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This subarticle is kept separate from the main article, Book censorship, due to size or style considerations.

Ridiculous Catcher in the Rye Sequel

This book is not banned in any form of censorship by a government, it is a copyright infringement lawsuit. It is misleading to include it and it would lead to all kinds of fandom derivative works needing to be added, misleadingly, to this list when it is clearly about government censorship. Here is a recent example, https://www.thebookseller.com/news/tolkien-estate-wins-two-lawsuits-against-author-of-unauthorised-lord-of-the-rings-sequel is this book banned by the government? No sane person would say that a government is censoring a Lord of the Ring sequel. @Ymblanter please self revert, Wikipedia doesn’t need to be hard and I am not sure what value you are adding with just a review of the edits. 2600:1700:1111:5940:8486:A76E:6775:9A26 (talk) 04:53, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please wait until this discussion has been completed or died out. I myself do not have an opinion on the matter, but if you keep reverting we will just protect the article and you lose physical ability to edit it. Please read WP:BRD. Ymblanter (talk) 08:01, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you don’t have a position why are you reverting me? You realize the other party goes months without editing? This kind of garbage is why Wikipedia is losing donors and influence. My comments are straight forward, reasonable and obviously not vandalism. 2600:1700:1111:5940:8486:A76E:6775:9A26 (talk) 18:48, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As predicted, 4 weeks after my original edit and there is no response to the talk page discussion. 2600:1700:1111:5940:F4BE:EB60:3563:4A52 (talk) 03:14, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure why you expect an answer. So far, you only provided a personal opinion. Ymblanter (talk) 17:28, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

IP might be removing it for the wrong reasons, but it's been tagged as unsourced since 2022 so I removed it. DonQuixote (talk) 18:38, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! (and I did have unsourced as the first word in my edit summary) 2600:1700:1111:5940:F4BE:EB60:3563:4A52 (talk) 22:51, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bible

This list arbitrarily referenced the ban of the Bible in Spain many years ago and for one denominational translation in the 21st century. This was fairly misleading presentation (potentially undue weight to the plight of the banned denomination). As such, I have instead created a new section unambiguously indicating that banning of the Bible is a considerably broader topic with its own main article.--Jeffro77 Talk 07:25, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Australia

Australia is not included. The bans here come under 'injunction'. They even banned the book about a murdered criminal (Michael McGurk). If I find the data in my old files I will add. For a while it was still on amazon as 'not available'. The author was prohibited from speaking about it. Banned books should be translated to to keep them alive. 2001:8003:A070:7F00:CD8E:7C27:A108:7C8 (talk) 01:05, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]