Talk:Missing person

message: unless anybody has evidence that the vast majority of missing persons are female, I'm going to remove that line - it doesn't seem to be true in my own experience, plus if you want to be politically incorrect and stereotypical, for every woman missing due to domestic violence, there's a man missing due to a drug deal gone wrong.
* there are statistics of missing persons generated monthly and they DO show many more females missing.  Your own experience is not factual.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.54.190.252 (talk) 04:49, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Remove line

message: Rather than having a photo of a missing statue in this article, why not post a photo of a real missing person? Maybe it might help lead to that person being found. - Brian Kendig 16:39, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed that image. It doesn't really serve any need or add any value to the article other than an attempt at a joke. -- Longhair 16:52, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo 

message: I have changed the following text:
"On May 26, 2002, a monument to missing persons was unveiled in County Kilkenny, Ireland by President Mary McAleese. At the time it was the first monument of its kind in the world. [2]"
to
"On May 26 2002, a monument to missing persons was unveiled in County Kilkenny, Ireland by President Mary McAleese. It was the first monument of its kind in the world. [2]"
Presumably if the monument was the first of it's kind when unveiled, it will always remain the first of it's kind.
I have also re-titled the section "Monument" as I could not understand why "Closure" was an appropriate title.  ColourSarge 10:51, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Closure / Monument 

message: Not that I would wish to break Wikipedia's veracious "No Original Research" policy.  However, it seems that Biometric techniques (spotting, for example, the faces of missing persons within a crowd) can be used in order to provide assurance (to the police at least) of the fact that a particular missing person is still alive.  Such "facial recognition in a crowd" technology is already used in many situations (mostly to track criminals).  Given that criminals are usually defined as missing in some sense (they are, afterall, on the run from the police often) - could it not be said that biometrics have found application to the tracking down of missing persons?
ConfusciousSays (talk) 05:38, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Application of Biometric Recognition Techniques

message: Does not discuss misunderstandings as major reason.  --Daniel C. Boyer (talk) 17:40, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Misunderstandings

message: This article should say more about how the government goes about looking for missing persons. E.g., they look at credit card and cell phone activity, right? Tisane talk/stalk  07:45, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Methods of finding missing persons 

message: This article only mentions missing children and never shows any statistics on missing adults and teens. These need to be included into the article.--Paleface Jack (talk) 21:50, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Adults? 

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message: Missing persons and unidentified decedents have seen much better science applied recently. It could be mentioned here: Locate International - https://locate.international/about/who-we-are/ is an example, as is the DNA Doe project. It also helps to say why people go missing and Missing Persons UK has looked into that for children and adults. 80-90% adults have mental illness, about 20% of children. For older adults 40% have dementia. There are better figures on Missing Persons which can be added. For example very high % of missing being found within 2 days. These can make the article more accurate and also more useful for those wanting to help in finding a missing person. 
Yes I know this is an encyclopedia, but people will read this article with often an activist framing. 88.112.31.26 (talk) 09:17, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  help to find