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deaditor

noun
/ˈdɛ.dɪ.dɚ/US/ˈdɛd.ɪ.tə/UK

Etymology

Blend of dead + editor.

  1. derived from ēditor
  2. derived from ēditor
  3. compounded as deaditor — “dead + editor”

Definitions

  1. A person who edits information related to a recent death, especially on biographical…

    A person who edits information related to a recent death, especially on biographical pages on wikis such as Wikipedia.

    • For those 26 articles there were 26 different deaditors. And what was surprising: two-thirds of those edits were done by anonymous users.
    • Since two-thirds of these deaditors were anonymous, it seemed unlikely that I would ever track them down. But I tried to find some of the remaining one-third.
    • How Wikipedia's 'Deaditors' Sprang Into Action on Queen Elizabeth II's Page After Her Death [title]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for deaditor. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA