User:Locke Cole/Mass shooting victim statistics
- See also: Wikipedia:Casualty lists
Working from Mass shootings in the United States to try and collect data on how frequently victims are included in mass shooting articles.
See below for why I stopped where I did
Data
| Article | Killed (listed) | Injured (listed) | Style | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 California Street shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 8 | 6 | list | |
| 2017 Schofield/Rothschild spree shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 4 | 0 | list | |
| ABB plant shootings (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 3 | 0 | list | |
| Aberdeen, Maryland shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 0 | 0 | ||
| Appalachian School of Law shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 3 | 0 | prose | |
| 2010 Appomattox shootings (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 8 | 0 | list | |
| Art All Night shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 0 | 0 | No deaths, so no names to list. 18 injured (not listed). | |
| Larry Gene Ashbrook (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 7 | 0 | list | |
| Atlantis Plastics shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 5 | 0 | list | |
| 1993 Aurora shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 4 | 0 | prose | |
| 2012 Aurora shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 12 | 0 | list | |
| Aurora, Illinois shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 0 | 0 | Currently being debated on the talk page | |
| 2012 Azana Spa shootings (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 3 | 0 | prose | |
| George Banks (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 13 | 1 | list | |
| Bard College at Simon's Rock shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 2 | 4 | prose | redirect to Wayne Lo (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) |
| Mark O. Barton (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 12 | 0 | list | |
| 2016 shooting of Baton Rouge police officers (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 3 | 1 | both | |
| D.C. sniper attacks (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 17 | 4 | prose | |
| Bethel Regional High School shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 2 | 0 | prose | |
| Binghamton shootings (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 13 | 2 | list | |
| William Ray Bonner (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 7 | 8 | both | |
| Luis Bracamontes (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 2 | 0 | prose | |
| Bronx-Lebanon Hospital attack (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 1 | 2 | prose | |
| Carl Robert Brown (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 8 | 3 | list | |
| Brown's Chicken massacre (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 7 | 0 | prose | |
| Burnette Chapel shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 1 | 0 | prose | |
| California State University, Fullerton, massacre (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 1 | 0 | prose | |
| Capital Gazette shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 5 | 0 | list | |
| Capitol Hill massacre (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 6 | 2 | list | |
| 2007 Carnation murders (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 6 | 0 | both | |
| Carthage nursing home shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 8 | 2 | both | |
| Cascade Mall shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 5 | 0 | prose | |
| 2015 Chapel Hill shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 3 | 0 | list | |
| Chardon High School shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 3 | 3 | prose | |
| Charleston church shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 9 | 0 | list | |
| 2015 Chattanooga shootings (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 5 | 2 | both | |
| 1993 shootings at CIA Headquarters (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 2 | 3 | prose | |
| 2018 Cincinnati shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2016 Citronelle homicides (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 5 | 0 | list | Unborn child also died, and was noted in the listing |
| Clackamas Town Center shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 2 | 1 | prose | |
| Cleveland Elementary School shooting (San Diego) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 2 | 0 | prose | |
| Cleveland Elementary School shooting (Stockton) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 5 | 0 | list | list is isolated in a box using a smaller font than the article prose |
| Clinton, Mississippi hostage standoff (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 3 | 0 | prose | currently nominated for deletion |
| Clovis library shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 2 | 4 | prose | |
| 2012 College Station, Texas shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 2 | 4 | both | |
| 2009 Collier Township shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 3 | 0 | prose | |
| Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 3 | 0 | prose | |
| 2007 Colorado YWAM and New Life shootings (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 4 | 5 | both | |
| Columbine High School massacre (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 13 | 21 | both | |
| 2017 Congressional baseball shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 0 | 6 | prose | none of the victims died |
| Connecticut Lottery (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 0 | 0 | Not an article about a mass shooting, it has a short section with two sentences about a shooting at the headquarters for the CT lottery. | |
| 2011 Copley Township shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 7 | 1 | both | |
| Copper Canyon Apartment Homes shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 0 | 0 | Perpetrator is only listed in the infobox, none of the prose names the perp/victims. | |
| Covina massacre (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 9 | 0 | list | |
| Crandon, Wisconsin shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 1 | 0 | prose | 6 total killed, only one listed in leed |
| Cupertino quarry shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 0 | 0 | redirect to Permanente Quarry (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), no victims named | |
| Daingerfield church shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 5 | 3 | list | victims were removed during this edit and added again in this edit |
| 2016 shooting of Dallas police officers (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 5 | 0 | list | |
| Laurie Dann (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 1 | 0 | prose | victim has own article at Nick Corwin (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) |
| Dimebag Darrell (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 4 | 2 | list/prose | article may be miscategorized, article is about the victim and has a subsection about the event |
| Ronald DeFeo Jr. (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 6 | 0 | prose | |
| Lynwood Drake (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 6 | 2 | both | |
| Edmond post office shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 15 | 6 | list | |
| 1997 Empire State Building shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 1 | 1 | prose | |
| 2003 Ennis shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 1 | 9 | both, mostly list | |
| Richard Farley (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 7 | 4 | list | |
| 1986 FBI Miami shootout (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 2 | 6 | both | |
| Florence, South Carolina shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 2 | 0 | prose | |
| 2009 Fort Hood shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 13 | 32 | list | |
| 2014 Fort Hood shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 3 | 3 | both | |
| Fort Lauderdale airport shooting (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) | 0 | 0 | there was a brief discussion about including victims, which erroneously referenced WP:VICTIM as being the reason not to include the names (WP:VICTIM is about articles for individual victims, not about listing them within a notable event) |
Summary
As of August 5, 2019
| Style | Number | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| Prose | 26 | 37% |
| List | 22 | 31% |
| Both | 14 | 20% |
| No Style Listed | 9 | 13% |
| Total: | 71 | 100% |
Update
I initially started this because editors were claiming that "most articles" did not include victim names. As I was going through with this, and providing results as I went along, the editors involved moved the goalposts (they changed it from "most articles" to "most recent articles"), it was at that point I stopped. Anyone is welcome to pick up where I left off, but given the result I was seeing, it feels safe to say that "most articles" do include victims in some form (a list, or prose, or sometimes even both). —Locke Cole • t • c 19:22, 16 May 2022 (UTC)