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Holmes's vs Holmes'

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There has been lot of switching between Holmes's and Holmes' in this article's history. The AP style guide says to do Holmes', and that is what a lot of people are used to, but the wikipedia style guide says Holmes's, so thats what we need to stick with. Thanks. PrismaCosmos (talk) 23:45, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That is another example of why schoolteachers give students a reduced or failing grade on assignments that borrow from Wikipedia. The person(s) who wrote the Wikipedia style guide evidently slept through their English classes in school. — Foxtrot1296 (talk) 03:28, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Number of victims

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The victim count has been reported as 9, 27, or 200

The 9 number is the Pitezel family, plus Julia & Pearl Conner, Emeline Cigrand, and Minnie & Nannie Williams. Of these 9 Holmes was only proven to have killed Ben Pitezel. Only the Pitezel family was confirmed to be dead, the other 5 never were.

27 is how many people Holmes confessed to killing. (Note: some of these people were still alive at the time of the confession).

The 200 number is nonsense from tabloids.


So the final victim number is 1 confirmed, and 9 total suspected. PrismaCosmos (talk) 18:56, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I still think there could be more. Where there’s smoke… 72.48.253.175 (talk) 01:10, 13 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The Devil in Me video game

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The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me has been cut from the popular culture section a few times, again today as "junk". Why is a notable piece of media that draws on the Holmes story considered junk and not worth mentioning? Belbury (talk) 15:12, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This helps our readers understand the topic how? Moxy🍁 15:17, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
A reader may be curious about the cultural legacy of the murders, whether there have been any major works of fiction based on the story. This appears to be one, and maybe the only one. Belbury (talk) 15:43, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
We have many games and TV shows that are simply name dropping essentially.... with zero historic accuracy or value. Moxy🍁 19:49, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pitezel

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The name Pitezel is mentioned early in the article but with no explanation. Only later is it explained that this was a collaborator of Holmes. 81.108.8.238 (talk) 11:32, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed it (without having seen this talk page thread, actually). Loki (talk) 19:42, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]