Mike wrote:
If a Wikipedian exists who is willing to create a specific type of index, then I see no benefit to the reader from other Wikipedians displacing this contribution rather than adding another method to it.
Stephen responded:
Maintaining multiple manual indexes of the same material is next to impossible. I've tried. An advanced search function (which Lee mentioned as one of his priorities) would allieviate the need for such lists.
That's right. It's cumbersome and one of them is usually out of date.
Regardless of whether Lee updates the search function, if I'm on e.g. [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress]] I can just CTRL+F and type in "Lilia Skala" to find it on the page. I don't see how a second page listing the entries according to a different scheme is really such a big help.
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