Talk:James Hunter (disambiguation)

James Davison Hunter
I removed
 * * Culture wars, American sociologist and author

There's no article on him. Perhaps there was a James Davison Hunter section (now the "1990s" secn?), but the article offers no information on him as opposed to his views, presumably limited to those views as expressed in one book: nothing about him except things whose omission would make an article on the book unforgivably deficient. In fact, despite the repeated use his surname and "he", the article fails to suggest that citing the book without mentioning the author would be a deficiency in terms of useful info, rather than just unconventionally rude toward him. There has apparently never been a WP bio on him, and the only use of his rdlk is in a troubled article written as a school assignment, whose discussion of his book shares the characteristics i've already discussed. Neither article does more than insinuate (by its mention) that the book is notable, let alone offer a reference for its contents being influential (as oppose to it just being the first instance of choosing the well established phrase "culture wars" as a main title). We do of course have plenty of band articles that offer only dictdef mentions of their members; when there's an article on the book, with refs on its significance and a mention of him, let's discuss whether it's fair to point users who come looking for encyclopedic info on JDH to an article that merely includes a dictdef mention. --Jerzy•t 20:19, 7 January 2009 (UTC)