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Merge subpages

I noticed that most of the higher sublists (N>100,000) are very short or even empty. Therefore I suggest to merge them into blocks of 10,000s (or even 100,000s??) from 100,000 upwards. E.g. there are only 25 named minor planets in the range 100,001-110,000, so these merged lists would still be much shorter than the subpage for 1-500. --Roentgenium111 (talk) 14:50, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Okay, I'll start it now.--Roentgenium111 (talk) 16:01, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

What about this: Meanings of minor planet names: 100,001–110,000, or Meanings of minor planet names: 110,001–120,000? Comments are welcome.--Roentgenium111 (talk) 21:55, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Done.--Roentgenium111 (talk) 16:38, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Given the sizes of the sublists between 50,000 and 100,000, these could (should, IMO) be merged as well to blocks of 10,000s while staying comfortably below the 100kB limit. (One could even merge in this way from 30,000 onwards, apparently.)--Roentgenium111 (talk) 22:16, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

What if we took all the minor planet names, and moved them into one article? Actually, what is we took all the names of astronomical objects and put it into one page seperated by planets, asteroids, etc — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dragonh4t (talk • contribs) 22:56, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

There's some 16,000 named minor planets, that's too much for a single article. But some 16 sublists would do (~100 kB each), and be preferable to the current >100 subarticles IMO. --Roentgenium111 (talk) 21:22, 22 May 2014 (UTC)