[WikiEN-l] The percentage of English Wikipedia articles about living people over time.

[joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu]

Quoting Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com>:

> On 18/10/2007, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I dispute the notion that a subject can possibly deserve an
>> article in one language, but not in another. I thought the mythical
>> goal state was for every "valid topic" to have a corresponding article
>> in every language.
>
> Hmm. "Language" and "Language edition of Wikipedia" are subtly
> different here. Consider, for example, the Japanese "no non-public
> living figures" rule...

Well, in practice the rule on .en is in many ways stricter. Daniel Brandt for
example is not only a public figure but a willing public figure (although
judging from more recent BLP-privacy AfDs, my guess is that an article of
someone of about his notability would be kept as of right now).