Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-1251315-20140625132912/@comment-4710047-20140706170226

@Fox-Boss Proof? Maybe it's the fact that we're still trying to trim large articles, like Madara's and Naruto's, when we've tried the same many times prior to this conversation. All have ended in either failure or becoming only a temporary solution.

Don't forget that this entire discussion was not based on trimming articles for the sake of the practice, it's about making the longer articles more organised to make editing easier, as I believe SuperSaj pointed out in the opening comment. The idea of simply removing info has proven again and again to not work as well as you'd expect it to. Hence me pointing out that it's not nearly as effective anymore. Too many factors get in the way. That's what happens when you leave all up to personal perspective.

And yes, the last point is very important. Let's not forget, fan-boys make up a large load of our editors. It's easy to see how it does, seeing how Naruto is such a popular series.

The only way I see "trimming the fat" as a viable method is after the series ends and we see everything on the table. At least, at that point, there'd be virtually nothing to add to the article, only information that could clearly be removed.