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A fact from List of Australian diarists of World War I appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 April 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Corporal Edgar Worrall, who claims to have fired the last shot at Lone Pine, was one of over 1,100 Australians to keep a diary during World War I?

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Though an impressive work, this article, currently at 430,447 bytes, is slow to load, and should be subdivided. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:18, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Pigsonthewing: I agree the list is too big and I'm going to split it if I can. I'm thinking that maybe four lists of roughly equal size, broken down by the soldier's name (since none of the other columns are really sortable or complete enough for a breakdown). Does that sound like a reasonable approach to you? Craig Franklin (SLQ) (talk) 01:50, 18 August 2016 (UTC).[reply]

It's a pig to edit too. We could split it by state. Kerry (talk) 04:25, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

No, having looked more closely at it, splitting by state isn't going to work as a lot of entry don't have the home town. Figuring that out first is just too much work. Split into alpha ranges is probably the best idea as Craig suggests. Kerry (talk) 04:30, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I would prefer to do it by state as well, it's just a shame there are so many gaps and I'm not inclined to standardise and research 1000+ entries solely for that. Craig Franklin (SLQ) (talk) 04:50, 18 August 2016 (UTC).[reply]

@Kerry Raymond and Pigsonthewing: This is now done. If you have a moment can you please check for sanity? Craig Franklin (SLQ) (talk) 03:54, 7 September 2016 (UTC).[reply]

Well done. The three lists are still fairly hefty so if they're going to grow any more it may be worth dividing them further. The Drover's Wife (talk) 05:33, 7 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Splendid work, thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:06, 8 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Understood why this change was requested, and fair enough too, but an unfortunate downside is that this is no longer one of the Wikipedia articles with the most references. For a while there this article was actually the single MOST referenced one in the entire Encyclopedia, but has since been overtaken by a cinema-culture one, one about american city nicknames, and another about american political endorsements. It was good to beat these frivolous ones with an Australian/GLAM article - written by SLNSW librarian user:Rubicon49bce no less. Witty lama 09:55, 8 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Wittylama: I know you realise this, but none of the content has gone away, it's just spread across four pages now. Unfortunately while the citation count on the old page was impressive, trying to edit the thing using Visual Editor to add additional entries was slowing my computer to an absolute crawl. This way it'll be easier to add more entries to the list. Craig Franklin (SLQ) (talk) 23:34, 13 September 2016 (UTC).[reply]

of course of course, it was just a fun thing to be able to show at glam presentations and as a showcase stat about both Aus and GLAM punching above our weight. Now that I think of it... Since you're working with SLQ, and this article was started by SLNSW, does that mean you've an ulterior motive for chopping it up? :-P Witty lama 00:12, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]