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By this point it seems clear that the unsourced and uncited expansions we have been seeing recently are in fact examples of vandalism. The persistent IP-hopping editor who has been making these claims (claims allegedly based on Wikipedia, Twitter, and uncited local newspapers), has suggested at least 4 different dates of death for Ted Kay:
I think the safest is to simply remove any additions of dates unless the material can be sourced. Hopefully this editor will either furnish sources that can be cited inline or will cease the vandalism. -Thibbs (talk) 15:26, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
