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List items should be formatted consistently in a list. Unless there is a good reason to use different list types in the same page, consistency throughout an article is also desirable. Use sentence case by default for list items, whether they are complete sentences or not. Sentence case is used for around 99% of lists on Wikipedia.
Directly before the person's name, such words begin with a capital letter (President Obama, not president Obama). Standard or commonly used names of an office are treated as proper names ( David Cameron was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ; Hirohito was Emperor of Japan ; Louis XVI was King of France ).
On Wikipedia, notability is a test used by editors to decide whether a given topic warrants its own article. For people, the person who is the topic of a biographical article should be "worthy of notice" [1] or "note" [2] —that is, "remarkable" [2] or "significant, interesting, or unusual enough to deserve attention or to be recorded" [1] within Wikipedia as a written account of that person ...
Placeholder name on a website. Placeholder names are intentionally overly generic and ambiguous terms referring to things, places, or people, the names of which or of whom do not actually exist; are temporarily forgotten, or are unimportant; or in order to avoid stigmatization, or because they are unknowable or unpredictable given the context of their discussion; or to deliberately expunge ...
Once again, this can be viewed as the "acid test" for writing an article about something specific, EG, a person, object, book, movie, whatever. I know if I can't come up with a consise expression of relevance, I won't attempt to write the article. I hope these thoughts are of some use.Uranographer 06:33, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)
The lead section should summarise with due weight the life and works of the person. When writing about controversies in the lead section of a biography, relevant material should neither be suppressed nor allowed to overwhelm: always pay scrupulous attention to reliable sources, and make sure the lead correctly reflects the entirety of the article.
I've been an independent consultant for the past few years and my work is all confidential for clients. I was asked to show some samples of my work in a recent interview for a full-time job and I ...
This guideline contains conventions on how to name Wikipedia articles about individual people. It should be read in conjunction with Wikipedia's general policy on article naming, Wikipedia:Article titles, and, for articles on living or recently deceased people, also in conjunction with the Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons policy, which explicitly also applies to article titles.