Talk:Forbes list of the world's highest-paid dead celebrities

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Should the flag of the countries be added or not? I think it should. Awardmaniac (talk) 18:16, 5 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, I just made some edits/reverts, but unfortunately there seems to be a bug in the site that causes it to show TWO "edit summary" boxes in some cases, and the first of those – where I filled in my summaries – is ignored (see bug report here). So those edits are missing their summaries, which should have been as follows:

• 2021-10-05T10:15:04‎ (diff): Reverted to 2021-08-24T11:53:23‎ version by Materialscientist, as all edits since then appear to be vandalism/errors.
• 2021-10-05T10:25:26‎ (diff): Michael Jackson's official cause of death is listed as homicide.

- JohnnyMyself (talk) 17:15, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please, in name of all Michael Jackson's fans around the world,change his cause of death like it was previous - homicide. He didn't died from overdose,he was murdered and there was a whole trial in 2011 against Dr.Conrad Murray and he went in jail because of that. We hope that you will resolve this issue immediately. 213.135.177.144 (talk) 06:08, 9 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

this is ridiculous and has been done on no other page pertaining to jackson. this random list page does not need to make equivocations on his cause of death. RedPandaWatcher (talk) 15:31, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@213.135.177.144 -

is it true ? Junior Moremi (talk) 15:35, 9 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The page on Jackson's death lists his CoD simply as "drug overdose" yet there seems to be insistence from some that it be listed as "homicide" or "drug overdose/homicide" here. It does not seem wise to be rolling back my changes here when this page seems to just be counter to all the dedicated Jackson pages. RedPandaWatcher (talk) 02:42, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The cause of death here is in line with

WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. While I agree that the wording by Forbes is not correct, it’s what the source says. TruthGuardians (talk) 13:45, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply

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Hi, thanks for helping :)

The issue is, and I am sorry for not expressing this before, but the CoD is *not* in line with Michael Jackson because fundamentally "homicide" (like suicide, accident, etc) is a *manner* of death, not a *cause* of death. The distinction can be found here, among other sources, as it exists in all jurisdictions in the United States to my knowledge.

As for matter of the Forbes sourcing, I concede that "overdose/homicide" should be preserved for the years in which Forbes incorrectly lists his cause of death as such, but in the several years for which the source has nothing to say about Jackson's cause of death,

WP:STICKTOSOURCES

does not apply. In fact, I would argue that combining the Forbes' sources with the listed Fox source is improper synthesis of sources.

Any other help you can provide for rectifying this would be great! <3 RedPandaWatcher (talk) 14:11, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Why do we even list the cause of death in this article?

They were given in some of the forbes sources. However the sources are inconsistent from year to year, inconsistent with other pages, and inconsistent with what "cause of death" means (see the Jackson dispute). Honestly I would be down to just get rid of them all together... RedPandaWatcher (talk) 15:15, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]