Editorial policy

Every page on this site is published by Fame.am as an organization. Profiles have no individual author: they are put together from the sources below by our software, under the rules on this page.

Facts about people, such as their dates, roles, family and offices, come from Wikidata, which is published under CC0.

Profile text drawn from Wikipedia is used under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 licence, and every profile lists the articles it draws on. Quotations come from Wikiquote under the same licence, and photographs from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, with the photographer named where it is recorded.

How much a person is read comes from public readership data. We count people, not crawlers or other automated programs.

When a page says why attention moved, the reports behind it are named with their publisher, headline and date, and each one links to the source so you can read it there.

Other public sources, for film, television, music and video, are listed with their credits on Data sources.

A fame score is a reading of public attention on a scale of 0 to 100. It weighs how widely a person has been read over the long run together with how much they are read these days.

The boards rank people by it and show who is actually read most, whoever they are. We do not move or remove anyone because of who they are or what they did. A place on a board is not praise, and it says nothing about a person's worth, talent, character or credibility.

Every figure is counted by our software, never set by hand. Nobody can edit their own score. How we know explains each figure.

A moment is a dated event we can tie to a rise in readers: a release, an election, an award, a match, a death.

We say an event explains a rise only when the evidence is strong: its day fits the rise, it is about the person, and a source we can link confirms it. Then the page says Why now and names its sources. When the evidence is weaker, the page says Around the same time and claims nothing more. When nothing explains a rise, we say so.

Deaths, legal matters and health are told only when a source names and dates them, never from wording alone.

A legal matter is shown only when the offence is named, by the person's own record or by reports from named outlets, in neutral words that keep the presumption of innocence. A legal matter, an allegation, a health matter and an act of a state are never given as the cause of a rise.

For people known for a crime, or as the victim of one, we tell no generated reason, except a dated act of the state that reports confirm and, on the page of someone known for a crime, a film, series or book about them.

We show no size for the attention that follows a death.

A person under 18 has a limited profile, and the profile says so. A child is given no place and no rank, and no legal, allegation or health line is ever told about a child. People searching for a child is never a reason for us to gather more about them.

Our software collects the sources above, counts readers, computes every figure and ties rises to dated events. No figure is estimated by hand or by a language model.

Some profile summaries are written in our own words by an AI language model working from the sources above. That text is never credited to Wikipedia. About a person who may be living it may not carry a charge, an allegation or a judgement, and for a political figure who may be living we show the sourced encyclopedia lead instead of our own words.

There is no paid placement on Fame.am. Nobody can pay to appear, to rank higher, or to change what a profile says.

Where advertising appears, it is placed by an advertising network and never changes a ranking or a word on a page. We show no advertising on the profiles of children, of people in the adult industry, of people defined by a crime, or on pages that explain a death or a legal matter.

If a fact, a number, a family line or a reason is wrong, tell us through Report or correct, which every profile links to, and we will look at it.

A person can claim their own profile through Claim profile, and ask for it to be removed from our public index through Opt out. Claiming a profile never changes a score or a place.

For anything else, contact us.