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WikiProject Anthroponymy

 This is WikiProject Anthroponymy, a collaboration area and open group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Anthroponymy, that is information related to the names of people. The scope of this project includes articles about anthroponymy itself and related topics. WikiProject Anthroponymy welcomes new participants and encourages them to see how they can help.
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How to help

Promote the project
  • Join this project! Add yourself to the list, and add the userbox to your page, to advertise the project to people who happen to pass by.
  • Invite people to the project – drop a note on the user talk page of editors working on Anthroponymy topics who aren't project members.
  • Consider promoting the project via the Wikipedia Signpost WikiProject desk.
Improve the project
  • Update the project pages, archive clutter, and make use of the latest automation available
  • Consult the WikiProject Guide for ideas
  • Come up with new ones
Use the project

Discuss the WikiProject's style advice page

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Resources

Talkpage templates
Please see our Assessment department for usage instructions.
  • {{WikiProject Anthroponymy}} is to be placed on the corresponding talkpage of an article. This helps categorize the articles! See example below:
{{WikiProject Anthroponymy
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 |importance= (choose one: Top, High, Mid, Low, NA)
 |needs-infobox=
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WikiProject iconAnthroponymy
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject Anthroponymy, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the study of people's names on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.AnthroponymyWikipedia:WikiProject AnthroponymyTemplate:WikiProject AnthroponymyAnthroponymy
???This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Deletion discussion template

Further information: Template:Delsort WPAnthropo

Barnstar

{{The Anthroponymy Barnstar|put your message here ~~~~}}—an award placed at another users talk page for improving Anthroponymy related-articles.

The Anthroponymy Barnstar
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Article templates
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Infoboxes
Footers
Stub templates
Userpage templates
Further information: Template:User WikiProject Anthroponymy
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Articles

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthroponymy/Assessment

Milestones

Featured content

Good articles

Example of high-quality name articles

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Tasks

Open tasks

  • We need to create an article that can be an example of the model page that all name articles should reflect
  • Infobox names that include useful information
  • Start assessing the quality of each name article and utilize the bot to index these pages. As of 2008-03-22, 75% are not assessed along either of the two assessment dimensions. As of June 14, 2014, 51% of the Anthroponymy articles do not have an importance assessment.--DThomsen8 (talk) 15:47, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
  • Create a new name article — see Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthroponymy/Articles that could be created for some suggestions for name articles
  • Other ideas?

Ongoing tasks

Review Article Alerts (nominations for deletion, move requests, etc.)

Task forces

  1. Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthroponymy/Arabic names task force, converted from 'WikiProject Arabic names' 2008-04-03
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An explanation as to why each WikiProject is relevant and related to the Anthroponymy Project has been provided here. Listed WikiProjects each have a reciprocal back-linkage to WikiProject Anthroponymy unless otherwise noted.

  • Linguisticsumbrella (no back-linkage)
    Linguistics is relevant to name studies in at least three ways: by providing the limits on vocalization and spelling that apply to human names in addition to other words in a language; by providing a language context from which new human names may emerge (e.g. brown the color becoming Brown the surname; smith the occupation becoming Smith the surname); and by providing transformation rules that apply to human names as they traverse linguistic boundaries alongside the migration of peoples and the evolution of languages.
  • Etymologyinactive (no back-linkage)
    The etymology of a surname or given name is an essential part of a complete surname or given name article
  • Clans of Scotland
    Scottish Clans are the origin of a significant number of surnames emerging from the British Isles. These surnames are often used as male forenames too. For instance, Ross, Cameron, or Campbell.
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation (no back-linkage)
    As of Q1 2008 there is an ongoing discussion around what distinguishes a dab page from a name article and what things belong in each.
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Current activity

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

Categories for discussion

Requested moves

Articles to be split

Assessment

Anthroponymy articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 1 1 2
FL 2 2
GA 4 3 7
B 3 18 3 11 5 40
C 7 22 17 49 2 36 133
Start 10 31 67 171 2 136 417
Stub 1 9 19 198 4 284 515
List 19 43 339 15,426 44,729 43,295 103,851
Category 1,110 1,110
Disambig 16,737 16,737
File 3 3
Project 17 17
Redirect 1 2 14 2,048 22,907 24,972
Template 176 176
NA 6 6
Other 13 13
Assessed 41 128 463 17,907 85,706 43,756 148,001
Unassessed 1 75 76
Total 41 128 463 17,907 85,707 43,831 148,077
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 5,841 Ω = 5.24
New articles

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This list was generated from these rules. Questions and feedback are always welcome! The search is being run daily with the most recent ~10 days of results. Note: Some articles may not be relevant to this project.

Rules | Match log | Results page (for watching) | Deleted articles | Last updated: 2026-10-28 19:17 (UTC)

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