Talk:Dean

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This page seems to me a classic example of why it is not so great to slice up by imposed categorisations (e.g. 'geography', 'science fiction'). For myself, I mcuh prefer a simple alphabetical list, when it comes to surname Dean (or whatever); here one has to glance down given name Dean, or Deane, and various other meanings that 'dean' has.

I propose to extract from this all a list Dean (surname), going alphabetically, and put it elsewhere to flourish. I don't actually see how the topical division is read out of the WP manual pages; but in any case it is quite clear that the dab pages guidelines are just that - and not anything to war over, as if there was a single 'correct' style to impose. There seems to have been quite enough back-and-forth here. I happen to think the merits of having good infrastructure are such that a minimum of time should be spent on undoing others' work.

Charles Matthews 13:20, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Removing names[edit]

I removed all the individual names from this article.

The disambiguation needed is for the title; nobody looking for (say) Alan Dean Foster is going to land here by any stretch of the imagination. As WP:DAB says under the heading of What Not to Include, "Lists of articles of which the disambiguated term forms only a part of the article title don't belong here. Disambiguation pages are not search indices."

It doesn't seem correct to include the geographical entries; Forest of Dean and Dean County are distinct enough that they don't require disambiguation. -- BPMullins | Talk 19:23, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Move discussion in progress[edit]

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