Template talk:Surname links

Two of them seem unhelpful for surnames but useful for given names
The links called "All articles" and "Living people" seem to list all articles (or only articles for living people) starting with the name (and other articles later in the list). That would be good for given names but seems almost useless for surnames; the "All articles" one would start with the disambig page if any but would probably have nothing else useful, while the "Living people" one might produce nothing of any interest. See Villanueva (surname) for example. Could one of our experts devise something that extracted the keyword from pagename strings?

Do we have a similar shortcut for given names? If not, I think we should, and it might use some of this template, notably "All articles" and "Living people" (a handy category-intersection device) and the general search.

-- Robin Patterson (Talk) 07:05, September 3, 2014 (UTC)