Wikipedia:WikiProject Criminal Biography

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WikiProject Criminal Biography

This WikiProject is about criminals and crime-related topics.
Shortcuts: WP:CRIMINAL, WP:CRIME
Portal: Portal:Law Law Portal
Wikimedia
Commons:		 Commons:Category:Criminals Criminals
Project notice
template:		 {{WP Crime}}
Participant
userbox:		 {{User CB}}

Welcome to WikiProject Criminal Biography. This is a nascent project that needs help of all of you here who are interested in the history of crime and criminals, ranging from conspiratorial corporate crime to scary serial killers. Please help!

Contents

[edit] Goals

In wikipedia, the biography page of criminals are often used the same style and form with other regular biographies. However, due to the sensitiveness and uniqueness of their biography, something different needs to be done. The purpose of this project is to organize and improve articles that are biographies of notable criminals.

[edit] Current Development

[edit] Infobox for articles

There is this preliminary infobox for criminals, here Template:Infobox Criminal. However, the current box only has limited information. You are more than welcomed to expand it (be careful when doing it, as editing a template may affect all articles using the template).

[edit] Usage of this infobox

Copy the text below and fill the information:

Attention: Read this below text before inserting infobox

  1. Use the exact infobox text below and add the information of the criminal, but do not insert any rows that does not appear below, or alter any row into erroneous text, like using "convicted of" instead of "charge". Because if you do, the information will not show up.
  2. Please attach the person's birth/death place's national flag before the location in the "place of birth" and "place of death" row, using the template {{flagicon|countryname}}.
  3. Link the date, year, location, charges, and penalty if possible.
{{Infobox Criminal
| subject_name   = 
| image_name     = 
| image_size     = 
| image_caption  = 
| date_of_birth  = 
| place_of_birth = 
| date_of_death  = 
| place_of_death = 
| charge         = 
| penalty        = 
| status         = 
| occupation     = 
| spouse         = 
| parents        =
| children       =
}}

[edit] Articles that are recently added the infobox

for a list of articles see here.

[edit] Other templates

Other templates used by the project include:

[edit] Parentage

This WikiProject was originally proposed by User:Remember in December 2006 (see [1]) which was was eventually merged with the present biography project established by User:Wooyi in February 2007.

[edit] Descendant Wikiprojects

No descendant WikiProjects defined

[edit] Formatting

Biographies and other subjects generally follow standard Wikipedia "Manual of Style" formatting.

TALK section related to formatting

[edit] Hierarchy definition

Crime and criminology related subject 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 subjects, defined by crime and criminology, include people, events, and related information on:

  • True crime
  • Street gangs (from the early-19th century to present)
  • Mafia/Syndicate groups and members (particularly of the 20th century)
  • Criminal societies and similar organizations.
TALK section related to hierarchy definition

[edit] Pending Tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Criminal Biography: edit  · history  · watch  · refresh

Guidelines/style for criminal biography has not been set yet, which needs to be done soon. Also, when you see an article that is a criminal biography, insert {{WP Criminal}} for biographies and {{WP Crime}} for crime-related topics to the talk page.

[edit] Articles that need expansion/improvement

see Wikipedia:WikiProject Criminal Biography/Expand Articles

[edit] Directory of Participants

CB This user is a member of WikiProject Criminal Biography

If you want to participate in this project, please add your name in the bottom. And do not forget to add {{tlu|User CB} to your userpage.

  1. Wooyi --- Project author. 03:33, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
  2. Remember 17:46, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
  3. Dep. Garcia ( Talk | Help Desk | Complaints ) 10:02, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
  4. MadMax 11:13, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
  5. Destructo 087 22:37, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
  6. Longhair\talk 07:43, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
  7. Wjhonson\talk 00:43, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
  8. Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 00:00, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
  9. Ozgod 03:01, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
  10. BlueLotas 05:43, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
  11. Quadzilla99 17:33, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Honorary members

This is a listing of Wikipedians who have greatly contributed to crime and criminology-related articles on Wikipedia and/or have created many of the suggested guidelines for future criminal related articles. Apologies beforehand, for those overlooked.

General Strategy and Discussion forum

See talk page

[edit] Recent articles

February 2007

[edit] Resources

[edit] Related WikiProjects

[edit] 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

[edit] External links

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