Hello, Joe2589! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! Aboutmovies (talk) 06:35, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure that it's really necessary to bluntly state in the article that it is unknown if a person is living or dead, particularly when they are already in Category:Possibly living people - this is not common practice in other articles and, unless the person has gone missing or disappeared, it's just a reflection of our lack of resources: someone, somewhere, knows if Josephine Joseph is alive or dead, it's just not general knowledge. If you think it's really necessary to include that there is no information as to their living status, you should include it as a reflection of a known, objective fact. For example, "Joseph's last known public appearance was in 19XX". That would, of course, require a source, but is probably the best way to do it. CanadianPaul14:10, 23 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
