Template:Did you know nominations/2016 Maryland shooting spree

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:03, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

2016 Maryland shooting spree

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... that the perpetrators of the 2016 Maryland shooting spree and the D.C. sniper attacks ate at the same Boston Market?

Reviewed: Taylor oil spill

Created by Leaky.Solar (talk). Nominated by Morgan Ginsberg (talk) at 02:53, 6 November 2018 (UTC).

Is long enough (5,400 readable text), and new enough (created Nov 5). Checked for copyvio issues - found only short phrases and so on, normal stuff. Is within policy in regards to neutrality and inline citations. QPQ is done and hook is cited inline by both footnote 2 and footnote 10. I expressed an issue with the article covering the verdict (via the talk page), and the author quickly dealt with it. I think it's ready to go. --Krelnik (talk) 01:47, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

I was going to comment. "The shooting was reminiscent of the 2002 Washington D.C. sniper attacks due to both being connected to Boston Market.[2]" appears to be trivia. It's more interesting / relevant that the perpetrator was "a Homeland Security officer" or that he had history of domestic violence. @Krelnik: K.e.coffman (talk) 01:58, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

There is no guideline against "trivia" in the hook of which I'm aware. Isn't the DYK section by its very nature a box of trivia? In the hook's defense, footnote 2 in the article specifically calls out that the Boston Market connection reminded locals of the earlier shooting. I'm disinclined to call attention to the Homeland Security connection or particularly the domestic abuse issue as they are both fairly negative. As this is an incident in which people died and others were injured or traumatized, I think its best to steer the hook toward a less painful aspect of the story, such as this. --Krelnik (talk) 02:39, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

@K.e.coffman: You seem to be in the minority if no one else objects. Several journalists thought it was noteworthy. See "D.C. Shooting Suspect Eulalio Tordil Nabbed at Boston Market From Hell" by The Daily Beast which is cited in the article.

Another from the Washington Post that can be added if needed: The sporadic shootings sparked a deep sense of foreboding that echoed what the same neighborhood suffered through during the Beltway sniper rampage that took 10 lives in 2002. “It was an irony that was not lost on me,” Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy said. The snipers, Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen Muhammad, had even eaten lunch at the same Boston Market where a witness was told by employees that Tordil quietly ate his lunch — a salad and a glass of water — near a window facing his car. Morgan Ginsberg (talk) 04:08, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

I've removed my "decline" ticker; I still don't consider the hook interesting, is in: so what that they ate at the same fastfood place?. But I would let others decide. K.e.coffman (talk) 20:21, 17 November 2018 (UTC)