Talk:Moses McCormick

Cause of death sources
Moses's brother claims on this GoFundMe campaign (+ video linked in it) that he did not die of a heart attack and was instead murdered. I see several edits have been reverted that attempted to add this fact in, but they were all (that i could see) unsourced, so that makes sense. These claims, coming from a family member, are noteworthy information for an article (Unproven but notable claims are around on many articles on old biographies, and who knows? Maybe something comes up.) but we would still need reliable sources before adding anything of the sort to a biography article, as this is pretty sensitive information. Normally, a GoFundMe and YouTube would not be the best sources if we had others (though YouTube is not forbidden as a source per Wikipedia guidelines, contrary to what many seem to think). Here's my point: Of the links that reported his cause of death as heart complications, The Yahoo! News one cites only the Daily Dot one (being entirely superfluous as its removal would leave no passage unsourced), and the Daily Dot one cites only another GoFundMe campaign, apparently not having actually reached out to anyone connected to Moses. Therefore i don't believe it makes sense to disregard one claim made by and backed only by a GoFundMe, and keep another one that is also currently backed only by a GoFundMe; it matters little if it was published in a reliable source when that source clearly says that it did not do any more research than we did by opening a closed GoFundMe page. So i want to add a passage on his brother's belief, but i would like to hear your thoughts first. I'd like to ping, and  for comments as I've seen you all working on the page's sources quite a bit on the revision history. Cheers, YuriNikolai (talk) 01:06, 22 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Then you can cite the sources (WP:RS) and mention the controversy. — Sago tree spirit  (talk) 02:29, 22 June 2021 (UTC)