Template:Cleanup biography

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This template is intended to be placed at the top of biographical articles that are missing relevant biographical information about the subject of the article.

This template adds the article to Category:Biographies with insufficient biographical information. This allows editors who keep an eye on biographies to quickly find articles in need of attention.

To use this template, add {{Cleanup biography|date=May 2024}} at the top of biographical articles that require additional biographical information. (The |date= parameter is optional.)

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Aliases include:

{{Missing information}} – for any article that is missing certain necessary information
{{Expand section}} – for a specific section of an article that needs expansion
{{Like resume}} – for biographical articles that promote the subject
{{BLP sources}} – for biographies of living persons (BLPs) that need additional references
{{BLP unsourced}} – for BLPs that do not include any citations or list any sources at all
{{BLP more footnotes needed}} – for BLPs that include a list of sources or external links, but have insufficient inline citations
{{BLP no footnotes}} – for BLPs that include a list of sources or external links, but have no inline citations at all
{{BLP unverified}} – for stubbing inadequately referenced BLPs
{{BLP noticeboard}} – for BLP articles that are being discussed on the BLP noticeboard

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Cleanup biography/doc.
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox and testcases pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.

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