Talk:The Christ Myth

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What to do with this article?

First, I have removed a large section regarding the historicity of Jesus, which is inappropriate for an article discussing the Christ Myth, considering there is already an article on the historicity of Jesus which goes through the material.
Second, I have temporarily relocated the material at The Christ Myth/Witnesses to the historicity of Jesus.
Third, I've marked this article for a merge with Christ myth theory.

The material is marked as having been removed from the Arthur Drews article and the Christ myth theory deals with Drews's notion and its impact. -- spin|^control 00:49, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The merge is not going to work on procedural grounds in any case, given that this page is 25k, the other page is 70k and per WP:Length it would immediately run over the limit, as well as WP:Due. So we will have to call that a no merge. Arthur Drews is 34k, so it cou;d conceivably go back there, but then why? The book meets WP:Note so and Afd is not needed; nor will it succeed. So merge will have to be abandoned just as a procedural issue. History2007 (talk) 15:22, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

ALL THE MATERIAL IN THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN SEPARATED FROM THE COMPLETE BIOGRAPHICAL ARTICLE ON ARTHUR DREWS POSTED ON AUGUST 23D, 2012

As a result, the original complete article has been left emptied of the most important aspects of Arthur Drews's work and life, which is no longer a complete biographical article on Arthur Drews.

The editors have decided to arbitrarily dismantle the complete biographical article of Arthur Drews and remove the most significant parts to assign them or transfer them to other articles according to their own personal POVs: the Christ Myth I book; the Christ Myth II book; the Denial of the Historicity of Jesus in the past and present book; the connection with the Dutch Radical School. All of them are an integral part of Arthur Drews's biography. And could be listed as links to sections of the master biographical article.
They may have tampered with the full quotations, and modified the complete German references, which are essential when one is referring to German documents.
As a result, they may not realise that they have distorted the Arthur Drews article from a truthful account of his life and work, and discouraged researchers the world over for whom this is the only encyclopedic article available, and who could use the Wikipedia article as a a major source of basic encyclopedic information on the totality of Arthur Drews's life and work.

The question remains whether this dismemberment is due to an intrinsic lack of interest in a major German philosopher, and a similar lack of interest in German philosophy and German culture, where the essential value of information is "Gründlichkeit" (thoroughness and reliability)

THE COMPLETE ARTICLE CAN BE RETRIEVED ON THE HISTORY PAGE, FOR THE DATE OF AUGUST, 23d, 2012 --ROO BOOKAROO (talk) 20:04, 10 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]