User talk:Plainlyput

Bain family murders
I've been involved with the article for the past couple of years and sympathise with your attempts to clarify that murder-suicide was one of the original scenarios suspected by police and neighbours. I believe another editor was mistaken in reverting you on the grounds that your edit was speculation. It wasn't. It simply recorded what people, including the police officer in charge of the inquiry, were saying at the time. Unfortunately, I couldn't support your edit because of another reason: YouTube videos are not a reliable source. The one you tried to use is obviously from a mainstream media source but anyone can edit and post a video on YouTube, meaning that it may not consist of the original media outlet content. Hope you can see that your edit had to be rejected, just not on the grounds stated by the reverter. Akld guy (talk) 06:08, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

@Akld guy. Here is another source in the Otago Daily Times. It says that on 21 June 1994: "Police are working on the theory that the five members of the Bain family found shot dead in their Andersons Bay home yesterday were the victims of a murder-suicide." Since you agree that it was not speculation can I ask you to add it back in. I have been banned for some reason. Plainlyput (talk) 08:58, 10 July 2017 (UTC)


 * I think it adds nothing useful. The allegation of murder-suicide is already covered in the body of the text. There's no need to keep on pushing it. Less is more. Akld guy (talk) 09:34, 12 July 2017 (UTC)