Talk:The Beginning Was the End

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A fact from The Beginning Was the End appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 March 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Oscar Kiss Maerth asserted in his 1971 book The Beginning Was the End that humankind evolved from cannibalistic apes?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/March.

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Comment 1

translated to English in 1970

Translated from which language? please expand this here and in the author's page

Done and done. DarKrow 03:13, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

edits

Uh, sorry buddy, I'm not a vandal, just someone who actually has a copy of the book and found the earlier entry inadequate. Perhaps other editions of the text have different info, but I'm working with the '74 Sphere printing, and it says that Maerth wrote it in a Chinese monastery in 1967, that it was originally published in German in '71, not 1969 as you had it, and that the first English translation appeared in 1973. I notice your citations have no references to an actual text with ISBN...— Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.18.242.83 (talk) 15:43, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Possible image for use in this article

Strange coincidence... File:Homo antecessor female.jpg (Model of a female Homo antecessor practicing cannibalism)— Preceding unsigned comment added by OlEnglish (talk • contribs) 21:15, 20 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Primary source

Almost all of the article is sourced to the fringe book itself rather than based on reliable secondary sources about the book, so I tagged the article as such and degraded it from B to C class. —Paleo Neonate – 17:13, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The Oscar Kiss Maerth article is also mostly about this book and uses independent sources for the book's summary, those, and that article, should probably be merged here... —Paleo Neonate – 17:25, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Now merged and sources imported, still needs work but it no longer relies on a single primary source. —Paleo Neonate – 09:44, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Notability

It's possible that more German sources exist, but English sources about the book are difficult to find. One source in use also says itself that the book is little known. Since a few could be found the article may barely pass... —Paleo Neonate – 10:01, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Removed section on criticism

After a careful review of scholarly resources, the claims made by the article author cannot be referenced. The only citations given for this section are of the original text. Section consists entirely of original research, similar to this text.

153 [x] 07:52, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]