Wikipedia:WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography/Organized crime task force

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Organized crime task force

Article assessment Project history
Contents 1 Scope 2 Topics 3 Formatting 4 Participants 5 Articles 5.1 Pending tasks 5.1.1 Article statistics 5.2 Missing articles 5.3 Article alerts 6 Templates 6.1 Invitation 6.2 Userbox 7 Resources 8 Old project pages 9 Related Wikiprojects 10 External links 11 Categories
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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			1	9		10
FL				1		1
GA	2	7	19	74		102
B	8	35	71	235		349
C	22	97	172	1,135		1,426
Start	6	23	154	3,108		3,291
Stub			20	856		876
List	1	51	30	97		179
NA				1	1,737	1,738
Assessed	39	213	467	5,516	1,737	7,972
Total	39	213	467	5,516	1,737	7,972
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 28,666			Ω = 4.74

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

29 May 2026 – Raúl Osiel Marroquín (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by CoryGlee (t · c); see discussion
26 May 2026 – Ángel Díaz Balbín (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by CoryGlee (t · c); see discussion
12 May 2026 – Motherless.com (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Launchballer (t · c); see discussion
09 May 2026 – Killing of Yuki Adachi (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Miminity (t · c); see discussion
05 May 2026 – Charles Barrett (climber) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Buidhe (t · c); see discussion
05 May 2026 – Murder of Dominique "Rem'mie" Fells (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Jishara (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

10 Jun 2026 – Bodil Joensen (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
10 Jun 2026 – 2026 Johannesburg shooting (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Epsilon.Prota (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
10 Jun 2026 – United States v. Hamilton (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Voorts (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
07 Jun 2026 – Prince Group transnational criminal organization case (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by M kuhner (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
05 Jun 2026 – Eugen Grigore case (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Pondering my orb (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
04 Jun 2026 – Killing of Martin Nitzken Jr. (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mariamnei (t · c); see discussion (7 participants)
03 Jun 2026 – 2020 Miami-Dade Public Schools DDoS attack (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by The Grid (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
26 May 2026 – Killing of Mizanur Rahman Tutul (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mariamnei (t · c); see discussion (5 participants; relisted)
20 May 2026 – Yusra Ismail (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by The9Man (t · c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted)
02 Jun 2026 – Lynching of Peb Falls (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by RaisedArizona (t · c) was closed as keep by Cavarrone (t · c) on 09 Jun 2026; see discussion (8 participants)

(2 more...)

Proposed deletions

04 Jun 2026 – Child abuse in Quranic schools (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by DraconicDark (t · c) was deproded by Cyclopia (t · c) on 06 Jun 2026
29 May 2026 – Andrzej Kolikowski (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Bearian (t · c) was deleted

Categories for discussion

04 Jun 2026 – Category:1976 crimes in Tonga (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by OpalYosutebito (t · c); see discussion
04 Jun 2026 – Category:2004 crimes in Qatar (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by OpalYosutebito (t · c); see discussion
04 Jun 2026 – Category:2011 crimes in Mauritius (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by OpalYosutebito (t · c); see discussion
04 Jun 2026 – Category:1967 crimes in Senegal (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by OpalYosutebito (t · c); see discussion
04 Jun 2026 – Category:Crimes in Tonga by year (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by OpalYosutebito (t · c); see discussion
04 Jun 2026 – Category:Crimes in Qatar by year (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by OpalYosutebito (t · c); see discussion
04 Jun 2026 – Category:Crimes in Mauritius by year (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by OpalYosutebito (t · c); see discussion
04 Jun 2026 – Category:Crimes in Senegal by year (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by OpalYosutebito (t · c); see discussion
29 May 2026 – Category:People executed by a Northern and Southern dynasties state (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Векочел (t · c); see discussion
29 May 2026 – Category:ISIL terrorist incidents in Lebanon (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion

(29 more...)

Redirects for discussion

06 Jun 2026 – Hitler's (talk · edit · hist) →Adolf Hitler was RfDed by A1Cafel (t · c); see discussion
02 Jun 2026 – Pukekohe shooting (talk · edit · hist) →Pukekohe massacre was RfDed by Traumnovelle (t · c); see discussion
02 Jun 2026 – Pukekohe massacre (talk · edit · hist) →Schlaepfer family murders was RfDed by Traumnovelle (t · c); see discussion
19 May 2026 – Osamabinladen (talk · edit · hist) →Osama bin Laden was RfDed by Bis-Serjetà? (t · c); see discussion
19 May 2026 – ElMencho (talk · edit · hist) →El Mencho was RfDed by Bis-Serjetà? (t · c); see discussion

Files for discussion

11 Jun 2026 – File:Teamsters Union Logo.svg (talk · edit · hist) (on 1, 2) was FfDed by Qzekrom (t · c); see discussion
04 Jun 2026 – File:07-17-2016BatonRougeshooting.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on 2016 shooting of Baton Rouge police officers) was FfDed by JHD0919 (t · c); see discussion
28 May 2026 – File:Chicago Seven, news conference, February 28, 1970.jpeg (talk · edit · hist) (on Chicago Seven) was FfDed by Based5290 (t · c); see discussion
10 May 2026 – File:ShinyHunters Hacking Message.png (talk · edit · hist) (on 2026 Canvas data breach) was FfDed by Ixfd64 (t · c); see discussion
31 May 2026 – File:Schultz dutch mug.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on Dutch Schultz) FfDed by Howardcorn33 (t · c) was closed; 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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