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Tuesday, December 30th, 2025

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Another death date declined, despite using evidence

Hello, once again. I have another death date declined issue again. For animator, Christine Smith, I added a death date since it was confirmed by an animation friend of her on Facebook that she has just passed away from cancer. And yet, they still declined it because they are "unable to verify", despite having evidence and proof. This needs to be fixed, I'm getting tired of this issue.

Link: (251229-000908-798000)

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Hello SpaceShrimp

I have checked the submission evidence and it is not a valid evidence for us to approve the death, as we mention in our Biographical data guidelines:

We do allow social media links to be an acceptable source for birth dates (i.e. Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), LinkedIn, etc.)

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You can re submit the death addition using the online Update Form and valid evidence.

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Okay, I will now include that source and resubmit. If it declines again despite evidence, then fix it for me. Thank you so much for helping me.

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Unfortunately, I got yet another death date declined notice, despite including evidence. This time for animators Dirk von Besser and Rick Morrison, which like with Christine Smith, I used the Animation Magazine article of deceased animation people as valid evidence.

Links to them: Dirk (251231-011200-290000), Rick (251231-010359-628000)

So that means even if I also submit Christine again with that article, it too will get declined (link to Christine in case, 251231-172134-446000). I'm so getting so tired of this!

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@SpaceShrimp- After further investigaitng and reviewing, these 3 submissions have now been re-submitted and approved. The changes will be live shortly.

These processing errors have been reported to the respective team.