Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2019 September 18

= September 18 =

Edmund Jones ‘American politician from pennsylvania
i’m An acquaintance asking that his page be updated to show that he passed away on September 15, 2019. I will not create an account to do it myself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.36.153.51 (talk) 23:34, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
 * You don't need to create an account to do it, but you do need to cite a reliable source. I haven't found anything in Google News about him dying, and at age 101, I would expect it to be news. --76.69.116.4 (talk) 23:50, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Courtesy link: Edmund Jones. I can't find a source either. --Viennese Waltz 04:52, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * There's an announcement here, but this is a different person.   Is there some confusion?   Dbfirs  07:04, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Only in your mind, it seems. --Viennese Waltz 07:59, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * People born ten years apart tend to be different.  Db<i style="color: #4fc;">f</i><i style="color: #6f6;">i</i><i style="color: #4e4;">r</i><i style="color: #4a4">s</i>  15:57, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't get your point. The OP was clear on who he was talking about. For some reason, you brought up a link to a person who was clearly not the same person. Anyway, there's a source for his death now. --Viennese Waltz 06:46, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Being clear who are talking about doesn't mean you are right. AFAICT, Dbfirs was suggesting the OP may be confused about who passed away. I do think this was fairly unlikely since they said 'I'm an acquaintance' although I don't know if I'd say it would be completely ruled out without further info like the confirmation of the death we now have. Especially considering the closeness of the date of death and that acquaintance can mean a lot of things and further in the social media age, it's quite easy for confusion to spread. I mean I'm sure there are still people who think George R. R. Martin is dead although hopefully no one who can be called an acquaintance by any reasonable definition of the word. Nil Einne (talk) 11:53, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Condolences. The change has been made but no doubt some over zealous wikipedian will revert the change in 3...2...1... Anton 81.131.40.58 (talk) 08:06, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * It's not overzealous to revert a death date when there's no source for it. It's standard procedure for BLP's. And now it's gone until or if someone can find evidence. Maybe the OP can locate a website for a local newspaper obituary. As with VW, I don't see any online source. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 08:53, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
 * What, you don't see an online source for VW either? —Tamfang (talk) 00:22, 23 September 2019 (UTC)