Talk:Richard Dawkins

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Several quotes are included multiple times (in different sections). Is this intended?

Aragorn2 17:43, 2 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Unless he said the same thing in multiple books, they are probably duplicates. Possibly some of the ones in General Quotes are selections from his books? Nanobug

That's how it seems to be. If you read it sequentially (as I did, in part), there are some General Quotes that show up again in later sections, which is somewhat irritating. But I'm not sure whether they should be deleted (in GQ), since some people might prefer reading only the General Quotes, where a compilation of the most interesting quotes should go. Maybe a small note should be included at the beginning of General Quotes that some are also found in other sections.

An example of such a quote is

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

But there are many more. Aragorn2 22:13, 12 Oct 2003 (UTC)

The page these quotes were copied from had the general quotes as small concise quotes which would be good for use in signatures for posts or e-mails. So like favourites. Quoth 02:06, 13 Oct 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

This article needs some reformatting based on Wikiquote:Templates/People. Specifically, it should be split cleanly into "Sourced" and "Attributed" sections. The former should include subheadings for all the cited works, which are by definition "sourced". We can also lose the "from this and that" and just give the titles of the works (and preferably their years of publication) as headings. Finally, We Should Lose The Excessive Capitalization. I'll try to get to this shortly, but if someone else wants to jump in, feel free. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 05:33, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

I done the basic Sourced/Attributed separation, based on the claims existing in the article. However, none of the quotes from others' works are properly sourced; i.e., identifies a publication or other medium from which one can identify the article or interview and verify the cited quotes. All we have are apparent titles, some of which (e.g., "An Interview by Sheena McDonald") which seem likely to have an actual title different from what is listed. If these aren't properly sourced, they will have to be moved into the Attributed section. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:41, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BBC Newsnight interview (Sep 06)

I recall that some good, simple statements were made in this interview with Paxman. Anyone know where a transcript can be found? 86.7.208.240 14:17, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Books copyrights

Is there a blanket fair use or whatever agreement applicable to Dawkins's books? I could add my reading notes from Climbing Mount Improbable (about 12 quotes). Marc Girod 23:30, 14 January 2008 (UTC)