[WikiEN-l] Blog post on FlaggedRevs

[Carcharoth]

Someone should calculate how many articles have BLP tags somewhere on
them, and are not in the Living people category. I think that tool
Magnus magicked up a few days ago could do that now. This would give
an idea of how many articles outside of the living people category
have enough problems for people to add a BLP tag. Whether people
remove such tags after things have settled down again, I don't know.

Carcharoth

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Andrew
Turvey<andrewrturvey at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the figure - not bad estimate, considering it was off the top of my head :)
>
> I would add not all living people are in that category, so this is probably an underestimate.
>
> I still wouldn't call 13% "a small percentage".
>
> ----- "Carcharoth" <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> From: "Carcharoth" <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>
>> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, 26 August, 2009 11:10:43 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
>> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Blog post on FlaggedRevs
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Andrew
>> Turvey<andrewrturvey at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > This is contradictory. BLP articles make up a significant proportion of all articles (something like 25% off the top of my head) so if you do it for all BLP articles you are not doing it "in a small percentage of cases"
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> Off the top of your head? :-)
>>
>> I think (referring to the top of my head) that the 25% (more like
>> somewhere between 20 and 25%) is for the number of biographical
>> articles (i.e. both living and dead and long-dead people). The BLP
>> figure is easily calculated though.
>>
>> 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Living_people
>>
>> 400,653 BLP articles (as of 26/08/2009)
>>
>> 2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics
>>
>> 3,012,053 content articles (as of 26/08/2009)
>>
>> Hence the BLP percentage is 13.3%.
>>
>> Carcharoth
>>
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