Talk:Brenda Ann Spencer

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Contents 1 Snopes 2 Mass murder 3 Removed statement 4 Mistake 5 Song 6 Copyvio? 7 student ?

[edit] Snopes

This page seems to be blatantly taken from the snopes page on the same topic.

[edit] Mass murder

One should reconsider calling her a 'mass murderer'. It does not seem appropriate for me for two respects:

• She did kill two people which are not 'masses'
• She was sixteen years old when she commited these murders

I agree, for the first reason stated above. I'm deleting the sentence because it is inaccurate and inconsistent with the definition given in Mass murderer

I agree it's not mass murder, but why is her age relevant?

Age is irrelevant to being (or not being) a mass murderer. Arguably, her intent was to commit mass murder. However I agree with the deleted sentence. 66.17.105.226 19:14, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

I think because any Brenda Ann Spencer information is relevant.

[edit] Removed statement

Deleted sentence: "She is one of the few known female mass murderers in United States history."

--Fred 19:27, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mistake

There is a mistake in this article. It says that "I Don't Like Mondays" reached #1 on the UK charts in July of 1979. The album wasn't released until October of that year. I'm not sure if anyone wants to fix that.

Not a mistake. The song was released prior to the album.

[edit] Song

Should the song actually be redirected here? I mean it's different. WestJet

• I agree with WestJet. Like many big musical hits on wikipedia, the song should have its own page. Admittedly, they should be tightly interlinked. Frevidar

I agree as well. There is no reason why older songs like I Don't Like Mondays get reduced to subsections of existing articles while individual Britney Spears songs merit their own articles. The articles on I Don't Like Mondays and Brenda Ann Spencer should be separate, but interlinked. 66.17.105.226 19:14, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

I think the song should be re-relised in the uk.

I think the song should have its own article --Melly42 09:36, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Have done so; I Don't Like Mondays. (Yorkshiresky 12:28, 6 August 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Copyvio?

This page, particularly the third paragraph, reads too much like a direct paste of the snopes page (as another editor has noted above). Should it be tagged as potential copyvio until rewritten? DWaterson 00:48, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] student ?

was Brenda Spencer a student at the time of the shootings? Thanks Hmains 03:13, 13 October 2006 (UTC)