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Please remove the image titled "Official police photograph of the body of Mary Jane Kelly as discovered in 13 Miller's Court, Spitalfields, 9 November 1888" from the page. Although the photograph does indeed depict the body of a woman distorted beyond recognition, it nonetheless violates Wikipedia's own Image Use Policy because it (a) depicts graphic nudity, and (b) does so in a private setting (that of a private residence), both of which have naturally been obtained without the victim's consent and render the image's appearance as highly objectifying. This image is also far too easily accessible to minors. Mister Birdcrumbs ( talk) 16:35, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
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16:39, 6 March 2024 (UTC)This is a bit too gruesome for a page regularly visited by school kids, especially considering that the description of how her body appeared is so graphic and detailed one surely does not need a visual to accompany it. If you MUST display the photo somewhere then do it on Mary Jane Kelly's own page, but I think it appears particularly deplorable on a star-marked page such as this one that is visited by so many. Lord abacus ( talk) 17:56, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
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Translate and add the Literature section from the Dutch version of this page. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper NzzA ( talk) 06:34, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
Brittanica includes an interesting passage near the top of its article questioning whether all of the victims were actually prostitutes:
>In The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (2019), the British social historian Hallie Rubenhold argued that Nichols, Chapman, and Eddowes were not prostitutes; that Stride had resorted to soliciting only occasionally, during periods of desperate poverty and emotional suffering (but there is no evidence to show that she had been soliciting when she was murdered); and that the only verifiable prostitute among the five was Kelly. In Rubenhold’s view, the notion that Jack the Ripper was a murderer of prostitutes was a consequence of the misogynistic and class-based prejudices characteristic of the Victorian era.
The Wiki page doesn't appear to address this perspective or indeed include any information about the victims at all. Seems like a significant topic that merits further examination. 2601:602:480:3600:31A3:7AE8:3A65:C2A0 ( talk) 17:50, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
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Many theories regarding Jack the Ripper's identity are speculation, however, in recent years people believe his identity to be Arron Kominsky; a Polish barber (of course, this remains uncertain). I wish for editors to add this due to him being a prime suspect in the case. The Great Shadow ( talk) 15:51, 30 July 2024 (UTC)