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Requested move 30 December 2020

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: No consensus to move after relist. (non-admin closure) (t · c) buidhe 20:33, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]


Shooting of Trayvon Martin → Killing of Trayvon Martin – Per now established WP:CONSISTENT titles: [1]. Martin was killed and did not just get shot. The fact that he was killed is the most notable aspect of this subject. Albertaont (talk) 23:07, 30 December 2020 (UTC) —Relisting. Jack Frost (talk) 13:32, 16 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

title of article

yeah, i agree, it should be called 'HOMICIDE OF TRAYVON MARTIN' atleast. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Monkeylady999 (talk • contribs) 00:37, 1 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 26 February 2021

The title is inaccurate. It should be changed to THE LYNCHING OF TRAYVON MARTIN or THE MURDER OF TRAYVON MARTIN. The child is black, unarmed and where he is supposed to be as stated by your own sources and by testimony. The 911 operator told the Murder to not follow him. The murder did not listen and chose to stalk and murder Trayvon as he screamed helplessly. 72.141.147.207 (talk) 12:10, 26 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There is consensus for the current title. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:30, 26 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
He was a year away from being legally an adult so he was certainly not a child. He attacked George Zimmerman who had would be reason to believe that Trayvon Martin would continue to inflict serious bodily harm, he had given him a fractured nose, two black eyes, two lacerations on the back of his head and a back injury. He was clearly casing houses because who walks in the rain at night looking at winddowns while wearing a hoodie? Also, just following somebody doesn't mean you deserve to be seriously injured in a beating. Also this wouldn't be a lynching because lynchings are group activities. Also Zimmerman is not a murderer because he was acquitted. Also Trayvon had weed in his system and his father initially claimed the screams weren't that of his son.

Public response section

The public response section is bloated with random opinion-pieces and factoids that had no long-term significance. We ought to trim it down and rewrite it to summarize the broad public response, as well as secondary coverage of the response by high-quality sources, rather than a wall of random forgotten opinion pieces from 2012 that Wikipedia editors at the time thought were cool. --Aquillion (talk) 21:43, 18 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Levivich 17:33, 15 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 15 July 2021

Shooting of Trayvon Martin → Killing of Trayvon Martin – As between "shooting of Trayvon Martin" and "killing of Trayvon Martin", there is no single WP:COMMONNAME, as both are commonly used (NGrams, GScholar "killing", GScholar "shooting"). When there is no clear COMMONNAME, WP:DEATHS indicates that "killing" should be used for a homicide (such as this topic). Anyway, if there is a COMMONNAME, it's "killing", which is more prevalent than "shooting" per the aforementioned NGrams and Google Scholar hits. Levivich 17:31, 15 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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