Category:Pages where post-expand include size is exceeded

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This is a tracking category. It builds and maintains a list of pages primarily for the sake of the list itself. They are not part of the encyclopedia's categorization scheme.

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These categories can be used to track, build and organize lists of pages needing "attention en masse" (for example, pages using deprecated syntax), or that may need to be edited at someone's earliest convenience.
These categories also serve to aggregate members of several lists or sub-categories into a larger, more efficient list (discriminated by classifications).

Administrators: Please do not delete this category even if it is empty! This category may be empty occasionally or even most of the time.

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This category is populated automatically by the MediaWiki software, its name being at MediaWiki:Post-expand-template-inclusion-category. It contains pages which exceed the post-expand include size limit. These pages should be simplified by removing or simplifying calls to templates, or they will not render properly. Note that non-rendered expansions still count towards the limit. See Help:Template#Template limits.

This category is sorted by page name and ignores the namespace, although articles and pages in the user namespaces have their own categories: Category:Articles where post-expand include size is exceeded and Category:User pages where post-expand include size is exceeded.

Maintenance / clearing pages from this category

WP:PEIS has information on how to reduce the post-expand include size of pages.

Some pages should be cleared with care:

Talk page archives should be carefully split into smaller pages, and links to the respective archive should be adapted to clearly indicate where the information is now (as they may serve as evidence which is otherwise lost)
The pages that are generated by COIBot (Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/<domainname> and Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/Local/<domainname>) can be removed from this category by blanking the 'Additions' section and replacing them with a message that recorded additions can be found in older revids of the page. Note that COIBot may regenerate the pages and repopulate the additions section.

Other pages need to be handled on a case-by-case basis.