Template:Recent death
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This template does not merely denote that an article's subject has recently died. This template warns readers that the information presented in an article may not be the most up-to-date or accurate due to unconfirmed or inaccurately reported information about a recently deceased person. Readers should therefore be cautious. This is generally true for all of our articles, but in cases of extraordinary public attention the risk of minsinformation is elevated.
As such, this template should be used only in cases where many editors (perhaps dozens or more) are editing the article on the same day. It should be removed as soon as this editing subsides. Do not use it merely to tag the article of a recently deceased person, as that is not the template's purpose.
This template will add the article to Category:Recent deaths.
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Usage
Parameters
- The first (unnamed) parameter must be entered to sort biography articles by last name in Category:Recent deaths:
{{recent death|Last name, First name}}
- The named parameter
multipleshould be set to "yes" to render "subjects", "deaths", and "have", in the event of multiple deaths where pluralization is required:
{{recent death|multiple=yes}}
Other checks to perform
When using this template, check the article talk page and change "living=yes" to "living=no" in {{WPBiography}} or similar templates that refer to this person and remove any {{BLP}} template that refers to this person. Also check the body of the article, infoboxes and other templates, and the categories at the end of the article and make the appropriate changes.
See also
- Wikipedia:Current event templates
- Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons § Recently dead or probably dead
- Template:Recent death presumed
- Template:Recent death confirmed
- Template:Current person
- Template:Current
- Template:Current related
- Template:Obituary
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