Wikipedia:WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography

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WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography
This WikiProject is about criminals and crime-related topics.
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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!

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 [1]) 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:

This user is a participant in WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography.


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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        =
}}

Project templates

Other templates used by the project include:

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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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