Anthony wrote:
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:47 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
The question that springs to mind is: what else can we get complete data on for bot-assisted article creation? Every state-level or higher politician in every country ever? What else?
The answer to that question as posed is very large, but the practical answer is probably considerably smaller. Cities got grandfathered in before "notability" standards arose. For example, there's lots of public domain information on every 501(c)(3) charity in the United States. But would people accept bot-assisted article creation for every one of them? Other examples would be every company that does business in Florida, every publicly traded corporation, every person who died in the World Trade Center on September 11th, every domain name, every public router on the Internet, every Perl module in CPAN, etc.
Articles on past publicly traded corporations would be interesting for everyone who pulls an old stock certificate from a trunk in the attic and starts to wonder what ever happened to that company.
Ec