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	19	68			96
B	7	30	68	224			329
C	22	98	170	1,071		2	1,363
Start	5	24	149	3,041		2	3,221
Stub			20	868			888
List	1	41	31	92			165
NA		1			1,658		1,659
Assessed	37	201	457	5,373	1,658	4	7,730
Total	37	201	457	5,373	1,658	4	7,730
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 28,064			Ω = 4.75

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 article requests

28 Oct 2025 – London Monster (talk · edit · hist) has been proposed for Today's Featured Article by MisawaSakura (t · c); see discussion
03 Oct 2025 – Spaghetti House siege (talk · edit · hist) has been proposed for Today's Featured Article by MisawaSakura (t · c); see discussion

Did you know

26 Jul 2025 – Carlos Fernández Bácula (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Agent VII (t · c); see discussion
20 Jul 2025 – Simón Radowitzky (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Grnrchst (t · c); see discussion
18 Jul 2025 – Jeffrey Epstein client list (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Surtsicna (t · c); see discussion
17 Jul 2025 – Murder of Claire Broadbridge (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Moondragon21 (t · c); see discussion
12 Jul 2025 – Murder of Charlotte Dymond (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Moondragon21 (t · c); see discussion
12 Jun 2025 – Murder of Luigia Borrelli (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Moondragon21 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

28 Jul 2025 – Nyamagabe bus shooting (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
26 Jul 2025 – Ali Nasser Abulaban (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by V. S. Video (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
26 Jul 2025 – Failed terrorism plots (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Pppery (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
22 Jul 2025 – Craig Rothfeld (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Some1 (t · c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted)
29 Jul 2025 – 2025 New York City shooting (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Czarking0 (t · c) was closed as keep by Star Mississippi (t · c) on 29 Jul 2025; see discussion (25 participants)
21 Jul 2025 – 2025 Hollywood car attack (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by XYZ1233212 (t · c) was closed as delete by Barkeep49 (t · c) on 29 Jul 2025; see discussion (12 participants)
19 Jul 2025 – Extremist Groups (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by PARAKANYAA (t · c) was closed as delete by Goldsztajn (t · c) on 26 Jul 2025; see discussion (2 participants)
19 Jul 2025 – Disappearance of Lilly and Jack Sullivan (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by MediaKyle (t · c) was closed as no consensus by BD2412 (t · c) on 26 Jul 2025; see discussion (7 participants)
16 Jul 2025 – 2025 Vadodara bomb hoaxes (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by PARAKANYAA (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 28 Jul 2025; see discussion (7 participants; relisted)
14 Jul 2025 – 2025 Lexington shootings (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by XYZ1233212 (t · c) was closed as no consensus by Extraordinary Writ (t · c) on 29 Jul 2025; see discussion (22 participants; relisted)

(1 more...)

Categories for discussion

27 Jul 2025 – Category:American criminals by state or territory (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Qwerfjkl (t · c); see discussion
27 Jul 2025 – Category:American criminals by crime (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Qwerfjkl (t · c); see discussion
27 Jul 2025 – Category:Unidentified American criminals (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Qwerfjkl (t · c); see discussion
27 Jul 2025 – Category:American male criminals (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Qwerfjkl (t · c); see discussion
27 Jul 2025 – Category:American female criminals (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Qwerfjkl (t · c); see discussion
27 Jul 2025 – Category:17th-century American criminals (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Qwerfjkl (t · c); see discussion
27 Jul 2025 – Category:19th-century American criminals (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Qwerfjkl (t · c); see discussion
27 Jul 2025 – Category:21st-century American criminals (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Qwerfjkl (t · c); see discussion
27 Jul 2025 – Category:18th-century American criminals (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Qwerfjkl (t · c); see discussion
27 Jul 2025 – Category:American criminals (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Qwerfjkl (t · c); see discussion

(11 more...)

Redirects for discussion

11 Jul 2025 – Revert vandalism (talk · edit · hist) →Vandalism was RfDed by Justjourney (t · c); see discussion

Files for discussion

27 Jul 2025 – File:Stuart Campbell Mug Shot.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on Murder of Danielle Jones) was FfDed by George Ho (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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