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I don't think there's any hard-and-fast rule about when to make a subpage for a trope. Personally, I consider 5 examples to be the bare minimum needed to justify splitting to a subpage, so looking at those, I'm fine with all of them as is. I definitely consider one full screen's worth of examples to be a good size for a subpage.
Edited by WillbyrMy doubts on this come mostly because, from what I have seen from previous
discussions
on this topic, sub-pages with single-digit numbers of examples or less than a screen of length have apparently been judged as too short to need to be on their own. Since at least most of the pages I noted here are of comparable length, I wondered if these also would need to be re-merged.
^^ Those both refer to the same page, and there the issue was that all the examples combined on one page were under the 40,000 byte limit that seems to be the unofficial threshold for when a page needs splitting off to a subpage.
I would agree that, provided the main page is over the limit, having five examples is good lower limit for subpages.
I didn't choose the troping life, the troping life chose me^^
That is... actually a very fair point. You're absolutely right.
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... they don't? The first one was talking about the subpages for Fiery Redhead, and the second about Magic Is Feminine.
I'm not certain what you mean here. The only 40,000 byte limit I'm personally aware of is the one on Main.Character Specific Pages, which refers to character pages for single characters and specifies that the new page, not the old one, must be at least 40k bytes. That specific byte length also didn't seem to be a major point in those conversations — most comments seemed more concerned with example number.
I was hoping someone's going to address this issue!...
See, LighterAndSofter.Star Wars - its. three examples long
Well, Eye Scream is almost fully sub-paged, why not go all the way?
Edited by Malady Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576

I was wondering if we have any hard requirements for how long sections of a trope page need to be before being split off. I was looking through Eye Scream, specifically, and several of its subpages seem way too short to need splitting off in this manner.
EyeScream.Fairy Tales, EyeScream.Mythology and EyeScream.Theatre are each much less than a single screen in length. They really don't need to be split off.
EyeScream.Animated Films, EyeScream.Tabletop Games and EyeScream.Web Animation are longer — the first two are two screens long, the second maybe one and a half — so at least have a better argument for standing as they are, but I'm not really convinced that they need to be independent either.
EyeScream.Western Animation is plenty long, but it also has a bunch of work-specific splitoffs — EyeScream.American Dad (less than a screen), EyeScream.Family Guy (~one and a half), EyeScream.My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (way less than a screen, and I'd argue if a couple of examples really count), EyeScream.Rockos Modern Life (less than a screen) and EyeScream.The Simpsons (less than one and a half).
Personally, I would fold all of the less-than-a-screen pages back into the main trope page and all of the work-specific pages back into the Western Animation page. I'm personally inclined towards also reincorporating EyeScream.Animated Films, EyeScream.Tabletop Games and EyeScream.Web Animation into the main page, but that's less of a sticking point.