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=== List of People by Name ===
<s>I somehow blundered into a project: the very mundane task of cleaning up and enhancing accessibility to this, by which i mean not so much the [[List of people by name|article]], but the list that is implemented as several hundred similarly named pages linked, treewise, by the article. When i started doing more to it than add names,</s>
* <s>[[List of people by name: Ha-Hd]] was [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_by_name:_Ha&action=edit&oldid=1712828 a 34kB page] embodying an unbroken list of [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_by_name:_Ha&oldid=1712828 555 names] (which drew my attention),</s>
* <s>[[List of people by name: Ma]] (though i didn't know it yet) was progressing toward its peak at [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_by_name:_Ma&action=edit&oldid=2156617 54 kB] with [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_by_name:_Ma&oldid=2156617 about 870 names], and</s>
* <s>the tree had
** the LoPbN page as its root,
** 26 children at the first level below it (6 of them -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_by_name:_Joh&oldid=1742954 J], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_by_name&oldid=1714576 O, Q, U, X, and Y] -- having no child-pages), and
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I worked out the mechanism for generating the links to other LoPbN pages, that appear at the top of each page (and one of the two styles on the root page), and virtually all, maybe all, of the utilization of it has been my work. It eases effort and avoids clerical omissions that would likely break the within-tree link structure. (Unfortunately, it so far conflicts with the attractive box-oriented layout of the link structure that a colleague worked out and that will hopefully return as the software involved advances.)
And handling these entries leads me constructively astray into a wide variety of bio articles. For me, this is a satisfying gig.</s>
=== The Art of the Stub ===
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