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"Wikipedia:LOSS" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Wikipedia:LOSS and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 August 8#Wikipedia:LOSS until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. FAdesdae378 (talk · contribs) 19:10, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

BeenAroundAWhile

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)

Procedures for adding a deceased Wikipedian

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)

@Bahooka: This notice is sufficient - I will put in user page protection and a template. I am assuming these are links that can be included. Shyamal (talk) 10:53, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for your assistance. Those are appropriate articles about her. Bahooka (talk) 15:31, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Notice removals

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)

@Coretheapple I agree with this 100%. A team of other editors and I have been improving articles, drafts and stubs left behind from a deceased wikipedia. One would imagine that the creator of these would be grateful, wherever they may be resting. It's an expression of gratitude to improve their work moving forward, and a tribute to their contributions during life. Pinging a couple others who helped with User:Possiblys work @CT55555 and @Star Mississippi for their thoughts on this. Thank you for bringing this to the attention of the community. Deceased Wikipedians don't disappear when they die, their work lives on within the community and in the online encyclopedia! Netherzone (talk) 21:48, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

Well thank you, I really appreciate your response. I follow the talk page of the deceased User:SlimVirgin, who doggedly contributed to many articles as well as adding photographs on subjects ranging from animal welfare to the Holocaust. She also was outspoken on paid editing and other internal Wikipedia matters. In so doing she ran into pushback, and at times in the past I sought to weigh in. I'm sure she would be glad to know that her legacy of fine contributions won't be reversed due to her death, and that other editors are maintaining vigilance. Thanks again for your very kind comments. Coretheapple (talk) 00:36, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the ping @Netherzone and apologies for the delayed response. I absolutely agree with you and @Coretheapple as you know. I feel like the articles Possibly, SlimVirgin et al left unfinished are now our jobs to finish, if possible. Because especially with those two, they G7ed it if they didn't think there was possibility so there's a core of a good article there. I do occasionally clerk for things that are resolved, such as a PROD that had been addressed because it's not of use. The G13 alerts (@Firefly's bot, I think?) are hugely helpful as are @Liz's G13 notes because they backup the watchlist where I may have missed one. Star Mississippi 14:48, 27 December 2022 (UTC)