Talk:Mick Farren

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From Mick himself:

"For more general information, I have Wikipedia, “the Free Encyclopedia,” on a hot button, and it’s faster and more complete than any printed desk encyclopedia. Doubts have been voiced as to how an encyclopedia can be accurate when it is created and updated for and by the people, but constant use tends to confirm Wikipedia’s general exactitude, and the entry on me (which makes me profoundly happy) is accurate, if short, and written with enough mild cynicism to keep me in my place. Inevitable mistakes do occur, given Wikipedia’s open architecture, but, according to a spot-check by the magazine Nature, these are in a similar error margin to that of the Encyclopedia Britannica’s mistakes." (source)

Well done guys and girls! - Ta bu shi da yu 12:47, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

  • Very nice. Cain Mosni 19:22, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Concern over references

It's kind of awkward when dealing with counter-culture, but really the reference sources cited are hardly either academic or authoritative: one Freeserve user page, one AOL user page, a bibliography from a dead site, and discography pages from a site of self-proclaimed "highly opinionated review books". Not exactly up to WP:CITE standards. Even if the man himself doesn't object, the quality is hardly up to WP's verification standards. Cain Mosni 19:22, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Restructure

I've tried rejigging the text into more coherent sections. The disc and bib lists have been taken from www.thanatosoft.freeserve.co.uk. I'm sure there's more that could be added to Farren's counterculture activities. – Drwhawkfan (talk) 12:29, 12 June 2008 (UTC)