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The 2019 movie Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile should be added.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Wicked,_Shockingly_Evil_and_Vile

The subject is Ted Bundy. Tmcdanel (talk) 00:42, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Please change the age of a victim: Roberta Kathleen Parks was 20, not 22 when murdered 2601:681:4B00:25A0:8961:6A2B:2E55:1F43 (talk) 03:07, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Charliehdb (talk) 14:36, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Paragraph confessions - it is not parlay but parley

Fix that. 2A04:141:3:891A:B14C:4196:F37A:C9C1 (talk) 17:48, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Firstly you are confusing two different terms. "Parlay" is a gambling term, meaning "to use one's money, talent, or other assets..." (in Bundy's case this would be his knowledge of his actual crimes, to reveal his actions to authorities and to his victims' surviving loved ones, to reveal where bodies or parts were buried etc) "...to achieve a desired objective, as spectacular wealth or success" (or, in Bundy's case better jail accommodations, more jail privileges, to put off the day of his execution, etc.) "Parley" means "to speak, to discuss". Substituting parley for parlay in the sentence

A new ulterior strategy quickly became apparent: he withheld many details, hoping to parlay the incomplete information into yet another stay of execution.

makes no sense.

Secondly, Wikipedia editors are here as volunteers, not as servants to be somehow ordered around as in your "Fix that". Besides the fact that your order is in error, your attitude came across as peremptory and rude.- Shearonink (talk) 19:52, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]