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The result was Delete. Cbrown1023 talk 21:59, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of people with the first name Julie[edit]

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useless as a disambiguation page. Unmanageable as a list. In any case, indiscriminate collection of info. Pascal.Tesson 13:09, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I really think that merging to Julie is impractical. There are probably hundreds of Wikipedia articles for people named Julie. This is what the search function is for. Pascal.Tesson 14:08, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Well I'd be happy to submit similar lists for deletion. The difference I see with surnames is that surnames list are short enough that they can be reasonably used for disambiguation while this one is not. Pascal.Tesson 20:02, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
One more comment: a pretty viable option is to link to Special:Allpages/Julie. For all practical purposes it's just as good as the list is similarly sorted in alphabetical order. Pascal.Tesson 20:06, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I was not aware of the Special:Allpages/Julie page type. I will add such a link to the Julie article, and I withdraw my objection to the deletion of this article. This is a much more practical solution to the list problem... Additionally, as for the Bryan entry I thought that the list was for the common name Bryan rather than the surname, in my haste to find evidence to support my argument I may have overlooked that detail. Thank you all for your patience and civility. - HammerHeadHuman (talk)(work) 02:43, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Surname lists are short enough? Length varies by surname (just as by given name). Smith (surname) spun off its woefully incomplete list Famous people with the surname Smith, Li (surname) relies on LoPbN... -- JHunterJ 00:23, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I see no such list on the Bryan page, and the link at the bottom of Jonathan leads to Special:Allpages/Jonathan, not to a list article like the one under discussion here. Deor 00:21, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for keeping an open mind HHH. I have to agree about the Bryan page, but as far as Jonathan is concerned the list did exist up until a few hours ago when I made the whole thing into a proper dab page. Pascal.Tesson 06:58, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The debate about Allen is about Allen as a surname, which is a completely separate issue: in that case, there's a clear value to these lists as a disambiguation tool. However, someone looking Julie Delpy is unlikely to try to go through List of people with the first name Julie. Pascal.Tesson 17:16, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I know. But it is part of the picture painted by the other discussions as well. I'm with you on the delete, I just want to be with the editing community on it as well. -- JHunterJ 17:19, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
see Talk:Derek for some discussion about the validity of allpages as a tool from outside wikipedia. Abtract 17:51, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
And, personally, I am against a merge. Merge for which reason? Is there a point to this list? Is every name article going to have a humongous list of everyone who happens to have that name? Especially for such common names as this? Come on :) Baristarim 05:04, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
MER-C's solution is unacceptable for a couple of reasons:
"Merge and delete" would violate sections 4-I and 4-J of the GNU Free Documentation License (with which I strongly recommend you familiarize yourself) by failing to maintain an edit history for the content being merged. We can't use content if we have no persistent record of who originally posted it. Generally speaking, it would violate copyright law, but even if the original writer's right to attribution is somehow waived, a user who merges the unattributed text would (as far as we can tell) be fully assuming any liability that might arise from publishing it. On a list of names this concern might be minimal, but in the case of a real article, you could be cutting and pasting factual errors, libel, or even an elaborate hoax.
If merged the redirect's title List of people with the first name Julie would not be, as you put it, an "implausible typo". It's written in proper English, with no spelling or grammar errors, and perfectly describes what would be the contents of the target page.
Somebody suggested linking to a Special:Allpages query. Once again, I must advise against that. Please read Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks. Wikipedia not only condones wholesale copying (and even modification and resale) of its content, we also encourage it, as long as it is released under the same license, and as long as the edit history is also made available. Special:Allpages/Julie is a useful tool, but does not exist outside of Wikipedia, and would not function properly on a mirror site, as the query results are not stored in any persistent form, and would not be present in a database dump from which a mirror site would be constructed. Even if the mirror is another wiki using the same software, we have no reason to assume that they have chosen to include every single "Julie" article (maybe they plan to write half of them from scratch, which they have every right to do). In effect their copy of our content would lack the functionality present in the original (it would consist of a David Bowie song and a bunch of dead links, instead of actually helping readers find biographical articles). A non-wiki mirror site might collect a one-time snapshot of the allpages query to replace the missing list, but this, again, would be unattributable content. When an article is created or deleted, it appears on, or disappears from the list, there is no centralized record-keeping for such changes, and it could be argued that there is no GFDL-compliant way to copy that content (because it's not really content, it's an index, a search engine result). Special:Allpages/Julie is not a complete list even for us, because more articles will obviously need to be created in the future.
More broadly, I'm not aware of any appropriate reason, other than on a (hopefully temporary) maintenance template, to link to a "Special:" page from article space.
As for what to do with a list of people named Julie... well, finish building it of course. Brief biographical information is always nice, year of birth (and death if not living), nationality, and occupation(s) are generally the bare minimum for disambiguation pages and lists of people by name. These also are features not available in the special-page solution. Lists may become long, and they may need to be split by the alphabetical range of peoples' last names. But it's not as difficult all of you make it sound. — CharlotteWebb 11:24, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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