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*'''Comment:''' I donʻt think thereʻs a problem with the articleʻs usage of the Pinknews source as it is now; ] is about the content of the Misplaced Pages article itself, not about sources used as references in the article. The Pinknews article is used specifically as a reference to the statement that Technopig was diagnosed with ADHD, which it does, even though the Pinknews article is otherwise a mess. With that said, I donʻt think there would be an issue with using one of Technopigʻs videos or social media posts (such as ) as an additional reference; we can generally expect individuals to be reliable sources for information about themselves, such as what medical conditions they have, which is the kind of situation where ] would allow the use of self-published sources. ] (]) 07:50, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
*'''Comment:''' I donʻt think thereʻs a problem with the articleʻs usage of the Pinknews source as it is now; ] is about the content of the Misplaced Pages article itself, not about sources used as references in the article. The Pinknews article is used specifically as a reference to the statement that Technopig was diagnosed with ADHD, which it does, even though the Pinknews article is otherwise a mess. With that said, I donʻt think there would be an issue with using one of Technopigʻs videos or social media posts (such as ) as an additional reference; we can generally expect individuals to be reliable sources for information about themselves, such as what medical conditions they have, which is the kind of situation where ] would allow the use of self-published sources. ] (]) 07:50, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
**{{re|Musashi1600}} {{re|Ss112}}, ok, fair about WP:UNDUE not applying here, though I would still like to state that I feel wildly uncomfortable even using a source about, as Ss112 put it {{tq|Dream SMP fans had dug up Technoblade's old tweets to "cancel" him.}} Its mere presence (again, regardless of the fact that we don't mention its contents) feels like it immortalizes a petty cancel culture campaign that should have otherwise been quickly forgotten. I don't think there's any official policy or essay stating this given how specific and niche this situation is, but it still makes me uncomfortable to use a report on a really stupid cancel culture campaign as a source unless the campaign has a direct effect on the subject (such as with ]). It has nothing to do with Pinknews being an LGBT source, as Aoidh suspects, but rather the specific article being about a cancel culture smear. Thank you Musashi1600 for your input about primary sources though. ] (]) 21:14, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
**{{re|Musashi1600}} {{re|Ss112}}, ok, fair about WP:UNDUE not applying here, though I would still like to state that I feel wildly uncomfortable even using a source about, as Ss112 put it {{tq|Dream SMP fans had dug up Technoblade's old tweets to "cancel" him.}} Its mere presence (again, regardless of the fact that we don't mention its contents) feels like it immortalizes a petty cancel culture campaign that should have otherwise been quickly forgotten. I don't think there's any official policy or essay stating this given how specific and niche this situation is, but it still makes me uncomfortable to use a report on a really stupid cancel culture campaign as a source unless the campaign has a direct effect on the subject (such as with ]). It has nothing to do with Pinknews being an LGBT source, as Aoidh suspects, but rather the specific article being about a cancel culture smear. Thank you Musashi1600 for your input about primary sources though. ] (]) 21:14, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
**:I don't like the fact that this specific article is being used as a reference because it's mostly silly Twitter drama in an article form, but given that Technoblade himself personally and publicly acknowledged having ADHD, I think there's a benefit to including that fact in his Misplaced Pages article. I also think that benefit outweighs whatever negative effects there are from using a source that mostly discusses an attempt to "cancel" him (which clearly was not and is not successful, as evidenced by the amount of attention he's received since his passing was announced.)
**:Under the current circumstances, it looks like there's no other reliable and non-self-published source that references Technoblade's ADHD diagnosis (and no, the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' column is not a reliable source because it is expressly identified as an opinion piece), so I think the best option is to keep the article as-is. Mahalo, ] (]) 10:33, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
*'''Comment'''. Whichever source we use, I think it at least deserves a mention, , and coming from somebody who was conservative with what they revealed about themselves it's significant. I'd also like to echo Musashi1600's point above, that when I saw UNDUE being raised I was going to point out that UNDUE applies to coverage of a topic on a Misplaced Pages article, not about sources or what they say. <b>]<small>]</small></b> 07:24, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
*'''Comment'''. Whichever source we use, I think it at least deserves a mention, , and coming from somebody who was conservative with what they revealed about themselves it's significant. I'd also like to echo Musashi1600's point above, that when I saw UNDUE being raised I was going to point out that UNDUE applies to coverage of a topic on a Misplaced Pages article, not about sources or what they say. <b>]<small>]</small></b> 07:24, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
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Q0: "Technoblade never dies!" (Please add one of Technoblade's quotes to the article!)
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Q1b: Why is June 2022—with no further granularity—Technoblade's date of death? (Why shouldn't I add or request to add "such-and-such" information about Technoblade to be added to the main article, even though "so-and-so" source makes those claims?)
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Q3a: Where is the list of Technoblade's achievements? (Bedwars winstreak, rank, etc.)
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Q4: Did Technoblade die of sarcoma or cancer?
A4:Sarcoma is a specific type of cancer that affects connective tissues in the body such as bone, cartilage, and fat. While Technoblade did not disclose the specific type or nature of his cancer on his YouTube channel, and news reports immediately following his death were split on reporting the cause of his death as either sarcoma or cancer, Technoblade did significant fundraising for the Sarcoma Foundation of America (SFA) through his YouTube channel (as noted by reliable sources) and the SFA published a press release acknowledging that Technoblade was diagnosed with sarcoma. Therefore, the balance of available information indicates that Technoblade died specifically of sarcoma, and not another undisclosed type of cancer.
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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Misplaced Pages talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
Is it proper to mention his recent passing? e.g. that the recently-deceased YouTuber Technoblade... or that YouTuber Technoblade (1999–2022)...SWinxy (talk) 02:21, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
@X-Editor: It's not entirely necessary to mention the death as SWinxy suggests. ... that YouTuber Technoblade beat the video game Minecraft in hardcore mode using a racing wheel? was a solid hook. If you want to make it more obviously the subject is not alive, you can use the term late instead of recently-deceased (also the recently part is relative; we don't know when the hook is going to go live). –MJL‐Talk‐03:49, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
I'll give this article a review in just a bit; X-Editor, if you want to add an alt hook including "late" or something discussed above, you are free to do that and I can potentially approve that hook as well. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 18:21, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
Overall: This nomination looks good, the hooks are cited and interesting. Re: the debate on whether to mention his recent death, I don't think there's any policy for or against it, so I'll leave the choice in hook phrasing up to the promoter. Article is recent, well sourced and long enough. The article was technically on the front page in the Recent deaths section, but it wasn't a bolded link. It looks like the copyvio on Earwig is from sites which copied the Misplaced Pages page, so it's fine on that count. @X-Editor: Nice job on your first DYK nomination! BuySomeApples (talk) 23:20, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
I take a huge issue with the pinknews source attached to the sentence mentioning Technoblade's adhd, since it only briefly mentions it in passing in an article otherwise about a controversial tweet that isn't actually shown in the article and I was told was actually made by Dream instead of Technoblade. It absolutely needs to be replaced by a batter source. I don't care if it's also from pinknews, but it shouldn't be the one about overblown twitter drama. Unnamed anon (talk) 04:01, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
Why is that a problem? The article is not being used to add the Twitter drama (because that would be undue weight), but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be used for other statements made in it. After all, PinkNews is considered a reliable source by WP:RSP. As it happens, that was the only reliable, secondary, and non-opinion source that I have found that backs up that claim. If you have a better source that meets all of those criteria, then you are welcome to post it. But unless you have one (and even if you do), I don't see any problems keeping the current citation, as it meets all the standards it needs to meet to be used. Link20XX (talk) 04:09, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
I should add that the sources you're adding to replace them are worse than what you're trying to replace. If your concern is that it only mentions ADHD in passing, why are you trying to replace it with sources that also only mention it in passing? - Aoidh (talk) 04:20, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
The problem is that the mention of adhd is so brief in the pinknews article compared to the rest of the article, which is otherwise so full of undue weight about twitter drama and doesn't even show the controversial tweet it was talking about that it damages the reliability of the actual article (keyword article, not site. I already knew that pinknews is considered reliable and have no problem if a different article from pinknews mentions adhd and we use that instead). My main concern is less that it mentions adhd in passing and more the fact that the article is filled with too much twitter drama about a tweet that the article doesn't even show. I want to reiterate a third time: just because the article itself isn't an opinion piece and the site is otherwise reliable, doesn't mean it's filled with too much garbage that it's just more worth it to find a better source that actually talks about Technoblade instead of an angry mob tweeting about him over a tweet the article doesn't show. Unnamed anon (talk) 04:28, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
The article doesn't show the Tweet because it was deleted. Plus, it doesn't have to at all; just the fact that a reliable source is reporting it is enough for us to assume it is true. Link20XX (talk) 04:40, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
I realize the source is reliable, but it's also very wildly off-topic. It's about angry twitter mobs either defending or pointlessly attacking Technoblade, not Technoblade himself. I relaize the sources I was trying to replace it with weren't as consistently reliable, but they were actually about Technoblade instead of some twitter drama that lasted for a few days. It seriously irks me that some pointless twitter arguments on an article not even about Technoblade are now immortalized because it happened to mention that Technoblade has adhd. It would be like if the only secondary source for a movie director's birthday was for an article about a controversy surrounding a negative review of their otherwise positively received movie; it's so indirect and calls too much attention to such a pointless controversy that at that point a primary source is more fitting. I'm now heavily considering if reinstating Technoblade's tweets would be a better choice since according to WP:V, Self-published and questionable sources may be used as sources of information about themselves, usually in articles about themselves. However, I'm also wondering if the adhd mention should be removed because there's not meaningful secondary coverage, or if it should stay since his adhd is one of the few details of his personal life he was open about Unnamed anon (talk) 06:49, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
@Link20XX: To clarify: As I linked to Unnamed anon yesterday, the "was Hitler a lesbian?" tweet that caused the initial backlash against Technoblade is still up on Twitter . It was never deleted. I'm not saying this should be covered in the article. Also, despite what Unnamed anon says, the backlash lasted longer than a "few days"—at least, the negative opinion of him amongst those particular Dream SMP fans lasted until his death. Again, not saying these people and their perspective are worthwhile enough to cover or that we should even want to, but Technoblade was considered one of the more "controversial" personalities during his time on there because of it (and maybe a couple other things he apparently said on Discord that were screenshotted), despite being as PG as possible during his streams. Ss11207:25, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
Link20XX, Aoidh, Ss112, I asked how to deal with this situation in the blp noticeboard since the only secondary source was super indirect, and was told by Zaereth that "If those are the best sources we got, then I would generally say remove it." I realize that Pinknews is a reliable source, but having a source about dumb twitter drama is undue weight regardless of the fact that we're not using any of the content about the twitter flame wars. There is also the fact that, as Zaereth puts it, "lot's of people say they have ADHD, but how many have been diagnosed as such?" Thirdly, is his adhd even notable enough given that it has such little secondary coverage, and did Technoblade himself bring it up often (genuine question, because I rarely watched his videos myself)? Fourth, regardless of the site being reliable, the actual article loses a lot of credibility if it claims that the tweet is deleted when it's clearly still up, as Ss112 linked. Unnamed anon (talk) 11:34, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
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Not done: No; as stated in the FAQ at the top of this talk page, the specific date of his death has not been disclosed by a published source. You should also read Misplaced Pagesʻs policies regarding reliable sources and verifiability. Musashi1600 (talk) 12:27, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
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Should the mention of Technoblade's ADHD in the personal life section:
A. Be sourced to the current article that is from Pinknews, a reliable secondary source, but is mostly about twitter drama from people talking about Technoblade instead of being directly about Technoblade himself and only mentions his ADHD in passing?
B. Be sourced to statements directly from the deceased subject about his ADHD, which are primary sources instead of secondary?
C. Be sourced to a different secondary source that is more directly about Technoblade but may not be as reliable as Pinknews?
Option D: Remove completely. I personally consider the mere presence of the current source to be undue weight towards the pointless twitter arguments. Even if there is no mention of the twitter drama on this page in prose, it's easily found here, and thus I consider it undue weight, not because the article takes a particular side, but because both sides it reports seem to be fringe viewpoints. Pinknews is a reliable source, but the linked article is very off-topic and gives undue weight to fringe viewpoints in a way that is admittedly not biased, but regardless of the lack of bias both reported sides are fringe. in my opinion. I previously considered options B and C, but arguments made by other users convinced me away from them. Pinging Zaereth, {{u|Ss112, Aoidh, Link20XX, RayDeeUx, and X-Editor. Unnamed anon (talk) 12:14, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
@RayDeeUx:: I actually did use the sydney herald source in place of pinknews at one point. However, it was reverted by Aoidh for being an "opinion piece". However, I see that the sydney herald is indeed a reliable source, (I thought it wasn't given Aoidh's wording, so your option E was what I had in mind for my option C; regardless, I change my vote to using the Sydney Herald). I agree with you that the sydney herald article is much better than the pinknews article despite the former being an opinion piece, since it is actually about Technoblade and doesn't give undue weight to twitter drama. Unnamed anon (talk) 15:06, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
@Aoidh, @Unnamed anon, rejoice! I have found two sources whose domains have been used at least 500 times throughout Misplaced Pages:
Being used on Misplaced Pages unfortunately doesn't translate to it being a good source. I wouldn't trust Looper per this and Sportskeeda per this. They just aren't good sources and are exactly the type of clickbait articles that have no editorial oversight, for much the same reason as WP:FORBESCON. - Aoidh (talk) 01:09, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
@Aoidh Could you find another discussion for Looper's reliability? A two person discussion is, in gentle terms, not strong enough grounds.
As for Sportskeeda, your link did lead to a discussion between a larger group of editors, so that's fair enough.
Option A; the PinkNews article is reliable and a solid source, even if it does cover material that I would oppose being in the article. To counter the claim above, the Tweet the article covered was made on May 30, 2020 (according to the article), while the Tweet that Ss112 linked above was not posted on that date, thus the source doesn't lose any credibility. Frankly, I have no idea why you are so insistent on removing this source, almost to the point I feel like you are disrupting normal operation just to make one. No opposition to using The Sydney Morning Herald (Option C), though it is an opinion piece so I'm 100% certain it is a high-quality source. No comment as to whether it is due weight to mention it but that is not the topic of this RfC. Link20XX (talk) 20:10, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
@Link20XX: - When you said I have no idea why you are so insistent on removing this source it made me look. I'm not going to comment on Unnamed anon's motivations, but I can look at their contribs. I did notice an editing pattern of removing anything that is LGBT related. That PinkNews is an LGBT paper does fit within that editing pattern. - Aoidh (talk) 22:29, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
@Link20XX: A little off-topic but I think that's a mistake of the PinkNews source, to claim that the tweet was actually made in 2020. It was made pretty clear at the time that Dream SMP fans had dug up Technoblade's old tweets to "cancel" him. I don't recall really any controversial jokes made by Technoblade after he grew substantially following Minecraft Monday in 2019. All in all, dumb Twitter drama. Ss11207:24, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
Option E Summoned by a bot. I'm following the logic above regarding the use of the Sydney Herald article as a RS that can replace the Pinknews source. Comatmebro (talk) 20:12, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
Option A - The issue was started in part because PinkNews mentions the ADHD in passing. The Sydney Morning Herald also mentions it in passing, so I fail to see how it's an improvement. Further the Herald's piece is a columnist's opinion piece, not a news article. - Aoidh (talk) 22:13, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
@Aoidh Whoops, forgot a ping there. Anyways, current status: still stuck with the SMH source. Would appreciate your assistance in finding alternate sources (preferably without digging his Twitter account per WP:ABOUTSELF) as well. Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page)00:52, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
Comment: there are probably a dozen or two SPSs we could list, just by combing through his videos (but that's the entire point of this RfC). E.g. a December 2017 video: . SWinxy (talk) 00:59, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
Option B- that is the best source for what Technoblade has said about himself. I haven't seen the exact quotes, so it should be worded correctly (pedantically), but without a quote from a medical professional published in a reliable source, I can't see how we can do better than that. Any secondary source would just be repeating with less detail what Technoblade said about himself (AFAIK). His videos are the best source for that. The SMH article shows why it's relevant though: A published author and blogger, Kerri Sackville, whose career appears to be based around social commentary involving topics like "parenting and grief" (source: https://www.penguin.com.au/authors/kerri-sackville) is published in a reputable source describing why Technoblade has had such an impact on some young people "many of them neurodivergent". The ADHD is mentioned somewhat in passing, but it is making the point his openness about "his ADHD, and, in recent months, his cancer diagnosis" is what made his passing more impactful for some people. I agree with her take, but she has better credentials than me, and was published in the SMH, a reliable source. Salpynx (talk) 02:25, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
Comment: I donʻt think thereʻs a problem with the articleʻs usage of the Pinknews source as it is now; WP:UNDUE is about the content of the Misplaced Pages article itself, not about sources used as references in the article. The Pinknews article is used specifically as a reference to the statement that Technopig was diagnosed with ADHD, which it does, even though the Pinknews article is otherwise a mess. With that said, I donʻt think there would be an issue with using one of Technopigʻs videos or social media posts (such as this tweet) as an additional reference; we can generally expect individuals to be reliable sources for information about themselves, such as what medical conditions they have, which is the kind of situation where WP:ABOUTSELF would allow the use of self-published sources. Musashi1600 (talk) 07:50, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
@Musashi1600: @Ss112:, ok, fair about WP:UNDUE not applying here, though I would still like to state that I feel wildly uncomfortable even using a source about, as Ss112 put it Dream SMP fans had dug up Technoblade's old tweets to "cancel" him. Its mere presence (again, regardless of the fact that we don't mention its contents) feels like it immortalizes a petty cancel culture campaign that should have otherwise been quickly forgotten. I don't think there's any official policy or essay stating this given how specific and niche this situation is, but it still makes me uncomfortable to use a report on a really stupid cancel culture campaign as a source unless the campaign has a direct effect on the subject (such as with Chris Pratt). It has nothing to do with Pinknews being an LGBT source, as Aoidh suspects, but rather the specific article being about a cancel culture smear. Thank you Musashi1600 for your input about primary sources though. Unnamed anon (talk) 21:14, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
I don't like the fact that this specific article is being used as a reference because it's mostly silly Twitter drama in an article form, but given that Technoblade himself personally and publicly acknowledged having ADHD, I think there's a benefit to including that fact in his Misplaced Pages article. I also think that benefit outweighs whatever negative effects there are from using a source that mostly discusses an attempt to "cancel" him (which clearly was not and is not successful, as evidenced by the amount of attention he's received since his passing was announced.)
Under the current circumstances, it looks like there's no other reliable and non-self-published source that references Technoblade's ADHD diagnosis (and no, the Sydney Morning Herald column is not a reliable source because it is expressly identified as an opinion piece), so I think the best option is to keep the article as-is. Mahalo, Musashi1600 (talk) 10:33, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
Comment. Whichever source we use, I think it at least deserves a mention, as Technoblade himself said he had ADHD, and coming from somebody who was conservative with what they revealed about themselves it's significant. I'd also like to echo Musashi1600's point above, that when I saw UNDUE being raised I was going to point out that UNDUE applies to coverage of a topic on a Misplaced Pages article, not about sources or what they say. Ss11207:24, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 7 July 2022
I want to edit Technoblade's Misplaced Pages page to be written on his death not June 2022, but June 30, 2022 because he died on June 30th Erekle Makhara (talk) 12:21, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
Not done: some sources report that that's only when his death was revealed, not the actual day he died. To be safe, we're not considering June 30 the official death date. Unnamed anon (talk) 12:26, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
Outdated info regarding splash text
According to Polygon, fans have petitioned for a splash text to be added to the main menu of Minecraft in tribute to Technoblade, with the text reading "Technoblade never dies!"
While I have seen a lot of talk about this online that this has been added, I do not believe a reliable source has yet to make an article about it as far as I can see by scrolling through google, but maybe I missed something. Johnson524 (talk) 02:31, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
Possible new information
At 15:30 on Technoblade's Potato War 3 video, he says, "Look, I'm an atheist, but when God sends me to hell, I want him to hesitate." Either he actually was atheist or was using that statement as a punch line, but if he actually was would that be included in the article? 172.112.210.32 (talk) 15:07, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
Per WP:DUE and WP:ABOUTSELF, including anything about his personal life beyond his name, where he lived, and his cancer diagnosis/battle would be unnecessary. But if the next generation of Misplaced Pages editors thinks otherwise, they'll get on it. Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page)14:26, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
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Q0: "Technoblade never dies!" (Please add one of Technoblade's quotes to the article!)
A0: Thank you for the reminder. Here's one in return: Misplaced Pages is not a memorial. Also note the following from WP:AIM:
This nomination looks good, the hooks are cited and interesting. Re: the debate on whether to mention his recent death, I don't think there's any policy for or against it, so I'll leave the choice in hook phrasing up to the promoter. Article is recent, well sourced and long enough. The article was technically on the front page in the Recent deaths section, but it wasn't a bolded link. It looks like the copyvio on Earwig is from sites which copied the Misplaced Pages page, so it's fine on that count. @X-Editor: Nice job on your first DYK nomination! BuySomeApples (talk) 23:20, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
Not done: No; as stated in the FAQ at the top of this talk page, the specific date of his death has not been disclosed by a published source. You should also read Misplaced Pagesʻs policies regarding reliable sources and verifiability. Musashi1600 (talk) 12:27, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
Done 
