[WikiEN-l] Automatic death flagging?

[Andrew Gray]

2009/3/5 Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>> c) [[Category:Living people]] - dead people have the cat removed
>
> As far as I know there is no easy way to track category removal.
> Special:Relatedchanges/Category:Living_people will not show edits
> which remove the category, and any edits previously visible on this
> list (prior to category removal) will disappear from it.

Bleh, I suspected this was the case.

> Matters of propriety may have discouraged this in the past but now
> that we have the __HIDDENCAT__ feature, we might consider adding dead
> people directly to [[Category:Dead people]].

Wouldn't it be unnecessary? After all, they'll all be in
[[Category:YEAR deaths]], all of which will be subcategories of the
main one...

(Actually, I suppose that's option d), see who's had the current
year-of-death cat added. Hrm.)

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