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WTMI - Way too much information

I understand the author is so proud of knowing so much about Speck and his murders that he feels the urge to tell every detail he knows, with absolutely no concern about how unintersting it might be. In order to tell who Speck was and why he murdered people you don't need to list every single day prior to the mass murders, where and when he bought a car, how much the guns have cost he stole, and you don't need to quote personal comments about his funeral. The article can be shortened to 10 % of its lenght by reducing it to the relevant information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.110.164.3 (talk) 15:11, 24 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Most of this article just needs to be deleted. Professor alacarte 00:18, 3 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Four years later the article still suffers from this problem. 85.149.13.48 (talk) 20:44, 24 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No harm in it. Leave it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.12.249.90 (talk) 17:21, 13 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There absolutely is "harm" in it as it's unencyclopedic being this unnecessarily verbose and pedantic. Jersey John (talk) 07:25, 25 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Serial killer?

A serial killer is "a person who murders three or more persons ... with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them" whereas a "FBI defines mass murder as murdering four or more people during an event with no cooling-off period between the murders." By those definitions Speck is a mass murderer, not a serial killer. GA-RT-22 (talk) 20:48, 13 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Mass murder", to me, suggests a single event (like Uvalde). Better term is probably "spree killer". AllGloryToTheHypnotoad (talk) 22:08, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Paschen

@SecretName101: Paschen is mentioned twice. We should link the first use, and use the same spelling in both places. I am unable to check either source. GA-RT-22 (talk) 17:29, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]