On 8 Feb 2006, at 12:29, David Gerard wrote:
Carnildo wrote:
Not surprisingly, the average coverage of subjects is fairly poor. 64% of articles were rated "low" or "stub", indicating they did not have even a basic chronology of the subject's life, and 29% were rated "medium", indicating a basic chronology but nothing more. 6% were rated "good", with a relatively complete chronology, and one article was approaching "featured" quality. While doing the survey, one of the biographies was deleted for lack of notability, one as being unverifiable, and two were listed as copyvios.
Unfortunately, I've found that a lot of people don't get a good bio in Wikipedia until they die and there are nicely-researched obituaries to use as sources.
I think that is partly because there are very few online biographies, and many books about cultural things mention little about personal life (I really need a good book with biographical details of architects but have yet to find one).
Anyone fancy filling in some more on [[Bob Switzer]] the inventor of Day-Glo that I just created...
Justinc