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for ongoing cleanup projects.
Because our cleanup involved taking every valid example we could find context for and moving them to a sandbox. The subpages were cut once every not-terrible example was collected, because they were otherwise going to be stubs- useless, useless stubs.
It started here
. We worked on it over the course of several months. It wasn't a spontaneous decision.
Exactly why were all the subpages for Five-Man Band cut? I'd also like to see where on the Five-Man Band cleanup thread this issue was discussed.