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"Mass murder"?

The Mass murder article says this: "The FBI defines mass murder as murdering four or more persons during an event with no "cooling-off period" between the murders." Yet in this edit, "first trial of a multiple murderer" was changed back to "first mass-murder trial", with the edit summary "check the book title". The title of the referenced book by Helen Birch is "Moving Targets: Women, Murder, and Representation". So how is the term "mass murder" justified here? Martinevans123 (talk) 21:22, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I really couldn't care less how the FBI defines mass murder, or anything else for that matter. Eric Corbett 21:54, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The article opens with this:

"Mass murder (in military contexts, sometimes interchangeable with "mass destruction") is the act of murdering many people, typically simultaneously or over a relatively short period of time.^[1]"

So do you think this is a fair description of these murders? Or there is there another commonly agreed definition that you can direct us to? Or even a direct use of that term in any one of the sources used for this article? Martinevans123 (talk) 22:03, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Who cares what the article says? Haven't you got anything better to do? Eric Corbett 22:27, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

^ Aggrawal A. (2005) Mass Murder. In: Payne-James JJ, Byard RW, Corey TS, Henderson C (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine, Vol. 3, Pp. 216-223. Elsevier Academic Press, London

[aggrawal-1] Aggrawal A. (2005) Mass Murder. In: Payne-James JJ, Byard RW, Corey TS, Henderson C (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine, Vol. 3, Pp. 216-223. Elsevier Academic Press, London

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 ::"'''Mass murder''' (in military contexts, sometimes interchangeable with "[[Weapon of mass destruction|mass destruction]]") is the act of [[murder]]ing many people, typically simultaneously or over a relatively short period of time.<ref name="aggrawal">Aggrawal A. (2005) ''Mass Murder''. In: Payne-James JJ, Byard RW, Corey TS, Henderson C (Eds.) ''Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine'', Vol. 3, Pp. 216-223. Elsevier Academic Press, London</ref>"
 ::So do you think this is a fair description of these murders? Or there is there another commonly agreed definition that you can direct us to? Or even a direct use of that term in any one of the sources used for this article? [[User:Martinevans123|Martinevans123]] ([[User talk:Martinevans123|talk]]) 22:03, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
+:::Who cares what the article says? Haven't you got anything better to do? [[User:Eric Corbett| <span style="font-variant:small-caps;font-weight:900; color:green;">Eric</span>]] [[User talk:Eric Corbett|<span style="font-variant:small-caps;font-weight:500;color: green;">Corbett</span>]] 22:27, 16 August 2014 (UTC)