Wikipedia:WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography

Crime

This WikiProject focuses on criminology and a wide range of crime-related topics, verifying notability of articles, expanding stub-class crime related articles and writing specific contributions to requested crime articles.

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 scope of crime and criminology includes people, events, and related information on:

• General true crime
• Corporate crime
• Serial/mass/spree killers and killings (specifically in the scope of the Serial Killer task force)
• Street gangs from the early-19th century to the present day (specifically in the scope of the Organized crime task force)
• Mafia/Syndicate groups and members (specifically in the scope of the Organized crime task force)
• Criminal societies and similar organizations (specifically in the scope of the Organized crime task force)
• Terrorism and counterterrorism (specifically in the scope of the Terrorism task force)

Criminal biographies

In Wikipedia, the biography page of a criminal often uses the same style and form of other regular biographies. However, due to the sensitiveness and uniqueness of their biography, something different needs to be done. Additionally, criminal biographies or sections in articles about the perpetrators of crimes may face unique BLP issues.

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

Task forces

1. Serial Killer task force
2. Terrorism task force
3. Organized crime task force
4. Missing People task force (defunct)

See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Crime for crime articles that have been tagged for deletion. Also Wikipedia:WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography/Assessment (transcludes assessment log).

To-do list

Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Citing sources : Improve references in articles.

Articles that need expansion/improvement

Members

• Remember 17:46, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
• Wjhonson\^talk 00:43, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
• Malick78 00:24, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
• C i d 16:11, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
• Chwyatt 16:05, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
• Kuzwa 17:36, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
• George100 06:34, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
• 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.
• Rogermx 02:40, 16 January 2008 (UTC) copy editing articles on American Cosa Nostra figures - you got a problem with that??
• Johnnyarbogast (talk) 17:53, 21 November 2008 (UTC) - Don't look too deeply into the abyss
• DoctorJoeE (talk) 05:06, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
• Hutcher (talk) 22:56, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
• Paris1127 (talk) 22:24, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
• Finnegas (talk) 20:48, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
• Ntbolton (talk) 19:41, 30 June 2012 (UTC) Interested in the expansion and maintenance of articles dedicated to this genre.
• AuthorAuthor (talk) 17:49, 14 November 2012 (UTC) Interested in expansion, maintenance and new articles about the genre.
• David J Johnson (talk) 1037. 30 March 2013 (UTC)
• Discott (talk) 13:31, 30 October 2014 (UTC) - will not do biographies but am interested in trends, history, stats, gangs and gang types, crime fighting methods, and criminology more generally. I also mostly tend to focus on crime issues affecting South American and African countries.
• Bahb the Illuminated (talk) 21:17, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
• BabbaQ (talk) 18:59, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
• Libertybison (talk) 19:24, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
• TomCat4680 (talk) 08:41, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
• Inexpiable (talk) 20:38, 25 February 2017 (UTC) Mostly interested in American crime, specifically 1990s murders.
• Maxim Stoyalov
• Daniel Case (talk) 21:03, 28 December 2017 (UTC) Surprised I hadn't added myself after a few related articles.
• Matuko (talk) 17:24, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
• EDG 543 (talk) 02:14, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
• UpdatedAutopsyReport (talk) 21:48, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
• Paperworkorange (talk) 20:44, 23 October 2019 (UTC) I prefer to write from other side.I will add legal system problems for cases I know.As a result,we can create neutral article.
• Pladica (talk) 08:05, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
• Raskuly I primarily update lists. 20:24, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
• Coolheights23 6:15, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
• LRFtheLion - I add new pages for missing topics and also expand and improve existing pages related to the following: history of prisons, prison operations, penological policy, criminal justice in Washington State, biographies of incarcerated writers, biographies of prisoner reformers, and other similar topics. LRFtheLion (talk) 17:23, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
• AFDDiary - I've added 7 pages for criminal biographies (as of now), I've expanded at least 10 similar stubs, and I have a list of at least 40 more biographies I would like to add, plus at least 10 stubs I would like to expand, or old, poorly-sourced, and/or poorly-structured articles that need some TLC. I specialize in capital punishment, which I 100% oppose but know a lot about (know your enemy, I guess), and any cases related to the death penalty, particularly in the southern United States. I've also authored 9 articles covering African countries' capital punishment histories and overviews. Afddiary (talk) 18:37, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
• Cameron Dewe (talk) 10:50, 4 September 2022 (UTC) - I have been assessing crime related articles since February 2021, and see no reason to stop, now. So it is probably time to declare myself a member.
• CT55555(talk) 00:37, 24 December 2022 (UTC) I have created and edited various relevant articles
• PARAKANYAA (talk) 14:41, 6 August 2023 (UTC) I edit mostly crime articles, trying to clean up the whole wikiproject as well ha
• Sfar13
• Nullh1ve (talk) 11:55, 12 February 2024 (UTC) - Articles I've contributed to are Murder of Yvonne Jonsson and Murder of Brianna Ghey.
• Lettlre (talk) 16:39, 28 February 2024 (UTC) I create and edit articles about mass violence of all types, mostly in Europe.
• Roasted (talk) 16:28, 18 March 2024 (UTC) - 🤷‍♂️
• Elizzaflanagan221 (talk) 22:54, 20 May 2024 (UTC) - i like true crime
• Macxcxz (talk) 04:26, 17 March 2024 (BST) - Mostly edit pages relating to mass violence and terrorism, with several pages created.
• Owenistired (talk) 15:02, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
• Info Machine 24 (talk) 13:46, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
• Borgenland (talk · contribs) Borgenland (talk) 08:51, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
• Atubofsilverware (talk) 23:04, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
• Grumpylawnchair (talk) 00:46, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
• EphemeralPerpetuals (they/them)^talk 12:44, 11 March 2025 (UTC)
• Gankbank789 (talk) 11:30, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
• Moondragon21 (talk) 13:39, 25 May 2025 (UTC)
• ^EF⁵ 20:42, 17 July 2025 (UTC) - I have an interest in missing/unidentified persons, specifically unsolved non-familial child abductions and suspected murders by unidentified people.
• LDW5432 (talk) 22:56, 22 October 2025 (UTC)
• ArkadenBoden (talk) 11:46, 28 October 2025 (UTC)
• Fwedthebwead (talk) 18:25, 5 November 2025 (UTC)
• ItsShandog (talk) 19:15, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

Inactive members

Members who are currently inactive on Wikipedia.

• Wooyi --- Project author. 03:33, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
• Dep. Garcia ( Talk | Help Desk | Complaints ) 10:02, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
• MadMax 11:13, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
• Destructo 087 22:37, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
• Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 00:00, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
• Ozgod 03:01, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
• Quadzilla99 17:33, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
• The H-Man2 15:51, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
• Jmm6f488 00:32, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• Alexbonaro 07:31, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
• Skosem 21:45, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
• Wildhartlivie 00:50, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
• Kathryn.rebecca42 17:14, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
• Ryleth777 09:34, 03 October 2007 (UTC)
• Stephoswalk 06:10, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
• Seth71
• Khanhamzakhan--Khanhamzakhan (talk) 09:12, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
• Sickero (talk) 02:35, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
• F-451 (talk) 23:26, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
• LOTRrules (talk) 22:43, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
• ||||Tonight, you sleep with the fishes* * |Talk|| 23:27, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
• HumanFrailty 05:43, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
• Dcoetzee 15:46, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
• 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.
• Lucy-marie 23:51, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
• Lord23sutch (talk) 01:01, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
• ReignMan 03:42, 5 October 2007 (UTC) adding crime tables to cities, suggest you do the same!
• YegerMeister 23:26, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
• LisaSmall ^T/C 18:03, 11 December 2007 (UTC), particular interest in adding or correcting legal details of charges, sentences, etc.
• SkepticalGal (talk) 11:49, 7 June 2008 (UTC) Keeping an eye on "profiling" references, general copy editing
• Joyson Noel (talk) 17:19, 5 July 2008 (UTC) I am particularly interested in expanding and fixing up articles generally related to Organized Crime.
• METALFREAK04 (talk) 16:30, 7 October 2008 (UTC) - I signed up for serial killers
• dychoa {talk} 15:18, 29 March 2009 (UTC) I signed up for serial killers
• Jake Wartenberg 01:44, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
• ChuckStone (talk) 13:17, 7 May 2009 (UTC) Expanding, adding references, and modifying inaccurate details about American organised crime figures, primarily American Cosa Nostra and Chicago Outfit
• Mistress of Awesome (talk) 00:22, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
• Lord23sutch (talk) 01:01, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
• Doc9871 (talk) 01:36, 8 January 2010 (UTC) - I've already worked on several related articles ...
• MooreSvn (talk) 00:26, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
• VulpineLady (talk) 21:57, 10 March 2010 (UTC) Recently sentenced serial in California. Draft up at * * * * Rodney Alcala
• User:Roxy:Pkid
• User:Jarovid
• Wombat24 (talk) 07:15, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
• Cymbelmineer (talk) 13:11, 31 July 2010 (UTC) I have added biographies before.
• CrohnieGal^Talk 16:28, 14 August 2010 (UTC) I've been working in this area for quite some time now.
• Luckymelon (talk) 23:14, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
• KimChee (talk) 06:52, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
• Aidanpaige (talk) 01:20, 25 November 2010
• PsychoticInq (talk) 18:16, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
• WPPilot (talk) 08:59, 8 January 2011 (UTC) Researching Federal Security Crimes for many Wiki projects.
• Ashirwad Gogoi (talk) 12:55, 26 March (UTC) I'm a 14 year-old member with great interest in this subject.
• Nkgal (talk) 22:00, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
• User:CitizenQZen (talk) 02:32, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
• Wikid77 (talk) 06:34, 27 April 2011 (UTC) - since 2006: Manson Family, Oswald, MoMK
• DuchessofNewTown (talk) 12:28, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
• User:Katarighe (talk) 12:28, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
• User:beaconmike (talk) 11:50, 27 August 2011 (UTC) Wineville Chicken Coop Murders
• Theanonymous3 (talk) 09:18, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
• Crr4 (talk) 05:33, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
• cyoung530 (talk) 17:11, 8 March 2012 (UTC) Rice University Student working on under-represented articles as a semester long project for class.
• Meanie (talk) 19:46, 17 December 2012 (UTC) I recently stumbled upon a Notorious Death Row Serial Killer - He is pretty notorious in New Mexico area - I am looking for help in determining if he is relevant enough for Wikipedia. Robert Ray Fry
• hózhǫ́ni (talk) 23:41, 6 January 2013 (UTC) Because of "AfD no consensus" Fry was deleted. Moved to my * Sandbox. Can an admin or seasoned biographer here help me salvage this serial killer stub?
• Daniellam91 (talk) 02:18, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
• Stanleyipkiss32 (talk) 15:15, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
• GoldenBootWizard276 (talk) 08:55, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
• Longhair\^talk 07:43, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
• Jimbonator 00:17, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
• Bentley Banana 12:39, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
• SqueakBox 21:37, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
• Robbie (talk) 15:12, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
• Nicknackrussian (talk) 21:43, 26 September 2008 (UTC) - I've been making organized crime/gangster articles since I signed up ...
• Dan Dassow (talk) 12:24, 21 August 2010 (UTC) Wineville Chicken Coop Murders and related events
• DocOfSoc (talk)
• Cindamuse (talk) 04:06, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
• Basilisk4u (talk) 05:02, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
• User:Solomaverick (talk) 12:53, 16 September 2011 (GMT)
• KokoPhantom (talk) 00:56, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
• Ț♥ttØØdẄ♥itre§ 04:32, 27 August 2012 (UTC) Interested in Biographies about criminals, murderers, any crime etc.
• Paul MacDermott (talk) 19:00, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
• EricEnfermero ^Howdy! 09:47, 24 June 2013 (UTC) - interest in serial killers, psychology and healthcare providers who kill
• Bali88 (talk) 00:12, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
• GouramiWatcher^(?) 14:07, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
• Supaflyrobby (talk) 16:30, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
• Danni Ruthvan (talk) 23:36, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
• Breckham101 (talk) 17:59, 28 December 2014 (UTC) Average contributor whose unofficial unlicensed expertise are terrorism related articles.
• Crimsonrain158 (talk) 12:53, 30 September 2015 (UTC) Interested in American organized crime, especially Jewish-American gangsters
• FortitudineVincimus (talk)
• BarrierBuilder (talk) 21:35, 4 July 2016 (UTC) Always been interested in the psychology of criminals, mostly interested in British crime.
• Vwanweb (talk) 11:17, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
• TTTAssasinator (talk) 08:00, 30 March 2017 (UTC) Expertise in Vietnamese criminals
• Cypresscross (talk)
• ilindytree\^talk
• Walker in the Mist (talk) 21:19, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
• ArcticAres (talk) 02:04, 7 November 2018 (UTC) Primarily interested in mass school killers.
• Tots & little ones matter! (talk) 21:36, 17 January 2019 (UTC) Primarily interested in writing about major child abusers.
• Euliss (talk) 17:38, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
• Beata May (talk) 26 August 2019 (UTC)
• V.a.PJHC (talk) 04:07, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
• Carrierudd (talk) 03:20, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
• --🔥LightningComplexFire🔥 (always @Ping: me when replying) 15:34, 16 December 2020 (UTC) Occasional participant
• User:Elijahandskip (talk) - {Lead Coordinator of WikiProject of Current Events} 22:10, 25 December 2020.
• Space-daddy29 (talk) 21:00, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
• Such-change47 (talk) 11:14, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
• Edd Wesson Contributor to criminal biographies and handling poor or outdated citations.
• User:CroissantAvenue 21:59 30 March 2022 (UTC) Contributor to list of murder convictions without a body and list of unsolved murders.
• DylanJ10000 (talk) 05:33, 9 November 2022 (UTC) - Have a major interest in cold cases, and have authored pages such as Baby Boy Horry and Disappearance of Joshua Guimond.
• TrueCrimeData (talk) 02:11, 21 December 2022 (UTC) At the moment my focus is on serial killers. I update pretty frequently.
• Ctrlxem (talk) 05:12, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
• TheFlawlessKing (talk) 21:00, 26 March 2024 (UTC) - I have created 7 articles related to crime, such as Killing of Laken Riley or Murder of Tristyn Bailey.
• 7kk (talk) 17:20, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

Featured articles

Good articles

Infoboxes

1. 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.
2. Link all possible information such as locations, charges, penalties, etc. Do not link dates, years or use flag icons in the infobox.

{{Infobox criminal
| honorific_prefix = 
| name = 
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| native_name = 
| native_name_lang = 
| image = 
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| image_size = 
| alt = 
| caption = 
| birth_name = 
| birth_date =     <!-- {{birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}} if dead;
                        {{birth date and age|yyyy|mm|dd|mf=yes}} if year, month and day known;
                        {{birth year and age|yyyy|mm}} if year and month known;
                        {{birth year and age|yyyy}} if only year known -->
| birth_place = 
| disappeared_date = 
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| death_date =     <!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) -->
| death_place = 
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| party = 
| movement = 
| opponents = 
| boards = 
| criminal_charge = 
| conviction_penalty = 
| conviction_status = 
| spouse =         <!-- Do not include unless notable or relevant to the crime involved -->
| children =       <!-- (as above) -->
| parents =        <!-- (as above) -->
| relatives = 
| callsign = 
| awards = 
| website = 
| allegiance =     <!-- [[Lucchese crime family]] (only?) -->
| motive = 
| conviction = 
| trial =          <!-- Only use this if the trial is bluelinked, e.g. Mafia Commission Trial -->
| trial_start = 
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| reward_amount = 
| capture_status = 
| wanted_by = 
| partners = 
| wanted_since = 
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| escaped = 
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| comments = 
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| fatalities = 
| injuries = 
| weapons = 
| apprehended = 
| imprisoned = 
| module =
| signature =
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| footnotes = 
}}

{{Infobox criminal organization
| name              = <!-- defaults to {{PAGENAME}} -->
| native_name       = 
| native_name_lang  = 
| image             = <!-- filename only -->
| image_size        = <!-- defaults to 220px -->
| image_alt         = 
| caption           = 
| founded           = 
| founder           = <!-- or |founders= -->
| named_after       = 
| founding_location = 
| years_active      = 
| territory         = 
| ethnicity         = 
| membership        = 
| leaders           = 
| activities        = 
| allies            = 
| rivals            = 
| notable_members   = 
| religion          = 
}}

{{Infobox civilian attack
| title         = 
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| image_upright = 
| alt           = 
| caption       = 
| map           = 
| map_size      = 
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| location      = 
| target        = 
| coordinates   = 
| date          = <!-- {{start date|YYYY|MM|DD}}-<br />{{end date|YYYY|MM|DD}} -->
| time          = 
| timezone      = 
| type          = 
| fatalities    = 
| injuries      = 
| victims       = <!-- or | victim = -->
| perpetrators  = <!-- or | perpetrator = --> <!-- alias: | perps = or | perp = -->
| assailants    = <!-- or | assailant = -->
| weapons       = 
| numparts      = <!-- or | numpart = -->
| dfens         = <!-- or | dfen = -->
| motive        = 
| inquiry       = 
| coroner       = 
| accused       = 
| convicted     = 
| verdict       = 
| convictions   = 
| charges       = 
| litigation    = 
| judge         = 
| website       = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} -->
| module        =
}}

Project templates

Other templates used by the project include:

• {{WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography}}, a project banner used to identify crime related articles.
• {{Crime-stub}}, adds article to Category:Crime stubs.
• {{Crime-bio-stub}}, adds article to Category:Crime biography stubs.

Related WikiProjects

• WikiProject Australian crime
• WikiProject Biography
• WikiProject Law (see WikiProject Australian law and WikiProject Canadian law)
• WikiProject Law Enforcement
• WikiProject Piracy

Categories and subpages

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