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Hi let's take me for an example. People who knows me personally outside Wikipedia, don't know that I am Wikipedia editor and its not like that I can leave a will, that my name should be updated here once I passed away. And the people who knows me in Wikipedia don't know me personally. But I would really like to have my name up there as its my legacy, to show that I have helped to pass the knowledge to another generation.
Don't freak out, it not like I am not planning to die any time soon, but who knows right!. I joined Wikipedia to share the knowledge and want that legacy to be kept.
I took a long break from Wikipedia an just came back but I found that some had placed a deletion tag on my page. Lucky for me some good Samaritan removed that. I don't want these to happen also.
Not sure if this is the right place to talk all these details, considering the people mentioned in the other page is no longer with us. But I writing this with full respect to them and they too might have wanted this and had help from someone. But there are lot people who don't.
Please remove if this section is in appropriate for this page and I would fully respect that.
Just checking!. Thanks. KAS( talk) 19:16, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
Hello. I requested an edit on Template talk:Deceased Wikipedian#Semi-protected edit request on 14 February 2021 and I was told to come here to have someone consider my request I made, with one backtrack I made in my last reply. Thank you. 2603:301D:22B2:4000:8C26:41A9:43ED:5BD3 ( talk) 16:53, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
To avoid a discussion fork, allow me to suggest that the discussion be continued on the template's talk page rather than here. So please go to Template talk:Deceased Wikipedian#Semi-protected edit request on 14 February 2021 to add your thoughts and ideas. Thank you very much! P.I. Ellsworth ed. put'r there 17:46, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
I don't know if this is the appropriate venue to share this information, (Redacted) I, as I'm sure many people across Wikipedia will be, devastated to hear of her passing. She was huge part of why I've continued my editing here. May she rest in peace. ❯❯❯ Mccunicano ☕️ 08:13, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
appropriate venue to shareinformation that you have "researched" off-wiki? If someone hasn't self-identified as a Wikipedian off-wiki, then perhaps it's because they had private reasons for not doing so. —— Serial 12:59, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
Very sad to hear this. Martinevans123 ( talk) 15:59, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
Ptmccain ( talk · contribs · block log) made 1,300 edits over 5 months in 2006, 433 of which were to a single article ( Martin Luther). As a result of persistent 3RR breaches on this article and, later, trolling on ANI, this user acquired an extensive block log, culminating in an indefinite block in 2006 which remains in place today. I am not sure how the project has handled such situations in the past (if it has even had to deal with them), but I would like to suggest that it may not be appropriate to list this user on this page - or, at the very least, to revise the note the explain that Ptmccain was not always a positive contributor to the encyclopedia. This, that and the other ( talk) 00:12, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
Joel Encinas ( User:Jewel457) died last April 27, 2021. I don't know if he can be included in the list of deceased Wikipedians because he contributed only 212 edits here in the English Wikipedia. Anyway, he was a fellow Wikimedian and was active in participating in promoting Wikimedia projects in various places in the Philippines. Refer to the photos below for some of the activities that he participated. I hope that you can consider adding him or at least give me permission to add a memorial hatnote on his user page. Thanks. -- Jojit ( talk) 09:22, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
RIP.
This is a potential test case, if ever, as discussed in WP-death and elsewhere.
A wikipedian, as well as (professionally) active at death's time, in sport(s). Bokoharamwatch ( talk) 23:42, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
It is worthwhile to review a deceased editor's draft articles and other work in progress so that whatever additional work is needed on them can be done. Visit Special:Allpages/User:Example and Special:Contributions/Example. Restricting the contributions search to namespace Draft is a way to find draft articles that the editor was working on. Drafts seemingly abandoned by a deceased wikipedian may still be worth salvaging, or at least tagging as {{ Promising draft}} so that they won't be deleted as abandoned. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 13:53, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
Are there admins here to whom one can request page protection for a deceased editor, or should a request be submitted at WP:RFPP? My only reservation for not going there first was not to draw attention to this before admin action occurred. Regards, -- Goldsztajn ( talk) 13:01, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
See [3]. Rest in peace, Mr. Howes. :( Connormah ( talk) 22:45, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
Looking at how different Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians/2021, in style and especially the number of words, is from all the preceding years, I wonder whether it would be appropriate to add a brief suggestion about how to write entries to the guidelines page. Much of the length recently is due to duplicating Signpost articles and comments posted elsewhere. Maybe the advice should be "usually a few sentences" and "link to longer pieces"? WhatamIdoing ( talk) 05:17, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
[4] [5] (also the subject of Roger Hui) Connormah ( talk) 17:01, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
Patrick Rogel ( talk · contribs) seems to have passed August 2020 as shown in https://fr.wikipedia.org/?title=Discussion_utilisateur:Patrick_Rogel&diff=prev&oldid=185586953 and https://commons.wikimedia.org/?title=Commons%3AAdministrators%27_noticeboard&type=revision&diff=600746135&oldid=600745337 but my french is not good enaugh to dig any deeper. Agathoclea ( talk) 11:27, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
I heard that the user above was deceased.. it says so on his user page and he was demoted from rollbacker due to it. Is it true? Race To Oblivion (ネザーへのハイウェイ) ( talk) 18:09, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
User:Ihcoyc has passed, on December 19th. There are links to his facebook obit on his talk page.. I don't know anything about the arrangements or when or if there will be an obit in a RS. I am not familiar with the policy regarding how to manage deceased wikipedians, or memorialize, just wanted to share the info so someone can take up the torch of the steps to preserve his account. Centerone ( talk) 06:43, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
The sad news that Possibly (formerly ThatMontrealIP) passed away was shared by a family member who posted a link to his memorial on his user page [6]. Netherzone ( talk) 14:49, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
User:Sk8erPrince appears to have died (Redacted).
However, as a result of abusive behavior both on and off-site (Redacted), he was indefinitely blocked by Arbcom in the midst of discussion about a topic ban. 93 ( talk) 04:40, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
pl:Wikipedia:Zmarli wikipedyści has listed Mareklug ( talk · contribs) as deceased since July. They cite [7], and I found [8] as well, which, sadly, seems to match the photo on his userpage and the biographical information on the Flickr account linked from that photo's description. Should his passing be added to the 2020 page? -- Tamzin cetacean needed (she/they) 08:50, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
Apparently Sir William Reierson Arbuthnot, 2nd Baronet of Kittybrewster, and son of Sir John Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet, aka user:Kittybrewster, died in October 2021. DS ( talk) 01:23, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
I don't have a lot of time right now, but could someone add my old friend Adrian to the list of deceased editors? User:Adrian~enwiki is the account he used to edit under, real life article about them at Adrian Lamo. He died in 2018, and had about 5,000 edits on his account. — Moe Epsilon 00:29, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
I posted a query on that user's talk page. They have not edited here since July 2018, but I found a possibly related obituary notice from August 2018. Experienced editors here might like to take a look, at some point, and come to a view. Ghmyrtle ( talk) 16:36, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
Sadly, it appears administrator User:Moriori passed away, per Wikipedia talk:Administrators' newsletter#User Moriori and checkuser confirmation at Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard#Admin Account. May want to add them to the list. – Novem Linguae ( talk) 03:57, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
@ Sammy D III: reports that User:Eddaido died peacefully on 15 June 2022. They were a prolific editor on vehicles and New Zealand geography.- gadfium 01:18, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
User:FDLeyda appears to have passed on in September 2019 according to online obituaries. Could someone make he relevant notices etc? I've read the guidelines but I'm not sure how to do many of the things it suggests. Thank you! MarchOfTheGreyhounds ( talk) 11:13, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
Say that User:Example dies. User:Example's brother states that yes, Example is dead, but then says he now assumes responsibility of the User:Example account. What happens in this case? Is the account listed at Category:Deceased Wikipedians or is a note placed on the user page about the situation? 172.112.210.32 ( talk) 03:33, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
Emana left us 13 years ago in 2009. MMessine19 ( talk) 10:15, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
Darxus is no longer with us. I'm not really sure of the method of confirming this or how to deal with his account. I don't think his family put out an official obituary, but his father memorialized this on his facebook page in publicly viewable posts. https://www.facebook.com/jerry.barwell You can confirm this is him by cross-referencing with images of him on his webpage chaosreigns which is noted on his talk page via archive.org, it looks like his website finally went down. https://web.archive.org/web/20210623111419/http://www.chaosreigns.com/ Centerone ( talk) 04:12, 30 July 2022 (UTC)
I just found out that Ahsoous isn’t listed in 2020 despite him having an English language user page LissajousCurve ( talk) 18:35, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
In December 2021, user:Anthony Appleyard posted that they had been in hospital. A person of this name died in Manchester on 28 February 2022. Anthony has not edited Wikipedia since 13 February 2022. As Anthony was especially diligent and steadfast, it seems sadly likely that they are deceased. Perhaps some experienced editor from that region such as user:Boing! said Zebedee can confirm or comment on this. Andrew🐉( talk) 22:58, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
A good time and interesting discussion was had by all. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 19:37, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
Speaking of RexxS: that person has not edited any Wikimedia sites since late February 2021 and on the talk page, there are people who hope he will come back to edit. There's no indication on if that user has retired or taken a wikibreak etc.. His real name can be found from Commons via a category where there is the photo where the cropped version is found here in this section. At present I can't seem to find any clues from external links as to what really happened to RexxS but I would think someone would have told the community if RexxS is currently a deceased Wikimedian, as in the case of PiZero. Iggy ( Swan) ( Contribs) 11:05, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
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User:BeenAroundAWhile made over 100,000 edits and earlier in the year Jimbo personally congratulated him on reaching this milestone. He passed away per edits by his family at his userpage. — CX Zoom[he/him] ( let's talk • { C• X}) 11:56, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
Wikipedian Mary Urashima recently passed away, and I am trying to figure out what to do to protect her account and make sure people are aware if they try to contact her on her talk page. I've added her on Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians/2022, but it's not clear to me where to go from there. I know her and know she died, and there is a news article about her passing, but I'm not sure if I need to link that to anything. Any guidance would be helpful. Thanks, Bahooka ( talk) 06:03, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
An active but now deceased Wikipedian is on my watchlist, and I've observed that notices of deletion discussions, involving articles etc. that she created, are commonly removed from the user's talk page. I wonder about the wisdom of this. This editor felt passionately about Wikipedia and I'd like to take a look at her creations when they are proposed for deletion, and weigh in if I so desire. Seems like a fitting thing to do in her memory. I'm sure she'd want people to do this. Coretheapple ( talk) 19:45, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
They are an established contributor on Ukrainian Wikipedia, murdered by Russian invaders.
You can read this
https://blog.wikimedia.org.ua/2022/11/29/volodymyr-vakulenko/ for further information.
Lemonaka (
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18:58, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
The German wiki lost Pelz last month https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Pelz LissajousCurve ( talk) 14:24, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
Swedish wikipedian Holger Ellgaard died 2 months ago LissajousCurve ( talk) 18:04, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
See User:Clara C., in pt-wiki. Her real name was Lucia Pilla. Thanks, and sorry my bad English. André Koehne ( talk) 13:21, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
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(Reposting with information removed based on feedback at WP:BLPN. [9])
I am concerned that
this edit is in violation of
Wikipedia:Deceased_Wikipedians/Guidelines. The requirement is to make absolutely sure that the user in question has indeed died
. We do not need to publicly make a statement either way, but surely we can all agree that the criteria for inclusion in the deceased list has not been met. The community is entitled to a discussion on this.
Kolya Butternut (
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Can this be added? I found only social media posts.
In April 2010, an IP (Felix S.) posted a couple of messages at User talk:BlazerKnight saying that BlazerKnight's name was Wesley, and that he had died suddenly on 22/03/2010.
In August, another IP (Reuben) posted a message at User:BlazerKnight saying that he is one of the user's friends from Australia, and that BlazerKnight's name was Wesley Phay. He too said that Wesley Phay had passed away on 22nd March 2010.
At BlazerKnight's wordpress blog, there are links to his different social accounts and the Wikipedia account links to BlazerKnight's Wikipedia user page. In the comments, there is a message from Felix S again, and posted around the same time as the Wikipedia post, and mentioning the cause of death. Another comment from 2021 says it has been 10 years since he passed.
The Steam profile has condolence messages from 2011 and 2012. The DeviantArt profile has a message from his cousin on the passing. In 2012, there was a comment from his father at The Real Singapore. Jay 💬 20:26, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
I noticed that for 2020 and prior, the convention was to include, in the title of a listing, both the deceased Wikipedian’s username, and also their real-life name (if their username doesn’t reflect their real-life name).
This practice seemed to stop starting with the entries for 2021. Since then, all the entry titles have only included the usernames of the persons in question.
This seemed odd to me. It also feels like the people are being treated differently, although I don’t always have the best sense for propriety or social norms, so my assessment on that isn’t the most reliable.
Was this a deliberate change? If so, what was the rationale? If not, then do people think it would be worth it to make the titles for entries from 2021 up until now follow the same format as the titles from 2020 and prior? Mifield 22:47, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
Earlier today, Wil540 art shared the news that fashion brand Vetements released a new line of clothes including a hoodie with the text "Wikipedia Editor". Pharos reminded us that that particular design was by Dthomsen8 years ago (see this story from 2013, for example). More recently, Annie of Depths of Wikipedia picked up the design (perhaps how it got on Vetements' radar).
In the course of that discussion, Jim.henderson found an obituary here that appears to be him, sadly. David wasn't shy about his offline identity, and I had the pleasure of meeting him at a couple Wikiconferences pre-pandemic. A great contributor (just shy of 500,000 edits!) and great advocate for our community. WMF wrote a story about him here, too. It would be good to get additional corroboration, but it seems worth sharing here. :/ — Rhododendrites talk \\ 21:03, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
There is a request at RPPI from Sebbog13 regarding Inoslav Bešker ( talk · contribs). Would someone familiar with standard procedure please handle this or provide advice. Johnuniq ( talk) 07:31, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
If someone has a moment to write up an entry for Doncram ( talk · contribs) ( obituary), it would be appreciated. Admin/steward side has been handled. -- Tamzin cetacean needed (she|they|xe) 19:43, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
David K. M. Klaus, User:Davidkevin, died July 27 according to Ansible [11]. — Tamfang ( talk) 04:54, 5 August 2023 (UTC)
[12] jp× g 20:45, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
@ ARK: Sarang ( talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log), very experienced user on Commons, and part of the German Community, died on 20 September 2023. ZandDev ( msg) 16:56, 5 October 2023 (UTC)
Anton Logvynenko, User:AntonLogvynenko, talented Ukrainian artist, image colorizer and the person behind the now-defunct titanic-in-color website from 2010 to 2017 and the website history-in-color since 2017, killed in battle during the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 29th November 2023.
Announcements of his death: https://twitter.com/BoldlyBuilding2/status/1730039037337935906 https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=330636409674178
Here's a link to Anton's facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/historyincolorart/
Article about Anton's colorization from 2013. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2401724/Titanic-Colour-Photographer-colours-black-white-pictures-worlds-famous-ship-extraordinary-results.html 2606:8700:A:A:D1E:D67A:47B:6193 ( talk) 17:41, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
Please stop with this life is changing for everyone the domino effect is going to happen. Please I have a child with autism who is getting bullied. Stop this. 2001:5B0:45C0:5AE8:2842:F03F:BAFB:239A ( talk) 18:23, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians/2021 is unique among all the years for its inclusion of what its talk page calls "testimonials" for a couple of entries. I would like to copyedit the page to follow the usual format (e.g., to link to comments on their User_talk: pages, rather than copying selected comments to this page). Does anyone have concerns about that? WhatamIdoing ( talk) 06:09, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
Per ticket:2023090110003382, died 31 August 2023. Primefac ( talk) 11:49, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
Since many people have said they were with him at Wikimania, does anyone have (or would anyone like to upload) a photograph? It is often hard to track one down for WP:DECEASED and Signpost obituaries. jp× g 01:09, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
I had forgotten this page existed and have just noticed that I failed to recognise that several well-known names had disappeared from Talk pages. What a sad loss to the project this gentleman is. Deb ( talk) 14:08, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
I have confirmed that Anthony Bradbury has died; here is my post at the bureaucrats' noticeboard about it. I'm not sure how I'd go about adding Tony here; it was upsetting enough removing his admin rights. Acalamari 12:17, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
This user, who was confirmed to be Mr. Keith Fowler, is now apparently deceased. Should I go ahead and add his name to the list? Dronebogus ( talk) 00:09, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians/Tab header specifies __NOTOC__
. As a result, there is no table of contents on each year's list of individuals. I think it would be useful to have that TOC to help navigate the page or see at a glance who's there (if I'm trying to find someone but don't know the year). It seems like it has always been set up this way. Any objection to changing it? Pinging
User:Titodutta who set that token.
DMacks (
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06:11, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
__NOTOC__
only
if it's invoked on
Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians? --
Michael Bednarek (
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03:02, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
Frostly is still active but the user page (ditto talk page) seems to indicate deceased. I believe it is a mistake resulting from the last edit, i.e. the template beginning with DISPLAYTITLE. I would appreciate assistance.-- Ipigott ( talk) 11:07, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
On :de we became aware only today, that User:Goertz has died already in 2011. [13] For his disclosed data see his entry in de:Wikipedia:Gedenkseite_für_verstorbene_Wikipedianer#2011. Eventually an admin here could block his :en-userpage etc. -- Túrelio ( talk) 17:28, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
Noticing the recent tasteless vandalism, I'm wondering if this is the sort of page that should be indefinitely semi-protected. Jclemens ( talk) 20:07, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
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Hi let's take me for an example. People who knows me personally outside Wikipedia, don't know that I am Wikipedia editor and its not like that I can leave a will, that my name should be updated here once I passed away. And the people who knows me in Wikipedia don't know me personally. But I would really like to have my name up there as its my legacy, to show that I have helped to pass the knowledge to another generation.
Don't freak out, it not like I am not planning to die any time soon, but who knows right!. I joined Wikipedia to share the knowledge and want that legacy to be kept.
I took a long break from Wikipedia an just came back but I found that some had placed a deletion tag on my page. Lucky for me some good Samaritan removed that. I don't want these to happen also.
Not sure if this is the right place to talk all these details, considering the people mentioned in the other page is no longer with us. But I writing this with full respect to them and they too might have wanted this and had help from someone. But there are lot people who don't.
Please remove if this section is in appropriate for this page and I would fully respect that.
Just checking!. Thanks. KAS( talk) 19:16, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
Hello. I requested an edit on Template talk:Deceased Wikipedian#Semi-protected edit request on 14 February 2021 and I was told to come here to have someone consider my request I made, with one backtrack I made in my last reply. Thank you. 2603:301D:22B2:4000:8C26:41A9:43ED:5BD3 ( talk) 16:53, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
To avoid a discussion fork, allow me to suggest that the discussion be continued on the template's talk page rather than here. So please go to Template talk:Deceased Wikipedian#Semi-protected edit request on 14 February 2021 to add your thoughts and ideas. Thank you very much! P.I. Ellsworth ed. put'r there 17:46, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
I don't know if this is the appropriate venue to share this information, (Redacted) I, as I'm sure many people across Wikipedia will be, devastated to hear of her passing. She was huge part of why I've continued my editing here. May she rest in peace. ❯❯❯ Mccunicano ☕️ 08:13, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
appropriate venue to shareinformation that you have "researched" off-wiki? If someone hasn't self-identified as a Wikipedian off-wiki, then perhaps it's because they had private reasons for not doing so. —— Serial 12:59, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
Very sad to hear this. Martinevans123 ( talk) 15:59, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
Ptmccain ( talk · contribs · block log) made 1,300 edits over 5 months in 2006, 433 of which were to a single article ( Martin Luther). As a result of persistent 3RR breaches on this article and, later, trolling on ANI, this user acquired an extensive block log, culminating in an indefinite block in 2006 which remains in place today. I am not sure how the project has handled such situations in the past (if it has even had to deal with them), but I would like to suggest that it may not be appropriate to list this user on this page - or, at the very least, to revise the note the explain that Ptmccain was not always a positive contributor to the encyclopedia. This, that and the other ( talk) 00:12, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
Joel Encinas ( User:Jewel457) died last April 27, 2021. I don't know if he can be included in the list of deceased Wikipedians because he contributed only 212 edits here in the English Wikipedia. Anyway, he was a fellow Wikimedian and was active in participating in promoting Wikimedia projects in various places in the Philippines. Refer to the photos below for some of the activities that he participated. I hope that you can consider adding him or at least give me permission to add a memorial hatnote on his user page. Thanks. -- Jojit ( talk) 09:22, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
RIP.
This is a potential test case, if ever, as discussed in WP-death and elsewhere.
A wikipedian, as well as (professionally) active at death's time, in sport(s). Bokoharamwatch ( talk) 23:42, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
It is worthwhile to review a deceased editor's draft articles and other work in progress so that whatever additional work is needed on them can be done. Visit Special:Allpages/User:Example and Special:Contributions/Example. Restricting the contributions search to namespace Draft is a way to find draft articles that the editor was working on. Drafts seemingly abandoned by a deceased wikipedian may still be worth salvaging, or at least tagging as {{ Promising draft}} so that they won't be deleted as abandoned. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 13:53, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
Are there admins here to whom one can request page protection for a deceased editor, or should a request be submitted at WP:RFPP? My only reservation for not going there first was not to draw attention to this before admin action occurred. Regards, -- Goldsztajn ( talk) 13:01, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
See [3]. Rest in peace, Mr. Howes. :( Connormah ( talk) 22:45, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
Looking at how different Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians/2021, in style and especially the number of words, is from all the preceding years, I wonder whether it would be appropriate to add a brief suggestion about how to write entries to the guidelines page. Much of the length recently is due to duplicating Signpost articles and comments posted elsewhere. Maybe the advice should be "usually a few sentences" and "link to longer pieces"? WhatamIdoing ( talk) 05:17, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
[4] [5] (also the subject of Roger Hui) Connormah ( talk) 17:01, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
Patrick Rogel ( talk · contribs) seems to have passed August 2020 as shown in https://fr.wikipedia.org/?title=Discussion_utilisateur:Patrick_Rogel&diff=prev&oldid=185586953 and https://commons.wikimedia.org/?title=Commons%3AAdministrators%27_noticeboard&type=revision&diff=600746135&oldid=600745337 but my french is not good enaugh to dig any deeper. Agathoclea ( talk) 11:27, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
I heard that the user above was deceased.. it says so on his user page and he was demoted from rollbacker due to it. Is it true? Race To Oblivion (ネザーへのハイウェイ) ( talk) 18:09, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
User:Ihcoyc has passed, on December 19th. There are links to his facebook obit on his talk page.. I don't know anything about the arrangements or when or if there will be an obit in a RS. I am not familiar with the policy regarding how to manage deceased wikipedians, or memorialize, just wanted to share the info so someone can take up the torch of the steps to preserve his account. Centerone ( talk) 06:43, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
The sad news that Possibly (formerly ThatMontrealIP) passed away was shared by a family member who posted a link to his memorial on his user page [6]. Netherzone ( talk) 14:49, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
User:Sk8erPrince appears to have died (Redacted).
However, as a result of abusive behavior both on and off-site (Redacted), he was indefinitely blocked by Arbcom in the midst of discussion about a topic ban. 93 ( talk) 04:40, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
pl:Wikipedia:Zmarli wikipedyści has listed Mareklug ( talk · contribs) as deceased since July. They cite [7], and I found [8] as well, which, sadly, seems to match the photo on his userpage and the biographical information on the Flickr account linked from that photo's description. Should his passing be added to the 2020 page? -- Tamzin cetacean needed (she/they) 08:50, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
Apparently Sir William Reierson Arbuthnot, 2nd Baronet of Kittybrewster, and son of Sir John Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet, aka user:Kittybrewster, died in October 2021. DS ( talk) 01:23, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
I don't have a lot of time right now, but could someone add my old friend Adrian to the list of deceased editors? User:Adrian~enwiki is the account he used to edit under, real life article about them at Adrian Lamo. He died in 2018, and had about 5,000 edits on his account. — Moe Epsilon 00:29, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
I posted a query on that user's talk page. They have not edited here since July 2018, but I found a possibly related obituary notice from August 2018. Experienced editors here might like to take a look, at some point, and come to a view. Ghmyrtle ( talk) 16:36, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
Sadly, it appears administrator User:Moriori passed away, per Wikipedia talk:Administrators' newsletter#User Moriori and checkuser confirmation at Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard#Admin Account. May want to add them to the list. – Novem Linguae ( talk) 03:57, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
@ Sammy D III: reports that User:Eddaido died peacefully on 15 June 2022. They were a prolific editor on vehicles and New Zealand geography.- gadfium 01:18, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
User:FDLeyda appears to have passed on in September 2019 according to online obituaries. Could someone make he relevant notices etc? I've read the guidelines but I'm not sure how to do many of the things it suggests. Thank you! MarchOfTheGreyhounds ( talk) 11:13, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
Say that User:Example dies. User:Example's brother states that yes, Example is dead, but then says he now assumes responsibility of the User:Example account. What happens in this case? Is the account listed at Category:Deceased Wikipedians or is a note placed on the user page about the situation? 172.112.210.32 ( talk) 03:33, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
Emana left us 13 years ago in 2009. MMessine19 ( talk) 10:15, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
Darxus is no longer with us. I'm not really sure of the method of confirming this or how to deal with his account. I don't think his family put out an official obituary, but his father memorialized this on his facebook page in publicly viewable posts. https://www.facebook.com/jerry.barwell You can confirm this is him by cross-referencing with images of him on his webpage chaosreigns which is noted on his talk page via archive.org, it looks like his website finally went down. https://web.archive.org/web/20210623111419/http://www.chaosreigns.com/ Centerone ( talk) 04:12, 30 July 2022 (UTC)
I just found out that Ahsoous isn’t listed in 2020 despite him having an English language user page LissajousCurve ( talk) 18:35, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
In December 2021, user:Anthony Appleyard posted that they had been in hospital. A person of this name died in Manchester on 28 February 2022. Anthony has not edited Wikipedia since 13 February 2022. As Anthony was especially diligent and steadfast, it seems sadly likely that they are deceased. Perhaps some experienced editor from that region such as user:Boing! said Zebedee can confirm or comment on this. Andrew🐉( talk) 22:58, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
A good time and interesting discussion was had by all. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 19:37, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
Speaking of RexxS: that person has not edited any Wikimedia sites since late February 2021 and on the talk page, there are people who hope he will come back to edit. There's no indication on if that user has retired or taken a wikibreak etc.. His real name can be found from Commons via a category where there is the photo where the cropped version is found here in this section. At present I can't seem to find any clues from external links as to what really happened to RexxS but I would think someone would have told the community if RexxS is currently a deceased Wikimedian, as in the case of PiZero. Iggy ( Swan) ( Contribs) 11:05, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
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User:BeenAroundAWhile made over 100,000 edits and earlier in the year Jimbo personally congratulated him on reaching this milestone. He passed away per edits by his family at his userpage. — CX Zoom[he/him] ( let's talk • { C• X}) 11:56, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
Wikipedian Mary Urashima recently passed away, and I am trying to figure out what to do to protect her account and make sure people are aware if they try to contact her on her talk page. I've added her on Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians/2022, but it's not clear to me where to go from there. I know her and know she died, and there is a news article about her passing, but I'm not sure if I need to link that to anything. Any guidance would be helpful. Thanks, Bahooka ( talk) 06:03, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
An active but now deceased Wikipedian is on my watchlist, and I've observed that notices of deletion discussions, involving articles etc. that she created, are commonly removed from the user's talk page. I wonder about the wisdom of this. This editor felt passionately about Wikipedia and I'd like to take a look at her creations when they are proposed for deletion, and weigh in if I so desire. Seems like a fitting thing to do in her memory. I'm sure she'd want people to do this. Coretheapple ( talk) 19:45, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
They are an established contributor on Ukrainian Wikipedia, murdered by Russian invaders.
You can read this
https://blog.wikimedia.org.ua/2022/11/29/volodymyr-vakulenko/ for further information.
Lemonaka (
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18:58, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
The German wiki lost Pelz last month https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Pelz LissajousCurve ( talk) 14:24, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
Swedish wikipedian Holger Ellgaard died 2 months ago LissajousCurve ( talk) 18:04, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
See User:Clara C., in pt-wiki. Her real name was Lucia Pilla. Thanks, and sorry my bad English. André Koehne ( talk) 13:21, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
(Reposting with information removed based on feedback at WP:BLPN. [9])
I am concerned that
this edit is in violation of
Wikipedia:Deceased_Wikipedians/Guidelines. The requirement is to make absolutely sure that the user in question has indeed died
. We do not need to publicly make a statement either way, but surely we can all agree that the criteria for inclusion in the deceased list has not been met. The community is entitled to a discussion on this.
Kolya Butternut (
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21:37, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
Can this be added? I found only social media posts.
In April 2010, an IP (Felix S.) posted a couple of messages at User talk:BlazerKnight saying that BlazerKnight's name was Wesley, and that he had died suddenly on 22/03/2010.
In August, another IP (Reuben) posted a message at User:BlazerKnight saying that he is one of the user's friends from Australia, and that BlazerKnight's name was Wesley Phay. He too said that Wesley Phay had passed away on 22nd March 2010.
At BlazerKnight's wordpress blog, there are links to his different social accounts and the Wikipedia account links to BlazerKnight's Wikipedia user page. In the comments, there is a message from Felix S again, and posted around the same time as the Wikipedia post, and mentioning the cause of death. Another comment from 2021 says it has been 10 years since he passed.
The Steam profile has condolence messages from 2011 and 2012. The DeviantArt profile has a message from his cousin on the passing. In 2012, there was a comment from his father at The Real Singapore. Jay 💬 20:26, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
I noticed that for 2020 and prior, the convention was to include, in the title of a listing, both the deceased Wikipedian’s username, and also their real-life name (if their username doesn’t reflect their real-life name).
This practice seemed to stop starting with the entries for 2021. Since then, all the entry titles have only included the usernames of the persons in question.
This seemed odd to me. It also feels like the people are being treated differently, although I don’t always have the best sense for propriety or social norms, so my assessment on that isn’t the most reliable.
Was this a deliberate change? If so, what was the rationale? If not, then do people think it would be worth it to make the titles for entries from 2021 up until now follow the same format as the titles from 2020 and prior? Mifield 22:47, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
Earlier today, Wil540 art shared the news that fashion brand Vetements released a new line of clothes including a hoodie with the text "Wikipedia Editor". Pharos reminded us that that particular design was by Dthomsen8 years ago (see this story from 2013, for example). More recently, Annie of Depths of Wikipedia picked up the design (perhaps how it got on Vetements' radar).
In the course of that discussion, Jim.henderson found an obituary here that appears to be him, sadly. David wasn't shy about his offline identity, and I had the pleasure of meeting him at a couple Wikiconferences pre-pandemic. A great contributor (just shy of 500,000 edits!) and great advocate for our community. WMF wrote a story about him here, too. It would be good to get additional corroboration, but it seems worth sharing here. :/ — Rhododendrites talk \\ 21:03, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
There is a request at RPPI from Sebbog13 regarding Inoslav Bešker ( talk · contribs). Would someone familiar with standard procedure please handle this or provide advice. Johnuniq ( talk) 07:31, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
If someone has a moment to write up an entry for Doncram ( talk · contribs) ( obituary), it would be appreciated. Admin/steward side has been handled. -- Tamzin cetacean needed (she|they|xe) 19:43, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
David K. M. Klaus, User:Davidkevin, died July 27 according to Ansible [11]. — Tamfang ( talk) 04:54, 5 August 2023 (UTC)
[12] jp× g 20:45, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
@ ARK: Sarang ( talk · contribs · global contribs · logs · block log), very experienced user on Commons, and part of the German Community, died on 20 September 2023. ZandDev ( msg) 16:56, 5 October 2023 (UTC)
Anton Logvynenko, User:AntonLogvynenko, talented Ukrainian artist, image colorizer and the person behind the now-defunct titanic-in-color website from 2010 to 2017 and the website history-in-color since 2017, killed in battle during the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 29th November 2023.
Announcements of his death: https://twitter.com/BoldlyBuilding2/status/1730039037337935906 https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=330636409674178
Here's a link to Anton's facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/historyincolorart/
Article about Anton's colorization from 2013. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2401724/Titanic-Colour-Photographer-colours-black-white-pictures-worlds-famous-ship-extraordinary-results.html 2606:8700:A:A:D1E:D67A:47B:6193 ( talk) 17:41, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
Please stop with this life is changing for everyone the domino effect is going to happen. Please I have a child with autism who is getting bullied. Stop this. 2001:5B0:45C0:5AE8:2842:F03F:BAFB:239A ( talk) 18:23, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians/2021 is unique among all the years for its inclusion of what its talk page calls "testimonials" for a couple of entries. I would like to copyedit the page to follow the usual format (e.g., to link to comments on their User_talk: pages, rather than copying selected comments to this page). Does anyone have concerns about that? WhatamIdoing ( talk) 06:09, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
Per ticket:2023090110003382, died 31 August 2023. Primefac ( talk) 11:49, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
Since many people have said they were with him at Wikimania, does anyone have (or would anyone like to upload) a photograph? It is often hard to track one down for WP:DECEASED and Signpost obituaries. jp× g 01:09, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
I had forgotten this page existed and have just noticed that I failed to recognise that several well-known names had disappeared from Talk pages. What a sad loss to the project this gentleman is. Deb ( talk) 14:08, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
I have confirmed that Anthony Bradbury has died; here is my post at the bureaucrats' noticeboard about it. I'm not sure how I'd go about adding Tony here; it was upsetting enough removing his admin rights. Acalamari 12:17, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
This user, who was confirmed to be Mr. Keith Fowler, is now apparently deceased. Should I go ahead and add his name to the list? Dronebogus ( talk) 00:09, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians/Tab header specifies __NOTOC__
. As a result, there is no table of contents on each year's list of individuals. I think it would be useful to have that TOC to help navigate the page or see at a glance who's there (if I'm trying to find someone but don't know the year). It seems like it has always been set up this way. Any objection to changing it? Pinging
User:Titodutta who set that token.
DMacks (
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06:11, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
__NOTOC__
only
if it's invoked on
Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians? --
Michael Bednarek (
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03:02, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
Frostly is still active but the user page (ditto talk page) seems to indicate deceased. I believe it is a mistake resulting from the last edit, i.e. the template beginning with DISPLAYTITLE. I would appreciate assistance.-- Ipigott ( talk) 11:07, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
On :de we became aware only today, that User:Goertz has died already in 2011. [13] For his disclosed data see his entry in de:Wikipedia:Gedenkseite_für_verstorbene_Wikipedianer#2011. Eventually an admin here could block his :en-userpage etc. -- Túrelio ( talk) 17:28, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
Noticing the recent tasteless vandalism, I'm wondering if this is the sort of page that should be indefinitely semi-protected. Jclemens ( talk) 20:07, 9 March 2024 (UTC)