[WikiEN-l] Defamatory Biographies - another problem looming forWikipedia?

Sun Dec 18 22:52:09 UTC 2005

Maybe we can have User:Humanbot programmed to cycle biographies and
have people read them as a check?

Mgm

On 12/18/05, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18/12/05, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >   Do we have a foolproof way of iterating over all biographies of living
> > people? If not, is it time we introduced a flag, or even just a category
> > "Living person", to do so?
>
> Hum.
>
> For all bios with categories, then if it's in [[Category:xxxx births]]
> where xxxx is greater than 1890, but not in any [[Category:yyyy
> deaths]], they're either alive or need updated.
>
> We can catch another batch by searching anything with a bio-stub tag
> and categorising them, then rechecking. Anything else we have no real
> way of finding, since there's nothing to define an article's content
> without actually reading it.
>
> --
> - Andrew Gray
>  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
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