Category:Living people
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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 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
Category:People by status