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Reference ideas for Cold Case The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future: Rowan, Iona (2024-04-14). "Cold Case reboot in the works from creator". Digital Spy – via MSN.

The "Format" section of this article appears to be entirely original research, which Wikipedia does not allow. It also has no references at all.

In general, the section seems like it could be removed or vastly shortened. The "Victims and End Scenes", "Cases that were not murders", and "Cases that were not Cold Cases" sections, for example, are almost certainly non-notable and non-encyclopedic, and should be removed.

Rather than investing additional effort in these sections, we should turn our attention to the many other areas of the article that need work. There is no shortage of other sections to add or improve; see the Lost article for a solid example. MaxVeers (talk) 12:51, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No reactions to this after over a week so I'll go ahead and remove the problematic sections. MaxVeers (talk) 23:49, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Almost ten years later … and after the lead, the first major section of the article is § Premise which also:

appears to be entirely original research, which Wikipedia does not allow. It also has no references at all.

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So, although the section is (a) informative and (b) well-written, it needs references; I'm tagging it {{refimprove section}}. Calling on @MaxVeers: and anybody else for their input. yoyo (talk) 15:00, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Cold Case#Cold Squad controversy section has some old news(?) from 2003, with possible accusations of copyright infringement. Maybe 12 years later someone knows what came out of this? Was there any case, negotiations, anything? Or was it something that showed up on the news once and vanished? - Nabla (talk) 23:48, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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At no point in the series, is it stated that the characters are "an unit specialized in cold cases." The very same first scene in the series shows the main character investigating a murder committed the night before, and the character references recent cases they've investigated all the time. It's just that the show focuses on the cold cases while the others tend to happen offscreen. And yet, there are some episodes that show recent and even ongoing cases, e.g. "Officer Down" where the date of the crime is given as "15 minutes ago". In Season 7 there was an attempt to maybe retool the series as a FBI cold case unit with new actors but as we know, that didn't pan out as the show was not renewed.--Menah the Great (talk) 17:22, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

§ See also section has far too many links, including some already given in the body of the article. yoyo (talk) 15:04, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]