On 15/02/2011, geni <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15 February 2011 16:19, Ian Woollard <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yeah, really. That page claims we only have 3% of notable Poles. Are you >> really, seriously, telling me we only have 3% of ALL notable >> biographies??? >> Because that's what that page is assuming to calculate that 40 million. > > It's possible. Our coverage of say British MPs starts to fall apart > pre-20th century.
But should each MP necessarily have his own biography? >> It's not impossible to calculate, you look at the counts from an >> encyclopedias of famous people. And they very typically list historical >> people as well as living people. > > But they all hit dead tree limitations. Then they're not capable of being reliably sourced. > Sure you can chose a very > narrow focus book like the alphabet of the saints. So it seem pretty > likely that up until 1992 Southampton FC had a bit over 700 players > about which it would be possible to write something about. But such > books don't really exist for far areas. Then there's no sources, and no biography. > Still assuming players play for an average of 2 clubs (remember > players didn't used to move around as much) you are looking at about > 28 000 english male football bios up until 1992. Only if they're notable, and reliably sourced. I don't think they're notable enough to have their own article simply for having played. > But how many captains of the royal navy are notable? How many knights? > Mayors? Indeed. > So while yes it may be possible for some individual areas as to how > many bios there could be more generally I don't think can be done. So you're saying that you don't know; and it's not a lot of use is it? > -- > geni -- -Ian Woollard _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
