In message D9BCB5E9-F76A-401E-830B-3EDB22236C87@philwelch.net, Philip Welch wikipedia-RE/bwZxTIQaLZ21kGMrzwg@public.gmane.org writes
On May 20, 2006, at 2:13 AM, abu hamza wrote:
hi Philip, like i said, the few references we have on shipmans background claim him to be jewish
Those references are *not reliable*. It's unacceptable to put unreliable information in the wiki, period.
If it was reliably established that he was Jewish, there would be no problem. Since it isn't reliably established, reporting that he was Jewish, or that he might be Jewish, constitutes anti-Semitism.
Why are you so hell-bent on making this poorly-supported case that he is Jewish, anyway?
Indeed, I live in the same TV broadcast area as Hyde, where Shipman committed his murders, so it was BIG news locally - and as far as I can recall Shipman's religious affiliation if any was NEVER mentioned in the exhaustive reporting of his crimes, the trial, and the public enquiry. It simply was completely irrelevant to the commission of his crimes and anyone seeking to introduce this religious/ethnic characterisation into his article should be required to prove relevance as well as incontrovertible prove the truth of the assertion with high-quality references.