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Latest comment: 8 months ago3 comments3 people in discussion
Almost no entry on this page is sourced and this leads to continuous and arbitrary errors. Just reading some of the latest entries, David Crosby did not die of COVID at all, Qi Huaiyuan died in 2022, not 2023!, all Chinese were arbitrarily added and only for few of them there are even sources mentioning COVID. This page is a blatant mess. Folengo (talk) 17:38, 18 February 2023 (UTC)Reply
David Crosby's article states, with a source, that according to Véronique Sanson he died in his sleep from complications of COVID-19. If that statement is incorrect, then it will need to be removed from that article too. Qi Huaiyuan was briefly described in his article as having died in 2023, but that appears to have been incorrect. Given that his article doesn't specify the nature of the illness he died of, I've removed him from this list [1]. As for the bigger issue, I'm not sure there is any established system of reviewing entries to this list (as there isn't for most other Wikipedia pages). I know this isn't going to solve those problems, but you can boldly remove anything that catches your eye? – Uanfala (talk) 18:47, 18 February 2023 (UTC)Reply
Bray Wyatt of WWE fame is another obvious issue on death list. He had a heart condition before anyone had even heard of covid. He contracted covid (which he recovered from, although his personal wiki page claims it "exacerbated" his pre-existing condition whatever that means since non medical diagnosis). He then died of a heart attack. How is this a covid death? He left WWE in Feb, recovered and planned his return Aug 19 article, then dies on Aug 24. All links are refs are on his pageKav2001c (talk) 05:24, 10 March 2024 (UTC)kav2001cReply
Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Per repeated discussions at Talk:David Prowse, reliable sources do not support that David Prowse died of COVID-19. I have just removed his name from this list again.
I see that there have been discussions above regarding inline source requirements on this article. If the consensus is that sources are not needed here for information cited in the target article (to which I agree) that does not relieve the editor adding names here from verifying the sources they're relying on in the target article, and information that is not reliably sourced or unverifiable still must not be included here. Please be more vigilant. Ivanvector's squirrel (trees/nuts) 16:40, 17 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
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