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An article's rating is set in the class parameter of the {{WikiProject Biography}} project banner on the article's talk page. Setting the class value causes the article to be listed in the corresponding sub-categories under Category:Biography articles by quality , and to lists generated by bots such as.
As Wikipedia is a work in progress, it makes no guarantee of validity. Even a featured article that has recently appeared on the main page may contain vandalism. If you need to rely on a piece of information, the only way to do so with confidence is to check the cited source and confirm that it both matches what is in the article and is reliable.
The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Wikipedia}} banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Wikipedia articles by quality and Category:Wikipedia articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.
Wikipedia articles concerning living persons may include material—where relevant, properly weighted, and reliably sourced—about controversies or disputes in which the article subject has been involved. Wikipedia is not a forum provided for parties to off-wiki disputes to continue their hostilities.
The lead section should summarise with due weight the life and works of the person. When writing about controversies in the lead section of a biography, relevant material should neither be suppressed nor allowed to overwhelm: always pay scrupulous attention to reliable sources, and make sure the lead correctly reflects the entirety of the article.
The peer review process is highly flexible and can deal with articles of any quality. The process is intended to make both marginal and good quality articles into excellent, encyclopedic ones. However, use of a peer review for articles assessed below the Biography WikiProject's B-Class may not be a good use of reviewers' time.
On Wikipedia, notability is a test used by editors to decide whether a given topic warrants its own article. For people, the person who is the topic of a biographical article should be "worthy of notice" [1] or "note" [2] —that is, "remarkable" [2] or "significant, interesting, or unusual enough to deserve attention or to be recorded" [1] within Wikipedia as a written account of that person ...
For many experts who contribute to Wikipedia, Wikipedia articles act as their literature reviews: allowing them to collect sources for both their own research and to jumpstart the research of others. Practice. To write well on Wikipedia, you have to pay more attention to matters of public readability than you might when writing for your peers.