Talk:Barker (surname)

Page organisation
User:A bit iffy recently this page from a strictly alphabetical list into a list sectioned by categories. I find this unhelpful when trying to find a specific person, because I first have to classify the person I'm searching for according to the page's presented sections; those are prone to errors (see: John Barker (footballer) in "Sport / Other"), Ben Barker in "Film and television") and subject to personal preferences. Similarly, when an editor wants to add an entry, it needs to be categorised to fit into the current sections or a new section needs to be created.

Organising the page into sections is also likely to create, and does on this page, the technically undesirable situation of more than one section with the same name ("Other").

I find a strict alphabetical listing much easier to use for disambiguation purposes and easier to maintain. The only suitable sections are the initial letters from the subjects' first name.

I guess this page is not widely watched, so I also raised this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anthroponymy. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 03:09, 17 June 2010 (UTC)