Wikipedia talk:Obituary

Removal of hatnote on WP:DIED

Hi,

You recently removed the hatnote I added to WP:DIED without comment. I added this because it took me a good few minutes of searching for the appropriate article dealing with WP's own stance on obituary articles; Wikipedia:Obituary redirects to that article. This seems as good a reason to add a hatnote to what would seem to be an obvious shortcut as any. What gives? Chris Cunningham (talk) 18:47, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

I didn't mean to remove that hatnote without comment--my bad for forgetting to add that in. But when I first saw that hatnote at the top of this memorial article, it seemed like an attack on the whole idea of WP:Deceased Wikipedians. While I later realized this was not the case, I'm afraid the odds are many people will take it the way I did. I'd prefer to find other ways to help people find WP:MEMORIAL, such as by changing some of the redirects. Perhaps we could change Wikipedia:Obituary to redirect to WP:MEMORIAL? Would that work for you?--Alabamaboy (talk) 22:49, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

That'd work fine. Thanks. Chris Cunningham (talk) 23:32, 5 January 2008 (UTC)