Talk:Shooting of James Ashley

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Dumping ground

*Officers face action over shooting (internal disciplinary proceedings against the supt and inspectors, Dec 2001)

Danger of suicide by cop (PCA report, Jan 2003)
Detective fights suspension over shooting (officer in charge of operation fights suspension, Feb 2002)
~~No action against fatal shooting officer (DCC's resignation, Dec 2001)~~
Victim's family renew inquiry plea (HO considers public inquiry, July 2001), also Shooting inquiry 'will be considered' (May 2001)

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts?

Informal PR

Just a few points that sprang to mind while going over it:

The lead doesn't give the impression that the aim of the police raid was apprehending McCrudden – it looks like it was only drugs related
surveillance in October 1997: any idea how long it was in place?
"at approximately 0430": shouldn't that be 04:30?
The suspension of the officers: as far as I'm aware, it's standard procedure to suspend firearms officers if they have been involved in a shooting: it may be worth adding a line about that.
It may be worth a line or two about how a second inquiry came about. Who made the decision and why sort of thing.
"The police admitted false imprisonment negligence in relation to the planning" needs a bit of a tweak to make sense
Move the drugs tip-off info into the prelude? It would seem to make more sense to have that all in the build up
Mention that there were six flats – it reads as if the three of them alone shared the building, rather than other tenants
You repeat the positions and first names of 'Sussex's chief constable, Paul Whitehouse, his deputy, Mark Jordan' a few times, which can be trimmed

Overall I think this covers all the main points I would hope to see, with only the details above that point to anything missing (I know nothing about the case, and so my impression is only based on what I've read here). It's an interesting one overall and nicely pulled together. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 22:34, 6 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Death of James Ashley/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: SchroCat (talk · contribs) 14:52, 21 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reserving this for myself: I'll make a start shortly. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 14:52, 21 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Rate	Attribute	Review Comment
1. Well-written:
	1a. the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct.	See below.
	Not all of these need to be covered for GA, (which this is broadly at already) but these may help for any next steps Lead "Armed officers had been sent to raid the flat based on reports that Ashley kept a firearm and a quantity of cocaine there, and to arrest Ashley and another man in connection with a stabbing, but no firearm or significant quantity of drugs was found, the other man was not present, and it later emerged that Ashley was not implicated in the stabbing." This is a bit of a monster sentence! Full stop after "connection with a stabbing" and restart? The second Ashley (in "and to arrest Ashley") can be "him" too "House of Lords (the United Kingdom's highest court)" -> "House of Lords (then the United Kingdom's highest court)," as some smartarse like me will ask about the Supreme Court without realising the dates concerned. Prelude "man from Liverpool" -> Liverpudlian? Inquiries "An inquiry was launched" It may be worth a quick line to say that there is always an inquiry after a death by shooting (https://www.pfoa.co.uk/articles/police-involved-shooting is a good one to use) That's it from me on the prose front.
	1b. it complies with the Manual of Style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation.
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Hi Gavin. Thank you very much for the review. I believe I've addressed all your comments except for "Liverpudlian", which I think would be less clear to an international audience. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:45, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That's fair enough. The rest looks good enough for GA. I hope it does well at FAC, and doesn't attract the attention of at least one of the individuals who is making the process rather unpleasant at the moment! - SchroCat (talk) 06:13, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 3 July 2020

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: Move all (non-admin closure) (t · c) buidhe 00:53, 11 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

– The usual convention for articles on Wikipedia that are about deaths by shooting is "Shooting of" (unless they are clearly murder and are called "Murder of"). This is consistent across many articles – see the consistent naming pattern of the large number of articles in Category:People shot dead by law enforcement officers in the United States, Category:People shot dead by law enforcement officers in Canada, Category:People shot dead by law enforcement officers in Australia, Category:People shot dead by law enforcement officers in Germany, Category:People shot dead by law enforcement officers in Thailand, and similar categories for most other countries. This has been supported by recent consensus in several RM discussions, including the recent multi-article RMs at Talk:Shooting of Roni Levi, Talk:Shooting of Sammy Yatim , Talk:Shooting of Breonna Taylor, and Talk:Shooting of Atatiana Jefferson, and also single-page RM discussions at Talk:Shooting of Chaiyaphum Pasae, Talk:Shooting of Benno Ohnesorg, and Talk:Shooting of Yoshihiro Hattori. This change would apply the same convention for Category:People shot dead by law enforcement officers in the United Kingdom. —BarrelProof (talk) 07:44, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support all per detailed nomination [adjusting typo: Shooting of Death of Jean Charles de Menezes]. Standard forms of main title headers for Wikipedia articles delineating deaths by firearm. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 18:24, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support all - it's not disputed that they were all shot. Jim Michael (talk) 17:54, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support all, it is not disputed that they were all shot, and shooting is more specific as to the cause of death.--Bob not snob (talk) 07:37, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – Several of these were ruled as "killing" or "homicide". For example, Azelle Rodney was legally ruled as an unlawful killing. Titling these articles as "shooting"s is euphemistic. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 10:25, 6 July 2020 (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.