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Tennessee Book Burnings

In 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)[reply]

Confusing reference names

I 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)[reply]

Article was mostly trivia

Somehow 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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Qin Shihuang

The section needs to clarify (with appropriate sources natch) that the ancient literature of China was not lost during QSH's purges, even assuming their historicity and attempted thoroughness. The First Emperor burned everyone else's copies of the works but kept his own at Xianyang and/or Epang, which were subsequently burned by Han and Chu during the collapse of the Qin. That was the moment of their actual loss, which is worth noting in the same way that Alexandria needs several caveats. — LlywelynII 12:23, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]