Talk:History of fascism
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Splitting after work on Fascism is completed.
Testing splitting the article into pre-1945 and post-1945 gives the following results:
- pre-1945: ~10,465 words long in prose
- post-1945: ~1,834 words long in prose
Post-1945 can be expanded greatly, as there is more than enough RS literature that looks into the development of post-fascism and neo-fascism after the close of WW2. But we seem to still need to split pre-1945. Splitting out a further article for "WW1 to WW2" (inclusive) would have a length of ~6,761 words long in prose, leaving pre-WW1 at ~3,704 words long in prose, which means all three would then meet WP:SIZERULE guidelines. -- Cdjp1 (talk) 22:59, 14 June 2026 (UTC)