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WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography

This WikiProject is about criminals and crime-related topics.
Shortcut: WP:CRIME, WP:CRIMINAL
Categories: WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography, Crime
Portal: Portal:Criminal justice Criminal justice
Wikimedia Commons: Commons:Category:Criminals Criminals
Project banner template: {{WP Crime}}
Userbox {{User CB}}
Assessment WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography/Assessment

Welcome to WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography. This is a nascent project, that needs the 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

This WikiProject aims to focus 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.

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. The purpose of this project is to organize and improve articles that are biographies of notable criminals.

[edit] Current development

[edit] Usage of 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.

You are more than welcome to expand these infoboxes, but be careful when doing so, as editing a template may affect all articles using the template.

[edit] Serial Killer infobox

Copy the text below and fill in the information:

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

{{Infobox Serial Killer
| name=
| image=
| caption=
| birthname=
| alias=
| birth=<!-- {{birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}} if still living, use {{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} -->
| location=
| death=<!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} death date is first, birth date is second -->
| deathplace =
| cause=
| states=
| beginyear=
| endyear=
| apprehended=
| penalty=
}}
For a list of articles that have recently added this infobox, see: Serial Killer task force/Infobox

[edit] Criminal Biography infobox

  • {{Infobox Criminal}} - should be used for all criminal biographies, that do not fit the above categories.

Copy the text below and fill in the information:

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

{{Infobox Criminal
| subject_name   = 
| image_name     = 
| image_size     = 
| image_caption  = 
| date_of_birth  = <!-- {{birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}} if still living, use {{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} -->
| place_of_birth = 
| date_of_death  = <!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} death date is first, birth date is second -->
| place_of_death =
| cause          = 
| alias          =
| charge         =
| conviction     =
| penalty        = 
| status         = 
| occupation     = 
| spouse         = 
| parents        =
| children       =
}}
For a list of articles that have recently added this infobox, see: WikiProject Criminal Biography/infobox

[edit] 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                =
| image               =
| caption             =
| founded on          =
| founding location   =
| founded by          =
| years active        =
| territory           =
| ethnic makeup       =
| membership est      =
| criminal activities =
| allies              =
| rivals              =
}}
For a list of articles that have recently added this infobox, see: WikiProject Criminal Organization/infobox

[edit] Project 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] Task Forces

  1. Serial Killer Task Force

[edit] Formatting

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).


[edit] Hierarchy definition

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 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.


[edit] Open tasks

[edit] To-do list

v • d • e

Here are some tasks you can do to help with WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography:

[edit] Articles that need expansion/improvement

See: /Expand Articles

[edit] 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. Also add this template to your user page, if you want to, type: {{User CB}} to produce:

This user is a member of WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography


[edit] Members

  1. Remember 17:46, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
  2. Longhair\talk 07:43, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
  3. Wjhonson\talk 00:43, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
  4. Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 00:00, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
  5. HumanFrailty 05:43, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
  6. Jimbonator 00:17, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
  7. Malick78 00:24, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
  8. Agtaz 05:58, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
  9. Bentley Banana 12:39, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
  10. C i d 16:11, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
  11. Chwyatt 16:05, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
  12. SqueakBox 21:37, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
  13. Kuzwa 17:36, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
  14. Dcoetzee 15:46, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
  15. Wildhartlivie 00:50, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
  16. 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.
  17. Lucy-marie 23:51, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
  18. George100 06:34, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
  19. ReignMan 03:42, 5 October 2007 (UTC) adding crime tables to cities, suggest you do the same!
  20. YegerMeister 23:26, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
  21. LisaSmall T/C 18:03, 11 December 2007 (UTC), particular interest in adding or correcting legal details of charges, sentences, etc.
  22. WTGDMan1986 -- --DFW 00:40, 13 January 2008 (UTC) college student bothered by (and tired of) all the criminals with striking resemblances to One Tree Hill actor James Lafferty murdering defenseless women. I'm entering to revert vandalism and make changes if necessary.
  23. Rogermx 02:40, 16 January 2008 (UTC) copy editing articles on American Cosa Nostra figures - you got a problem with that??
  24. SkepticalGal (talk) 11:49, 7 June 2008 (UTC) Keeping an eye on "profiling" references, general copy editing
  25. Joyson Noel (talk) 17:19, 5 July 2008 (UTC) I am particularly interested in expanding and fixing up articles generally related to Organized Crime.
  26. Robbie (talk) 15:12, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
  27. *momoricks* (talk) 04:14, 6 September 2008 (UTC) — Just call me the "Infobox Fairy"
  28. Nicknackrussian (talk) 21:43, 26 September 2008 (UTC) - I've been making organized crime/gangster articles since I signed up...
  29. METALFREAK04 (talk) 16:30, 7 October 2008 (UTC) - I signed up for serial killers
  30. Johnnyarbogast (talk) 17:53, 21 November 2008 (UTC) - Don't look too deeply into the abyss
  31. dychoa {talk} 15:18, 29 March 2009 (UTC) I signed up for serial killers
  32. — Jake Wartenberg 01:44, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
  33. ChuckStone (talk) 13:17, 7 May 2009 (UTC) Expanding, adding references, and modifying innaccurate details about American organised crime figures, primarily American Cosa Nostra and Chicago Outfit
  34. Mistress of Awesome (talk) 00:22, 30 May 2009 (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.

[edit] Inactive members

Members who are currently inactive on Wikipedia.

  1. Wooyi --- Project author. 03:33, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
  2. Dep. Garcia ( Talk | Help Desk | Complaints ) 10:02, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
  3. MadMax 11:13, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
  4. Destructo 087 22:37, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
  5. Ozgod 03:01, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
  6. Quadzilla99 17:33, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
  7. The H-Man2 15:51, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
  8. Jmm6f488 00:32, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
  9. Alexbonaro 07:31, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
  10. Skosem 21:45, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
  11. Kathryn.rebecca42 17:14, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
  12. Ryleth777 09:34, 03 October 2007 (UTC)
  13. Stephoswalk 06:10, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
  14. Seth71
  15. Khanhamzakhan--Khanhamzakhan (talk) 09:12, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
  16. Sickero (talk) 02:35, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
  17. F-451 (talk) 23:26, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
  18. LOTRrules (talk) 22:43, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] General strategy and discussion forum

See: talk page

[edit] Recent articles

[edit] DYK?

The following articles were featured as part of Wikipedia's Did you know? program.

[edit] Recognized content

[edit] Featured Articles

The following crime related articles are featured articles and contain significant contributions from project members:

[edit] Good Articles

The following crime-related articles are Good articles and contain significant contributions from project members; with some additional work they can be improved to Featured Article status.

[edit] Assessment Table

Crime-related
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 4 4 3 1 12
Good article GA 3 2 8 10 6 29
B 18 36 75 54 27 210
C 3 12 41 39 22 117
Start 2 26 184 344 179 735
Stub 7 56 289 105 457
List 1 1 4 12 18
Assessed 26 88 369 743 352 1578
Unassessed 1 1 5 4 651 662
Total 27 89 374 747 1003 2240

[edit] Categories and subpages

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[edit] Article Alerts

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[edit] Resources

[edit] Sub-projects

[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

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