Search Results: Wikipedia:SPSBLP


Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons
Jumat, 2026-08-07 16:09:57

Editors must take particular care when adding information about living persons to any Wikipedia page, including but not limited to articles, talk pages...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kelly Meighen
Minggu, 2026-03-22 05:47:50

because Dog Ear Publishing is a vanity press (so I think using it would be an SPSBLP violation). I don't see WP:ANYBIO as being met, either. The Queen Elizabeth...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RRArchive261
Sabtu, 2025-08-16 07:33:01

repeatedly adding info cited to personal blog in violation of WP:SELFPUB and WP:SPSBLP. Content in question has been under discussion for a day+ now, but IP has...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Robinson (filk musician)
Senin, 2025-11-17 18:40:49

these articles is running pretty hard against WP:V WP:RS and WP:BLP (WP:SPSBLP in particular, which says "never" not "unless its flattering and promotional")...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 301
Selasa, 2025-01-21 05:38:14

In general, when we say "Self-published sourced" and its application to SPSBLP, we're talking about a singular individual or a very small group that publishes...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2014 April 21
Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:15:44

these articles is running pretty hard against WP:V WP:RS and WP:BLP (WP:SPSBLP in particular, which says "never" not "unless its flattering and promotional")...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2019 May 8
Jumat, 2023-03-03 18:50:13

because Dog Ear Publishing is a vanity press (so I think using it would be an SPSBLP violation). I don't see WP:ANYBIO as being met, either. The Queen Elizabeth...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 196
Kamis, 2024-10-17 07:31:28

expert opinions in articles. -- Avi (talk) 15:53, 25 August 2015 (UTC) WP:SPSBLP: these may be acceptable as sources so long as the writers are professionals...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Russell T. Warne
Jumat, 2025-11-07 05:17:10

including it in a BLP is explicitly disallowed by policy, specifically WP:SPSBLP: Never use self-published sources—including but not limited to books, zines...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 282
Jumat, 2020-01-03 10:36:02

opinion is that QW is a special case and should be treated as an exception to SPSBLP until the latter might be rewritten to allow it. Otherwise Wikipedia is...

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Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive207
Sabtu, 2023-03-04 20:20:46

§FreeRangeFrogcroak 20:26, 15 September 2014 (UTC) That bit absolutely fails WP:SPSBLP so was correct to remove. Gaijin42 (talk) 20:29, 15 September 2014 (UTC)...

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Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive310
Rabu, 2021-09-22 06:58:53

Actually, I would argue that we should very rarely be using self-stated SPSBLP inclusion in the absence of any third-party or secondary coverage to give...

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Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive330
Rabu, 2026-06-24 14:26:08

conspiracy theorist (though I will point out the Forbes source is unusable per SPSBLP as a contributor piece, and a few others do not explicitly "Wakefield is...

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Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive299
Senin, 2026-08-17 17:53:34

This can be an issue of "unduly self-serving" though this is not quite an SPSBLP issue (no doubt those are her words as quoted by the NYTimes). We want to...

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Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 461
Kamis, 2025-01-02 00:13:42

use that where relevant and as limited by policy (i.e. not in BLPs per WP:SPSBLP). Roggenwolf's argument that we might use it for articles about controversial...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2025 October 30
Senin, 2025-11-10 15:18:34

including it in a BLP is explicitly disallowed by policy, specifically WP:SPSBLP: Never use self-published sources—including but not limited to books, zines...

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Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive366
Jumat, 2025-03-14 23:34:59

above, but I would say that things we'd disallow if it were a BLP (such as SPSBLP) should be more carefully considered when dealing with a gov't or a corp...

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