User talk:PARAKANYAA

About the article Sirius (novel)

I removed your contribution to the reception section because you only put three references but no text at all, which does not meet Wikipedia guidelines. However, I still saved them in the talk page, as they could be quite useful. However, I do not have access to the texts, so if you still do, it would be really helpful if you could provide what these sources say about the novel. Thank you. Julen Artano (talk) 09:09, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

@Julen Artano The problem with that is that the article is unreferenced again so it does not show notability and someone will try to delete it. And yes, I do, but I don't have the time. PARAKANYAA (talk) 09:13, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Okay. For the moment, I will put them in the intro. Julen Artano (talk) 09:15, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

That's fine. No clue why I put them in an empty section. Thank you for dealing with the overly long plot. PARAKANYAA (talk) 09:18, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Done. Thank you for providing sources to this rather obscure novel, I could not find any myself. Julen Artano (talk) 09:20, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Zug massacre

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DYK for Corinne Rey-Bellet

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Category: Suicides by occupation

Hello

Can you please explain your criticisms with the categories you proposed for deletion?

I do not understand your rationale for submitting them over the holiday period.

I would like to understand better as I am trying to contribute meaningfully here.

There is some correlation to occupation and suicide and fields of intersectional research that has explored this. With relation to certain sports-- https://chesterrep.openrepository.com/handle/10034/315057 this is what led to the creation of these categories you proposed for deletion.

I'm trying to understand a bit more about why it does not fit within the realm of appropriateness on this site, because the "discussion" that took place was very minimal and appears to try to keep the site in the past with little evolution. Could you shed some light on this please? Nayyn (talk) 21:36, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

@Nayyn Because for Wikipedia’s purposes they are not defining. They have also been deleted in the past and recreated with no discussion. PARAKANYAA (talk) 23:49, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

A "discussion" is not a discussion if it involves only 2 people over a holiday period. Nayyn (talk) 23:56, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

I was referring to prior discussions on the sportspeople categories. PARAKANYAA (talk) 00:17, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

NPP Awards for 2024

		The New Page Reviewer's NPP Barnstar Award
		This award is given in recognition to PARAKANYAA for conducting 140 article reviews in 2024. Thank you so much for all your excellent work. Keep it up! Hey man im josh (talk) 18:31, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

"Torswats" has pleaded guilty

See [1] and [2] Doug Weller talk 15:12, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

@Doug Weller Thank you for the reminder. I will get back to that sometime. PARAKANYAA (talk) 02:30, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Hey dude

If you don't recognize my name, I was working on the Zug massacre article and put it up as a WP:DYKN. I just wanted to tell you (since you're the top contributor on the article) that I'm not going to be active on this account anymore so, if you were to send me a message about the article or anything else, my new account is User:Akeph. Il5v (talk) 14:24, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Sure. If you are who I think you are, I really don't know why you keep switching accounts. PARAKANYAA (talk) 00:13, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

Do you recognize me from a vanished account? If you do, I made that account to make some spoken articles but I kinda regretted my contributions and vanished. I rejoined but now I've made this account since I didn't wanna wait for a WP:UNC process. Akeph (talk) 13:54, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

Well, if I were you I would do that going forward, since it gets confusing. PARAKANYAA (talk) 16:21, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Cults, Religion, and Violence

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charlotte ^👸♥ 20:54, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

@Queen of Hearts Thank you! PARAKANYAA (talk) 20:59, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

Congrats! All Tomorrows No Yesterdays (Ughhh.... What did I do wrong this time?) 10:47, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Zug massacre

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Wikipedia:Requests_for_undeletion#Horae_Beatae_Mariae_Virginis_(Rps_BOZ_44)

I hope this was an isolated case! Johnbod (talk) 19:33, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

Isolated case of what? PARAKANYAA (talk) 19:51, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

Rerate Icosahedral twins please

I have rewritten it as, I think, a decent article. Please re-rate, I don't think that I should. (Not yet ready for a GAN, maybe I will do that in a few weeks.) Ldm1954 (talk) 21:59, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

I don't know why you're asking me I am not very familiar with the standards for this kind of thing. But I will look at it. PARAKANYAA (talk) 22:08, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elon Musk's arm gesture

Sorry for deleting your comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elon Musk's arm gesture. We were editing at the same time and I intended to preserve other editors' changes, but I messed up. Sorry. —Anomalocaris (talk) 03:44, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

@Anomalocaris As long as it was not on purpose I take no issue, all is fine. PARAKANYAA (talk) 03:44, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

By the way, here's the spelling of "gaffe" in the sense you meant. Cheers! —Anomalocaris (talk) 03:49, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

Lol, thanks. My bad. PARAKANYAA (talk) 03:50, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

Draft:List of mass stabbing incidents in 2024

Thank you for reviewing the draft I submitted, but I did want to quickly mention that a lot of the mistakes you said I made are actually very common place on Wikipedia articles regarding civilian attacks. While I do agree that it's not perfect, List of mass shootings in Germany, Italy, and France all contain the error of having a very weak lead followed by a fairly comprehensive and well sourced list. So if I'm in error, so are they.

For your other concerns, I am fortunate that stabbing incidents across the globe are usually discussed in a group so finding sources there won't be difficult. But since we're at that, it should be noted that there already exists a page on Wikipedia that groups every mass stabbing in the 2020s together (which is every mass stabbing incident that occurred during this decade across the entire world, something you implied is not within the scope of Wikipedia) but it's extremely sloppy and I don't have enough edits on Wikipedia to change it up and neither do the editors on that page ever read the talk page where I've expressed my concerns of how the page is getting too large and needs to be fragmented into smaller articles. It's also missing numerous notable incidents, including the 2022 Apple River stabbings, a fatal 2023 Brazil school mass stabbing, a Train stabbing in Tokyo as well as at least two fatal Chinese mass stabbings in 2024. If I dug deeper into it, I'd probably find more. But anyway, we already have lists of terrorist incidents every single year across the world (example). I think as long as one single nation can't heavily define the number of mass stabbings/shootings in a single year, (like if we did every mass shooting in the world, then obviously that's going to be dominated by the United States) then it should be fine. Stabbings are incredibly diverse in terms of where they occur across the globe.

So while I do agree you had good points, I just don't see what's so different. One of my common personal criticisms of Wikipedia is that Wikipedia unevenly enforces their own rules. The existence of the Wikipedia page on Ryan Wesley Routh for example is an extremely obvious WP:BLP violation but it's never going to go down even though Arthur Leigh Allen's page went down a few years ago because he was never convicted of his alleged crimes. So while you have a stricter view of this page's existence, most editors will either support it or give no opinion.

My overall plan is to simply fragment List of mass stabbing incidents (2020-present) as the rate of mass stabbings have grown so much in recent years. January 2025 alone has already had 9 (known) mass stabbing incidents in 8 different countries. That is literally almost as many stabbing incidents that occurred in the entire year of 2020 alone.

Again, thank you, but I disagree and I think you would too if you read through that messy decade recap. The reason we transformed List of mass shootings in the United States into a yearly basis thing in 2017 is because the crisis grew so much in recent years that it became necessary to fragment them into other years. That has now become necessary and if this draft is approved, I will begin a 2025 version and potentially look backward as well. MountainJew6150 (talk) 17:17, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

@MountainJew6150 "Common practice" does not mean it is correct. I did actually check and all those country lists do have enough coverage on the topic to pass NLIST (except the Soviet Union but that's just a weird split out from the Russia list) which is why I have not AfDed them. The 2020s list is also weird but that exists as basically a containment list for articles people did not want to AfD, which we will have to deal with eventually

And by year lists, I mean for the whole world. We have never had simply a "list of mass shootings in [year]" for the whole world. That is what your list is trying to do. The terrorist incidents articles are strictly limited to individual incidents with their own articles, under which your list would have very few entries. Also there are publications that discuss terrorist incidents by year, which makes it pass NLIST, unlike stabbings. Doing such a list with stabbings is not a great idea, and also again no evidence it passes NLIST PARAKANYAA (talk) 21:02, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

In that case, I'm interested in learning how I can make the page more up to code. I know we don't do mass shootings per year for the whole world but that's a much more complex subject in my opinion. Mass shootings have regions where they're more prevalent than others. A place like Chicago is going to have more shootings than downtown London. Stabbings can occur literally anywhere because knives are not difficult to acquire. Mass stabbing patterns are different from those for mass shootings, so to say it's for the whole world is not in itself, an outlandish thing.

I do believe you might be right about the source thing as I can't find anything besides a couple sources that directly examines mass stabbings as a whole and not on just a regional basis. My memory failed me in that regard as I vaguely remember such a thing existing in the past. I'm assuming not but am I allowed to use these sources and just combine them to illustrate the global impact of mass stabbings as there are multiple sources that consider mass stabbings a "crisis" in their respective region? (Germany and China are the most prominent examples) MountainJew6150 (talk) 22:41, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

The root issue is just finding sources that discuss the group as a topic. I see no particular issue with the formatting. This is fulfilled for, as you noted, Germany and China, which have specific problems with it, but due to the nature of the topic you would have to find sources that discuss it as a group to prove notability. If the sources covering China and Germany discuss it in a context not specific to the countries, at least somewhat, maybe. PARAKANYAA (talk) 22:58, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

Killing of David Maland

Please, before reviewing pages like Killing of David Maland, make sure that it complies with WP:SUSPECT. Fram (talk) 08:26, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

@Fram Suspect says an editor must "must seriously consider not including" such material. I seriously considered it, but was unsure how much it mattered to remove the one sentence especially in a world where we have Luigi Mangione as an article, and we often include names of charged persons as a matter of editorial discretion. I would not have written it that way myself, but it did not seem a reason to not review it. PARAKANYAA (talk) 08:30, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

@Fram I wish we had clearer guidance because WP:SUSPECT is the vaguest thing. "seriously consider" is not enough - where we can have full articles about people who haven't been convicted but also including the name of someone who has been charged in a single sentence is revdellable, but also sometimes it's completely fine. This is why I avoid current events. PARAKANYAA (talk) 08:34, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

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