8 year old boy Can we please remove that from the lead I understand it s tragic but singling out children as somehow being more tragic and worthy of special mention is not right Done Somebody reverted it and it s there again I ve removed it That s an odd request I find it normal for people to find it more important as a tendency to protect the needy But we aren t here to protect the needy we are just here to document facts in a neutral and detached fashion Join WER You re here to write an encyclopedia get over yourself People want to read if there were kids among the dead and removing that information is quite nonsense Once there is some clarity as to who was injured I m sure there will be a bit more detail in the body of the article but the vast majority of it is speculation at this point Regardless listing the ages doesn t belong in the lede as that would imply a greater value to one human based on age Join WER That s off topic If it s confirmed I find it non sense to remove it for neutrality even if it s in the intro People are perfectly liable to want an encyclopedia saying including children and it s nothing too biased about that Friend you are just going to have to trust me that we don t generally do that in the lead and leave that for the body if at all To be consistent and in an encyclopedic style neutral summarization of fact this is how it is done We let the news stations and newspapers tug at the heartstrings that isn t what we do here Join WER I don t have a problem including this in the article once all the statistics are clear I agree adding it to the lede is a little much but numerous news sources are reporting the number of children killed injured known so far so it could be included within the body of the article at some point down the line once we know all the numbers The media also routinely do this with the number of injured Police officials in events like this as if they are somehow more notable or important I m not sure why they do this but it s something that can be added once we have all of the demographics Right now the injury count isn t even finalized yet so we can wait another day or two until we know Removed it It did nt seem germane to the discussion anyway