[WikiEN-l] How does living bio patrol actually work?

[David Gerard]

On 07/09/06, Jossi Fresco <jossifresco at mac.com> wrote:
> On Sep 6, 2006, at 2:37 PM, David Gerard wrote:

> > 2. How are new living bios spotted?

> There is a the {{blp}} tag and the {{WPBiography|living=yes}} tag
> that is applied to the talk page. These automatically adds them to
> [[Category:Biography articles of living people]]


OK ... that would need someone watching [[Special:Newarticles]] for
anything that looks like a bio. They'd ideally want a nice little bit
of javascript to hand that adds those tags, if not already present.

The recent changes feed on the category is a useful tool. Except of
course it runs at about 5-10 edits a minute. Fun for all ...


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