Template:Recent death
 | This article is experiencing high levels of activity because it is about a person who has recently died. The initial news reports, such as the circumstances of the person's death and surrounding events, may be unreliable, and the risk of misinformation is unusually high. The last updates to this article may not reflect the most current information. |
Template documentation
This template is not used to identify article subjects who have recently died. This template warns our readers that the information presented in the article may not be final or correct due to missing/unpublished/uncertain information about a recently deceased person, and that readers should therefore be cautious about the content presented. This is generally true for all of our articles, but in cases of extraordinary public attention that risk is especially high. As such, it should only be used in cases where many editors (perhaps dozens or more) are editing the article on the same day, and it should be removed as soon as the editing goes down to a normal level again. Do not use it merely to tag the article of a recently deceased person, as that would defeat the template's purpose.
This template will add the article to Category:Recent deaths.
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This template should not be substituted. Transclude it on mainspace pages ONLY.
Usage
- The first parameter must be entered to sort biography articles by last name in Category:Recent deaths:
{{recent death|Last name, First name}}
- Named parameter "type" overrides the word "person"
{{recent death|type=group}}
- Named parameter "article" overrides the word "a"
{{recent death|article=an|type=ostrich}}
- Named parameter "multiple" should be set to "yes" to substitute "have" for "has", in the event of multiple deaths where pluralization is required
{{recent death|article=two|type=people|multiple=yes}}
When using this template, check the article talk page and change "living=yes" to "living=no" in {{WPBiography}} or similar templates that refer to this person and remove any {{BLP}} template that refers to this person. Also check the body of the article, infoboxes and other templates, and the categories at the end of the article and make the appropriate changes.