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== Other uses of "burned alive" ==

This article seems to focus on burning a person to death as execution (ergo, a punishment for wrongdoing, usually sexual transgressions). However, there are other forms of being "burned alive," such as accidental (e.g., someone trapped in a burning building or car, and succumbing to either the flames or effects (as in carbon monoxide poisoning or effects from the heat)). My question is, should this article address that form of being "burned alive," as opposed to this being strictly an article about the execution use? Sorry if my question seems a bit awkward. [[User:Briguy52748|Briguy52748]] ([[User talk:Briguy52748|talk]]) 01:21, 7 June 2018 (UTC)]]
:I would say, "no." The article is on burning as a means of capital punishment. It's got the wrong title, but that means it should be renamed, not that unrelated burning deaths should be added.
:Anyone have any suggested names? [[Burning (capital punishment)]]? [[Execution by burning]]? [[User:TJRC|TJRC]] ([[User talk:TJRC|talk]]) 01:07, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
:Well, goddam. after I saved, expecting two redlinks, I see that [[Execution by burning]] is a redirect here. I propose it should be the other way around. [[User:TJRC|TJRC]] ([[User talk:TJRC|talk]]) 01:08, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
:: As in, call the article "Execution by burning"? If so, I would support the rename, along with a redirect with the idea that an article could possibly be created sometime in the future to cover other forms of death caused by fire. I do know there is an article -- its name escapes me at the moment -- about fires that killed large numbers of people (or notable fires where fewer people died). [[[[User:Briguy52748|Briguy52748]] ([[User talk:Briguy52748|talk]]) 14:51, 8 June 2018 (UTC)]]


== Category ==
== Category ==

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@Dimadick: please could you explain what "Main topic article of the category" means, and how it justifies placing an article about a method of execution, into a category of articles about people? MPS1992 (talk) 18:09, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Are you new to Wikipedia? Every category has a main article which explains the topic. Dimadick (talk) 18:28, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Dimadick: that is a surprising question. Please could you mention for me what the "main article" of Category:Pharaohs of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt is, so that I might better understand your assertion. A precise link to policy on this would be an acceptable alternative. MPS1992 (talk) 18:48, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Eponymous_categories: "A category that covers exactly the same topic as an article is known as the eponymous category for that article"... "The article itself should be a member of the eponymous category and should be sorted with a space to appear at the start of the listing (see #Sort keys)."

Open the category and see which is the eponymous article. Dimadick (talk) 18:54, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Dimadick: I have opened Category:Pharaohs of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt and there is no eponymous article. Please could you explain how that fits with your assertion "Every category has a main article which explains the topic". Please could you also indent your posts correctly when replying. MPS1992 (talk) 19:12, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The category we are discussing, not the Pharaohs category. Dimadick (talk) 19:14, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Dimadick: So are you retracting your claim that "Every category has a main article which explains the topic"? MPS1992 (talk) 19:17, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No, I don't. Subcategorizing the category on the 12th dynasty, does not mean it lacks a main article. Dimadick (talk) 19:27, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Dimadick: That's not very helpful. Perhaps there has been a misunderstanding. Which of the three options listed at Eponymous_categories are you proposing to use with regard to the article under discussion, i.e. Death by burning? MPS1992 (talk) 19:30, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It is already listed as the main article of the category, and it is supposed to provide the category's definition (as no other definition was provided). Are you offering to write a better definition of the category's scope? Dimadick (talk) 19:33, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Off-topic entries

The focus of this article is clearly meant to be a discussion of burning as a method of execution, rather than instances of where people are killed by fire more generally, whether by arson, firebombing in war (e.g. Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki), or fires caused by law enforcement operations (e.g. Waco). I have therefore removed some subsections as being off-topic, with the aim of restoring the focus of the article. --RFBailey (talk) 01:46, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Burning at the stakes picture

In Russia, unlike the centuries-old English practice regarding women, it was not customary to burn people in public at the stakes. Since the 16th century, only the practice of burning heretics and witches in log cabins has been known. Avvakum and his accomplices were also burned in a log house. It is strange that the article begins with Myasoedov's picturesque fantasy, which does not correspond to historical truth. Сурбас (talk) 08:40, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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