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This listing page belongs to the “missing article” project and is concerned with checking whether Wikipedia has articles for all those listed in the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB), a 63-volume British biographical dictionary published 1885-1900 and now in the public domain. This page relates to volume 21 running from name Garnett to name Gloucester.

It is envisaged that the following work will be done:

Listings are posted as bulleted lists, with footnotes taken from the DNB summaries published in 1904. The listings and notes are taken from scanned text that is often corrupt and in need of correction. Not all the entries on the list correspond to actual DNB articles; some are “redirects” and there are a few articles devoted to families rather than individuals.

If you are engaged in this work you will likely find quite a number of unreferenced articles among the blue links. You are also encouraged to mention the DNB as a reference on such articles whenever they correspond to the summary, as part of the broader campaign for good sourcing.

DNB text is also available from sources such as the Internet Archive and the Oxford DNB website (subscription only - generally accessible with a UK library card number). A list of sources is available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/DNB scans. DNB text is gradually being made available on Wikisource, on the page s:Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Vol 21 Garnett - Gloucester. Names here are not inverted, as they are in the original: Joe Bloggs would be found at Wikisource s:Bloggs, Joe (DNB00).

List maintenance tasks are to check and manipulate links in the list with piping or descriptive parenthetical disambiguators, and to mark list entries with templates to denote their status; whilst as far as possible retaining the original DNB names:

The work involves:

A number of templates are provided to mark-up entries:

Note that before creating new articles based on DNB text you should undertake searches to check that the article's subject does not already have an article. It is easily possible that the disambiguation used in this page is not the disambiguation used in an existing wikipedia article. Equally, feel free to improve upon the disambiguation used in redlinks on this page by amending them.

Because of the provenance of the listing, a number of the original articles will not in fact be in the announced volume, but in one of the three supplement volumes published in 1901. Since the DNB generally did not include articles about living people (with the exception of cases like Queen Victoria), this will very likely be the case where the date of death is after the the publication date of the attributed volume. In due course there will be a separate listing.

This project is intended as a new generation in “merging encyclopedias”, as well as being one of the most ambitious attempted. For general ideas of where we are, and some justification of the approach being taken, see the essay Wikipedia:Merging encyclopedias.

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