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DreamGuy, why do you undo everything i do on The Blackout Ripper ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.1.207.130 ( talk) 15:34, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
No i read a book on him with resorses for the nicknames and every time you hear about him he is called a serial killer so do some research —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.1.207.130 ( talk) 15:43, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
I've just finished looking at the article and the text seems to be a straight copy from the account given at British Military & Criminal History in the period 1900 to 1999. Another source worth looking at is Colin Evans '"The Father of Forensics: How Sir Bernard Spilsbury Invented Modern CSI"' which has a brief account of the case and includes the significant detail that the last two people killed (Margaret Lowe/Doris Jouannet) were killed on the same night. Graham1973 ( talk) 21:50, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
There's also a 2011 edition of Honeycombe's book Murder of the Black Museum - The Dark Secrets Behind A Hundred Years of the Most Notorious Crimes in England, published by Kings Road Publishing, available online here. Maybe that one should be used? Martinevans123 ( talk) 20:19, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
Serial killer says: "A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more people, usually in service of abnormal psychological gratification, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them."
. But at least three of the sources here describe him as a "serial killer" and he also has
Category:English serial killers. Should he instead be described as a
spree killer?
Martinevans123 (
talk)
15:27, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
A spree killer is someone who kills two or more victims in a short time, in multiple locations. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics defines a spree killing as "killings at two or more locations with almost no time break between murders". So not a perfect fit. And perhaps more of an American term anyway. Maybe we should dispense with both Serial and Spree Categories. Martinevans123 ( talk) 16:03, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
@ Kieronoldham: What was the point of reverting all of my edits yesterday? If you are going to mass revert edits, please explain why in the edit summary! Most of my edits were what I assumed would be completely uncontroversial copyediting – I can see no possible reason to prefer e.g. "Cummins did obtain a diploma in chemistry" to "Cummins obtained a diploma in chemistry", or to believe that "by this time" is anything other than entirely redundant in the phrase "having by this time accrued over 1,000 hours of flight experience". Furthermore, your revert reinstated falsehoods that I corrected – if you are going to revert without explanation, at least try to avoid reinstating incorrect claims where the edit summary clearly explained the issue. Caeciliusinhorto-public ( talk) 09:31, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
According to an original source from 1942 which is cited, the pseudonym is Nita Ward not Leta Ward. JMFanClub1968 ( talk) 18:12, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
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DreamGuy, why do you undo everything i do on The Blackout Ripper ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.1.207.130 ( talk) 15:34, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
No i read a book on him with resorses for the nicknames and every time you hear about him he is called a serial killer so do some research —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.1.207.130 ( talk) 15:43, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
I've just finished looking at the article and the text seems to be a straight copy from the account given at British Military & Criminal History in the period 1900 to 1999. Another source worth looking at is Colin Evans '"The Father of Forensics: How Sir Bernard Spilsbury Invented Modern CSI"' which has a brief account of the case and includes the significant detail that the last two people killed (Margaret Lowe/Doris Jouannet) were killed on the same night. Graham1973 ( talk) 21:50, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
There's also a 2011 edition of Honeycombe's book Murder of the Black Museum - The Dark Secrets Behind A Hundred Years of the Most Notorious Crimes in England, published by Kings Road Publishing, available online here. Maybe that one should be used? Martinevans123 ( talk) 20:19, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
Serial killer says: "A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more people, usually in service of abnormal psychological gratification, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them."
. But at least three of the sources here describe him as a "serial killer" and he also has
Category:English serial killers. Should he instead be described as a
spree killer?
Martinevans123 (
talk)
15:27, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
A spree killer is someone who kills two or more victims in a short time, in multiple locations. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics defines a spree killing as "killings at two or more locations with almost no time break between murders". So not a perfect fit. And perhaps more of an American term anyway. Maybe we should dispense with both Serial and Spree Categories. Martinevans123 ( talk) 16:03, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
@ Kieronoldham: What was the point of reverting all of my edits yesterday? If you are going to mass revert edits, please explain why in the edit summary! Most of my edits were what I assumed would be completely uncontroversial copyediting – I can see no possible reason to prefer e.g. "Cummins did obtain a diploma in chemistry" to "Cummins obtained a diploma in chemistry", or to believe that "by this time" is anything other than entirely redundant in the phrase "having by this time accrued over 1,000 hours of flight experience". Furthermore, your revert reinstated falsehoods that I corrected – if you are going to revert without explanation, at least try to avoid reinstating incorrect claims where the edit summary clearly explained the issue. Caeciliusinhorto-public ( talk) 09:31, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
According to an original source from 1942 which is cited, the pseudonym is Nita Ward not Leta Ward. JMFanClub1968 ( talk) 18:12, 24 November 2022 (UTC)