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)
- Implement a global biographies of living people policy
- 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