Talk:Charles Whitman

Author's notice

I copied the following from the edit summary:

20:53, 17 June 2010 John Calvin Moore (Talk | contribs) (28,520 bytes) (I wrote 90% of the Wikipedia article and posted the photos and docs there, this will be done with the same. I made a major overhaul of the WP article here, licensing should be here for Citizen)

--Peter Schmitt 13:05, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Nomination mistake?

I'm not sure if John meant to nominate the article for approval, or if he doesn't totally understand the metadata and it was a mistake. If it was intended, then it will need other Editors as he has written the majority of the article. Also, the metadata will need updating to include a specific version, rather than just the URL of the article itself. --Chris Key 12:31, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

When I fixed the Metadata, I also noticed the missing permanent link, but since this will need Constable interaction, I simply left it as it is. --Peter Schmitt 13:05, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

In many ways, this is a very historically significant article. While I'm quite aware of the Bath incident, it is the first spree killing of which many Americans are aware. As such, it will be even more valuable tied to other articles on mass murder, some of which certainly need to be written.

It's not uncommon for people to bring material from WP and put it up for immediate Approval, but that rarely if ever happens, the simplest reason being that new Citizens may not be aware of formatting conventions here, and of the titles of relevant existing articles that should be wikilinked back and forth. If nothing else, even if one is an Editor, one cannot nominate, without other Editors, an article to which one contributed substantially.

While we certainly don't demand that everything written by an expert be sourced, some of the statements here do seem speculative and should either be made more specific or sourced. As a CZ: History Workgroup Editor, I'd say this is a status 2 (developing) article. I'd actively like to work with it, which will mean that three Editors will have to approve -- that should not be a problem. Coincidentally, I've been doing some work in neurology and oncology, and this was an impetus to start the glioblastoma article, to which I'll be adding. Howard C. Berkowitz 14:45, 18 June 2010 (UTC)