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Template. : Biography. Subject's complete name (birthdate – death) can be a lead-in to the subject's popular name. Describe the subject's nationality and profession (s) in which the subject is most notable. Provide a description of the subject's major contributions in the immediately relevant field (s) of notable expertise.
On April 9, 2009, the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees passed a resolution regarding Wikimedia's handling of material about living persons. It noted that there are problems with some BLPs being overly promotional in tone, being vandalized, and containing errors and smears.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Templates. There are a variety of templates available for biography-related articles and WikiProject Biography. Listed below are some: This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people.
image - Places an image relating to the subject of the article on the left side of the section. size - Sets the image size, if left out or left blank it will default to 250px. side - Set the location of the image here, it will default to left if no side is specified. Use right or center as the variable.
[[Category:WikiProject Biography templates]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page. Otherwise, add <noinclude>[[Category:WikiProject Biography templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character.
Wikipedia:Template index, an index of all standard templates used on Wikipedia, grouped into topic-specific headings. Wikipedia:Navigation templates, templates that link between multiple articles belonging to the same topic. Wikipedia:List of infoboxes for infoboxes, which are small panels that summarize key features of the page's subject.
Redirects to such an article should exist from other forms of the name that readers might search for, especially the form that complies with the Manual of Style's defaults (for the above cases: Danah Boyd, K. D. Lang, Megan the Stallion, C. C. Sabathia, C. C. H. Pounder, D. D. Pfeiffer, Rose Ffrench and Rose Ffrench, 1st Baroness Ffrench).
Many of these parameters place the talk page of the article into an appropriate category. A manually generated (though sporadically updated) list of all the categories used in this template is at Template:WikiProject Biography/category list. Place this template on the talk page of biography articles. Basic usage. If the person is living: