Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography

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Scope

The Biography WikiProject concerns the creation, development, and organization of Wikipedia's articles about persons (including but not limited to biographies). It includes only articles about individual persons, not about an organization or group or association, unless a substantial section of the article is a biography of a person related to that organization or group. It includes biographies of only real humans; thus, the project does not cover other animals or fictitious persons (such as pseudonyms) or fictional characters. As of Tɛmplet:FULLDATE, there are articles and lists within the scope of WikiProject Biography, of which are featured and are good articles. As of 12 November 2022 according to WHGI and based on wikidata, only 370,412 of Wikipedia's 1,911,715 biographies are about women, amounting to 19.376%.

Goals
  1. Get this project energized
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{{WikiProject Biography}}
Talk

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The project notice designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that has been or should be edited as part of this Wikiproject. Please see the assessment page for parameters to use in rating articles.

{{Portal|Biography}}
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Shows a standardized link to the Biography portal, and may be suitable for the "See also" sections of biographies.

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Tɛmplet:User WPBiography

This can be placed on your user page to show that you are a part of this Wikiproject.

Miscellaneous templates

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To include the ad box on your userpage or talk page, simply edit your page and add {{Wikipedia ads|7}} in the appropriate place.

Stubs

People stubs

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Infoboxes

Category:People and person infobox templatesList of Infoboxes

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Project organization[mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]

Members[mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]

Generally see Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Members

Admin members[mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Members/Admin members

Departments[mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]

Assessment[mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]

The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's biography articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WPBiography}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

Peer review[mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]

The peer review department conducts peer reviews of articles on request; this helps to obtain ideas for further improvement by having contributors who may not have previously worked on particular articles examine them. Project members are invited to submit articles to the department in lieu of using the generic peer review process.

Unreferenced BLPs[mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]

Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/randomunreferencedmultiple

Inactive departments[mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]

A-class review: A-class review examined articles to ensure they met the A-class standards. Currently, there is a freeze on promotions to A-class.

Collaboration: The collaboration department sought to identify particular articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort. A single article was selected as the focus, and the project attempted to improve it, potentially to featured article standard.

Outreach: The outreach department acted as the project's central point of coordination for the recruitment of new members and the production of newsletters.

Work groups[mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]

Please discuss any proposals for new work groups with the project as a whole before creating them.

Workgroups are informal groups of editors gathered for collaborative work on a particular topic within the field of biography; all project members are encouraged to participate in any that interest them. Also included below are other WikiProjects that fall within our scope.

Work groups

Tɛmplet:Women in Red Biographies

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