Editing Encyclopedia:WikiProject Biography

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<div style="border-bottom: 2px dotted #484898">'''Scope'''</div>
The '''[[Biography]]''' [[Wikipedia:WikiProject|WikiProject]] concerns the creation, development, and organization of Wikipedia's articles about persons (including but not limited to [[biography|biographies]]). It includes only articles about individual persons, not about an organization or group or association, unless a substantial section of the article is a biography of a person related to that organization or group. It includes biographies of only real humans; thus, the project does not cover other animals or fictitious persons (such as pseudonyms) or fictional characters. <!--- This stats are automatically updated daily --->As of {{#formatdate:{{FULLDATE}}|dmy}}, there are '''{{nts|{{#expr:{{PAGESINCATEGORY:FA-Class biography articles|R}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:A-Class biography articles|R}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:GA-Class biography articles|R}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:B-Class biography articles|R}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:C-Class biography articles|R}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Start-Class biography articles|R}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Stub-Class biography articles|R}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Unassessed biography articles|R}}}}}}'''<!--The sum of all classes stub through FA, plus unassessed--> articles and '''{{nts|{{#expr:{{PAGESINCATEGORY:FL-Class biography articles|R}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:List-Class biography articles|R}}}}}}''' lists within the scope of WikiProject Biography, of which '''{{nts|{{#expr:{{PAGESINCATEGORY:FA-Class biography articles|R}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:FL-Class biography articles|R}}}}}}''' <!--FAs+FLs--> are [[Portal:Featured content|featured]] and '''{{nts|{{#expr:{{PAGESINCATEGORY:GA-Class biography articles|R}}}}}}''' are [[Wikipedia:Good articles|good articles]]. As of 8 January 2024, according to [https://whgi.wmflabs.org/gender-by-language WHGI] and based on wikidata, only '''390,582''' of Wikipedia's '''1,980,258''' biographies are about women, amounting to '''19.72%'''.
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<div style="border-bottom: 2px dotted #484898; margin-top:5px;">'''Goals'''</div>
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<div style="border-bottom: 2px dotted #484898; margin-top:5px;">'''Newsletter Archives'''</div>
Check out the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Outreach#Newsletters|newsletter archives]]!
<div style="border-bottom: 2px dotted #484898; margin-top:5px;">'''Announcements'''</div>
* Check out '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Article alerts|New Article alerts]]'''.
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== Project organization ==
===Members===
''Generally see [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Members]]''

====Admin members====
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Members/Admin members}}

=== Departments ===
==== [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Assessment|Assessment]] ====
The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's biography articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the [[Wikipedia: Version 1.0 Editorial Team|WP:1.0]] program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{tl|WPBiography}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

==== [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Peer review|Peer review]] ====
The peer review department conducts peer reviews of articles on request; this helps to obtain ideas for further improvement by having contributors who may not have previously worked on particular articles examine them. Project members are invited to submit articles to the department in lieu of using the generic peer review process.

==== Unreferenced BLPs ====
{{Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/randomunreferencedmultiple}}

==== Inactive departments ====
'''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/A-class review|A-class review]]''': A-class review examined articles to ensure they met the [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment/A-Class criteria|A-class standards]]. Currently, there is a [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography/Archive/April 2008#Should A-Class review go?|freeze on promotions to A-class]].

'''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Collaboration|Collaboration]]''': The collaboration department sought to identify particular articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort. A single article was selected as the focus, and the project attempted to improve it, potentially to [[Wikipedia: What is a featured article|featured article standard]].

'''[[Wikipedia: WikiProject Biography/Outreach|Outreach]]''': The outreach department acted as the project's central point of coordination for the recruitment of new members and the production of newsletters.

=== Work groups ===<!--Don't change this subheading or it will break pages-->
:'''''Please discuss any proposals for new work groups with the project as a whole <big>before</big> creating them.'''''

Workgroups are informal groups of editors gathered for collaborative work on a particular topic within the field of biography; all project members are encouraged to participate in any that interest them. Also included below are other WikiProjects that fall within our scope.

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{{Women in Red Biographies}}
:*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Arts and entertainment|Arts and entertainment]]
:** [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers|Actors and Filmmakers]]
:** [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians|Musicians]]
:* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Living people|Living people]]
:* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Military|Military]]
:* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Politics and government|Politics and government]]
:* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Royalty and Nobility|Royalty and nobility]]
:** [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Peerage and Baronetage|Peers and Baronetage]]
:* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Science and academia|Science and academia]]
:** [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Aerospace biography task force|Aerospace]]
:** [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Philosophy/Philosophers|Philosophers]]
:* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Sports and games|Sports and games]]

== Related WikiProjects ==
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthroponymy]] – about human names and naming conventions in various cultures
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Succession Box Standardization|WikiProject Succession Boxes]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red]] – concerned with identifying women for whom biographies are required
*[[Wikipedia:Women's Classical Committee]] – concerned with improving and creating biographies for notable classicists who are women

==See also==
* [[Wikipedia:Awards and accolades]]

== Statistics ==
'''Popular pages'''
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Popular pages]]
** [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Arts and entertainment/Popular pages]]
** [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Military/Popular pages]]
** [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Science and academia/Popular pages]]
** [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Politics and government/Popular pages]]
* [[Wikipedia:Database reports/Potential biographies of dead people (4)|Possibly dead people]]

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