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A news item involving Dennis Ritchie was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 16 October 2011.

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Wiki attm states Denis died on October 12, WIRED writes it happened on 8th: https://www.wired.com/2011/10/dennis-ritchie/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.148.197.25 (talk) 09:40, 13 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

The article correctly states that he was found dead (not "died") on October 12. Apparently he had been dead for a few days, but the exact time of death was indeterminable. (I encountered a similar situation for my brother's death.) No doubt, the Coroner picked some specific date for the official "time of death", but during previous discussion here several editors were unhappy with substituting an arbitrary date, thus the factual wording that was used in the article. — DAGwyn (talk) 22:20, 21 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Death of Dennis Ritchie. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Greyjoy^talk 09:28, 25 November 2019 (UTC)Reply

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@Hoary and Gdebw: I made the change we talked about at Wikipedia:Help desk/Archive 73#Unix Operating System Attribution, please see and fix if I did something wrong:

→ Special:Diff/1317104519.

--CiaPan (talk) 10:16, 16 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, CiaPan. It looks fine to me. -- Hoary (talk) 10:28, 16 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Hoary: Thank you. --CiaPan (talk) 10:39, 16 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

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