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Unreferenced BLPs left to process
We need your help to eliminate the backlog of unreferenced biographies of living people at Category:Unreferenced BLPs quickly. This includes cleaning out miscategorizations and reducing new miscategorizations, and encouraging editors and WikiProjects to take responsibility for articles in their topic areas.
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How you can help, right now
You can help by adding sources to one of the following articles. Don't forget to remove or update the tag at the top if you add references.
- Random:
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- 5 random unreferenced BLPs, updated daily: Jon Henderson | Christian Eigner | 60 | Anand Sai | Severino Poletto
- Random unreferenced biography
- Magnus Manske's Save a BLP tool
- There is a WikiProject dedicated to clearing the articles, based on the monthly categories in Category:Unreferenced BLPs.
- By WikiProject/topic:
- Contained in the WikiProject Cleanup Listing, down near the bottom of the list, are Unreferenced BLPs. See the "by cat" links on the BamBot WMF Labs Tools website. For example:
- Make your own list using WP:Catscan:
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- E.g., run this search to get the list of Moroccan people in the unreferenced BLP category.
- E.g., run this search to get the list of Unreferenced BLPs in June 2011 that also are marked with an unclear notability category.
What to do
- Contentious information should be referenced to good sources or removed. See Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons for more information.
- Try to ensure content is verifiable by finding reliable sources to support it.
- If no references exist for an article and you have made a reasonable attempt to find some, consider using the proposed deletion or articles for deletion processes to propose the deletion of the article. If the article is entirely negative in tone and cannot be sourced, tag it for speedy deletion using {{db-g10}}.
- If you add references to the article, remove the {{BLPunsourced}} template from the page. If the article has references but needs more, then change the template to {{BLPrefimprove}}. Some articles in the category already cite references.
- Copyright violations should be removed. If this is not possible, then the article should be deleted.
If you want to advertise the project, use an edit summary like "Biography now has references. Support WP:URBLP!".
Useful templates
- Citation templates
- Websites: {{Cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = | work = | publisher = | date = | url = | format = | doi = | accessdate = 13 April 2016}}
- Books: {{Cite book | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = | publisher = | date = | location = | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = }}
- Newspapers: {{Cite news | title = | author = | url = | newspaper = | date = | accessdate = 13 April 2016}}
- Deletion templates
Other ways to help
You can...
- ... add a category to BLPs in need of categorization
- ... add a Wikiproject template to the talk page of BLPs that are not tagged as part of a Wikiproject
- ... check the tagging and categories of the articles listed in these 4 database reports: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
- ... add
{{BLP unsourced}}
(or{{BLP refimprove}}
, if appropriate) to unsourced biographical articles listed in Possibly unreferenced biographies of living people - ... browse the categories at User:DASHBot/Wikiprojects and User:DASHBot/Wikiprojects/Templates
- ... or you can drink from the firehose and work directly from the Category:All unreferenced BLPs
Tools
- Category sorting tools
You can use these to find whether there are unreferenced BLPs in the subjects you are interested in.
- CatScan -- (e.g., run this to get the 37 Moroccan people in the unreferenced BLP category).
- Magnus's Category Intersection -- This one is also good, but doesn't dig into categories.
- Barnstars & Userboxes
- Summary template:
{{BLP issues}}
Monitoring progress
- Graph using data from Unref BLP count
- Graph that updates daily but requires flash plugin.
See also
- Wikipedia:Mistagged BLP cleanup - A similar mini-project with a focus on removing tags from already sourced articles
- Wikipedia:Unreferenced BLP Rescue - The BLP Rescue Squad
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles - WikiProject Unreferenced articles
- Wikipedia:Biographies of living people — official Wikipedia policy in this area
- Wikipedia:Proposed deletion of biographies of living people - BLP Sticky prod
- Wikimedia Foundation's resolution about biographies of living people
- Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners - Guide detailing mechanics of referencing
Bots
- DASHBot 3.14's WikiProject UnRefed BLP list - Updates WikiProjects with list of unreferenced BLPs articles. Examples: Musicians, China, LGBT studies, India. Checks for updates daily.
- Toolserver unreferenced BLP count. Updates daily.