Talk:Suicide of Joe Gliniewicz

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OluwaCurtis - Regarding this edit;

Appreciate your looking over this, but there are dozens of fairly high quality sources available for this event. I'm pretty sure it would pass WP:GNG. Would you mind reconsidering your tag? NickCT (talk) 17:32, 4 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

WP:ONEEVENT? Edison (talk) 04:49, 5 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Edison: - Hi Edison. Thanks for chiming in! WP:ONEEVENT is rule governing when we should or should not create biography articles. Theoretically, this article is about an event (i.e. a notable suicide) and not about a person. I think you're right that having an article dedicated to the person (i.e. Joe Gliniewicz) would be wrong under WP:ONEEVENT rules. NickCT (talk) 14:41, 5 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

After looking at User:Edison's user page, I'd just like to note that the comment above was made with the assumption that Edison was not the experienced user he clearly is. Apologies if the above sounded like lecturing. NickCT (talk) 14:56, 5 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

An article like this is supposed to be about the one event that got the person news coverage, but it also inevitably includes a biography. There may be numerous news stories, but breaking news coverage stories are not "high quality" for the purposes of creating Wikipedia articles. See Wikipedia:Identifying and using primary and secondary sources.The sources are generally not secondary sources; they are mostly primary sources in the form of breaking news stories giving the latest details of an unfolding event. In time there may be reliable secondary sources analyzing this subject. WP:BLP1E and WP:NOTNEWS might apply here, if someone had simply engaged in financial hanky-panky and committed suicide to avoid the ignominy of being found out. Maybe the person or the suicide will turn out to be notable if there are enduring effects on society, like reforms to guard against long-term diversion of funds provided for police youth programs, or requirements for more transparency in death investigations, or if more crimes are exposed, or if people he sent to prison get new trials. Edison (talk) 15:41, 6 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Edison: - I get what you're saying, and partially agree. But having participated in a lot of AfD discussions, I think the fact is that any event like this that receives a high degree of coverage in mainstream media (even when that coverage is technically primary) will probably be considered notable. NickCT (talk) 02:04, 11 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Title

Shouldn't the title be "Shooting of Joseph Gliniewicz"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:252:D13:6D70:DC8A:839C:5621:46F1 (talk) 10:07, 5 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure. Someone would have to look to see what the WP:COMMONNAME was. Worth noting, I started the page as "Joseph" then it was changed. NickCT (talk) 14:38, 5 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand your post. That link you posted indicates that the article was titled "Charles" (not "Joseph") and was then changed to "Joe". The link you posted states: "moved page Shooting of Charles Gliniewicz to Shooting of Joe Gliniewicz: Practically all media sources refer to the subject as Joe". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:252:D13:6D70:60CA:84C:1443:7551 (talk) 08:43, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry. I misremembered. I thought I'd called it Joseph initially. And yes. I think it should be Joseph. NickCT (talk) 02:10, 11 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sections

I am going to start adding some section headers as places that we can add additional background. They might be empty or sparse for a little bit; Please feel free to contribute. KConWiki (talk) 02:43, 6 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Parking links here for potential future use

Image - WP:MUG?

Little concerned by the image added by User:Anna Frodesiak. Seems like it might no present the subject in a neutral light. NickCT (talk) 12:28, 6 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A reasonable concern, NickCT. I picked that one because it was a a facebook and an obvious selfie, and so likely he owned it. If you would like to use another, please say and I can delete this one. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 23:55, 6 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Army rank?

Was he actually a US Army lieutenant? 26 years as an NCO works well to make him an E-8 NCO, but was he actually commissioned in the Army or Army Reserve? Probably not, and the news article lists him as a police lieutenant. – S. Rich (talk) 18:13, 25 February 2022 (UTC) The CNN source lists him as an NCO. E-8's can be Master Sergeants or First Sergeants, so posting a rank insignia in the infobox is not appropriate until we know exactly what rank he achieved. 18:26, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

My understanding is that he was a police lieutenant, but left the Army as a First Sergeant. Per his personnel file, on pages 22-23, he joined the Army proper in 1980, completed active duty in '84 and was assigned to the Reserves. In 2007 he transferred to US Army Retired Reserve; the two previous promotions were both in 2004 to Master Sergeant and 1st Sergeant, respectively. 1SG is the last Army promotion listed, so I would conclude that it was his final rank.

Now, it's also my understanding that the document I linked counts as a primary source, so it's not ideal, but I did find this from ABC 7, this issue of Illinois Cops, and this from Reuters supporting the 1SG rank. Based on all of these I feel we can restore the 1SG rank in the infobox. NekoKatsun (nyaa) 19:59, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]