Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/List of premature obituaries/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured list removal nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was removed by Sephiroth BCR 23:06, 31 March 2009.

List of premature obituaries

 * notified: WikiProject Journalism, WikiProject Biography, WikiProject Sociology and Bfinn.

This one showed up in the Clean up listing and when I looked at it, I discovered a number of sourcing violations.

Some examples:
 * It cites wikipedia pages at least five times.
 * There are two citation needed tags, one of which has been there since October 2008 and there are a number of uncited statements, such as real death dates.
 * Several completely unsourced entries, including Sean Connery, Kevin Stoney and Heinz Wolff.
 * A lot of improperly formatted citation templates.
 * Several questionable sources, including:
 * abbaannual.com
 * Regrettheerror.com
 * Amazon.com
 * Jesuismort.com
 * about.com
 * "See references in John Darwin disappearance case."
 * Prairieghosts.com
 * Stiffs.com
 * Some scope problems too, if you are going to include NN people who don't have pages, like Feliberto Carrasco or Mildred C. Clarke, doesn't that open up a huge can of worms?
 * Speaking of wikipedia pages, is someone vandalizing a page really considered an obituary? And I've seen many cases of people doing that. Doesn't having a page that lists these things just glorify and encourage people to do it?
 * I'm also curious about some of these entries, like Vince McMahon. That was a storyline death, like someone's character being killed in a TV sjow, and I don't think any news sources took it seriously and actually published an obituary for him.

Some of these issues are minor and easily fixable, but there are a lot of them. -- Scorpion 0422  23:57, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

I did some cleanup already, I agree with most of the statements, and it seemed like the FLC passed without much commenting a year ago. I'll fix the rest of the concerns in the upcoming days. Secret account 14:58, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

I removed many of the sources that seemed questionable with the exception of regrettheerror.com, which is a reliable source for media errors, and covers all errors major news media makes (even if it's a little bloggy). I removed a few of the nn (others should have articles, as they are well known and even mentioned in books), I took care of the wikipedia vandalism obituarys, but I still have more work to do. Secret account 21:31, 16 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I stumbled across this when going through the latest cleanup listings. I managed to replace one fact tag but was unable to verify the other. The comprehensiveness issue will always be a struggle with this list, but even without that difficulty, when citations are referencing an IMDb message board I think it becomes time to delist.  Rambo's   Revenge   (How am I doing?)   15:42, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Sad to see this one gone since this is one of the most interesting FLs, but it should be delist per sourcing issue.— Chris!  c t 06:20, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Delist I don't think the sourcing issues can be resolved in the time allotted here. Dabomb87 (talk) 01:49, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
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