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IMO, thirty days will tell us on this one. She was a journalist for a US publication with its own English language article here, the manner of her passing is eminently newsworthy judging by numerous entries in the Google search for her. Whether she will ever be deemed notable enough for her own article remains to be seen, I would have thought, and on that basis we usually keep for a month. Ref(chew)(do)19:03, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
That's (partially) a half-truth. She wrote for Cleveland.com, a US website with no English language article nor straight news department of its own. It just licenses that sort of boring content from The Plain Dealer, sort of like a small-time newswire operation. More like cousins than sisters, in a business sense. InedibleHulk(talk)03:12, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Wayne Maunder seems to have died of a heart attack on November the 11th or 12th. This has been confirmed by many close people on social media and the usually reliable BootHill blog. Anyway a proper obit has not appeared yet and it is not guaranteed it will (strange, but something it goes like this). Can't we use this site as a source? Aveleyman is very reliable on those matters and I don't think it is a blog (at least blog is not contained in the url) and is written by experts I think. I think we could put Maunder up using this while we wait for a better source, but this should be acceptable. --Folengo (talk) 11:05, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I think not. This is an individual's website, with no indication of reliability or fact checking. If indeed Maunder is dead, why have no mainstream sources picked up the story? WWGB (talk) 11:11, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not absolutely doubting his death. Unless all his friends wanted to prank the entire world Maunder is really really dead. It's just mainstream sources sometimes are not interested (why? only God knows) in deaths of those who, indeed, are not household names. We can only live in hope, but I'm 100% sure Maunder is dead. --Folengo (talk) 11:19, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Tell me about it. Only found out the other day that Babs Beverley, one of the British singing sisters, had died in October. And that was exactly when her entry was put into Deaths in October 2018 - very very late indeed. If a great media source doesn't see fit to report such a demise, we can't do a thing. Resorting to Twitter and Facebook, just to be clear in my view, would be the big slippery slope as an alternative. Ref(chew)(do)16:16, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
There are some people that when they die want their deaths kept private for one reason or another.
Most famous example I can think of was Beth Howland of Alice Fame.
Her death was not announced by her husband until months past her death date.
So if Mr. Maunder had those wished it could be awhile until we get official verification.
This confirms his death. Il Messaggero is one of the biggest and most reputable newspapers in Italy Plus Maunder's wife is Italian (from Naples I think), so no wonder it was firstly reported in Italy. --Folengo (talk) 16:11, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Done. Although there seems to be some dispute among the sources about her year of birth and thus her age at death. But the sources seem consistent about the date of death. --Bsherr (talk) 06:15, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed. WWGB (talk) 05:31, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
Done. Although there seems to be some dispute among the sources about her year of birth and thus her age at death. But the sources seem consistent about the date of death. --Bsherr (talk) 06:15, 13 December 2018 (UTC)