Deaditor

//ˈdɛ.dɪ.dɚ// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person who edits information related to a recent death, especially on biographical pages on wikis such as Wikipedia. Internet

    "For those 26 articles there were 26 different deaditors. And what was surprising: two-thirds of those edits were done by anonymous users."

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"For those 26 articles there were 26 different deaditors. And what was surprising: two-thirds of those edits were done by anonymous users."

Etymology

Blend of dead + editor.

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