Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons

Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons

The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.

The resulting WikiProject was created at Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons

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Description

Attack the backlog of 50.000 biographies of living people marked as "unreferenced", and reference them.

Given my propensity to act first and think later, I've already created Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons, which contains a lot of links to pages making it obvious to me why we need this. Alvestrand (talk) 17:22, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Support

Please specify whether or not you would join the project.

1. Alvestrand (talk) 17:22, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
2. Hut 8.5 17:44, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Oppose

• Oppose as it would be only a temporaly project. After the BLP problems are solved, the project will become inactive. Armbrust ^Talk _Contribs 00:28, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

  That's like saying that once WikiPedia is "done", we'll have no need for editors : ) - jc37 20:36, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Discussion

22 people have already signed User:The Wordsmith/BLP sourcing, there are obviously enough here for a wikiproject. Hut 8.5 17:44, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

• How would this differ from Wikipedia:WikiProject Living people? -Optigan13 (talk) 09:10, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

I think WP:WPLP is attacking all manner of stuff that concerns living people. It would make sense to regard this project as a subproject. (And I would love for the problem to go away, but I suspect it won't....) --Alvestrand (talk) 06:26, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Sounds like a great idea for a workgroup/task force, to me. - jc37 20:36, 8 September 2010 (UTC)