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On 28 March 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved from Death of Nex Benedict to Suicide of Nex Benedict. The result of the discussion was No consensus.

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hey PLG, i saw your removal of a lot of the reaction info.

I think we can include a lot of it still.. As a general rule of thumb, if there is a news site covering much of it, it should be considered notable.

I think we can subsection the reactions though and give it a bit more structure. I'll try my hand at it. User:Sawerchessread ( talk) 23:25, 8 April 2024 (UTC) reply

The ones I removed involved non-notable people and were covered by only one or two sources, which often weren't reliable independent news orgs. Peter L Griffin ( talk) 23:35, 8 April 2024 (UTC) reply

more over, news cites cover a lot of stuff. We certainly can't include it all. If it's a one off quote from a random guy on the street, or some random parent in a school board meeting, it's probably not worth including in this article. We already have a lot of quotes here that say more or less the same thing. Peter L Griffin ( talk) 23:50, 8 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Per WP:NNC, though sub items within the article may not warrant their own article right now (I.e. nobody would argue for a separate article "Federal Investigation into Death of Nex Benedict" or "Vigils held for Nex Benedict"), we should note that there are multiple articles for both the federal investigation and for vigils held for Nex Benedict.

I've added info about the federal investigation back in. We should also consider adding in the info about vigils and protests as well. User:Sawerchessread ( talk) 00:40, 9 April 2024 (UTC) reply

ah wait, im silly there is already a section about the federal investigation. removing mine.

we should still include info about vigils/protests User:Sawerchessread ( talk) 00:52, 9 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Also, why do we have reactions in the investigation section, and then also have a separate reactions section? Can we have them one place or the other, but not both? Peter L Griffin ( talk) 01:08, 9 April 2024 (UTC) reply

I think this entire article is a bit heavy on opinions. Much of this can be condense or elided... we have an entire Aftermath section too full of more opinions. Peter L Griffin ( talk) 01:11, 9 April 2024 (UTC) reply

@ Sawerchessread why did you just undo my last productive edit? I thought we were past the editwarring. Peter L Griffin ( talk) 01:21, 9 April 2024 (UTC) reply

I think that was a mistake. apologies.

I must have started editing when you started editing. Did not realize. Will fix. User:Sawerchessread ( talk) 01:23, 9 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Was it your intention to revert my change putting Aftermath after Investigation? If so, I'll self-revert so as to not edit-war, but it is my current understanding that this was moved back unintentionally? Peter L Griffin ( talk) 04:41, 9 April 2024 (UTC) reply

also, ah we do have a vigils section. Apologies!

Sigh, I guess I need to read this article more closely.

In terms of opinions, it's hard to say. I think we def do have a lot of quoting of a lot of organizations. We are also doing a play by play on the exact date when a organization responds.

I'm looking at other events though which have reactions similar to this.

Charleston_church_shooting#Aftermath has a lot of the same style of reactions. Apparently Murder of George Floyd had so many reactions, it split into its own article here Reactions_to_the_murder_of_George_Floyd... not to mention Reactions_to_the_George_Floyd_protests. There is some summarization of similar responses, but some responses warrant its own paragraph.

Some of the responses sections for similar deaths and suicides of LGBTQ folks vary from abbreviated to very in-depth. User:Sawerchessread ( talk) 01:24, 9 April 2024 (UTC) reply

In general, main pattern i see among the profiles on List_of_suicides_of_LGBT_people is that the less high-profile the suicide, the more abbreviated and summarized the reactions are.

The more high-profile, the more in-depth reactions seem to be.

In general, I'd argue that as Nex's suicide is a bit high profile, we can probably include more opinions. User:Sawerchessread ( talk) 01:29, 9 April 2024 (UTC) reply

In this example here, the opinions/punditry/analysis from uninvolved parties is kept within the aftermath and reaction sections and not also in the investigation section. Hard facts come first. I'll edit to more closely resemble that. Peter L Griffin ( talk) 04:39, 9 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Hard facts such as? LilianaUwU ^{( talk / contributions)} 23:01, 12 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Such as what involved parties have said in interviews, what investigators have determined, etc. What some non-profit president thinks doesn't belong in that section; punditry belongs in the reactions section. Peter L Griffin ( talk) 23:39, 12 April 2024 (UTC) reply

I am in general favour of a pass that does reduce the amount of what are essentially news article lines included purely because someone said them in favour of a slightly more encyclopedic structure. However I already see cuts that are not fully baked being tossed in. Favour the removal of overlong inclusions of material over total removal of sourced material. If a piece of sourced material becomes an obvious stub when made concise, that itself can help signal that it needs to be removed but slowly does it here. Antisymmetricnoise ( talk) 07:25, 13 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Example; a lot of the trimming done to the vigils section, in particular the quote removals are appropriate, as the edit comment says the overemphasis of certain vigils with quote excerpts was worth editing. However the total removal of many held vigils is over cutting to my eye. A "laundry list" without overlong description is a good way to properly describe the set of vigils held without overemphasising any. The new vigils section essentially contains almost none and in doing so overemphasized the ones that were not trimmed. It's one thing to cut the overlong description of the parasol patrol as an organisation, another to cut a sourced report their vigil entirely, same for the Rainbow Youth project. Antisymmetricnoise ( talk) 07:37, 13 April 2024 (UTC) reply

yeah, a single sentence listing vigils should be enough to point folks looking for info on wikipedia to know it exists. if they want to learn more, they can do their own research by clicking on the source User:Sawerchessread ( talk) 16:48, 13 April 2024 (UTC) reply

I added the list of vigils back in. Here is the current diff of info removed so far: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Death_of_Nex_Benedict&diff=1218756654&oldid=1217555592

Its mostly just rearrangement and making stuff more concise, but we definitely could move more slowly when deleting. User:Sawerchessread ( talk) 17:12, 13 April 2024 (UTC) reply

I've also added back in a sentence about the office of civil rights investigation to the lead. It remains fairly important, as whatever counts as next steps in this event. User:Sawerchessread ( talk) 17:18, 13 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Gone through altercation. the phrase "I was jumped" is an important headline and quote in most of these stories. Should include on Wikipedia. added some of my own edits in too.

Reactions definitely needed to be cleaned up, especially with some of the redundancy. Some were added back in above, but the pace of change on this article remains difficult to keep up with... especially as this is all just reformatting and no new news has come out. The formatting in general seems better at least, but its hard to tell what has been wholesale deleted.

13 sources seem to have been removed so far. There are also at least 20 paragraphs that have been deleted, or reformatted somehow. User:Sawerchessread ( talk) 17:49, 13 April 2024 (UTC) reply

sigh... admin saw my edits and disagreed. guess page as is, is alright. User:Sawerchessread ( talk) 20:44, 13 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Sawerchessread, while Drmies is an admin, most edits that admins do are not administrative actions, and (per WP:INVOLVED) there should be a pretty hard separation. I don't believe that edit was intended as an admin action. That said, administrators tend to have a lot of experience as editors, and I think it was probably a good trimming per WP:NOTMEMORIAL, WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Perhaps a good line is that vigils that were mentioned not-quite-trivially in two major news sources should go in? Russ Woodroofe ( talk) 09:10, 14 April 2024 (UTC) reply

User:Russ Woodroofe, thank you--yes, User:Sawerchessread, edits are usually not administrative actions. I'd appreciate it if you kept this talk page section a bit on focus; it reads like a running diary, and I can't really see what it is supposed to discuss--that's also because you keep making new, short paragraphs that are heavily indented, which are difficult to follow. A list of vigils is not encyclopedic content; "it's verified cause it was in the paper" is not much of an argument. It's like the "reactions" to the next school shooting: it's NOTMEMORIAL material.

And now I see you're pointing at other articles, but Charleston_church_shooting#Aftermath is totally on point and focused on events directly relevant to the shooting, unlike the vague "there were vigils". For Charleston there were vigils too, but they're not in the article. And I don't like Reactions to the murder of George Floyd, esp. not with the responses with the flaggies--but that Scotland decided to not export tear gas, rubber bullets, and riot gear to the US, that's actually important. Drmies ( talk) 13:53, 14 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Because this article is about the death of Nex Benedict, it seems to be vitally important to include known information about Nex's actual death in the lead sentence. At the moment, reliable sources say that Nex's death was a suicide caused by a drug overdose. This has been established for a month now, and no credible alternative has been produced.

I argue this should be stated in Wikivoice. But even if we disagree about whether such a claim should be attributed, it should still be included in the lead sentence qualified or not. Peter L Griffin ( talk) 00:32, 14 April 2024 (UTC) reply

“At the moment, reliable sources say that Nex's death was a suicide caused by a drug overdose.”

Oh, yeah? Actual reliable sources (i.e., experts) would very much beg to differ. Check it:

https://www.advocate.com/news/nex-benedict-drugs-toxicology-experts 80.193.98.150 ( talk) 14:03, 16 May 2024 (UTC) reply

That article you're citing is from before the full report was released. Please pay attention to the dates involved here. — The Hand That Feeds You: ^Bite 14:21, 16 May 2024 (UTC) reply

And if a forensic report cites an overdose of caffeine as cause of death in someone who died from injuries relating to being run over by a bus, that doesn't give the forensic report more weight than experts stating that caffeine overdose doesn't lead to death from crush injuries weeks or months before the release of the forensic report. Nex was murdered and their overdose, real or putative, had nothing to do with their death. 80.193.98.150 ( talk) 15:39, 31 May 2024 (UTC) reply

provide the sources from after the report was published that suggest that User:Sawerchessread ( talk) 16:58, 31 May 2024 (UTC) reply

Your personal beliefs are not WP:RS. — The Hand That Feeds You: ^Bite 19:28, 31 May 2024 (UTC) reply

And RS blindly listen to the final report of the autopsy done by a state who hired the Libs of TikTok girl as an advisor to their school libraries. LilianaUwU ^{( talk / contributions)} 20:53, 31 May 2024 (UTC) reply

Look, I think it was a shitty decision too. But we can't just pick and choose. We're stuck with the report accepted by reliable sources, unless the family chooses to challenge it further or independent investigations find other evidence & publish that. Right now, we're stuck. — The Hand That Feeds You: ^Bite 14:27, 1 June 2024 (UTC) reply

same. anti lgbtq advocates love this report without the broader context….

id argue sticking someone in a pressure cooker and invalidating them at every turn is a slow inevitable murder and killing by the state… but wikipedia has to be “neutral” according to the majority…

even if the majority are in the wrong. User:Sawerchessread ( talk) 22:55, 1 June 2024 (UTC) reply

Folks, lets remember WP:NOTFORUM -- I feel like we're starting to veer into a general discussion of the topic. We certainly follow reliable sources on Wikipedia. I will note that reliable sources are careful to report on what the medical examiner has said, and do not state it as a fact; Wikipedia should do the same. (It is certainly remarkable that the local authorities have determined that beating someone insensible is a proportionate reaction to having water poured on one; likely this is part of the reason for the caution of reliable sources.) Russ Woodroofe ( talk) 08:00, 2 June 2024 (UTC) reply

I agree. It’s essential defining information for the article topic. Zanahary ( talk) 12:14, 28 May 2024 (UTC) reply

The lead currently says that Nex was "required by state law" to use the girls' bathroom. This is not strictly correct. The state law in question requires schools to offer an alternative in the form of a single-occupancy bathroom.

Oklahoma Senate:

[The bill] requires each school to provide a reasonable accommodation - a single-occupancy restroom or changing area - to anyone who does not wish to comply with the requirement.

CNN:

Transgender students who decline to use the restroom required under the measure would have to use “a single-occupancy restroom or changing room” provided by the school.

Washington Post:

Trans students who do not comply will be required to use a “single-occupancy restroom or changing room” at their school.

The article body is similarly inaccurate when it says that "Students are legally required to use a bathroom that corresponds with sex assigned at birth". It would be more accurate to say "Students are legally prohibited from using a bathroom that does not correspond..."

Astaire ( talk) 21:38, 15 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Changes made Peter L Griffin ( talk) 17:47, 19 April 2024 (UTC) reply

And if the school doesn't provide single occupancy restrooms or changing rooms...? 80.193.98.150 ( talk) 13:32, 23 May 2024 (UTC) reply

Then the school is in violation of the aforementioned laws. Clone commando sev ( talk) 04:16, 4 June 2024 (UTC) reply

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According to Nex Benedict’s mother, Nex has been bullied by others since the beginning of the 2023 school year.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/nex-benedict-dead-oklahoma-b2501844.html TnDi Edits ( talk) 13:08, 16 July 2024 (UTC) reply

Done Bluethricecreamman ( talk) 15:32, 16 July 2024 (UTC) reply

Understand they were non-binary, but as the state insists that people use the bathroom of their birth sex, what birth sex was Nex? It is not listed anywhere in the article, and this is needed to be stated so people can see if Nex was using the bathroom the state law says or not? 2A00:23C4:241:8C01:154F:D402:E3A0:D7E8 ( talk) 11:52, 26 July 2024 (UTC) reply

its stated in the article already they were in the girls room Bluethricecreamman ( talk) 13:08, 26 July 2024 (UTC) reply