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Obituaries

Hasteur and Brian McNeil

Stephen Lecheler (Hasteur)

Over his 12 years on Wikipedia, Stephen Lecheler made over 30,000 contributions to the English Wikipedia and was renowned as a friendly and intelligent face to many in the English Wikipedia community, running both User:DRN clerk bot and User:HasteurBot. He passed away in June 2020 of COVID-19 related illnesses.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ "Member Stephen Lecheler passed away". Dallas Makerspace Talk. 2020-07-07. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
  2. ^ "About our friend Hasteur | Group Quest". Retrieved 2020-07-21.

Brian McNeil (Brian McNeil)

Brian McNeil in 2014

Brian passed suddenly on 4 July. His many friends in the Wikimedia movement loved his irascible humour (on his Facebook profile he described himself as a "curmudgeonly bastard who will swear at you for being repeatedly stupid"), his staunch advocacy of Wikinews and Scottish independence, and his taste in hats.

Brian made under a thousand Wikipedia edits between 2004 and 2018, but over 47,000 to Wikinews, where he was a bureaucrat, and also to both Commons (3,825 edits) and Meta (>300).[1]