Talk:Copycat suicide

message: The guidelines from the WHO are really POV, so I've removed them. Wikipedia should not give people advice on how to prevent suicide. Guanaco 03:58, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Why do you say that? Wikipedia gives guidelines on how to treat people who are suicidal. It gives guidelines on how to manage all sorts of issues. These are guidelines which, should the journalist chose to use them, will lead to fewer copycat suicides. What is POV about that? --CloudSurfer 04:06, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: There are varying opinions on these issues, such as the view that the news media should report the whole truth, the view that suicide is a human right, and the anti-psychiatry movement. It is not Wikipedia's job to prevent suicides. We are not the WHO; we report objectively. Guanaco 04:43, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I have taken the essence of the issue and put it in the article. I believe it is NPOV.  See what you think. If it needs further balance then please add that rather than taking away what is there. --CloudSurfer 05:03, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

text: I am happy to remove the stuff below from the talk page or it will clutter up the page. Should it be archived? --CloudSurfer 05:04, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Inclusion of WHO Guidelines

message: Do you guys think either 'Suicide and the media' or 'Suicide contagion' is a better title? It's a broader subject and more could probably be added in that form. Thoughts? Gflores Talk 17:10, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename page? 

message: There used to be a ban on mentioning suicides in the press, but not anymore. There have been a fair amount of suicides reported in recent times. But 70 years ago Aftenposten(a big Norwegian newspaper) got stoned after writing that a ice skating champion had killed himself. But it's not like that anymore.
----- You're probably right about that. There's been quite a few high profile suicides mentioned in the press lately. My issue with this article is the title. It's misguiding to write about things like the previous Norwegian ban on reporting suicides if you cannot find a reason to connect it to copycat suicides, otherwise it implies that the reason the ban existed in Norway was fear of copycat suicides (which is highly improbable).
--80.212.65.83 (talk) 00:55, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Norway

message: I fixed the references so they now use proper citation templates. 
What was numbered 5 is not used in the article itself, and the URL itself leads to 404 page so I removed that. Here's the references so someone can re-add it if working URL can be found:
:Mindframe national media initiative Australian Government - Department of health and ageing
The second problem is improper citation. Old number 7 cited "Abnormal Psychology: Clinical Perspectives on Psychological Disorders" but gave ISBN for "Abnormal Psychology with MindMap II CD-ROM and PowerWeb". Since only the second book had coauthors I changed the title and left the ISBN intact. If it is in fact the other book the right citation source, then someone should change the ISBN, remove coauthor and change date of publication to January 2007. Shinhan 15:21, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  References fixing 

message: The article should contain a recent study in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry about the direct influence to people of suicide tendency from improperly handled suicide news reports. Researches before only proves the indirect influence, but this proves both direct and indirect effect. --RekishiEJ (talk) 07:54, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  About recent studies 

message: Is it really proper to lift an entire paragraph from the WHO report and use it as the "History" section? The whole thing is literally copy-pasted. Kilamanjaroface (talk) 16:02, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Rework History Section?

message: There have been a lot of self-immolations in Tibet in protest of Chinese "occupation", which may be of relevance to this article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.32.31.166 (talk) 03:42, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Tibet

message: "Marilyn Monroe, whose death was followed by an increase of 200 more suicides than average for that August month.[2]"
Can someone explain to me what this means, or remove it? "200 more suicides" where? In the US? I would think there are closer to 200 suicides per DAY in the US, and I can't see how 200 extra over a whole month would be statistically significant.106.188.10.222 (talk) 10:52, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marilyn Monroe 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: This article currently lacks info about the role of social media in suicide contagion. Hope that suicidologists can exploit published studies (e.g. ) so that it can be added to the article.--RekishiEJ (talk) 11:19, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not comprehensive enough 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) CLYDE TALK TO ME/STUFF DONE (please mention me on reply) 16:59, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Copycat suicide →  – "Suicide cluster" is both more WP:COMMON and more inclusive than the current title, and I believe is also more inclusive of the topic of Suicide contagion as well. This would also be more aligned with recent epidemiological literature such as disease cluster, cancer cluster etc. Pharos (talk) 16:33, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 9 May 2023