Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Curious and Unusual Deaths

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The result was keep‎. Star Mississippi 18:43, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Curious and Unusual Deaths

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Completely unsourced article about a television show. As always, television shows are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because they existed, and have to show evidence of passing WP:GNG on third-party media coverage about them, but this cites absolutely no such coverage whatsoever. Bearcat (talk) 01:19, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.
    1. Gorman, Brian (2010-03-10). "People who met their ends with a twist". Toronto Star. Zap2it. Archived from the original on 2025-02-16. Retrieved 2025-02-16 – via Newspapers.com.

      The article notes: "Curious and Unusual Deaths—which moves to Discovery Channel for its second season Friday, March 16, after a run on sister channel Discovery World—dramatizes offbeat ways people have met their demises over the years. The stories involve everything from a fisherman buried in sand to a gust of wind carrying a kite flyer into the air and a mechanical breakdown causing a man to be smothered in his sleep. Every episode tells three stories of people who came to bad ends in unlikely ways. And after watching it for a while, you might get the creeping sensation that danger lurks everywhere. ... The idea for the show came from a strange little series of books that Miazga's producing partner discovered in the Monkey's Paw bookstore on Dundas St."

    2. Genzlinger, Neil (2012-02-17). "Television Review: 'Curious & Unusual Deaths'. Spoiler Alert: You're Going to Die at the End". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2025-02-16. Retrieved 2025-02-16.

      The article notes: "That was before I watched “Curious & Unusual Deaths,” a series that has its premiere Friday on Discovery Fit & Health. ... The salesman was struck down in midpitch on a cloudless Florida day. By the end of the segment we know that the phrase “bolt from the blue” isn’t just an expression, and that a Bible is apparently no protection against random death. The premiere also explores the departures of a scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project and a not-very-bright lawyer who worked on the 24th floor of a glass tower in Toronto. As if that weren’t enough for the easily unsettled, the show sprinkles each episode with factoids related to the deaths examined, just rolling them out there without explanation."

    3. Moye, David (2012-02-16). "Death By Lava Lamp? New TV Show, 'Curious And Unusual Deaths,' Explains How It's Possible (Video)". HuffPost. Archived from the original on 2023-03-23. Retrieved 2025-02-16.

      The article notes: "A new series, "Curious And Unusual Deaths," which debuts February 17 on Discovery Fit & Health, attempts to explain the science behind these bizarre deaths with the help of experts and reenactments. The first episode deals with the strange death of Aidan Bray, a resident of Kent, Wash., who died in 2004 at the age of 24 because of an exploding lava lamp that left him covered in blue waxy goo with glass shards embedded in his heart. ... As for the reenactment of the lava lamp death, cleaning up the mess of the blue goo was not something anyone on the set was dying to do. ... Although the deaths featured on the series are strange, unusual and weird, Lamport hopes that audience members don't watch the show from a condescending "what an idiot" vantage point."

    4. Stone, Suzanne R. (2011-10-23). "Ecologist to appear on episode of 'Curious and Unusual Deaths' on Discovery Channel". Aiken Standard.EBSCOhost 2W61808938355.

      The article noets: "The Savannah River Ecology Lab has shared its expertise with the Discovery Channel for an upcoming episode of its show "Curious and Unusual Deaths."SREL's outreach program head and University of Georgia professor emeritus Whit Gibbons traveled to Toronto for two days in late September to tape an interview for the program. The episode will focus on a decades-old incident in West Virginia, in which eight campers died after drinking from a keg of beer which proved to have a copperhead snake inside. ... "Curious and Unusual Deaths," a part of Discovery's lineup since 2009, airs on Discovery Channel Canada."

    5. Pavey, Rob (2011-10-23). "Youngsters Get Head-Start on Whitetails". The Augusta Chronicle. Archived from the original on 2025-02-16. Retrieved 2025-02-16.

      The article notes: "A local scientist who is also one of the nation's top authorities on snakes will be on the Discovery Channel show called Curious and Unusual Deaths. Whit Gibbons, ecologist emeritus and head of Savannah River Ecology Lab's outreach program, was invited to provide commentary about copperheads and snake venom for the show, which delved into a decades-old mystery involving the death of eight West Virginia men. The show explores the bizarre and unusual, and brings in experts in various professions to comment on odd or even unexplained deaths that have occurred. This episode will air in spring 2012."

    6. Dugdale, John; Stewart, Helen; Dempster, Sarah (2010-08-01). "Choice". The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 2025-02-16. Retrieved 2025-02-16.

      The review notes: "Come die with me Curious And Unusual Deaths (Bio, 8pm) Using elaborate reconstructions to explore bizarre demises - Bible salesmen struck by bolts of dry lightning, scientists frazzled by miniature nuclear explosions, a businessman caught out by a fragile pane of glass - this new series's opening episode focuses on three deaths that occurred in the workplace. What follows is a surprisingly subdued affair, with sober scientific explanations."

    7. Masterson, Lawrie (2010-05-30). "Best of Foxtel - What not to miss". Herald Sun. Archived from the original on 2025-02-16. Retrieved 2025-02-16.

      The review gives two stars and notes: "Macabre but fascinating, this series looks at deaths with that "what the . . .?" factor. These are some of the strangest passings recorded -- from a Bible salesman struck by lightning under a cloudless sky to the pet lover who fell into a cat bowl to a French tailor who tested an experimental glider off the Eiffel Tower."

    There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Curious and Unusual Deaths to pass Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject".

    Cunard (talk) 06:53, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Comments on the source eval by Cunard?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Benison (Beni · talk) 05:02, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 10:48, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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