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On 20 November 2022, it was proposed that this article be moved to 2022 Colorado Springs nightclub shooting. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

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Club Q shooting suspect ran neo-Nazi site, used gay slurs, detective testifies ― The Washington Post, Feb. 22, 2023

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missing citations?

Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The third-to-last and second-to-last paragraphs of the Wikipedia article are both lacking any references or citations. I assume they must have been accidentally deleted during past edits.

If there is anyone who is familiar with this article, please take a look. Thank you. 72.14.126.22 (talk) 21:48, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Why is wikipedia falling for this murderers BS?

Latest comment: 10 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

The shooter does not use "They/Them" pronouns, this is an extremely obvious troll. The murderer is a mormon Neo-Nazi who went in to kill queer people and has a history of exposing such views. This is clearly a trolling attempt and lends credence to Far-right BS that they keep pushing about what happened in Colorado Springs. EnviousDemon (talk) 03:24, 20 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Please refer to MOS:GENDERID, WP:Village pump (policy)/Archive 182#RFC: MOS:GENDERID and the deadnames of deceased trans and nonbinary persons, and the Talk page archives of this article for the reasoning. Regardless of whether Anderson Lee Aldrich was being disingenuous, 1) like everyone else they have a right to gender self-identification, and 2) reliable news sources have been referring to Aldrich by they/them pronouns. It is not our role to determine if Aldrich was disingenuous in their self-identification. DemocracyDeprivationDisorder (talk) 16:13, 28 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

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Recently added unsupported categories

Latest comment: 8 months ago3 comments3 people in discussion

An editor recently added the following categories that do not appear supported by the existing body of the article: Christian terrorist incidents in the United States, Mormonism and violence, Mormonism-related controversies, Religiously motivated violence in the United States. In general categories must be verifiable and defining. It is not clear from sourced, verifiable information in the article that support the inclusion in the categories. Also, I am not seeing reliable sources and commonly and consistently refer to these characteristics in describing the topic. Which parts of the article and which sources support the inclusion? --FyzixFighter (talk) 22:07, 3 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia is WP:NOT CENSORED. I apologize that you're offended that a radical mormon went on a shooting spree that killed people was celebrated by your church and the right wing, but Wikipedia is not the place for religious apologetics to POV pushing. I am not interested in an edit war, so I'm going to ask that you please stop reverting all of my edits. EnviousDemon (talk) 07:43, 4 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

Nor is Wikipedia a place for nutpicking. –Skywatcher68 (talk) 18:09, 29 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

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Christchurch copycat?

Latest comment: 29 days ago3 comments3 people in discussion

How was Aldrich inspired by Tarrant? "Christchurch mosque shootings copycat crimes" is one of the categories, but there's no elaboration on this in the page itself. Paul in the Mall (talk) 22:48, 13 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

They hosted the video of the shootings on their website, and seemed to have admiration for the perpetrator. I expanded the section on their social media use to include this information. NesserWiki (talk) 08:29, 9 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Those facts alone don't necessarily make him a Christchurch copycat though. Tarrant himself read Dylann Roof's manifesto and voiced his support for Roof's actions, but that does not make him a Charleston copycat.

Aldrich definitely could have took some level of inspiration from Christchurch, but this article provides no elaboration as to what extent it may have been beyond the surface level. I am not aware if Aldrich was even motivated by a belief in the Great Replacement, which is a central aspect of all Christchurch copycat attacks. I have a feeling that calling this a copycat attack is an unsubstantiated claim based on original research and should therefore be removed. -- AlikeTurkey (talk) 21:23, 17 December 2025 (UTC)Reply