If all you wanted to do was add {{blp}} to talk pages where the article is in Category:Living people, I'm sure there wouldn't be any problem having a bot do that.
About automatic death flagging, however, I don't see why the AbuseFilter can't be used to detect when somebody adds that a subject "died today" or that so-and-so "was killed" or whatever. Even if it's decided that the threat of false positives is too great to allow the extension to warn users ("It looks like you're... If you're sure, please remember to attribute this to reliable sources, then click 'Save page'. Thank you."), having a log of possible wiki-deaths would be helpful.
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Jay Litwyn brewhaha@edmc.net wrote:
I tend to think that the only thing that could be automatic in this case is when the article is created, and someone puts it into [[category:Living People]], then a {{blp}} template pops into the talk page; there would be no automatic deletion of the {{blp}} template. And yes, nodding to WODDUP, false deletions from the category are hard to deal with.
{{blp}} could go into anyone's talk page. I would not mind at all if it went into mine, especially since someone deleted it. _______ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brewhaha@edmc.net In keeping with about eighty percent of my USENET history, I will be using the freenet.edmonton.ab.ca domain, which maps to the same Internet Protocol numbers.
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