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		pvg 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: First American pope elected and will be known as P... Why are topics like this not considered Off-Topic by the guidelines? A recent tomhow (and why) explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43750046

hirvi74 7 months ago [–]

Thank you for sharing that link.

I figured only the deaths of people relevant to topics discussed on this forum, but I suppose it is extended to any death of great importance.

pvg 7 months ago | [–]

It’s roughly “sufficiently big or interesting real world events” for some value of sufficiently big or interesting.

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