Per
the 7th AFD, "all further nominations should be closed as violations of
WP:DELAFD unless there is new or changed policy backing the AFD". And
per the DRV "[The preceding sentence] should be read as an admonition against superfluous nominations. It is not a moratorium."
IAR cannot be used by a minority party to simply assert that a rule that they don't like doesn't apply in a given situation. By definition, an appropriate IAR action will have the approval of an overwhelming number of editors. Such is not the case here.
Thus, absent a clear majority in favor of an IAR position, and given the clear policy arguments in support of a normal
WP:V approach, the clear policy based consensus is to keep this list only to those deaths for whom there are reliable sources (as noted by one person, these need to be high quality sources, not tabloid journals who regularly fling around these words for fun) that the death is in someway exceptional. All other entries (those for whom someone might say "Come on, this is obviously strange") should be removed.
List of unusual deaths is a former
featured list candidate. Please view the link under Article milestones below to see why the nomination failed. Once the objections have been addressed you may
resubmit the article for featured list status.
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Megan Gibson (2011-01-14).
"Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary: 10 Unforgettable Entries". TIME. Archived from
the original on 2011-01-19. Retrieved 2010-01-15. This page, which doesn't claim to be complete, lists examples of unique or rare circumstances in which people have died. Gruesome? Yes. Distasteful? Perhaps. Fascinating? Definitely.
Caitlin Dewey (2015-11-05).
"The most fascinating Wikipedia articles you haven't read". Washington Post. Retrieved 2015-11-06. When the Wikimedia Foundation recently polled its staffers about their favorite pages, these lists of urban legends, weird deaths and under-touted revolutions were among the winners. No explanation necessary, tbh: They're all self-evidently fascinating.
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Holding tank
There is a holding tank for content, removed from the article due to poor sourcing, which may have been included in the article for a considerable time:
Talk:List of unusual deaths/Sourcing issues. Following talk page discussion, and in line with
WP:STALEDRAFT, it has been agreed that any content in this holding area not sourced within 6 months from addition should be removed.
Treadmill 18. June 2024
Currently the description says the window broke, but that's wrong. The window was open and the referenced article mentions that and the video clearly shows the open window.
81.217.6.16 (
talk)
16:52, 28 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Jim Creighton
Jim was a 19th century baseball player, he died when he swung a home run so hard it ruptured his bladder. Unfortunately, I can't find any reliable sources that directly call his death unusual.
Bdblakley29 (
talk)
21:40, 16 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Rori1911 uploaded authentic images of
Robert Pakington, the objects found inside John Cummings' body, Henry Taylor's death (from The Illustrated Police News),
Jane Stanford (which I have replaced with a portrait already on Commons), Julian Carlton, Mary Emma Busch James, Clarence Stagemyer,
Gareth Jones, Monica Myers, David Grundman (which looks extremely fake but appeared in The New York Times in 1982),
Dick Wertheim's death (I really hoped this one was a fake, but it isn't),
Gloria Ramirez, Bliss Scott,
Brittanie Cecil (same comment as for Wertheim's death; portrait in article is fair use so can't be reused here),
Virginia Graeme Baker, Hitoshi Nikaidoh, Francis Daniel Brohm and Chandler Hugh Jackson, as well as Hisashi Ouchi, Michael Colombini,
Abigail Taylor, Isaiah Otieno, Diane Durre's death, Vladimir Likhonos and
Gareth Williams. The last seven are already tagged for speedy deletion on Commons as copyright violations (but could conceivably be transferred to Wikipedia at reduced resolution as fair use images), so some of the other images may be improperly licensed as well.
Gildir (
talk)
06:37, 18 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Per
the 7th AFD, "all further nominations should be closed as violations of
WP:DELAFD unless there is new or changed policy backing the AFD". And
per the DRV "[The preceding sentence] should be read as an admonition against superfluous nominations. It is not a moratorium."
IAR cannot be used by a minority party to simply assert that a rule that they don't like doesn't apply in a given situation. By definition, an appropriate IAR action will have the approval of an overwhelming number of editors. Such is not the case here.
Thus, absent a clear majority in favor of an IAR position, and given the clear policy arguments in support of a normal
WP:V approach, the clear policy based consensus is to keep this list only to those deaths for whom there are reliable sources (as noted by one person, these need to be high quality sources, not tabloid journals who regularly fling around these words for fun) that the death is in someway exceptional. All other entries (those for whom someone might say "Come on, this is obviously strange") should be removed.
List of unusual deaths is a former
featured list candidate. Please view the link under Article milestones below to see why the nomination failed. Once the objections have been addressed you may
resubmit the article for featured list status.
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to
join the project and
contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the
documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Death, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
Death on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.DeathWikipedia:WikiProject DeathTemplate:WikiProject DeathDeath articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject History, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the subject of
History on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.HistoryWikipedia:WikiProject HistoryTemplate:WikiProject Historyhistory articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Lists, an attempt to structure and organize all
list pages on Wikipedia. If you wish to help, please visit the
project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the
discussion.ListsWikipedia:WikiProject ListsTemplate:WikiProject ListsList articles
Megan Gibson (2011-01-14).
"Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary: 10 Unforgettable Entries". TIME. Archived from
the original on 2011-01-19. Retrieved 2010-01-15. This page, which doesn't claim to be complete, lists examples of unique or rare circumstances in which people have died. Gruesome? Yes. Distasteful? Perhaps. Fascinating? Definitely.
Caitlin Dewey (2015-11-05).
"The most fascinating Wikipedia articles you haven't read". Washington Post. Retrieved 2015-11-06. When the Wikimedia Foundation recently polled its staffers about their favorite pages, these lists of urban legends, weird deaths and under-touted revolutions were among the winners. No explanation necessary, tbh: They're all self-evidently fascinating.
This page has archives. Sections older than 30 days may be automatically archived by Lowercase sigmabot III when more than 4 sections are present.
Holding tank
There is a holding tank for content, removed from the article due to poor sourcing, which may have been included in the article for a considerable time:
Talk:List of unusual deaths/Sourcing issues. Following talk page discussion, and in line with
WP:STALEDRAFT, it has been agreed that any content in this holding area not sourced within 6 months from addition should be removed.
Treadmill 18. June 2024
Currently the description says the window broke, but that's wrong. The window was open and the referenced article mentions that and the video clearly shows the open window.
81.217.6.16 (
talk)
16:52, 28 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Jim Creighton
Jim was a 19th century baseball player, he died when he swung a home run so hard it ruptured his bladder. Unfortunately, I can't find any reliable sources that directly call his death unusual.
Bdblakley29 (
talk)
21:40, 16 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Rori1911 uploaded authentic images of
Robert Pakington, the objects found inside John Cummings' body, Henry Taylor's death (from The Illustrated Police News),
Jane Stanford (which I have replaced with a portrait already on Commons), Julian Carlton, Mary Emma Busch James, Clarence Stagemyer,
Gareth Jones, Monica Myers, David Grundman (which looks extremely fake but appeared in The New York Times in 1982),
Dick Wertheim's death (I really hoped this one was a fake, but it isn't),
Gloria Ramirez, Bliss Scott,
Brittanie Cecil (same comment as for Wertheim's death; portrait in article is fair use so can't be reused here),
Virginia Graeme Baker, Hitoshi Nikaidoh, Francis Daniel Brohm and Chandler Hugh Jackson, as well as Hisashi Ouchi, Michael Colombini,
Abigail Taylor, Isaiah Otieno, Diane Durre's death, Vladimir Likhonos and
Gareth Williams. The last seven are already tagged for speedy deletion on Commons as copyright violations (but could conceivably be transferred to Wikipedia at reduced resolution as fair use images), so some of the other images may be improperly licensed as well.
Gildir (
talk)
06:37, 18 July 2024 (UTC)reply
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