Talk:List of Légion d'honneur recipients by name
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[edit] Created
The article "List of Légion d'honneur recipients by name" was created on 18 February 2007 by long-term User:Carl Logan. The list contained less than 100 names for 2 months. On 18 April 2007, the list was fractionated to become 27 separate articles, with 26 sub-list articles for each letter, for separate updates. -Wikid77 (talk) 12:39, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
- See below: Handling sub-lists.
[edit] Re-added combined list
09-Feb-2008: In order to simplify searching of names, I have added the combined list into the top article, and expanded it to include over 720 names (many stating occupation) linked to articles. The prior 26 separate sub-list articles still exist, but have not been individually updated. The combined list has been quite easy to update, not only because of the single edit operation, but also because of moving names within the list, since determining last-name letter varies by culture or hyphenated last names. -Wikid77 (talk) 12:39, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Handling sub-lists
Traditionally, alphabetical sub-lists are divided into groups of letters (such as A-L, M-R, S-Z) rather than 26 separate letters. People are typically NEVER queued into 26 separate lines by name. Groups are usually split into roughly equal numbers, often having large numbers of "M" or "S" names, although that depends on cultural naming conventions, where "Smith" or "Perez" might be the most common name. French names would be likely more common. I haven't taken the time to merge or update all names currently in the 26 sub-lists, nor have I even looked at all 26 sub-lists yet. I guess it would have been much easier as just 3 sub-lists. -Wikid77 (talk) 12:39, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
