https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Deceased_editors I have created a stub. It will grow.

it is just time, if we don't start to focus on one page, we will have this discussion again and again. Now we can use that talk page or show the page as target for future discussion.

You can start for example to link local policies there, so people can start to get an idea what could be used as a reference.

Alessandro


Il martedì 9 novembre 2021, 13:46:11 CET, Peter Southwood <peter.southwood@telkomsa.net> ha scritto:


Seems a reasonable idea. Cheers, Peter

 

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Yes, a user status/right “deceased" is IMHO important. It was also the reason why I expected a SUL policy to be created soon or later. I tried two or three time to raise the issue since 2016.

 

Now some projects block accounts, but it's not a standard process. It has to be fixed soon or later. At the moment, a relative can reuse an old account in theory on another platform, if they wish to do so. For example I find archive of images of my deceased partner and despite the user being blocked on a local wikipedia, I start to upload them on Commons in their name. Everybody has their way to cope with grief. Do we accept this or not?

 

Alessandro

Il martedì 9 novembre 2021, 10:17:51 CET, Geert Van Pamel <geertivp@gmail.com> ha scritto:

 

 

I do find this an excellent proposal.

 

Wouldn’t it be good to also implement a user status/right “deceased” to identify those accounts?

 

This information could be shown to their user rights page e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UserRights/Geertivp?

 

One could get a list of volunteers that are no longer amongst us via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers.

 

Geert Van Pamel

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