Talk:The Key (2001 book)

I've just noticed that the paper Problems with Strieber and the Key has been used as a reference in the Controversy and Criticism sections, and I'm unsure as to why a this was allowed. The article does not qualify as a reliable source under Wikipedia's acceptable source rules, being a self-published opinion piece produced by what appears to be an author with no authority on the subject. The author is also on record having trolled Strieber's website under a number of pseudonyms, in apparent attempts to discredit Strieber.

Having read partway through Problems with Strieber and the Key, it became apparent to me that that the article is a 300-page personal attack piece masquerading as a scientific paper, rife with internal contradictions and leaps of logic, including the author's failure to remain impartial by including his own involvement in the narrative. PwSatK is also flawed in that the author is writing from the assumption that Strieber is fabricating the story in The Key, and attempts to discredit it as if were structured as a fictional narrative, rather than trying to determine whether or not it actually is fictional.

I would do the editing to remove the passages sourced from PwSatK myself, but as I'm personally affiliated with Strieber I wanted to run this by the Wiki community first, to reduce the likelihood of any personal bias that I might have.

It's been a month-and-a-half, and nobody's responded, so I'll do the edits. The Criticsm section is sourced entirely from PwSatK, so I'm going to delete that outright... Kt&#39;Hyla (talk) 00:54, 16 July 2018 (UTC)