[WikiEN-l] List of banned books

Mon Oct 2 19:58:34 UTC 2006

On 02/10/06, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/2/06, Kim van der Linde <kim at kimvdlinde.com> wrote:

> > The [[List of banned books]] is a mess, and the way people have added
> > challenged books to the list (ALA_2000 entries) and the clogging up with
> > many doubtful entries (just listed without explanations etc) has made it
> > the target of creationists who try to get a book listed that a book that
> > they claim is banned, but which in fact is far from that (if their
> > rational holds, the bible is banned book).
> > Could some people deal with this list?

> If you want to go the bad-ass evil & sneaky route, simply tag all of
> the unsourced items with {{fact}} (an edit which, granted, would take
> some time), let them be for a week and then summarily remove them. If
> it is as bad as you say (which I don't doubt, after a quick look at
> it), raze and rebuild from the ground up is a very sensible option.

Now, now. Tag with {{fact}} and move the unsourced ones to talk. Be
hardarsed about letting anything back in without sources.

- d.