deaditor
English
Etymology
Blend of dead + editor, from being an editor who contributes about the recently dead.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdɛdɪtə(ɹ)/
Noun
deaditor (plural deaditors)
- (Internet slang) A person who edits information related to a recent death, especially on biographical pages on wikis such as Wikipedia.
- 2018 June 15, Hay Kranen, “The ‘deaditors’ of Wikipedia”, in HayKranen.nl:
- For those 26 articles there were 26 different deaditors. And what was surprising: two-thirds of those edits were done by anonymous users.
- 2018 August 16, Stephen Harrison, “Who Updates Celebrity Deaths on Wikipedia?”, in Slate:
- 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.
- 2022 September 9, Jody Serrano, “How Wikipedia’s ‘Deaditors’ Sprang Into Action on Queen Elizabeth II’s Page After Her Death”, in Gizmodo:
- How Wikipedia’s Deaditors Sprang Into Action on Queen Elizabeth II’s Page After Her Death [title]
- [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:
- 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.]
Related terms
- deadit
- deadited
- deaditing