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Something which is of much more interest to me than a "category" is a page which lists persons having the same surname. When I have trouble remembering the first name of somebody who interests me it's quite helpful to be able to see all the people who happen to share the same last name. I've helped
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which were put in wiki articles by incompetent or careless editors. The links took you to a "disambiguation page" which left it up to your imagination which town the editor really meant. I've tried to remedy this situation whenever I've had a few minutes to kill and could figure out which town an
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to be a huge nuisance. Far too much time is spent creating them and putting people in them and debating about who should, or should not, be in this or that category. I very seldom click on a link to a "category" and have little or no interest in what category a person might fall into.
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So, having discovered this handy feature, I added the "intitle" template to a number of pages I was working on. What do you think? Is this a worthwhile change, or would you rather not see that unobtrusive link at the bottom of certain pages?
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helpful in determining whether Joe Blow or José Fulano is a contemporary, or somebody from out of the distant past. The most recent of these pages where I supplied names and/or dates is:
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article was talking about — the one in Bohemia? in California? in Baden? in New Mexico? I hope I've guessed correctly while making these corrections.
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While adding and correcting information on people with certain surnames, I discovered a capability for seeing, in an instant,
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antes de mi cambio al artículo en inglés. Y es posible que habían contribuciones en otros idiomas aún más temprano que éstas.
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I also do a lot of trivial edits and corrections (wrong links, missing links, typos and grammar errors really bug me):
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My curiosity aroused, I did some wiki-browsing and discovered that a lot of articles contained links to plain old
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articles whose titles included the name, or word, I was interested in. This is done via the
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I either created, or was responsible for much of the text, of the following articles:
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playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates; this is a common surname in Louisiana and Québec
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Here are the numbers of edits I've made each month to the English Knowledge (XXG):
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15 Feb 2013, I scooped the world, sort of, in Knowledge (XXG)'s coverage of the
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template. For instance, to see all wiki-articles whose title line contains
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once said something like "you can't put cats in categories", and I find
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with the same name. There were also a bunch of links to plain old
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49 minutes earlier. Y para decir la verdad, un usuario anónimo
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Two "templates", which make it easier to include links to the
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Not long ago, I was vacationing in the beautiful town of
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create, or add to, such surname disambiguation pages (
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Well, to be completely truthful, 1367:Began editing Knowledge (XXG) in December 352:, a jazz trumpeter, composer and arranger 154:, a common Spanish surname and place name 374:from my ancestors' language into English 314:, early 20th century Broadway songwriter 208:, which I expanded while watching a new 142:, a surname of several people I've known 1435:Mes contributions dans d'autres langues 28:, but contribute to Knowledge (XXG) in 464:Society for American Baseball Research 244:name which was part of the title of a 20:Even though many of my ancestors were 652:had already wondered about it on the 263:, which I created while watching the 7: 273:, which I expanded while watching a 289:, an unusual surname and place name 189:, which I expanded while watching 179:, which I expanded while watching 14: 1417:Minhas contribuições em português 746:All pages with titles containing 228:, the surname of a controversial 218:, which I created after watching 162:one of my favorite jazz musicians 769:My Knowledge (XXG) edit history 501:, Los Angeles county supervisor 495:, Los Angeles county supervisor 487:California politics and history 319:Four Saxophones in Twelve Tones 88:Some other disambiguation pages 16:Welcome to my world! I am the 1: 1399:Mis contribuciones en español 694: 287:Wigglesworth (disambiguation) 1434: 775: 232:who was in the news recently 470:in a ballplayer's article: 328:, jazz baritone saxophonist 201:my very first home computer 44:My contributions in English 1512: 1377: 1366: 830: 681:Knowledge (XXG) categories 413:, Giants outfielder whose 764:some stuff I'm working on 634:2013 Russian meteor event 564:interesting modern artist 548:, a little town in Latvia 346:, jazz banjoist/guitarist 306:Chuck Cecil (broadcaster) 1425:, um sobrenome português 326:Bob Gordon (saxophonist) 302:, jazz tenor saxophonist 152:Galindo (disambiguation) 596:relationship with some 445:Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá 421:Joe Gonzales (baseball) 350:Mark Masters (musician) 38:several other languages 312:Leo Edwards (composer) 294:Music, especially jazz 199:, which reminds me of 96:, a town in Sicily, a 57:Dutch-American history 1380:GRAND TOTAL OF EDITS: 654:Chelyabinsk talk page 617:small town in Germany 511:Samuel Marshall Perry 417:played for the Angels 332:Billy Gray (comedian) 183:pitch for the Rangers 18:Dutchman In Disguise. 1429:outras contribuições 1411:otras contribuciones 590:Carlsbad, California 356:Roy Porter (drummer) 63:Charles Winans Chipp 662:artículo en español 578:other contributions 322:, a 1955 jazz album 191:a Cardinals pitcher 688:Surnames and dates 368:Wim Statius Muller 83:page in Wikispeak. 1396: 1395: 658:agregó un párrafo 638:added a paragraph 552:Samuel B. 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Index

Dutch
that language
English
Spanish
several other languages
Charles Winans Chipp
Cornelis Melyn
Winans
Butera (surname)
saxophonist
Carey
Carrey
Cheney (surname)
Coello
an Angels pitcher
Ege
Marlins pitcher
Follett
Frías
Galindo (disambiguation)
Gillespie
one of my favorite jazz musicians
Hester
an Angels catcher
Kela
Keone
Lackey
a Cardinals pitcher
LEWP
my very first home computer

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