Talk:West Fertilizer Company explosion

Other events at same time
What I recall about the incident is that it was one of a series of major news stories in less than a week. Each one was an exercise in "can you top this?" I am not sure how these would be linked together in the article. Perhaps gathering them together on this Talk page would be good enough for a start. As I type this, I am not remembering the details, only that there was such a sequence. Typofixer76 (talk) 03:27, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Boston Marathon bombings (April 15, 2013)
 * This would seem to be original research. Unless there is an external source which has made any sort of notable connection between these events, we don't really have cause to discuss them in this manner. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 08:27, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Agree with NorthBySouthBaranof. --Wuerzele (talk) 05:39, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

The article's title
I recently reinstated the WP:COMMONNAME title which this article uses. It would not be an uncontested move; requiring therefore: discussion. Calling it West Fertilizer Company disaster is not at all common, in fact uncommon, and at odds with references that state it has been " denied disaster relief ". I'd insist to see a consensus on such a page move at this time. Cheers.—John Cline (talk) 08:50, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

Addendum: I also found a source that could support the other title; though I am still in favor of the current name.—John Cline (talk) 09:22, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

Nothing has happened
Why is it necessary to report that nothing occurred? Should the article on the sky have a sentence informing us that the sky is not green? Brycehughes (talk) 16:15, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
 * No objections to removing the sentence? Brycehughes (talk) 00:35, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Because it's not telling us the sky is not green. It's like saying the plane crashed and nobody died. It happens sometimes, but sometimes it doesn't happen, and it's important to clarify which case it was. If this sentence wasn't there, readers might just think the article hadn't been updated with followups, as often happens.--Prosfilaes (talk) 07:44, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Why would they think that? The subsequent sentence says something happened. So right now it reads, nothing happened, and then something happened. We can assume the former from the latter. Brycehughes (talk) 12:39, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

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Kiloton Yield
The kiloton yield in the article right now appears to be wrong and isn't backed by any of the sources. I'm going to do some back-of-the-envelope and 'fix' it. If anyone feels the need to undo my 'fix' as original research, please at least remove the existing kiloton figure as it is not cited anywhere. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.106.94.95 (talk) 01:01, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

The ATF is offering a $50,00 reward
See the last paragraph of https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/new-details-emerge-about-the-federal-fallout-of-the-2013-explosion-in-city-of-west-texas/. The article has more on policy changes, or lack there of, as well. Richard-of-Earth (talk) 02:33, 21 February 2021 (UTC)