Talk:Albert DeSalvo

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Are you sure of the date of birth? As an astrologer trying to understand his chart, I was given a totally different birth date, with time.

[edit] Merge with 'Boston Strangler'

I don't know how to suggest it any better than this but the article on the Boston Strangler is mostly the same information. I think it should be merged. Gregory j 00:59, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Albert DeSalvo - jewish

Since my sourced edits of this article are vandalized without explanation, I will add to this talk page that Albert DeSalvo had a jewish mother. This claim is sourced in Century of Crime Volume 4 DVD http://www.dvdcity.dk/?51O49XO4934XO493532353734362 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.112.239.245 (talk) 02:08, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

A link in an edit summary to a sales site isn't a sourced addition. It was an improperly uncapitalized addition with no inline citation and only a spam link given in an edit summary. Removing it was proper, and calling that removal vandalism is inappropriate. Wildhartlivie (talk) 02:22, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

The DVD in question is a documentary, so looks like a valid source to me. That said;

• sources should go into the article not into the edit summary.
• You should make it clear that you are sourcing the documentary, not the dvdcity.dk.

Use; <ref>{{cite video | title = Århundredes Forbrydelse #4 - Lunatics | publisher = Foreign Media Group | url = http://www.dvdcity.dk/?51O49XO4934XO493532353734362}}</ref>

• Consider the placement of the fact. Because the lead is very short when you place the statement that Albert was Jewish into it you create an undue link between his ethnicity and the crime.
• You should try to find an English distributor if the video.

Finally, be careful about the words you bandy about. On wikipedia vandalism is edits made with the intention of compromising the integrity of the project. By our policy of WP:AGF you should first consider that there might be other reasons for the reversion in question. Taemyr (talk) 20:29, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

My intention for the inclusion of his ethnicity is for factual accuarcy, nothing else. As far as I know, this IS an encyclopedia.88.112.239.245 (talk) 23:04, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

How is his ethnicity relevant to the article? Dbrodbeck (talk) 23:41, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Well this is his biography entry. It is not our article on the Boston Strangler. Taemyr (talk) 00:07, 15 May 2008 (UTC)