Talk:Killing of Lizzie O'Neill

Requested move 4 September 2020

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The result of the move request was: ❌ Naleksuh (talk) 06:01, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

– The opening sentence of the article refers to the incident as "The shooting of Lizzie O'Neill". The usual convention for articles on Wikipedia that are about deaths by shooting is "Shooting of" (unless they are clearly murder and are called "Murder of"). This is consistent across hundreds of articles – see the consistent naming pattern of the large number of articles in Category:People shot dead by law enforcement officers in the United States, Category:People shot dead by law enforcement officers in Canada, Category:People shot dead by law enforcement officers in Australia, Category:People shot dead by law enforcement officers in Thailand, Category:People shot dead by law enforcement officers in Germany, Category:Deaths by firearm in Iran, and similar categories for other countries. This has been supported by recent consensus in a long series of RM discussions, including the recent multi-article RMs at Talk:Shooting of Roni Levi, Talk:Shooting of Sammy Yatim, Talk:Shooting of Breonna Taylor, and Talk:Shooting of Atatiana Jefferson, and also single-page RM discussions at Talk:Shooting of Neda Agha-Soltan, Talk:Shooting of Chaiyaphum Pasae, Talk:Shooting of Benno Ohnesorg, and Talk:Shooting of Yoshihiro Hattori. Using "Killing of" has undesirable connotations, whereas "Shooting of" is simple and objective and provides more information (i.e. that a firearm was involved). "Shooting of" typically indicates a fatality, as evident from the very small number of articles in Category:Non-fatal shootings. These few articles seem to be exceptions from the general WP:CONSISTENT convention that have not been discussed in WP:RM discussions. I would just submit these as WP:RMTR "technical" requests, but the matter seems somewhat controversial, so I am opening a discussion. —BarrelProof (talk) 17:50, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Killing of Lizzie O'Neill → Shooting of Lizzie O'Neill
 * Killing of Heidi Hazell → Shooting of Heidi Hazell
 * Killing of Stephen Carroll → Shooting of Stephen Carroll
 * Killing of Ronil Singh → Shooting of Ronil Singh
 * Killing of Latasha Harlins → Shooting of Latasha Harlins
 * Killing of Henryk Siwiak → Shooting of Henryk Siwiak
 * Killing of Rayshard Brooks → Shooting of Rayshard Brooks
 * Killing of Andres Guardado → Shooting of Andres Guardado
 * Killing of Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal → Shooting of Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal


 * Oppose. It's a convention, yes, but that doesn't mean it's a sound one. "Shooting of" in our own usage, does not always imply death ... see most recently and notably Shooting of Jacob Blake. But we can't retitle it Jacob Blake because of WP:BLP1E. And I reiterate and incorporate by reference in full my argument in a similar discussion a few months ago that, if we must title articles this way, "shooting death of" is far, far better than "shooting of" for the very real reason demonstrated by the Jacob Blake article linked above. Daniel Case (talk) 18:36, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose – For one, because we should give these people at least the same amount of respect for life we give to an ape (See killing of Harambe). The OP fails to note the killing of Ahmaud Arbery who was shot and killed (See Talk:Killing of Ahmaud Arbery/Archive 8). They also fail to note the many articles we have that begin with "Killing of ...". What method was used to kill them is immaterial. The most critical element of the case, the most notable aspect, is that they were killed by another. This consistency spoken of was built piece-meal with no general consensus from the community. --- C &amp; C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 18:40, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose for three reasons:
 * Article titles should follow WP:COMMONNAME, not a one-size-fits-all rule for consistency's sake. I'm not seeing any evidence in the proposal about what the common name is for any of these topics.
 * is a claim I'd challenge. See the recent discussion at Wikipedia talk:Requested moves, which involved many editors, and IMO showed at least possible consensus for "killing of" for fatal shootings and "shooting of" for non-fatal shootings, and for C&C's flowchart. This consensus should be tested in a wider RFC, and that should be done before we move any articles from "killing of" to "shooting of" or vice-versa.
 * The examples given are not persuasive. Talk:Shooting of Roni Levi had 3 participants, Talk:Shooting of Benno Ohnesorg had 3, Talk:Shooting of Chaiyaphum Pasae had 4, Talk:Shooting of Sammy Yatim also had 4 and I was one of them, and my !vote was for either "killing of" or "shooting of", leaving only two editors actually in favor of "shooting of" over "killing of". Talk:Shooting of Breonna Taylor had 7 participants. But all of these RMs were moved from "Death of" to "shooting of". Also, all of them were started by BarrelProof, which means one of the votes throughout is the same editor. Talk:Shooting of Neda Agha-Soltan had 9 editors, but it was a move from "Death" to "Shooting" where the closer also found for "Killing" as well. Talk:Shooting of Atatiana Jefferson was actually a RM from "killing" to "shooting" with 10 editors participating, so that's one solid example. Talk:Shooting of Yoshihiro Hattori is from "Death of" to "Shooting of", and it's from 2018; not an example of current practice. Altogether, these examples do not establish any consensus or "usual convention". Lev!vich 18:42, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Regarding the supposed consensus at Wikipedia talk:Requested moves, that was not a discussion of whether to support or oppose the proposal – only how to frame the potential question. When it looked like someone might be expressing opposition to the proposal, there was a response saying "Please let us avoid arguing this here." So the discussion of the merits was never held. Later, there was no objection to expressions of support, but expression of opposition did not seem welcome. —BarrelProof (talk) 01:33, 6 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Comment: See related discussion at Talk:Shooting of Greg Gunn. --- C &amp; C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 18:55, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose The most important point is that the person was killed, not that they were shot. The convention is incorrect, IMO. Consensus can change. —valereee (talk) 19:14, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose per WP:CONSISTENCY with Killing of George Floyd and numerous other articles of that nature. Using a different title scheme with different connotations, just because the killing occurred as a result of a shooting rather than any other methodology is silly. It's the other "Shooting of..." articles that should be moved. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 21:34, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Just to clarify the situation here, I would like to point out that George Floyd was not shot. —BarrelProof (talk) 21:41, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes that's true, but that's my point. We shouldn't be naming otherwise similar articles in a completely different way based on differences in the detail of how they occurred. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 09:13, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose as more accurate, reflectine the most important aspect of the incidents. People were not simply shot, they were shot to death, i.e., killed. Staszek Lem (talk) 18:08, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Support per detailed nomination and per WP:CONSISTENCY. Since there are hundreds of English Wikipedia main title headers using the form "Shooting of...", it is counterintuitive for these nine headers to use the form "Killing of..." because, according to the currently established and as yet unchanged pattern, "Killing of..." is expected to appear in headers delineating killing by method other than shooting. Since, as pointed out in the nomination, there is a small number of "Shooting of..." headers under Category:Non-fatal shootings, I would likewise support moving this header to Fatal shooting of Lizzie O'Neill, along with Fatal shooting of Heidi Hazell, Fatal shooting of Stephen Carroll, Fatal shooting of Ronil Singh, etc and all other fatal shooting headers to the form "Fatal shooting of..." or, for that matter, to "Killing of..." if there is consensus for such an all-encompassing move. But until then there should be consistency. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 02:48, 6 September 2020 (UTC)


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