Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a
notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of
WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a
neutral point of view, maintain
factual accuracy, and be properly
sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on
Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people.
Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally
sorted by
family name
In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give ...
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Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten years, may be removed from this category and transferred to
:Possibly living people.
Errata: Per
WP:BDP, any individual born before whose living status remains undetermined should have this category replaced with
:Year of death missing (the same application should be followed for individuals in
:Possibly living people and those in
:Missing people who had not been heretofore declared legally dead).
Related categories
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:Year of birth missing (living people) /
:Year of birth unknown
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:Date of birth missing (living people) /
:Date of birth unknown
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:Place of birth missing (living people) /
:Place of birth unknown
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:Year of death missing /
:Year of death unknown
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:Date of death missing /
:Date of death unknown
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:Place of death missing /
:Place of death unknown
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:Missing middle or first names
See also
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:Dead people
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Template:Person categories, which generates this category or death years, and birth year and sort keys.
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:Biography articles of living people, talk page equivalent, populated by templates
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People by status