Wikipedia:WikiProject Living people

Living people workgroup

The Living people workgroup is a group of members of the Biography WikiProject dedicated to ensuring biographical articles of living people strictly adhere to our policy on biographies of living persons (BLPs). The tasks of this working group include categorizing articles, maintenance tagging, checking for and removing unsourced contentious claims, and initiating and participating in deletion discussions for BLPs. This page centralizes all tasks relating to BLPs.

Related projects

Since biographies are potentially under the purview of almost all WikiProjects, it is important that we work in tandem with these projects. Also, when seeking collaboration on articles, don't neglect to approach WikiProjects that are part of the geographical region your subject is/was in.

Announcements / To-do (edit)

• Categorize: WP:UBLP
• Check new BLPs: WP:NEWBLP
• Participate in AFDs: BLP AFDs
• Help resolve content issues: WP:BLP/N
• Monitor recent changes to BLPs: BLP watchlist
• Remove BLP vios: WP:BLPFIX, Unsourced statements, All unreferenced BLPs, BLPs lacking sources
  Possible vandalism or libelous edits, as detected by edit filters 39 and 189. Removal of Category:Living people (filter 117)

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Open tasks

Categorizing

Articles than may be in need of categorizing and instructions for doing so can be found at Wikipedia:Uncategorized biographies of living people.

All biographies of living persons should be categorized in Category:Living people or Category:Possibly living people, and should be marked by adding living=yes to the {{WPBiography}} project banner at the top of its talk page. This will automatically place it into Category:Biography articles of living people.

Clean-up

Removed negative, unsourced claims

A listing of articles potentially containing negative, unsourced claims can be found at Wikipedia:Alleviate negative unsourced statements. See also: Wikipedia:Database reports/Biographies of living persons containing unsourced statements, Category:All unreferenced BLPs and Category:BLP articles lacking sources.

According to the BLP policy, BLPs should contain no negative, unsourced claims. Any contentious material that is not supported by reliable sources should be immediately removed per BLP policy.

Tagging

Maintenance templates

These tags are included with Friendly:

• {{BLPunsourced}}
• {{BLP sources}}

Other tags:

• {{BLP IMDb refimprove}}
• {{BLP IMDb-only refimprove}}
• {{BLP primary sources}}
• {{BLP selfpublished}}
• {{BLP sources section}}
• {{BLP unsourced section}}

Article templates

• {{Infobox Person}}
• {{Bio-stub}}

Articles for deletion

Participate in discussion listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Living people.

Participation

[sign up] Members

• AgnosticPreachersKid (talk · contribs) - I'm a recent convert to the Church of BLP. I'll help with checking categories, 'see also' sections, and external links. Those areas are sometimes plagued with insinuations, rumors, POV, and guilt by association.
• Alison (talk · contribs) - I've seen too much pain and anguish from BLP subjects in my work on Oversight and OTRS to ignore the problems.
• Anasuya.D (talk · contribs)
• ANKMALI (talk · contribs)- Hope to improve quality of the articles
• Athanasii (talk · contribs)
• Avraham (talk · contribs)
• Belovedfreak (talk · contribs)
• Bellus Delphina (talk · contribs) - Love to expand articles.
• Biografer (talk · contribs) - Writing articles on currently living scientists.
• bjweeks (talk · contribs)
• Black Kite (talk · contribs) - do BLP cleanup when I can, including sourcing or nominating for deletion those that are unsourced
• Bluths Bananas (talk · contribs)
• Bookkeeperoftheoccult (talk · contribs) BLP watchdog. Very aggressive when protecting the interests of basic human dignity.
• Burningview (talk · contribs)
• Callanecc (talk · contribs) BLP cleanup & unsourced PROD.
• Casliber (talk · contribs) - happy to help when I can, liberal with semiprotection and happy to try and ferret out some sources from time to time.
• Chamal_N (talk · contribs) - Already doing a bit, but will be able to do more when I return to full time editing.
• Ched Davis (talk · contribs)
• Cla68 (talk · contribs)
• Coffee (talk · contribs)
• Colonel Warden (talk · contribs)
• Daniel kenneth (talk · contribs)
• Dayaramsaharan (talk · contribs)
• Dean B (talk · contribs)
• Edwardx (talk · contribs)
• Enigmaman (talk · contribs)
• Ernstblumberg (talk · contribs) - Advocate for rights of living people. NPOV and agendas. Helping others to Be Bold and defend the rights of living and dead.
• Euroflux (talk · contribs) - Avoid double standard policy regarding notability criteria (Wikipedians/non Wikipedians, French/non French,...)
• FeanorStar7 (talk · contribs)
• Florrie (talk · contribs)
• Fram (talk · contribs) - Mainly involved in tagging unsourced BLPs
• Gazimoff (talk · contribs) Sure
• Gnowxilef (talk · contribs)
• Jake Wartenberg (talk · contribs)
• JamieS93 (talk · contribs)
• Javert (talk · contribs)
• Jayen466 (talk · contribs)
• Jennavecia (talk · contribs) - Advocate for rights of living subjects, I work almost exclusively on BLPs. I apply liberal interpretation of semi-protect policy to them, and will get involved in any BLP issue regardless of how controversial it may be.
• Johnwumeiden (talk · contribs)
• JoeyD2010 (talk · contribs)
• Josette (talk · contribs)
• Juliancolton (talk · contribs)
• Kevin (talk · contribs)
• Khani100 (talk · contribs) - Hi, I have done a little work on some BLPs from South Asia, especially Pakistan, and am interested in ensuring higher standards in this category.
• Lar (talk · contribs) - see User:Lar/Liberal Semi (now defunct but generated good data) among other things.
• Leahtwosaints (talk · contribs)- Edit biographies (and photos) of musicians; tired of cheering on new users for starting articles, rather than finishing them, or at least referencing them. 98% of my editing is biographical.
• Majorly (talk · contribs)
• Malcolmxl5 (talk · contribs) - happy to help in some way.
• MBisanz (talk · contribs) - I'll help.
• Meloras (talk · contribs) - I have expanded more than 6 living people biographies since December 2018 & will continue to do so. I have created 1 biography and removed Stub status from 3 pages. I also removed the out-of-context articles after checking the original sources, fixed and added reliable sources to the pages, and fixed the translations. I disapprove controversial articles and sensationalism.
• Mydreamsparrow (talk · contribs) - Happy to join and will try my level best
• MZMcBride (talk · contribs)
• Nathan (talk · contribs)
• Nixeagle (talk · contribs) - Will be inactive until after May 18 or so (finals) but I'll pitch in after that.
• Nirmol360 (talk · contribs)
• NuclearWarfare (talk · contribs)
• Olaniyan Olushola (talk · contribs) I am happy to be around to learn and contribute as well
• OlEnglish (talk · contribs) - Count me in.
• Pazguillermo (talk · contribs)Will mostly focus on Latin American people, both for the English language Wikipedia and the Spanish language Wikipedia.
• Realist2 (talk · contribs) - Edit controversial biographies all the time, generally hate all forms of tabloid sensationalism at Wikipedia
• Rodhullandemu (talk · contribs) - already doing it whenever I can.
• Samuell1616 (talk · contribs) already active and pitching in
• Sceptre (talk · contribs) - I'm cognizant of the BLP problem and want to do anything I can. Sceptre ^(talk) 13:37, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
• shirulashem (talk · contribs)
• Slacker13 (talk · contribs)
• Staberinde (talk · contribs)
• Synergy (talk · contribs)
• Saikat Chatterjee (talk · contribs)Class:-12
• TCBC3714 (talk · contribs) - Happy to help in whatever way I can. TCBC3714 (talk) 20:17, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
• Thebrycepeake (talk · contribs) - dedicating my year to writing in women social scientists that are sadly missing from Wikipedia.
• Themfromspace (talk · contribs) - Sure, I'm in.
• Tiptoety (talk · contribs) - Let me know where you need help.
• Tojoroy20 (talk · contribs) - Know better
• TriJenn (talk · contribs) - Very interested in helping with these articles and issues.
• Ukexpat (talk · contribs) - happy to help out where I can.
• VirtualSteve (talk · contribs)
• Willking1979 (talk · contribs)
• X! (talk · contribs)
• XXSNUGGUMSXX (talk · contribs)
• Xymmax (talk · contribs)
• Royalmate1 (talk · contribs)
• Wilmerdon (talk · contribs) - Will be writing biographies of courageous journalists in conflict zones or from high human-rights risk countries.
• Taal Saptak (talk · contribs)
• Rubydavis1250 (talk · contribs)
• Tayi Arajakate (talk · contribs)
• Tadyatha (talk · contribs)
• CanadaMaple123 (talk · contribs)

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