[WikiEN-l] Thoughts on naming people - article content, this time.

[Stephen Bain]

On 6/1/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The list is just as legitimate as any other list of two intersecting
> groups is (we no doubt have "List of French mathematicians" around
> somewhere, same idea). It's just the *descriptive note* at the top
> that makes it seem... not quite right.
>
> No?

It's a consequence of the endless debates about these various lists of
Jews that have been raging since the dawn of wikitime. It's to counter
the criticism that "how can you incontrovertibly declare that
so-and-so is Jewish?"

-- 
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com