==DNB== 
 Sections of ten are working for me. As we know, the pages are huge which is a pain at edit time, but without further breaking down each volume, we're stuck with what we have. FWIW, I tend to do my work in edit mode so the reference text is in line with the person name ... not sure I buy into having the first sentence as a ref rather than inline with the name, but I can live with it. Clearly this is going to take us a few years, and my contributions will be sporadic.  

 I have had vague thoughts about another column - perhaps working from your table structure idea - to indicate whether there's more content in a DNB article which could be lifted into our article.  

 Thanks for getting the ball further rolling on this.