Talk:Brown's Chicken massacre

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This page was listed it on cleanup; I've done some work on it. However, I'm not sure if it falls within our purview. As one who lived in the area at the time, I can testify that this event got a lot of media attention. Not sure what long term effects it had, if any. No vote. Meelar (talk) 05:20, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)
*Keep. I think the murder of 7 people probably is encyclopedic, and Wikipedia is not Paper. Darksun 10:37, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: *Agreed.  keep.  Posiduck 15:03, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

text: *Wikipedia is not a garbage dump. Not notable. --Improv 15:40, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

text: Good point. For the record, they were all shot, "execution-style". —/Mendaliv/2¢/Δ's/ 13:59, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled discussion 

message: According to the article, James Degorski's trial was supposed to have begun on the 30th. Has it? —/Mendaliv/2¢/Δ's/ 04:57, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trial commencement? 

message: Why didn't they get the death penalty?  Could their cases still be re-opened so that they could get the death penalty?
--Atikokan (talk) 04:15, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: On September 29, 2009 James Degorski was found guilty of all seven counts of murder. On October 20, 2009 he was sentenced to life in prison without parole. All but two of the jurors had voted for the death penalty.[10] At-least in Illinois (I am not sure about other jurisdictions), the jury must be unanimous when determine whether someone should receive the death penalty. Please check out this article for more information. For future reference, the discision page on articles are only reserved for topics and discussions directly related to the improvement of a Wikipedia article. Thanks! --  StarScream1007  ►Talk   03:21, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

text: I addressed that somewhat. Not perfect, but we also lack state-specific articles on capital punishment from which I could easily get wording. —/Mendaliv/2¢/Δ's/ 00:46, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death Penalty 

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You make it sound like a boxing match or a World War 2 battle. In fact it's even mildly offensive in the context of a battle in war, but in this context? It's incredibly offensive. This is a news story and should be treated simply as a news story. If you have a creepy personal file of murders and massacres, feel free to continue to write them up that way in your creepy little file. This is a general use encyclopedia and should not be treating the murder of 7 innocent people like that.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.227.77.90 (talk) 22:10, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  I'm deleting that abhorrent 'info box' 

message: As some of you may have already read, James Degorski was awarded  $451,000 In Civil Suit, in which he alleged a prison guard punched and injured his face. I was wondering if this is worth mentioning in the article. At first I wanted to add it, but felt it does not directly pertain to the Browns Chicken Massacre itself. It seems more of something that should belong in Degorski's article (if it existed).  Again, that's just my take. --  StarScream1007  ►Talk   04:09, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm in favor of keeping it in. It's somewhat tangential, but it ensures some degree of currency in the article... and readers will likely expect it here. We shouldn't surprise our readers. The Chase branch is much closer to inappropriate, perhaps per WP:IINFO, but it's something our readers will certainly be expecting. —/Mendaliv/2¢/Δ's/ 17:05, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: 2014 Story About James Degorski

message: First off, let me state that I know very little about this incident aside from what I have read in the article and know even less about the Brown's Chicken restaurants. When I came upon this article, I was somewhat confused by its title at first glance as to what it regarded. So I would like to suggest a move of this article to the title Brown's Chicken restaurant shooting for the sake of clarity and consistency with similar articles.
The trend with articles of this type has been leaning towards the use of the term "shooting" versus "massacre": 2013 Santa Monica shooting, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, 2012 Aurora shooting, etc. There are exceptions such as Virginia Tech massacre, but given the creation dates it would seem that the term "massacre" was used because of articles like San Ysidro McDonald's massacre and others created earlier. There is considerable discussion about the use of the term on the Virginia Tech article's Talk page.
Obviously a redirect would be created and anyone using the term would still find this article.
I am in no way trying to change the impact or impression or any other interpretation of the event, this is simply for consistency sake with similar articles. Does anyone object to this move (and if so, why?) or have an alternative they wish to suggest? --Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... (Talk) 17:50, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: That title change is not in keeping with what this event is most commonly known as. GigglesnortHotel (talk) 15:50, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article move 

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message: There is a dead link in the "Perpetrators" section.  Otr500 (talk) 02:44, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
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