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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Biography articles of living people" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,004,316 total.
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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The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to articles about living or recently deceased people, and edits relating to the subject (living or recently deceased) of such biographical articles (the "contentious topic").
Per WP:BDP, any individual born before 1909 (115 or more years ago) whose living status remains undetermined should be removed from this category and transferred to Category:Year of death missing (or possibly Category:Year of death unknown only if reliable sources confirm the death, but say that the person's year of death is unknown)