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Jeremy Corbyn was targeted

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The guy said he hoped to kill Jeremy Corbyn https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/30/finsbury-park-attack-darren-osborne-kill-jeremy-corbyn SharabSalam (talk) 02:31, 15 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

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I personally think the name of the article should be moved from “2017 Finsbury Park attack” to Finsbury Park mosque van attack or 2017 Finsbury Park van attack because as it is the name is fairly vague and when comparing it to the names of other articles about attacks on mosques it is typically always “[place] mosque bombing” or “[place] mosque shooting”. TheCloggle222 (talk) 20:17, 14 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

The problem with this change of title is that it now sounds like the Finsbury Park Mosque was attacked. The whole article in fact seems to have been written to encourage the confusion. The attack was on Muslim Welfare House, a smaller, unrelated Mosque around the corner. Mezigue (talk) 17:48, 27 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

My intentions were for it to be read as Finsbury Park mosque as in an attack against a mosque in Finsbury Park, not the Finsbury Park Mosque. Even then, would the uncapitalized “mosque” not demonstrate that it was not the Finsbury Park Mosque but rather “a mosque in Finsbury Park” TheCloggle222 (talk) 16:56, 9 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

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