User:NameBot~enwiki
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This is the page for a future bot which (initially, at least) looks for names and creates disambiguation pages for that name.
Method
[edit]Looks up all items with <name> as a first word in the search - a list of recognised names would have to be compiled first (the assumption that very obscure names wouldn't require disambiguation pages exists for now).
- How exactly to compile a list of names is yet to be decided.
Format of disambiguation pages
[edit]Disambiguation pages would have to be parsed to check what's on them first. If there is something on them already then the format of the list of names would be added below; otherwise it would just go at the top of the page. The list would have the format:
People whose names begin with <name>:
__LIST_GO_HERE__
or
People whose names begin with <name>:
__LIST_GO_HERE__
The bot isn't started yet so any suggestions are welcome!