On 1/19/06, David Boothroyd david@election.demon.co.uk wrote:
"charles matthews" charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com writes:
Bryan Derksen wrote
It'd help locate some of those if the living-person list were sorted by birth year, everyone over 120 years or so old is probably missing a death date.
I'm beginning to wonder about all this.
Adding [[Category:Living person]] - is that suppposed to be fact-checked or what? [[Category:No death date]], that would be fine.
A while back I wrote an article about [[Elizabeth Cass]] who was a minor cause celebre in 1887. She was born in 1863 but never hit the headlines again. I assume she died sometime in the 1920s or 1930s but nowhere is there any confirmation. She has a birth year category but no death year category.
Would she be tagged as a 'Living person'?
As a side note, there is [[Category:Year of death missing]] for those people that are known to be dead, but we don't currently have a verifiable year of death. Unless Elizabeth Cass is setting some world records for longevity, she'd probably be a good candidate for the category. In fact, I'm going to add it right now.
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