Talk:List of assassins

message: I removed all the fictional assassins. those clearly do not help the list as a historical compilation  Vroman 14:34, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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message: Roger Nicholas Angleton - murderer of Houston, Texas socialite Doris McGowen Beck Angleton 
I removed the above person from the list. domestic violence is not assassination. Vroman 11:06, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
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message: I take issue with John Lennon's murder being called an assassination. If that's the case, than every murder committed would have to be listed here, and there are certainly plenty of murders of public figures. Was Latin singer Selena assassinated? How about the heavy metal guitarist shot on stage last week? Or SNL actor Phil Hartman? IMO the term assassination should only be applied to the killing of political, spiritual, and economic leaders (and/or news-making public figures, such as Lee Harvey Oswald). Lennon was a well-known personality but he doesn't really fall under these categories. Thoughts? 23skidoo 05:36, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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message: I know there has been talk through the years about the tendency of the media to use the middle name of assissins. Mark David Chapman, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Wilkes Boothe, etc. Is anyone aware of some sort of written/unwritten naming convention for the media? Common murders and even serial murders are almost always referred to by first and last name. At least in the American press, spree/mass murders and assassins are referred to by all three names. Any comments?--crshinola 02:12, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I know im responding to an old comment, but i believe that to avoid any hint of bias in the media, people charged or convicted of capital crimes are often referred to by their full name, with no "nicknames" or other alterations. if james earl ray was called "jimmy ray" by his friends, and then called that in the news, it would be seen as highly biased. best way to avoid that is to use their full legal name: cant argue with that. this is all educated guesswork, though.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 15:52, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assassin Names 

message: "Felix Yusupov" is described on this page as the "hard working assassin of Grigori Rasputin."  Hard working?  Is that a joke that should be removed?
:What's spongebob squarepants doing in the list? --201.145.25.45 (talk) 19:54, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
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message: Using the (admittedly unclear) Wikipedia definition of assassination, as a guide, I am not convinced that all of the cited killings in this list rise to the level of assassination.  I see at least one crime of passion, as well as references to a common criminal and a professional hitman.  The ideological element of assassination would appear to be absent in these cases. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.239.152.153 (talk) 05:26, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Standards for Assassination? 

message: There is luigi and light in killers list xD. is this officialy aproved ;D?!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.198.239.190 (talk) 14:02, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Luigi?! 

message: why isnt he listed? In 1972, during peacetime between Israel and Lebanon, he led an Israeli commando death squad into Beirut, Lebanon where he personally murdered Palestinian writer Kamal Edwan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud_Barak
Statesboropow (talk) 04:17, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
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message: Preferentially, every article in this list should be well referenced on this page. Lacking that, all entries about living people should be reliably sourced on this page, or removed, per WP:BLP. I already have removed some entries about fairly recent assassinations without linked articles, and a few redlinks. Fram (talk) 09:45, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
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message: *Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry - would-be assassin of President of France Charles de Gaulle (1962)
*Byron De La Beckwith - convicted assassin of US civil rights figure Medgar Evers (1963)
*John Bellingham - assassin of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval (May 11, 1812)
*John Wilkes Booth - assassin of President Abraham Lincoln
*Gustave Bouvet - attempted assassin of President of France Alexandre Millerand (1922)
*Joe Brady - assassin of Permanent Under Secretary Thomas Henry Burke, sent by the Irish National Invincibles (1882)
*William Bradley - Possible assassin (with shotgun) of Malcolm X  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.234.60.33 (talk) 02:28, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
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message: *Jing Ke - failed assassin of a Qin king, later Qin Shi Huang, the first Chinese emperor
*John Parricida of Habsburg -- Killed his uncle King Albert I of Germany (1308)
*Zvezdan Jovanović - killed Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić (March 12, 2003)
*Loyd Jowers - Possible assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. (1968)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.234.60.33 (talk) 02:26, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
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message: Perhaps addition of the late Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto would be beneficial. According to the references on her page (specifically the assassination subsection), Mustafa Abu al-Yazid claimed responsibility for the attack and the Pakistani government stated that it had proof that Baitullah Mehsud was the mastermind. However, according to the disclaimer at the beginning of the List of assassins, the list of assassins are those that have been prosecuted for said assassination or whom are believed, by historians, to be the culprits. Any ideas? Bullmoosebell (talk) 20:42, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Benazir Bhutto 

message: The list does not appear at present to have any order. It is not alphabetical, it is chronological, there appears to be no structure. 68.122.10.227 (talk) 07:52, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  List order