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Chicage?[edit]

Clearly it ought to be titled Chicago. Update a few minutes later... ok my account is too new and I can't move pages. I created a new page with the correct title and changed all appropriate links to it. This "Chicage" page can be deleted, or if someone wants to clean up after me and properly move the page then go for it.

Actually I'm not sure why it's named Chicago anyway. Even the History Channel refers to it simply as "The Tylenol murders". There are no other "Tylenol murders". There are copycat murders, but this incident will forever be known as The Tylenol Murders and Chicago will seldom be remembered, and isn't necessary. MagnoliaSouth ^(talk) 21:09, 29 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Halloween poisonings[edit]

"Vanishingly rare" gives the impression that poisoned Halloween candy once was common. The belief has always been from rumors with no documented cases of poisoned candy given to trick or treaters. Accurate terms would be "a non-existant fear" or "extreemely rare" since using just "rare" also implies that this crime still happens. Colonial Computer 06:41, 6 July 2022 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 22yearswothanks (talk • contribs)

Slight rework[edit]

I went looking for some sources to add details to the incidents section, and I made a few changes I wanted to flag: First, while the PBS source says Theresa Janus was 19, both CBS and the Chicago Tribune say she was 20—the Chicago Tribune also lists her full birthdate, which would have made her 20 at the time. As such, I changed that fact. Also: I looked at The New York Times article that was used to support the claim about using loudspeakers, and I couldn't find that claim made, so I removed it, although the source is still in the article.--Jerome Frank Disciple (talk) 15:36, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

WP:BLPCrime consideration[edit]

I just want to flag that I've actively considered WP:BLPCrime and the identification of the two primary suspects in this case. I think that their identification is warranted: Lewis because he was convicted of an offense in direct relation to this event. Arnold because he has been deceased for 14 years and was, in a (concededly tangentially) related event, convicted of murder. I'm not saying that I've arrived at the absolute correct decision, but in case anyone else has the same spark of concern that I did, I wanted to memorialize my thoughts on the issue.--Jerome Frank Disciple (talk) 13:09, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Evaluation of Sources per Class Assignment[edit]

Hello! I was told through a Wikipedia course to leave some of my feedback in this section, in regards to evaluating the article. This section primarily revolves around Sources & References used.

There’s a decent amount of facts that are backed up by news articles, which somewhat unnerves me. However, the case in itself did heavily revolve around media attraction, and widespread panic- which does give a reason as to why most of this information would be publicized on the news. Information from the relatives of the victims are entirely vague and lacking. Thankfully some sources do come from sources outside of news publications, as some source from the police when it comes to investigation matters, or some are based from scientific articles when the topic is associated with general chemistry or the chemical content of afflicted Tylenol capsules. I believe that even if there are a lot of references sourced from media, they’re diligently and reasonably used- and the article isn’t solely reliant on such. I found a modern academic journal that goes over the case that hadn’t been included in the Wikipedia article, which would be good to cite from.

Maria João S. Oliveira, Chicago Tylenol Murders: Information and mindfulness, Safety Science, Volume 165, 2023, 106190, ISSN 0925-7535, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2023.106190.(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925753523001327)

I’ve also clicked a good handful of links, being towards other Wikipedia articles and cites sources, and both appear to work perfectly. Anything that has been taken off the internet has thankfully been archived.--Lorrriana (talk) 18:39, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]