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The Biography WikiProject concerns the creation, development, and organization of Wikipedia's articles about persons (including but not limited to 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 ...
Wikipedia articles (like scientific papers) need to have precise citations of reliable sources such that other editors can verify them. This is especially important with biographies of living persons such as Garai Laszlo ; the sources need to be independent of him and his department.
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- Living People, Active Politicians and Other BLP Issues
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|living= Answer yes or no. If yes, this also affects the |needs-photo= parameter, to emphasize the fact that free images must be used. This parameter must be specified whether or not the person is...|activepol= Answer yes, if the article is about a currently active politician, otherwise remove this line.|blpo= Answer yes, if the subject of the article is not a living person, but the article contains sensitive information about other living persons, otherwise remove this line.class – valid values are listed in the custom class mask. See the project's quality scale for details. Setting an explicit value of NA is rarely necessary; for this, either leave |class= blank or o...priority – valid values are: top, high, mid, low, na (case-insensitive). See the project's priority scale for details. Setting an explicit value of NA is rarely necessary; for this, either leave |p...auto – This parameter is for the use of bots and indicates that the article has been automatically rated:a&e-work-group – set |a&e-work-group=yes if the article is supported by the arts and entertainment work group.filmbio-work-group – set |filmbio-work-group=yes if the article is supported by WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers.military-work-group – set |military-work-group=yes if the article is supported by the military biography work group.musician-work-group – set |musician-work-group=yes if the article is supported by WikiProject Musicians.attention – set |attention=yes if the article needs immediate attention from experienced editors. Use only if another parameter does not cover the need for attention; this should be used sparingly....|needs-discography= Answer yes, if the article needs a discography section, otherwise remove this line.|needs-filmography= Answer yes, if the article needs a filmography section, otherwise remove this line.needs-infobox – set |needs-infobox=yes if the article needs an infobox. Remember that infoboxes are not suitable for all articles, and can overwhelm short articles.listas – This parameter, which is the equivalent of the DEFAULTSORT sortkey that should be placed on all biographical articles, is a sortkey for the article talk page (e.g. for John Doe, use |lista...
The following parameters should not normally be used: 1. category – set |category=noif, and only if, a banner is being used for demonstration or testing purposes, to prevent unnecessary or undesirable categorization. Otherwise, omit this parameter. 2. core – set |core=yes if, and only if, the article is listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Cor...
The parameter |baronets-work-group= is recognised as an alias for |peerage-work-group=. If both |peerage-work-group= and |baronets-work-group= are present, |baronets-work-group=is ignored.
WP:ACADEMICS. The Science and Academia Work Group is a working group of members of the Biography WikiProject dedicated to ensuring quality and coverage of biography articles. Biography (science and academia) articles by quality and importance.
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