On 18/12/05, Steve Bennett <stevage(a)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.
To point out the problems with the latter; the deleted form of the
Seigenthaler article wasn't categorised by anything, wasn't tagged as
a stub, and wasn't phrased in the standard fashion for a biography
("[name] (year-year) [is/was]")... so there's no obvious automated way
of picking it up.
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk