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The result of the move request was: Not done Naleksuh (talk) 06:01, 12 September 2020 (UTC)Reply
It was proposed in this section that multiple pages be renamed and moved.
The discussion has been closed, and the result will be found in the closer's comment.
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– The opening sentence of the Killing of Lizzie O'Neill article refers to the incident as "The shooting of Lizzie O'Neill". The usual convention for articles on Wikipedia that are about deaths by shooting is "Shooting of" (unless they are clearly murder and are called "Murder of"). This is consistent across hundreds of articles – see the consistent naming pattern of the large number of articles in Category:People shot dead by law enforcement officers in the United States, Category:People shot dead by law enforcement officers in Canada, Category:People shot dead by law enforcement officers in Australia, Category:People shot dead by law enforcement officers in Thailand, Category:People shot dead by law enforcement officers in Germany, Category:Deaths by firearm in Iran, and similar categories for other countries. This has been supported by recent consensus in a long series of RM discussions, including the recent multi-article RMs at Talk:Shooting of Roni Levi, Talk:Shooting of Sammy Yatim , Talk:Shooting of Breonna Taylor, and Talk:Shooting of Atatiana Jefferson, and also single-page RM discussions at Talk:Shooting of Neda Agha-Soltan, Talk:Shooting of Chaiyaphum Pasae, Talk:Shooting of Benno Ohnesorg, and Talk:Shooting of Yoshihiro Hattori. Using "Killing of" has undesirable connotations, whereas "Shooting of" is simple and objective and provides more information (i.e. that a firearm was involved). "Shooting of" typically indicates a fatality, as evident from the very small number of articles in Category:Non-fatal shootings. These few articles seem to be exceptions from the general WP:CONSISTENT convention that have not been discussed in WP:RM discussions. I would just submit these as WP:RMTR "technical" requests, but the matter seems somewhat controversial, so I am opening a discussion. —BarrelProof (talk) 17:50, 4 September 2020 (UTC)Reply
The usual convention for articles on Wikipedia that are about deaths by shooting is "Shooting of"is a claim I'd challenge. See the recent discussion at Wikipedia talk:Requested moves#"Shooting of" or "Killing of", which involved many editors, and IMO showed at least possible consensus for "killing of" for fatal shootings and "shooting of" for non-fatal shootings, and for C&C's flowchart. This consensus should be tested in a wider RFC, and that should be done before we move any articles from "killing of" to "shooting of" or vice-versa.
fairly strong supportfor "Killing" as well. Talk:Shooting of Atatiana Jefferson was actually a RM from "killing" to "shooting" with 10 editors participating, so that's one solid example. Talk:Shooting of Yoshihiro Hattori is from "Death of" to "Shooting of", and it's from 2018; not an example of current practice. Altogether, these examples do not establish any consensus or "usual convention". Lev!vich 18:42, 4 September 2020 (UTC)Reply