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Hitler's religious views

Hello

Sorry not sure how you do things, but I noticed you'd locked the Religious views of Hitler page. I thought I'd raise that the opening other than being grammatically wrong, is quite bias.

"The religious views of Adolf Hitler are a matter of debate, with a consensus of scholars agreeing that Hitler was not a Christian and was skeptical of religion generally."

If the views are a matter of debate there can't also be a consensus, there could be a majority of some degree but it can't be consensus if there are dissenting views.

can I suggest instead

"Adolf Hitler self identified as a catholic. However, they is a great deal of debate about the true nature of his religious.

I certainly wouldn't say he was a good christian! or that his christianity or not drove his views though the long held antisemitism of christianity was certainly an influence in the Shoah. I know in the US that there is effort among right wing christians to label Hitler an atheist and thus label all atheists as evil. I think to claim a consensus is a very strong claim to make on such a controversial issue without a source.

I'd appreciate your thoughts on the point.

Happy to discuss

Thanks

Jack — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.192.103.31 (talk) 17:27, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

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Unprotect request

Can you unprotect my talkpage please. -- de Facto (talk). 18:35, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

You can forget this thanks, it's been done. -- de Facto (talk). 17:37, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

Page Protection Request

Can you protect the following page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uhura. IP user keeps changing and won't discuss on talk page. Please forgive me if this is not the correct procedure to do this but I've never done this before. SonOfThornhill (talk) 17:25, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

Ya, can you please? Even though my edit improves the page and I did start a discussion on the other user's talk page which he deleted without responding to, and he hasn't given a single reason whatsoever why his less-than-stellar version should be forced to remain, and he's well over the 3RR and has a history of owning Star Trek-related pages and like please! Can you help him out so the page can be crappy again! Lol — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.114.43.245 (talk) 17:39, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

This unregistered editor, using multiple IPs, changed article based only on his or her opinion without any sources cited. They have also failed to discuss the matter on the article's talk page. And has resorted to childish insults as well as harassment. Sorry that this mess has spilled on to your Talk page. SonOfThornhill (talk) 13:12, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

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