This category is for articles structured as biographical entries for living individuals.

Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. This category exists to help Wikipedia editors improve the quality of biographies of living persons by ensuring that the articles maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and are properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:Living people.

Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name.

Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom no documentation has existed for a decade or longer, may be removed from this category and transferred to Category:Possibly living people.

Errata: Any individual born before 1909 whose living status remains undetermined should have this category replaced with Category:Year of death missing (the same application should be followed for individuals in Category:Possibly living people and those in Category:Missing people who had not been heretofore declared legally dead).

Related categories[]

• Category:Year of birth missing (living people) / Category:Year of birth unknown
• Category:Date of birth missing (living people) / Category:Date of birth unknown
• Category:Place of birth missing (living people) / Category:Place of birth unknown
• Category:Year of death missing / Category:Year of death unknown
• Category:Date of death missing / Category:Date of death unknown
• Category:Place of death missing / Category:Place of death unknown
• Category:Missing middle or first names

Possibly living people, missing people, and dead people are not included here, including the recently deceased; for which see Category:2017 deaths and preceding categories listing deaths in 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, etc. (see Category:Deaths by year).

See also[]

• Template:L, which generates this category or death years, and birth year and sort keys.

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