How do we know? Those who work extensively in this topic area and are good at picking up paid editing make an educated guess. There are well known patterns that represent paid editing. We could likely build a tool that could look at all BLPs and give a numerical value to the percentage that are most likely written for pay. If you look at a random group of new BLPs at WP:NPP you will also get a decent idea.
James
On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 12:22 PM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 22 September 2017 at 18:24, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
We know that a sizable proportion of articles about people are paid for by the individual themselves or their representative.
We do? How? And what size is that "sizable proportion"?
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