Talk:2020 Nova Scotia attacks

Spouse or Partner?

A ‘partner’ is like a common law wife, someone you live with and are in a relationship either but are not married to. It’s not interchangeable with spouse. ElleBlair (talk) 16:50, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

The OED has an interesting blog post on this here, using "partner" to mean a spouse is a long established meaning dating back to at least the 16th century, and is in wide use today. SomerIsland (talk) 17:53, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

References

Victim naming conventions

Why do the police officer victims get named in the article, but none of the other victims do? It makes it seem like the officer killed and the officer injured are more important than the other victims of this massacre. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FEA8:99C0:4C00:F962:594C:3C85:F391 (talk) 12:16, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

That's a fair point. There's teachers who died, and are named in the sources, but we don't name them in the article. The officers that died does not seem to be notable beyond this shooting, so I see no reason for either officer who was involved to be named... none of the victims, actually, should be named as they are also not notable beyond this shooting. Le Marteau (talk) 12:31, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

There's no guideline or consensus that prevents naming victims as long as they are named in a reliable source. There is not requirement for anyone involved to be notable as this is not an article on them as individuals, it is an article on an event that they are a significant part of due to their deaths within it. They can be included by anyone who wishes to add them. Macktheknifeau (talk) 06:24, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

There is a long-standing convention that the naming of victims requires consensus, usually after discussion on the talk page. WWGB (talk) 06:29, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Previous Run-in with Police

Gabriel Wortman had a run-in with the police just before the shootings. The police were illegally parking on his property and he chained them in one morning. I think it was the morning before the shootings. The police later peacefully moved their vehicles. The sources I had seem to have been scrubbed from the internet. Does anybody have links to these old articles? MainePatriot (talk) 17:43, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

As I recall, this was not just before the shootings. It happened a year or two prior, and it was not at his home but at his business. I remember reading about it on Frank (in an article published before the shootings. De Insomniis (talk) 19:49, 27 June 2022 (UTC)