Talk:List of people with surname Carey

Dates?
Shouldn't this page contain the dates (years) when the people it lists were born and died? For an example of the use of dates, please see Cary (surname). When I have a few free moments, I'm going to start adding dates. DutchmanInDisguise (talk) 15:44, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

So yesterday I finished supplying dates for all the denizens of this list for whom they were available. In the process of doing so, I stumbled over five Carys, of whom 3 were on the other list and 2 weren't. The Carey list is now Cary-free, and the two lists have "see also" links referencing one another. DutchmanInDisguise (talk) 22:30, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

An unwieldy page?
Wow! I started editing this page a couple of months ago, after trying to find info on some guys with the Carey surname and being disappointed at not seeing any dates after their names. Then, I discovered there were a lot of folks with that surname that just weren't on the list, so I started adding them. The page has grown from 111 names to 178 names, and I am probably nowhere near done. Is it starting to become unwieldy? Does anybody really refer to it? I would certainly appreciate any comments you might have. DutchmanInDisguise (talk) 20:06, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Done?
So I finally finished adding people to this page. I think there are now 266 people listed. That's quite a lot! Do you like the page as is, or should we do something else? I took a quick look at the list of people with surname Smith and saw that there were several dozen sub-dab-pages for the various given names, plus more than 100 pages for the rest of the Smiths. Wow! I don't think the Careys are ready for anything quite that elaborate. What do you think? DutchmanInDisguise (talk) 02:04, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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