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Good articleCheshire murders 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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January 28, 2011Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 26, 2010.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the 2007 home invasion murders in Cheshire, Connecticut, have been called 'possibly the most widely publicized crime in the state's history'?


2016 suicide attempt

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On August 18, 2016, Joshua Komisarjevsky attempted to hang himself in his prison cell. Here is a newspaper article about it.

https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/prison-says-joshua-komisarjevsky-tried-committing-suicide/61952/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1702:CC4:20F0:6E8B:1252:DCA2:9116 (talk) 04:15, 2 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Question at WT:Manual of Style/Biography relating to this page

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Hello! I've just asked a question as to the meaning of GENDERID at WT:MOS/BIOGRAPHY that would affect this article, and, specifically, whether Linda Hayes's deadname is included.--Jerome Frank Disciple 01:15, 24 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

On a related note, I'm confused as to the policy on pronouns. I understand Wikipedia's formatting policy is to abide by preferred pronouns, but does this extend to quotes as well? The quotes cited in this article have also had pronouns modified or omitted as indicated by the bracketing. Shouldn't those remain as they were at the time? Hhtesntwr (talk) 21:01, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes. Transgender people are commonly referred to by their current name and pronouns for their entire life, and it is common practice to also retroactively "correct" quotations like this. Wikipedia has also adopted this practice by consensus, see WP:GID: "Paraphrase, elide, or use square brackets to replace portions of quotations to avoid deadnaming or misgendering, except in rare cases where exact wording cannot be avoided, as where there is a pun on the notable former name, etc." -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH) 21:06, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]