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Why isn't his death listed on Wikipedia front page's "Recent Deaths"?[edit]

Why isn't his death listed on Wikipedia front page's "Recent Deaths"? Shouldn't it be added to that list? Summerhaven1 (talk) 16:40, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(I tried to do it myself - I've modified many a Wikipedia article over the years - but don't know how to get his name/link posted in that section of the front page. Does someone else know how to do that?) Summerhaven1 (talk) 16:41, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Summerhaven1 It looks like the hangup is the seven {{citation needed}} tags. See WP:In the news/Candidates#RD: Gordon Lightfoot. —C.Fred (talk) 16:51, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Canada's greatest songwriter?[edit]

Well apparently there is one journalist that thinks “that millions came to regard [Lightfoot] as the nation’s greatest songwriter”, but just about everyone else would put Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell and Neil Young before him. Andreas Karrer (talk) 23:15, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]