Talk:William Golding

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Contents 1 Golding's philosophy on life 2 Article name 3 Thinking as a hobby 4 Later novels 5 Link Broken to site detailing his burial 6 Nationality 7 Cryptozoology 7.1 Cryptozoology

[edit] Golding's philosophy on life

hey hey hey ...yeah we have to find something on Golding's philosophy on life for a school thing and i can't find anything that gets straight to the point...it's just a little bit frustrating —Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.142.24.25 (talk) 05:17, 29 November 2005

[edit] Article name

A quick look at "What links here" confirmed that most people know him under the name "William Golding". It would be different if there were lots of William Goldings, but there was no disambiguation page, therefore a move to the simplest form of his name, which is also the best-known and most commonly-used, seems uncontroversial. Deb 23:20, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thinking as a hobby

Why does golding at the end if his essay return to the three statuettes? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.159.65.125 (talk) 00:10, 8 May 2006

Also, there's no evidence anywhere else on the internet that Golding did have a fixation with the Loch Ness Monster. Any evidence for such claims in the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.185.63.180 (talk) 05:38, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Later novels

The article says both that Rites of Passage won the Booker Prize and that his later novels including Rites of Passage did not garner the same praise as his earlier ones. Isn't this a contradiction? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.6.139.11 (talk) 12:45, 20 June 2006

[edit] Link Broken to site detailing his burial

+++Vernon White (talk) 16:39, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nationality

It says British but has an English flag, this should be changed either to: British with a Union Jack, or list him as English and keep the England flag BritBoy 00:56, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

It has been done. DuncanHill 01:44, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cryptozoology

Does anyone have any sources to support the text stating that Golding was involved in cryptozoology? I propose removing the paragraph if no reliable sources are found soon. DuncanHill (talk) 22:39, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

I have now removed the paragraph in question, which read:-

[edit] Cryptozoology

William Golding was also prominent among Loch Ness Monster theorists and wrote articles for Popular Science about the nature of this purported phenomenon.^{[citation needed]} Some^[who?] argue the intentions of these articles, and others^[who?] claim the tone was even mocking of the phenomenon.^{[citation needed]}

I do not think it should be reinserted until/unless some reliable sources can be found to support it. DuncanHill (talk) 20:59, 18 May 2008 (UTC)