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Should perhaps a search for "Golden Compass" redirect to this page? Many American fans will probably use that term in the search.
@ Pincrete: You have reversed a set of edits of mine related to the claim that the novel can be classified as steampunk. So, I'm starting a discussion here! Your arguments were:
On the first point, I disagree, because as:
published in the The Internet Review of Science Fiction is sufficiently notable to have a Wikipedia page. I accept that notability is a surrogate for reliability; are there arguments against it?
On the second point, I also disagree, on the grounds that while the text of the review does give only London as an example, it classifies the whole book as steampunk, specifically stating
The first novel, Northern Lights, is also a bona fide Steampunk novel
— Tidar, L. 2005
.
Additionally, I can see additional non-reliable sources which class is as steampunk, including a ranking site.
Therefore, I feel that the claim should be reinstated, as it an opinion expressed in a review from a notable source with no evidence that it isn't reliable. Any objections? Klbrain ( talk) 12:46, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
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That said, there's no mention of the book in this page, even though there's a mention of a video game based off the movie. 31.200.186.191 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 03:23, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
Re this edit, What the source actually says is:
Removed, but later returned to the library shelves at dozens of schools in the publicly funded Halton, Ontario, Canada, Catholic School District (2007) despite that the books were challenged as being "written by an atheist where the characters and text are anti-God, anti-Catholic, and anti-religion." The book and two other Pullman titles from the Dark Materials trilogy were pulled from public display for review, but are available to students upon request. The publicly funded Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Catholic School District (2007) returned the book to its library shelves two months after ordering its removal. Detractors accused the book of having antireligious content. Similar concerns prompted the Catholic League, a Roman-Catholic anti-defamation organization in the U.S., to urge parents to boycott a movie version of the book that was released in December 2007. Challenged at the Conkwright Middle School in Winchester, Ky. (2007) because the main character drinks wine and ingests poppy with her meals, and the book presents an anti- Christian doctrine. Pulled from the St. John Neumann Middle School and Lourdes High School in Oshkosh, Wis. (2007) because of concerns about what critics call its "anti-Christian message." Challenged at the Shallowater Middle School in Lubbock, Tex. (2007) because of the book's "anti-religious messages." Pulled from the library shelves at Ortega Middle School in Alamosa, Colo. (2007) for what critics regard as the book's anti-religious views. District officials later returned the book to circulation. Retained by the publicly funded Dufferin-Peel Catholic School District in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada (2008) with a sticker on the inside cover telling readers "representations of the church in this novel are purely fictional," and are not reflective of the real Roman Catholic Church or the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
I'm not sure that a handful of schools taking the book on the shelves is noteworthy, but if so, the account should be accurate. Pincrete ( talk) 11:07, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
Could the Panserbjørne / armoured bears issue please please please be discussed here and consensus reached, without further back-and-forth editing of the article? At least if there's a discussion and a consensus then there is something to refer back to in edit summaries. The current situation is a royal pain and makes me want to unwatch the article as the piecemeal editing of one word at a time is just excruciating. I don't even mind that much which way it goes, though I do have a slight preference for Panserbjørne-first – my real beef is with the repeated edits and the lack of discussion. Let's please get consensus here and then respect it. With best wishes to all DBaK ( talk) 07:59, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
Panserbjørne / armoured bears - consensus not edit war please?to
Panserbjørneonly to facilitate its easier reuse. DBaK ( talk) 11:34, 4 July 2019 (UTC)