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As they currently cannot do so, @ShadowHawk555 has asked me to post this on their behalf. Should the article be renamed to include 2015 due to the recent sniper incident? - Amaury (talk) 21:22, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

High-profile news will continue in Ferguson for years if not decades. It is the new poster boy city for police racism issues. This non-fatal shooting would have gotten far less news coverage if it had happened in Decatur, Georgia, and not enough to justify a mention in any Wikipedia article. I'd be more amenable to renaming it to "Ferguson unrest", or just leaving it alone. ―Mandruss ☎ 22:35, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

The sniper incident is definitely a bad reason - there's really no evidence connecting it to anything else, e.g. the protesters. For all we know now, an unusually bright ISIS sympathizer hit on it as a way to drum up discord. It is clear that protests are ongoing - I'm not so sure about "civil disorder". The article lumps together these two things under the very vague description of "unrest", but which is the real headliner? Should this be about the 2014 Ferguson disorder, or even the 2014 Ferguson riots, focusing mainly on the significant criminal actions, or should it focus on the 2014-2015 Ferguson protests, to which this is only marginally relevant? I would lean toward the latter. Wnt (talk) 22:36, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Personally, I think the rational first priority in general here might be a History of Ferguson, Missouri, article. It could include sections on both the shooting and the 2014 events, or maybe a single section on both. I think it can probably be argued that WorldCat contains enough entries related to that topic to indicate its notability, and it would be a good springboard for material on this incident, and any aftermath it might have, and, well, anything else in the future related to the city. John Carter (talk) 23:24, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Per Mandruss, leave it alone or rename to "Ferguson unrest". - Cwobeel (talk) 17:19, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

"Ferguson unrest" seems like a good choice, even if the article pertained strictly to events that occurred in 2014. Unless and until we have an article about unrelated unrest in Ferguson, there's no need to append a year (or years) for disambiguation. —David Levy 17:39, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

That makes sense, we can easily move this again if a future event with no connection to Trayvon Martin happens.--67.68.31.204 (talk) 19:06, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

How come this article is titled "unrest", while the 1992 Rodney King flareup in L.A. is called a riot? They were both riots. 47.137.182.8 (talk) 02:13, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Maybe we should change the 1992 LA riots to LA unrest and there was a video of that Ferguson made no sense at all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.210.109.162 (talk) 07:47, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

I would approve of it being renamed to "Ferguson's sleepless nights" or "Ferguson's 2014 late night outdoor activities".186.57.242.158 (talk) 07:04, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I have to comment (a year after). The above comment is the funniest thing I have ever read on Wikipedia. Good on you. Someone should put this on Wikipedia:Silly Things. LivinRealGüd (talk) 12:54, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

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