid Wikipedia article, the reality is that the man worked 80 years (after college) and changed his viewpoints on many subjects, several times each. When saying "Russell believed...", it is necessary to state the date, before his beliefs changed again. Plus his impact is well-known, with Google Books listing 5,500 books about him. A single wiki article should not be forced to handle that broad scope of details covering 80 years. It is too stifling when somone wants to add another paragraph to a huge article: there's no room left for improvement. -Wikid77 (talk) 12:13, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Bertrand Russell - trimmed to summarize sub-articles;
 * Bertrand Russell views on society - new, extracting from the section "Activism";
 * Bertrand Russell views on philosophy - new, extracted from large sections "Philosophical work" and "Influence on philosophy".

Russell-series navbox
09-Nov-2008: To connect the subarticles with the main article ("Bertrand Russell"), I have placed wikitable code at the top to generate a sidebar navbox (with photo), titled "Bertrand Russell series" as a navbox to several articles. I'm thinking to use a different photo, thus allowing a similar illustrated navbox in the main article, without duplicating the main photo. Perhaps the navbox should be coded as a shared wiki-template, but for now, all navbox changes are made along with article changes (to reduce total revisions). Wikitable coding is described at Help:Table. -Wikid77 (talk) 12:13, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

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