Template talk:WikiProject Biography/Archive 6

Please add zh:Template:WPBiography
This template has Chinese edition so please add zh:Template:WPBiography to the template.--RekishiEJ (talk) 18:40, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ Like most templates with a documentation subpage, Interwikis are held on Template:WikiProject Biography/doc, which is not protected. Anyway, . -- Red rose64 (talk) 16:10, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: Moved by. Jafeluv (talk) 09:22, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Template:WPBiography → Template:WikiProject Biography — Per the de facto naming convention used by almost all other WikiProject Banners. Standardisation here will bring consistancy, clarity and improved readability. Template name would also match the WikiProject name. PC78 (talk) 00:17, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Makes sense to me. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:01, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * is already amending talkpages, pre-empting a fait accompli (eh?) -- Red rose64 (talk) 18:12, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Mentioned here: User talk:Rich Farmbrough/Archive/2010Oct. – xeno talk 13:45, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Neutral - while I am a strong supporter of WP:STANDARDIZE and have moved many templates to the WikiProject Foo form, I'm kindof torn about "WPBiography". It's in use on so many pages, and it's the most widely-known banner template. It's also got a bit of "unique" functionality (the "blp=yes" bit) so there's an argument that may be made to have a unique display in the wikitext on the talk page. – xeno talk 13:45, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Support for readability and consistency with other WikiProjects. —Tim Pierce (talk) 15:04, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose
 * The banner is on 853,480 pages. There are 3,440,838 articles, almost one in four have this banner.  I seriously doubt if any other project has even half as many pages.  If conformity is necessary or even desired, then the other projects should conform to WPBiog.
 * Also oppose because a need to redirect has not been shown. Clarity and readability are purely subjective and possibly irrelevant.  The outward appearance of the banner is no different from those with more verbose titles. (Is "I Like It" sufficient justification for a bot to start to make the change?  Is the input of so few people sufficient "consensus" for making the change, especially when two them are not in favor of the change?)   JimCubb (talk) 19:51, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
 * FYI, if this change were to go through, a bot would _not_ be deployed to change the links en masse (though bots might do so en passent). – xeno talk 20:02, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
 * has been premature before and has been in trouble for that. I assume, from past experience, that  will start changing links and many editors will complain about it.


 * Two afterthoughts:
 * An editor who is unable to discern that WPBiography produces the banner for WikiProject Biography may also lack the skills necessary to make a positive contribution to an article within the purview of the project.


 * The template that forms the basis for WPBiography is no longer called WikiProjectBannerMeta but is called WPBannerMeta. The former name redirects to the latter name.  The move was made on 11 February 2009 by PC78.  (Isn't that interesting? I think it is)  JimCubb (talk) 20:57, 14 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Not that interesting really: I didn't move anything, merely created a redirect. The same argument could be made for moving WPBannerMeta I suppose, though that isn't a WikiProject banner in itself, merely a meta template to create WikiProject banners. This isn't relevant to the discussion though, and I'd appreciate it if your remarks focused on the nomination and not the nominator. PC78 (talk) 21:18, 14 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment. Use of WPBiography as a redirect on so many pages is not technically problematic, nor is it unprecedented. Image other is also a redirect, and that is used on over 500,000 pages. PC78 (talk) 01:41, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Support per Tim Pierce. Jafeluv (talk) 02:13, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Neutral I always thought of WPBiography as a special case since most people are entering with this name, it's very well recognised, etc, etc. In comparison WikiProject Biography wasn't that popular. Even WPBIO is more popular than it. Of course, I don't think this is a strong reason to keep it as is and I don't think that my arguments is stronger than standarisation. So I am ok if we rename. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:31, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Support after the discussion. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:14, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Support it's not a big deal for pages that have just one banner, the rest will move over the course of a few years, as articles get upgraded, have banners added or removed, etc. Regardless better to change now with 834000 uses than in two years time with over 1 million. Also, sure we are used to it, but there will be many years worth of Wikpedians using it after us.  Renaming this is a baby-step to making it easier. Rich Farmbrough, 06:34, 1 November 2010 (UTC).


 * Support Its one of the few projects left that doesnt already follow the spelled out format and this will help make things more consistent. --Kumioko (talk) 13:32, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose This seems like a bunch of work for little perceived benefit. --Rschen7754 18:36, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Rschen. Lots of work, no displayed benefit except consistency.  Imzadi  1979   →  18:55, 1 November 2010 (UTC)


 * A big benefit: Newbies just have to remember that "WikiProject foo" means banner. This is a big benefit. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:53, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Hardly "lots of work" either: move the page (over existing redirect), then fix double-redirects, then edit the template and its doc page to say "WikiProject Biography" instead of "WPBiography". Much the same as any other page move, except that an admin needs to do it because of the protection level. -- Red rose64 (talk) 21:15, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * But WikiProject foo in this case does redirect to the proper page, so the point is moot. --Rschen7754 21:22, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Not entirely, newbies will still see "WPBiography" and not be able to draw the conclusion that "WikiProject foo" is valid. For example

compared with


 * Rich Farmbrough, 19:32, 3 November 2010 (UTC).


 * Not to mention that when making bots/scripts and other tools its a lot easier to program WikiProject [insert the name of your favoriate project here] then trying to anticpiate hundreds of different names. --Kumioko (talk) 19:40, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Strongly agreed.  relies heavily on deducing what photo categories an article belongs in by which WikiProjects it belongs to.  Being able to match patterns like "  " is much more helpful than trying to parse abbreviations like "WPNEE", "WPNY" or "WPES". —Tim Pierce (talk) 21:22, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
 * But even if the templates are moved, you still get coding like the top unless you get a bot to change all the transclusions. Which you guys aren't planning on doing. --Rschen7754 22:24, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
 * No; change will be gradual, but it will happen. PC78 (talk) 00:03, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Since the proposed change does not affect what is displayed to a user only to an editor and there currently a feeling that such changes should not be made (see the discussions about capitalization within templates for example), if the change is made there may be serious repercussions should an admin who cares about the issue of edits that do not affect the rendered page notice the change and learn that it was made through a "consensus" of just over a dozen editors. JimCubb (talk) 16:41, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't understand what repercussions you're concerned about. Can you say more about that?  Is there some administrative or policy concern over "the issue of edits that do not affect the rendered page"?  There's quite a lot of housekeeping activity on Wikipedia that seems to fall into that category, and I've never seen anyone object to it, so I'm interested to know if there's an ongoing concern about that kind of work. —Tim Pierce (talk) 16:48, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Regarding possible repercussions: I remember the stink that was kicked up in January this year when an admin unilaterally removed four parameters from a particular infobox. The template itself wasn't renamed, but another admin complained about the no-consensus edit; after much arguing, threats of WP:ANI were issued. The upshot? The original admin self-reverted 65 minutes after his original change (5 mins after the ANI threat), and never did get consensus for his change, although the discussion then dragged on for four weeks. During all this, a third user (not an admin) observed "also remember that each edit of this template invalidates the cache for 15,000 articles so no one should be changing the code on a whim". is used on significantly more than 15,000 pages (it's presently no. 49 on Database reports/Templates transcluded on the most pages, with 874,715 transclusions), so I imagine that the server load will be considerably greater, so we really do need a broad approval. -- Red rose64 (talk) 21:01, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
 * What does that have to do with anything? Nothing is being done on a whim here. The whole point of this discussion is to seek concensus for a change. PC78 (talk) 14:34, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
 * It has everything to do with it. Renaming the banner means moving the page, which means invalidating the cache for 800,000+ pages, which means slow servers for an indeterminate period. -- Red rose64 (talk) 19:48, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Good point, but we have been told by one of the techs (Tim Starling I think) that moving a page does not invalidate cache. Rich Farmbrough, 22:49, 9 November 2010 (UTC).


 * Remember that all 800 Wikimedia projects, with all their simultaneous activity, are being delivered from the same set of servers. I just purged the cache for Template:!, which is used on 4,930,535 pages; note the lack of "slow servers for an indeterminate period". We are years past the time when edits to key templates could slow or crash the servers, or even impose a noticeable load. There are no performance considerations here. Happy ‑ melon  23:08, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Then what's the point? You don't need to rename the template to rewrite the transclusion link, since the redirect works just as well. You're going to have to go through all the talk pages and redo the transclusion, but this does not require renaming the template. The redirect exists and functions. 76.66.203.138 (talk) 04:57, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Other interesting points:
 * There are 874,715 transclusions of WPBiography and 874,720 transclusions of WPBiography/class
 * The project banner with the second largest number of transclusions is WPMILHIST with 123,446 transclusions. (Note that this is not WikiProject Milhist.  Since 34,474 of these are biographies only 88,972 additional pages would be affected should this project also be "fixed".
 * The underlying template of almost all the project banners is WPBannerMeta which is on 3,483,652 pages. WPBannerMeta needs to be moved to WikiProject BannerMeta before any other banner is moved if the stated precedent of "WikiProject" over "WP" is to be true rather than an opinion.
 * Thanks to User:Redrose64 for the link to a reliable source. JimCubb (talk) 03:40, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
 * As I pointed out to you earlier, WPBannerMeta is not a WikiProject banner in itself, and renaming that template is not a prerequisite to renaming this one. You're quite welcome to start your own discussion regarding that template, though. PC78 (talk) 14:34, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
 * As has happened often before, you do not address my point. It may be because I did not state it explicitly and it may be because you choose to ignore it.  The precedent is "WP" not "WikiProject".  The three most transcluded project banners are "WP" not "WikiProject".
 * The most important point, beyond the fact that the precedent is "WP" and that the "WikiProject" name is without precedent and more difficult to type, is that the requested move would not appearance of the banner on the page. Please look at what happened to Rich for making changes to templates that did not affect the appearance of the template on the page.  JimCubb (talk) 04:47, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
 * The relevant precedent here is WP:STANDARDIZE. I really don't see that whether or not the change affects the appearance of the template is a significant factor at all. —Tim Pierce (talk) 06:13, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
 * And to followup to Tims comment just because it has been done, has been done often or has been done till now doesnt make it right. Also, This project is one of only about 4 or 5 left that still use the WP or something else besides WikiProject so the precedent has been established even if you choose not to accept it here for this project. I apologize if this last part sounds a little snarky but its pretty obvious to me that some members of this project want to keep it the same, but theres no need to hide behind the perception that there is no precedent or that its too much work because those 2 arguments are defunct. Just say we don't want to do it, we don't care what the concensus was with the other projects, or that we like the naming convention that has been deprecated and wish to keep it. Eventually though, whether next month or 5 years from now when the project has 2.5 million articles under it and we have all retired from editing the name will undoubtedly change to match the others. Its just a matter of doing it now or later IMO. --Kumioko (talk) 20:02, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
 * If one is to believe the relevant edit summary last May on WP:STANDARDIZE (properly Banner standardisation), and I do not see a reason to disbelieve it, "This page failed to get consensus, and was actively opposed by multiple highly respected editors." The cited precedent is an essay, a mere suggestion.  It is neither a policy nor a guideline.  It is, at best, a soundly rejected proposal.  JimCubb (talk) 01:18, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Again I point out that it is not soundly rejected throughout Wikipedia, only here and a couple of others. All the other projects have been standardized. Additionally I intend to keep eyes on any new ones (and I am sure others as well) and encourage them to follow the precedent that has been set by the other 1500+ projects and not the 4 minority holdouts. Your right that there is no "requirement" for this project to follow it if they insist they don't want too. As such I can live with the projects desire to maintain the status quo as long as its clear that the reason is because this project doesn't want it and not that there's no concensus or reason. Both have been established. --Kumioko (talk) 02:24, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree strongly with this. According to the current revision of Banner standardisation/data, there are only four WikiProject banners left that do not follow this pattern, and only two that use the "WP" prefix.  Regardless of any formal consensus process that WP:STANDARDIZE may lack, it seems apparent that its recommendations have been accepted by nearly the entire Wikipedia community. —Tim Pierce (talk) 15:22, 9 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Two points. First, as a lower bound, there are at least 7,011,952 separate banners on talkpages, counting only projects which use the WP1.0 assessment scheme and not including wierd classes like Redirect-Class. Banners with quality assessment make up about 80% of all banners, but are likely to have a higher average number of instances; the total including non-assessed banners, non-Talk:-space banners and other miscellanea, is certainly over 8 million. Let's not pretend that this banner, large though it is, is in any way dominant in this area. Second, the name of was chosen specifically so that it would not follow any of the formats which were in existence at the time, especially "WikiProject Foo". WPBM is not a banner, it is a meta-template for creating banners; as such it is not in the banner namespace so that it would not conflict with, or be confused with, the banner for WikiProject Meta or WikiProject Banner Meta, if by some (admittedly remote) chance such a project were to be created. The ideal name would have been Template:WikiProject, but alas that was already in use; you could argue a case for usurpation there if you liked.  Happy ‑ melon  23:08, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Nice attempt at information overload. However, this is a discussion about the WPBiography template not Cat handler, Cat handler/blacklist, Cat handler/numbered or any of the other eighteen templates that are in this section.  Also, while it may be that consensus has changed, it should be noted that Banner standardisation as a proposal crashed and burned.  It did not become a policy.  It did not become a guideline. It is an essay and has the force and weight of any other essay.
 * Despite that, I am almost certain that an editor who is well-versed in the writing of templates will tire of the discussion and change the template. There will be complaints but no one will be bothered to take the matter any further.  JimCubb (talk) 06:16, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Some bugs in Biography articles with more than one work group needing priority parameter replacement
Category:Biography articles with more than one work group needing priority parameter replacement seems to contain pages that are only in one work group but have activepol on them. Example was Talk:Nessa Childers but probably I fixed it for the particular case. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:11, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Removal of hyphen
I propose that the hyphen be removed from between "recently" and "appearing", for this template to conform to the guideline at WP:HYPHEN, sub-subsection 3, point 4. (I am adding this template and its talk page to my watchlist, and I will watch here for a reply or replies.) —Wavelength (talk) 20:28, 9 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Where do you mean? PC78 (talk) 20:41, 9 November 2010 (UTC)


 * It is in the second large box on the page, where the text begins with the words "This WikiProject banner uses". You can find it by searching for the word "recently" with Control-F.
 * —Wavelength (talk) 21:46, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh thats actually not this template thats the Metatemplate that is used to create almost all the WikiProject Banners. You would have to ask there but I believe thats just a documentation change and doesnt actually affect the template. --Kumioko (talk) 21:59, 9 November 2010 (UTC)


 * I visited Template:WPBannerMeta, but I did not find the word "recently" on that page. Is it the right page?
 * —Wavelength (talk) 23:26, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Its here Template:WPBannerMeta/templatepage. --Kumioko (talk) 01:50, 10 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much.—Wavelength (talk) 02:03, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
 * No problem but you probably should leave a comment on the talk pae first and see if it draws any comments. I doubt it will though cause the hyphen aint no good english the way it is. --Kumioko (talk) 02:06, 10 November 2010 (UTC)


 * My opening message there is almost identical to the one here. I discovered that Template talk:WPBannerMeta/templatepage has fewer than 30 watchers and has received very few page views in each month of 2010.  One week might be a reasonable period of time to wait for a reply.
 * —Wavelength (talk) 02:35, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I am one of the 30 watchers. I don't think you need to discuss such a trivial change honestly. Just get on with it ;) &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:24, 10 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Happy-melon has kindly removed it.—Wavelength (talk) 15:25, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Needs-persondata

 * I cleaned all pages in Category:Biography articles without persondata by adding persondata everywhere
 * Right now pages about rugby players have needs-persondata in WikiProject Rugby union and not in WikiProject Biography. I suggest we move it to the latter for consistency. In the past, we did the same for some pages having living in other templates.
 * Since all biography pages must have Persondata and we have bots adding it, I am not sure if needs-persondata is needed anymore. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:22, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I rather agree with Magio that this parameter is basically depricated but I would understand if we keep it in WPBIo just in case some got missed. That would also give the bot a first place to look.--Kumioko (talk) 19:46, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Then we have to take it from the Rugby Union to Biography. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:51, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
 * ...which I just did. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:47, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

I suggest that we do the same for WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:52, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Needs-infoboxes
I cleaned ~10% of the pages having needs-infoboxes (i.e. more than 3,000 pages cleaned). I guess, if we stanrardisie the Infoboxed more I'll be able to remove more out-dated requests. Any suggestions of how to clean everything more efficiently are welcome. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:39, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
 * In regards to the Biography articles, IMO, if we put a basic Infobox Person template with some basic info (maybe it could use the same is article about a person logic as the persondata, but if not just name would be ok with me) on articles without it that would be a big help. Then people could fill it in as needed. Of course some folks should be more specific like Military person, Actor, etc but I think Person is a good basis and most of the other person templates (inluding Military person) use it as its core now. I would say that we shouldnt drop the person template with every applicable field. Just the common ones, Name, Date of birth & death, place of birth & death and maybe a couple more. --Kumioko (talk) 19:52, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Actor is now merged with person. Probably we could merge more. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:00, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I Believe Military person is as well but we might need to double check that. --Kumioko (talk) 14:33, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

needs-photo correction to template required
If needs-photo=yes is set and baronets-work-group=yes is set the article talk page is added to Wikipedia requested photographs of peers, which is correct, but is also added to Wikipedia requested photographs of people, which is not correct. See example Talk:Andrew Feldman, Baron Feldman of Elstree. Most other task-forces correctly add only to the specific sub-group, for example Talk:Robert Balchin, Baron Lingfield --Traveler100 (talk) 12:16, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
 * As the template says followed by a complete and specific description of the request, so that an editor unfamiliar with the subject matter could complete the requested edit immediately - you will need to supply what line in the template needs altering to what. We are not all wiki code experts. I'll leave the request up - you might be lucky, don't hold your breath...  Ron h jones (Talk) 02:54, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I don't get it either. Template talk:Convert/updates has some examples of the info we need to do this kind of edit. Tell us what to cut and/or paste specifically. I'll leave the request up too, but be patient.  K rakatoa    K atie   05:20, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Do you wish to remove the people photoreq category if it is set to "peerage-work-group" as well as "baronets-work-group"? / ƒETCH COMMS  /  23:51, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
 * If "peerage-work-group" or "baronets-work-group" is set that the page should be in Wikipedia requested photographs of peers but not in Wikipedia requested photographs of people. Looking at the source of the template the problem must be due to the multiple if statement of these two task force parameters as that is the only difference to other task forces, but as yet I cannot see the exact reason. --Traveler100 (talk) 06:52, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
 * . The parameter name was incorrect. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:07, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks, well spotted.--Traveler100 (talk) 18:27, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Proposed edit
The following appears at the beginning of the template:

"This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people...."

This is grammatically incorrect; it should say, "This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, to develop and to organize Wikipedia's articles about people...." What do you guys think? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MathMaven (talk • contribs) 21:16, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Similarly, a later part of the template says, "All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion." What this says is:

"All interested editors are invited to join the project; all interested editors contribute to the discussion."
 * That's not what this template is trying to say; it should say, "All interested editors are invited to join the project and to contribute to the discussion," which avoids the enigmatic usage of the present subjunctive. —MathMaven (talk &#124; edits) 13:48, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Might be worth dropping by the ref desk to make sure that others agree with your analysis, as it might be an WP:ENGVAR thing? &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:59, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Needs-photo=yes accompanying text for BLPs
Is there any possible chance we could somehow shorten the small-font non-free images reminder that accompanies  on BLPs? I really dislike how it disproportionately enlarges the template. -- &oelig; &trade; 16:49, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
 * It is excessive. All that is needed is a link to Non-free content criteria. Alternatively we could make it so that it always goes into collapsed mode when it displays this long message. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:55, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
 * The link would be so preferable.. shall we go ahead per WP:BRD then? or wait for further comments? -- &oelig; &trade; 17:24, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Well if there are no other comments forthcoming, I think we could trim it. What wording do you propose? &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:08, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I also agree that would be an improvement. --Kumioko (talk) 13:13, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I was kinda hoping someone else could come up with the wording. I just think the link to Non-free content criteria is all that's needed. -- &oelig; &trade; 10:23, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Two Small Changes
I change the basic usage from horizontal
 * Template|parameter|parameter|parameter

to vertical
 * Template
 * parameter
 * parameter
 * parameter

for both living and not living. They now fit on the screen better.

I also change the incorrect definition of the sort value for {para|listas}}. It did not seem a big enough deal to require permission first. JimCubb (talk) 21:57, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Kretschmann then moved to Malaysia in the summer to shot his scenes for the German I think the contributor meant to type 'shoot' — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.77.57.116 (talk) 18:42, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Brian Clewer
I'm an old guy not good with computer stuff, so I'll leave the editing to somebody else, but the page gives his age as both 79 and 96. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.209.171.179 (talk) 04:00, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Fixed this. Please use the original article's talk page for more questions like these about his article. Thank you. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 18:53, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Living parameter - List articles?
How should the living parameter be set for list articles (and what articles should be marked with this template if they're list articles)? If everyone on the list is deceased, I would presume "no", but what about other cases? I'm guessing "yes" if any member of the list is still living? Or "no" but mark "blpo=yes" if any member of the list is still living? In some cases, it will be somewhat impractical to go through the list regularly and check to see if all are living - perhaps something could eventually be done like putting a notation of the latest birthdate and automatically assuming "no" if that's more than 125 years ago? Or a bot to regularly check the entries for each person in the list? Thanks! Allens (talk) 20:43, 4 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Incidentally, if it would be better to ask this on the Wikiproject Biography Talk page or someplace else, I apologize, and please let me know where to take this question; thanks! Allens (talk) 05:10, 5 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Disambiguation pages have a similar issue. If class=Disambig, then I'd expect the effects of living= to be overidden. Yet, it looks like has been using class=Disambig to sepecifically set living=no even if the dab contains living people . I'm not sure this is harmful, but it does seem inelegant. Noca2plus (talk) 19:57, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Red flag/similar to show in template if no "living=yes/no" parameter?
As well as placement in the Category:Biography articles without living parameter, could something be done to cause a message and a graphical "red flag"/similar to show up in the template itself, to encourage people to go ahead and correct this? (That category is currently backlogged badly - I'm working on it when I have time.) The message should perhaps include some sub-portion of the BLP template text, to try to ward off libel/slander suits vs Wikipedia. (This is particularly acute regarding US law for relatively obscure people who are likely considered not "public figures" - these are also the ones most likely not to have been properly labeled as "living=yes", might not be in the "living people" category, etc...) Thanks! Allens (talk) 21:06, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Living = parameter for twins, duos etc.
As an example the article Viet and Duc Nguyen is about a pair of conjoined twins. Viet is now dead but Duc still lives. Should we put living=yes, living=no or do we need another parameter ? Racklever (talk) 10:08, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * The parameter is not a method of classifying articles but to flag that an article contains information about a living person, therefore yes. --Traveler100 (talk) 19:17, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Reduce number of parameters?
I'm wondering if it would simplify things if we had just the one parameter for each workgroup, instead of the current two. For example, instead of sports-work-group=yes|sports-priority=Mid  we could have (for example) sports-priority=Mid (alternatively, sports-work-group=Mid). Whichever parameter was chosen, the other could be phased out. Any non-blank value for the parameter chosen could automatically add the article into the relevant work group, and if it were a valid priority value it would also add it into the relevant priority category. I've seen something similar done for other templates, for example Template:WikiProject Football, where an article can be categorised into a task force and given an importance value for that task force, all using a single parameter. --Jameboy (talk) 14:36, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

More photos?
Proposal: For  emit "a photograph or picture", but for , emit  "more photographs or pictures". --Lexein (talk) 22:20, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I would suggest another solution, namely use the Image requested template with the of parameter. The need-photo parameter in the Biography template has reached its limit as it places too many article requests in a single category. The Image requested template allows for placing in more specific sub-categories as well as being able to provide additional detail of the request. For example  .--Traveler100 (talk) 05:26, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Ah, well. This is a wide-open topic with too many unknowns, and we can't solve everything at once, and certainly not here. --Lexein (talk) 16:32, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Religion work group
Is there no religion work group in which to add religious figures (e.g. priests, bishops)? Very surprised by this. --Jameboy (talk) 05:53, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Add Sports and games portal
I added the sports and games portal to the Sports and games work group to the template in the sandbox. Please implement. Kumioko (talk) 23:52, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done -- Red rose64 (talk) 16:42, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Categories named after people
There seems to be a general rule that categories named after people (ie Category:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) are not themselves placed in any categories, other than hidden categories, including the category structure known as Category:Eponymous categories. I understand that one of the reasons for this is that not every article in a person's category is about that person (ie their history, beliefs, etc), but includes articles about people associated with them, their biographers, their hometown, etc. I do know that this practice of not including eponymous categories in the regular category tree is not universally cleaved to. City categories are often placed in the category for their state. I want to know if it is official WP policy to not allow eponymous categories to be placed in larger categories, and if so, what steps are being taken to stop all such activity. I sympathize with the problem here, but i feel that such eponymous categories should just be placed in the regular category tree, despite this discrepancy. if i am in the minority, so be it, but i cant determine what we are doing. any directions to policy would be appreciated.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 06:19, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Category:Incorrectly_tagged_WikiProject_Biography_articles
Question about a few of the cases where the template puts pages into this category. I'm working on clearing the Category and while a page like User talk:Geo Swan/Guantanamo/Rick Schieke belongs in the category, I'm a little more hesitant about a page like Wikipedia talk:Article Incubator/Cassie Sumner or Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Jorge Manuel Miranda Dias. However the ones that have me really confused are ones like Talk:Nitrozac. I finally figured out that the template objects to being placed on the talk page for a redirect, Nitrozac redirects to The Joy of Tech.

I'm willing to fix all of these, but what should I use for the explanation for the changes on pages like Talk:Nitrozac?Naraht (talk) 15:09, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Portal:Sports and games portal
Now is a red link. Could someone set to Portal:Sport. --Kasper2006 (talk) 20:02, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
 * ✅, see . -- Red rose64 (talk) 20:39, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Auto-name sorting for listas parameter
There is a module (Module:SortName) which attempts to create a sortable name out of a page's title for use in this template's listas parameter. If this code were added to the doc page— —then people copy/pasting the template code would get the listas parameter filled in automatically. From the pages on which this template is transcluded, the module looks like it would output a good sortable name on about 90–95% of the articles. You can see various outputs on the module's testcases page. The other 5–10% of articles may take a human understanding of the subject, although the module may be refined further with input from others. — Bility (talk) 22:18, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Feature brainstorm for Module:WikiProjectBanner
I'm in the early stages of developing a Lua-based replacement for WPBannerMeta, and I would appreciate peoples ideas for features. If there is anything that you have wanted to do with your WikiProject template, but haven't been able to due to limitations in the meta-template, I would be very interested to hear it. The discussion is over at Template talk:WPBannerMeta. — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 12:23, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Changing the icon
The person icon for this template has remained the same since its creation in 2006 (File:Crystal personal.svg - a faceless, peach-skinned, presumably male person in a tie). I'd like to change the icon to reflect a different skin tone, gender, or style of dress. Perhaps we can have a woman of color icon for a while. Commons has a number of other icons in Category:People_icons or a new icon could be created. Just as an example, I think the lower image on the right (File:Etno icon.png) demonstrates how this icon could be more worldly and inclusive of different genders/ethnicities. Gobōnobō + c 19:01, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

Living parameter
List-class/template class should mean that no error (Category:Biography_articles_without_living_parameter) is shown for not having a living parameter. User:GKFXtalk 17:51, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

RfC: remove the attention flag from WPBannerMeta
See the discussion here. RockMagnetist (talk) 05:26, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

best website
hello, im newbie here — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.115.184.17 (talk) 21:00, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Assesment
Hello, could somebody please assess Frank Riethmuller, as I am not really familiar with the assessment criteria (as soon as an article obviously is better than start) - is this a C, B or perhaps even A-class article? Best wishes, Anna reg (talk) 11:12, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

RfC: BDP in Biography template
Should the Biography template be adjusted to include the "bdp=" parameter? Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 20:18, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
 * No, it duplicates blpo=yes. Maybe change the wording of blpo slightly.--Racklever (talk) 08:59, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't think it does duplicate it; it doesn't neatly fit into either BLP or BLPO, as blp=yes adds it to a living persons category, whereas blpo=yes adds a banner saying "the Biographies of living persons policy does not apply directly to the subject of this article", which works for actual BLPO articles, but not articles covered specifically under WP:BDP. I think a bdp parameter might be useful, especially if we can track when it's been added so that it can be changed when an appropriate amount of time has passed. Even if that's a little too much, however, I don't think changing BLPO's wording would be beneficial for any non-BDP article. - Aoidh (talk) 09:04, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Maybe change the wording to "the Biographies of living persons policy does not apply directly to the subject of this article unless they have recently died" --Racklever (talk) 09:25, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

What do you (or anyone) see as the benefit of announcing that? The BLP banner says, in effect, "we must be especially careful with fairness and sourcing on this article." A "BLP doesn't apply" banner would say, in effect, "we can be less careful with fairness and sourcing on this article." I suppose that is true, in a sense, but I don't see much value to emphasizing the fact. Newyorkbrad (talk) 00:58, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
 * That's not what a BDP parameter would say, because BLP does apply to BDP articles, but the problem is that adding blp=yes to articles is also including them in a category for living people, and changing it to blpo=yes is saying that BLP doesn't apply to the subject of the article, which is inaccurate for articles of recently deceased subjects, especially controversial deaths. A bdp parameter would state that BLP applies without actually adding it to the living people category. - Aoidh (talk) 08:05, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

I am neutral on this subject - I can see 's point but I am also sympathetic to 's suggestion about changing the wording. Can someone who is against BDP clarify what the downside of adding a BDP parameter would be, other than the fact that it may be somewhat redundant? It seems to me that disambiguating between different categories of BLPO is not necessarily a bad thing, we can always just have the BDP flag transclude BLPO for now, and if in the future we decide that we want further disambiguation, the pages where BDP applies will already be appropriately tagged. 0x0077BE [talk/contrib] 14:18, 3 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Couldn't a banner be displayed for "living=no" that explains that BLP policy may apply to this article? If people don't like that, then I guess bdp could be used.  The issue doesn't seem critically important, but I guess such a feature wouldn't hurt anything. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 02:52, 14 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment: I have been working through adding living parameters to the articles in Category:Biography articles without living parameter and have stumbled upon the article about Alexei Devotchenko. Devotchenko is a good example of where a separate "bdp" parameter would be useful. Devotchenko died on 5 Nov 14. (Only 5 days have passed between then and the time of this comment.) His death is reported by The Independent, which I am assuming is considered a reliable source. In this situation neither the "living" nor "blpo" parameters are appropriate but there should be a notice of caution regarding the article subject, due to the contentious subject matter. Kind regards, Matt Heard (talk) 01:31, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Results of |a&e-work-group=yes not displaying when |musician-work-group=yes is included.
On Talk:Mary_Hallock-Greenewalt, I have this:


 * a&e-work-group=yes
 * musician-work-group=yes

but, only "This template is supported by WikiProject Musicians" displays.

When I remove


 * musician-work-group=yes

then "This template is supported by the arts and entertainment work group" displays.

Is this a bug? Any suggestions or work-arounds so it will display both?

Peaceray (talk) 20:46, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
 * It's intentional - if either yes or yes is present, a&e-work-group and a&e-priority are ignored. There are several threads on the matter in the archives, the earliest is Template talk:WikiProject Biography/Archive 2 and the latest Template talk:WikiProject Biography/Archive 5. It's covered by the first bullet at Template:WikiProject Biography, although it doesn't actually say that they're mutually exclusive. -- Red rose64 (talk) 23:47, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * @ Red rose64 Oh, okay. Yeah, the precedence of  &   over   is not spelled out at Template:WikiProject Biography. It just says that if the article is about an actor or filmmaker, to use those work groups instead. I cannot agree that being a musician or a filmmaker disqualifies one as an artist, at least as far as work groups are concerned. I just heard Joni Mitchell on the radio today saying that she considers herself a painter who does music, & Jean Cocteau & Man Ray did both art & film. I don't agree, but at least I now understand the situation.
 * From the  code in the template, it looks like the only workgroup that is overidden is the arts and entertainment work group if either the filmbio-work-group or the musician-work-group (or both) equals yes. I will add something to the documentation to note that when I get a chance.
 * Peaceray (talk) 18:34, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
 * It's true about Joni Mitchell. She couldn't sell her paintings, so sang around bars and clubs to make money for paints and other materials. All her earlier album sleeves were drawn or painted by herself (no photos until Blue) - it was the only way to get her art over to a wider audience. Look at the way that the title of Song to a Seagull is made of dozens of tiny birds - so subtly that the UK record company overlooked it entirely and thought that the album was simply titled "Joni Mitchell" and marketed it as such.
 * Anyway, to get the behaviour of a&e-work-group changed needs a discussion involving many more than two of us, considering that it was set up that way several years ago. -- Red rose64 (talk) 00:31, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Persondata has been deprecated
Persondata has been deprecated by this RfC, in favour of Wikidata. The related parameter should now be removed from this template. I've already proposed the category that that sets for deletion. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:45, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

Usage for talk pages of families?
I have a few questions questions:
 * 1) Should/Could this template also be used for asessments of articles about families (like in Talk:Hegardt and Talk:Schröder family) or similar categories (like in Category talk:Moltke family), rather than individual persons?
 * 2) If the answer to the first question is yes, should then the parameter "class=" be set to something reflecting the fact that the article or category concerns several related people rather than just one person?
 * 3) If the answer to the first question is yes, and if some but not all persons included are dead, should then the parameter "living=" be set to yes or to no, or be left unspecified?
 * 4) If the answer to the first question is no, do you then have a suggestion for alternatives?  Could Template:WikiProject Genealogy be reasonable? JoergenB (talk) 20:20, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes; see for example Talk:Beverley Sisters.
 * No - the class parameter indicates the quality of the article, not the number of subtopics. Only the values shown in the first column of this table are valid; for regular articles they are fa/a/ga/b/c/start/stub (note that if the page is in mainspace but is not a true article, the special values fl list or dab may be used).
 * If everybody that is covered is dead, set no. If any one or more of them are still alive, yes.
 * There is nothing to stop you putting two or more WikiProject banners on a talk page, provided that all of them are relevant. -- Red rose64 (talk) 23:46, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

Robert Chuter
This profile is missing out one of the most important elements of this director's career - his theatre direction. Also someone keeps on changing essential pieces of information. There is also inaccurate information. regards Chris Pender — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.237.121.36 (talk) 13:32, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the template . Please make your comments at Talk:Robert Chuter. -- Red rose64 (talk) 15:19, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Priority or importance?
There is a discussion at WT:WPBM about whether banner templates (particularly this one) should use the word "priority" rather than "importance" to describe articles. Please contribute over there. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:52, 29 January 2015 (UTC)


 * i see you are striping out all priority or importance for biographies. why? you understand that you cannot then do any project management of biographies, (or enter contests). Duckduckstop (talk) 17:16, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Update Free Image Search Tool link
Since the Free Image Search Tool has moved to Labs, could someone please update this template to change the link from  to   ? I have made the proposed change in the sandbox. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 02:35, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Note that Template:Image requested already has the update I'm requesting here. Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 03:02, 30 August 2015 (UTC)


 * ✅ – Painius 15:22, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

women banner
I shall preface this by saying I am not remotely technically inclined; however, we are beginning a new WikiProject and as part of it, it has been suggested that we have a yes/yes implemented in WP Biography. I have no idea what to do exactly, and was advised here Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women to ask Template talk:WPBannerMeta, but they suggested that I ask you. Template talk:WPBannerMeta. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! SusunW (talk) 22:30, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Adding a task force to a WikiProject banner like is not difficult ( that I did a few months ago at ); but WikiProject Biography has a huge scope - possibly the biggest of all the WikiProjects - so the impact could be great (it could affect half of the 1.3 million articles using this banner); therefore, before proceeding, we need to know that there is consensus for the addition. We can then discuss details. -- Red rose64 (talk) 23:14, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your help. I don't know how to proceed with that so will advise WikiProject Women of your response and see what next steps need to be taken. SusunW (talk) 23:21, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Draft class
Is it possible to break out Category:NA-Class biography articles with the addition of classes for Drafts, files, and redirects? Eliminating redirects from there would clean that category up. The files listed are largely signatures I think. It would be really helpful to have Category:Draft-Class biography articles to put sandbox and userspace drafts to check potential biographies for BLP issues or other things. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 00:26, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes it is: it could be done by adding three lines to Template:WikiProject Biography/class - together with creation of the appropriate categories like   etc. - 18 cats in all. However, since this WikiProject is so widely used, it really does need discussion and consensus before proceeding. -- Red rose64 (talk) 08:21, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussion here? :P Or I guess discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography to start? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 08:23, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography - it has four times as many watchers. -- Red rose64 (talk) 15:17, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Well, no takers at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Biography. Maybe an RFC or something more to get an idea on whether there's supporters? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 20:20, 31 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Draft is uniformly supported here (by two other people I admit) so at least that one I guess? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 00:28, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅. Required categories shown on Template:WikiProject Biography/class. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:55, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

"living" parameter
This template is used on the talk pages of hundreds of articles like Baron Norton or even List of people on the postage stamps of Portugal that are not about individuals. If we are going to use it that way, then the "living" parameter probably needs to have a "not an individual" or "not applicable" option; as it stands, these pages end up inappropriately in Category:Biography articles without living parameter. - Jmabel &#124; Talk 04:12, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Jmabel we use this parameter in lists. We set "living" to "yes" when at least one person from the lists is alive. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:30, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Ah. Our documentation of the template should probably say something about that then. - Jmabel &#124; Talk 06:46, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Jmabel Updated. Thanks for the heads up. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:12, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Change photo requests to image requests
As part of a nearly-completed shift to distinguish requests for photos from requests for images in general, it is requested that this template be modified to place talk pages in "Wikipedia requested images of..." categories, rather than the old "Wikipedia requested photographs of..." categories. As such, please supplement all references to "photo(s) of..." and "photograph(s) of..." with "image(s) of..." in both the template and its documentation, while maintaining backwards compatibility for the old "photo" parameters. In particular, change "photograph or picture" to simply "image". Note that the "Wikipedia requested images of..." categories have already been created. Thank you! — s w p b T 15:22, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

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 * Mock-up in sandbox. — s w p b T 14:23, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: per moratorium proposed at Category_talk:Wikipedia_requested_images_by_subject. Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|'''TALK

Edit request

 * Can we please change the first line of this template's advisory from -
 * "This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons."
 * TO
 * "This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons policy, even if it may not be a biography, because it contains material about living persons."
 * Thanks. Lourdes  02:06, 17 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Yellow check.svg Partly done: Please see the fully protected request at Template talk:BLP.  Paine   u/ c  02:45, 17 September 2016 (UTC)


 * hi. What would partly done mean? Thanks. Lourdes  07:41, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
 * They placed your request in the proper place on your behalf, see Template talk:BLP. — Godsy (TALK CONT ) 09:17, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you, . Lourdes  13:33, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Pleasure!  Paine   —Preceding undated comment added 17:37, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

FRANKLIN RHODA
I have added a great deal to the entry on Franklin Rhoda based on extensive research including old diaries in my personal possession. Franklin Rhoda is my Great Grandfather. In recently updating my family tree and reading Franklin Rhoda's diaries I thought there should be an entry in Wikipedia for him. I went to Wikipedia and found that there was already an entry. But this entry was essentially limited to his work during three summers as a topographer in the Rockies. Given that he accomplished a great deal during the other part of his life, I decided to amend the entry drawing heavily on research of others especially historian Dr. Mike Foster who published many articles about Franklin Rhoda. But as Franklin's Great Grandson I admit that I must be biased. I welcome the edits, corrections, deletions and other input on the current entry on Franklin Rhoda. Thank you.

Rhodarick (talk) 15:03, 28 July 2017 (UTC) Richard Rhoda PhD Rhodarick (talk) 15:03, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
 * This really isn't the forum for that. Try going to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography. Jjjjjjdddddd (talk) 07:13, 20 August 2017 (UTC)

John Truscott, Australian film designer.
My name is John Truscott. I am English and trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London. I acted in two films: The Spy Who Loved Me and Taxandria. I notice that in your biography of John Truscott the Australian designer you have attributed my filmography to him. This is distressing to me. Please note that Taxandria was made in 1994, the year after the designer John Truscott died. Will you please alter your biography of the designer? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaytruscott (talk • contribs) 11:29, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Done. You'll need to contact AllMovie.com to see about separating the two entries over there (https://www.allmovie.com/artist/p114635 commingles them). I've already submitted a change request at IMDb to do this for their mangled entry (at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0874405/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 ). I don't know how long that takes to process, but there should eventually be a separate entry for each JT in the search results here.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ &gt;ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ&lt;  18:08, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

Add Television WikiProject
There are a lot of Televisions directors and TV hosts. I can't use the WikiProject film, cause they don't work in the cinema industry. CherryPie94 &#x1F352;&#x1f967; (talk) 00:05, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Use a&e-work-group with a&e-priority. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 16:43, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

Listas for "List of…" articles
Currently the template for List of Grateful Dead members has List of Grateful Dead members. Should this, and the hundreds of other similar cases, be re-arranged as such: Grateful Dead members, List of? --LukeSurlt c 14:00, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

Feedback sought for merger discussion at Adrienne Rich
Your feedback would be appreciated at Talk:Adrienne Rich. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 19:07, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

TemplateData error
, I'm getting the above error when I attempt to edit TemplateData via the edit page button. Do you want to try to resolve the error rather than reverting the changes you made in late May? (not watching, please  as needed)   czar  09:52, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I removed a "," - but I can not test it (because I do not know where you got the error). I'm only using json via the script User:Evad37/rater.js Christian75 (talk) 10:55, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

old peer review category
Hello. I've noticed that Category:Old requests for Biography peer review has been deleted since 2011, but still part of the Template:WikiProject Biography per the |old-peer-review= switch. Is there a reason for this inconsistency? Thanks! --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 17:23, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
 * It was deleted under WP:CSD by . It should probably be undeleted, and marked . -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 18:33, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Detecting use in user space
is showing up in the Special:WantedCategories backlog because User:Auric has tagged a couple of articles such as User talk:Geo Swan/Abdul Hafiz (Guantanamo captive 1030) as "User" class after they were moved to user space. Per WP: REDNOT Auric should not have made an edit that left a page with red links to a category, but per WP:USERNOCAT this template shouldn't be creating categories when it's in user space anyway. I don't know how often bio articles get moved to user pages, but would it be worth doing some user space detection that disables categories on user pages? Le Deluge (talk) 12:56, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that. I think I got that from Category:User-Class biography (military) articles. -- Auric   talk  13:03, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
 * WP:USERNOCAT is about not putting user pages into content categories. Categories with names like "Foo-Class bar articles" are not content categories, they contain only talk pages. An example of a content category is, from which the user page User:Geo Swan/Abdul Hafiz (Guantanamo captive 1030) has correctly been excluded. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 22:40, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

Changing the icon
We have had the same icon of the little white guy with a tie forever. I've tried to start a conversation about changing it before, but maybe it is best to just be bold. I'm not particularly attached to the cowboy-Inuit-geisha trio, so any suggestions would be welcome.

Please change the value of IMAGE_LEFT from File:Crystal personal.svg to File:Etno icon.png and change the value of IMAGE_LEFT_LARGE to 80px. Thank you, gobonobo  + c 09:06, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the template. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 20:08, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:WikiProject Musicians
Template:WikiProject Musicians has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 07:35, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Free Image Search Tool error
The link to the Free Image Search Tool generated by this template generates a 404 error. Is this something that can be fixed? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 04:44, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I opened an issue for at https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/fist/issues/15/free-image-search-tool-link-generates-a  GoingBatty (talk) 00:44, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Shortening the work group code
Can I ask, would it not be easier that instead of using "military-work-group" (for example) for the work group coding, we just use "military" or "sports" for ease of access and brevity?  The C of E God Save the Queen!  ( talk ) 08:07, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Peer review categories
I'm not quite sure how or when it happened (an accidental side-effect of 's recent edits perhaps?), but this template is now putting hundreds of articles into deleted categories such as, , and , which are showing up in the backlog at Special:WantedCategories. I assume this was not intended as the cats were deleted over a year ago, could somebody investigate? Le Deluge (talk) 19:04, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
 * It looks like these categories were emptied many years ago, my recent edits brought them back to use. If you want to use them, I will restore the categories. If you don't want them, I will depopulate them again. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:34, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Well, whether they get used or not is a matter for the WPBIO community - which I'm not part of, I'm just part of the gang working on the SWC backlog. But on the assumption that they were brought back from the dead inadvertently and not because WPBIO wanted them back, then it would appear they should be disabled to reverse the breach of WP:REDNOT. Le Deluge (talk) 20:05, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
 * The categories have been restored. Probably should not have been removed in the first place. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:49, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Stop populating Category:Biography articles without listas parameter
I propose to stop populating Category:Biography articles without listas parameter because the listas parameter can now be moved to the banner shell template so it is no longer required on this template &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:15, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
 * How will we detect the complete absence of listas on biographical articles? -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 17:59, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I can code the template to check that. But is this something we really need to track? &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:18, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Code on sandbox (diff) &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:52, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 06:48, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

"Template:BIO" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:BIO&redirect=no Template:BIO] has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached. Estopedist1 (talk) 05:47, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

"Template:Bio" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Bio&redirect=no Template:Bio] has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached. Estopedist1 (talk) 16:19, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Too long, too annoying
Can this be set to auto-collapse, or at least have an option to collapse to hide the numerous projects? Having a massive block of projects listed at the top (some of which are only of tangential connection to the subject) is time consuming and tiresome. Some are the entire height of a screen on a desktop, and it's just annoying. I've tried what seem like they might be logical (hide=, collapse(d)=, etc) but nothing obvious seems to work. - SchroCat (talk) 19:50, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
 * is probably what you want.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  20:06, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Excellent, thanks very much for that. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 06:57, 15 November 2023 (UTC)