People prominent in ODNB lacking individual articles in Wikipedia
Progress since the start of the project
rank
start
curr
0001-1000
4
0
1001-1500
20
0
1501-2000
40
1
2001-2500
47
5
2501-3000
78
8
non-notable?
0
0
Total
189
14
Although the online
ODNB is subscription-only, the index is freely available online as the
Oxford Biographical Index (OBI). Since OBI entries record the number of words written about each individual in the ODNB, the number of words in an individual's ODNB article can be used as a measure of their prominence in ODNB.
Of the over 50,000 individuals in the index, I've automatically matched over 11,000 with wikipedia using their name and birth/death dates. This is fairly conservative (high precision / low recall): because of name variants, uncertainties about dating etc., automatic matching needs to be supplemented by manual checking to find additional entries. If anyone would like to help with this, or has suggestions about how to best present or use the links I've found, then do contact me on my talk page.
The following people (as far as I can see) have no individual pages devoted to them in Wikipedia. If I'm wrong, please insert the correct link. Hopefully one way or another we can turn these red links blue.
Remove blue Wikipedia links when you've checked that our article provides the level of description seen in the DNB.