Talk:Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Belarus (2020)

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Section sizes

Section size for Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Belarus (2020) (14 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	191	191
Timeline	15	209,149
February–March 2020	12,455	12,455
April 2020	27,884	27,884
May 2020	22,192	22,192
June 2020	22,574	22,574
July 2020	20,127	20,127
August 2020	21,284	21,284
September 2020	20,757	20,757
October 2020	20,283	20,283
November 2020	20,469	20,469
December 2020	21,109	21,109
See also	189	189
References	208	208
Total	209,737	209,737

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I have noticed that the article size is increasing exponentially, and that the timeline is getting repetitive. I have three suggestions about this:

Convert the timeline into statistics
Condense the timeline
Split the timeline by year.

zsteve21 (talk) 09:57, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with a split by year. Blubabluba9990 (talk) (contribs) 20:59, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Since this article is still extremely long, I will ping @Onetwothreeip and Nicholas Velasquez: here in order to continue this discussion since the former is experienced with splits and the latter seems to be the primary contributor to this article. I suggest splitting this article by year: Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Belarus (2020) and Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Belarus (2021). Blubabluba9990 (talk) (contribs) 02:16, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the ping, haven't noticed the discussion. I've also been thinking about the size of the article, and splitting by year does seem like the only option, because the source links and some of the early non-repetitive detailed material, like regional statistics, have to be preserved. Not the prettiest solution, but I can't think of anything else. Sadly, these COVID-19 articles have become a trap from the maintenance standpoint. -- Nicholas Velasquez (talk) 07:53, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I support splitting by year. There should also be an article for 2022-present. This would require a January 2022 section. Onetwothreeip (talk) 08:25, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Onetwothreeip: It seems like there is consensus on splitting, so this article can be split now. Blubabluba9990 (talk) (contribs) 19:35, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently, there are around 1.7k Wikipedia pages with links to this article. Not sure how to handle splitting in this case, was going to nominate this article for removal. -- Nicholas Velasquez (talk) 14:24, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Updated the split template to include the 2022 timeline article. -- Nicholas Velasquez (talk) 15:42, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]