Module:Other people

local mOtheruses = require('Module:Other uses')
local mArguments = require('Module:Arguments')
local compressArray = require('Module:TableTools').compressSparseArray
local p = {}

function p.otherPeople (frame)
 --Get arguments
 local origArgs = mArguments.getArgs(frame)
 local named = origArgs.named
 local args = compressArray(origArgs)
 if not origArgs[1] then table.insert(args, 1, nil) end
 -- Assemble arguments and return
 local title = args[1] or mw.title.getCurrentTitle().text
 local options = {
  title = title,
  defaultPage = args[2],
  otherText = (args[2] and not args[1] and 'people with the same name') or
   string.format('people %s %s', named or 'named', title)
 }
 -- Don't pass args[1] through as a target page. Manual downshift because Lua
 -- expectation of sequences means table.remove() doesn't necessarily work
 for i = 2, math.max(table.maxn(args), 2) do
  args[i - 1] = args[i]
  args[i] = nil
 end
 return mOtheruses._otheruses(args, options)
end

return p