On 19/10/2007, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Looking through the stubs I've created in the last
year or two, I have made
7 about living people: Daniel Wyllie, Lech Kowalski, Franck Sorbier, Vadim
Perelman, Eric Harshbarger, Adam Elliot and John Long (climber). Two of
those are in the magic category, and 5 aren't. If that ratio held up across
Wikipedia, the proportion of articles about living people would be about
40%, not 12%.
In my experience the ratio is higher - 90%, perhaps. The category is
generally a lot better known now than it was; I'm surprised you're
getting such low results. Out of interest, did all your articles have
[[Category:19xx births]]?
Hmm.
Sometime last year - I thought it was in the mailing list, but I can't
find it, so it might be in IRC - we needed to produce numbers on how
many living bios we had, and checked both the numbers in that category
*and* something else. The "something else" numbers were 10-20% higher,
I recall.
I *think* this latter was using the {{WP Biography}} talkpage
template, but it might have been an aggregation of birth/death
categories.
So, if we look for all articles matching something like
["Category:19xx births" NOT "Category:xxxx deaths"], translate that
into SQL, see what you get.
Different category structure, but an older one, and one that might get
some we've missed...
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