Thanks for the figure - not bad estimate, considering it was off the top of my head :)
I would add not all living people are in that category, so this is probably an underestimate.
I still wouldn't call 13% "a small percentage".
----- "Carcharoth" carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
From: "Carcharoth" carcharothwp@googlemail.com To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, 26 August, 2009 11:10:43 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Blog post on FlaggedRevs
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Andrew Turveyandrewrturvey@googlemail.com wrote:
This is contradictory. BLP articles make up a significant proportion of all articles (something like 25% off the top of my head) so if you do it for all BLP articles you are not doing it "in a small percentage of cases"
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Off the top of your head? :-)
I think (referring to the top of my head) that the 25% (more like somewhere between 20 and 25%) is for the number of biographical articles (i.e. both living and dead and long-dead people). The BLP figure is easily calculated though.
400,653 BLP articles (as of 26/08/2009)
3,012,053 content articles (as of 26/08/2009)
Hence the BLP percentage is 13.3%.
Carcharoth
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Someone should calculate how many articles have BLP tags somewhere on them, and are not in the Living people category. I think that tool Magnus magicked up a few days ago could do that now. This would give an idea of how many articles outside of the living people category have enough problems for people to add a BLP tag. Whether people remove such tags after things have settled down again, I don't know.
Carcharoth
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Andrew Turveyandrewrturvey@googlemail.com wrote:
Thanks for the figure - not bad estimate, considering it was off the top of my head :)
I would add not all living people are in that category, so this is probably an underestimate.
I still wouldn't call 13% "a small percentage".
----- "Carcharoth" carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
From: "Carcharoth" carcharothwp@googlemail.com To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, 26 August, 2009 11:10:43 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Blog post on FlaggedRevs
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Andrew Turveyandrewrturvey@googlemail.com wrote:
This is contradictory. BLP articles make up a significant proportion of all articles (something like 25% off the top of my head) so if you do it for all BLP articles you are not doing it "in a small percentage of cases"
<snip>
Off the top of your head? :-)
I think (referring to the top of my head) that the 25% (more like somewhere between 20 and 25%) is for the number of biographical articles (i.e. both living and dead and long-dead people). The BLP figure is easily calculated though.
400,653 BLP articles (as of 26/08/2009)
3,012,053 content articles (as of 26/08/2009)
Hence the BLP percentage is 13.3%.
Carcharoth
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