On 5/5/06, charles matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
"Guettarda" wrote
Do you think that a WikiProject Surnames might be in order?
There is certainly enough to do - an essentially unlimited field, you could say.
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That's one issue. Another is that WikiProjects can appear much better at prescribing rules to do the work, than at actually doing it.
That was actually what made me think that a WikiProject might be useful - the issues you outlined about potentially changing the rules for {{dab}} pages for surnames.
On the other hand, if there's a chance of getting together people who know
their onomastics, with those with theories on how to integrate and present some genealogical information here (for example the boxes turning up on [[Arnold J. Toynbee]] to show the relation to [[Polly Toynbee]]), and others who want to 'add value' to raw lists of names, it could be interesting. I'm pretty much a 'raw list' man myself; but a template for a surname page ought indeed to take into account a bit more.
Now the challenge is to find these people and get them together.