The Old Crem 3,606 Posted January 24 The Chief Officer of West Midlands Fire Service, Wayne Brown has died. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,654 Posted January 25 38 minutes ago, The Old Crem said: The Chief Officer of West Midlands Fire Service, Wayne Brown has died. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisM31 19 Posted January 25 Charles Osgood, journalist and long-time host of CBS Sunday Morning, dies at 91. https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/23/us/charles-osgood-death/index.html 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dimreaper 698 Posted January 25 https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/orleans/former-new-orleans-district-attorney-harry-connick-has-died/289-a5e77920-c01f-43f9-b92f-6ba5207834cc Long time and controversial New Orleans DA. More famously known as Harry Connick Jr.'s father. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted January 26 Murray 'The Weasel' Elkind, who chauffeured the likes of Jimmy Hoffa, various mob bosses, and Muhammad Ali, has died. He was 89. Elkind was also a police informant who outlived most of the people put away with his help. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/marvin-the-weasel-elkind-obituary Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chel 376 Posted January 27 Alexander Suvorov (03.06.1953 - 26.01.2024) was a Soviet and Russian psychologist, pedagogue and poet. Author of works on psychology, pedagogy, philosophy of psychology. Doctor of psychology, professor. Deafblind. President of the Community of Families of the Blind and Deaf-Blind. ru.wiki mgppu.ru miloserdie.ru Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 3,372 Posted January 31 Marie Irvine, Marilyn Monroe makeup artist dead at 99 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,536 Posted January 31 As said in that obit, died a few days after she started going viral on TikTok for giving an interview to some beauty influencer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,056 Posted February 1 DDP pick Joe Madison dead according to his website: https://www.joemadison.com/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Madison Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Steve 603 Posted February 2 Like @drol said in the Englebert Humperdinck thread, 2024 the year famous/ high profile people don't seem to be dying. Well hopefully by me posting this here jinxes everything and we start to see high prolific names keeling over. I must admit I am totally shocked at the slim to anorexic pickings myself and my fellow dead poolers are getting. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,954 Posted February 2 6 minutes ago, Steve said: Like @drol said in the Englebert Humperdinck thread, 2024 the year famous/ high profile people don't seem to be dying. Well hopefully by me posting this here jinxes everything and we start to see high prolific names keeling over. I must admit I am totally shocked at the slim to anorexic pickings myself and my fellow dead poolers are getting. Not only famous/high profile people. There has not been an Immortal death since Zagallo on 6th January and he was the only fucking one this year. Moreover, there have been no oldest state leaders death since 22nd September 2023!!! I would say no one of interest for this forum is dying, in general, not even cult figures largely unknown outside. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,654 Posted February 2 35 minutes ago, drol said: Not only famous/high profile people. There has not been an Immortal death since Zagallo on 6th January and he was the only fucking one this year. Moreover, there have been no oldest state leaders death since 22nd September 2023!!! I would say no one of interest for this forum is dying, in general, not even cult figures largely unknown outside. It's absolutely dire over on the Deaths in 2024 page atm. Editors clearly bored AF so they're creating new pages for total nobodies. Just a random example from the last week: Grace Boadu, Ghanian herbal medical practitioner. Wiki really needs to tighten up their grasp on article creation. They're in excess of 2 million biographies now. In the last 6 months I've been going through the 1920–1934 births and I've found 1000s of ppl who have died off radar but haven't had their pages updated in years, sometimes over a decade. The whole Wiki project is becoming unmanageable now due to it being so bloated with biographies of nobodies. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,536 Posted February 2 One big issue Wikipedia has is entries being permanently stuck in the time they were created. So many bands who were around in 2006 still have MySpace links on their page. And this article, for the comedian Brother Dave Gardner (dead for over 40 years), has contained the line Quote After being out of the national limelight for many years, Brother Dave's contributions to American humor may see a comeback, due to the 2004 one-man play prepared and acted by David Anthony Wright, Rejoice Dear Hearts: An Evening With Brother Dave Gardner. since its creation two decades ago. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,654 Posted February 2 7 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said: One big issue Wikipedia has is entries being permanently stuck in the time they were created. So many bands who were around in 2006 still have MySpace links on their page. And this article, for the comedian Brother Dave Gardner (dead for over 40 years), has contained the line since its creation two decades ago. Biggest problem with Wiki is nowhere near enough ppl edit it. I don't know a single person in real life who edits Wiki. And it's not as straight forward as ppl might think, takes time to learn a lot of rules and customs so most new contributors end up doing more harm than good. We're approaching 7 million articles in the English Wiki. It's just too much to manage. Another problem is Wikis in other languages have not grown at anywhere near the rate that the English one has. This has resulted in English Wiki becoming a dumping ground for article creation about things that are almost totally irrelevant to 99.9% of native English speakers e.g. really obscure foreign actors. These individuals perhaps merit a page in their native language but it doesn't mean English Wiki needs a version. They need to seriously tighten up article creation (I'd propose restricting it to users of 5+ years and 5000+ edits) or the whole thing will just become a wasteland. Then the only option they'll have is to control a lot of it by introducing AI editing, which I'd be against. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sly Ronnie 886 Posted February 2 27 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said: One big issue Wikipedia has is entries being permanently stuck in the time they were created. So many bands who were around in 2006 still have MySpace links on their page. And this article, for the comedian Brother Dave Gardner (dead for over 40 years), has contained the line since its creation two decades ago. Indeed. I'm still waiting on that third album from Duels. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 3,372 Posted February 2 French-born Italian actress Annie Belle (Wiki) dead at 67 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wannamaker 1,408 Posted February 2 Daniel O'Donnell's manager Kieran Cavanagh dead at 67 DDP pick 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheKeysOfMarinus 390 Posted February 2 4 hours ago, Spade_Cooley said: One big issue Wikipedia has is entries being permanently stuck in the time they were created. So many bands who were around in 2006 still have MySpace links on their page. And this article, for the comedian Brother Dave Gardner (dead for over 40 years), has contained the line since its creation two decades ago. You could edit it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,606 Posted February 2 1 hour ago, wannamaker said: Daniel O'Donnell's manager Kieran Cavanagh dead at 67 DDP pick Unlikely to obit two days after getting Irish only coverage. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,536 Posted February 2 15 minutes ago, TheKeysOfMarinus said: You could edit it? Only protestants edit Wikipedia. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octopus of Odstock 2,200 Posted February 2 1 hour ago, The Old Crem said: Unlikely to obit two days after getting Irish only coverage. Patience my young Padicrem. Even if he doesn't get the immediate QO's, there's plenty of time for a Daniel O'Donnell sob story interview this year. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Superstar 295 Posted February 2 rocky creed guy, mc5 guy, mother springsteen, Johnnie Irwin, and that other actor... all dead within two days. It can't/how can it get any worse than this? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisM31 19 Posted February 2 Actor Carl Weathers, 76, died yesterday on Feb. 1. https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/02/entertainment/carl-weathers-prolificactor-famous-for-rocky-and-the-mandalorian-dead-at-76/index.html 1 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,954 Posted February 3 9 hours ago, Superstar said: rocky creed guy, mc5 guy, mother springsteen, Johnnie Irwin, and that other actor... all dead within two days. It can't/how can it get any worse than this? Of course, only Weathers and Murray are A-listers out of those names. And really I don't get the significance of Bruce's mama's death. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,144 Posted February 3 3 hours ago, drol said: And really I don't get the significance of Bruce's mama's death. She bought him his first guitar! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
