Talk:Political views of Christopher Hitchens

Proposals to merge or delete
This article is unneccesary because it is redundant. The article "Christopher Hitchens" is a sufficient place for a discussion of his political views. There is no need whatsoever for this separate article just on that subject. In any event, it gives far more detail than is of interest to nearly everyone except perhaps his mother. Hambleton (talk) 01:45, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

-Agreed. This should be merged into Christopher Hitchens. Quark1005 (talk) 05:38, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

When is the merger going to take place?203.184.41.226 (talk) 02:29, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

I agree. Why a whole page of this man's views? Was he that important? Chisme (talk) 04:40, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Agreed. He was a mid-range journalist, nothing more. Wikipedia presumably doesn't aim to list every journalist's views on every subject? How do we go about getting this deleted or merged? 2.27.134.137 (talk) 17:30, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * To propose a merge, read this. To propose a deletion, read this. Personally I suspect you'd gain a stronger consensus if you proposed a merge. --Dr. Fleischman (talk) 17:33, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Having had a good look at the main Hitchens article I feel more cautious about a merge, if only because it would make that article even longer, unless the material was dramatically shortened. It is perhaps better to work out what this article should look like before considering a merge. 2.27.134.137 (talk) 10:48, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
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Johann Hari quote
Just a small point. Most of the Bosnian War subsection is a quote from an interview with Johann Hari. A few years after this interview Hari was drummed out of British journalism in disgrace for fabricating interview quotes to make them more fluent and impressive (among other things). After one initial example was found it became clear he'd been doing this quite a lot. I have no evidence to prove this particular quote is fabricated, but it is perhaps another good reason to integrate it into 3rd person text rather than relying so much on the block quote. 2.27.134.137 (talk) 09:11, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

Duplicated Prose
I've deleted a bunch of word-for-word duplicated paragraphs. Just want to check this is correct. Is there any situation where directly duplicating paragraphs of content in different subsections would be correct? 2.27.134.137 (talk) 10:19, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
 * It's a matter of editorial discretion, but generally speaking most editors frown on duplication and delete it accordingly. --Dr. Fleischman (talk) 15:59, 19 August 2016 (UTC)