Talk:1982 Wilkes-Barre shootings

Mental health and race
Because Banks was documented as fearing a race war and worried about his mixed-race children, and his attorneys referred to problems arising from his racial background, as well as identifying at trial the ethnicity of his wife, girlfriends. and children at trial (because of his issues), these factors are discussed in this article as relevant to the delusional thinking related to his murders.Parkwells (talk) 13:56, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Add Colt AR-15
Addition in bold:

"On the night of September 24, 1982, Banks drank quantities of straight gin and took prescription drugs at his home on Schoolhouse Lane in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The next morning on September 25, 1982, he used an Colt AR-15  semi-automatic rifle to kill eight people in his house, including three women in their 20s (all girlfriends and mothers of his children) and five children, four of them his. Two of the women were sisters."

At the Colt AR-15 article, we are informed that this level of detail belongs in the article on the crime. 50.247.171.227 (talk) 17:53, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ 50.247.171.227 (talk) 21:11, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Not Notable?
The template box that says "the topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia general notability guidelines" is on this page. To be honest i'm not sure why that's the case, the shooting had 13 deaths, that makes it one of the worst shooting sprees in US history based on deaths. I know Wikipedia doesn't necessarily determine notability through content but with a death toll that high this page should stay as either George Banks or 1982 Wilkes Barre shootings or something. Sure, this shooting is probably not as big as other 1980's and early 90's mass shootings, like McDonald's, the Post Office and Luby's and all the old news footage of this event is probably lost forever, but because of the number of deaths and that it happened when mass shootings were starting to become more common, this article deserves to stay. For the details with no citations, i'm sure someone got them from somewhere but didn't source them, I have seen books and some articles about this guy before, so he's not completely out of the picture. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:600:8880:19B6:D9EF:4574:8575:E8A4 (talk) 08:33, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
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Toll ahead.
Toll Bridge. BadMombo1660 (talk) 22:13, 16 July 2024 (UTC)