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Welcome – report issues regarding biographies of living persons here.

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This noticeboard is for discussing the application of the biographies of living people (BLP) policy to article content. Please seek to resolve issues on the article talk page first, and only post here if that discussion requires additional input.

Do not copy and paste defamatory material here; instead, link to a diff showing the problem.

Search this noticeboard & archives Sections older than 7 days are archived by Lowercase sigmabot III.

Additional notes:

Edits by the subject of an article may be welcome in some cases.
For general content disputes regarding biographical articles, try Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies instead.
Editors are encouraged to assist editors regarding the reports below. Administrators may impose contentious topic restrictions to enforce policies.

Notes for volunteers

How do I mark an incident as resolved or addressed?: You can use {{Resolved|Your reason here ~~~~}} at the top of the section containing the report. At least leave a comment about a BLP report, if doing so might spare other editors the task of needlessly repeating some of what you have done.
More ways to help

Categorize: Potential BLPs
Monitor recent changes to BLPs: BLP watchlist (may be long to load)
Remove BLP violations: Unsourced statements, All unreferenced BLPs (recently created), BLPs lacking sources, Negative unsourced content
Possible vandalism or libelous edits (as detected by edit filters 39, 339 and 189), Removal of Category:Living people (filter 117)
Check if these people could in fact be dead, or if articles about them were removed
Manually search BLPs for violations by using advanced search parameters. This link will search for X in the category of BLPs. Change X in the URL to the keyword you are looking for; alternatively, type X incategory: Living_people (the underscore is necessary) in the search bar.
Request article protection, report edit-warring users or report a specific user (in contentious topics recognized by ArbCom or elsewhere).

Today's random unreferenced BLP: Vincenzo Patrick Guglielmelli (random unreferenced BLP of the day for 7 Dec 2024 - provided by User:AnomieBOT/RandomPage via WP:RANDUNREF)