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Good articleMurder of Selena has been listed as one of the Social sciences and society good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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May 31, 2011Peer reviewReviewed
July 19, 2011Peer reviewReviewed
November 3, 2011Peer reviewReviewed
December 6, 2011Good article nomineeListed
September 26, 2015Peer reviewReviewed
Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on June 13, 2011.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Mexican-American singer-songwriter Selena was murdered by an employee who (falsely) claimed she was raped and needed the singer's help?
On this day... Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on March 31, 2013, March 31, 2018, and March 31, 2021.
Current status: Good article

Media bias about bullet type

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The section "Failed attempts to kill Selena" specifies that hollow-point bullets were specifically chosen over "normal" bullets to inflict more damage. I don't know how the Texan legislation settles this, but in EU full-metal jacket bullets (the alternative type of bullets) are restricted to military use and their sale is forbidden to civilians. That is, the "normal" type of bullet is really the hollow one. Medende (talk) 04:12, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

selena i hope you know alot of people loved how you put a melady togetther 72.136.101.203 (talk) 11:22, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

sainthood

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regarding the opening of the article, it should be noted that she wasn't actually "elevated to sainthood." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.99.147.86 (talk) 11:07, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Agree, and fixed. Best, jona(talk) 11:46, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Is there an actual connection?

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The article contains the following passage:

Two deaths in California were reported following the outbreak of Selena's death. A drag queen planned to dress up as Selena for one of his upcoming performances, he was hit by a car and was left to die. Gloria de la Cruz auditioned for the role of Selena, she was later found dumped in a Los Angeles dumpster. Her killer had strangled her and set her body on fire.

It's not clear to me whether these people's deaths were in fact connected to their interest in Selena, or whether they simply happen to be people who were interested in Selena but died violent deaths for unrelated reasons. In the case of Gloria de la Cruz, her death seems to be completely unrelated to her audition for the role of Selena, and it also took place more than a year after Selena's death. I don't know if these people's deaths even should be mentioned in this article. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 00:12, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

They were connected for having interest in Selena. Gloria auditioned for the title role; the movie was released in 1997 not 1995. The news article you provided seems to picture a different scene from what the author of the book says: she was killed the day after her audition for the title role in 1996, but the book and the news article agree on the matter of her death. The book does not specify the outcome of their respective deaths or gives any glimpse into their lives before and after Selena's own death, but only says that they died following the killing of Selena. Best, jona(talk) 01:38, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Selena

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Death 104.173.1.35 (talk) 01:05, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Did never Open the door for strangers

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One day someone came at the door and we did not know who it was and we did not open the door for them so do never open doors for people or you can get kidnap 70.40.84.213 (talk) 16:26, 1 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Citation missing

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Where are the citations to show that her death received the same attention as the deaths of Kurt Cobain, JFK, and John Lennon? This seems very hard to believe. 166.137.115.22 (talk) 16:17, 19 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If you're referring to the lead, that's because the lead does not require citations if it is highlighting content otherwise sourced in the body. Refer to § Latino community where it says Reactions were compared to those that followed the deaths of John Lennon, Elvis Presley, and John F. Kennedy.[1][2] Hope that helps, microbiologyMarcus (petri dish·growths) 19:39, 14 December 2023 (UTC) microbiologyMarcus (petri dish·growths) 19:39, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The truth behind the incident according to the documentary

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Yolanda had said in the documentary on Oxygen that everything that the world had been told about her behavior and relationship were completely false to deceive the world and told the real truth of how things really happened. I totally believe her, and her documentary made me realized that nobody could say that she shot Selena in the motel room over embezzlement for three reasons:

  1. Nobody was at the motel when the shooting happened. It was only the employees and guests.
  2. Whatever happened between Selena and Yolanda in the motel room was their personal business, which is why we don't know what really happened in the room.
  3. Based on reasons 1 and 2, we have to realize that we can't assume what occurred between people behind closed doors and claim it as a fact. Assumptions are not facts. They're opinions while facts, on the other hand, are true statements.

For these reasons, the majority of the info in this page should be changed to say what the documentary had said. Chidie345 (talk) 03:45, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

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  1. ^ Jasinski 2012, p. 254.
  2. ^ Stacy 2002, p. 746.
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