On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
On 4 April 2012 15:10, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
We *should* have a category of BLP stubs, but I can't find it. Maybe someone can cross-reference the BLP category and the "people stub" category (and its sub-categories) and find out how many are BLPs.
In principle that shouldn't be too hard to do, with Catscan 2.0 to
intersect categories for you. In practice the toolserver can't be taken for granted. And it seems that the naive way of doing this produces a list that is just too big (I took sub-categories to depth 5 there). To get an idea, if you do 1950 births intersect people stubs you get something over 2000. Which suggests the magnitude of the problem might be around 100,000.
This presumes 2000 every year from 1950 to 2000? Might not be that, but something of that order of magnitude. Thanks. I wish the toolserver and tools like that wouldn't trip up or time out over large stuff like that. The inability to get a true sense of the bigger picture can lead to potential failure points.
Carcharoth