A NIP-54 editor added "living people" as a category to the nostr wiki while I was first trying to verify the screenshots about Digit killing herself, which was about to lead me to make an article for Digit. Very odd serendipity, like when laeserin posted about ngit right when I was about to make articles about git for the first time.

I really disagree with it though. They should not be separate categories. Would you want a third category for "people who may have faked their deaths" or another for "people rumored to exist" since we're not always sure who is and isn't living?

More importantly, would you want to change the category for an article about your loved one after they die?

I have defaulted back to the "people" category because I can't imagine how painful it would be to approve a merge request where the only change is taking her out of "living people" based on knowing she died. I don't want to have her in a third category for "people rumored to have faked their deaths" either. There are ways in which living and non-living people should be handled differently, and contexts in which they should be distinguished as categories, but not here.

This new editor that created this new entry was also spamming non-article entries with Wikipedia links. I'm uneasy about this person but I do like how they use the phrase "legacy Wikipedia."