Talk:Book burning
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NashvilleScene: They're Burning Books in Tennessee
editNot sure how to include this
John Cummings (talk) 12:07, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
The section on Locke's book burning could be changed a few ways, it mentions he "held sermons" but that's a very passive voice for what he did which was organize what might be the largest book burning of the year. Has he held more than one book burning? To my knowledge, only one. The wording also implies it took place in 2021 when it didn't. I don't know enough about the situation or wikipedia to edit this well but I feel it's important. --GlowingLava (talk) 13:57, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
Several new sources
edit[1] and linked pages. Doug Weller talk 14:10, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
Tennessee Book Burnings
editIn Tennessee pastor Greg Locke has held sermons over the incineration of devil and witchcraft worshiping books like Harry Potter and Twilight.[81]
Shouldn't this be phrased in a way as to denote these books are those Locke and/or his followers believe to be 'devil and witchcraft worshiping'? Neither of those examples have anything to do with worshiping either devils or witchcraft. 24.51.192.49 (talk) 10:26, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
Confusing reference names
editI found citation references with names like “:3” and “outrageous.” Changed them to the author names.
Look out for bad reference names hiding in the source.
Added a section on digital censorship with relevant citations. Jellocube27 (talk) 02:15, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
Article was mostly trivia
editSomehow this article — which concerns organized censorship and destruction of cultural heritage or knowledge — has been completely obfuscated by irrelevant trivia about: authors burning their private letters, neurotic self-sabatoging artists, and poorly-source accounts of religious martyrs. This is not the article topic, and conflates sentimentality with cultural genocide. I plan to remove all such content that does not cite credible sources discussing organized cultural suppression. Jellocube27 (talk) 04:04, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
- The majority of the trivia I removed, and much of the remaining article, should be moved to List of book-burning incidents. Giant lists of burnings go there, describe Book Burning here. This article should not be huge and untenable, nor become a contest to brag about whose cultures have endured the most “book burnings”… Jellocube27 (talk) 04:10, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
- I’m not about to overhaul three different articles tonight, as I don’t have enough coffee. But I think that in the future, list transclusion will be the best way to integrate the long lists of burnings (and other things) manageably and meaningfully into the article sections here, if we are to include them at length. Jellocube27 (talk) 04:33, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
- For anyone looking for the pre-expurgated version of this article, so that they can migrate information to the list articles, here is the latest revision before I blanked those sections: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Book_burning&oldid=1166427511 Jellocube27 (talk) 04:48, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
- I’m not about to overhaul three different articles tonight, as I don’t have enough coffee. But I think that in the future, list transclusion will be the best way to integrate the long lists of burnings (and other things) manageably and meaningfully into the article sections here, if we are to include them at length. Jellocube27 (talk) 04:33, 1 August 2023 (UTC)