On 15/02/2011 18:17, Ian Woollard wrote:
On 15/02/2011, genigeniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 15 February 2011 16:19, Ian Woollardian.woollard@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, really. That page claims we only have 3% of notable Poles. Are you really, seriously, telling me we only have 3% of ALL notable biographies??? Because that's what that page is assuming to calculate that 40 million.
It's possible. Our coverage of say British MPs starts to fall apart pre-20th century.
But should each MP necessarily have his own biography?
Arguably the answer is "yes", back to the 16th century at least. There has actually been quite a lot of havoc onsite over stub MP biographies during the past year, but it transpires that there are pretty good sources back to 1660, and usually adequate sources in the century leading up to that (if you work at it). The ODNB took a decision not to include all MPs (it says somewhere, in terms that suggest that it was a decision that did at least require a moment's thought). Some parliaments of Henry VIII are apparently lacking lists of MPs, but after then it seems like a good use of WP to collate this information.
Charles