Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Death

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I have nominated Death of Ian Tomlinson for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:28, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

at Talk:Massacre_of_the_Innocents#Infobox_image. Please respond there. Johnbod (talk) 00:16, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

Talk:Palestinian genocide accusation#Requested move 5 January 2026. -- Cdjp1 (talk) 13:52, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

There is a discussion at Talk:List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_States,_2009#Split_by_month about spliting the list by month. --Jax 0677 (talk) 22:37, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

Should Wikipedia:"Murder of" articles be adopted as this WikiProject's advice page on the Wikipedia:Article titles and Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons policies (and, to a lesser degree, the Wikipedia:Notability guideline), as pertaining to topics within the WikiProject's area of interest?

For those who may not know what advice pages are, this is explained in the guideline Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide#Advice pages. An example of an advice page is Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthroponymy/Style advice. An advice pages may be placed as a subpage of its WikiProject page, but this is not necessary, as seen with Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing.

If it is adopted, the page will be/remain tagged using {{WikiProject advice}} as seen in the following revision: Special:PermanentLink/1334745337. (What exact wording to put in the tag can be dealt with later, if any change is desired.)

If it is not adopted, it will be tagged using {{Essay}}.

@AlanM1, ArkadenBoden, Auric, Beejamjam, Boneyard90, BusterD, Carptrash, Ceoil, Certified Terror, Chernobog the God, Cloptonson, Cosmicdense, Daniel Case, Digressivo, Evangelidis, Grumpylawnchair, Kavas, Kurtis, LadyofShalott, FrogUnderALilyPad, Mill 1, PARAKANYAA, Sabrebd, TheCorriynial, WWGB, Foxtrot620, Ktkvtsh, GoldenBootWizard276, and Guz13: Pinging you as active (within the last 6 months) members of this WikiProject. —Alalch E. 12:02, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

I think tagging as advice is appropriate as it reads more as advice and as an essay IMO Ktkvtsh (talk) 14:38, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

I have never liked that essay. It's closest to this project in scope but much of its guidance is not community approved or WikiProject approved.

But I guess that doesn't really make it not advice. I would tag it as essay. PARAKANYAA (talk) 21:52, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

@PARAKANYAA The essay intends not to conflict with Wikipedia:Choosing article titles about violence and deaths. For a version (real or imagined) of Wikipedia:"Murder of" articles that objectively does not conflict with Wikipedia:Choosing article titles about violence and deaths, would you also say that said version is not community approved? —Alalch E. 13:41, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

I'm referring to its other guidance. Its guidance on naming is fine. PARAKANYAA (talk) 18:28, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

I'm interested in removing the other guidance that is not about naming. Such as the section Wikipedia:"Murder of" articles#Some factors that may make a murderer or murder case notable, which is not why the page is getting cited. —Alalch E. 20:10, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

I think it would be useful to have a guide for what cases are probably going to be notable but I am not sure I agree with what is there.

In any case I take no issue with the naming part of the guideline so if that's why you want to put it with this project, sure, sounds like a good idea. PARAKANYAA (talk) 20:19, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Please add information from reliable sources to this stub. Let's make this a C-Class article! Bearian (talk) 10:49, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Deaths, detentions and deportations of American citizens in the second Trump administration#Requested move 4 February 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Abesca (talk) 18:30, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Upiór § Merge proposal into Vampire, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. I've proposed either merging Upiór into Vampire or splitting Vampire to create Vampires in folklore and merging Upiór into the latter. Your input would be appreciated. – Scyrme (talk) 01:14, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

Who wants to evaluate this for Good Article status? Bearian (talk) 00:58, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Dangrek Incident#Requested move 17 February 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 04:28, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Christianity and abortion#Requested move 20 February 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vestrian24Bio 04:43, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Iran–Israel war#Requested move 19 February 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 08:45, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

While tragic, I don't see any notability. Bearian (talk) 08:31, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Port Arthur massacre (Australia)#Requested move 1 March 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 09:35, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Florence, South Carolina shooting#Requested move 4 March 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 14:02, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Second Holocaust#Requested move 19 March 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Abesca (talk) 23:54, 19 March 2026 (UTC)