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The references as they are currently presented are of little value -- they should, whenever possible, link to something on the internet. •Jim62sch• 16:51, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This sounds like a propganda peice and mirrors a lot of what is on his own site http://wasp.spokanetech.net/server.wasp?%7C%7Cac=wesleyjsmith&%7C%7Ccm=2c&%7C%7Ccv=1&%7C%7Cpp=5&%7C%7Crp=1&%7C%7Crv=fulldetails&%7C%7Csi=NAV32BVIJQHIDO5RR7DC&%7C%7Csrt=t&%7C%7Csrtin=a&%7C%7Ctr=ENKB7FBJ9R&%7C%7Cudid=0&~~rp=1&go=11

The word "loopy" is not very encyclopedic. ----murfmensch

This fellow (Wesley J. Smith) is described in the first sentence as an "award-winning author." Which award? According to the footnote he won an award from the "Independent Publishers Organization". I searched on Google and did not discover a home page for this organization. I did, however, find a few web pages from self-published authors saying they'd won such an award. Judge for yourself: a Google search for "Independent Publishers Organization" garners 52 unique hits. Adding -Wesley (i.e. omit all pages mentioning Wesley) reduces this to 31 unique hits. I have to ask, then: does it add anything substantive to this article to say that this fellow is an "award-winning" author, or is it just meaningless self-promotion? Timothy Campbell (talk) 13:05, 19 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Wesley J. Smith

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I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Wesley J. Smith's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "wilgoren":

  • From Center for Science and Culture: Wilgoren, Jodi (August 21, 2005). "Politicized Scholars Put Evolution on the Defensive". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-05-06.
  • From Discovery Institute: Wilgoren, Jodi (August 21, 2005). "Politicized Scholars Put Evolution on the Defensive". The New York Times. Retrieved June 24, 2010.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT 08:25, 6 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]