Talk:Parkland high school shooting

School officially demolished

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/us/parkland-school-shooting-demolition.html

Demolition started June 14

https://wsvn.com/news/local/broward/parkland-school-building-demolished-6-years-after-massacre-final-debris-to-be-cleared/

Demolition completed circa July 4th. I'm not comfortable editing this on mobile. HoadRog (talk) 02:18, 26 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

let's not keep repeating the perpetrator's name

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According to the victims' parents, the perpetrator's name should not be mentioned all the time. One mother, Scott Biegel’s mother explicitly asked the media not to keep mentioning the perpetrator's name. I'm referring to what I saw in the video on Youtube "Justice Is Us Firing Bullets at Parkland Gunman: Victim’s Mother" @ 3:30.

Of course, it is neither possible nor imaginable that his name is being omitted from reports altogether.

But, her request -- Scott Biegel’s mother's request -- can be very well fulfilled, if we pay attention to the nuances (that in the world of media we all do all the time), and try to make sure that the perpetrator doesn't get "the notoriety he craves", that is, the bad fame he would be happy with.

This seems hard in today's media situation when sensation is the number #1 quality in any publication. But it is possible to pay attention to editing, and refine the picture that for example this article conveys of what happened.

Thank you,

Peter Josvai

--peter.josvai (talk) 09:03, 2 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

We follow the standards required by Wikipedia and good writing, not the wishes of bereaved parents. Replacing occurrences of Cruz by "the perpetrator" complicates reading, and looks strange when the perp's name is widely known. I doubt that your request will gain wide support. WWGB (talk) 09:15, 2 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Agreed, Cruz is one of the better known mass shooters and his name is widely available in news stories. This type of damnatio memoriae request isn't going to bring the victims back.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 09:32, 2 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

"17 people" -- about one little correction, paying attention to "nuances"

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Hi,

I've committed an edit to the first two or 3 sentences in the introductory paragraph. One of these were changing "killed 17 people" to killed 17 people, 14 students, aged 14-18, and 3 staff members...

The goal of this kind of edit is to prevent reading the article in a neutral, statistical manner. I would prefer using the term children, cause that's what who they were, in their teens, but anything is "fine" as long as it doesn't just read "people". Like, 17 people. Cause 17 people means something almost totally different than 17 children in their teens....

Hence the edit I made, as a suggestion.

Thanks for taking your time to make this article and to make it even better.

Peter Josvai

--peter.josvai (talk) 09:12, 2 August 2024 (UTC)Reply