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The article Petri Gerdt has been merged here. A few comments were left on its talk page, Talk:Petri Gerdt, mainly concerning the merge. --Kizor 21:08, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Are bombings uncommon?

The final sentence, "The bombing was particularly shocking for Finland and the other Nordic countries, where bombings are extremely uncommon" might be partly incorrect. Obviously the incident was very shocking, but in my opinion bombings are not "extremely uncommon" at least in Finland. While this one was significantly more devastating, there were several bombings or attempted bombings in Finland during the previous decade. See, for example, [1]. Muad 13:52, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Classification as a "suicide bombing".

It is debatable as to whether Gerdt intended to kill himself as well as many others in the blast (Wikipedia defines suicide bombing by this intention), although it is undeniable that he died in the blast.

This poses two questions - should reference be made in the article to it as a suicide bombing (and thus should it be linked to Suicide Bombing), and secondly, how should reference be made to Gerdt's death in the blast within the article.

DemonicTruism 06:35, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The official investigation into this accident found parts of a possible timer. Therefore, and also taking into account that the bomb exploded mere 20 minutes before closing time of Myyrmanni shopping mall, I believe Petri Gerdt did not intend to kill himself or anyone else with the bomb. I believe it was intended to explode after the shopping mall was closed and empty. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.17.199.125 (talk) 23:33, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is a very sad and shocking incident. Any interest in improving the article? The title in the infobox conflicts with the article title. Everyone in the world knows Vantaa (ok, not everyone) but few know of Myyrmanni. So change to Vantaa? Suomi Finland 2009 (talk) 01:15, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I removed ANY mentions to terrorism, suicide-bombings or murder moments ago: The motive of the crime remains, to this day, unresolved according to official investigations. Thus, categorizing the incident in the aforementioned ways is not truthful and does not serve a purpose with respect to Wikipedia's guidelines. Shadowdasher (talk) 17:20, 19 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Kotikemia

Who or what is Kotikemia? Can someone please edit and clarify the following sentence 'The moderator of Kotikemia was acquitted of responsibility in court' thanks Markleci (talk) 21:42, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's made clear higher up the article: 'He was also an active member of Kotikemia ("Home chemistry"), an on-line forum for amateur chemists.' Robofish (talk) 22:03, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not terrorism

The article states: "There was no evidence found that Gerdt had links to any outside groups or to any international terrorist organizations." Unless sources indicate that terrorism was a motive for this sort of criminal act, Wikipedia should not be making its own value-judgements. Wikipedia has a guideline about using the value-laden label of "terrorist", which means this label needs a supporting source. Without a source supporting an association with terrorism, and even suggesting otherwise, one must assume the motive for this act was not terrorism. As a consequence I have removed the banner for WikiProject Terrorism as the article is outside the scope of that WikiProject. See WP:PROJSCOPE. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 11:25, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]