Saturday, May 20, 2006, 5:08:43 PM, Sarah wrote:
I personally don't mind if it's a positive
association, or a very
interesting one, though again you have to be careful. Pointing out
that someone is a British Muslim mathematician sounds a bit odd. And
we wouldn't say a person was a Celtic scientist, so why a Jewish one?
I prefer to add it only when it's relevant to
their bio. For example,
saying that Freud was a Jewish psychoanalyst would be okay because his
background in Judaism played a large part in the development of his
ideas (though the current intro doesn't mention it).
I think we should have categories in fields in which Judaism and
Jewish heritage could have had some influence over their work, for
example, Jewish writers, Jewish comedians and Jewish psychologists,
but NOT Jewish mathematicians, Jewish bankers or Jewish criminals
Yeah, we had lists for the last two:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_Jewish…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_Jewish…
But having categories like British Jews or British Muslims seems OK to
me.