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Avoiding duplication of content

It is very common to find on Wookieepedia articles where the bulk of the content pertains to a different, but related, subject. This is very common in articles on Systems or Species where the system is only ever referenced in the context of one Planet, or the Species only has one representative. An example that has already been updated is the article for the Joralla system, which had been almost entirely a duplicate of the information in the article for the system's primary planet Joralla. It's my opinion that linking between the two articles sufficiently allows access to the information. Duplicating it out not only builds clutter but invites the content to drift apart when being updated.

A similar kind of duplication often happens between the paragraph-form content of an article and other sections. Most commonly this will be seen with Infobox contents being repeated directly in paragraph form in a 'Description' section of the article or, in articles for subjects where only basic details are known, the entire article may be made of a duplicated Infobox. This can also occur between the Appearances/Sources and Behind the Scenes section, where the latter is a paragraph form of the former.