Splitting a massive article into several.

I've been editing the article "Star Control" for a while, and it is quite big (has been ever since I first saw it). I've been thinking of splitting it up into several pieces - a Franchise page with general trope examples, and three individual pages for each specific work.

So I came here looking for opinions on how to do this best - from a technical perspective. Splitting the text and examples should be easy (they're already arranged very well for just this purpose), the real question is what new pages should be created, how redirects would work, and so on.

There's also the question of whether it should be done at all. It's working fine so far, but damn is it getting big.

If you have a good example of how a quality franchise/works split was done in the past (or should ideally be done), please provide it - it'll probably help greatly.

edited 22nd Jun '15 4:43:34 PM by Headrock

If you split (up to you, really, unless it belongs in the "toobig" thread, where the page size breaks editing), then it is important to keep in mind that this is a Video Game franchise, not a Multimedia Franchise.

Therefore, splitting the page would require one page named for the series (which indexes the other three and tropes the series as a whole), one page for the first game, one page for the second game, and one page for the third game. All four pages are in the Video Game namespace.

edited 22nd Jun '15 5:35:59 PM by crazysamaritan

Hmmm. This might pose a problem, as the first game is simply named Star Control, the same as the franchise. Any ideas on how that is normally solved?

You can differentiate the first game either by adding a 1 to the end, or by adding the release year to the end. For example, the Sonic franchise has two games called "Sonic the Hedgehog". One of them (the original, for the Genesis) is at VideoGame.Sonic The Hedgehog 1, and the other (the one for the Xbox 360 and PS 3) is at VideoGame.Sonic The Hedgehog 2006.

Any other suggestions that might be relevant?