Talk:William Melville
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[edit] Rewrite badly needed
This article needs a major rewrite. As it stands, all it does is give information based upon what one book author claims (and things his publishers claim on their webiste that are not even in the book, like the claim that Melville caught Tumblety), while other historians have said that Cook's conclusions are highly speculative and written to be more dramatic than what probably really happened.
It'd would be a good idea if the article incorporated other sources on the topic, or at the very least indicates that this information only comes from one source, and one which is highly questionable.
I've removed the most blatant example of unsupported speculation (the thing that's not even in the book in question) and made another caution at the part that said he was "M" in the secret organization, but from what I understand there are lots more issues all through this book (and by extension, this article) that have the same problem. DreamGuy 20:22, Apr 4, 2005 (UTC)
