Talk:The Priory of Sion in the Da Vinci Code

message: What happened to a neutral point of view?
Can anyone be specific about the POV problem? Does anyone object to removing the POV banner? --SV Resolution(Talk) 20:31, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The POV problem is that a fair amount of the text in the article is someone's personal analysis and opinions on the matter. If you need specifics, look for any sentence containing the words, "I think". There's a fair amount of them.   Sophus Bie (talk) 04:07, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV? 

message: Is it a coincidence that Pierre Plantard 'created' the Priory of Sion, and supposedly one of the Merovingian bloodlines in the novel is Plantard? Cao Wei 22:48, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Plantard

message: I am removing the reference to other gospels as it doesn't fit with the subject of the article.  Also, the reason that there are only four gospels is that the other "gospels" were second century pseudoepigraphs written by Gnostic authors.
:I have also removed some gospel references, though I left them in comments.  I think this article needs to be reorganized.  The article can't seem to decide if it merely wishes to discuss how the Priory of Sion is portrayed in the Da Vinci Code, or if it wants to debunk the book.
:Maybe the article ought to be "portrayal of The Priory of Sion in the Da Vinci Code", and leave the debunking of the secret dossiers to Dossiers Secrets and Priory of Sion.  All the articles related to this topic (including the articles on the hoaxers) are confusing. --SV Resolution(Talk) 20:36, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Gnostic Gospel Reference

message: Hi,
The reference to Isis in the Priory Documents is from 'Le Serpent Rouge' and not from the 'Dossiers Secrets'.
I linked the name of Gerard de Sede to the Wikipedia article about him.
I added the following source about Plantard:
Quoting Pierre Plantard: "I admit that 'The Sacred Enigma' (French title for 'The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail') is a good book, but one must say that there is a part that owes more to fiction than to fact, especially in the part that deals with the lineage of Jesus. How can you prove a lineage of four centuries from Jesus to the Merovingians? I have never put myself forward as a descendant of Jesus Christ" (Jacques Pradel radio interview on 'France-Inter', 18 February 1982).
Wfgh66 15:35, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rectified a mistake and included an addition  

message: The article says, "As is generally recognized, one of the prime inspirations for The Da Vinci Code is the book Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Henry Lincoln, Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh," and similar things in various places. While one would have to be an idiot or a madman not to recognize this, there may be a problem saying so on Wikipedia.
Dan Brown has denied that either he or his wife read Holy Blood. Apparently "encoding" the names of the authors in his character, putting a book of the same name in his book, and taking their entire plot was just some bizarre coincidence. This could be dismissed were it not for the fact that he won a plagiarism lawsuit. It's clear that he won this lawsuit because (a) Baigent and Leigh had labeled their book non-fiction, and therefore couldn't accuse him of stealing their fictional plot, and (b) copyright only protects actual texts, not ideas. Nevertheless, he clearly views it as a vindication. (He also appears to view Baigent and Leigh as serious historians, which is almost funny, but ultimately just sad.) 
This means it might be problematic for Wikipedia to state or imply that Brown ripped off the book, as he believes that he has a legal judgment proving that he didn't. --76.200.101.170 (talk) 16:06, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Holy Blood 

message: I am moving the following unsourced material here from the article until it can be properly sourced per WP:V, WP:NOR, WP:IRS, WP:SECONDARY, etc. Nightscream (talk) 03:33, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Unsourced material/OR in need of sourcing