On 9/10/06, A jokestress@gmail.com wrote:
About a week ago, [[User:JHunterJ]] revised [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)]] and then began making sitewide changes to articles on human names based on his revisions:
"People who happen to have the same given name should not be listed on a disambiguation page for that name unless they happen to be very frequently referred to simply by the given name (e.g., Beyoncé, Regis). If the name is uncommon enough for such a list to be maintainable (and if it would otherwise meet the WP:LIST guidelines), consider creating the page [[List of people named Title]] instead."
This is really just a part of the continued onslaught against useful dab pages in the name of adherence to the manual of style... the stricter we make these pages, the more likely we are to be encouraging the blind elimination of good content.
See here for prime examples of this idiocy in action: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AFD&action=history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Disambiguation_pages_in_need_of_cleanu...
~~Sean