Talk:John Dye

message: Sti`ll waiting on a verifiable source regarding his death before updating this article. --DizFreak talk Contributions 00:19, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: http://www.wtva.com/news/local/story/Mississippi-born-actor-dies/VDR8x5zo8kKI2M3Etl-jfg.cspx?rss=2377  Is that acceptable?  It mentions the coroner's office being notified of his death.  Eseress (talk) 02:46, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

text: Okay guy.  I never said my source SHOULD be reliable enough.  I merely asked if it was.  But thanks.  Eseress (talk) 04:19, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Death unverified

message: Change the lede sentence to "John Carroll Dye (born January 31, 1963) ..." in accordance with MOS:BIO. decltype (talk) 07:08, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:44, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

text: I could find no official cause of death after 20 minutes of searching. Anyone else have the official coroner's finding?Wzrd1 (talk) 05:05, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

text: That information can be obtained with an autopsy record request here: "Copies of records from January 1, 1957 through the present time may be obtained from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Hall of Justice, 850 Bryant Street - North Terrace, San Francisco, California 94103, telephone number (415) 553-1694. When requesting records from the San Francisco Public Library or the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, please provide the full name of the deceased person and if known the date of death and the Medical Examiner's Case Number. Please contact the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to find out the charge for copy work when requesting records. It can take up to a week to recover the records from storage." Emeraldwynn (talk) 17:09, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit request

message: Would the editors please consider allowing the addition of http://www.payitforwardinmemoryofjohndye.net/  to external links?  If they would look, they would see that Mr. Dye's family is involved with the site which features information about his life and impact.  Thank you.  Seraph724 (talk) 12:08, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: External Link

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message: Does anyone know where the source about John Dye playing the trombone in his school's band program came from?
MikaelaArsenault (talk) 15:50, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  John Dye playing trombone 

message: It appears fan(s) of John Dye keep editing the Death section to remove unflattering information about him and his family.  But here are the facts: the family did initially report to multiple news organizations that he died of some kind of heart issue (their statements ranged from "heart attack" to "congestive heart failure".)  Whether premature speculation on their part or an outright lie to avoid tarnishing his legacy, his death was ultimately determined to be a "drug related" death, specifically from "acute methamphetamine intoxication".
Dye's  has been on Wikimedia Commons for years, and is readily verifiable with the California Department of Public Health—reference state file number 3052011005848.  I'm sorry if you can't deal with the thought of John Dye being a drug user, but Wikipedia is not the place to try to sanitize someone's image. 2601:3CA:204:F860:E0FC:C616:379A:72C1 (talk) 08:13, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Does WP:BLPPRIMARY apply to dead individuals? If it does not, I agree that the death certificate on Commons should be cited, and the real cause of death included, if no secondary source on the cause of death can be found (and I can't find one). The article was previously likely referring to this or this, though unsourced in the article. But family aren't medical professionals, and the medical examiner doesn't give a cause of death here – later media then just picked up what the family claimed without fact-checking it. So we either do not list a cause of death, or we list the correct one using the primary source death certificate. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 16:23, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:BDP basically says that WP:BLPPRIMARY doesn't apply to people who have been dead for more than 2 years. I can see no reason to not use a death certificate as a source of info in this case. Geraldo Perez (talk) 18:11, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I second using the death certificate and including his cause of death as drug overdose. We have citeable fact, and there's no point in not using it.98.251.192.45 (talk) 15:21, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stop removing the death information!