Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28809980-20170603212616/@comment-28809980-20170614185531

Ironwestie wrote: In my experience, it's better to leave the category pages as a short list (or just a paragraph) and then expand on the category's contents in a list or article. One of the reasons is that the majority of readers aren't aware of categories, but it's mostly because categories don't have much space to begin with (the links to the pages in the category take a lot of space). I agree. Especially long lists in category pages, they are sometimes longer than normal articles and don't feature references and ambox tags.

But then:

HughMungusEsq wrote: The reason I started putting lists on category pages is because it's easy to check if something's missing from the list. E.g. someone adds this category to a rip, then one can go to the category page and compare the list with the automatically generated list of pages containing the category.

So I still tried transclusion as an example, in order to keep some parts of the list in the category. But yeah, it will probably take more time to load.

S o should we  define a maximum length for a list in a category page?