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eing connected on social media knowing their name and address or having prior contact in e mail if special emailuser is enabled then a surviving family member may have access to their registered e mail account and may be able to confirm the report alternatively the editor may write back to say they re fine and have just stopped editing wikipedia reliable sources are key to counteracting incorrect claims if possible multiple attestation is desirable as death hoaxes have appeared on wiki and even in reliable print sources waiting several days is also helpful as pranks and faked deaths on social media are usually resolved within that time span if a user s death is posted on wiki by someone claiming to be a relation or a friend of the deceased a checkuser investigation may be conducted to determine whether the post likely came from the same location or computer it is not necessary to post a link to an obituary or publicly share any evidence if the user had not disclosed their real life identity on wiki then please use caution when linking to any off wiki communication if you are unsure of whether posting a link to an obituary or other such notice is appropriate please contact the oversight team for a second opinion if you cannot confirm the death with certainty then please list the editor at wikipedia missing wikipedians instead of in wikipedia deceased wikipedians what to do this section in a nutshell if you have confirmed the death of an editor then there are several things to do all of these are optional but some are recommended on their user page shortcut wp dwgu wp dwgu when it is confirmed that the user has indeed died the community recommends communicating this on the user s page there are several ways to do this consider leaving a hatnote or other message at the top of the user page and or the user_talk page to let other editors know that the user has died the most common way to do this is to post the deceased wikipedian template this step may be bypassed if the family does not desire the information to be shared at this time please leave a request at wikipedia requests for page protection to ask that their user page be fully protected to prevent vandals from defacing the page finally if the user is notable please check to see if there is an article wikidata item or wikimedia commons category about them and update as required on their talk page shortcut wp dwgt wp dwgt consider leaving a message on the talk page to let other editors know that the editor has died those who choose to do so may leave tasteful condolence comments on the talk page see the information below about memorial pages for more information consider adding the deceased wikipedian template at the top of their user_talk page this template automatically adds category wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to the page which should stop most automated messages if you don t want to add the deceased wikipedian template then you can add the nobots template and the category wikipedians who opt out of message delivery category this combination will prevent most boilerplate messages from being delivered by bots and scripts generally editors avoid adding discussion or deletion notifications such as automated wp xfd notifications generated by twinkle to the talk page after someone has died however if the editor has created many articles and the page is being watched by many active editors then keeping these notifications may be desired you are allowed to edit the user s talk page to archive old discussions as well as any notices about disputes warnings or deletions unsubscribe the user from any automated newsletters such as the signpost tech news wikiproject updates etc about the account shortcut wp dwga wp dwga getting the account locked at meta wiki as a symbolic gesture of respect accounts of deceased wikipedians should not be blocked locally unless they have been compromised however while local blocks are almost never done stewards will usually globally lock the account of a deceased user to prevent impersonation and for security upon confirmation of death they will require some evidence that the editor has died this information can be sent in e mail to protect privacy request a global lock not global block at meta steward requests global for that wikipedian s account s 1 add the meta wiki template for deceased editors or a similar note to the top of their user page at meta wiki this will update their global user page if they did not have a user page at meta wiki then it is acceptable to create a user page at meta wiki for this purpose if they were active on meta wiki consider adding the template or a similar note to the top of their meta wiki user_talk page removing any advanced user rights please request the removal of any advanced user rights to prevent harm to the encyclopedia if the account gets compromised in the future as soon as practicable most editors do not have any advanced user rights you can check for these user rights by putting their username into special userrights for example at special userrights jimbo wales the box view user groups says member of extended confirmed users founder pending changes reviewers for most editors the only user rights listed are extended confirmed users and implicit member of autoconfirmed users if that s the case nothing needs to be done and you can move on to the next step the user rights to be removed locally primarily include template editor edit filter manager and helper administrator and interface administrator you can post such a request at the administrators noticeboard if the user was not an administrator or the bureaucrats noticeboard otherwise please edit the editor s user page to remove any user rights categories if the category has been added via a userbox or other template add nocat yes to templates such as administrator topicon to prevent it from automatically listing users in an active category some local user rights have to be removed through a global process they are bureaucrat checkuser and oversight if the user has any of these user rights you can post a request about them at meta steward requests permissions removal of access notifying other wikis most wikipedia editors only edit a few wikis but some have been active in many communities including other languages of wikipedia commons wikidata and other sister projects it would be helpful to notify those other communities there are two ways to do this find out whether the editor was active in any other communities do this by going to special centralauth which has a complete list of every wiki the editor has ever visited read and a list of how many edits they made at each one this will also show if they have any user rights e g sysop at other wikis for communities where the person was active usually more than a few edits notify the community this can be done by adding deceased or the local equivalent to the user or user_talk page do not create a local user page for this purpose if they do not have a local user page then the global user page that you updated or created at meta wiki should display instead if you need to find a list of all of the existing local user pages then try the global search tool e g this search for user example posting a note on their user_talk page to explain the situation it can be written in english posting a note at the local wikis village pumps list of links sorted by project and language or equivalent pages if the person has any advanced user rights at other wikis or any global user rights e g global sysop those should also be removed every community has its own process for handling local user rights removal however you don t need to figure out every single process yourself just post a note at their village pump or ask any active admin type special listadmins into the search bar to get a complete list of all admins at that local wiki and someone there should take care of all the details for you if you re headed to a wiki where they speak an unfamiliar language remember that most web browsers have some built in machine translation tools you can also set the interface language for all wmf hosted wikis to english at special globalpreferences this won t change the content of the pages but it will help you find the edit buttons and read the standard menu items when you made your request at meta steward requests global to have the account locked the stewards probably also removed any global user rights at that time however if you want to make a separate request then it belongs at meta steward requests permissions removal of access on wp rip and memorial pages this section in a nutshell if you are a wikipedia editor and were a friend of the deceased editor you may write a short entry in wikipedia deceased wikipedians personal messages in memory of the user may be posted to their user_talk page constructively contributing community members who have died can be honored with a listing at wp rip criteria for inclusion in wikipedia deceased wikipedians page are flexible but these are generally popular reasons the user should have been active enough to be considered part of the community as of 2026 this usually means thousands of edits over months or years but there is no set rule and a person can be part of the community without having this level of activity and a person can have this level of activity without having formed any relationships within the community another editor personally remembers that person and wishes to memorialize their involvement in wikipedia no one familiar with the situation has any significant doubt about whether the person died the family has not objected and there is no reason to believe that the user objected to it prior to their death entries to the wikipedia deceased wikipedians page should generally be similar to the other entries this means for example they are usually short typically less than 150 words are primarily focused on facts always contain a link to the editor s user page might or might not contain a photo of the person and do not contain inspirational content e g decorative images poems quotations or overly personal messages to the deceased editor however a very brief remark such as rest in peace is unlikely to be removed entries to the page should be as tasteful as possible edits that fail to be tasteful will be removed messages to surviving loved ones can be left on the deceased editor s user_talk page this is a more suitable place for personal messages inspirational content etc comments attacking or disparaging the deceased are in bad taste and will be removed these pages are not mandatory they are created by the community for the community rather than as a requirement consider notifying the signpost by posting a comment in the newsroom talk page or the signpost s suggestion page optionally you can post the suggested contents for an obituary to be published in the signpost also if the user was close to you e g a close friend or loved one you can also add user grieving or the userbox user pdebee ubx remembersabsentfriend to your user page or talk page if you would like to remember your friend with an editing project you can check their sandbox and other user subpages or their more recent contributions to see if there is any unfinished work some editors find comfort and satisfaction in finishing work that was left behind planning ahead this section in a nutshell sometimes editors wonder what the best way is to notify the community of their own deaths here are the most common suggestions all of this is strictly optional if you are approaching the end of your life and you wish to have the wikipedia community informed of your eventual passing you can make some simple arrangements to let others know these can include leaving a note on your user page if you have a serious medical situation this can be done with a template such as user health inactive or in case of death or by just posting an ordinary message on your talk page privately contacting a couple of editors you trust to see if they would like to be notified for example if you are both facebook friends and you expect your loved ones to post the funeral arrangements to facebook then they will be able to see that information and relay it as necessary to the wikipedia community alternatively if your loved ones will send e mail to a list of people that you would like to have notified then you could put their e mail addresses on the list if you don t mind permanently disclosing your identity on wiki you can post your name on your user page along with enough information e g your location that it will be easy for someone to find obituary information tell a loved one that you would like them to notify the community and give them a simple way to do this e g tell them how to post a note on your talk page this information can be written down with any other information about arrangements you are making leave instructions in your will or with a trusted friend or relative that proof of your death is to be emailed to wp vrt see also v t e wikipedia key policies and guidelines five pillars ignore all rules content p verifiability no original research neutral point of view what wikipedia is not biographies of living persons copyright copyright violations image use article titles g notability autobiographies citing sources reliable sources medicine do not include copies of lengthy primary sources plagiarism do not create hoaxes fringe theories patent nonsense external links writing articles with large language models removal of ai generated content llm assisted translation conduct p civility consensus harassment vandalism ignore all rules no personal attacks ownership of content edit warring dispute resolution sockpuppetry no legal threats child protection paid contribution disclosure g assume good faith conflict of interest disruptive editing do not disrupt wikipedia to illustrate a point etiquette gaming the system please do not bite the newcomers courtesy vanishing responding to threats of harm talk page guidelines signatures deletion p deletion policy proposed deletion biographies speedy deletion attack page oversight revision deletion enforcement p administrators banning blocking page protection editing p editing policy g article size summary style be bold disambiguation hatnotes broad concept article understandability style manual of style contents accessibility dates and numbers images layout lead section linking lists classification categories lists and navigation templates categorization template namespace project content g project namespace wikiprojects user pages deceased wikipedians user boxes shortcuts subpages wmf p universal code of conduct terms of use list of policies friendly space policy licensing and copyright privacy policy list of all policies and guidelines p list of policies g list of guidelines summaries of values and principles if you re uncertain whether the account has already been globally 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