Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-1274253-20140810173825/@comment-3026053-20140810175247

Personally, I would open a community discussion in regards to the creation of a wiki-wide Manual of Style. It can establish a sort of "house style" to help editors produce articles with consistent, clear, and precise language, layout, and formatting as consistency in style and formatting promotes clarity and cohesion.

Another way to get your community involved in making decisions is to make a forum used as a "vote for deletion" on which users may "nominate" an existing page to be either deleted or merged with another page (which can solve your problem of many pages being too short). Other users obviously have the ability to oppose this and defend the keeping of the page.

Personally, I'm not a fan of the use of galleries -they look ugly and unnecessary elongate your page. By getting rid of them, you already shorten your page significantly. If you want to keep all those images around anyway, you can always do what we do on my home wiki, the Avatar Wiki: we have adapted our character infoboxes in such a manner that they link to the image category that contains all the images of said character used somewhere on the wiki. You can see an example of that here: at the bottom of the infobox you'll find a link to the "image gallery", thus making the images readily accessible without them cluttering and elongating the page.