Wikidata has a whole taxonomy of fictional persons and might-be-fictional people.

I'll lookat it tonight

Joe


On Mon, 5 Oct 2015 15:45 Richard Symonds <richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
He might be, possibly... although I'll grant you it's unlikely. I wonder if EveryPolitican records him?

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On 5 October 2015 at 14:37, geni <geniice@gmail.com> wrote:


On 5 October 2015 at 13:20, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
Hi Richard,

I've been talking to EveryPolitician about this. Matching to Wikidata
will pose something of a challenge but we're on it :-)

A.


Hmmm wikidata doesn't appear to pick up on the category Nonexistent people used in hoaxes thus it thinks Kasongo Ilunga is real:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1735013
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geni

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