This template warns readers that the information presented in an article may not be the most up-to-date or accurate due to unconfirmed or inaccurately reported information about a recently deceased person. Readers should therefore be cautious. This is generally true for all of our articles, but in cases of extraordinary public attention the risk of misinformation is elevated.

As such, this template should be used only in cases where many editors (perhaps dozens or more) are editing the article on the same day. It should be removed as soon as this editing subsides. Do not use it merely to tag the article of a recently deceased person, as that is not the template's purpose.

This template will add the article to Category:Recent deaths.

Check this template's usage on mainspace articles

This template should not be substituted.

• The first (unnamed) parameter must be entered to sort biography articles by last name in Category:Recent deaths:

{{recent death|Last name, First name}}

• The named parameter multiple should be set to "yes" to render "subjects", "deaths", and "have", in the event of multiple deaths where pluralization is required:

{{recent death|multiple=yes}}

When using this template, check the article talk page and change "living=yes" to "living=no" in {{WPBiography}} or similar templates that refer to this person and remove any {{BLP}} template that refers to this person. Also check the body of the article, infoboxes and other templates, and the categories at the end of the article and make the appropriate changes.

Use this template to indicate that an article is being heavily edited because its subject has recently died.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Last and first name	1	The last and first names of the subject, separated by a comma, in order to sort the article by last name in Category:Recent deaths Example Last name, First name	Line	optional
Multiple deaths?	multiple	Enter "yes" here to pluralise the template. Example yes Auto value yes	Line	optional

• Wikipedia:Current event templates
• Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons § Recently dead or probably dead
• Template:Recent death presumed
• Template:Recent death confirmed
• Template:Current person
• Template:Current
• Template:Current related
• Template:Obituary