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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]
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 ...
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There is no consensus to reproduce signatures in Wikipedia articles, and there is some concern regarding reproducing the signatures of living persons. Some believe that signatures of living persons, in general, should only be displayed in articles when a person has published their own signature, and reliable secondary sources reproduce the ...
Pages in category "Biography articles of living people" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,004,316 total.
This first, and most obvious fix, would be to make Wikipedia:Pending changes the default for all biographies of living persons. AndyTheGrump ( talk ) 17:52, 11 October 2023 (UTC) @ AndyTheGrump : The deletion in this case was of a well-developed biography with 30+ citations, made by a very experienced Wikipedia editor who has a reputation for ...