On 10/16/07, cohesion <cohesion(a)sleepyhead.org> wrote:
On 10/16/07, Gregory Maxwell
<gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thank goodness it seems to have peaked, definitely interested in the
next couple months though... I'm a little surprised the percentage is
so high, but I don't think it's bad really. Biographies of many living
people are useful. Who's to say what the right percentage is. As long
as it's somewhat stable of course :)
Judson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cohesion
Indeed, that's the right question to ask: What percentage should it
be? What's the percentage in other encyclopaedias?
Presumably, in a complete Wikipedia, the percentage would be much
lower (I believe the current estimates are that ~5% of all humans are
currently alive, and I'd guess our existing biographies are more about
alive people than that). But how does it compare to other
encyclopaedias?
Cheers
WilyD