Edit: you just have to be selective at your victim or do mass shooting.

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    Actually, the easiest way is to just go edit Wikipedia and make the page. It might violate rules, but so does murder

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      It might violate rules, but so does murder

      But murdering people won’t get your edits reverted. If you take out some of the over zealous wikipedia police your page is guaranteed.

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    Nah, vast majority of murders are not noteworthy and the killer has no article.

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    Not really. You have to kill someone whos famous enough in their own right to get a page (organically not just a bs make your own). Tons of folks get killed everyday and the killers don’t get a page.

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        yeah thats multiple someones over a lot of years and then there is the whole not getting caught and evading arrest. Its just a list of endless headaches.

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    A shower thought with a long history:

    Herostratus (Ancient Greek: Ἡρόστρατος) was a 4th-century BC Greek, accused of seeking notoriety as an arsonist by destroying the second Temple of Artemis in Ephesus (on the outskirts of present-day Selçuk), one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The act prompted his execution and the creation of a damnatio memoriae law forbidding anyone to mention his name, orally or in writing. The law was ultimately ineffective, as evidenced by surviving accounts of his crime. Thus, Herostratus has become an eponym for someone who commits a criminal act in order to become famous.

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    Shooting up a school is the easiest way to go from nobody to everyone talking about you the next day. Grim but true.

    If I were a dictator I’d probably make it illegal to publish the names or any other information about the shooter. Even better if media wouldn’t report on the shooting at all but I feel like prohibiting that would be taking it too far.

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    Trying to be memorable is a narcissist trait I wish would go away. After the planet cleanses itself of humanity because America elected their chief narcissist, there will be nobody around to read Wikipedia.

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      Did your mom name you Lee Harvey oswald?

      Did your mom, aka Mrs Oswald, not know that Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK, or was she like really proud of that fact and wanted to carry on his legacy?

      Did she legally change her last name to Oswald just so she could name you Lee Harvey Oswald?

      Or are you like a Jr and your dad is Lee Harvey Oswald Sr?

      Did your mom bully your dad into changing his name to Lee Harvey Oswald?

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        No, I was implying that Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t do shit. He’s just an imposter who took all the credit for my hard work. Months of careful planning and a risky execution, but who gets the credit? The guy I hired to deliver the rifle.

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    Not the kind of shit you should say because, just like their names shouldn’t be reported, you don’t want to inspire people to kill others to become known.

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    You could also just jump the fence to a high security building and nobody gets hurt, unless there’s barbed wire of course