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This proposal covers a plan to incorporate a large number of VIAF authority control identifiers to English Wikipedia biography articles, using the {{Authority control}} template. After an initial period of data-gathering and testing utilising multiple sources the template and VIAF parameter will be added or augmented by bot. This plan is being coordinated by Max Klein, the Wikipedian in Residence at OCLC, and Andrew Gray, the Wikipedian in Residence at the British Library.