User:Alvestrand/Find-A-Grave
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Things I want to keep notes of.. things to do, techniques for getting them done fast:
Techniques
[edit]- I like working on all lists in chunks of 25 or less. Breaking them at 3-letter, or sometimes 4-letter, prefixes makes a lot of progress towards that; if sections remain long, I insert random breaks with intelligent names like "Break 1".
- Pruning a list takes about 30 seconds per name. Method: Show page in Firefox, use ctrl-click to open Wikipedia entry and F-A-G entry in two different tabs, delete or disambiguate. Then use "close other tabs" to get rid of the tabs. I do them 2 people at a time. Then use the "preview" button to refresh the page, so you don't have to save every edit. I never move things at this stage.
- {{findagrave}} needs defending. It has been deleted at least once. There also used to be {{tl|Find A Grave}}, which was be merged using a bot.
- For researching, I like to append {{search}} to the name. Irritation: Have to manually supply + instead of space in the parameter. Then I make a note on the same line on what the person is famous for; this helps sorting. The "search" box has been done by a script for all pages now.
- Once I have the reason-for-fame in the page, I can do the sorting into "possibly non-notable" in one giant edit. Keeping two browser windows open (one on the "possibly non-notable" section and one on the section under consideration) works, as long as nobody touches the "possibly non-notable" section while working.
Translated articles
[edit]Quite a few people have articles on other Wikipedias. Then it's possible to create an extreme stub (fast), and use {{Expand Spanish}} or similar to indicate that content exists to be copied. I've tried this on:
- Pepe Iglesias (Dec 16, 2009)
- Georg Trexler
- Georg Thomalla
- Gunnar Tolnæs
- Nuria Torray
- Steve Tracy (had been deleted twice before, for good reasons)
As of May 2012, at least some of them have been signifcantly expanded.
For actors, it's a good idea to add the IMDB link in addition to the Find-A-Grave link.
Opinions
[edit]- Most Civil War officers are not notable. In particular, "brevet general" was a title handed out like candy to anyone who managed to command something for 10 minutes and didn't shoot himself in the foot.
- I've let myself be overruled by WP:MILMOS#NOTE: Congressional Medal of Honor awardees are inherently notable. Being brave once and getting noticed doesn't seem like a good criterion for me, but it's the nation's highest decoration, and as such, WP:MIL has asserted inherent notability.
- If someone's created an article on something I consider non-notable... not a problem, as long as it's sourced.
- Find-A-Grave is NOT a reliable source, and should not be listed under "sources" in an article. I often add information from it to the article (particularly YOB if it's missing), but that information should be regarded as "not verified". But when I do this, I *always* add F-A-G to "external links". Compromise...
People
[edit]Some other people who work on F-A-G:
- Merenta (talk · contribs)
- Jwillbur (talk · contribs) (working as late as April 2009)
- Hailey C. Shannon (talk · contribs)
- Trjumpet (talk · contribs) (last seen at A and B in December 2008)
- Brian0918 (talk · contribs) (original creator, Way Back When)
- Alvestrand (talk · contribs) (me) (currently working on S)
- Ardric47 (talk · contribs) (moving stuff around in Jan 2008)
- Pichpich (talk · contribs) - started working in May 2009