User talk:Scishare

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Shooter’s name[edit]

The shooter’s name is already in several news articles; it being in a Wikipedia article doesn’t matter. So why delete it? 188.231.9.162 (talk) 22:46, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This is one of the news articles the shooter’s name is in: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ 188.231.9.162 (talk) 22:50, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

James Comey, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, followed a similar strategy in describing the 2016 shooting in Orlando:

You will notice that I am not using the killer’s name and I will try not to do that. Part of what motivates sick people to do this kind of thing is some twisted notion of fame or glory, and I don’t want to be part of that for the sake of the victims and their families, and so that other twisted minds don’t think that this is a path to fame and recognition.17

Recently a contagion effect, similar to a “copycat” effect, has been suggested in mass shootings. This effect suggests that behaviors can be “contagious” and spread across a population. In the example of mass shootings, a contagion effect would be said to exist if a single mass shooting incident increased the likelihood of other instances of mass shootings in the near future.

Contagion has been documented across a variety of other behaviors, including airplane hijackings,2 smoking cessation,3 and binge eating,4 and has been well researched in relation to suicide.5,6 There is now evidence that when a mass shooting occurs, there is a temporary increase in the probability of another event within the next 13 days on average.7

Two weeks after the Parkland school shooting on Valentine’s Day in 2018, 638 copycat threats targeted schools nationwide. These threats are often jokes or hoaxes that spread through social media, but they can still be harmful.

You can read a bit more about this effect here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5296697/ and https://www.center4research.org/copy-cats-kill/ . Scishare (talk) 22:54, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I understand the gist of the situation, but the problem is there are already pictures of Kozak’s face online; it feels pointless to put a band-aid on this massive gash. 188.231.9.162 (talk) 22:57, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

We can only control what is written within Wikipedia, and we have a social and moral responsability to do so. There are many minds that can be perverted by vangloriation of these kind of perpetrators. Most countries follow this strategy whenever a situation like this occurs.

Media news should also follow these precautions. Scishare (talk) 23:00, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Could we use his initials of D.K.? Getsomehelp1962 (talk) 23:24, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I can't answer for the other contributors. Maybe you should ask on the "Talk" page of the shooting. I don't think that writing "D. K." adds anything to the content of the article though, so I wouldn't put it. Scishare (talk) 23:27, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]