wheel - 2:54 pm on Dec 18, 2010 (gmt 0)

I'm about to take my 5000 page of unique content down to about 20 core pages. This is being done for technical reasons, my infrastructure is groaning under the weight.

I've maintained that the content helps my rankings. My wife maintains it hurts my rankings, having 5K of secondary pages.

Who's right? Will my rankings increase, decrease, or stay the same? How long until I see any changes?

A marriage hangs in the balance! (not really :) ).