Wikipedia:Find a Grave famous people

This is part of WikiProject Missing articles, an effort to use outside sources to determine what articles are missing from Wikipedia.

This list includes famous people from Find a Grave. Although each name was separately approved by the staff of Find a Grave, putting this list into a form that Wikipedia can use has broken some of the names. Please use the Find a Grave link next to each name to help fix corrupted names.

"Famous" and "Non-Notable"
As for how Find a Grave defines "famous":


 * Q. How does Find a Grave define 'famous'?
 * A. Please don't confuse importance with fame. Every one of your ancestors is important, and every veteran deserves to be remembered and honoured&mdash;but that does not mean that they are 'famous'. An individual is more likely to be designated as "famous" on the Find A Grave site if he or she is well known outside of his or her local community.

When considering whether an article should be created on Wikipedia, anyone who would not qualify for an article under Wikipedia guidelines (principally WP:Notability) should be considered "non-notable".

If you believe a person on this list may be non-notable, please place them in a separate section at the bottom of that list's page under the heading "Possibly non-notable", and with a short explanation of why you believe the person to not be notable. As usual, only delete a blue link from this list when you have verified that the person linked is the same person on Find a Grave's site. Some of the items on this list are not people, but memorials, etc. Please follow the same process mentioned above for determining notability.

When calculating how close we are to being finished, we count both verified and non-notable as "done"; we don't expect anything further to happen to these names.

Before considering creating an article

 * Check to make sure the topic does not already have an article in Wikipedia - use the search function to see if it's there as an alternate name, or as part of a larger article. If so, make a redirect, so that others can find it under the name Find a Grave uses; you can now delete it from the Find a Grave list.
 * Fix spelling or other errors in the list.

When creating articles

 * Do not copy and paste text from Find a Grave. Their copyright rules do not permit it.
 * For general help on how to write biographies, see WikiProject Biography.
 * The Find a Grave dates may be wrong by a year or two. If possible, find other sources.
 * Remember that all articles must satisfy Wikipedia core policies of notability, verifiability and reliable sources. Find a Grave is not considered a reliable source.
 * Suggested edit summary:
 * External links to the Find a Grave website should generally be avoided, in accordance with the Links normally to be avoided guideline. See WP:FINDAGRAVE-EL for further explanation about why such links should not be included. In the rare case that an external link is added, the Find a Grave template can be used.

When adding information to articles
Take care when adding information from Find a Grave to articles; Find a Grave is not considered a reliable source, because it is user-generated content – anyone can edit information there. If the information can be sourced from reliable sources, that is best; if the information can be considered at all controversial, seriously consider not adding it.

If you add facts from Find a Grave into the article, add Find a Grave as an external link, not a source, and add a comment explaining what information you have fetched from the page. This allows people to check your facts with Find a Grave, but does not assert that the fact has a reliable source.

If you don't enter any material, or if all the material you add is sourced from reliable sources, do not add a Find a Grave link.

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