On 18/12/05, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 18/12/05, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, Do we have a foolproof way of iterating over all biographies of living people? If not, is it time we introduced a flag, or even just a category "Living person", to do so?
Hum.
For all bios with categories, then if it's in [[Category:xxxx births]] where xxxx is greater than 1890, but not in any [[Category:yyyy deaths]], they're either alive or need updated.
We can catch another batch by searching anything with a bio-stub tag and categorising them, then rechecking. Anything else we have no real way of finding, since there's nothing to define an article's content without actually reading it.
To point out the problems with the latter; the deleted form of the Seigenthaler article wasn't categorised by anything, wasn't tagged as a stub, and wasn't phrased in the standard fashion for a biography ("[name] (year-year) [is/was]")... so there's no obvious automated way of picking it up.
-- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk