Talk:Female suicide bomber

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Untitled

The subject of "Female Suicide Bombers" is a notable topic by Wikipedia's definition. Many reputable academic journals and books discuss the term and support this conclusion (Amal Amireh, Jessica Davis, Margaret Gonzalez-Perez, etc.). This page has the potential to grow and communicate relevant, educational information about the subject, and I think the topic deserves its own page. AmyPell (talk) 05:39, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Requested move 27 December 2015

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: MOVED Vanjagenije (talk) 12:20, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

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Female Suicide Bombers → Female suicide bomber – Per WP:TITLEFORMAT. Nick Number (talk) 22:00, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

• Of course – This isn't even controversial, and should be been BOLDly moved instead. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 23:57, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
• Support - No reason for "bombers" to be plural when the page refers to a single individual. Also, we should use singular form to abide by WP:TITLEFORMAT. Meatsgains (talk) 00:20, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
• Support speedy move., this isn't contentious at all... should be non capitalised and singular. requires administrator to move. EDIT: on second thought... why does this article even need to exist at all? we have a gender section in the suicide attack article already.  InsertCleverPhraseHere ^{InsertTalkHere}  02:51, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
  • Pinging major contributors to comment on this: @S13rown, AmyPell, and TeriEmbrey.
• Mixed – I support lowercase plural for this class of individuals. Dicklyon (talk) 06:19, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
  • Is there a reason to deviate from WP:TITLEFORMAT and WP:PLURAL in this case? Nick Number (talk) 15:28, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
    • It seems to fit well under the exceptions section there. Dicklyon (talk) 15:33, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
      • Which one? "Articles on people groups" generally refers to ethnicities and nationalities. Articles for human occupations (for lack of a better word; it's obviously stretching the definition to call suicide bombing a job) such as sapper, soldier, and warrior are usually singular. Nick Number (talk) 15:41, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

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Updating info/ adding content

I'm looking to update this page with proper citations and try and add a bit more content from more locations where this has occurred.Uriahdavis (talk) 18:46, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

sources i plan to use: Sawicki, John. "A tragic trend. Why terrorists use female and child suicide bombers." Health progress (Saint Louis, Mo.) 97.4 (2016): 38-42. Straub, Verena. "The making and gendering of a martyr: images of female suicide bombers in the Middle East." Image Operations: Visual Media and Political Conflict (2016): 137. Berko, Anat. The smarter bomb: Women and children as suicide bombers. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. Narozhna, Tanya, and W. Andy Knight. Female Suicide Bombings: A Critical Gender Approach. University of Toronto Press, 2016.

Requesting page move/name change

Female suicide bomber → Female Suicide BombersFemale Suicide Bombers – This article now discusses multiple and therefore should be plural Sisyphus' boulder343 (talk) 12:30, 25 May 2026 (UTC) — Relisting. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 14:02, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

• Oppose per WP:SINGULAR/MOS:CAPS. * Pppery * _{in solidarity} 15:47, 25 May 2026 (UTC)
• Oppose per User:Pppery. 162 etc. (talk) 16:45, 25 May 2026 (UTC)
• The proposed uppercase is probably just a mistake; at least that's what I'm guessing. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 18:37, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Oppose per above. PARAKANYAA (talk) 20:46, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

• Oppose: as the name dosent meet MOS:CAPS and Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization. In English, capitalization is primarily needed for proper names, acronyms, and for the first letter of a sentence. Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia. ~ŤheŴubṂachine-840≈ ● ✒️ 09:24, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

Relisting comment: Intended new title was "Female suicide bombers", as per my talkpage. Thoughts? Jeffrey34555 (talk) 14:02, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

• Oppose. Even without the capitalisation question, WP:SINGULAR still applies here, as per Pppery above. No need to move. Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 17:06, 1 June 2026 (UTC)