Biography of living persons policy statement

"Wikipedia:Sticky" redirects here. For the inactive anti-vandalism tool, see Wikipedia:STiki.

Unsourced biographies of living people (BLPs) are eligible for a special proposed deletion process, BLPPROD.

Biography of living persons policy statement

To be eligible for a BLPPROD tag, the entry must be a biography of a living person and contain no sources in any form (as references, external links, etc., reliable or otherwise) supporting any statements made about the person in the biography.

Unlike standard proposed deletion, the BLP deletion template may be removed only after the biography contains a reliable source that supports at least one statement made about the person in the article. If the biography remains unsourced after seven days, the biography may be deleted.

This proposed deletion mechanism is intended to augment, not supersede, other Wikipedia deletion processes or content policies.

A common source of confusion in application is the differ