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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 ...
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 ...
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]
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BLP – a biography of a living person, or an article, subject or text that contains biographical material about a living person. Also the person such material refers to, and the policy covering this. NPOV – Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, which is mandatory on every article on Wikipedia without exception. It broadly states that ...
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 ...