[WikiEN-l] a new category for the living

[Rob]

Did you try a full text search of a newspaper database?  I don't know what
coverage of British newspapers is like, but I assume it's comparable to US
databases.  When I want to research one of those not quite famous enough for
Britannica people I can just pull up their New York Times obit from ProQuest
through my library.

Speaking of which, [[Category:Year of death missing]] is a great idea, and
I'm going to see if I can find obits on some of these people.

On 1/19/06, David Boothroyd <david at election.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> A while back I wrote an article about [[Elizabeth Cass]] who was a minor
> cause celebre in 1887. She was born in 1863 but never hit the headlines
> again. I assume she died sometime in the 1920s or 1930s but nowhere is
> there any confirmation. She has a birth year category but no death year
> category.