Category:Living people: Difference between revisions

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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/Category:Living people.

Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name.

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 Category:Possibly living people.

Errata: Per WP:BDP, any individual born before 1911 whose living status remains undetermined should have this category replaced with Category:Year of death missing (the same application should be followed for individuals in Category:Possibly living people and those in Category:Missing people who had not been heretofore declared legally dead).

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+{{Notice|[[:Category:Possibly living people|Possibly living people]], [[:Category:Missing people|missing people]], and [[:Category:Dead people|dead people]] are not included here, including the recently deceased; for which see [[:Category:{{CURRENTYEAR}} deaths]] and preceding categories listing deaths in
+[[:Category:{{Years ago|1}} deaths|{{Years ago|1}}]], [[:Category:{{Years ago|2}} deaths|{{Years ago|2}}]], [[:Category:{{Years ago|3}} deaths|{{Years ago|3}}]], [[:Category:{{Years ago|4}} deaths|{{Years ago|4}}]], etc. (see [[:Category:Deaths by year]]).}}
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+{{shortcut|CAT:LP|CAT:LIVE}}
+<!-- ========================================
+     This category is for administrative purposes, per Jimbo Wales.
+     Do not nominate it for CfD; see Talk page for more details
+     Re: {{verylarge}}: please read the description below
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+{{Category explanation|articles structured as biographical entries for living individuals}}
+'''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 [[Template:BLP editnotice|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 [[WP:NPOV|neutral point of view]], maintain [[WP:AD|factual accuracy]], and be properly [[WP:CITE|sourced]]. Recent changes to these articles are listed on [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:Living people]].
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+'''Organization:''' This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally [[WP:SORTKEY|sorted]] by [[family name]].
+'''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 [[:Category:Possibly living people]].
+'''Errata:''' Per [[WP:BDP]], any individual born before {{#expr:{{CURRENTYEAR}}-115}} whose living status remains undetermined should have this category replaced with [[:Category:Year of death missing]] (the same application should be followed for individuals in [[:Category:Possibly living people]] and those in [[:Category:Missing people]] who had not been heretofore declared legally dead).
+==Related categories==
+* [[:Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]] / [[:Category:Year of birth unknown]]
+* [[:Category:Date of birth missing (living people)]] / [[:Category:Date of birth unknown]]
+* [[:Category:Place of birth missing (living people)]] / [[:Category:Place of birth unknown]]
+* [[:Category:Year of death missing]] / [[:Category:Year of death unknown]]
+* [[:Category:Date of death missing]] / [[:Category:Date of death unknown]]
+* [[:Category:Place of death missing]] / [[:Category:Place of death unknown]]
+* [[:Category:Missing middle or first names]]
+==See also==
+* [[:Category:Dead people]]
+* [[Template:Person categories]], which generates this category or death years, and birth year and sort keys.
+* [[:Category:Biography articles of living people]], talk page equivalent, populated by templates
+:'''{{Random page in category||2}}'''
+{{collapse top|API calls by namespace including recent-first}}
+{{APIQuery categorymembers/table}}
+{{collapse bottom}}
+{{Automatic category TOC}}
 {{DEFAULTSORT:Living people}}
 [[Category:People by status]]