Wikipedia:WikiProject_Crime_and_Criminal_Biography

Wikipedia:WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography

Wikipedia:WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography


Welcome to WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography. This project needs the help of all who are interested in the history of crime and criminals, ranging from conspiratorial corporate crime to serial killers. Please help!

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Goals

To improve the quality of articles related to subjects about crime.

Scope

Crime

This WikiProject focuses on criminology and a wide range of crime-related topics, verifying notability of articles, expanding stub-class crime related articles and writing specific contributions to requested crime articles.

Crime and criminology related subjects can range from specific areas, geographical locations, and historical periods as well as overlap with other subjects such as WikiProject Law and Law Enforcement.

The scope of crime and criminology includes people, events, and related information on:

Criminal biographies

In Wikipedia, the biography page of a criminal often uses the same style and form of other regular biographies. However, due to the sensitiveness and uniqueness of their biography, something different needs to be done. Additionally, criminal biographies or sections in articles about the perpetrators of crimes may face unique BLP issues.

Biographies and other subjects generally follow standard Wikipedia Manual of Style formatting; however, there are a few exceptions, such as specialized formats established of criminal organizations (as seen in Bufalino crime family originally established by User:ExplorerCDT).

Parentage

This WikiProject was originally proposed by User:Remember in December 2006 (see ) which was eventually merged with the present biography project established by User:Wooyi in February 2007.

Task forces

  1. Serial Killer task force
  2. Organized crime task force
  3. Missing People task force (defunct)

Open tasks

To-do list


Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Articles that need expansion/improvement

Directory of Participants

This is a list of Wikipedians, who are committed to this WikiProject. Please, feel free to join, by clicking edit on the right and signing your name at the bottom of the list with four tildes (~~~~), with an optional comment. To add these templates to your user page, type: {{User WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography}} to produce:


Members

Inactive members

Members who are currently inactive on Wikipedia.

  • Wooyi --- Project author. 03:33, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Dep. Garcia ( Talk | Help Desk | Complaints ) 10:02, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
  • MadMax 11:13, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Destructo 087 22:37, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Ozgod 03:01, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Quadzilla99 17:33, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
  • The H-Man2 15:51, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Jmm6f488 00:32, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Alexbonaro 07:31, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Skosem 21:45, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Wildhartlivie 00:50, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Kathryn.rebecca42 17:14, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Ryleth777 09:34, 03 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Stephoswalk 06:10, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Seth71
  • Khanhamzakhan--Khanhamzakhan (talk) 09:12, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Sickero (talk) 02:35, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
  • F-451 (talk) 23:26, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
  • LOTRrules (talk) 22:43, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
  • ||||Tonight, you sleep with the fishes* * |Talk|| 23:27, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
  • HumanFrailty 05:43, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Dcoetzee 15:46, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Tyciol 16:03, 20 August 2007 (UTC) I'm watching a specific genre of criminal in the news, if they become relevant enough in the future to be judged deserving of articles I'll help make them. I feel obligated to do this.
  • Lucy-marie 23:51, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Lord23sutch (talk) 01:01, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
  • ReignMan 03:42, 5 October 2007 (UTC) adding crime tables to cities, suggest you do the same!
  • YegerMeister 23:26, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
  • LisaSmall T/C 18:03, 11 December 2007 (UTC), particular interest in adding or correcting legal details of charges, sentences, etc.
  • SkepticalGal (talk) 11:49, 7 June 2008 (UTC) Keeping an eye on "profiling" references, general copy editing
  • Joyson Noel (talk) 17:19, 5 July 2008 (UTC) I am particularly interested in expanding and fixing up articles generally related to Organized Crime.
  • METALFREAK04 (talk) 16:30, 7 October 2008 (UTC) - I signed up for serial killers
  • dychoa {talk} 15:18, 29 March 2009 (UTC) I signed up for serial killers
  • Jake Wartenberg 01:44, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
  • ChuckStone (talk) 13:17, 7 May 2009 (UTC) Expanding, adding references, and modifying inaccurate details about American organised crime figures, primarily American Cosa Nostra and Chicago Outfit
  • Mistress of Awesome (talk) 00:22, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
  • Lord23sutch (talk) 01:01, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
  • MooreSvn (talk) 00:26, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
  • VulpineLady (talk) 21:57, 10 March 2010 (UTC) Recently sentenced serial in California. Draft up at * * * * Rodney Alcala
  • User:Roxy:Pkid
  • User:Jarovid
  • Wombat24 (talk) 07:15, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
  • Cymbelmineer (talk) 13:11, 31 July 2010 (UTC) I have added biographies before.
  • CrohnieGalTalk 16:28, 14 August 2010 (UTC) I've been working in this area for quite some time now.
  • Luckymelon (talk) 23:14, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
  • KimChee (talk) 06:52, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
  • Aidanpaige (talk) 01:20, 25 November 2010
  • PsychoticInq (talk) 18:16, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
  • Ashirwad Gogoi (talk) 12:55, 26 March (UTC) I'm a 14 year-old member with great interest in this subject.
  • Nkgal (talk) 22:00, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
  • User:CitizenQZen (talk) 02:32, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
  • DuchessofNewTown (talk) 12:28, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
  • User:Katarighe (talk) 12:28, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
  • User:beaconmike (talk) 11:50, 27 August 2011 (UTC) Wineville Chicken Coop Murders
  • Theanonymous3 (talk) 09:18, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
  • Crr4 (talk) 05:33, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
  • cyoung530 (talk) 17:11, 8 March 2012 (UTC) Rice University Student working on under-represented articles as a semester long project for class.
  • Meanie (talk) 19:46, 17 December 2012 (UTC) I recently stumbled upon a Notorious Death Row Serial Killer - He is pretty notorious in New Mexico area - I am looking for help in determining if he is relevant enough for Wikipedia. Robert Ray Fry
  • hózhǫ́ni (talk) 23:41, 6 January 2013 (UTC) Because of "AfD no consensus" Fry was deleted. Moved to my * Sandbox. Can an admin or seasoned biographer here help me salvage this serial killer stub?
  • Daniellam91 (talk) 02:18, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
  • Stanleyipkiss32 (talk) 15:15, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

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Resources

Infoboxes

  1. Use the exact infobox text below and add the information of the criminal, but do not insert any rows that do not appear below or change the text of any row, such as using "convicted of" instead of "charge". If you do, the information will not be displayed in the infobox.
  2. Link all possible information such as locations, charges, penalties, etc. Do not link dates, years or use flag icons in the infobox.

Criminal biography infobox

Copy the text below and fill in the information:

Attention: before using, please read the section on "Usage of infoboxes", located above.

{{Infobox criminal
| honorific_prefix = 
| name = 
| honorific_suffix = 
| native_name = 
| native_name_lang = 
| image = 
| image_upright = 
| image_size = 
| alt = 
| caption = 
| birth_name = 
| birth_date =     <!-- {{birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}} if dead;
                        {{birth date and age|yyyy|mm|dd|mf=yes}} if year, month and day known;
                        {{birth year and age|yyyy|mm}} if year and month known;
                        {{birth year and age|yyyy}} if only year known -->
| birth_place = 
| disappeared_date = 
| disappeared_place = 
| disappeared_status = 
| death_date =     <!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) -->
| death_place = 
| death_cause = 
| body_discovered = 
| resting_place = 
| resting_place_coordinates =
| monuments = 
| nationality = <!-- use only when necessary per [[WP:INFONAT]] -->
| other_names = 
| citizenship = 
| education = 
| alma_mater = 
| occupation = 
| years_active = 
| employer = 
| organization = 
| agent = 
| known_for = 
| notable_works = 
| style = 
| net_worth = 
| height = 
| television = 
| title = 
| term = 
| predecessor = 
| successor = 
| party = 
| movement = 
| opponents = 
| boards = 
| criminal_charge = 
| conviction_penalty = 
| conviction_status = 
| spouse =         <!-- Do not include unless notable or relevant to the crime involved -->
| children =       <!-- (as above) -->
| parents =        <!-- (as above) -->
| relatives = 
| callsign = 
| awards = 
| website = 
| allegiance =     <!-- [[Lucchese crime family]] (only?) -->
| motive = 
| conviction = 
| trial =          <!-- Only use this if the trial is bluelinked, e.g. Mafia Commission Trial -->
| trial_start = 
| trial_end = 
| reward_amount = 
| capture_status = 
| wanted_by = 
| partners = 
| wanted_since = 
| time_at_large = 
| escaped = 
| escape_end = 
| comments = 
| victims = 
| date = 
| time = 
| beginyear = 
| endyear = 
| country = 
| states = 
| locations = 
| targets = 
| fatalities = 
| injuries = 
| weapons = 
| apprehended = 
| imprisoned = 
| module =
| signature =
| signature_size =
| signature_alt = 
| footnotes = 
}}

Criminal organization infobox

Copy the text below and fill in the information:

Attention: before using, please read the section on "Usage of infoboxes", located above.

{{Infobox criminal organization
| name              = <!-- defaults to {{PAGENAME}} -->
| native_name       = 
| native_name_lang  = 
| image             = <!-- filename only -->
| image_size        = <!-- defaults to 220px -->
| image_alt         = 
| caption           = 
| founded           = 
| founder           = <!-- or |founders= -->
| named_after       = 
| founding_location = 
| years_active      = 
| territory         = 
| ethnicity         = 
| membership        = 
| leaders           = 
| activities        = 
| allies            = 
| rivals            = 
| notable_members   = 
| religion          = 
}}

Civilian attack infobox

  • {{Infobox civilian attack}} - Used for mass shootings, terrorist attacks, etc, when the article is about the event and not the perpetrator.
{{Infobox civilian attack
| title         = 
| partof        = 
| image         = 
| image_size    = 
| image_upright = 
| alt           = 
| caption       = 
| map           = 
| map_size      = 
| map_alt       = 
| map_caption   = 
| location      = 
| target        = 
| coordinates   = 
| date          = <!-- {{start date|YYYY|MM|DD}}-<br />{{end date|YYYY|MM|DD}} -->
| time          = 
| timezone      = 
| type          = 
| fatalities    = 
| injuries      = 
| victims       = <!-- or | victim = -->
| perpetrators  = <!-- or | perpetrator = --> <!-- alias: | perps = or | perp = -->
| assailants    = <!-- or | assailant = -->
| weapons       = 
| numparts      = <!-- or | numpart = -->
| dfens         = <!-- or | dfen = -->
| motive        = 
| inquiry       = 
| coroner       = 
| accused       = 
| convicted     = 
| verdict       = 
| convictions   = 
| charges       = 
| litigation    = 
| judge         = 
| website       = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} -->
| module        =
}}

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Bibliography

  • Gottesman, Ronald and Richard Maxwell Brown. Violence in America: An Encyclopedia. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999. ISBN 0-684-80487-5
  • Haines, Max. True Crime Stories: 50 Headline-Grabbing Murders from Around the World. Barnes & Noble Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0-7607-6258-9
  • Wilson, Colin. The Mammoth Book of True Crime. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1998. ISBN 0-7867-0536-1

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