Talk:Arson damage during the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–Saint Paul

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Number of days of the riots

May 27-30 is four days, not three. 27, 28, 29, 30. Four. Someone fix Wikipedia's idiotic A.I. 47.12.161.150 (talk) 00:48, 23 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikipedia template rendered the number of days. I made an edit to remove the template. Fires occurred May 27, 28, 29, and 30. The last day, the 30th, fires burned into the overnight hours from May 29 into May 30. According to sources, no fires were set the night of May 30. Minnemeeples (talk) 00:53, 25 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

{{subst:requested move|2020 Minneapolis–Saint Paul riots|

The reason why I want to move this page is because this current article isn't even a list. There's already a list of arson damage in the George Floyd protests article and a few others. I feel like we need an article about this specific incident as it's rarely talked about in a few pages. SpringField23402 (talk) 02:42, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 22 May 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Withdrawn. Proposer withdrew their request by deleting the discussion. I'm bringing it back here. (non-admin closure) The Savage Norwegian 14:58, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Arson damage during the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–Saint Paul → 2020 Minneapolis–Saint Paul riots – The reason why I want to move this page is because this article about arson damage is already shown in other pages related to this, like the George Floyd protests and United States racial unrest. But there isn't a page talking about the three days of rioting in Minneapolis that happened in late May 2020, and I think there should be one. SpringField23402 (talk) 04:38, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This article's shortcomings notwithstanding, the first line of George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–Saint Paul reads: "Local protests over the murder of George Floyd, sometimes called the Minneapolis riots or Minneapolis uprising, began on May 26, 2020"

Point being, if any article is going to be called 2020 twin cities riots, it's the main page, not this list of damaged buildings. Unless you would like to, item-by-item, determine which events during that period were protests and which were riots. This is a contentious topic, and I think we're starting on the wrong foot having two competing articles, one for protests and one for riots. That seems like editorializing to me? The current page title is descriptive, and limited in scope. Is it perfect? No, but this I don't think this change would improve matters. Perhaps make a draft article that's along the lines you're looking for and submit it for review? The Savage Norwegian 15:14, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A riot is not a protest. In fact, the plan for this article is to explain what happened during that period of the unrest, but what concerns me is that this current article doesn't make much sense about the arson damage. It's already talked about in the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–Saint Paul article and a few others. That's why I want to move this page. It could be about the term some media pages use. SpringField23402 (talk) 21:55, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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