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Russell Brandom (March 6, 2018). "How gun buffs took over Wikipedia's AR-15 page". The Verge. Retrieved March 18, 2018.
Matthew Walther (November 7, 2017). "The adolescent cult of the AR-15". The Week. Retrieved March 18, 2018.
David Brennan (March 7, 2018). "A pro-gun group edited the AR-15 Wikipedia page to hide the extent of mass shootings associated with the rifle". Newsweek. Retrieved March 18, 2018.
Omer Benjakob (March 18, 2018). "Gun Enthusiasts Are Waging a War of Attrition on Wikipedia, and It Looks Like They're Winning". Haaretz. Retrieved March 18, 2018.

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Use in mass shootings[edit]

I've gone ahead and made a revision of my own to the section, on the basis that it shows an obvious bias towards this particular item in general as opposed to the countless and various other firearms, of identifiable and distinctive make/model, that have also been used in Mass Shootings. These pages are supposed to highlight the subject matter itself and not sidetrack or show bias towards one or the other. If we are going to include excerpts towards mass shootings for one firearm, we must do them for all or for none.

Hopefully my reasoning is sound! If not I am open to discussion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:9001:2D0A:B700:E1A5:1364:17AC:11D1 (talk) 19:21, 14 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't blank that section without consensus, because it was added after an RfC [1]. Geogene (talk) 21:57, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I would also add that the IP's "all or none" argument is counter to community consensus from a major RfC [2] which states that "(inclusion of mass shootings) should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, with care taken to avoid trivia and a strong reliance on reliable sources." Including this content is not inherently biased or off-topic. –dlthewave ☎ 22:08, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]