Per the 7th AFD, "all further nominations should be closed as violations of WP:DELAFD unless there is new or changed policy backing the AFD". And per the DRV "[The preceding sentence] should be read as an admonition against superfluous nominations. It is not a moratorium."
IAR cannot be used by a minority party to simply assert that a rule that they don't like doesn't apply in a given situation. By definition, an appropriate IAR action will have the approval of an overwhelming number of editors. Such is not the case here.
Thus, absent a clear majority in favor of an IAR position, and given the clear policy arguments in support of a normal WP:V approach, the clear policy based consensus is to keep this list only to those deaths for whom there are reliable sources (as noted by one person, these need to be high quality sources, not tabloid journals who regularly fling around these words for fun) that the death is in someway exceptional. All other entries (those for whom someone might say "Come on, this is obviously strange") should be removed.
List of unusual deaths is a former featured list candidate. Please view the link under Article milestones below to see why the nomination was archived. Once the objections have been addressed you may resubmit the article for featured list status.
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Megan Gibson (2011-01-14). "Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary: 10 Unforgettable Entries". TIME. Archived from the original on 2011-01-19. Retrieved 2010-01-15. This page, which doesn't claim to be complete, lists examples of unique or rare circumstances in which people have died. Gruesome? Yes. Distasteful? Perhaps. Fascinating? Definitely.
Caitlin Dewey (2015-11-05). "The most fascinating Wikipedia articles you haven't read". Washington Post. Retrieved 2015-11-06. When the Wikimedia Foundation recently polled its staffers about their favorite pages, these lists of urban legends, weird deaths and under-touted revolutions were among the winners. No explanation necessary, tbh: They're all self-evidently fascinating.
