User:Aymatth2/SvG clean-up/Guidelines

This page gives guidelines for the clean-up of 16,104 articles about living people started by User:Sander.v.Ginkel (SvG) and debated at Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive941. The decision there was to give one week for rescue attempts followed by bulk deletion. The outcome of the follow-up discussion at User:Aymatth2/SvG clean-up was less drastic: Comments on these guidelines should be made at User talk:Aymatth2/SvG clean-up/Guidelines.
 * 1) All the articles would be moved to draft space (this was completed on 25 January 2017)
 * 2) Over the next 90 days articles would be reviewed, problem articles deleted or turned into redirects, and other articles corrected and promoted back to main space
 * 3) At the end of the 90 day period (e.g. 24 April 2017) all remaining drafts would be deleted.

Volunteers
Please add your userid to the list below if you plan to help with the clean-up, so you can be notified of project events.
 * Aymatth2 (contribs - move log)
 * Tazerdadog (contribs - move log)
 * Lugnuts (contribs - move log)
 * Megalibrarygirl (contribs - move log)
 * MFriedman (contribs - move log)
 * XyZAn (contribs - move log)
 * Hmlarson (contribs - move log)
 * TheCatalyst31 (contribs - move log)
 * Gtrbolivar (contribs - move log)
 * Tbennert (contribs - move log)
 * Rosiestep (contribs - move log)
 * Joseph2302 (contribs - move log)
 * mmoo (contribs - move log)
 * Janweh64 (contribs - move log)
 * Iazyges (contribs - move log)
 * Arielslytherin (contribs - move log)
 * Smartyllama (contribs - move log)
 * Raymarcbadz (contribs - move log)
 * No such user (contribs - move log)
 * Xenxax (contribs - move log)

Outline of process
Various lists of subsets of the BLPs are given below.
 * Select one of the lists of subjects that interest you,
 * Pick an entry and review it
 * Either flag it for deletion, turn it into a redirect, or correct it and move it to main space.
 * Pick another entry.

Types of problem
Any biography of a living person should reflect what reliable sources say about the subject, with these sources cited, and with no original research. Most of the articles are reasonably accurate, although SvG sometimes added original research, or information he "knew" was accurate, that was not supported by any source. There were errors in copying information such as birth dates. In some cases it seems that SvG created an article from a source that would not be considered reliable, then added citations to other "sources" to support the article, often without checking these "sources". Sometimes the "source" did not even mention the subject. In a few cases SvG confused one person with a completely different person, giving totally misleading content.
 * Unfounded libel: The article asserts that the subject engaged in unacceptable behavior such as doping or fraudulent claims about age or nationality, but the claim is not supported by a reliable source. These are rare, but must be deleted immediately.
 * Undue weight: The article gives undue weight to a single documented incident such as doping, with perhaps one sentence of a two-sentence article discussing the incident. The editor may consider toning down or even dropping the incident description and/or expanding the rest of the article to give more balance. This particularly applies to people who are relatively unknown.
 * Unsourced information: " ... (born February 14, 1967 in Cheyenne, United States) ... " If the source does not give the birth date and/or birth place, drop it. Some articles contain several paragraphs of plausible but unsourced information added to the original stub. Drop them. A BLP should only contain information supported by reliable sources.
 * Poorly sourced information: Blog sites, celebrity gossip sites and so on are not valid sources. Drop any material supported by sources like these.
 * Incorrect information: The article disagrees with the source, perhaps due to a transcription error. Correct the article to match the source.
 * Incorrect links. Nobody was born in Cheyenne, United States. Fix the link.
 * Original research: "is a cyclist" or "is a former cyclist". We have no way of telling the subject is still active as a cyclist – they may have retired yesterday. But if the source does not say they have retired, it is wrong to say "is a former cyclist". They may be proudly competing in the Masters 70+ class. Just say what they did: "competed as a cyclist in the 1967 Tour de France".
 * Notability: Whereas many articles are notable per WP:SPORTS (for example, every participant in the Olympics is notable), some are not. These should be notable per WP:GNG; check that the athletes are described in reliable sources, and, ideally, add these sources to the draft before moving back to the main space.

Bottom line is that although many of the SvG stubs are entirely accurate, many contain errors. All must be carefully checked to ensure the facts agree with reliable sources. As stated in Wikipedia: Biographies of living persons, "Editors must take particular care when adding information about living persons to any Wikipedia page. ... We must get the article right."

Deletion versus salvage

 * Articles must be deleted fast if they contain unfounded or poorly sourced libel, regardless of the notability of the subject. Add Db-g10 to the top of the article.
 * Articles should be flagged if they do not seem to meet the notability criteria in Notability or Notability (sports). Add to the top of the draft article. This tells other reviewers it may not be worth spending much time trying to salvage the article.
 * Consider Biographies of living persons. If an athlete is technically notable according to Notability (sports), but very little information is available or is likely to become available in the future, and all the information in the stub is in the article on the event, you may:
 * Blank the article and replace by
 * Move the article to mainspace:
 * In all other cases, where the article does not contain an unfounded libel and the subject is notable, preferably for more than one event,
 * Carefully compare the article to the reliable source(s) and remove any original research, unsourced or poorly sourced information. Do not assume good faith if you cannot access a "source". It may not mention the subject at all.
 * Try to correct undue weight, where a single event dominates the article
 * Flesh out the article with information from other reliable sources if you have time
 * Remember to check the infobox and categories to make sure they agree with the text
 * Reactivate categories by removing the colon after the square brackets. For example, change  to
 * Moving an article from draft 207-01-22.svg Move the article to mainspace
 * Click the "Move" tab at the top of the page
 * In the window that opens, under "Move page ... New title:" you will see "Draft". Change it to "(Article)"
 * Enter a reason like "All statements checked"
 * Click on "Move Page"
 * There is no need to update any lists after you have moved an article back.

Audit
The results will be audited after a few weeks. This approach will be considered to have failed if a significant percentage of the articles that have been moved to main space turn out to still contain BLP violations and/or to contain information that is not confirmed by a citation to a reliable source. We will then revert to the letter of the close at the ANI discussion. The decision there was to give one week for rescue attempts followed by bulk deletion:
 * Editors whose restorations to mainspace were problematic will be banned from participating
 * Other editors will be invited to move articles they want to save from main space or draft space to their user space
 * After the bulk deletion, these editors may fix the saved user space articles and move them to main space.

See User:Aymatth2/SvG clean-up/Audit notes for more detail.

Lists
The table that follow gives, in each cell
 * 1) A list of articles of a given type that have been recovered to mainspace
 * 2) A count of the total number of articles of this type
 * 3) A list of all the articles of this type in draft space, with redlinks for recovered articles
 * Mainspace Colombian people (162 results) Draft Colombian people
 * Mainspace Estonian people (63 results) Draft Estonian people
 * MainspaceTanzanian people (3 results) Draft Tanzanian people


 * Mainspace sportspeople in doping cases (39 results) Draft sortspeople in doping cases

Results

 * 1) Cisiane Lopes
 * 2) Esther Deden
 * 3) Kathleen Weiß
 * 4) Louisa Lippmann
 * 5) Jennifer Geerties
 * 6) Eva Lutz
 * 7) Aafke Eshuis
 * 8) Rigard van Klooster
 * 9) Astrid Schop
 * 10) Cora Westland
 * 11) Lada Kozlíková
 * 12) Verena Jooß
 * 13) Sanne van Kerkhof
 * 14) Matthijs Büchli
 * 15) Richard Rozendaal
 * 16) Eszter Tomaskovics
 * 17) Patricia del Soto
 * 18) Alla Jakovleva - one link was dead, all the info was correct, moved to the main space--Ymblanter (talk) 11:14, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
 * 19) Ágnes Valkai
 * 20) Erzsébet Valkai
 * 21) Ioanna Stamatopoulou
 * 22) Maria Sora
 * 23) Virginia Niarchakou
 * 24) Evi Tetzalidou
 * 25) Michaela Kalogerakou
 * 26) Silia Logotheti
 * 27) Nikoleta Eleftheriadou
 * 28) Vasiliki Plevritou
 * 29) Tamás Dala
 * 30) Tihomil Vranješ
 * 31) Hanna Solovey - info was correct, one ref to a blog removed--Ymblanter (talk) 20:57, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
 * 32) Russ Prior
 * 33) Petra Grimbergen
 * 34) Draft:Altangereliin Enkhtuyaa - the content is not confirmed by the source; I was not able to find sources confirming notability. Needs to be deleted.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:22, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
 * 35) Dobromira Danailova
 * 36) Stelio DeRocco - was moved out of process to the article space, so that I found it in the NPP queue and had to look for sources myself as most of the article was not sourced.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:24, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
 * 37) Yona Knight-Wisdom
 * 38) Adriana Martin (archer)- lots of cleanup needed, and moved to sourced name
 * 39) Gheraldine Quijada- removed some unsourced
 * 40) Michelle Finn (athlete)- removed lots of unsourced, and move to correct disambiguated name
 * 41) Bébéy Beyene- added sourcing from not dead links
 * 42) Lin Li (volleyball)- added more sourcing
 * 43) Veronika Sharametsyeva - all material was sourced and accurate. Added a little info but it's still a stub. Survived an AfD on notability grounds recently, though, so it's definitely notable. Smartyllama (talk) 17:39, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
 * 44) ‎Konstantinos Galanidis
 * 45) ‎Konstantinos Tsalkanis
 * 46) Ilektra Psouni
 * 47) ‎Blanca Gil Sorli
 * 48) ‎Assel Jakayeva
 * 49) ‎Christina Kotsia
 * 50) ‎Rodolfo Sánchez
 * 51) Liberman Agámez
 * 52) ‎‎Jayson Jablonsky
 * 53) ‎Carson Clark
 * 54) ‎Andy Rojas
 * 55) ‎Jorge Elgueta
 * 56) Krasimir Gaydarski
 * 57) Ivaylo Gavrilov
 * 58) Nikolay Jeliazkov
 * 59) Lyudmil Naydenov
 * 60) Dimo Tonev
 * 61) Nayden Naydenov
 * 62) Sotiris Amarianakis
 * 63) Andreas Andreadis
 * 64) Apostolos Armenakis
 * 65) Theodoros Bozidis
 * 66) Theodoros Chatziantoniou
 * 67) Konstantinos Christofidelis
 * 68) Christos Dimitrakopoulos
 * 69) Dmytro Filippov
 * 70) Marios Giourdas
 * 71) Gerasimos Kanellos
 * 72) Theoklitos Karipidis
 * 73) Menelaos Kokkinakis
 * 74) Vasileios Kournetas
 * 75) Chrysanthos Kyriazis
 * 76) Athanasios Maroulis
 * 77) Thanassis Moustakidis
 * 78) Georgios Ntrakovits
 * 79) Achilleas Papadimitriou
 * 80) Georgios Papazoglou
 * 81) Panagiotis Pelekoudas
 * 82) Georgios Petreas
 * 83) Konstantinos Prousalis
 * 84) Nikolaos Roumeliotis
 * 85) Nikolaos Smaragdis
 * 86) Georgios Stefanou
 * 87) Konstantinos Stivachtis
 * 88) Ioannis Takouridis
 * 89) Konstantinos Tambouratzis
 * 90) Andreas Theodoridis
 * 91) Sotirios Tsergas
 * 92) Antonios Tsakiropoulos
 * 93) Maria Chatzinikolaou
 * 94) Vaia Dirva
 * 95) Eleni Kiosi
 * 96) Maria Plagiannakou
 * 97) Ioanna Vlachou
 * 98) Nadzeya Malasai
 * 99) Aneta Germanova
 * 100) Radosveta Teneva
 * 101) Gabriela Tsvetanova
 * 102) Biljana Gligorović
 * 103) Michaela Hasalíková
 * 104) Lucie Mühlsteinová
 * 105) Tatiana Artmenko
 * 106) Manuela Secolo
 * 107) Aleksandra Crnčević
 * 108) Ivana Bramborová
 * 109) Martina Noseková
 * 110) Giulia Emmolo
 * 111) Roberta Bianconi ‎
 * 112) Stefanos Galanopoulos ‎
 * 113) Konstantinos Mourikis
 * 114) Angelos Vlachopoulos ‎
 * 115) Kyriakos Pontikeas ‎
 * 116) Christodoulos Kolomvos ‎
 * 117) Georgios Dervisis ‎
 * 118) Konstantinos Genidounias
 * 119) Eleni Xenaki ‎
 * 120) Konstantinos Gouvis ‎
 * 121) Konstantinos Flegkas‎
 * 122) Eleni Kouvdou
 * 123) Gabriella Szűcs (water polo) ‎
 * 124) Antonio Petković ‎
 * 125) Alkistis Benekou ‎
 * 126) Adamantia Doureka ‎
 * 127) Eleni Goula ‎
 * 128) Christina Tsoukala ‎
 * 129) Eleni Kouvdou. I checked all articles from 16 to 30 (except 18) and from 44 to 129. I removed unsouced information and dead links, I did extensive cleanup and various corrections, I added reliable sourcing. All material is sourced and accurate and the articles' notability is confirmed. All articles are triple-checked. Gtrbolivar (talk) 15:40, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 130) Draft:Reem Yusuf Al Hashmi - sources do not verify anything. Nominated for deletion.
 * 131) Draft:Reem Yousif Al Hashmi - probably same person as above, same sources used, albeit a different unverified DoB. Nominated for deletion.
 * 132) Draft:Lorraine Hunt (footballer) - source verifies none of the article. She doesn't appear to meet WP:NFOOTY. Nominated for deletion.
 * 133) Lorraine Hanson - rewritten and sourced
 * 134) Rebecca Kalu- cleaned up
 * 135) Sahar Zaman (footballer) - rewritten
 * 136) Ryan Roberts (gymnast)
 * 137) Dimitrios Kafatos - cleaned up, participated in Olympics