[WikiEN-l] Saladin1970 (new thread)

Philip Welch wikipedia at philwelch.net
Wed May 24 16:03:57 UTC 2006


On May 24, 2006, at 4:10 AM, BJörn Lindqvist wrote:

>> Anyone thinking about whether the indefinite block of Abu Hamza is
>> justified ought to consider (apart from the various policy  
>> violations)
>> his determination to add to the introduction of [[Harold Shipman]]
>> that he was a *Jewish* British serial killer. It's not just that  
>> there
>> are no reliable sources for this. It's the obsession with trying to
>> add an entirely non-notable reference to a person's ethnicity in  
>> order
>> to make that ethnicity look bad.
>
> 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? An indefinite ban for that editor maybe? Why is it ok
> to write that his mother was a Cuban immigrant, but it is not ok to
> write that Harold Shipman's mother was a Jewish immigrant?

It's not verifiable that Shipman's mother was Jewish?

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