Wikipedia talk:Deceased Wikipedians


 * Note this page was also once erroneously nominated at AFD and speedily kept on procedural grounds.

Yuri Lushchai
Please see Articles for deletion/Yuri Lushchai. The Wikipedia page Yuri Lushchai is likely to be deleted. Is there a way this recently deceased Wikipedian can be added to this English language deaths? He was one of us. Please don't let his death go unmentioned. Thanks. — Maile (talk) 20:34, 20 April 2024 (UTC)


 * What was his user account name? Jay  💬 05:48, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Ymblanter (talk) 07:09, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Wikipedian yes, but it was 7 minor edits over 8 years. Jay  💬 07:50, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
 * His main activity was in the Russian Wikipedia. Ymblanter (talk) 08:46, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Special:CentralAuth/Юрий Владимирович Л. says 85K edits at ruwiki. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:43, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Also a former arb there. Ymblanter (talk) 20:49, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Suitable only for the ru Wikipedia, and the entry exists - ru:Википедия:Умершие участники. Jay  💬 04:07, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Guidelines
Hridayeshwar Singh Bhati's death is tragic, but I'm curious why he's included here? It looks like his only edits were to create multiple accounts to write about himself. That doesn't strike me as being a "Wikipedian". Is there a typical threshold? If a notable person makes one promotional edit, do we include them? &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 21:10, 14 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Deceased Wikipedians/Guidelines says Criteria for placement on the Deceased Wikipedian page has not been discussed, although by common sense listed users should have been active enough to be considered part of the community. This is from the original creation of the page in 2009.  More specific guidance is unlikely to be forthcoming.
 * I suspect that some editors find it distasteful to remove an entry, even if they think it shouldn't have been created in the first place, so once an entry has been created, there may be resistance to removing it. WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:12, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Agree with Rhododendrites. I went ahead and removed Bhati's entry. I read the to be considered part of the community as being part of the community in a constructive, not disruptive way. -- Deeday-UK (talk) 13:21, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Hanif Al Husaini
Hanif Al Husaini passed away on May 27th, 2024 (announcement). His account has been globally locked. dwadieff ✉ 03:38, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Confronting user pages of deceased Wikipedians
This is not really a question or a request per se. It is rather just me sharing something that hit me some melancholy kind of way. I was checking for double redirects after moving Mîna Urgan, and one of the links that came up was User:Nedim Ardoğa/Articles, who was responsible for the creation of this article, and I wanted to leave a message on their talk page, only to discover that their account was locked with a note saying (Deceased user). I will be honest, that hit me like a brick for no reason whatsoever.

And so, I shall be raising a glass to all past and passed individuals who have helped further and preserve human knowledge, whether on the WMF projects, or elsewhere. I hope you will join me in your own ways, and I am grateful that some type of memorialisation of each and every Wikipedian is being done. –Konanen (talk) 22:01, 30 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Yes, happens to me as well  Jay  💬 02:08, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

Abd
It has been reported that Abd has died. They were part of the community but later banned so I don't know whether they should be listed here or not. Thryduulf (talk) 20:05, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Regardless of the ban history, in terms of breakup, of the 14,000 edits (years 2007-2010), half of them were in the talk and user talk namespace, and 2,000 were in the article namespace. Jay  💬 10:11, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Not just site banned,, but the full English: topic bans, blocks, community ban, San Fran Ban, up to and including barred from the WMF's own floorspace! And he was in the middle of suing them when he died, IIRC. All pretty specialist; the guy clearly had resilience. More seriously, since his user page still wears those banned templates, would it be possible—as a matter of taste and goodwill—to remove and replace them with deceased Wikipedian?  ——Serial Number 54129  12:16, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Taste and goodwill are almost never a bad idea. We, as a community, spend too much time not making amends. Jclemens (talk) 17:09, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I'm not certain this is the right thing to do. It may be appropriate to add the usual template (it's full-protected, so it will require an admin), but it might also be appropriate to do exactly what the template says:  "Their user page is preserved", rather than "We hid stuff that shows how many problems we had with him, and which someone might need to know to understand how this relationship worked out".
 * On further thought, maybe the quietest thing is also the most tasteful: Manually add Category:Deceased Wikipedians to the user page and leave the rest alone. WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:11, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I've added that category as it is factual and relevant. This is explicitly without prejudice to anything else. Separately, I'm going to ask ca@ whether they would have any objection to removing the global ban template if we decide to restore their userpage or something like that (I don't have a strong opinion whether we should or not). Thryduulf (talk) 09:52, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I've just heard back from T&S who say Which means there is no barrier to us restoring their userpage and/or placing the deceased Wikipedian template if we wish to. Thryduulf (talk) 09:16, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
 * ThNks, good work. I've undone the talk page redirect and left the template, but the user page noties are the more important so I've left them for further discussion (if you think any is necessary now). Cheers,  ——Serial Number 54129  09:49, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
 * “Category:Deceased Wikipedians” is not visible in mobile view (~60% of readers?) ...
 * P.S. Abd, I don’t know much about you, but yes, this world, especially this Wikipedia, is full of bullying and unfairness. I hope you can R.I.P. -- Dustfreeworld (talk) 08:13, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
 * We'd need documentation, but Abd was certainly a Wikipedian. I don't think we have any guidelines in place about bans/blocks/kitchen sinks precluding admission to this list, and I'd argue we should include even some of the most notorious Wikipedians on the list. This isn't our Hall of Fame, and Abd is part of wikihistory. If nothing else it could provide some people a bit of closure. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 13:28, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Looks like someone updated Abd's RationalWiki entry with this. (for the avoidance of doubt, Abd disclosed his real name on his user page). &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 13:37, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
 * that obituary link is 404ing for me. – dudhhr talkcontribssheher 17:31, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Hmmm. Here's another. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 17:37, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

User:Iryna Harpy
was sick when last heard from, four years ago. I miss her. Jim.henderson (talk) 19:29, 6 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Do you have any specific news? If not, then Missing Wikipedians would be more appropriate. WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:59, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I had no idea it exists. Jim.henderson (talk) 20:43, 8 July 2024 (UTC)