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Comment - No objection from me, one source calls it "End of Wallenstein", other possible terms would be assassinations, purge... On the other hand various Google search results use bloodbath, I've not checked if they were written after this WP article, but it's possibly one of the common ways to refer to it. The best way to determine WP:COMMONNAME would be with a list of English sources and how they call it... —PaleoNeonate – 14:45, 25 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Sensationalist in what sense? It is taken directly from Wilson's Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War. I am fine with moving it to Assassination of Wallenstein if people disagree.--Catlemur (talk) 15:02, 25 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
No need to get upset. I have just ordered the book you named at the library so I can check it. Will be in I guess next week but we are not in a hurry to decide about renaming. The Bannertalk16:03, 25 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
This is a link to the book you are about to receive, but if you think that I hacked Google Books to win a petty argument on Wikipedia that's fine by me.--Catlemur (talk) 18:21, 25 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for the input, Catlemur. "Sensationalist" in terms of an encyclopaedic lemma's title. In a book chapter's title or a scholarly work's it seems fine. (I happen to have Wilson's seminal book and can verify that, under the chapter "Without Custavus 1633-34", there is the sub-chapter about the killing we discuss, titled "The Eger Bloodbath.") But having it in the title of a Wikipedia article verges on advocacy. "Assassination of Wallenstein" sounds better since it rightly shifts the focus from the place to the event. -The Gnome (talk) 10:33, 26 February 2022 (UTC)-The Gnome (talk) 10:33, 26 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Note Here is a truly small sample of sources in which the episode is denoted by the term Assassination of Wallenstein. The results run in the hundreds, while, it must be noted, the term "bloodbath" appears in few texts besides the Wilson book, which mostly represent Wikipedia mirrors :
•This well known engraving carries the title Die Ermordung von Albrecht von Wallenstein (The Assassination of Albrecht von Wallenstein).
•Rosner, Lisa; Theibault, John (2000). "Assassination of Wallenstein". A Short History of Europe, 1600-1815: Search for a Reasonable World. Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN978-0765603272.
•Mortimer, Geoff (2010). "Assassination is the quickest way". Wallenstein: The Enigma of the Thirty Years War. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 224–40. ISBN978-0230272132.
Proceeding with change to "Assassination of Wallenstein" within this week, per naming conventions, unless significant objections are raised]]. I'll add that, according to most notable historians of the period, the death/assassination of Wallenstein, in itself, has been a very significant event of the Thirty Year War. -The Gnome (talk) 09:59, 1 March 2022 (UTC)Reply