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December 2020

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It is not acceptable to alter part of a citation so as to misdirect visitors. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 12:36, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

@John Maynard Friedman: Are you for real? I was fixing the reference. Check the reference now and you will see that there is an error. I wasn’t trying to “misdirect visitors”.--LeftiePete (talk) 14:17, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Ok, I'll assume good faith and that it was a cock-up not a conspiracy. I restored the citation so that it now reads (correctly)

• {{cite web|title=Richard Dawkins on Charles Darwin|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7885670.stm|website=BBC News|date=14 February 2009}}

and not

• {{cite web|title=Richard Dawkins on Charles Darwin|url= https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/09/is-richard-dawkins-destroying-his-reputation|website=BBC News|date=14 February 2009}}

which is how you left it. (If someone had followed that link, they would have found themselves on the Guardian website, not the BBC and an article called something other than Dawkins on Darwin.)

BTW, why do you keep deleting the op-ed tag on the original Guardian: the article is not a news item, it is an opinion piece. And it is by a guest author who is not a Guardian staffer (she works for Harpers Bazaar).

To cut a long story short, IMO "Believers are upset by Atheist" qualifies as "the sky is blue" and wp:trivia: I think we should just delete it. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 15:25, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Nice Nazi spam, dude. Drmies (talk) 01:14, 4 November 2021 (UTC)