Talk:Guru Nanak

Goodreads not a reliable source

I have removed the entire section that is simply a reprint of what is on Goodreads. It violates the rule:

Do not just copy material from another website! This is known as a presentation copyright violation (even if the material isn't original with the site), and is subject to immediate removal or deletion.

However, I also want to state several other reasons.

(1) Goodreads does not give citations for its quotes.

(2) It frequently includes citations that Wikiquote itself has discredited. To give just two examples:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1004457-to-sin-by-silence-when-they-should-protest-makes-cowards

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/63219-the-children-now-love-luxury-they-have-bad-manners-contempt

I'm stopping at two, but I could go on for hours. Search the internet for any other misattributed gem, and you'll find it uncritically reprinted at Goodreads and attributed to the person who never said it.

(3) It frequently posts multiple versions of a quote that vary slightly from each other.

(4) It frequently posts as quotes items that could be called paraphrases or morals, but are certainly not quotes. For example: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/27510-the-hottest-places-in-hell-are-reserved-for-those-who (The JFK Library has a full explication of this oft-repeated "quote": https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/life-of-john-f-kennedy/fast-facts-john-f-kennedy/john-f-kennedys-favorite-quotations-dantes-inferno)

Finally,

(5) It is not a source, period. A quotation source is a written or otherwise recorded statement.

On a personal note, I frequently need to find quotes for my work, and I want them to be accurate and accurately attributed. Juicy quotes are often repeated all over the internet, as one site copies another and is copied in turn, and the reader is left unable to discover whether the trail actually goes back to the person cited. In this dispiriting maze, I invariably turn to Wikiquote. If Wikiquote joins the game, it will lose its function. AmyinNoCal (talk) 00:02, 4 January 2023 (UTC)