A fact from Omar Mateen appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 July 2016 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Omar Mateen, who in June 2016 committed the deadliest mass shooting in the United States by a single gunman, previously appeared in the documentary film The Big Fix?
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At the bottom of this page are listed categories to which this article belongs. Several of these categories are about serial killers, which Mateen was not. He was a mass murderer. I want to remove those categories, but they did not appear in the Talk page edit box. Any editor is invited to remove the categories:
C-Class Serial killer-related articles
Low-importance Serial killer-related articles
WikiProject Criminal Biography/Serial Killer task force
It's been four years, but I will likely keep having to explain this so I will write it here so I can copy paste it in the future: This is because this article talk page is tagged with the serial killer task force, which also applies to mass killers and spree killers. It's called the serial killer task force because being honest most people don't know the difference and the definitions are so confused by so many jurisdictions that there is no one good term, and sometimes mass killers are seen as a sub type of serial killer or vice versa. Ah, definitions... PARAKANYAA (talk) 09:45, 1 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
level-5 vital article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
