Re: [Gendergap] Lists of notable deaths of 2015

2016-01-25 Thread Neotarf
Exactly. It would inoculate some of these articles against premature deletion requests. While the red link focus is good, the newbies aren't necessarily ready to write an article from scratch. Adding refs is perfect place to start developing editing skills, especially if the source has already

Re: [Gendergap] Lists of notable deaths of 2015

2016-01-25 Thread Neotarf
Yes, a bot-driven list would be quite helpful, if for no other reason than being standardized and therefore race- and gender-blind as far as selection criteria. I have just finished compiling a list from the NYT article, and it was very labor intensive just to generate the list, before even

Re: [Gendergap] Lists of notable deaths of 2015

2016-01-25 Thread J Hayes
nice work this is worth making into do list and adding to women in red tasks it might be worth scraping nytimes and working back, i.e. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/obituaries/notable-deaths-2014.html this is a nice task for newbies, like the 1lib1ref for everyone, just sprinkling