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Short description: English-American mass murderer (1991–2014)
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The infobox lists it as unknown currently but this is misleading as they not some lost artifact, the family knows where they are. I found this source that says he was cremated but nothing more.[1]ManU9827 (talk) 07:54, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I will say that the lead seems to focus overwhelmingly on the last days of Elliot's life. Mind you that the purpose of the lead is to summarize a page. I think, perhaps, I would structure the lead as follows:
A sentence defining Elliot Rodger (MOS:BIOFIRSTSENTENCE), followed by three paragraphs of roughly equal size:
A paragraph describing his life up to the attacks, maybe mention his lineage?
A paragraph describing the attacks proper
A paragraph describing his societal/macrohistorical significance. This would include the phrase "Go ER", status in incel/manosphere communities, inspiring future shooters, popular culture. Maybe also NotAllMen/YesAllWomen. (Though the legacy section is also one paragraph, which seems to indicate underdevelopment)
This structure would highlight a more diverse amount of aspects about ER. Things about Elliot's ideology and manifesto should probably be somewhere here too, not sure what paragraph would serve best. Koopinator (talk) 18:43, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your update @Shoot for the Stars. I've made some slight changes separating the first sentence which establishes his notability from the paragraph which deals with his early life and then I've added a bit to the paragraph which establishes his notability.
on the details in the userbox it shows that he died 10 years ago, it has been 11 years now, i cant edit it as i am not extended confirmed just thought I would let people who can edit it know because this article is being nominated to be a good article and having invalid information would not be very sigma Bastubunny (talk) 03:04, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't mind minor inaccuracy in age, but this isn't really a case where the "age" has any reason to be displayed. The date of the event is important info, but the time that's passed since is trivial. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 13:12, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Done TarnishedPathtalk 07:01, 19 March 2025 (UTC)