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The Wikipedia page " has a lot of interesting information on Falcon 9 launches: Launchpad, payload mass, booster serial number, landing outcome etc. But this makes the page very large and it was split into two articles back in October 2021. At the time there were 126 launches and the first decade of 77 launches was split off into "" leaving 49 launches in the main article.
Today there are 235 launches in the main article and it's starting to have issues loading that much content. It's roughly twice the size it was the last time it was split and it's only going to grow more going forward, so it's not really a question of if it should be split again but when it should be split again. There's an ongoing debate behind-the-scenes of Wikipedia with different contributors arguing over how it should be split but also bafflingly some people insisting it shouldn't be split at all.
Usually the Wikipedia articles for rockets with dozens and dozens of launches (Like Atlas or Thor/Delta) are split per decade. But Falcon 9 has launched more times in 2023 than the entire first decade, the page "List Of Falcon 9 And Falcon Heavy Launches (2020~2029)" would be 235 launches from day one and there's still five years of launches to come. Falcon 9 just launches too fast to split the list per decade.
Luckily there's another rocket that has had hundreds upon hundreds of launches, the R7/Soyuz rocket family which has launches split by *half-*decade. So in theory the Falcon 9 list could be split out into "List Of Falcon 9 And Falcon Heavy Launches (2020~2024)". If the current launch rate remains stable there'll be well over 300 launches, around the same as the largest R7 pages but the Falcon 9 list has a LOT more information so the page would be a lot larger. And the next half-decade is likely to be even larger if Falcon 9 launch frequency accelerates.
So what's the solution? Split the pages per two-year slice? 2023~2024 will be >200 launches, 2025~2026 might be too big. Maybe we should ignore that issue until it comes up in 2026, or maybe we should go to one-year slices now rather than reshuffling the pages several times? If you've spent any time behind-the-scenes on Wikipedia you'll know there's the same number of opinions as there are people involved in the discussion, sometimes MORE opinions than there are people arguing somehow.
But the most baffling part of the discussion are the people arguing not to bother splitting the page at all. "Maybe we could only list the most important launches?" is a bold stance that actually aligns with Elon's vision of making spaceflight routine, we don't bother listing every airliner takeoff worldwide so perhaps we don't need to record every single Starlink launch? But that raises the question of how to decide a cutoff for what launches are worth recording. One person suggested just trimming the fat on the "Future Launches" section which has some speculative future launches without much information. But that's missing the fact the "Past Launches" section will inevitably grow, even without a "Future Launches" section at all the page is going to get too big as long as SpaceX keeps launching Falcon 9s.
And a final spanner in the works is that someone suggests adding even more data to the table, the details of which pad/droneship the landing used. This would be valuable information to document but it would make the page size even larger.
I think it's funny SpaceX is launching so many rockets it's causing arguments on how best to organise the information on Wikipedia.
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