User talk:MichaelScottLP

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Hello, MichaelScottLP, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! BusterD (talk) 20:30, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
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Fort Hood shooting
The Infobox civilian attack contains a "type" parameter which, according to the instructions (Template:Infobox_civilian_attack), refers to the type of attack, as in method (mass murder), not the motivation of a attack (jihad). I performed a clickthrough of a dozen articles which use both the infobox and the type parameter, and none of them used references to the reasons for such a type of attack. The article itself refers several times to the possibility of jihad as one possible motivation for the incident, but doesn't itself (or include a preponderance of sources which) conclude the attack was jihad. Please do not reintroduce the term into the infobox without first gaining consensus on the talk page. Despite my disagreement with your action in this specific case, please accept my hearty and warm welcome to the Wikipedia community as a contributor. Feel invited to call on me if I can be of any assistance. BusterD (talk) 20:39, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Washington Navy Yard shooting
Please note that if a source describes someone as a 'suspect', we do not cite it for an assertion that they are a 'perpetrator'. AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:48, 16 September 2013 (UTC)