deaditor

plural deaditors

1. InternetA person who edits information related to a recent death, especially on biographical pages on wikis such as Wikipedia.

   How Wikipedia's 'Deaditors' Sprang Into Action on Queen Elizabeth II's Page After Her Death [title]

   2022 September 9, Jody Serrano, “How Wikipedia's 'Deaditors' Sprang Into Action on Queen Elizabeth II's Page After Her Death”, in Gizmodo

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   For those 26 articles there were 26 different deaditors. And what was surprising: two-thirds of those edits were done by anonymous users.

   2018 June 15, Hay Kranen, “The 'deaditors' of Wikipedia”, in HayKranen.nl

   Since two-thirds of these deaditors were anonymous, it seemed unlikely that I would ever track them down. But I tried to find some of the remaining one-third.

   2018 August 16, Stephen Harrison, “Who Updates Celebrity Deaths on Wikipedia?”, in Slate

   The editor who broke the news, Sydwhunte, remains anonymous. Indeed, after adding in the death note, they barely made another edit. The community calls such accounts Deaditors or WikiJackals – people who seem to prize being the first to announce a death.

   [2022 September 13, Liam Mannix, “Evidence suggests Wikipedia is accurate and reliable. When are we going to start taking it seriously?”, in The Sydney Morning Herald