charles.r.matthews wrote:
To be fair, the _given name_ lists are not apparently generally favoured. I'm entirely tigerish in my defence of lists by _surname_ .
Charles
If somebody is willing to run a bot to peruse each database dump to keep pages like a List_of_people_named_John sorted and up-to-date, I have no objection whatsoever. Of course, Special:Prefixindex/John would be almost as reliable, and would make this easier for humans than the surname lists, even, though it might exclude names with obnoxious preceding honorifics, and that scenario is, in itself, a Bad Thing.
--f.o.n.