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Welcome to WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography. This project needs the help of all of you here, who are interested in the history of crime and criminals, ranging from conspiratorial corporate crime to scary serial killers. Please help!
Contents
Goals
To improve the quality of articles related to subjects about crime.
Scope
Crime
This portion of the WikiProject focuses on criminology and a wide range of crime-related topics, verifying notability of articles, expanding stub-class crime related articles and writing specific contributions to requested crime articles.
Criminal biographies
In Wikipedia, the biography page of a criminal often uses the same style and form of other regular biographies. However, due to the sensitiveness and uniqueness of their biography, something different needs to be done.
Current development
Usage of infoboxes
- Use the exact infobox text below and add the information of the criminal, but do not insert any rows, that do not appear below or change the text of any row, such as using "convicted of" instead of "charge". If you do, the information will not be displayed in the infobox.
- Link all possible information such as locations, charges, penalties, etc. Do not link dates, years or use flag icons in the infobox.
You are more than welcome to expand these infoboxes, but be careful when doing so, as editing a template may affect all articles using the template.
Serial Killer infobox
{{Infobox Serial Killer}}
- should be used for all serial killer, mass murder and spree killer biographies.
Copy the text below and fill in the information:
Attention: before using, please read the section on "Usage of infoboxes", located above.
{{Infobox Serial Killer | name= | image= | caption= | birthname= | alias= | birth=<!-- {{birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}} if still living, use {{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | location= | death=<!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} death date is first, birth date is second --> | deathplace = | cause= | states= | beginyear= | endyear= | apprehended= | penalty= }}
Criminal Biography infobox
{{Infobox Criminal}}
- should be used for all criminal biographies, that do not fit the above categories.
Copy the text below and fill in the information:
Attention: before using, please read the section on "Usage of infoboxes", located above.
{{Infobox Criminal | subject_name = | image_name = | image_size = | image_caption = | date_of_birth = <!-- {{birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}} if still living, use {{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | place_of_birth = | date_of_death = <!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} death date is first, birth date is second --> | place_of_death = | cause = | alias = | charge = | conviction = | penalty = | status = | occupation = | spouse = | parents = | children = }}
Criminal Organization infobox
{{Infobox Criminal organization}}
- should be used for all gang and crime family articles.
Copy the text below and fill in the information:
Attention: before using, please read the section on "Usage of infoboxes", located above.
{{Infobox Criminal organization | name = | image = | caption = | founded on = | founding location = | founded by = | years active = | territory = | ethnic makeup = | membership est = | criminal activities = | allies = | rivals = }}
Project templates
Other templates used by the project include:
{{WP Crime}}
, a project banner used to assess crime related articles as well as identify related projects working on the article.{{WP Criminal}}
, an alternate project banner specifically for criminal biographies.{{Crime opentask}}
, a template displaying open tasks related to the project.{{crime-stub}}
, adds article to Category:Crime stubs.{{crime-bio-stub}}
, adds article to Category:Crime biography stubs.
Parentage
This WikiProject was originally proposed by User:Remember in December 2006 (see [1]) which was eventually merged with the present biography project established by User:Wooyi in February 2007.
Task Forces
Formatting
Biographies and other subjects generally follow standard Wikipedia "Manual of Style" formatting; however, there are a few exceptions, such as specialized formats established of criminal organizations (as seen in Bufalino crime family originally established by User:ExplorerCDT).
Hierarchy definition
Crime and criminology related subjects can range from specific areas, geographical locations, and historical periods as well as overlap with other subjects such as WikiProject Law and Law Enforcement.
The subjects, defined by crime and criminology, include people, events, and related information on:
- True crime
- Street gangs (from the early-19th century to present)
- Mafia/Syndicate groups and members (particularly of the 20th century)
- Criminal societies and similar organizations.
Open tasks
To-do list
Here are some tasks you can do to help with WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography:
- Requests:
- Expand and improve citations: Theresa Knorr, Marybeth Tinning, Brenda Ann Spencer, Lords of Chaos (group), Violent crime
- Stubs: Narco tank, Calling card (crime), Hadden Clark, Federal crime, Leslie Irvin (serial killer), Crime Classification Manual, Terry Driver, Duane Earl Pope, Purgatory Correctional Facility, Peter Scully
- Current Merger Proposal: Comments needed regarding the merger of the four perpetrator wiki-articles into the Sterling Hall bombing article; Ongoing Discussion Here.
- Images: Thor Nis Christiansen, Richard Cottingham, Caleb Fairley,
On-going tasks:
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- Improve references in articles.
- Actively remove tangential "mentions" of article subjects from articles. The only valid mentions that might remain are specific and historically accurate depictions of subjects in film, music, etc.
Listing of pertinent articles and other entries that are being discussed for deletion
- Murder of Dr. Melissa Ketunuti http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Murder_of_Dr._Melissa_Ketunuti
Articles that need expansion/improvement
Murders by Year
At present the category for Mass murders by year go back to Category:Mass murder in 1981, but for Murders by year only to 1999 e.g. Category:Murder in 1999, and also for 1993 and 1989. Hence I propose to finish the 1990s decade, and later the 1980s back to 1980. And to separate the American ones which only go back at present to Category:2005 murders in the United States.
Plus a need to add all murders to Category:Murder in 2002 and Category:Murder in 2003 (or the American subcategory) as they only have one in each year at present; and to check that individual Mass Murders are also included in the Murders in US by year category where appropriate. NB: for Category:Mass murderers the requirement is four at once or over a short period of time (though some mass murders have only three?). Hugo999 (talk) 00:07, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
Directory of Participants
This is a list of Wikipedians, who are committed to this WikiProject. Please, feel free to join, by clicking edit on the right and signing your name at the bottom of the list with four tildes (~~~~), with an optional comment. Also add this template to your user page, if you want to, type: {{User CB}}
to produce:
Members
- Remember 17:46, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
- Longhair\talk 07:43, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
- Wjhonson\talk 00:43, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 00:00, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
- Jimbonator 00:17, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
- Malick78 00:24, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
- Agtaz 05:58, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
- Bentley Banana 12:39, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
- C i d 16:11, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
- Chwyatt 16:05, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
- SqueakBox 21:37, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
- Kuzwa 17:36, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
- George100 06:34, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
- WTGDMan1986 -- --DFW 00:40, 13 January 2008 (UTC) college student bothered by (and tired of) all the criminals with striking resemblances to One Tree Hill actor James Lafferty murdering defenseless women. I'm entering to revert vandalism and make changes if necessary.
- Rogermx 02:40, 16 January 2008 (UTC) copy editing articles on American Cosa Nostra figures - you got a problem with that??
- Robbie (talk) 15:12, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
- Nicknackrussian (talk) 21:43, 26 September 2008 (UTC) - I've been making organized crime/gangster articles since I signed up...
- Johnnyarbogast (talk) 17:53, 21 November 2008 (UTC) - Don't look too deeply into the abyss
- Dan Dassow (talk) 12:24, 21 August 2009 (UTC) Wineville Chicken Coop Murders and related events
- Doc9871 (talk) 01:36, 8 January 2010 (UTC) - I've already worked on several related articles...
- DocOfSoc (talk)
- Cindamuse (talk) 04:06, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
- DoctorJoeE (talk) 05:06, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
- Basilisk4u (talk) 05:02, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
- Hutcher (talk) 22:56, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
- WPPilot (talk) 08:59, 8 January 2011 (UTC) Researching Federal Security Crimes for many Wiki projects.
- Wikid77 (talk) 06:34, 27 April 2011 (UTC) - since 2006: Manson Family, Oswald, MoMK
- User:Solomaverick (talk) 12:53, 16 September 2011 (GMT)
- KokoPhantom (talk) 00:56, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
- Paris1127 (talk) 22:24, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
- Finnegas (talk) 20:48, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
- Ntbolton (talk) 19:41, 30 June 2012 (UTC) Interested in the expansion and maintenance of articles dedicated to this genre.
- Ț♥ttØØdẄ♥itre§ 04:32, 27 August 2012 (UTC) Interested in Biographies about criminals, murderers, any crime etc.
- Paul MacDermott (talk) 19:00, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
- AuthorAuthor (talk) 17:49, 14 November 2012 (UTC) Interested in expansion, maintenance and new articles about the genre.
- David J Johnson (talk) 1037. 30 March 2013 (UTC)
- EricEnfermero Howdy! 09:47, 24 June 2013 (UTC) - interest in serial killers, psychology and healthcare providers who kill
- Bali88 (talk) 00:12, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
- --GouramiWatcher(?) 14:07, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
- --Supaflyrobby (talk) 16:30, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
- --Danni Ruthvan (talk) 23:36, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
- --Discott (talk) 13:31, 30 October 2014 (UTC) - will not do biographies but am interested in trends, history, stats, gangs and gang types, crime fighting methods, and criminology more generally. I also mostly tend to focus on crime issues affecting South American and African countries.
- Breckham101 (talk) 17:59, 28 December 2014 (UTC) Average contributor whose unofficial unlicensed expertise are terrorism related articles.
- Bahb the Illuminated (talk) 21:17, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
- Crimsonrain158 (talk) 12:53, 30 September 2015 (UTC) Interested in American organized crime, especially Jewish-American gangsters
- Ellis.Donnie (talk) 9:32, 30 September 2015 (UtC) Mostly interested in Italian and Jewish-American organized crime.
- --BabbaQ (talk) 18:59, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
- FortitudineVincimus (talk)
- Libertybison (talk) 19:24, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
Honorary members
This is a listing of Wikipedians who have greatly contributed to crime and criminology-related articles on Wikipedia and/or have created many of the suggested guidelines for future criminal related articles. Apologies beforehand, for those overlooked.
- User:Aude, for numerous edits and contributions to crime and criminology related articles.
- User:Capitalistroadster, revising and rewriting pre-1900 street gang leaders, most notably Slobbery Jim of the Daybreak Boys
- User:Eusebeus, for rewriting several articles including Charles Luciano, Jack McGurn and Owney Madden.
- User:Fordmadoxfraud, for contributing several criminal biographies on Depression-era outlaws.
- User:Func
- User:ExplorerCDT, early work on US mafia crime families
- User:Irishguy, for his work on Danny Greene
- User:Jackie24, for work on the Scarfo crime family, Jewish Mafia
- User:JBAK, for work on the Los Angeles Mafia
- User:Lanoitarus, revising of organized crime articles, specifically the former copyvio Frank Salemme
- Little Joe Shots, for work on the Timeline of organized crime
- User:Mafia Expert, for work on the Ciaculli massacre
- User:Mikedash, extensive contributions on major crimes and criminal biographies.
- User:Mzucker, for work on the Cleveland Mafia and Porello Family.
- User:Nelliebellie, for numerous contributions including work on the Tucker telephone article.
- User:ONEder Boy, for the creation of the Serial Killer Info Box.
- User:Phatcat68, for contributions on several members of the John Gotti family.
- User:Robert Mercer, for his work on Sicilian mafiosi including Salvatore Riina
- User:Scott Sanchez, for work on Jack Dragna
- User:Sherurcij, numerous contributions including biographies on criminals, police officials, etc.
- User:SilverWings, for contributions on several criminal biographies.
- User:Skysmith, for compiling the extremely comprehensive Missing topics about Crime list
- User:Stefanomione, extensive categorizing of organized crime articles
- TheChin, for work on the Timeline of organized crime
- User:Trac.Melton, work and research on pre-1900 street gangs, specifically the Plug Uglies
- User:Wiseguy100, for work on various members of the Chicago Outfit including Harry Aleman, Frank Schweihs, Samuel Carlisi and others such as New York mobster Vincent Basciano and federal agent William F. Roemer, Jr. as well as providing a number of images.
- User:70.29.2.96, for his work on the Genna Brothers
- User:216.20.1.212, numerous articles on Irish-American organized crime
Inactive members
Members who are currently inactive on Wikipedia.
- Wooyi --- Project author. 03:33, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
- Dep. Garcia ( Talk | Help Desk | Complaints ) 10:02, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
- MadMax 11:13, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
- Destructo 087 22:37, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
- Ozgod 03:01, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
- Quadzilla99 17:33, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- The H-Man2 15:51, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
- Jmm6f488 00:32, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
- Alexbonaro 07:31, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
- Skosem 21:45, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
- Wildhartlivie 00:50, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
- Kathryn.rebecca42 17:14, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
- Ryleth777 09:34, 03 October 2007 (UTC)
- Stephoswalk 06:10, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
- Seth71
- Khanhamzakhan--Khanhamzakhan (talk) 09:12, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
- Sickero (talk) 02:35, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
- F-451 (talk) 23:26, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
- LOTRrules (talk) 22:43, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
- ||||Tonight, you sleep with the fishes|Talk|| 23:27, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
- HumanFrailty 05:43, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
- Dcoetzee 15:46, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
- Tyciol 16:03, 20 August 2007 (UTC) I'm watching a specific genre of criminal in the news, if they become relevant enough in the future to be judged deserving of articles I'll help make them. I feel obligated to do this.
- Lucy-marie 23:51, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
- Lord23sutch (talk) 01:01, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
- ReignMan 03:42, 5 October 2007 (UTC) adding crime tables to cities, suggest you do the same!
- YegerMeister 23:26, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
- LisaSmall T/C 18:03, 11 December 2007 (UTC), particular interest in adding or correcting legal details of charges, sentences, etc.
- SkepticalGal (talk) 11:49, 7 June 2008 (UTC) Keeping an eye on "profiling" references, general copy editing
- Joyson Noel (talk) 17:19, 5 July 2008 (UTC) I am particularly interested in expanding and fixing up articles generally related to Organized Crime.
- METALFREAK04 (talk) 16:30, 7 October 2008 (UTC) - I signed up for serial killers
- dychoa {talk} 15:18, 29 March 2009 (UTC) I signed up for serial killers
- — Jake Wartenberg 01:44, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
- ChuckStone (talk) 13:17, 7 May 2009 (UTC) Expanding, adding references, and modifying inaccurate details about American organised crime figures, primarily American Cosa Nostra and Chicago Outfit
- Mistress of Awesome (talk) 00:22, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
- Lord23sutch (talk) 01:01, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
- MooreSvn (talk) 00:26, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
- VulpineLady (talk) 21:57, 10 March 2010 (UTC) Recently sentenced serial in California. Draft up at Rodney Alcala
- User:Roxy:Pkid
- User:Jarovid
- Wombat24 (talk) 07:15, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
- Cymbelmineer (talk) 13:11, 31 July 2010 (UTC) I have added biographies before.
- CrohnieGalTalk 16:28, 14 August 2010 (UTC) I've been working in this area for quite some time now.
- Luckymelon (talk) 23:14, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
- KimChee (talk) 06:52, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
- Aidanpaige (talk) 01:20, 25 November 2010
- PsychoticInq (talk) 18:16, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
- Ashirwad Gogoi (talk) 12:55, 26 March (UTC) I'm a 14 year-old member with great interest in this subject.
- Nkgal (talk) 22:00, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
- User:CitizenQZen (talk) 02:32, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
- DuchessofNewTown (talk) 12:28, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
- User:Katarighe (talk) 12:28, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
- User:beaconmike (talk) 11:50, 27 August 2011 (UTC) Wineville Chicken Coop Murders
- Theanonymous3 (talk) 09:18, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
- Crr4 (talk) 05:33, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
- cyoung530 (talk) 17:11, 8 March 2012 (UTC) Rice University Student working on under-represented articles as a semester long project for class.
- Meanie (talk) 19:46, 17 December 2012 (UTC) I recently stumbled upon a Notorious Death Row Serial Killer - He is pretty notorious in New Mexico area - I am looking for help in determining if he is relevant enough for Wikipedia. Robert Ray Fry
- hózhǫ́ni (talk) 23:41, 6 January 2013 (UTC) Because of "AfD no consensus" Fry was deleted. Moved to my Sandbox. Can an admin or seasoned biographer here help me salvage this serial killer stub?
- Daniellam91 (talk) 02:18, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
- Stanleyipkiss32 (talk) 15:15, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
General strategy and discussion forum
Recent articles
- Eddie James by Momoricks
- Murder of Shanda Sharer by HumanFrailty
- Caleb Fairley by Jmm6f488
- Michelle Morgan by HumanFrailty
- Gregory Despres by Kuzwa
- Vera Renczi by ExRat
- Hisham Talaat Moustafa by Jackbrown
- 2009 Richmond High School gang rape by Cyanidethistles & Richmondian
- Toni Musulin by WikiLaurent
- 2011 Tucson shooting by Nanobear
- Andrew Evans case by Paul MacDermott
- Lady of the Dunes by Gourami Watcher
- Joan Robinson Hill by This is Paul
- Social cleansing by rgalts
DYK?
The following articles were featured as part of Wikipedia's Did you know? program.
- Henry W. Howgate (April 21, 2008)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting (June 16, 2009)
- Richard Allen Minsky (July 5, 2010)
- Edward Porta (August 8, 2010)
- William Trickett Smith II (September 14, 2010)
- Patrick van der Eem (September 21, 2010)
- Albert Greenwood Brown (October 6, 2010)
- Barton Kay Kirkham (October 12, 2010)
- Wallace Wilkerson (November 5, 2010)
- Gee Jon (November 8, 2010)
- Andriza Mircovich (November 17, 2010)
- Fortune telling fraud (November 29, 2010)
- Oleg Nikolaenko (December 6, 2010)
- James W. Rodgers (December 21, 2010)
- John Deering (December 22, 2010)
- John and Sarah Makin (December 27, 2010)
- Murder of Joanna Yeates (January 6, 2011)
- Frans Otto Eriksson (January 9, 2011)
- Ajmer Dargah attack (January 22, 2011)
- Jared Lee Loughner (January 27, 2010)
- James Reavis (April 10, 2011)
- Murder of Celine Figard (September 13, 2012)
Recognized content
Featured Articles
The following crime related articles are featured articles and contain significant contributions from project members:
Good Articles
The following crime-related articles are Good articles and contain significant contributions from project members; with some additional work they can be improved to Featured Article status.
A-Class Reviews
An A-Class review is a project-intern quality review similar to that of a featured article review or good article review; however it is conducted independently within the remit of a specific project among the project members themselves. It aims to be a rigorous quality assurance that nevertheless is a simple and self-contained process.
For more on this project's A-Class review see this page here.
Assessment Table
Categories and subpages
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- Category:Mafia
- Category:History of the Italian Mafia
- Category:Mafia groups
- Category:Mafia crime families
- Category: Chicago Outfit
- Category:Cleveland crime family
- Category:DeCavalcante crime family
- Category:Detroit Partnership
- Category:Fictional Mafia crime families
- Category:Five Families
- Category:Kansas City crime family
- Category:Los Angeles crime family
- Category:Patriarca crime family
- Category:Mafia gangs
- Category:Mafia crime families
- Category:Mafia
Article Alerts
- Articles for deletion
- 04 May 2016 – Columbia University rape controversy (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Nblund (t · c); see discussion (29 participants; relisted)
- 04 May 2016 – May 2015 Rio Bravo lynching (talk · · hist) was AfDed by TheLongTone (t · c); see discussion (7 participants; relisted)
- Redirects for discussion
- 17 May 2016 – Wineville Chicken Coop (talk · · hist) →Wineville Chicken Coop Murders was RfDed by SimonTrew (t · c); see discussion
- 17 May 2016 – Wineville Chicken Coop Murder (talk · · hist) →Wineville Chicken Coop Murders was RfDed by SimonTrew (t · c); see discussion
- Good article nominees
- 20 May 2016 – R v R (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by The C of E (t · c); start
- 06 May 2016 – Destruction of ivory (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by Rhododendrites (t · c); start
- 22 Feb 2016 – Virginia Tech shooting (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by D'Ranged 1 (t · c); start
- 20 Feb 2016 – Billy the Kid (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by Winkelvi (t · c); start
- 04 Feb 2016 – Murder of Tammy Alexander (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by Gourami Watcher (t · c); see discussion
- Requests for comments
- 25 May 2016 – Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (talk · · hist) has an RfC by MelbourneStar (t · c); see discussion
- 07 May 2016 – Erfurt school massacre (talk · · hist) has an RfC by George Ho (t · c); see discussion
- 03 May 2016 – Internet fraud (talk · · hist) has an RfC by David spector (t · c); see discussion
- Requested moves
- 15 May 2016 – Operation Lava Jato (talk · · hist) move request by Anthony Appleyard (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Resources
Sub-projects
Related WikiProjects
- WikiProject Australian crime
- WikiProject Biography
- WikiProject British crime
- Wikipedia Criminal Justice
- Deletion sorting: Crime
- WikiProject Irish Republicanism
- WikiProject Law (see WikiProject Australian law and WikiProject Canadian law)
- WikiProject Law Enforcement
- WikiProject Organized crime (proposed)
- WikiProject Piracy
- WikiProject Terrorism
Bibliography
- Gottesman, Ronald and Richard Maxwell Brown. Violence in America: An Encyclopedia. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999. ISBN 0-684-80487-5
- Haines, Max. True Crime Stories: 50 Headline-Grabbing Murders from Around the World. Barnes & Noble Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0-7607-6258-9
- Wilson, Colin. The Mammoth Book of True Crime. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1998. ISBN 0-7867-0536-1
External links
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