Wikipedia:WikiProject Living people/Implementation strategy

In order to effectively begin to resolve some of the issues surrounding biographies of living people, an implementation strategy is needed. This document contains a broad overview of what needs to be done. It also includes a degree of technical detail regarding implementation of some of the ideas.

Find and properly categorize most biographies

• Rationale: Until we have a clear understanding of the scope of the undertaking and a means to effectively monitor biographies of living people (a specific unified category), no solution or set of solutions can be truly effective.
• Method: Wikipedia:Uncategorized biographies of living people
  • List generation
    • Database queries
      • Articles in ____ births categories that are not in ____ deaths categories
      • Articles that have |living=yes on their talk page
      • Articles that use {{birth date and age}} or {{birth date}} but don't use a corresponding death date template
    • Better filtering system for already-checked entries (save separate files, etc.)

Mark all unreferenced biographies as unreferenced

• Rationale: Marking the biographies as unreferenced provides a means to (a) effectively target them for improvement or deletion; (b) pay closer attention to sourcing issues (especially as a lack of sources is a fairly good indicator of a lack of broad interest in the subject, generally speaking).
• Method: new project page
  • List generation
    • Bios using only en.wikipedia.org external links
    • Bios with 0 external links

Create and implement a tool to review biographies effectively (Sisyphus)

• Rationale: We need a tool to be able to scan for specific words or phrases and find negative unsourced statements easily.
• Method: Wikipedia:Alleviate negative unsourced statements
  • bjweeks?

Implement a global biographies of living people policy

• Rationale: It makes sense to project people on non-English projects, too
• Method: m:Biographies of living people

Re-examine and refine current notability guidelines

• Rationale: Certain guidelines are ineffective and harmful
• Method: A starting point is to look at the guidelines surrounding porn stars and criminals