On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 11:16:16 -0400, Frank Pinter
<francis.pinter(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I've long
wished there were a genealogical database of European monarchs
etc,
Yes, that is a good idea. However, it should not be on Wikipedia,
according to [[Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not]]. Maybe if some big
Wikimedia person (like Jimbo, maybe) sees this a consideration for a
project may be started.
The problem with this is that, while the monarchy/etc information may
be available, the project would be prone to insertion of nonfamous,
nonnotable peoples' geneologies. These are liable to be extremely
unverifiable. Also, there is a fair population of people who think
they are royalty but are not: c.f.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Vernon John De Duckmanton (and the
associated talk page).
How would you overcome this sort of problem?