Talk:Accident

message: This entry is long and convoluted and not even necessarily an accurate description of what an accident is. While the author's efforts are appreciated, this page should be scrapped and rewritten, perhaps by someone with legal expertise regarding accidents.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.186.234.105 (talk) 18:52, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  New entry 

message: 21 October 2008: General clean-up and reorganization. Edited so the article speaks with 'one voice', rather than three. Edited scattered 'injury prevention professional/community'-type references into a single logical element. Moved the minor references to the end of the article. Fixed some very minor grammatical issues. 
I agree with Fokkerdude's == Intentional? == comments. An accident occurs when *someone* is *doing something* and the *something being done* goes wrong, for good or ill. Anything else is an incident, and the 'accident' label is inappropriate. For example, the collapsing stadium picture used in the article (which was not my contribution) is a poor example; it's actually an 'incident' that happens to look accidental. A better example would be, say, a kid jumping off of a garage roof with a 'Superman' cape made from a towel, or almost any circumstance depicted on a Jackass episode that ends in more severe injuries than expected. Anything else falls into the category of being hit by a meteor: maybe bad luck, but not accidental. 
Finally, thanks to the cretin who edited my previous 'discussion' entry to shorten it, screwing up both what I meant and what I said. I'm out ... -afrab_null
sammie bwoii  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.65.158.68 (talk) 11:00, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean-up & consistency 

message: Would any one mind if I added a section on the workplace? specific to work accidents and injuriesDocsim (talk) 06:56, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: a nonessential property or quality of an entity or circumstance <the accident of nationality>
Could someone please show me where in this definition from Webster it is required that it be preventable in order to be called an accident?  Wikipedia is the first place I have heard this.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cliffordmklym (talk • contribs) 13:50, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  workplace accidents 

message: At the start we read "An accident, also known as an unintentional injury..." and later we read "Physical examples of accidents include unintended motor vehicle collisions".  Those are two quite different meanings of the word "accident" - vehicles can collide without anyone being injured.  86.132.220.139 (talk) 21:52, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  A bit of a muddle 

message: I have looked into a definition of accident, and update the article to reflect what the sources say.  A logged-out editor has reverted this twice, including removing citations to reliable sources.
It seems that the main objection is about whether to have an article on what accidents actually are, as defined in scholarly literature, or to have an article (we would call it a Set index article) on all the things that people use this word for, including non-accidental "accidents".
I think it's better to have this article follow the scholarly sources.  What do you think? WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:38, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Defining an accident 

message: I have seen accident 42.107.80.95 (talk) 13:08, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  I have seen accident 

message: Disputa 2605:BA00:2107:FE73:C31:3982:1CAD:CAB4 (talk) 18:24, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ileana Ramos Mendez