Talk:List of terrorist incidents in May 2017

Page notice

NeilN, can you add an edit notice to this page as well? EvergreenFir (talk) 17:44, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Done. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 17:52, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Syrian civil war

Should http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39778171 be added? Around 30 killed 70.94.38.43 (talk) 03:46, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Source policies

I have been following these terror attack lists for a long time and used to find them to be a great source of information, but I feel that they are being ruined by the edit policies that require any source to explicitly use the term terrorism. This was also appropriately discussed by the user JBergsma1 on the April talk page.

If ISIS suicide bombings on civilians are no longer considered terror attacks, just because the sources don't care to call them that anymore (maybe for fear of pointing out the obvious), then the list is useless for many intents and purposes. One recent example that was removed: https://apnews.com/0874fe417cab4767831a092a12483769

I have been wondering why the number of attacks went down between 2016 and 2017 and these policies now appear be the primary reason. Maybe 10 more vehicle ramming attacks by ISIS sympathizers down the road, we will no longer point out that they are terror attacks, because at that point vehicle ramming attacks by ISIS sympathizes are implicitly understood to be terror attacks. Will that mean we have eradicated this type of terror attack?

Anyway, I understand that this is not going to change. Can anyone recommend Wikipedia alternatives with lists that are more similar to the earlier lists, without going too far in adding any and every public violent attack either? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Trpl (talk • contribs) 12:21, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

@Trp1: I encourage editors wishing to add some nuance to the sourcing rules to discuss and come to a consensus on what can be considered a "terrorist incident". --NeilN ^{talk to me} 12:45, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

@NeilN: Am I in the wrong for removing these? ([1]) I kept the Boko Haram and ISIL ones, but this list is basically nay event that uses non-traditional attack methods. Where/how do we get a discussion about this generally? VP? Discussion on this page is not enough I'd think. EvergreenFir (talk) 19:14, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

New York Times Square crash

'At least one dead' and 13 injured as speeding car hits pedestrians. --Rævhuld (talk) 17:09, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

References

"Authorities were quick to reassure the public, at one of the busiest tourist spots in the world, that the incident was a car crash and not terror-related." So not sure why you're posting this here. EvergreenFir (talk) 00:38, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 24 May 2017

"Ongoing" next to a date unusually permitted. Yesterday, such acts got prohibited. 2600:6C4E:7003:200:2C1C:B2E:FC4C:6027 (talk) 14:58, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. Cannolis (talk) 15:40, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Need for colour coding

Is there really a need to colour code the list into categories of death/injury toll? It seems insensitive to have a traffic light system to signify people's deaths, am I alone in saying that the colour green for 1-20 people dying seems to trivialise it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.255.128.26 (talk) 14:23, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

The color code has been set to highlight magnitude of each event. Wykx (talk) 21:45, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

Number of deaths =/= Magnitude. The bombing in Manchester was a more significant event than, say, a major attack in Baghdad or Kabul. This is because such attacks are rare in the UK. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FlyToLive (talk • contribs) 17:19, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

RfC: terrorist incidents list criteria

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:List of terrorist incidents#RfC: List criteria. – Levivich 18:00, 10 August 2019 (UTC)