[WikiEN-l] In development--BLP task force

[Andrew Gray]

2009/8/6 Phil Nash <pn007a2145 at blueyonder.co.uk>:

>> It can't catch all BLP problems as you've so wonderfully illustrated.
>> But it can show us a worthwhile subset, don't you reckon?
>
> That would be one way forward; we now have abuse filters which detect and
> revert the more gross edits, but as far as I know, there is no feasible way
> of monitoring articles within a category wholesale, so we are no further
> forward.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:Living_people

This won't catch edits which remove the category, and it won't catch
the 5-10% of BLPs which aren't in the category to start with, but it's
otherwise mostly what you want, I think.

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- Andrew Gray
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