Thank you for doing that, Rebecca. I have spent several months working on that page. (The line headings are supposed to be bronze, actually. The series runs iron-bronze-silver-gold.) Part of the problem is that there are way more notables already on WikiTree than could possibly be listed on a single page. (Or at least, a lot of people's browsers would crash trying to load that page if we tried.) More urgently, that page is so huge that nobody (or at least nobody who has a life) could possibly keep it up.
So I've been thinking of different ways to try to bring that page down to a more manageable size. Still, the sheer number of people involved would probably mean implementing several of these (or other) ideas in order to get the page(s) down to a size that mere humans can keep up. (I'm talking about humans here, not Aleš, because I'm pretty sure that he's an artificial intelligence program running on a supercomputer.)
- Move the profiles which have been listed in the gold section to a separate sub-page after they've been on the main page for a set number of months. (This could actually serve a couple of purposes, as we could point to the profiles listed on the gold pages as examples of how to do profiles "right". Although to be honest, I still haven't finished working through the gold section and moving those profiles listed there down to the silver or bronze section if they're missing crucial elements. I started at the top of the list, and you can probably see pretty clearly how far down the list I've made it so far.)
- Break up the page into sub-pages, with the content at the top left where it is, and the iron, bronze, silver, and gold sections moved to separate pages (with new header material for each). (And, presumably, different people managing each page, and "handing off" profiles from one page to another as the profiles are improved to meet the standards for the different levels.)
- Remove all the people from the list who are notable for something that's already covered by another project. For example, Notable Fantasians would be covered by the Fantasia Project, people who are notable for their part in War X would be covered by the War X Project, and so on. This could reduce the list by a whole bunch, and as new projects are formed, we could "shed" even more notables. (I'm thinking that this might entail a new sticker for profiles which are notable, but managed by other projects. Or maybe edit the Notables sticker so that {{Notables}} by itself tells people to look on the Notables Project page, but {{Notables|Fantasia}} tells people to look on the Fantasia Project page.)
So moving living notables to a separate sub-page is really just another example of possible strategies to shorten down the Notables Project page to a size we can work with.
I should also say that anybody can make sub-pages as free-space profiles. Just copy the contents of the existing into the new sub-page, add new header material, delete everything from the new sub-page that you're keeping on the main page (like deceased notables, in the case of this particular suggestion), delete the stuff you've moved to the sub-page from the main page (in this case, living notables), put in reciprocal links, and Bob's your uncle. However, if we want the sub-pages to be project pages, rather than free-space profiles, then I'm pretty sure that a leader needs to create them, although they can set who can edit them.
