Eugene van der Pijll wrote:
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John Lee wrote:
When you have an article about every [[John Smith]] who has ever lived, finding the John Smiths who actually matter can be a tad difficult.
Those would be the ones at the top of the list at [[John Smith (disambiguation)]]. We already have a mechanism for this.
No, [[John Smith]] is categorized by occupation, not by notability. When there are perhaps 100 people on a disambiguation page, it is almost impossible to sort them by notability.
Yet it's possible to rate the articles for notability by some standard and delete the ones that fall short? Simply reorganize the page along the same lines, putting the ones you'd otherwise delete down at the bottom. Other disambiguation pages already list the most prominent examples first, eg [[Mars (disambiguation)]].