Template talk:Disambiguation

Good idea; now can we have categories to save time?
This looks like a very good idea.

I've not looked at every nuance, but I followed one name through. We could very easily have such persons in their own categories (eg category:John Doe) so that they would list automatically on the disambiguation page, which could be just the category page itself.

In fact, to reduce work, we could have a line built into the standard "template" so that every person in the database was in that category as well as the surname category. A template within the template (one of those amazing things with three or more pairs of braces) might automate the whole thing a bit further; but without that it would be easy to paste the person's name into the space. A person who went by two or more names (eg most married women in "European" society) could easily be put in a category for each.

Comments?

Robin Patterson 00:24, 7 July 2006 (UTC)