Talk:Copycat effect

Copyright
The most recent edits by 74.65.133.155 appear to be advertising a book and are cut-and-pasted from several online sources. For example, the paragraph around "However, in no uncertain terms, Coleman shows these self-annihilators as anything but Romantic." is from the review by the Haddon Herald" and the question "Does sensational coverage of extreme real-life violence affect the safety of American schools, workplaces, and communities? Does media exposure of crime inspire copycat offenders?" is from the press release at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/3/prweb222867.htm

Why would it be a copyright violation if the author (and expert) of the "copied" work in question submitted it himself with permission to use it copyright-free? 75.46.27.159 07:23, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Look at "Copyright owners who submitted their own work to Wikipedia" at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_problems Also, Loren Coleman is probably not the author of the review by the Haddon Herald (since then she would be reviewing her own book) Mucus 20:22, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Copycats of Saddam Hussein's hanging
This is a note to anyone who is thinking about placing the recent copycats of Saddam Hussein's hanging in this article. The answer: yes, please do it, and in detail. The argument against this would be that it would be bigger than the article "Copycat effect" itself. The problem doesn't lie with placing the hanging copycats in this article, it lies with this article being undeveloped. If it's true and relevant, stuff it in the article, and over time the article will develop and become more balanced. For the time being, various reports of copycats will overshadow analysis of the copycat effect itself. 04:01, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I went ahead and started a line on it. 04:08, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Would be nice to have some concrete psychological input on this
This article should be expanded to include more stuff.

I'll agree with that. I've been watching this article for a while and very little has changed, despite it being an interesting topic. I wish more professionals would drop in on Wikipedia and contribute their knowledge. ~ Rollo44 19:44, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Further evidence?
I just finished watching the news (7:30 PM, Wednesday, Australia) and saw a brief report on three separate schools where students have been arrested for threatening, assaulting, or compiling hit lists. I didn't add it in because I don't have any sources, and because it would have confused.

Merger proposal
Really, this article might be better suited as a text redirect to Copycat crime and Copycat suicide. However, as this "effect" refers to both crimes and suicides (which are not necessarily crimes) it can't just redirect to Copycat crimes. - BalthCat 05:24, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I just merged this and copycat crime, copycat suicide essentially already has the copycat effect mixed in its article. Changed this to a disambig to refer to both. Boccobrock 16:28, 17 September 2007 (UTC)