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1. myth_d+d6[view] [source] 2025-09-10 19:40:06
>>david9+(OP)
As of 3:39PM ET, CNN is reporting shot and Wikipedia has already a death date.
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2. bell-c+O8[view] [source] 2025-09-10 19:54:41
>>myth_d+d6
I'm not seeing that death date. And history shows that even traditional news outlets can be badly wrong in the immediate aftermath of a shooting. James Brady didn't die in 1981 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Brady#Shooting - even with "all major media outlets" (per Wikipedia) saying that he did.
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3. cloudf+5b[view] [source] 2025-09-10 20:06:26
>>bell-c+O8
Kirk's wikipedia page is currently abuzz with edits and reversions of those edits, many of which are pronouncing him dead.
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4. rkomor+sb[view] [source] 2025-09-10 20:08:37
>>cloudf+5b
I'm convinced there are people whose first thought when someone dies is to race to update Wikipedia for some definition of clout.

I find it weird, at best.

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5. Fergus+mc[view] [source] 2025-09-10 20:14:40
>>rkomor+sb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiJackal
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6. rossan+Tv[view] [source] 2025-09-10 21:36:35
>>Fergus+mc
TIL there's a term for this! I've always been quite troubled by this propensity some people have to be the first to report the death of someone famous.
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