"Andrew Gray" shimgray@gmail.com wrote in message news:f3fedb0d0512181443q5805d6fdq@mail.gmail.com...
On 18/12/05, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
Do we have a foolproof way of iterating over all biographies of living people? If not, is it time we introduced a flag, or even just a category "Living person", to do so?
For all bios with categories, then if it's in [[Category:xxxx births]] where xxxx is greater than 1890, but not in any [[Category:yyyy deaths]], they're either alive or need updated.
I was going to suggest that {{lifetime}} and/or {{lived}} could be modified so that the death date was optional, and lack thereof would put the article into [[Category:Living people]], but given the recent furore over conditional templates, maybe now is not the time...:-(
Also, I note that these templates have been listed for instant Substitution, so the information wouldn't actually stick anyway :-(