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Jaknouse
[edit]User:Jaknouse passed away in 2021. There is an obituary here. gnu57 06:24, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the note. I've tagged the account and requested a global lock from the Stewards at Meta-Wiki. WhatamIdoing (talk) 15:21, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- I have written [[a quick obituary, as I recognised his username from early page histories. Graham87 (talk) 08:42, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
Statistics
[edit]In April 2020, at the start of COVID, I wrote a script to recorded on a weekly basis the count of {{deceased}} - based on the theory there would be a noticeable blip due to the pandemic. I never did anything with the data but it continues to run. It looks like:
2020-04-03 309 2020-04-10 310 2020-04-17 311 2020-04-24 312 ... 2024-07-12 627 2024-07-19 629 2024-07-26 631
My initial theory was complicated by the fact the template could be added years after death. If anyone would like this data for whatever reason, let me know and I'll send you a copy. -- GreenC 03:41, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
Prominent Slackware community figure, passed away at the age of 62 in February 2024. Seems like he had a small but old presence in Wikipedia.
- https://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.php?/topic/98002-sad-news-our-friend-eric-has-passed/
- https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/news-about-vtel57-4175734355/
Fluddsskark (talk) 07:32, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Fluddsskark, thanks for adding the usual template to his user page. Have you also asked the Stewards to globally lock the account? You can do that at m:Steward requests/Global#Requests for global (un)lock and (un)hiding. WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:15, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
- I have asked them lock it now. I am waiting for the request to be added Fluddsskark (talk) 10:11, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
Afil
[edit]Crossposting from ANI:
- Afil has died. See ro:Wikipedia:Wikipediști decedați/2024. tgeorgescu (talk) 22:08, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
jp×g🗯️ 13:36, 19 October 2024 (UTC)
Adding image to an entry
[edit]I had added an image to the entry for JarrahTree as they would not have wanted a photo of themselves published. They were a long-standing member and board member of our community, but another user has removed it without comment. As this is my first time posting an obituary, I'm assuming I have done something wrong? Could someone let me know why it might not have been appropriate for me to use the image? Thank you in anticipation. AlphaLemur (talk) 08:53, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- It's OK ... I'm blind so obviously am not the best person to comment directly, but I'd say that no image at all is better than anything besides an image of the person in a case like this. I made a further edit to the obituary (among others) because it's not just Wikimedia Australia that will mourn his loss but the entire Wikipedia community. The politics between the English Wikipedia and Wikimedia chapters can be interesting but that's a completely different topic. For now, know that I can probably speak for everyone here in saying that we'd much rather you let the community here know (as you did) than been less bold out of fear of doing something wrong. Just know that obituaries on these pages can and will be edited, just like almost anything else on this site. Graham87 (talk) 09:22, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- @AlphaLemur: Yes, as Graham surmises, an image of the WMAU logo does not really add anything to the obituary, and arguably detracts from what is clearly a very heartfelt remembrance of a great editor. If you'd like to include some image that is particular to JarrahTree while respecting their privacy, like a photo they took, I'd have no objection to that. But also there's nothing wrong with the obituary having no photo at all; a majority don't. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe|🤷) 09:32, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- I'm not going to add it myself, obviously, but the above comment brought to mind that the article about his username-sake tre has this image uploaded by him, taken in a part of Western Australia that I know was very dear to him. Something like that would be much better, I would say. Graham87 (talk) 09:39, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks @Graham87 and @Tamzin for taking the time to explain. I'll leave it for now and let someone else add an image if they want to. jarrahtree would actually be the first person I'd turn to ask for advice in these situations, so I was feeling at a bit of a loss. thanks again. AlphaLemur (talk) 09:56, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- I'm not going to add it myself, obviously, but the above comment brought to mind that the article about his username-sake tre has this image uploaded by him, taken in a part of Western Australia that I know was very dear to him. Something like that would be much better, I would say. Graham87 (talk) 09:39, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- @AlphaLemur: Yes, as Graham surmises, an image of the WMAU logo does not really add anything to the obituary, and arguably detracts from what is clearly a very heartfelt remembrance of a great editor. If you'd like to include some image that is particular to JarrahTree while respecting their privacy, like a photo they took, I'd have no objection to that. But also there's nothing wrong with the obituary having no photo at all; a majority don't. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe|🤷) 09:32, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
