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 Wikipedia: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":

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• 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: "Twice a minority: foreign immigration to Swedish-speaking communities in Finland". helsinkitimes.fi. 12 December 2020.
• From London: Number 1 Poultry (ONE 94), Museum of London Archaeology, 2013. Archaeology Data Service, The University of York.
• From 2017 Westminster attack: "Attentat à Londres : des lycéens Français blessés, un assaillant neutralisé au Parlement". Capital (in French). Archived from the original on 22 March 2017. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
• From Kawasaki stabbings: "Thirteen schoolgirls among those wounded in Japan stabbing: Kyodo". Reuters. 28 May 2019. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
• 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: "Main Features – Australia's Population by Country of Birth". 3412.0 – Migration, Australia, 2019–20. Commonwealth of Australia. Australian Bureau of Statistics. 23 April 2021.
• From 2017 London Bridge attack: UK's Rudd says London attackers probably "radical Islamist terrorists", Reuters, 4 June
• From Glasgow hotel stabbings: "Suspect dead, six injured in stabbing". PerthNow. 26 June 2020.
• From List of designated terrorist groups: "Qualification of Hamas as a Terrorist Organization by the OAS General Secretariat". oas.org. 19 May 2021. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
• From Canada: "Wild Species 2000: The General Status of Species in Canada". Conservation Council. 2001.
• From 2022 University of Idaho killings: Emily Shapiro (November 18, 2022). "Idaho college murders: 2 surviving roommates not believed to be involved, police say". ABC News.
• From Gendercide: Adam Jones (2000) Gendercide and genocide, Journal of Genocide Research, 2:2, 185-211, DOI: 10.1080/713677599
• From 2020 Nice stabbing: Hinnant, Lori; Cole, Daniel (29 October 2020). "Tunisian carrying Quran fatally stabs 3 in French church". Associated Press. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
• From Imam Reza shrine stabbings: "Three Iranian clerics stabbed, one killed in attack at shrine - Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East". www.al-monitor.com.
• From Crime of passion: Amor Fati: On ‘Crimes of Passion’ in Portuguese Law
• 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 Archived 14 September 2021 at the Wayback Machine
• From 2021 Kilmarnock incidents: "Two feared dead after three 'related' serious incidents in Kilmarnock including hospital lockdown and crash". The Scotsman. 4 February 2021.
• From China: "Major educational achievements in China in 2020 – Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China". en.moe.gov.cn. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
• From Brazil: Jonathan Watts & Donna Bowater. "Dilma Rousseff impeached by Brazilian senate". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
• From Xinjiang: "Former inmates of China's Muslim 'reeducation' camps tell of brainwashing, torture". The Washington Post. 16 May 2018. Archived from the original on 21 September 2018. Retrieved 4 August 2018.

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)

Isla Vista as an example?

The 2014 Isla Vista attacks do not qualify as a mass stabbing incident. I see numerous sources connecting Isla Vista to this page which makes me hesitant to remove it but we should all come to the general census that a mass stabbing has to involve at least four stabbing victims, while Isla Vista had only three and a majority of the victims of that attack were either shot (10 GSW victims) or ran over with a vehicle (7 vehicle-ramming victims).

Also, as a side note, there's far too many examples of mass stabbings on this page. I think we only need 3, but 5 is also a good number too. It just seems very unprofessional to include so many examples, especially one that doesn't even meet most definitions of what a mass stabbing is. MountainJew6150 (talk) 14:07, 12 October 2024 (UTC)