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How to edit an article so long that you can't edit

Some browsers will crop or otherwise damage pages longer than about 32k when editing. (See Wikipedia:Browser notes) If you have encountered an article that is too long so you can't edit or if you edit you will break it:

To permanently eliminate the process, see Wikipedia:Browser page size limits, summary:

  • If you control the computer you're working on, upgrade your browser: none of the modern browsers have this problem (so far as is known) and there are many to choose from, most of them offering other benefits as well. See Wikipedia:Browser page size limits for practical advice.

To temporarily resolve the situations and edit, try one the following metheods:

  1. Please put a request to the Village Pump to break the article up into smaller pieces of articles. This may take from an hour to a week. If you can't edit Village Pump either, please put your request at Wikipedia:Too long articles, which is a hopefully short page.
  2. If you would like to edit immediately, you can use your browser's "View Source" feature to copy the text out, and paste portions into new pages; but please make sure that all characters are encoded correctly: some symbols and accented characters may appear differently in the source view.



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