Talk:2007 Cheshire, Connecticut murders
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 | 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'? | |||||||||
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Requested move 15 November 2025
edit- 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 after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Bobby Cohn 🍁 (talk) 18:57, 28 November 2025 (UTC)
Cheshire murders → ? – This is a crime that took place in a town in Connecticut but Cheshire is also the name of a ceremonial county in England. Someone moved the page to this title a few years ago but I think this title doesn't follow guidelines, especially conventions for locations in the United States. Killuminator (talk) 00:51, 15 November 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 18:46, 21 November 2025 (UTC)
- Suggest Murders in Cheshire, Connecticut, which specifies the fact that the murders took place in the US town and not the country in England. Thanks, 1isall (he/him) (talk | contribs) 20:12, 16 November 2025 (UTC)
- Suggest 2007 murders in Cheshire, Connecticut there inevitably will have been other murders in the town's history. In ictu oculi (talk) 21:12, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
- Even though the ceremonial county is primary for the base title Chester unless there are other notable murders called this then per WP:SHORTFORM the current title may be fine. Crouch, Swale (talk) 23:32, 19 November 2025 (UTC)
- Restore previous Cheshire home invasion murders. The "Murders in..." formulations sounds like a list of events rather than one specific event. CBS uses "Petit family murders" but "Cheshire home invasion murders" and "Cheshire murders" appear more common. –RoxySaunders 🏳️⚧️ (talk • stalk) 00:16, 20 November 2025 (UTC)
- restore previous title per RoxySaunders. "murders in ..." makes it seem like it is covering all the murders that have ever happened there, and 2007 just makes it seem like the year. PARAKANYAA (talk) 02:41, 22 November 2025 (UTC)
- Move to 2007 murders in Cheshire, Connecticut, as stated "Cheshire" is vague, there have been Murders in the English Cheshire, so it needs to specify to Cheshire, Connecticut. I find the year as more informative rather than how the murders occurred, and less likely to imply the general topic of murders in Cheshire, Connecticut. Don't think SHORTFORM applies as "murders" alone does not imply one Cheshire over the other, as the English one has had them too. DankJae 02:07, 23 November 2025 (UTC)
- Support 2007 murders in Cheshire, Connecticut or Petit family murders. -- Necrothesp (talk) 11:33, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
Improper use of WikiVoice
editThe article currently states that Joshua Komisarjevsky, was "sexually abused as a child, also burned and tortured". The actual cited source says that this claimed by a Leo Shea who was apparently simply reciting what Komisarjevsky told him. The concussions that many articles on this topic seem to reference in conjunction with this, aren't even ascribed to abuse at all but normal activity: a car accident, soccer injury, falling down stairs (apparently the defence's argument was that this gave him a diminished capacity, and therefore less (no?) criminal culpability).
As-is the article is lending far too much credibility to a contentious claim. As far as I can tell there is no actual evidence of any such abuse, simply claims by a individual seeking leniency. At the very least the passage should note that Komisarjevsky is the source of such claims, if not entirely strike it from the article. JSory (talk) 22:45, 23 January 2026 (UTC)
Requested move 13 February 2026
edit- 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 after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jeffrey34555 (talk) 04:59, 20 February 2026 (UTC)
2007 murders in Cheshire, Connecticut → 2007 Chesire, Connecticut murders – Per WP:TITLECON. Alt: 2007 Chesire, Connecticut, murders per MOS:GEOCOMMA, but I understand that is typically unpopular in move discussions, but the first proposal should at least be an improvement. Raskuly (talk) 04:04, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- Support either per nom. Current is weird. PARAKANYAA (talk) 00:34, 17 February 2026 (UTC)