[WikiEN-l] [Wikimediauk-l] Missing articles? Go through newspaper obituaries

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Sat Mar 1 14:23:46 UTC 2008


On 01/03/2008, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/03/2008, Mathias Schindler <mathias.schindler at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 3:04 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

>  >  > Anyone who rates an obituary in a national newspaper is probably
>  >  >  sufficiently notable to deserve an article. I just started [[Archie
>  >  >  Hind]] from the Guardian obit, and was surprised there was no article
>  >  >  as yet. So if you're bored, go through the obituary archives and see
>  >  >  what Wikipedia's missing.

>  > Do we have a list of "possibly-notable people who might die soon"?

> That would be a good thing for wikinews to have (perhaps on the
>  private wiki that's been discussed).
>  Incidentally, why is this thread on wikimediauk-l?


I blame gmail address autocompletion, myself.


- d.



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