On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Michel Vuijlsteke wikipedia@zog.org wrote:
2009/4/23 WJhonson@aol.com
The Domesday holdings are not significant to his biography. We are not trying to build a land holdings database, we are writing biographies.
We are writing a comprehensive written compendium that holds information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge. We are not writing a comprehensive written compendium of biographies.
Uh...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography
Biography writing is certainly one way of writing articles about people.
There was a template to do biography-by-the-numbers, but it might have got deleted. Several WikiProjects do have "fill in the blanks" article templates. They tend to do more harm than good, IMO.
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