Wikipedia:WikiProject Criminal Biography/Serial Killer task force

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This is a task force relating to serial killers and their capture.
Portal:	Criminal justice Portal
Wikimedia Commons:	Serial killers
Project notice template:	{{serial killer}}
Participant userbox:	{{User Serial Killer Task Force}}
Has goals	Yes
A task force of the Criminal Biography WikiProject

Welcome to the Serial Killer Task Force. (A work group of the Criminal Biography WikiProject). The goal of this task force is to update and maintain all articles relating to serial killers, mass murderers and spree killers. This includes all topics from criminal biographies to profiling and apprehension techniques. Anyone with an interest in these subjects is welcome to join.

Contents 1 Templates 1.1 Serial Killer InfoBox 1.2 Mugshots 1.3 Other templates 2 Directory of Participants 2.1 Participants 2.2 Honorary members 2.3 Invite Another Wikipedian to Join 3 Tasks 4 Recent articles by members 5 Assessment Table 6 Categories 7 External links

[edit] Templates

[edit] Serial Killer InfoBox

1. Use the exact infobox text below and add the information of the criminal, but do not insert any rows that does not appear below, or alter any row into erroneous text, like using "convicted of" instead of "charge". Because if you do, the information will not show up.
2. Please attach the person's birth/death place's national flag before the location in the "place of birth" and the "Country where killings occurred" row, using the template {{flagicon|countryname}}.
3. Link all possible information such as: dates, years, locations, penalties, etc.

Attention: Read the section above before inserting infobox

{{Infobox Serial Killer
| name=
| image=
| caption=
| birthname=
| alias=
| birth=
| location=
| death=
| cause=
| victims=
| country=
| states=
| beginyear=
| endyear=
| apprehended=
| penalty=
}}

for a list of articles that have recently added this infobox see here.

[edit] Mugshots

Mugshots can commonly be found on the internet for most serial killers.

According to Wikipedia:

The purpose of the mug shot is to allow law enforcement to have a photographic record of all arrested individuals to allow for identification by victims and investigators. These photographs are usually considered eligible for re-publication under fair use doctrines, though the copyrights typically belong to the jurisdictions responsible for taking the photographs. In the United States, a mug shot can be obtained by anyone through the Freedom of Information Act, except for when the arrestee's record has been sealed.

{{Information
|Description=
|Source= 
|Date= 
|Author= 
|Permission=None. Usable under Fair Use guidelines only.
|other_versions=
}}{{mugshot}}

photos of mug shots can be found under Category:Mug shots

[edit] Other templates

Other templates used by the project include:

• {{serial killer}}, adds article to list of articles maintained by the task force. (place on the article's talk page)
• {{Serial killer opentask}}, a template displaying open tasks related to the project.

• Place replace this image male.svg after the image= in the infobox if no photo can be found for a male multiple killer.
• Place replace this image female.svg after the image= in the infobox if no photo can be found for a female multiple killer.

see the Criminal Biography WikiProject for other crime related templates

[edit] Directory of Participants

This is a list of Wikipedians who are committed to this WikiProject. Please, feel free to join by clicking edit on the right, and signing your name at the bottom of the list with four tildes (~~~~), with an optional comment. Also add this template to your user page if you want to, type {{User Serial Killer Task Force}} to produce:

[edit] Participants

Please remember to also add your name to the main list of project members for Criminal Biography WikiProject if you are not yet listed there.

1. Jmm6f488
2. Jimbonator
3. Malick78
4. BlueLotas
5. Bentley Banana
6. Kuzwa
7. Dcoetzee
8. Wildhartlivie
9. ExRat
10. Ryleth777
11. YegerMeister
12. TomWoodhams
13. MgCupcake
14. Managerpants (talk) 22:34, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
15. Sickero (talk) 05:55, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
16. DarkPassenger (talk)
17. F-451 (talk) 23:32, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
18. SkepticalGal (talk) 11:46, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Honorary members

This is a listing of Wikipedians who have greatly contributed to serial killer related articles on Wikipedia and/or have created many of the suggested guidelines for future criminal related articles. Apologies beforehand, for those overlooked.

• User:ONEder Boy, for the creation of the Serial Killer Info Box.

[edit] Invite Another Wikipedian to Join

This project can always use new members. If you see or know someone who might like to join feel free to invite them to our project. We also have a template that you can place on Wikipedian's pages you might think would like to join.

• If you would like to invite someone to join the project place this template {{SKTF invite}} on their Talk page.

It produces this:

[edit] Tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Criminal Biography/Serial Killer task force:	edit · history · watch · refresh
Add an infobox along with a photo to all articles A list of articles needing infoboxes and photos Bring all stubs up to at least start class Create new articles involving serial killer topics update and improve existing articles on the subject

[edit] Recent articles by members

• Vera Renczi - Very prolific (but often overlooked) Romanian poisoner. by ExRat 03:33, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

• Brian Keith Lord Saw him on Forensic Files yesterday, created article today. I take requests. ۝ ۞ ░ 19:03, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

• John Smith (serial killer) ۝ ۞ ░ 22:13, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

• Ronald E Clark by Malick78 08:43, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

• Mario Jascalevich by Malick78 08:43, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

• Timothy Spencer by F-451 (talk) 04:28, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment Table

Serial killer-related articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	1		1	1		3
	GA	2	1			1	4
	B	18	18	13	17	1	67
	Start	3	26	81	95	6	211
	Stub	8	14	55	165	4	246
	Assessed	32	59	150	278	12	531
	Unassessed					5	5
	Total	32	59	150	278	17	536

[edit] Categories

[edit] External links

• The Crime Library
• Serial killers - list, photos and other information
• Mugshots