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Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a tabloid: it is not Wikipedia's job to be sensationalist, or to be the primary vehicle for the spread of titillating claims about people's lives; the possibility of harm to living subjects must always be considered when exercising editorial judgment. This policy applies to any living person mentioned in a BLP ...
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Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual ...
I was under the impression that consensus on the change had been reached following discussions that took place on the talk page between 27 March and 3 May 2009 (see "Wikipedia talk:Biographies of living persons/Archive 21#Refining policy regarding use of children's/minors' names"), but Jclemens thought not and reverted my edit. Further comments ...
Not sure if this is the right forum to mention this. I have recently opened a discussion regarding the deletion of P. Kalyanasundaram at Wikipedia:Articles_for ...
Don't make articles on low-profile persons known for one event. [a] Don't edit where you have a conflict of interest. Don't name non-notable persons if avoidable. Don't remove content on public figures just because they ask. Don't use self-published sources unless by the subject. Don't categorize people by religion or sexual orientation. [b]
This has been discussed before here Wikipedia talk:Biographies of living persons/Archive 52#BDP is useless. I personally support suggestion B by -sche there - automatically have 6 months protection, which seems more reasonable than having BLP protections immediately drop the second someone dies, with the option to extend with consensus a bit ...
This is an archive of past discussions on Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page .