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There is some concern about the categorisation of people as murderers and criminals. The concern has been raised at Talk:Maxwell Stuart. I have suggested that given Stuart was convicted, had unsuccessfully appealed, the verdict had been reviewed by a Royal Commission and upheld, to fail to categorise him as a murderer seemed to be POV, rather than the other way around. It is not the Wikipedia's role to unconvict someone - the issue is to report the facts. To categorise someone as a murderer, Wikipedia:Verifiability is met by reference to court decisions and, in the Stuart case, the report of the Royal Commission. As the issue perhaps was with the category label, the discussion has been referred to category discussion pages and a discussion has been initiated at Category talk:Murderers. The label descriptor for this category states: "Australians who have been convicted of murder." - in Australia the legal system is the arbiter.--A Y Arktos 10:14, 21 February 2006 (UTC)Reply
