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I have noticed that this article seems to be a frequent target of vandalism. I recently reverted a change (see the revision I made on 24 November 2023) which promoted the claim that Jean-Paul Sartre stated a belief in God while on his death bed, a claim that has no credible evidence. After looking through the history of this article to find the original author of said addition, I found to my amazement that the change was made all the way back in October of 2021. The fact that an unsubstantiated paragraph of text can survive two years on such a significant philosopher's Wikipedia article without seemingly anyone noticing is alarming to me.
For this reason, and because of a history of other occurrences of vandalism on this article, I would like to open a discussion for locking this page. Stephanos100 (talk) 05:39, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Too late apparently. By the time it's gotten like this and no correction has been forthcoming the existing content has a defacto consensus. Not really important that the enwiki article as is like this since Sartre is one of the most discussed thinkers of the last 2 centuries and no srs reader is going to take wikipedia as authoritative. If there's a ring of truth, you could say the ring of half truth and distortion is pretty clear here. The distinction between crowd sourced and scholarly content curation. Try Stanford Philosophy Encyclopedia. Lycurgus (talk) 17:26, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's all written as if this is 100% confirmed (i.e. 'Sartre did...') when as far as I'm aware it's not entirely confirmed. Ofc I'm not defending his actions, but shouldn't it be necessary to use phrasing like 'Sartre allegedly did' rather than treating it like it's something known for definite. 2A00:23EE:2770:2CAD:D8FD:4ACD:ECD2:EE99 (talk) 21:19, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It should be added that he supported abolishing the age of consent.
Given the thrust of the article is that May 1968 was a time where a lot of people were saying a lot of things, I'd object to it in this or any biography unless there's similar advocacy on the record either before or after that time. Remsense ‥ 论05:11, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Why is this a reason to not include it? These lots of people saying lots of things meant the things they said, and this particular thing they said is very notable. It wasn't just May 1968 either.
I can understand why for example Harriet Beecher Stowe's article might not mention some of the de-facto racialist views she had. But many people are not aware how common this view was among intellectuals at the time, and even then it's not like it was the de-facto view of intellectuals at the time. And of course there's the double standard of mentioning it in Foucault's and many other French intellectuals' articles but not this one. 24.126.11.223 (talk) 05:53, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If added by itself, either the signature is stripped of context, which you and I both agree is important here, or it appears like an odd aside about May 68 that doesn't connect to other details. This is a biography of a particular individual, so the most important information about them, not what external dynamics we feel they represent. If it is an isolated incident, it doesn't say particularly much about them, instead it says something about May 1968. Remsense ‥ 论05:59, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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