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Dash ndash in Template:Cite DNB
There is a discussion taking place of what to do if anything about replacing dashes with ndashes in article titles in {{cite DNB}}. See Template talk:Cite DNB#Hyphens and dashes again -- PBS (talk) 06:51, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
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Online access
Can someone withe online access send me the text for this entry so I can update his biography here. Write me at my user page please. --RAN (talk) 18:18, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
January 2018
The headline number of missing DNB articles at the beginning of 2018 is 5,795. At the beginning of 2017 the figure was 6229, looking like some healthy progress over the year, but some part of that can (maybe 40%) be put down to better tracking via Wikidata. So the creation of articles was proceeding at a bit less than one per day, rather than a bit more.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography/Tracking is currently dormant, because I have to figure out a way ahead for the detailed tracking. The ODNB changed its URLs in the latter part of 2017, not affecting Wikipedia (which was using DOIs in the template) but requiring work on Wikidata. So, the tracking query needs redoing somehow.
ODNB fans will also have noticed that there was no update after January 2017. A major update may be imminent. Charles Matthews (talk) 10:36, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
Well, returning to the topic. With the current state of tracking by query, the main business now has been transferred to Wikidata. So with the time I have, I'm tending to look at articles here (esp. British biographical) their Wikidata items, to make the system work. Charles Matthews (talk) 19:42, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
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