Talk:Charles Peace

Article length
This article is rather absurdly long, substantially longer than the Jack the Ripper article - which deals with a much more well-known criminal. At the least breaking it up into subpages would be good. Perhaps I will find the time at some point myself. Ataru 02:24, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

-Is there a lot of detail? - yes. But is there any irrelevant detail? (So why "absurd"? ). I'm all for cutting out innaccuracies, unreferenced text etc. but if all the detail is true...? The fact that Jack the Ripper has never been unambiguously identified obviously limits the detail which could be reasonably included in the cited article. Sub-pages? maybe.Wikityke 16:43, 6 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I am objecting on what amount to admittedly idealistic and unrealistic grounds. Would you expect to find an aricle of such lengh on this individual in an encyclopedia?  Certainly not, but then again Wikipedia has even more absurdly long articles on things as un-encylopedic as particular anime series.  So clearly length and detail aren't valid grounds for complaint under any circumstances.  Tellingly, I think the Jack the Ripper page would be substantially longer if it weren't divided into subpages, so what this article really (really) needs is simply a reorganization and division into headings and subheadings (and, yes, subpages, even though it strikes me as ridiculous overkill given the subject).  The article as it is is extremely dense and inaccessible, making it a strong candidate for at least some reorganization.  Ataru 05:36, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

--As Help:Page_size states "> 30 KB May eventually need to be divided" (the current article has a size of 45k), your sub-pages suggestion seems a valid suggestion.Wikityke 16:55, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

This article started as a text dump of an old public-domain biography, which mostly explains its length and odd level of detail. People have been periodically cleaning it up, making parts more concise, rewording, etc., but it can still use some work obviously. --Delirium 16:05, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I grew up in Chorlton and as a child heard stories about CP. One was that he had been buried in Chorlton Green cemetary but his body later exhumed on the objections of the church and his remians dissolved in quick lime. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.75.184.197 (talk) 07:55, 11 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Several of the sections of this article are very very drawn out and could be summarized somewhat to help clean this article up. I've tagged it to bring in the gnomes as well --  ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ  τ ¢  08:22, 8 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I would like to say that I am enjoying the read alot and I would like to see this well written and detailed biographies elsewhere on the wikipedia. 46.59.34.174 (talk) 13:52, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Error somewhere
According to this article Peace handed his wife a card saying

In Memory of Charles Peace Who was executed in Armley Prison Tuesday February 25, 1879 Aged 47

At the time he was 46 (check birth/death dates). There is a mistake here, perhaps indicating that this statement is a myth. Mtaylor848 (talk) 14:08, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

name incorrect
His name was Charles Frederick Peace - middle name not Joseph--Charlie&#39;s GG Grandaughter (talk) 20:00, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

Much-shortened Re-draft 12/3/15
The previous version was so long, it was quite unencylopedic -  more like half a book, or at least a magazine serialisation.

Comparisons to Jack the Ripper (above) are not really valid. As a topic, the Ripper story is suited to a whole fleet of link-pages dedicated to each of the victims and each of the suspects, as well as the long history of Ripperology itself. Also it has spawned multiple references from which to draw citations. The story of Charles Peace does not compare.

I hope you will find that this re-draft provides an adequate summary. Valetude (talk) 14:06, 12 March 2015 (UTC)