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In 2006, Wikipedia ran a successful sitewide fixup project that involved editors going through every single untagged image on Wikipedia. The BLP Cleanup Project is a proposal that aims to have a similar scale, but this time round involving every BLP article on Wikipedia. There are several proposals involving new policy or feature on dealing with BLPs, but have stalled; This project has none of those. We make use of what we have right now, and fix it right now.
The working procedures are simple. A bot generates a list of all BLPs that are currently present on Wikipedia, divided into clusters of 200 articles. Editors would then go through the article as per following :
A sitewide notice for auto-confirmed editors can be used to promote this project and keep the momentum going.