Brian wrote:
FindAGrave.com provides genealogists, historians, and others with information on people who have died (famous or not). It averages millions of hits daily, 500k-700k page views daily, and 30k-50k unique visitors daily. They have a separate category for "famous people", each of whom were individually approved by the Find-A-Grave staff to be "well-known outside his or her local community".
So, after a lot of wrangling with a 4.33MB spreadsheet file, containing 46,698 individuals, I've posted it at [[Wikipedia:Find-A-Grave famous people]]. Of course, there is some overlap with our content, but this should give us something to work on for a while :)
Sounds like it sets a standard for "notability". :-)
Ec