"Andrew Gray" <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote in
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On 18/12/05, Steve Bennett
<stevage(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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?
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.
I was going to suggest that {{lifetime}} and/or {{lived}} could be modified
so that the death date was optional, and lack thereof would put the article
into [[Category:Living people]], but given the recent furore over
conditional templates, maybe now is not the time...:-(
Also, I note that these templates have been listed for instant Substitution,
so the information wouldn't actually stick anyway :-(
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Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]]