Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons/Mass blanking/How to help
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You can help clean up articles tagged for BLP minimum standards cleanup. All contributors are welcome to contribute to the task. A 'bot has blanked the article. There are, in summary, four things that happen at this point:
- If and only if the article is verified to explicitly cite at minimum one good, reliable, source, and to contain no contentious statements that are not backed by cited sources, the blanking of the article by the 'bot can be simply reversed using the undo tool (and an edit summary noting that you've accepted the responsibility for checking for policy violations).
- If the biography doesn't give any sources, but you can find reliable sources for the claims made in the article, simply reverse the blanking of the article using the undo edit (as you did above), and then edit the biography in order to add those sources. Be sure to:
- Remove the {{Blanked unsourced BLP}} tag from the article if you've found sources to verify all the material in the article. If you've only found sources for some of the statements, replace it with a {{BLP sources}} tag rather than removing it.
- Remove any statements that seem dubious, are controversial or appear to attack the subject of the biography unless the article has, or you were able to find and add, reliable, secondary sources that document the claim.
- Insert the sources you do add after the statements they verify. For example:
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia everyone can edit.<ref>http://www.wikipedia.org/</ref>
- The biography can be entirely rewritten from scratch, reliable sources in hand and cited.
- If the article is unredeemable, because the sources to rewrite or fix it don't exist (and you've looked), the article can be nominated for deletion via Project:Articles for deletion.
You can help with this.
You are responsible for your edits[edit]
Please note that you become responsible for any content that you choose to restore that turns out to be a policy violation. Please act with diligence and care. If you mass-undo blankings without careful review, and it transpires that you've restored policy-violating content, then you will be treated as if you were the originator of that content.
Things that you can patrol[edit]
If you wish to participate in this cleanup effort more extensively, there are several resources available.
- Category:Blanked unreferenced BLPs
- If you wish to review and handle further articles, this is a list of the articles that are still blanked with the notice.
- Project:Unreferenced BLP Rescue
- This is a WikiProject for people who wish to colaborate on bringing biographies that don't cite any sources up to our content standards. It has automatically updated listings of biographies to work on broken down by subject area and by age.
Places to go for more help[edit]
- Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard
- Got a question about whether a source would be considered reliable or not? Here's Wikipedia's primary discussion board for the subject, along with a handy search function for looking through past discussions. --j⚛e deckertalk 22:44, 29 October 2010 (UTC)