Talk:Mass stabbing

Similar article "Stabbing as a terrorist tactic"
It may be reasonable to either merge this article with "Stabbing as a terrorist tactic", or vice versa, or to copy or move parts between them. See Copying within Wikipedia for details. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 01:44, 17 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Note that page Stabbing as a terrorist tactic is a coherent article about a well-defined subject within Category:Terrorism tactics. While it includes amass stabbings, many terrorist stabbings are of only a single individual, cf. Murder of Lee Rigby, Stabbing of Stephen Timms.  I  oppose merging it to this mess of a ESSAY.
 * Removed improperly formatted merge propose template.E.M.Gregory (talk) 12:34, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

Notability
The question becomes what to do with this WP:NOTESSAY. I suggest WP:TNT. Not because I want to deny the reality of mass stabbings; they happen: Category:Mass stabbings, but because the page is a mess of high school level "research", bad logic, and POV editing, followed by sections on three mass stabbing events. I would support a straightforward, properly written article on the model of Mass shooting. But unless someone wants to give this page a thorough rewrite, I'm in favor of WP:TNT. E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:03, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * removed my NOTABILITY template after drastically reducing page to deal with WP:NOTESSAY issues. It's now a pretty-poor quality page, but, I hope,  editors will expand and improve.  Because "mass stabbings" is a notable topic.  E.M.Gregory (talk) 12:34, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

Mass editing
I BOLDly cut this sprawling violateion of WP:NOTESSAY down, mostly by removing material that was not about mass stabbings. I also removed long subheads on 3 incidents of mass stabbings, each has a page. Category:Mass stabbings has a sadly large number of pages. Feel free to add them to the page as a list.E.M.Gregory (talk) 12:26, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Mass stabbing
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Mass stabbing's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "auto1": From Netherlands:  From Al-Qaeda: Bergen, Peter L., Holy war, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden, New York: Free Press, 2001., pp. 70–71 From Finland:  From London: Number 1 Poultry (ONE 94), Museum of London Archaeology, 2013. Archaeology Data Service, The University of York. From 2017 Westminster attack:  From Kawasaki stabbings:  From Islamic terrorism: [source: testimony of Jamal al-Fadl, U.S. v. Usama bin Laden, et.al., quoted in Looming Tower, by Lawrence Wright, NY, Knopf, 2006, 174-5 From Australia: </li> <li>From 2017 London Bridge attack: UK's Rudd says London attackers probably "radical Islamist terrorists", Reuters, 4 June</li> <li>From Glasgow hotel stabbings: </li> <li>From List of designated terrorist groups: </li> <li>From Canada: </li> <li>From 2022 University of Idaho killings: </li> <li>From Gendercide: Adam Jones (2000) Gendercide and genocide, Journal of Genocide Research, 2:2, 185-211, DOI: 10.1080/713677599</li> <li>From 2020 Nice stabbing: </li> <li>From Imam Reza shrine stabbings: </li> <li>From Crime of passion: Amor Fati: On ‘Crimes of Passion’ in Portuguese Law </li> <li>From Democracy: Nazifa Alizada, Rowan Cole, Lisa Gastaldi, Sandra Grahn, Sebastian Hellmeier, Palina Kolvani, Jean Lachapelle, Anna Lührmann, Seraphine F.   Maerz, Shreeya Pillai, and Staffan I. Lindberg. 2021. Autocratization Turns Viral. Democracy Report 2021. University of Gothenburg: V-Dem Institute. https://www.v-dem.net/media/filer_public/74/8c/748c68ad-f224-4cd7-87f9-8794add5c60f/dr_2021_updated.pdf </li> <li>From 2021 Kilmarnock incidents: </li> <li>From China: </li> <li>From Brazil: </li> <li>From Xinjiang: </li> </ul>

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 18:51, 16 January 2023 (UTC)