Talk:Murders of the Dickason children

Merger

By the way, there is a draft article covering this topic called Draft:Death of the Dickason children. I recommend merging these two articles to avoid duplication. Perhaps renaming it the "Death of the Dickason children" might be wise based on the precedent set in other child homicide arricles like the Cris and Cru Kahui homicides and Murder of Nia Glassie? Otherwise the article meets Wikipedia's notability requirements due to the extensive New Zealand and some South African media coverage and public interest. Think this post would be of interest to @Panamitsu:, @ArleneHerman: and @Cameron Dewe:. Was going to create an article on the topic but glad others have taken the initiative. Andykatib (talk) 18:56, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

@Andykatib Whoops, I had no idea that others had already created a draft. I agree, we should merge these together and rename. Panamitsu (talk) 20:00, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

• Have added several new categories to the article. Have not added Category:Murdered New Zealand children and Category:2021 murders in New Zealand since Lauren Dickason is still on trial for murder and the case verdict has not been decided yet. Andykatib 19:15, 29 July 2023:(UTC)
• Yes! Happy to merge. Makes sense to me :) Thank you! Can someone please do this @Andykatib:, @Cameron Dewe:, @Panamitsu:. --ArleneHerman (talk) 22:04, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

@Andykatib, Panamitsu, and ArleneHerman:: As I previously said in discussions about the Death of the Dickason children article (currently in draft) "Wikipedia is not a news website, so editors should not be writing about events currently in the news, just because they are news. Article like this need to demonstrate there is a lasting effect arising from the events this article is covering. Also, because the alleged perpetrator has not been found guilty, and the court case is ongoing, I think it is too soon to be creating an article about this as a court case. Additionally, as a notable crime, the title of this article should follow the naming conventions for deaths ...." However, your discussion raises additional points on notability that I think also need to be addressed. The media coverage surrounding the ongoing trial of any person accused of a crime is simply news, and therefore should not be covered as the subject of a Wikipedia article of its own accord. That implies the trial itself is not notable, althought the reason for the trial is. I accept that Wikipedia should have an article, but not an article under this title, and not yet. While the media sources cited in this article contain valuable sources of information about any article that Wikipedia editors might write, both WP:BLPCRIME and WP:PERPETRATOR, as well as WP:BLP1E, advise against writing an article about a person on trial, before they are convicted. Additionally, WP:BLPNAME and WP:NOTPUBLICFIGURE indicate the defendant in this case is a low-profile individual who deserves the right to a fair trial, so Wikipedia should not even be writing about the trial until it is over, and a verdict known. But most significantly of all, Wikipedia should not be including the defendant's name in an article title. To me, the only solution short of deleting this article is to move it to Draft space and then propose it be merged into Draft:Death of the Dickason children. This will avoid having to go through a deletion process, with the risk that all your hard work is lost. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 23:00, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

I agree with all of your points, except I must mention that for WP:BLPNAME, Dickason has been confirmed as the killer by means of admission, so I don't think that it would apply here. Panamitsu (talk) 00:09, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

I also concur with @Cameron Dewe:'s points but agree with @Panamitsu:'s point about Dickason being identified as the killer. I think it will be best to move the content in this article to Draft:Deaths of the Dickason children. Draft:Death of the Dickason children could be redirected to the other link because death is singular while deaths is plural. The article does need a lot of work. I am attending a conference right now but will be happy to help edit it when I find some free time. Andykatib (talk) 00:44, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

I am all happy for it to be merged. Whatever works best for all parts :) Thank you all so much! ArleneHerman (talk) 01:20, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

@Panamitsu and Andykatib: I agree that the defendant in this case admits causing the death of her children by suffocation, but whether she murdered them, killed them or even caused their deaths is a question that her trial is yet to determine. Both murder and infanticide require both an act (known as Actus reus) and a state of mind (known as Mens rea) before this can be considered a Culpable homicide in New Zealand law. At this stage all we can say is that the children are dead and the defendant has admitted to causing those deaths (out of love), but that does not mean she killed them, as she is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a fair trial. That trial is still ongoing and Wikipedia prejudices the outcome of that trial if it uses terms like killed because that suggests Wikipedia has a biased point of view when it should remain WP:NEUTRAL. This is a core principle of Wikipedia. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 01:29, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

Ok, I was bold and moved this article to Draft:Deaths of the Dickason Children, because that is how the article was named at the time of the move, not the suggested Draft:Deaths of the Dickason children that i thought I was making. An oversight at the time that I now regret. Rather than move it again, I think the title should be corrected to use lower case for "children" and plural "Deaths" once a merged article with Draft:Death of the Dickason children has been created and it is ready for publication after the court returns a verdict in the case and we know what the court found actually happened. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 02:13, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Cameron Dewe:, I agree that it will be a good idea to rename the article Deaths of the Dickason children once the article has been created and ready for publication. Have been busy but hope to find sometime in August to work on it. Andykatib (talk) 03:01, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

This is looking so much better and expanded! I think it is close to being submitted. Though of course, the trial is due to finish soon. So let's wait as mentioned (I think) until then. ArleneHerman (talk) 01:14, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

References

Rename?

In light of the jury's guilty majority verdict, would it be appropriate to rename the article "Murder of the Dickason children"? Or is the current name "Deaths of the Dickason children" more appropriate? Similar articles where there has been a murder conviction or guilty plea use the title "Murder of...". For example Murder of Grace Millane, Murder of Amber-Rose Rush, and Murder of Malachi Subecz? Andykatib (talk) 00:50, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

I support this change, although I would choose 'Murders of the Dickason children'. Panamitsu (talk) 00:20, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Support this change also. I would also do, Murders of the Dickason children. Thanks! ArleneHerman (talk) 21:21, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

@Panamitsu: and @ArleneHerman:, done. Andykatib (talk) 23:14, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Feedback from New Page Review process

I left the following feedback for the creator/future reviewers while reviewing this article: Interesting read. I've checked over this article and have marked it as reviewed.

Deauthorized. ^(talk) 17:56, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Deauthorized:, thanks very much for reviewing the article. Glad you found it intereresting. Andykatib (talk) 00:15, 2 October 2023 (UTC)