I've just sent out an email to 15 supporters (ie, donors, current members
etc) who are from the Monmouth area. Hopefully we can get them involved too
- they'll be contacting John or info(a)wikimedia.org.uk if they want to help.
Richard
On 31 December 2011 19:58, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com
wrote:
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> On 31 December 2011 13:57, Roger Bamkin <victuallers(a)gmail.com
wrote:
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>> I also searched ODNB for "Monmouth" and found so many with some
tenuous
>> connection to Monmouth under "B" that I stopped looking. Lots of
people
>> went to school in Monmouth as there are two posh schools there who trained
>> "people for the empire" 100 years ago and quite a few notables.
>>
>>
>> "Monmouthshire" in the ODNB full text is more reasonable - around 200
> hits and there are going to be fewer false positives in there. If someone
> can do a list of missing related DNB biographies (edition by 1912 to be PD
> text) then it could be posted to WP:WP DNB and we could have a look at it.
> This would be a way to get something new up quickly.
>
> Charles
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