Talk:List of unusual deaths

Holding tank

 * There is a holding tank for content, removed from the article due to poor sourcing, which may have been included in the article for a considerable time: Talk:List of unusual deaths/Sourcing issues. Following talk page discussion, and in line with WP:STALEDRAFT, it has been agreed that any content in this holding area not sourced within 6 months from addition should be removed.

Treadmill 18. June 2024
Currently the description says the window broke, but that's wrong. The window was open and the referenced article mentions that and the video clearly shows the open window. 81.217.6.16 (talk) 16:52, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

Jim Creighton
Jim was a 19th century baseball player, he died when he swung a home run so hard it ruptured his bladder. Unfortunately, I can't find any reliable sources that directly call his death unusual. Bdblakley29 (talk) 21:40, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Misused images in article?
User:Rori1911 has recently added images of several people on this list which he just uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as "own work". Not only is this unlikely in most cases, but the images themselves seem misused or incorrectly licensed to me. Most egregiously, the photo which was supposedly of Echol Cole and Robert Walker "moments before they were crushed", as stated in the description of the image on Commons, appears on the National Civil Rights Museum's Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/NCRMuseum/photos/in-february-1968-echol-cole-and-robert-walker-neither-pictured-two-memphis-sanit/10157916905599417/ with the statement "(neither pictured)" referring to Cole and Walker. I have now removed this image from the list. I have also removed an authentic photo of Ralph Payne-Gallwey mistakenly used to depict his father, Sir William Payne-Gallwey, 2nd Baronet.

Rori1911 uploaded authentic images of Robert Pakington, the objects found inside John Cummings' body, Henry Taylor's death (from The Illustrated Police News), Jane Stanford (which I have replaced with a portrait already on Commons), Julian Carlton, Mary Emma Busch James, Clarence Stagemyer, Gareth Jones, Monica Myers, David Grundman (which looks extremely fake but appeared in The New York Times in 1982), Dick Wertheim's death (I really hoped this one was a fake, but it isn't), Gloria Ramirez, Bliss Scott, Brittanie Cecil (same comment as for Wertheim's death; portrait in article is fair use so can't be reused here), Virginia Graeme Baker, Hitoshi Nikaidoh, Francis Daniel Brohm and Chandler Hugh Jackson, as well as Hisashi Ouchi, Michael Colombini, Abigail Taylor, Isaiah Otieno, Diane Durre's death, Vladimir Likhonos and Gareth Williams. The last seven are already tagged for speedy deletion on Commons as copyright violations (but could conceivably be transferred to Wikipedia at reduced resolution as fair use images), so some of the other images may be improperly licensed as well. Gildir (talk) 06:37, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Most of these images have now been either deleted or nominated for deletion on Commons. Gildir (talk) 17:01, 18 July 2024 (UTC)