Wikipedia:WikiProject Death

Welcome to WikiProject Death, a WikiProject that aims to provide a framework for the improvement and organization of human death-related articles on Wikipedia.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask us on our discussion page.

Anyone is welcome to join by listing their username on the participants page and contributing to the project.

Outstanding articles
The project — as a multi-disciplinary project covers all articles about human death and related topics such as:
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] 1740 Batavia massacre
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Assassination of William McKinley
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Cock Lane ghost
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Death of Ian Tomlinson
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Death of Jimi Hendrix
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Departures (2008 film)
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Eastbourne manslaughter
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Execution by elephant
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Funerary art
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Halifax Gibbet
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Hanged, drawn and quartered
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Katyn massacre
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Lindow Man
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] List of deaths at the Berlin Wall
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] List of extant papal tombs
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] List of fatal Formula One accidents
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] List of posthumous number ones on the UK Albums Chart
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] List of posthumous number ones on the UK Singles Chart
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] List of Presidents of the United States who died in office
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] List of tombs of antipopes
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] London Necropolis Company
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Lynching of Jesse Washington
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Major depressive disorder
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Moors murders
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Muhammad al-Durrah incident
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Murder of Joanna Yeates
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Murder of Julia Martha Thomas
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Oakwood Cemetery (Troy, New York)
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Oklahoma City bombing
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Peterloo Massacre
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Red Barn Murder
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Resurrectionists in the United Kingdom
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Rock Springs massacre
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Sinking of the RMS Titanic
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] The Disasters of War
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Toa Payoh ritual murders
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Tomb of Antipope John XXIII
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Triptych, May–June 1973
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] USS Iowa turret explosion
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Vampire
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] Whitechapel murders
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|10px]] William Calcraft
 * Biological: Agony (death) (de), Brain death, clinical death, decomposition
 * Customs: Funerals, burials, green burials, cremations, pan-death movement, home funerals
 * Bioethical issues: Abortion, bioethics, euthanasia, suicide (See: /Suicide task force)
 * Medical: Terminal illness, End-of-life care, autopsy, forensic science
 * Large scale: Genocide, massacres, pandemics, global catastrophic risks
 * Man-made disasters: Transportation disasters (when at least one person died)
 * Statistics and government: Demographics, death statistics, mortality rate, epidemiology
 * Legal: Wills, murder, capital punishment
 * Business: Undertaking, Casket makers, life insurance, crime scene cleanup
 * People: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Jack Kevorkian
 * Places: Morgues, cemeteries, mausoleums, extermination camp, execution locations
 * Religious: Afterlife, reincarnation, resurrection
 * Process: Types of death, approaches to death and dying, death midwifery, psychological and religious approaches to dying a "good death"
 * Cultural: Grief, responses to death, fascination with death, death and the Internet
 * Paranormal: Near-death experience, deathbed phenomena, after-death communication, reincarnation
 * Folklore: Vampires, zombies, ghosts, revenant (folklore)
 * Visiting graves: Ziyarat, tombstone tourist

Some topics outside of the scope of the Death project include:
 * Wars: Wars, battles and invasions. These should be left to WikiProject Military history
 * Terrorism: Terrorist attacks. These should be left to WikiProject Terrorism
 * Casualties of ... is within scope. For example, Casualties of the September 11 attacks
 * Natural disasters: Tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, etc.
 * Casualties of ... is within scope. For example, Casualties of the 2010 Haiti earthquake
 * Biographies: People who have died, including murder victims. These should be left to WikiProject Biography
 * Death of ... is within scope. For example, Death of Michael Jackson
 * Assassination of .. is within scope. For example, Assassination of Julius Caesar
 * Murder of ... is within scope. For example, Murder of Laci Peterson
 * Killing of ... is within scope. For example, Killing of David Wilkie
 * Shooting of ... is within scope. For example, Shooting of Hosie Miller
 * Killers: Serial killers and murderers. These should be left to WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography
 * Lists of victims are within scope. For example, Victims of the Night of the Long Knives
 * Acts of killers and murderers are within scope. For example, Virginia Tech shooting

You can help:
 * by writing and improving articles
 * by project maintenance – helping adding project templates to article and category talk pages – see templates page
 * by assessing articles for quality and assessment standards – see the assessment page
 * by assessing and recommending resources (online and print) – see the resources page
 * by communicating with project members – at the project talk page

Requested articles

 * Ana Estrada (es:Ana Estrada)

Articles needing attention

 * List of countries by suicide rate – Uses data from 2008 or earlier. All data is from the World Health Organization, and is arguably inaccurate. Lots of complaints on the talk page.
 * List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll – Wars and disasters need separating
 * List of natural disasters by death toll – Types of disasters need separating
 * List of accidents and disasters by death toll – this needs about 8 or so sub lists – it is toooo loong
 * List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland by death toll – World disaster lists need standardising in titles and style
 * List of cemeteries in the United States – This article needs to be cleaned up and split into smaller lists by state.
 * Deathbed phenomena – rated as Mid-importance but currently only Start-Class for quality
 * Responses to death (currently a redirect)
 * Grim reaper – Currently a redirect – should perhaps have its own article
 * Death of Caylee Anthony – The case was huge and much of the article's narrative (e. g. the disappearance section, which I tried to fix) just takes what the family relayed as granted.