A page that attempts to document which of Wikipedia's featured articles concern living people.

Statistics edit

25-27 May 2009 (numbers vary depending on when queries run):

  • Total number of articles: 2,893,595
  • Total number of articles on people (biographies): 673,918 (23.29% of all articles)
  • Total number of featured articles: 2,523 (0.087% of all articles)
  • Total number of featured biographies: 618 (0.092% of biographies; 24.49% of featured articles)
  • Total number of BLPs: 375,584 (55.73% of biographies; 12.98% of all articles)
  • Total number of featured BLPs: 168 (27.18% of featured biographies; 6.69% of featured articles; 0.045% of BLPs)
  • There are also 171 featured articles tagged with the {{blp}} template on their talk page. There is not 100% overlap. Some articles are only on one of the two lists. The combined total is 174. Extra ones listed below.

Articles edit

As of 27 May 2009, the 169 articles marked FA-class and tagged BLP in some way on the talk page, are as follows (classification may be wrong in a few cases, not all articles checked yet to see which type they are). One was wrongly classified and later removed, making the total 168.

Biographies edit

127 standard biography articles on a living person.

Music groups edit

38 featured articles on music groups with living people.

Other edit

3 articles classified as "other" and to do with living people.

Incorrectly tagged edit

1 article was incorrectly tagged.

Extras edit

Six articles that were not found in the previous queries. Not sure why they came up in this query.

Three articles that were found in the previous query but not this one.

Sources edit