User talk:Jayen466/Archives/2018/March

Death of Amina Shah, for bio
Hi Andreas,

The Shah family are concerned about Amina's Wikipedia page, which still lists her as being alive, even though she passed away a couple of years ago. An editor undid details of her death due to lack of a reference such as an obituary.

I said that I'd check with someone who might know how they could sort this out. Is there any way of filing documents with Wikipedia such as a death certificate (that they have), like you can when filing permission to use an image at Wikimedia Commons?

An additional complication is that she married and became Amina Maxwell-Hudson, though her maiden name Shah is shown on the death certificate, and they may be able to get hold of a copy of her marriage certificate.

I suggested that perhaps they could upload the certificate/s as images or pdfs to the official Idries Shah Foundation page, and maybe we could then use those as "reliably sourced" material for reference. Or someone like Tahir could maybe write an obituary -- not for use in adding flowery detail to the wiki page, but simply to verify her marriage and death (?)

Any advice welcome, thanks! Eric.  Esowteric + Talk  18:11, 5 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi Eric, the thing to do is to email the OTRS team at . See Contact_us_-_Subjects, the paragraph starting "Alternatively, you can reach ..." If the family send documentation of Mrs Maxwell-Hudson's passing (condolences!) to the email address mentioned there, it should be possible for the volunteers staffing that address to make the change and add a mention of the OTRS note to the article (in the form of an invisible comment or in the edit summary, and/or on the talk page). This sort of situation is not uncommon, and I'm pretty sure it can be sorted out with a bit of effort all-round. Best, --Andreas JN 466 16:07, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
 * P.S. For an explanation of "OTRS", see Volunteer_Response_Team. --Andreas JN 466 16:10, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Many thanks, Andreas.  Esowteric + Talk  21:21, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

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