Anyone who rates an obituary in a national newspaper is probably sufficiently notable to deserve an article. I just started [[Archie Hind]] from the Guardian obit, and was surprised there was no article as yet. So if you're bored, go through the obituary archives and see what Wikipedia's missing.
- d.
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 3:04 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone who rates an obituary in a national newspaper is probably sufficiently notable to deserve an article. I just started [[Archie Hind]] from the Guardian obit, and was surprised there was no article as yet. So if you're bored, go through the obituary archives and see what Wikipedia's missing.
Do we have a list of "possibly-notable people who might die soon"?
Mathias
On 01/03/2008, Mathias Schindler mathias.schindler@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 3:04 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone who rates an obituary in a national newspaper is probably sufficiently notable to deserve an article. I just started [[Archie Hind]] from the Guardian obit, and was surprised there was no article as yet. So if you're bored, go through the obituary archives and see what Wikipedia's missing.
Do we have a list of "possibly-notable people who might die soon"?
That would be a good thing for wikinews to have (perhaps on the private wiki that's been discussed).
Incidentally, why is this thread on wikimediauk-l?
On 01/03/2008, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 01/03/2008, Mathias Schindler mathias.schindler@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 3:04 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone who rates an obituary in a national newspaper is probably sufficiently notable to deserve an article. I just started [[Archie Hind]] from the Guardian obit, and was surprised there was no article as yet. So if you're bored, go through the obituary archives and see what Wikipedia's missing.
Do we have a list of "possibly-notable people who might die soon"?
That would be a good thing for wikinews to have (perhaps on the private wiki that's been discussed). Incidentally, why is this thread on wikimediauk-l?
I blame gmail address autocompletion, myself.
- d.
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