Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-25227224-20141101000032/@comment-1207741-20141102181249

NeedleJizo wrote: The only way to cut down on article size without butchering the article itself is to pretty much have everyone's page redirect to Plot of Naruto for their Part I and/or II summaries. Methinks you contradict yourself.

Rayfire wrote: But with the size of this story, especially with Naruto and Sasuke even being concise will leave a VERY large article unless you begin cutting away actual pertinent information. There's no real way to trim it down. It depends on your definition of "VERY large". Naruto is always going to have the longest article on the wiki. I don't deny that. But it doesn't need to be as long as it currently is, so shortening is still beneficial. And for other characters, shortening will even solve any perceived problems of length: I don't know how Tsunade's has gotten as long as it has, and Teneten's somehow becomes longer every week.

To at least demonstrate that it is possible, here are two articles I've shortened:
 * Obito before (130,003 bytes) and Obito now (81,229 bytes)
 * Madara before (112,324 bytes) and Madara now (56,862 bytes)

Was the task insurmountable? The reward worthless? The outcome inferior?