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WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography
	This WikiProject is about criminals and crime-related topics.
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Welcome to WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography. This is a nascent project that needs 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!

Goals

This WikiProject aims to focus on criminology and a wide range of crime related topics which will verify notability of articles, expand stub-class crime related articles, and writing specific contributions to requested crime articles.

In wikipedia, the biography page of criminals are often used the same style and form with 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.

Current Development

Usage of Info Boxes

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.
Please attach the person's birth/death place's national flag before the location in the "place of birth" and "place of death" row, using the template {{flagicon|countryname}}.
Link all possible information such as: dates, years, locations, charges, penalties, etc.

You are more than welcomed to expand it these info boxes (be careful when doing it, as editing a template may affect all articles using the template).

Serial Killer InfoBox

Serial Killer Info Box - Should be used for all serial killer, mass murder and spree killer biographies.

Copy the text below and fill the information:

Attention: Read the section on Usage of Info Boxes located above before inserting infobox

{{Infobox Serial Killer
| name=
| image=
| caption=
| birthname=
| alias=
| birth=
| location=
| death=
| cause=
| victims=
| country=
| states=
| beginyear=
| endyear=
| apprehended=
| penalty=
}}

for a list of articles that have recently added this infobox see here.

Criminal Biography InfoBox

Criminal Biography Info Box - Should be used for all criminal biographies that do not fit the above categories.

Copy the text below and fill the information:

Attention: Read the section on Usage of Info Boxes located above before inserting infobox

{{Infobox Criminal
| subject_name   = 
| image_name     = 
| image_size     = 
| image_caption  = 
| date_of_birth  = 
| place_of_birth = 
| date_of_death  = 
| place_of_death = 
| conviction     = 
| penalty        = 
| status         = 
| occupation     = 
| spouse         = 
| parents        =
| children       =
}}

for a list of articles that have recently added this infobox see here.

Criminal Organizations InfoBox

Criminal Organizations Info Box - Should be used for all gang and crime family articles.

Copy the text below and fill the information:

Attention: Read this below text before inserting infobox

{{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 here.

Other templates

Other templates used by the project include:

{{WP Crime}}, a project banner used to assess crime related articles as well as identify related projects working on the article.
{{WP Criminal}}, an alternate project banner specifically for criminal biographies.
{{Crime opentask}}, a template displaying open tasks related to the project.
{{crime-stub}}, adds article to Category:Crime stubs.
{{crime-bio-stub}}, adds article to Category:Crime biography stubs.
{{Non-free mugshot}}, an image license tag for mugshots.

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.

Task Forces

Serial Killer Task Force

Formatting

Biographies and other subjects generally follow standard Wikipedia "Manual of Style" formatting however few exceptions such as specialized formats established of criminal organizations (as seen in Bufalino crime family originally established by User:ExplorerCDT).

TALK section related to formatting

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.

TALK section related to hierarchy definition

Pending Tasks

Articles that need expansion/improvement

see Wikipedia:WikiProject Criminal Biography/Expand Articles

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 participant in WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography.

Members

Remember 17:46, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Longhair\^talk 07:43, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Wjhonson\^talk 00:43, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 00:00, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
BlueLotas 05:43, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Jimbonator 00:17, 19 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Malick78 00:24, 19 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Agtaz 05:58, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Bentley Banana 12:39, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
C i d 16:11, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Chwyatt 16:05, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
SqueakBox 21:37, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Kuzwa 17:36, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Dcoetzee 15:46, 5 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Wildhartlivie 00:50, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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.[reply]
Lucy-marie 23:51, 20 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
George100 06:34, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
ReignMan 03:42, 5 October 2007 (UTC) adding crime tables to cities, suggest you do the same![reply]
YegerMeister 23:26, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
LisaSmall ^T/C 18:03, 11 December 2007 (UTC), particular interest in adding or correcting legal details of charges, sentences, etc.[reply]
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.[reply]
Rogermx 02:40, 16 January 2008 (UTC) copy editing articles on American Cosa Nostra figures - you got a problem with that??[reply]
LOTRrules (talk) 22:43, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
SkepticalGal (talk) 11:49, 7 June 2008 (UTC) Keeping an eye on "profiling" references, general copy editing[reply]
Joyson Noel (talk) 17:19, 5 July 2008 (UTC) I am particularly interested in expanding and fixing up articles generally related to Organized Crime.[reply]
Robbie (talk) 15:12, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
*momoricks* (talk) 04:14, 6 September 2008 (UTC) — Just call me the "Infobox Fairy"[reply]
Nicknackrussian (talk) 21:43, 26 September 2008 (UTC) - I've been making organized crime/gangster articles since I signed up...[reply]
METALFREAK04 (talk) 16:30, 7 October 2008 (UTC) - I signed up for serial killers[reply]

Johnnyarbogast (talk) 17:53, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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.

User:AudeVivere, for numerous edits and contributions to crime and criminology related articles.
User:Capitalistroadster, revising and rewriting pre-1900 street gang leaders, most notably Slobbery Jim of the Daybreak Boys
User:Eusebeus, for rewriting several articles including Charles Luciano, Jack McGurn and Owney Madden.
User:Fordmadoxfraud, for contributing several criminal biographies on Depression-era outlaws.
User:Func
User:ExplorerCDT, early work on US mafia crime families
User:Irishguy, for his work on Danny Greene
User:Jackie24, for work on the Scarfo crime family, Jewish Mafia
User:JBAK, for work on the Los Angeles Mafia
User:Lanoitarus, revising of organized crime articles, specificly the former copyvio Frank Salemme
Little Joe Shots, for work on the Timeline of organized crime
User:Mafia Expert, for work on the Ciaculli Massacre
User:Mikedash, extensive contributions on major crimes and criminal biographies.
User:Mzucker, for work on the Cleveland Mafia and Porello gang.
User:Nelliebellie, for numerous contributions including work on the Tucker telephone article.
User:ONEder Boy, for the creation of the Serial Killer Info Box.
User:Phatcat68, for contributions on several members of the John Gotti family.
User:Robert Mercer, for his work on Sicilian mafiosi including Salvatore Riina
User:Scott Sanchez, for work on Jack Dragna
User:Sherurcij, numerous contributions including biographies on criminals, police officials, etc.
User:SilverWings, for contributions on several criminal biographies.
User:Skysmith, for compiling the extremely comprehensive Missing topics about Crime list
User:Stefanomione, extensive categorizing of organized crime articles
TheChin, for work on the Timeline of organized crime
User:Trac.Melton, work and research on pre-1900 street gangs, specificly the Plug Uglies
User:Wiseguy100, for work on various members of the Chicago Outfit including Harry Aleman, Frank Schweihs, Sam Carlisi and others such as New York mobster Vincent Basciano and federal agent William F. Roemer, Jr. as well as providing a number of images.
User:70.29.2.96, for his work on the Genna Brothers
User:216.20.1.212, numerous articles on Irish-American organized crime

Inactive members

Members who are currently inactive on Wikipedia.

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

General Strategy and Discussion forum

See talk page

Recent articles

Archives

2007

DYK?

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

Recognized content

Featured Articles

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

Red Barn Murder

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.

Assessment Table

Crime-related articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Other	Total
FA	2	14	33	59			108
FL				3			3
A		2		2			4
GA	9	23	85	321		2	440
B	42	173	486	1,541	1	17	2,260
C	42	341	1,057	6,442	2	35	7,919
Start		145	932	12,536	5	56	13,674
Stub		4	148	3,614		9	3,775
List	6	8	165	877		9	1,065
Category					20,968		20,968
Disambig					219		219
File					587		587
Project					13		13
Template					411		411
NA				9	1,362		1,371
Other					114		114
Assessed	101	710	2,906	25,404	23,682	128	52,931
Total	101	710	2,906	25,404	23,682	128	52,931
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 130,360			Ω = 4.63

Resources

Sub-projects

Serial Killer task force

Related WikiProjects

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

External links

The Library of Congress: Chronicling America

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 ===Honorary members===

Revision as of 17:53, 21 November 2008

Goals

Current Development

Usage of Info Boxes

Serial Killer InfoBox

Criminal Biography InfoBox

Criminal Organizations InfoBox

Other templates

Parentage

Task Forces

Formatting

Hierarchy definition

Pending Tasks

Articles that need expansion/improvement

Directory of Participants

Members

Honorary members

Inactive members

Recent articles

DYK?

Recognized content

Featured Articles

Good Articles

Assessment Table

Category

Resources

Sub-projects

Related WikiProjects

Bibliography

External links