Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons/Authors of uBLPs

Wording

In January the Dashbot message was:

==Unreferenced BLPs== [[File:Information.svg|30px]] Hello {{BASEPAGENAME}}! Thank you for your contributions. I am a [[WP:BOT|bot]] alerting you that '''N''' of the articles that you created '''is/are''' tagged as an[[Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Sources| Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person]]. The [[WP:BLP|biographies of living persons]] policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure [[WP:VERRIFY|verifiability]], all biographies should be based on [[WP:RELIABLE|reliable sources]]. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current ''[[:Category:All_unreferenced_BLPs|{{PAGESINCATEGORY:All_unreferenced_BLPs}}]]'' article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{tl|unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article: # [[example]] - <small>{{findsources|example}}</small> Thanks!--~~~~

I think we should change that slightly, both to shift responsibility from DashBot to here, and more controversially to mention our desire to fix that backlog. We have a week or so before Tim is ready to run the Bot, so what do people think of:

==Unreferenced BLPs== [[File:Information.svg|30px]] Hello {{BASEPAGENAME}}! Thank you for your contributions. I am a [[WP:BOT|bot]] acting on behalf of Wiki Project unreferenced Biographies of Living People to alert you that '''N''' of the articles that you created '''is/are''' tagged as an [[Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Sources| Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person]]. The [[WP:BLP|biographies of living persons]] policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure [[WP:VERRIFY|verifiability]], all biographies should be based on [[WP:RELIABLE|reliable sources]]. Earlier this year the community decided to stop accepting new unreferenced biographies of living people, and is working to reference, redirect, delete or simply correct the tags of the ''[[:Category:All_unreferenced_BLPs|{{PAGESINCATEGORY:All_unreferenced_BLPs}}]]'' articles currently tagged as unreferenced BLPs. If you still have access to the sources you used when you started that article, it would be greatly appreciated if you could use them to reference it. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{tl|unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article: # [[example]] - <small>{{findsources|example}}</small> PS Apologies if you've received this message because an article you wrote has been incorrectly tagged, we are aware that poor quality tagging is a large part of the problem and have correct hundreds of tagging errors - but there are probably more still to find. Thanks!--~~~ on behalf of [[WP:WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons/Authors of uBLPs]] [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons/Authors of uBLPs|Talk]] ~~~~~

Giving:

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot acting on behalf of Wiki Project unreferenced Biographies of Living People to alert you that N of the articles that you created is/are tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. Earlier this year the community decided to stop accepting new unreferenced biographies of living people, and is working to reference, redirect, delete or simply correct the tags of the 179 articles currently tagged as unreferenced BLPs.

If you still have access to the sources you used when you started that article, it would be greatly appreciated if you could use them to reference it. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

example - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

PS Apologies if you've received this message because an article you wrote has been incorrectly tagged, we are aware that poor quality tagging is a large part of the problem and have correct hundreds of tagging errors - but there are probably more still to find.

Thanks!--user:DASHBot on behalf of WP:WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons/Authors of uBLPs Talk 08:44, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Comments? Ϣere SpielChequers 08:44, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]