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I literally just saw an article that Adam and Eve existed literally so ignorant that an atheist would just immediately think that since no discoveries were made they made they can be considered a myth when they cannot prove it is a myth. This very pathetic and misleading. 50.113.64.81 (talk) 01:08, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia content must be cited to reliable sources. Please provide such a source to support your claim. HiLo48 (talk) 01:24, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You cannot "prove" that elves and fairies are imaginary beings. Proof is for math and whisky. tgeorgescu (talk) 20:53, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am thinking about collapsing this discussion. It is unclear what OP is concerned about and I am afraid this discussion might go into WP:NOTFORUM territory. CycoMa2 (talk) 02:40, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My understanding of their text is whether one can prove whether these characters are myths or not. Which seems irrelevant. Per the main article on myths, what matter is that they are part of a culture's folklore, "the veracity of folklore is not a defining criterion of it being myth". Dimadick (talk) 06:07, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of Naked Portraits of Religious Figures (Prophet Adam AS and Mother Eve AS)

This is quite disgusting as how wikipedia allows this freedom of vulgarity to spread. Especially religious figures are noble and portraying them in nakedness is utterly unacceptable. I have raised this concern many times yet these portraits are not removed. We demand immediate removal of these portraits and this means for all religious figures. People please raise ur concern over this. 116.71.189.196 (talk) 19:48, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is not censored. HiLo48 (talk) 00:31, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind that these pics predate WP by centuries or even a millenium. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:58, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]