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Reasoning: if someone’s obituary is published in both newspapers than [[WP:NOTABILITY#General_notability_guideline|”’per definition”’]] it warrants its own article here. |
Reasoning: if someone’s obituary is published in both newspapers than [[WP:NOTABILITY#General_notability_guideline|”’per definition”’]] it warrants its own article here. |
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The application, called ‘Wikipedia Biography Creator’ works great ([https://github.com/mill1/WikipediaBiographyCreator source code]). Given a specific month (e.g. January 2001) it identifies potential candidates who meet the criteria (cited in both newspapers but no bio yet). |
The application, called ‘Wikipedia Biography Creator’ works great ([https://github.com/mill1/WikipediaBiographyCreator source code]). Given a specific month (e.g. January 2001) it identifies potential candidates who meet the criteria (cited in both newspapers but no bio yet). |
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I used [[LLM]] [[ChatGPT]] to set up the (maximum of 300 words) using the two newspaper citations as sources. Because of LLM hallucinations this turned out to be a bad idea, resulting in nine flawed biographies |
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The sofware I created to enable this worked great. The LLM-part not so much. |
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==Inception== |
==Inception== |
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Revision as of 10:08, 4 October 2025
I created a software application that cross-references obituary archives from The New York Times and The Guardian, identifies overlapping mentions of the deceased individuals, and checks whether they already have a biography article on Wikipedia.
Reasoning: if someone’s obituary is published in both newspapers than per definition it warrants its own article here.
The application, called ‘Wikipedia Biography Creator’ works great (source code). Given a specific month (e.g. January 2001) it identifies potential candidates who meet the criteria (cited in both newspapers but no bio yet). After a manual check that indeed a candidate does not exist here I proceeded to creating the actual draft for the new bio article semi-automatically.
Semi-automatically initially meant I used LLM ChatGPT to set up the draft (maximum of 300 words) using the two newspaper citations as sources. After some checks and tweaks the article would then be fit to be published. Because of LLM hallucinations this turned out to be a bad idea, resulting in nine flawed biographies.
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Inception
Results
The GNG states that “a topic is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list when it has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject.”
mention REDIRECTS
Did find some invented third sources
Sep 2000
candidate: Donald Gallup
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/sep/13/guardianobituaries.books
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/10/nyregion/donald-gallup-dies-at-87-bibliographer-of-t-s-eliot.html
Nov 2000
candidate: Frederick S. Clarke
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/nov/21/guardianobituaries.filmnews
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/09/nyregion/frederick-s-clarke-51-of-cinefantastique.html
Jan 2001
candidate: Charles Mérieux
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jan/29/guardianobituaries1
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/26/world/charles-merieux-94-vaccine-producer-dies.html
