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How narrowly things should be split is based on how large/unwieldy the resulting folders would be. In that specific case, even the rather narrow folder divisions are giving folders a bit on the long side.
Bumping because I feel a need for more opinions.
On that page, I think most of the folders are rather short in content, resulting in too many folders.
Edited by Gosicrystal
I'd say it's kosher if it's necessary to create manageably large folders. If there are a gazillion tropes starting with the letter A, I think it's better to break down the "A" folder further than to have a ridiculously long folder.
Note that it's quite common to do the opposite thing and have folders "A-E", "F-H" and so on, when there are too few examples for each letter to merit separate folders.
It used to be the case that if a folder got above a certain length, the mechanism for opening and closing it broke, so then it had to be split. I don't know if that's still true, though.
I'm just asking to be sure. I know we arrange them according to letter (A, B, C...). However, there has been several cases where the folders were split further (Sa, Sc, Se; Wi, Wh...). Is the latter kind of splitting kosher, no matter the circumstances?