Template:Autobiography
This tag is more specific than the widely-used {{COI}} template. It should be used preferentially to that template when the article in question is not only affected by a conflict of interest but when that conflict is specifically autobiographical in nature.
Do not use this tag when doing so would reveal the identity of a pseudonymous Wikipedia user. Violating the privacy of users by revealing their real names or other personal information can result in an indefinite block. If this is the case, please use the more-general {{COI}} tag.
Do not use this tag to mark an autobiographical article which contains neither references nor external links— such articles may instead simply be proposed for deletion: see WP:PROD.
Do not use this tag to identify articles whose content has been modified by their subjects in strictly superficial ways such as the correction of spelling mistakes or the fixing of layout errors (note that changes to dates or places of birth, names of employers or spouses, titles or awards the subject has won, etc., are not superficial).
Do not use this tag for any article which cannot possibly be autobiographical by virtue of its subject (articles about a species of animal, for example, or an article about an historical landmark).
Do not use this tag for articles whose subject matter is an institution or corporation (however, a biographical article written under a prohibited institutional or shared account may be assigned this tag, as the connection between the institution and the person is clearly a conflict of interest and the subject matter is a biographical one).
When to remove
This tag should be removed when the autobiographical edit has been reverted or when the content of such an edit has been verified independently by another Wikipedia editor and evaluated/edited for neutrality, balance, and impartiality. That editor should indicate this in the edit summary in which they remove the tag. The user who made the edit that caused the tag to be placed should be warned not to make similar edits to the article either by placing the {{uw-coi}} template on the user's talk page or by leaving a more personal message there explaining that they should not directly edit the article in the future and should review the guidelines set out at WP:COI to avoid having the tag placed again on the article.
This tag may also be removed if the article's content is either limited or reduced by anyone to a few independently verifiable and relevant facts which do nothing more than establish the subject's notability and which effectively make it a STUB article. A stub autobiography that includes references to reliable, independent, verifiable sources which clearly establish the subject's notability will not benefit from having this tag placed on it.
Do not remove this tag if you are the subject of the Wikipedia article and have made significant edits to or have written the entire article yourself. The correct way for the subjects of articles to propose changes is via the article's talk page and by disclosing the inherent conflict of interest either in the text of that proposal ("I am the subject of this article and I would like to propose the following changes to it...") or on the subject's userpage with the {{UserboxCOI}} template. The template {{edit COI}} can be used to alert other editors to consider the proposed changes. The proper channel to request that someone write an article about you is via Wikipedia:Requested articles.
This template will add pages to the monthly subcategory of Category:Autobiographical articles.
Usage
{{Autobiography|date=November 2024}}
{{Autobiography|talk=talk page section|date=November 2024}}
— to specify the talk page section{{Autobiography|section|date=November 2024}}
— to replace the opening sentence with This section is an autobiography ...
TemplateData
TemplateData for Autobiography
To indicate that an article is an autobiography, i.e. a biography of a living person written by its own subject (or someone closely connected to them).
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Area affected | 1 | The part of the article that is an autobiography.
| String | optional |
Talk page section | talk 2 | The section of the article's talk page on which you have started a discussion about the autobiography concern, if such a section is present.
| String | optional |
Month | date | The month in which this template was added. This parameter is used for adding the page to the monthly cleanup category.
| String | required |
See also
- {{COI}} – for articles that were mostly written by editors with a conflict of interest.
- {{Like resume}}
- {{uw-autobiography}} – used to warn editors when they wrote an article or draft about themselves.