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				8		8
FL				1		1
GA	2	7	17	68		94
B	9	29	68	223		329
C	26	93	169	1,019		1,307
Start	5	21	146	3,017		3,189
Stub			20	877		897
List	1	35	32	93		161
NA					1,000	1,000
Assessed	43	185	452	5,306	1,000	6,986
Total	43	185	452	5,306	1,000	6,986
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 27,723			Ω = 4.76

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.

Did you know

02 Jan 2025 – Killing of Fernando Rios (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by JJonahJackalope (t · c); see discussion
30 Dec 2024 – Violin scam (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Thriley (t · c); see discussion
28 Dec 2024 – 1999–2001 Liechtenstein financial crisis (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by TheBritinator (t · c); see discussion
23 Dec 2024 – Caffey family murders (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Jolielover (t · c); see discussion
23 Dec 2024 – Darryl De Sousa (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Queen of Hearts (t · c); see discussion
18 Nov 2024 – Raul Meza Jr. (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Swinub (t · c); see discussion
01 Nov 2024 – Tel al-Sultan attack (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Personisinsterest (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

06 Jan 2025 – Hauptmann's Ladder (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by PARAKANYAA (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
06 Jan 2025 – Miss X (decedent) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by PARAKANYAA (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
06 Jan 2025 – Court-martial of Federico Merida (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by PARAKANYAA (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
06 Jan 2025 – Manhunt for Theodoros Theofanous (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by PARAKANYAA (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
06 Jan 2025 – Tyson Billings (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by PARAKANYAA (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
06 Jan 2025 – Gaudreau brothers cycling incident (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by The Kip (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
05 Jan 2025 – Nejaru (Mother & daughter/son) Murder Case (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by PARAKANYAA (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
05 Jan 2025 – Murder of Olive Duck (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by PARAKANYAA (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
05 Jan 2025 – Death of Won Jang (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by PARAKANYAA (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
05 Jan 2025 – 2024 Manchester Airport police incident (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by PARAKANYAA (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)

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Proposed deletions

06 Jan 2025 – Mahmood Abo Shandi (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Prezbo (t · c): No real sources on article, I was able to find these two on Google but I'm not sure that's enough to clear WP:N[1][https://www.jta.org/ar ...

Categories for discussion

06 Jan 2025 – Category:Child murder during the Russian invasion of Ukraine (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Smasongarrison (t · c); see discussion
06 Jan 2025 – Category:Assassination of George Tiller (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Brian Kendig (t · c); see discussion
17 Dec 2024 – Category:Female murder–suicides (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by PARAKANYAA (t · c); see discussion

Redirects for discussion

03 Jan 2025 – Moumita Debnath (talk · edit · hist) →2024 Kolkata rape and murder was RfDed by TheAstorPastor (t · c); see discussion
01 Jan 2025 – Donald T (talk · edit · hist) →Donald Trump was RfDed by Tamzin (t · c); see discussion
31 Dec 2024 – GEOTUS (talk · edit · hist) →Donald Trump was RfDed by Steel1943 (t · c); see discussion
30 Dec 2024 – Freak off (talk · edit · hist) →Diddy parties was RfDed by CycloneYoris (t · c); see discussion
15 Dec 2024 – Freak-off (talk · edit · hist) →Diddy parties was RfDed by Tamzin (t · c); see discussion
undated – Tiger Bech (talk · edit · hist) →2025 New Orleans truck attack was RfDed
26 Dec 2024 – Donald President (talk · edit · hist) →Donald Trump RfDed by Rusalkii (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Files for discussion

03 Jan 2025 – File:Ryan Wesley Routh protesting in Ukraine in 2022.webp (talk · edit · hist) (on Ryan Wesley Routh) was FfDed by EF5 (t · c); see discussion
02 Jan 2025 – File:Noynoy Aquino speaks with Retno Marsudi.webp (talk · edit · hist) (on Mary Jane Veloso drug smuggling case) was FfDed by Marchjuly (t · c); see discussion
31 Dec 2024 – File:Crowd demanding bail for the accused killers of Akku Yadav.jpeg (talk · edit · hist) (on Akku Yadav) was FfDed by 廣九直通車 (t · c); see discussion
31 Dec 2024 – File:Damaged steering column Kia Soul.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on Kia Challenge) was FfDed by 廣九直通車 (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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