Talk:The Beginning Was the End
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Comment 1
edittranslated to English in 1970
- Translated from which language? please expand this here and in the author's page
Done and done. DarKrow 03:13, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
edits
editUh, sorry buddy, I'm not a vandal, just someone who actually has a copy of the book and found the earlier entry inadequate. Perhaps other editions of the text have different info, but I'm working with the '74 Sphere printing, and it says that Maerth wrote it in a Chinese monastery in 1967, that it was originally published in German in '71, not 1969 as you had it, and that the first English translation appeared in 1973. I notice your citations have no references to an actual text with ISBN...— Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.18.242.83 (talk) 15:43, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Possible image for use in this article
editStrange coincidence... File:Homo antecessor female.jpg (Model of a female Homo antecessor practicing cannibalism)— Preceding unsigned comment added by OlEnglish (talk • contribs) 21:15, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
Primary source
editAlmost all of the article is sourced to the fringe book itself rather than based on reliable secondary sources about the book, so I tagged the article as such and degraded it from B to C class. —PaleoNeonate – 17:13, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
The Oscar Kiss Maerth article is also mostly about this book and uses independent sources for the book's summary, those, and that article, should probably be merged here... —PaleoNeonate – 17:25, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
Now merged and sources imported, still needs work but it no longer relies on a single primary source. —PaleoNeonate – 09:44, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
Notability
editIt's possible that more German sources exist, but English sources about the book are difficult to find. One source in use also says itself that the book is little known. Since a few could be found the article may barely pass... —PaleoNeonate – 10:01, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
Removed section on criticism
editAfter a careful review of scholarly resources, the claims made by the article author cannot be referenced. The only citations given for this section are of the original text. Section consists entirely of original research, similar to this text.