On 5/24/06, Phil Boswell <phil.boswell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Björn Lindqvist wrote:
Then take a look at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo_Constanzo Are
the person who added information about this American born serial
killers Cuban heritage going to be scolded in a similar way as
Saladin1970 now?
Because that information is contained in a paragraph about his early life,
not in the lede...
It's not only not in the intro, it's arguably relevant, because I
assume the point of the way the early life section is written is to
emphasize that he was born into poverty to a 15-year-old girl, and may
therefore have had an unstable start in life. That the family were
poor immigrants is therefore not an irrelevance. I'd have no objection
to including in the [[Harold Shipman]] early life section that he was
Jewish if it could be sourced and if it was in any way relevant. But
there would still be no need for it in the first sentence. It's
particularly jarring when writing about a British person, because the
British don't as a rule identify themselves as "Jewish British," in
the way an American might say Jewish American, and as Abu Hamza is
based in the UK, he certainly knows that.
Sarah