Hello, 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? Then we could at least start the laborious process of visiting every living person page and detecting potentially libellous material and removing it (eg, turning it into a comment asking for sources). Once we'd caught up there could be a revolving door type process to ensure every page gets looked at every month or so.
"Random page" is a nice button. But what might be even nicer might be "next unchecked bio", that takes you to the "next" living bio that hasn't been edited in a month or so. Random selection is pretty inefficient.
Steve
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However, the matter that I believe likely to be of most concern was in the original version of the article and has survived for nearly two months with multiple edits. There were no sources provided for the allegation. Frankly, this problem has the potential to be another big problem with Wikipedia.
We need to pay particular attention to the biographies of contemporary biographies especially of controversial figures. In particular, we need to ensure that our articles are scrupulous in citing sources. We need to give instructions to recent changes patrollers to be on the lookout for biographies making negative claims without proper sourcing.