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Biographies of academics and artists, who are living or were recently living, raise several "special" concerns beyond those addressed generally in Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. Other types of biographies might be special in other ways, but philosophers, historians, novelists, visual artists, composers, non-star musicians, and so on, have a strong encyclopedic distinction between their work and their person.