On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 11:16:16 -0400, Frank Pinter francis.pinter@gmail.com wrote:
I've long wished there were a genealogical database of European monarchs etc,
Yes, that is a good idea. However, it should not be on Wikipedia, according to [[Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not]]. Maybe if some big Wikimedia person (like Jimbo, maybe) sees this a consideration for a project may be started.
The problem with this is that, while the monarchy/etc information may be available, the project would be prone to insertion of nonfamous, nonnotable peoples' geneologies. These are liable to be extremely unverifiable. Also, there is a fair population of people who think they are royalty but are not: c.f. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Vernon John De Duckmanton (and the associated talk page).
How would you overcome this sort of problem?