Template:Recent death/doc

This template warns our readers that the information presented in the article may not be final due to missing/unpublished/uncertain information about a recently deceased person, and that readers should therefore be cautious about the content presented. This is generally true for all of our articles, but in cases of extraordinary public attention that risk is especially high. As such, it should only be used in cases where many editors (perhaps a hundred or more) are editing the article on the same day, and should be removed as soon as the editing dies down to a normal level again. Do not use it merely to tag the article of a recently deceased person, as that would defeat the purpose of the template.

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

Usage

 * The first parameter must be entered to sort biography articles by last name in Category:Current events and Category:Recent deaths:
 * Named parameter "article" overrides the word "a"
 * Named parameter "type" overrides the word "person"

When using this template, check the article talk page and change "living=yes" to "living=no" in WPBiography or similar templates that refer to this person and remove any Blp template that refers to this person. Also check the body of the article, infoboxes and other templates, and the categories at the end of the article and make the appropriate changes.