Talk:Vigilantism

Added DDS

I added the DDS because it is very prevalent in the city, although what should've been added is the counter-communist methods used by the Alsa Masa during the 1980s in the same city.

Original Research

According to who to does modern vigilantism descend from frankenpledge ? Traditions of community law and retaliation existed in nearly every society I'm sure... Did frontiersmen really invoke this directly ?

Some citation would be a reasonable start.

Provisional IRA

Why are the Provisional IRA on this list? It was my understanding that they only cleared out criminality in areas they controlled so that they could profit from illicit activity. They also collected "Revolutionary tax" or, as normal citizens refer to it, "protection money". Not to mention the sectarian violence and random car-bombings they committed. Hardly a "Vigilante group".--Crimzon2283 (talk) 19:45, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

I cannot see the IRA factions as vigilante groups. Most accurate could be consider UDA, UVF, UFF, RHD and other protestant paramilitary self-defence Ulster associations as vigilante groups. Specially UDA in the starting years 1970-75 was exactly an union of vigilante groups. 31.4.215.130 (talk) 01:12, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

The IRA punished all criminals in their areas, especially drug-dealers, as many people mistrused or feared the 'legitimate' police the RUC, the people in these areas saw the IRA as their police force and were even supportive enough of their activities to ask them to continue 'policing' these areas even after the IRA announced there ceasefire.--PALESTINE1234 (talk) 14:23, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Not a single member of the PIRA or any other legit Republican organization has ever been charged with hangling drugs, or extorting money from drug dealers. Any claim alluding to the idea that this takes place in any form is basic British propaganda and should be handled as such. --Codu32 (talk) 00:34, 09 August 2011 (UTC)

Sea Shepherds Conservation Society

This was repeated. I delete the unnecessary second mention.

India section was inexplicably removed, along with a lot of other relevant content

A section about India was added to this article in 2017, when the page Vigilantism in India was blanked and redirected. However, it went missing during this edit on 3 January 2020 by an anonymous editor, which appears to have removed about a third of the article's content at the time. I am wondering how this unexplained removal of relevant content has gone unnoticed for so long, and if somebody could, or should, restore it. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 01:27, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

It's astonishing how much damage has been done by random vandals that goes unnoticed. But it happens. A diff of the article immediately preceding the vandal's edit against the article as it is today is rather huge, and folding the old content back into the article will require...more dedication of time than I can offer. There are a few wide swaths of content that went away and appear to have stayed that way, so those larger whole chunks might be able to be folded in without too much effort. But I can't commit to volunteering to work on it, not at the moment. Hopefully some sort of resolution can be found. cheers. anastrophe, an editor he is. 03:32, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

I am wondering if it is a lost cause, but thought other editors should know about the removal of content. I am wondering if perhaps the whole article needs a rethink, so that it becomes a global overview article, with separate country, or even state, articles to cover more local circumstances. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 03:58, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

Terrible definition

You can prevent and investigate crimes without any legal authority to do so. It is only the punishing part that makes you a vigilante. Martianmister (talk) 12:38, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

Add Schlep to notable acts of vigilantism

Hi.

I am saying this to tell you that we can add Schlep to the notable acts of vigilantism section. I would be happy if it is added.

From Johnspuzzlegame Johnspuzzlegame (talk) 16:56, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

Wasnt the first season of TCAP actually vigilanteism because they didnt collaborate with police yet?

So maybe the entry of To Catch a Predator should be rewritten to include this. Chris Hansen shouldnt be held "above" current predator catchers just because he did it for TV. TheVyrox (talk) 10:37, 25 April 2026 (UTC)