Wikipedia:WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography/Organized crime task force

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Organized crime task force

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Scope

This task force aims to maintain and improve organized crime-related articles, expand articles, create new articles, and engage in collaborations. Feel free to discuss articles and content within this task force's scope on the task force's talk page. For a brief history of the project, see the project's History page. WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography is the parent WikiProject of this task force.

Topics

Organized crime topics can be placed in a range of categories, ranging from ethnic groups to historical periods. The subjects, defined as organized crime, include people, events, and related information on:

Organized crime, mafia and syndicates – groups, members and associates (particularly of the 20th century)
Gangs and street gangs (from the early 19th century to present)
Criminal societies and similar organizations

Excluded

Terrorism groups

Formatting

Biographies and other subjects should be formatted and organized per Wikipedia's Manual of Style.

Participants

You can find a list of all Members here. Joining the Organized crime task force is easy – just add your username to the bottom of the list. When joining the project, you should watch this page. This allows you to keep up-to-date with discussions about the project on the talk page.

Articles

Pending tasks

Feel free to add relevant tasks to this list.

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Maintain : Organized crime, Mafia
Stubs : See Criminal organization stubs and Stub-class organized crime articles for articles to expand
Verify : List of crime bosses, Organized crime in Italy

Article statistics

Organized crime articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA				7		7
FL				1		1
GA	2	7	17	69		95
B	8	29	68	217		322
C	26	91	167	1,013		1,297
Start	5	21	145	3,013		3,184
Stub			20	881		901
List	1	35	32	94		162
NA					1,597	1,597
Assessed	42	183	449	5,295	1,597	7,566
Total	42	183	449	5,295	1,597	7,566
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 27,670			Ω = 4.77

Missing articles

The following pages list nominations for new articles to be created.

WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles § Organized crime – a long list of organized crime topics lacking articles
User:Skysmith/Missing topics about Crime § Organized crime section
WikiProject British crime/Wanted Articles § Organized crime section
List of identities in The Gangs of New York (book) – an article page with many red links, some of which likely qualify for articles

Article alerts

Below are article alerts for crime-related topics, some of which may include organized crime.

Today's featured articles

06 Dec 2024 – École Polytechnique massacre (talk · edit · hist) will be Today's Featured Article; see blurb

Did you know

20 Nov 2024 – Operation Blooming Onion (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by JJonahJackalope (t · c); see discussion
15 Nov 2024 – Thomas Sewell (neo-Nazi) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by TarnishedPath (t · c); see discussion
01 Nov 2024 – Tel al-Sultan attack (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Personisinsterest (t · c); see discussion
24 Oct 2024 – Soviet atrocities committed against prisoners of war during World War II (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion
02 Oct 2024 – Phoebe Plummer (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Launchballer (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

22 Nov 2024 – 2019 Goodfield arson (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Fram (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
20 Nov 2024 – 2018 Moss Side shooting (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
18 Nov 2024 – List of terrorist incidents in North Macedonia (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by StephenMacky1 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
11 Nov 2024 – Oxford High School shooting (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by CyberTheTiger (t · c) was closed as keep by Vanderwaalforces (t · c) on 18 Nov 2024; see discussion (14 participants)
04 Nov 2024 – Kurdish mafia (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Buidhe (t · c) was closed as keep by Vanderwaalforces (t · c) on 18 Nov 2024; see discussion (5 participants; relisted)
03 Nov 2024 – 2024 Srinagar attack (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Ratekreel (t · c) was closed as delete by Asilvering (t · c) on 17 Nov 2024; see discussion (2 participants; relisted)

Categories for discussion

21 Nov 2024 – Category:People charged with corruption (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
21 Nov 2024 – Category:Ministers for Crime Prevention (Victoria) (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by GMH Melbourne (t · c); see discussion
16 Nov 2024 – Category:Lowell mill girls (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Lost in Quebec (t · c); see discussion
15 Nov 2024 – Category:Fictional bandits (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Zxcvbnm (t · c); see discussion

Redirects for discussion

21 Nov 2024 – Paul Feiss (talk · edit · hist) →Paul M. Fleiss was RfDed by MimirIsSmart (t · c); see discussion
20 Nov 2024 – Genoicide (talk · edit · hist) →Genocide was RfDed by TeapotsOfDoom (t · c); see discussion
15 Nov 2024 – Capitol protests (talk · edit · hist) →January 6 United States Capitol attack was RfDed by 1ctinus (t · c); see discussion
15 Nov 2024 – Capitol protest (talk · edit · hist) →January 6 United States Capitol attack was RfDed by 1ctinus (t · c); see discussion
15 Nov 2024 – Racial violence (talk · edit · hist) →Ethnic conflict was RfDed by CycloneYoris (t · c); see discussion
13 Nov 2024 – Baby gaetz (talk · edit · hist) →Matt Gaetz was RfDed by Xeroctic (t · c); see discussion
13 Nov 2024 – James J. Finn (talk · edit · hist) →Lindbergh kidnapping was RfDed by Denniscabrams (t · c); see discussion
08 Nov 2024 – Jewish pogroms in Amsterdam (talk · edit · hist) →November 2024 Amsterdam attacks was RfDed by Haminoon (t · c); see discussion
07 Nov 2024 – Racially motivated violence (talk · edit · hist) →Ethnic conflict was RfDed by Jean-de-Nivelle (t · c); see discussion
28 Oct 2024 – Daesh Tunisia (talk · edit · hist) →Ansar al-Sharia (Tunisia) was RfDed by Utopes (t · c); see discussion

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Files for discussion

20 Nov 2024 – File:Susan Smith (SC convict).png (talk · edit · hist) (on Susan Smith) was FfDed by EF5 (t · c); see discussion

Templates

Add {{WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography}} with the parameters |organizedcrime=yes and |organizedcrime-imp=low/mid/high/top. Adds article to list of articles maintained by the task force.
{{User Organized crime}} – userbox for the WikiProject

Invitation

To invite users to join the project, use {{subst:WP Organized crime invitation}}.

Userbox

{{User Organized crime}} produces:

This user is a participant in the Organized crime task force.

Resources

WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography – a category for crime-related articles and content

Old project pages

Old (historic) project pages
Organized crime & Wikipedia (2006–2007)
General questions (2006–2007)
WikiProject Organized crime (2007)

Related Wikiprojects

External links

Media related to Organized crime at Wikimedia Commons
Media related to Gangs (organized crime) at Wikimedia Commons
Media related to Mafia at Wikimedia Commons

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