[WikiEN-l] The percentage of English Wikipedia articles about living people over time.

[Anthony]

On 10/18/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18/10/2007, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I dispute the notion that a subject can possibly deserve an
> > article in one language, but not in another. I thought the mythical
> > goal state was for every "valid topic" to have a corresponding article
> > in every language.
>
> Hmm. "Language" and "Language edition of Wikipedia" are subtly
> different here. Consider, for example, the Japanese "no non-public
> living figures" rule...
>
In practice each language edition makes its own rules.  But is that
the mythical goal?