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MZMcBride	Post #1
Ãœber Member Group: Regulars Posts: 671 Joined: Member No.: 10,962	I thought this was interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=348854665 The list was generated last month. It's looking at Levenshtein distances and ratios. The selected values for this specific list are rather arbitrary and there are some clear false positives. Still, interesting.

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carbuncle	Post #2
Fat Cat Group: Regulars Posts: 1,601 Joined: Member No.: 5,544	QUOTE(MZMcBride @ Wed 10th March 2010, 12:25am) I thought this was interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=348854665 The list was generated last month. It's looking at Levenshtein distances and ratios. The selected values for this specific list are rather arbitrary and there are some clear false positives. Still, interesting. Very nice. Is this more or less what COIbot does, except limited to articles identified as BLPs?

MZMcBride	Post #3
Ãœber Member Group: Regulars Posts: 671 Joined: Member No.: 10,962	QUOTE(carbuncle @ Wed 10th March 2010, 9:29am) QUOTE(MZMcBride @ Wed 10th March 2010, 12:25am) I thought this was interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=348854665 The list was generated last month. It's looking at Levenshtein distances and ratios. The selected values for this specific list are rather arbitrary and there are some clear false positives. Still, interesting. Very nice. Is this more or less what COIbot does, except limited to articles identified as BLPs? Yep, looks pretty similar, though as you note, the list I made is only limited to pages in "Category:Living people". It's also only looking at page creators, not any subsequent edits, unlike what COIbot appears to be doing. This is one of the many reasons for a lot of false negatives in the list I generated, though I think it also helps substantially reduce false positives. RussBot being caught editing "Rudebox" in the COIbot list made me smile. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/smile.gif)