Talk:1995 San Diego tank rampage
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History merge edit
@Fourthords: I don't think it matters that this article was written "independently of any other article(s)"
. Shawn Nelson (criminal) was unilaterally blanked and a new article was created, leaving the 600+ edits to the old page and Talk:Shawn Nelson (criminal) and its archives almost inaccessible. I was actually looking for the old history myself when I realized it didn't exist anymore, and that can be quite confusing. — Nythar (💬-🍀) 12:32, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
- According to Wikipedia:History merging, that process is for when other editors' contributions are wholesale copied-and-pasted to another page, breaking the licensing-required attribution. That wasn't done here. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 13:01, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
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Tank Speed edit
This is a minor quibble, however in the "Armory" section it states that the M60A3 can travel at speeds up to 45mph. There is no type of M60 that could travel at that speed over flat terrain, and the speed cited contradicts both the wiki article on the M60 and various sources including Hunnicutt's work on the Patton series of tanks. 2600:6C56:5B00:33B:B826:533D:5D2E:C876 (talk) 02:17, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
- It's currently citing The New York Times for that information (which is precisely quoted as
M-60A3 tanks, like the one the man commandeered, can reach speeds of 45 miles an hour and travel almost 300 miles on a full tank of gas.
), which is in turn sourcing an officer at that armory. That source (and subsequently the NYT) may also be referring to iterations, extremes, versions, loadouts, or any number of other variables applicable to the tanks held at that particular location. Since this article is about this specific event, I think it's better to cite contemporary and event-specific sources which may refer to unique factors here. Does that make sense? — Fourthords | =Λ= | 02:46, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
Infobox photo of Shawn Nelson edit
The current infobox photo of Shawn Nelson is currently a black-and-white high school photo from 1976. I recently located his Army photo and uploaded it to Wikimedia Commons (File:Shawn Nelson Army.jpg). The Army photo is in color, has higher resolution, and is more recent; therefore, I feel it is a better photo for his infobox. I feel that his high school photo could be kept as a thumbnail in the article. Does anyone object to changing the infobox photo to the Army photo? Thanks! Wikipedialuva (talk) 16:58, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
- Not only are neither Medium nor Charles Joseph Berkey III reliable sources for attributing this photo, there's no blanket assumption that military photos (especially training photos) are US military productions (for examples, see Commons:Deletion requests/File:Jack Teixeira (JPEG version).jpg, Commons:Deletion requests/File:Travis King.webp, and Commons:Deletion requests/File:Monica Elfriede Witt in uniform.jpg). — Fourthords | =Λ= | 18:31, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
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