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Edit by User:Aubernas on 21 February 2023 indirectly resulted in deletion of citation to only source which correctly identified location of Williams's death
I was wondering what happened to the citation I had added years ago to the only news story which identified the correct place of death for Williams. Sadly, far too many incompetent, poorly trained, and underpaid journalists did not take the time to understand the difference between an incorporated town like Tiburon and an unincorporated area like Paradise Cay (which is adjacent to Tiburon but not part of Tiburon, as correctly depicted on Google Maps if one searches for Tiburon). Only some British journalist from Sky News correctly reported that Williams died in Paradise Cay.
On 21 February 2023, User:Aubernas in this edit added a statement to the article on Robin Williams before that citation which was not actually supported by the cited source. User:Clayoquot correctly identified that sentence as failing verification against the cited sources, but did not recognize what had happened on 21 February 2023, and instead deleted the sentence and all the following sources on 8 June 2023. I am restoring the citation to the Sky News story, which should not have been deleted because it is the only source which shows that Williams died in Paradise Cay and not Tiburon. Coolcaesar (talk) 13:22, 30 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
So, I've been thinking about bringing this article up to FA status for quite a while, using other FAs on actors such as Elvis Presley, Amy Adams, Phil Hartman, Angela Lansbury and Katharine Hepburn as models. One of my goals of this project is to put this article on the main page as a WP:TFA on either July 21 (the anniversary of his birth) or August 11 (the anniversary of his death).