Sean Black wrote
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.
To be fair, the _given name_ lists are not apparently generally favoured. I'm entirely tigerish in my defence of lists by _surname_ .
Charles
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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.