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Did you know... that the perpetrator of a murder on a bus once described meeting his victim, who was his girlfriend, to be "like winning the Mark Six"?
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Consistency – The title is consistent with the pattern of similar articles' titles. As a result there are different naming conventions for articles about people, events and murders.
An approximate translation of the tile of the corresponding Chinese Wikipedia article is "Murder [on] Citybus No. 118 in Chai Wan", which seems to have influenced how this article is titled in English as Chai Wan Citybus murder. However, this English title conveys the subtle and unintended impression of an event that resulted in the murder of a busload of people, or people being murdered by a bus that is not conveyed by the Chinese title. Since one cannot murder a bus, the article could be referring to murder of the passenger(s) on the bus or the use of the bus as a weapon to murder people. Article titles should not convey these unintended meanings. However this article might be named on Chinese Wikipedia, the English language naming conventions need to be applied to English language articles. English language sources do not refer to this murder by the given title, even though the Chinese language sources might. This implies the given title is not a recognizable common name. Applying the naming conventions for events requires adding a year (2017) to the article title, but that is hardly an improvement. If one applies the naming conventions for murders, one arrives at "Murder of Li Sin-heng". Google searches on this and other potential titles indicate that this is the most precise and concise title that is consistent with the names of other Wikipedia articles about murders of individual people. Your thoughts before I rename the article? - Cameron Dewe (talk) 04:27, 5 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
In that case, feel free to go ahead and move the article & make the necessary changes, though I suggest the current name be kept as a redirect. S5A-0043Talk04:32, 5 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment: Would like to request this DYK to be on Sep 16th if approved (murder took place on this day 6 years ago) and if main hook is chosen. If ALT1 is picked instead any date is fine.
Ok I'm going to be honest, I completely forgot about this nom. However since it's been way too long, and I honestly have other commitments to focus on, I wish to withdraw this nomination. Thank you. S5A-0043Talk11:32, 20 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Are you sure you want to withdraw this?! I've been looking at this hoping someone would review it, because I want to promote it really badly, but if no one's willing to review I'll do so myself so someone else can. Vaticidalprophet05:36, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Well, my intention was to get this on Sep 16th to match the date of the incident, which did not happen. I got my end-of-year exams coming up from next week onwards until October 11th, and I'll probably be less active on WP until then. Now that you mentioned it I'll cancel the withdrawal and hopefully someone or maybe you can review it before Sunday, but if a new hook is needed I'll confirm my withdrawal because I don't think I'll have the time to think of a new one. I'll put an ALT2 in the meantime:
ALT2 ... that the perpetrator of a murder onboard a bus (pictured) once described meeting his victim, who was his girlfriend, to be "like winning the mark six"? [1] So basically, if neither ALT1 or ALT2 gets approved I'll withdraw completely. S5A-0043Talk11:49, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It's a little odd that this article about a murder has only one picture: of the bus where the attack happened, taken four years later. Aren't there pictures of the killer and victim? Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 17:03, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I would add them, except I didn't find photos of the victim on Google, through the Chinese name or English one. The killer did have some pictures around, but most of them are either side shots or he had a mask on (not ideal in identifying him), no mug shots were released by the police, and I don't know whether the HK prison system allows photos of prisoners to be taken within the prison compound, because if yes then the photo would fail WP:NFCC #1. Also I originally intended to add one pic of the scene immediately after but I wasn't sure whether it would satisfy NFCC as well, so I didn't do it, though if someone thinks otherwise they can WP:BOLDly do so. S5A-0043Talk04:11, 7 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The legal proceedings section says that he pled guilty (on 20 Oct 2020) to manslaughter but not murder, but then that the prosecutors rejected that, and then talks about the case going to trial. Maybe the HK judicial system works differently, but here in the US, if you plead guilty, that's generally the end of the case. You can plead to one of multiple charges (with the rest still being potentially taken to trial), but then the prosecutors can't reject your plea to the charge, only the judge can do that. They can decide to still take it to trial for the charge they're alleging, but that's not the same thing. I guess I'm saying that there might be a way that what it's describing could happen in US courts, but there are certainly clearer ways to explain it, such as saying he tried to plead guilty but wasn't allowed to plead to what he wanted to (if that's the case) or that the prosecutors didn't drop the rest of the case when he pled guilty, but still took him to trial for murder (if that's what happened). Basically, we need more clarity. Cromwellt|talk|contribs20:06, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The text came from here which was cited in the article:
惟控方不接納被告的說法，因車上的閉路電視片段可見被告行事正常，認為他是有意殺害死者。(Google Translate: However, the prosecution did not accept the defendant's statement because the CCTV footage in the (bus) showed that the defendant was acting normally and believed that he intended to kill the deceased.)
I paraphrased "did not accept" to rejected during the translation process, though maybe that's an error on my part in accidentally changing the meaning. If you think did not accept is better I suppose you can change it. S5A-0043Talk04:20, 7 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@SBS6577P: Good article. 
AGF on chinese sources. Onegreatjoke (talk) 20:23, 21 September 2023 (UTC)