But I wonder who are the weirdos who rush to Wikipedia to update peoples profiles to say they are dead.
I think they take pride in being the first to do it. As you say, weirdos.
I'm going to admit something slightly shameful. After I saw the headline 'Plane crashes in Colombia carrying Brazilian football team', it was something of an anticlimax to realise it was just A Brazilian football team rather than THE Brazilian football team and I sort of lost interest.