Forum:Forum:How can I exclude people pages from the Random page link?

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Since there are many pages about individual people, most of the time when I click the Random page link I get a person's page.

Is there any way I can exclude people pages from that, like maybe by category? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.107.172.6 (talk • contribs).


 * By category would be nice; I often get pages of people who have been PE'd. Equivamptalk 08:44, 23 May 2012 (EDT)


 * It can be done, on the server side. I have made an extension to exclude personal exclusions from the random page picker - incidentally, they are 4.1% of all people (352 compared to 8,224 non-excluded people). I'm not convinced that excluding people is a good idea. Perhaps we should exclude pages below a certain size, though? If editors are looking specifically for smaller pages (which is a good idea), there are better ways. Requiring 500 bytes would exclude 3500 pages from selection (including all personal exclusions); cutting at 750 would exclude 6000. --GreenReaper(talk) 19:49, 23 May 2012 (EDT)