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Heat (1995 film)

I noticed the See also section mentions Heat (1995 film). The article itself however, does not mention Heat, so it's not 100% clear why the movie is mentioned. It has a similar shootout (apparently), but readers are left to guess that. --82.170.113.123 (talk) 19:22, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't belong. Removed. Niteshift36 (talk) 19:24, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It was there because that film was the inspiration for these criminals. They took pretty much their entire playbook from it. The page on Heat explains this, and it was covered extensively at the time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.197.17.231 (talk) 18:49, 3 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

They took inspiration and were influenced by it. DmitriVladimir (talk) 23:03, 7 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

English

I have some doubts about :

"Phillips and Mătăsăreanu carried illegally modified now fully automatic Norinco Type 56 S-1s". What's that "now"?

"Police likely shot Phillips and his rifle". Wouldn't "probably" be better than "likely", or am I just out of touch with modern english?

There are some occurrences of "Matasareanu" without the accents.Masonmilan (talk) 13:12, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the "now". Most occurrences of Matasareanu should not have diacritics per WP:COMMONNAME and the English spelling does not have those.
— Berean Hunter (talk) 14:09, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ngram to support name in English.
— Berean Hunter (talk) 14:12, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I've made the name substitutions IAW WP:COMMONNAME Leaving his full name intact. TurboManiacal (talk) 19:25, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This doesn’t make sense

“LAPD injured Phillips by holding two places of cover, and prevented an easy getaway.” This makes no sense. Can anybody figure out what it is supposed to mean and edit it accordingly?

Poihths (talk) 20:19, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In the military you have two types of positions - cover & concealment. Concealment hides your position or location but does not not necessarily mean you are provided cover. Cover provides protection and may offer concealment but not necessarily both. In this instance - the officers were able to maneuver to two positions of cover (protection) and fix the target and prevent his egress from that direction. That statement makes sense to people familiar with the terms but can be confusing to those that aren't. TurboManiacal (talk) 18:55, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Should this be linked so people can easily find out what these means?

Thanks, Dwightol102 (talk) 17:48, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Second suspect's name

Under "Backgrounds," the last name of Mătăsăreanu is not given. Is it supposed to appear in bold after the name "Balint"? Or was there a name change at some point in his life? Rontrigger (talk) 02:39, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The first paragraph is unreadable, and the one introductory one has weasel-y passive voice

Are the nuances of how each and every victim was injured really necessary? That extreme sentence length makes the whole paragraph unreadable. If a separate section titled "Victim Injuries" is needed, I would put it there.

And don't say "Mătăsăreanu was incapacitated by officers" in the other paragraph. He was shot and killed by them - I HATE those the passive weasel words! Like, "But if we say 'shot and killed' then it makes it sound like the police were being bad." Not necessarily; it just makes the description more accurate. Own it, people. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.32.155.15 (talk) 00:26, 29 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You make a very good point, I would support these changes. Also, please sign your comments with four ~ things. I forget what they're called.

Tschau, Dwightol102 (talk) 20:41, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

“Filled a jam jar with gasoline and semen”

… what? That must be a troll? Second paragraph of the Events of the February 28th section.

No source here either and I would think that’s a pretty substantive thing (even without the semen part?) to want a source on. InspectorRage (talk) 16:10, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]