Talk:Quentin Smith

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[edit] Article written by Smith himself?

Unbelievable!! This article was obviously written by Quentin Smith himself and is replete with extraordinary bias (he is obviously a very intelligent but profoundly self-absorbed megalomaniac as anyone can see from his web site!!) but no one has caught on in to this in all this time. Come one now, folks!!--62.11.130.2 14:59, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

  • A more charitable interpretation would suggest that the entry was written by a student of Smith's. Although it is true that the entry is biased (as I noted in my first edit; see history), it does contain some valuable material. It should therefore be improved upon, rather than removed entirely. Sir Paul 05:10, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

I am a former graduate student of Smith's, and I have written part of this (notice I said 'part'). Atomist 22:32, 27 May 2006 (UTC)Atomist

7/15/06 The edits of July 8 & 15 were me trying to fix the coding that make the sentence starting “Smith refused to surround himself…” run on one continuous line. I fixed the other coding issues like this but can’t figure out this one. Also added book listing & description. Reader of Smith’s work, not a student-

For the record, most of the content here is from User:69.221.226.195, which resolves to ppp-69-221-226-195.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net - notice the "klmzmi", which stands for "Kalamazoo, Michigan". FranksValli 00:45, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Obviously biased, needs significant revisions

Smith is probably worthy of an entry, but this is a gushy, uncritical article that rambles on and on. Probably written by one of Smith's former graduate students who uncritically worships him. Needs significant revisions.

[edit] Article reads like an essay

Smith is a signifcant philosopher of religion and has publcihed many books on time and so on. But this article needs to be tranformed from a laudatory essay into something more encylopedic. There are lOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG quotes from Smith. These can be cut down a bit. It's hard to figure out how to reorgainze the current material into sections with headings and so on, though. --Francesco Franco aka Lacatosias 13:22, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Atheist

According to this source: http://www.arn.org/docs2/news/Hageman011104.htm, he's an atheist.

  • Quick! Call the brain police! Athiesm is kind of common with philosophers. ;) That said, yes, Quentins a fantastic philosopher, but the article *IS* a little gushy. 58.7.0.146 10:25, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Biased

This needs revision. I would not be surprised if the last line read "Now all bow down before Smith the Great!" —The preceding comment was added by Pfrrp (talk • contribs) 18:07, 22 February 2007 (UTC).