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Does the scope of this category extend to e.g. music bands (which on the one hand are made up of living people, and which on the other hand are not biographies of those living people, but rather, err, a band.) I estimate several thousand band articles are in the category. I'm not finding that a very useful thing, since I'd like living people to equal 'a biography of a living person' and to exclude 'something a person is involved in'. I'd either like cover for removing the category; or else to be dissuaded from removing them. --Tagishsimon (talk) 14:24, 20 June 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Not really, as this a subcategory of Category:People, which is for individual humans, but all articles must still follow WP:BLP policy, regardless of subject or which categories they're in. Living band members should be in this category if they have their own article, as should redirects of living members who may or may not satisfy notability criteria, per Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects. Talk pages of band articles with living members, can be tagged with ((BLP)). As the article topic and scope drifts further away from living people, the necessity to include ((BLP)) lessens: Democratic Party (United States) covers some living people, some of whom may be controversial, while Canada is a broad topic, and no participants of the American Civil War are still living, but BLP policy still applies to any mention of living people (politicians, historians, etc.) in said articles. --Animalparty! (talk) 20:52, 20 June 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Having said all that, I'm sure everyone here will agree: "Living People" is one dang big category. I expected to fill up my phone's RAM trying to view it. I suppose it's just as well it's not actually laid out that way—but it was an exciting prospect. – AndyFielding (talk) 13:08, 7 November 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]
This category currently offers the following message:
I imagine the intention of this message is to say that if Person X become 90 years of age during 2021 then the period of no new documentation covers 2011-2021. And that if Person Y become 90 years of age in 2029, the period intended is 2019-2029.
But the phrasing used leads to another outcome. The current decade is the 2020s and the last one is the 2010s. This is true both today in 2021 and in eight years time in 2029. So if the last document is dated 2012 it will prevent transfer into Category:Possibly living people for both person X and Y, even though 2012 is seventeen years before person Y's 90th birthday.
The easy solution I suggest is:
change "for whom there has been no new documentation in the last decade"
to
"for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten years"
PS. I couldn't understand if it was sourced from a policy (or other authoritative discussion) so I am bringing up this matter here. Cheers CapnZapp (talk) 15:29, 15 March 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I suggest that instead of tagging each "living person" article with this category, it should be possible to just derive this from ((infobox person)) usages with a birth_date but no death_date. Mahmoud (talk) 03:29, 2 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]