Talk:List of unusual deaths in the 21st century

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Inclusion of Johnnie Turner

Are there any more unusual circumstances around the death of Johnnie Turner that are not described on this page or found in the linked articles. Because as it is described now it does not seem that unusual; an elderly man dying from injuries sustained in a not that uncommon or exceptional accident. Kardoen (talk) 15:37, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The long-standing consensus criterion for inclusion in the parent article List of unusual deaths (now split into a series of lists) is that there are at least two reliable sources that refer to the death with any of several so-called "magic words", including "freak accident" as well as "unusual", "strange", "odd", "peculiar", "bizarre" or "ironic". (A source may also lack any of these words but feature a phrase which is clearly equivalent to them, as with Artnet's statement that the story of the man who died inside a dinosaur statue in Spain came "From the department of you-can't-make-this-stuff-up".) In many cases, editors have been unable to locate sources that use these or equivalent words to describe deaths that seem obviously unusual. Similarly, deaths that do not seem unusual to us may nonetheless have sourcing that qualifies them for inclusion. We may quibble with IBT and Parade calling the event that led to Turner's death "a freak accident", but the sourcing shows that they did so. Gildir (talk) 15:50, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]