User:Aymatth2/SvG clean-up/Guidelines

This page gives guidelines for the clean-up of 16,104 articles about living people started by User:Sander.v.Ginkel (SvG) and debated at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive941#User:Fram. The decision there was to give one week for rescue attempts followed by bulk deletion. The outcome of the follow-up discussion at User:Aymatth2/SvG clean-up was less drastic:

1. All the articles will be moved to draft space
2. Over the next 90 days articles will be reviewed, problem articles deleted or turned into redirects, and other articles corrected and promoted back to main space
3. At the end of the 90 day period all remaining drafts will be deleted.

Comments on these guidelines should be made at User talk:Aymatth2/SvG clean-up/Guidelines.

Volunteers

Please add your userid to the list below if you plan to help with the clean-up, so you can be notified of project events.

• Aymatth2
• Tazerdadog
• Lugnuts
• Megalibrarygirl
• MFriedman
• XyZAn
• Hmlarson
• TheCatalyst31

• Gtrbolivar
• Ymblanter

Outline of process

Various lists of subsets of the BLPs are given below.

• Select one of the lists of subjects that interest you,
• Pick an entry and review it
• Either flag it for deletion, turn it into a redirect, or correct it and move it to main space.
• Pick another entry.

Types of problem

Any biography of a living person should reflect what reliable sources say about the subject, with these sources cited, and with no original research. Most of the articles are reasonably accurate, although SvG sometimes added original research, or information he "knew" was accurate, that was not supported by any source. There were errors in copying information such as birth dates. In some cases it seems that SvG created an article from a source that would not be considered reliable, then added citations to other "sources" to support the article, often without checking these "sources". Sometimes the "source" did not even mention the subject. In a few cases SvG confused one person with a completely different person, giving totally misleading content.

• Unfounded libel: The article asserts that the subject engaged in unacceptable behavior such as doping or fraudulent claims about age or nationality, but the claim is not supported by a reliable source. These are rare, but must be deleted immediately.
• Undue weight: The article gives undue weight to a single documented incident such as doping, with perhaps one sentence of a two-sentence article discussing the incident. The editor may consider toning down or even dropping the incident description and/or expanding the rest of the article to give more balance. This particularly applies to people who are relatively unknown.
• Unsourced information: " ... (born February 14, 1967 in Cheyenne, United States) ... " If the source does not give the birth date and/or birth place, drop it. Some articles contain several paragraphs of plausible but unsourced information added to the original stub. Drop them. A BLP should only contain information supported by reliable sources.
• Poorly sourced information: Blog sites, celebrity gossip sites and so on are not valid sources. Drop any material supported by sources like these.
• Incorrect information: The article disagrees with the source, perhaps due to a transcription error. Correct the article to match the source.
• Incorrect links. Nobody was born in Cheyenne, United States. Fix the link.
• Original research: "is a cyclist" or "is a former cyclist". We have no way of telling the subject is still active as a cyclist – they may have retired yesterday. But if the source does not say they have retired, it is wrong to say "is a former cyclist". They may be proudly competing in the Masters 70+ class. Just say what they did: "competed as a cyclist in the 1967 Tour de France".

Bottom line is that although many of the SvG stubs are entirely accurate, many contain errors. All must be carefully checked to ensure the facts agree with reliable sources. As stated in Wikipedia: Biographies of living persons, "Editors must take particular care when adding information about living persons to any Wikipedia page. ... We must get the article right."

Deletion versus salvage

• Articles must be deleted fast if they contain unfounded or poorly sourced libel, regardless of the notability of the subject. Add {{Db-g10}} to the top of the article.
• Articles should be flagged if they do not seem to meet the notability criteria in Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline or Wikipedia:Notability (sports). Add {{Notability|Sport}} to the top of the draft article. This tells other reviewers it may not be worth spending much time trying to salvage the article.
• Consider Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Subjects notable only for one event. If an athlete is technically notable according to Wikipedia:Notability (sports), but very little information is available or is likely to become available in the future, and all the information in the stub is in the article on the event, you may:
  • Blank the article and replace by #redirect [[article on the event]]
  • Move the article to mainspace
• In all other cases, where the article does not contain an unfounded libel and the subject is notable, preferably for more than one event,
  • Carefully compare the article to the reliable source(s) and remove any original research, unsourced or poorly sourced information. Do not assume good faith if you cannot access a "source". It may not mention the subject at all.
  • Try to correct undue weight, where a single event dominates the article
  • Flesh out the article with information from other reliable sources if you have time
  • Remember to check the infobox and categories to make sure they agree with the text
  • Reactivate categories by removing the colon after the square brackets. For example, change [[:Category:Living people]] to [[Category:Living people]]
  • Move the article to mainspace

Audit

The results will be audited after a few weeks. This approach will be considered to have failed if a significant percentage of the articles that have been moved to main space turn out to still contain BLP violations and/or to contain information that is not confirmed by a citation to a reliable source. We will then revert to the letter of the close at the ANI discussion. The decision there was to give one week for rescue attempts followed by bulk deletion:

• Editors whose restorations to mainspace were problematic will be banned from participating
• Other editors will be invited to move articles they want to save from main space or draft space to their user space
• After the bulk deletion, these editors may fix the saved user space articles and move them to main space.

Lists

The table that follow gives, in each cell

1. A list of articles of a given type that have been recovered to mainspace
2. A count of the total number of articles of this type
3. A list of all the articles of this type in draft space, with redlinks for recovered articles

Kategorie	Any Gender	Female	Male
Alle	Mainspace complete list 16,096 results Draft complete list	Mainspace women 8,894 results) Draft women	Mainspace men 7,126 results Draft men
Cyclists	Mainspace cyclists 1,005 total Draft cyclists	Mainspace female cyclists 576 results Draft female cyclists	Mainspace male cyclists 426 results Draft male cyclists
Olympic competitors	Mainspace olympic competitors 2,073 results Draft Olympic competitors	Mainspace female Olympic competitors 1,002 results Draft female Olympic competitors	Mainspace male Olympic competitors 1,066 results Draft male Olympic competitors
Olympic cyclists	Mainspace olympic cyclists 152 results Draft Olympic cyclists	Mainspace female Olympic cyclists 101 results Draft female Olympic cyclists	Mainspace male Olympic cyclists 51 results Draft male Olympic cyclists
Archers	Mainspace archers 676 results Draft archers
Athletics	Mainspace competitors in athletics 262 results Draft competitors in athletics
Footballers	Mainspace footballers 2,264 results Draft footballers	Mainspace female footballers 1,922 results Draft female footballers	Mainspace male footballers 342 results Draft male footballers
Gymnasts	Mainspace gymnasts 3,168 results Draft gymnasts	Mainspace female gymnasts 2,009 results User:Aymatth2/SvG clean-up/Female gymnasts	Mainspace male gymnasts 1,156 results Draft male gymnasts
Racewalkers	Mainspace racewalkers 56 results Draft racewalkers
Runners	Mainspace runners 126 results Draft runners
Swimmers	Mainspace swimmers 10 results User:Aymatth2/SvG clean-up/Swimmers
Volleyball players	Mainspace volleyball players 4,379 results Draft volleyball players	Mainspace female volleyball players 2,154 results Draft female volleyball players	Mainspace male volleyball players 2,225 results Draft male volleyball players
Water polo players	Mainspace water polo players 1,070 results Draft water polo players
Weightlifters	Mainspace weightlifters 3,039 results Draft weighlifters	Mainspace female weightlifters 1,207 results Draft female weightlifters	Mainspace male weightlifters 1,762 results Draft male weightlifters

• Mainspace Colombian people (162 results) Draft Colombian people
• Mainspace Estonian people (63 results) Draft Estonian people
• MainspaceTanzanian people (3 results) Draft Tanzanian people

• Mainspace sportspeople in doping cases (39 results) Draft sortspeople in doping cases

Results

1. Cisiane Lopes
2. Esther Deden
3. Kathleen Weiß
4. Louisa Lippmann
5. Jennifer Geerties
6. Eva Lutz
7. Aafke Eshuis
8. Rigard van Klooster
9. Astrid Schop
10. Cora Westland
11. Lada Kozlíková
12. Verena Jooß
13. Sanne van Kerkhof
14. Matthijs Büchli
15. Richard Rozendaal
16. Eszter Tomaskovics
17. Patricia del Soto
18. Alla Jakovleva - one link was dead, all the info was correct, moved to the main space--Ymblanter (talk) 11:14, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
19. Ágnes Valkai
20. Erzsébet Valkai
21. Ioanna Stamatopoulou
22. Maria Sora
23. Virginia Niarchakou
24. Evi Tetzalidou
25. Michaela Kalogerakou
26. Silia Logotheti
27. Nikoleta Eleftheriadou
28. Vasiliki Plevritou