David Goodman wrote:
In addition, Almost all public libraries in the UK should have the full current http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography available to them. The list of entries in that dictionary is available to anyone at http://www.oup.com/oxforddnb/info/index/. Not all the names there have full articles; some are merely mentions or paragraphs. The ones with full articles have of course always been held notable for WP purposes.
If it weren't for the fact that it would be suggesting more work for more volunteers that we don't have I would be suggesting that we put the whole old version up to 1930 on Wikisource. But it's already slow going for those gradually adding in the 1911 EB.
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