Danny wrote:
I am writing this to announce the creation of a new category on Wikipedia-English: [[Category:Living people]]. The category should include the articles of all people who are still alive.
This is a useful concept - we can set up a meaningful Living Bio patrol! - but how many biographies do we have? (I would *guess* 90% of our bio articles would have living subjects.)
Remember that Category:stub was sorted because it became unusably huge - if your article name didn't start with A, it wouldn't get looked at. Our living bios *should* be sorted into many categories; presumably we will have an assiduous Living Bio sorting project?
- d.
David Gerard wrote:
This is a useful concept - we can set up a meaningful Living Bio patrol! - but how many biographies do we have? (I would *guess* 90% of our bio articles would have living subjects.)
Remember that Category:stub was sorted because it became unusably huge
- if your article name didn't start with A, it wouldn't get looked at.
Our living bios *should* be sorted into many categories; presumably we will have an assiduous Living Bio sorting project?
That Wikinews feature which selects articles which are two chosen categories would be useful.
Chris
"David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com wrote in message news:fbad4e140601190755n65c8e01bg@mail.gmail.com... [snip]
Remember that Category:stub was sorted because it became unusably huge
- if your article name didn't start with A, it wouldn't get looked at.
Our living bios *should* be sorted into many categories; presumably we will have an assiduous Living Bio sorting project?
I think the difference here would be that it was intended that someone should actually visit each and every stub article to improve it.
This new category would be used mainly, I suspect, as some sort of RC Filter so that changes to those biographies can be spotted instantly.
Obviously, it would be handy if it were possible to display an article's **removal** from a given category as well as other changes :-)
This is a useful concept - we can set up a meaningful Living Bio patrol! - but how many biographies do we have? (I would *guess* 90% of our bio articles would have living subjects.)
Remember that Category:stub was sorted because it became unusably huge
- if your article name didn't start with A, it wouldn't get looked at.
Our living bios *should* be sorted into many categories; presumably we will have an assiduous Living Bio sorting project?
I absolutely agree that the category should not become unmanageably large. I don't know what the best way to subcategorize it might be.
We know at the foundation level that living people's bios are among the most time consuming issues we have to deal with. These articles are magnets for trolls and vandals and people with a personal vendetta, and then they are also targets for people who want to change their own article (*cough*) because it has errors, etc.
The new bio policy page is super duper excellent and the concept here is to provide a tool for editors to be able to meaningfully sort through them.
On 1/19/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Danny wrote:
I am writing this to announce the creation of a new category on Wikipedia-English: [[Category:Living people]]. The category should include the articles of all people who are still alive.
This is a useful concept - we can set up a meaningful Living Bio patrol! - but how many biographies do we have? (I would *guess* 90% of our bio articles would have living subjects.)
Remember that Category:stub was sorted because it became unusably huge
- if your article name didn't start with A, it wouldn't get looked at.
Our living bios *should* be sorted into many categories; presumably we will have an assiduous Living Bio sorting project?
- d.
Agree. Over-broad and unuseful categories generally need to go (or have articles moved into sub-categories, as has been done with for example Harry Potter character categories). At one point we had a [[Category:Millionaires]], which was deleted because it would have to include about half our bio articles. This one would be even bigger.
Nathan