Template:Recent death/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Recent death. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template does not merely denote that an article's subject has recently died.

This template warns readers that the information presented in an article may not be the most up-to-date or accurate due to unconfirmed or inaccurately reported information about a recently deceased person. Readers should therefore be cautious. This is generally true for all of our articles, but in cases of extraordinary public attention the risk of misinformation is elevated.

As such, this template should be used only in cases where many editors (perhaps dozens or more) are editing the article on the same day. It should be removed as soon as this editing subsides. Do not use it merely to tag the article of a recently deceased person, as that is not the template's purpose.

This template will add the article to Category:Recent deaths.

Check this template's usage on mainspace articles

This template should not be substituted.