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EDIT REQUEST about the Emperor Has No Clothes Award

UPDATE -- I would like to have input from other users on whether the paragraph should be removed since it has no reliable sources linked. The sole source is a Freedom from Religion Foundation page.

It is in the Events and activities section and appears as follows:

The Emperor Has No Clothes Award has been awarded by the Foundation since 1999 in recognition of "plain speaking" on the shortcomings of religion by public figures.[104] Past recipients include: Steven Weinberg; Jesse Ventura; Ted Turner; Andy Rooney; Janeane Garofalo; George Carlin; Richard Dawkins; Katha Pollitt; Robert Sapolsky; Steve Benson; Penn & Teller; Roger, Pat & Melody Cleveland; Natalie Angier; Ron Reagan; Peter Singer; Robyn Blumner; Anne Nicol Gaylor; Steven Pinker; Oliver Sacks; Julia Sweeney; Christopher Hitchens; Daniel C. Dennett; Ron Reagan; Ursula K. Le Guin; William Lobdell; Cenk Uygur; Ayaan Hirsi Ali; Jerry Coyne; Charles Strouse; Dan Savage; Juan Mendez; Bart D. Ehrman; Sean M. Carroll; Donald Johanson; Taslima Nasrin; Ernie Chambers; Lawrence Krauss; Steven Pinker; Paula Poundstone; Jared Huffman; Salman Rushdie; Adam Savage; Trae Crowder; and Anthony B. Pinn.

--Ihaveadreamagain (talk) 18:41, 3 June 2020 (UTC)IHaveADreamAgain[reply]

This section is simply an index of the awards from the organization website with a link to the website, a primary source. It should be deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ihaveadreamagain (talk • contribs) 16:39, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Texas and Reliable Sources

@Mramoeba -

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Freedom_From_Religion_Foundation&curid=311796&diff=982395094&oldid=982394839

There are problems with your reversion of my edit, which was deleting a blog as a source. Now the formatting is messy after you added a footnote at the beginning of the paragraph and changed the Title format. I would revert and fix it but I don't want anyone to think I'm edit warring :) Also you need to delete the "friendly atheist" citation. Adding the other citation does not fix the fact that sources like that blog are not reliable for wikipedia purposes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ihaveadreamagain (talk • contribs) 16:58, 8 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

radio interview whitelist

Please "whitelist" this link so it can be posted thank you! its an interview from Christmas 1997 with Dan Barker, president of Freedom From Religion Foundation www.chriscomerradio.com/Archive20/CNRLNTS122497HR2DanBarker.mp3 2600:2B00:921C:B100:C9D8:12EC:AF89:8841 (talk) 17:39, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"anti-poverty charities"

At the moment, the text says: the FFRF "challenges the legitimacy of federal and state government support for faith-based programs, such as chaplaincy services and anti-poverty charities". I wanted to clarify this statement because it seems possibly not NPOV because of the way it states "anti-poverty charities" with no qualifier. As if FFRF are against anti-poverty charities in general. But I can't find any information about FFRF actually campaigning against anti-poverty programs by religious groups. Can anyone help? OsFish (talk) 04:50, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Without an explicit source, that text doesn't belong. I shall remove it. HiLo48 (talk) 05:08, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]