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Crowdsourcing platform for gathering gender information about politicians to improve the data in EveryPolitician
gender-balance.org
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"Google them" link should wrap the name in quotes #362

Open waldyrious opened 7 years ago

waldyrious commented 7 years ago

This is particularly useful for politicians whose names are quite common and could return results related to other people (including other politicians).

tmtmtmtm commented 7 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion @waldyrious. We did look at that originally, but found that, particularly for more obscure politicians we were getting many more false negatives than false positives, especially where someone's official name (e.g. that listed on a parliamentary website) is different from how they're commonly known.

waldyrious commented 7 years ago

I feared that would be the case. As a workaround, could perhaps the politician's party be added to the search query? I found that to be helpful when I had to resort to Google search.

waldyrious commented 7 years ago

It would also be useful to append -site:everypolitician.org to the search query, to prevent self-references (I'm getting those quite often).