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wfsection has an admin preference called "database restore". Check if this is set to "yes". It stores the whole article in the database everytime you make a change. If you have it turned on, and you make lots of little changes, your database could become huge.
If that is where your problem is, you should have a huge xoopsPrefix_wfs_article_restore table. You can safely empty (not drop!) that table if you don't need to keep old copies of your wfsection articles.
I don't know the "story" module, they might have a similiar system as well.